Jason Sitoke

There's no reason to doubt the Cavs. Solid inside and out, defensively and offensively. Can beat you from the 3pt line or punish you in the paint. Celtics rely on frontrunning you from 3, and they'll have to beat Cleveland in close/tough games...which I don't think they can do in a long series. I pencil in the Cavs to the Finals, barring injury.

There are 3 elite teams in the league, and only one of them is in the west. So someone has to play the thunder in the WCF. In that sense…the west is kinda open.

You must've missed Saturday night's game. Got smacked by the Lakers. If somehow Portland, Phoenix, New Orleans can make the playoffs, Nuggets should absolutely go far. That's the caliber of teams they just beat on their winning streak.

They did nothing. GM is a moron that has wasted all his 2nd round picks to dump bad contracts that he negotiated....while being unable to dump REALLY bad contracts that he also negotiated. Nuggets were recently ranked 30 out of 30 teams in terms of tradable assets. He's been a disaster since the title year, failing to improve anything around the margins. In a way I'm happy he didn't do anything since he likely would've gotten fleeced into giving up valuable players. Hopefully the franchise moves on from him after this year.

For my team (Nuggets) specifcally...I'm definitely more afraid of the Dallas matchup than I am the Lakers at this point. That front line is big and physical, and AD can now play the 4 regularly. They definitely need to build some chemistry, but if they find something offensively...could be scary.

@Guy Chamberlin how you feeling about the Butler move? I guess the Warriors had to do something. Not sure what a realistic expectation is for the warriors at this point. Maybe a six seed is now their ceiling?

Jimmy Butler just held an entire franchise hostile for 6 weeks so he could play for someone else and get extended. The reaction doesn’t seem to be ‘this ushers in a new era where superstar players will be moved at will’. Most of the reaction seems to be that Nico Harrison is a moron or the Dallas ownership is scuttling the franchise in order to move to Vegas. Condolences on this though. Sorry @admo Mavs fans deserved better

How in the hell do you part ways with a top 3 player in their prime and come away with one draft pick? ‘Idiots’ feels too light of a term for the mavericks franchise

Watson still isn’t super reliable off the bench and Strawther is a disaster defensively. Braun gets his points off cuts and transition…which is fine in the regular season. Not likely to translate to the playoffs. Need another reliable shooter in my opinion. But our GM will likely do what he always does…nothing. Just wait and pray for the young guys to pop

Sad day.

If that's the Jamal we get, Nuggets are a problem. Can't expect 45 points every night, but the aggressiveness and decisiveness with the ball. We'll see. Until further notice though, Nugs are a 2nd tier WC team.

@admo, Nugs/Mavs playing 2 in a row. Nugs took the first yesterday. Obviously helps that your two best players are hurt at the moment. How you feeling about your team?

For sure. Just Uncle Rico’s it over the sideline. Once again, feel bad for the kid…but he was a playing with a lot of nerves

Aller was especially bad. I think he attempted 2 passes to a wide receiver all day. Both dreadful passes that were picked off. Refs bailed him out of the first one. Not to be too hard on the kid, but he truly blew it for Penn St.

Okc is good. Cavs are good. Celtics are pretty good. Consider yourself updated.