5/31/2023 0 Comments Keep it a buck![]() Bucks, Celtics or 76ers: Which team has edge in race for top seed in East? (NBA.com)Ĭould you imagine the quality of sleep we’d be getting if the Bucks got to kick back and relax while the Sixers and Celtics struggle to kill each other for seven games in the ECSF? Might look something like this: Fan Post of the Weekīit of a weird one here since G may is primarily linking to a Reddit user’s post, so maybe we’ll split it 50/50? So congrats Upstairs_Choice_7370 and G may for “In support of Giannis MVP candidacy”. Shouldn’t you get MVP points deducted if you’re the least entertaining person to watch on a basketball court? Embiid’s pouting per 36 is legendary and should be held against him in my humble opinion. Went from people stabbing each other quite openly about whether Nikola Jokic is deserving of another MVP trophy to. 3 and it’s not really clear why (CBS Sports) Oddsmakers treating Giannis Antetokounmpo like the clear No. In fact, maybe Bobby is making a subtle push to secure his continued spot on the roster while GM Jon Horst messes with ESPN’s Trade Machine. Risky to tie the name of your nascent podcasting empire to a soulless corporation, even if the wordplay of “Keep It A Buck” extends beyond our favorite sportsball team into general lexicon. Respect the hustle of including the Lakers in the group of contenders even though we’ve seen zero sign that they have anything approaching a consistent title-winning formula Milwaukee Bucks star Bobby Portis launches podcast (WISN) The top three teams in the East look stronger than the herd of Western Conferences hopefuls, and even then the Celtics are moping their way from win to defeat to win to defeat. Can he turn in more of the former rather than the latter in the playoffs? And if he’s meh a few games a series, can the Bucks overcome it? Which teams do you trust beyond the Bucks as legit title contenders? (Yahoo)Ī who’s who of teams that might have a chance to make some noise in the playoffs. There have been some recent highs like his 31 point performance against the Kings mixed in with some relatively mediocre outings. His AST% is also at a career-high 30.7% which belies the slight shift in emphasis as a creator for others than someone who generates all his own offense. Interestingly, I was unaware Khris was playing at the highest usage rate of his career thus far - 27.4%. Khris Middleton Could Change the Calculus of This Year’s Title Race (The Ringer) Not pretty, effective no wonder people don’t want to spend any bandwidth covering this team. Yet they’re getting there slowly but surely, not by blowing opponents out of the water on a nightly basis but through the grimy work of survival - being able to take the next logical step while their nightly opponent tumbles over QWOP-style. ![]() As I wrote at the start of last week’s column, they’ve yet to reach levels of consistent inevitability that would make this team truly remarkable as a historical outlier. That relative silence results in lowered expectations and lowered narrative intensity which is the exact spot the Bucks should be thriving in. Maybe it is for the best that nobody is talking about the Bucks. Maybe we truly did get too deep into the Nikola Jokic Wars for there to be any story which could come along to take some of the attention off that. It is classically Milwaukee Bucks to sit in the second or third seed for 3/5ths of the season before rocketing forth to the best record in the entire NBA, and for the wider response to be at best a shrug of the shoulders. If a team becomes the best in the league and nobody checks the standings, did it even happen?
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