#NBA 2023/24

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TYRESE MAXEY dedicates career-high 50-point performance in a 137–126 win against the Indiana Pacers to teammate Kelly Oubre Jr., who suffered injuries after being struck by a vehicle in a hit-and-run. Maxey is the ninth player in the Philadelphia 76ers franchise history to score 50+ points in a game, scoring the most in a game by a 76ers guard since Allen Iverson on December 23, 2005 against the Atlanta Hawks (November 12, 2023)

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Draymond Green and Rudy Gobert 2023-24 NBA Regular Season

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Chicago Bulls'ta Onuralp Bitim ve Kenneth Lofton Jr. ile Ayrılık

Chicago Bulls’ta İki Ayrılık NBA ekiplerinden Chicago Bulls‘ta önemli iki ayrılık gerçekleşti. Kulüp, yaptığı resmi açıklamada milli basketbolcu Onuralp Bitim ve Kenneth Lofton Jr. ile yollarını ayırdığını duyurdu. Onuralp Bitim, Türkiye’de Anadolu Efes, Pınar Karşıyaka ve Bursaspor formalarını giyerek adını duyurmuş bir oyuncu. 25 yaşındaki genç yetenek, 2023-24 sezonunda NBA’ye transfer…

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Larry found his home in Boston as Celtics is the 2024 NBA Champs!

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the highly anticipated NBA schedule for the 2023-24 season, featuring an exciting in-season tournament, key matchups, and the highlights of All-Star Weekend. Stay updated on the latest basketball action and events.

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The Golden State Warriors and Los Angeles Lakers have most nationally televised NBA game in the 2023-24 NBA season. Stephen Curry and LeBron James.

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The Greatest NBA Highlights All Time! 2023 #nbahighlights #nba24highlights #nba #24

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Longest losing streaks in North American Sports history:

Donald Trump: 34 (May 30, 2024)

Chicago Cardinals (NFL): 29 games (1942-45)

Philadelphia 76ers (NBA): 28 games (2014-16)

Detroit Pistons (NBA): 28 games (2023-2024)

Louisville Colonels (MLB): 26 games (1889)

Philadelphia 76ers (NBA): 26 games (2014)

Cleveland Cavaliers (NBA): 26 games (2010-2011)

Tampa Bay Buccaneers (NFL): 26 games (1976-1977)

Cleveland Cavaliers (NBA): 24 games (1981-83)

Philadelphia Phillies (MLB): 23 games (1961)

Charlotte Bobcats (NBA): 23 games (2012)

Denver Nuggets (NBA): 23 games (1997-1998)

Vancouver Grizzlies (NBA): 23 games (1996)

Pittsburgh Penguins (NHL): 18 games (2003-2004)

Buffalo Sabres (NHL): 18 games (2021)

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Congratulations 👏 🎉

The Celtics are the 2023-24 NBA Champions, setting a record 18th franchise title, the most league titles in history !

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Kevin Durant and Giannis Antetokounmpo 2023-24 NBA Regular Season

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Li Zhou at Vox:

Caitlin Clark, a college basketball phenom and the top pick at Monday’s WNBA draft, will make a staggeringly low salary in her rookie year compared to her NBA counterpart. Despite her record-breaking performance in the NCAA and the energy that she’s generated for the sport, Clark’s base salary will be $76,535 as a rookie. In the NBA, meanwhile, the first draft pick is expected to make roughly $10.5 million in base salary their first year.

Players like Clark, who was picked by the Indiana Fever Monday night after multiple blockbuster seasons as a point guard for the University of Iowa Hawkeyes, and former Louisiana State University forward Angel Reese, who was signed by the Chicago Sky, have helped women’s college basketball achieve a landmark year. For the first time ever, the women’s final March Madness game, which drew as many as 24 million viewers, surpassed the viewership of the men’s final. “It’s been catapulted this year to a whole new level,” says University of Michigan sports management professor Ketra Armstrong. “People are tuning in to the WNBA draft that never had before.” The fresh attention for the WNBA draft, however, is also spotlighting the problems the league has had with pay equity. For years, the WNBA’s salaries have lagged the NBA’s by a massive margin. That’s due in part to the leagues’ differences in revenue and season lengths. But other factors, like differences in collective bargaining agreements and revenue-sharing, also play a big role. [...]

The pay-gap problem is bigger than any one player

Despite her record-breaking performance in the NCAA and the energy that she’s generated for the sport, Clark will earn less than 1 percent of what her male counterpart will make in her first year. She will be able to supplement her salary through endorsement and marketing deals, but even with those, her estimated earnings will be lower than the base salary of a first-round NBA pick. Clark isn’t alone. WNBA star Brittney Griner — who spent months jailed in Russia — spoke about the reason she played abroad in the offseason, and noted that a big part of it was to supplement her income: “I’ll say this ... the whole reason a lot of us go over is the pay gap,” she said at a press conference in April 2023. In 2023, a WNBA player made a $113,295 base salary on average, while an NBA player made an average base salary of $9.7 million. The NBA’s much larger revenue is part of the reason for this discrepancy: It takes in an estimated $10 billion annually, compared to the WNBA, which has been projected to bring in roughly $200 million. Its season is also about twice the length of the WNBA’s, including 82 games compared to 40 games. Those factors alone, however, don’t tell the full story.

It's a grotesque insult that WNBA stars (and potential stars) such as Caitlin Clark, Angel Reese, and Brittney Griner are appallingly underpaid compared to their male counterparts in the NBA.

The large gender pay gap between WNBA and NBA players is why WNBA players choose to play in overseas leagues during that league's offseason to supplement their income.

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NBA 2020s: the USA vs World Era

In nba 2k the past two games they named 2010-14 the Lebron Era and the Steph era being apparently from 2017 to I’m guessing 2019?

There been some talk about the division and timeframe like would it not all be Lebron era for example or why specifically 3-5 years and so on like I would just say 15-19 to make it even with Lebron or just call it Lebron vs Curry era

But I want to discuss the current era of 2020-24 and potentially onwards

I want to call it the USA vs the World Era

Championships

Unlike the past decade the 2020s have had no repeat champions so can’t say a team dominated like Lebron Heat or Superteam Warriors

It’s been a different team each year and not in the 2010 way where every year has either Lebron or Steph in it

Something I noticed is that the main player of each team has been alternating between a U.S. player and a foreign player

2020: Lebron & AD (US)

2021: Giannis (World)

2022: Stephen (US)

2023: Jokic (World)

2024: Tatum & Brown (US)

So it’s been back and forth this decade so far and while we don’t know 2025 and on at this time if an era is 5 years like 2K did then this is a good frame to go off of

Foreign player dominance

Players such as Jokic Giannis and Embiid if you count him as foreign have won the past 5 MVP awards showing to at least a lot they have been the best players in the NBA

Not even counting Luka Doncic, Shai, and even Wemby now

And there has been a talking point about foreign players both positive and negative because of their dominance recently

To the point where the negative can be seen as xenophobic

Which has created a sort of USA players vs foreign player debate

Rivalry’s

While in a sense team rivalry’s are dead in the nba they’re are some player rivalries that make it a point touching on

Doncic vs Booker (Suns vs Mavs)

Doncic vs Kawhi/PG (Mavs vs Clippers)

Lakers vs Nuggets (Lebron vs Jokic) (I know those fans might deny it but they played three times in the playoffs in 5 years two of them in the conference finals and both teams are definitely trying harder against each other than others)

Bucks vs Heat (Heat with Butler has been one of those teams that stop the Giannis Bucks or at least give him trouble and they’re matchups in the post season has been consistent)

All these have a world player against a U.S. player

There’s other rivalries like Celtics vs Heat but these I feel are consistent and fit the theme in the past 5 years

Plus it’s a still a US dominated (in number of players) league so just lower odds for other rivalries with foreign players

Olympics

This isn’t technically the NBA but a big thing that occurred was the Olympics and is a good “finale” for this 5 year era

Not even discussing the “World Champions” / best in the world topic brought up by Noah Lyles

It was questioned if they could win Gold due to how much better a lot of countries have gotten and it was definitely tested in the 2024 Olympics

This while putting a pin in the U.S. vs World debate for Olympics since USA won, does bring up that when Lebron Steph & Durant retire the scales seemingly heavily tip in the worlds favor in some eyes going forward as it took 3 top 15 players ever to squeeze out those wins against the other top teams like Serbia and France

Plus other talking points like Tatum the recent nba champion barely playing, is Anthony Edwards ready to take over, and so on

Misc

Until 2022 the rising star game was USA vs World

There’s been a want for that to return and be applied to the main All Star game

More foreign players coming over to the NBA now more than before including top draft picks

NBA being more global by having games in Africa and other places in the world

If you include 2019 the champions were the Toronto raptors which is the only non US team in the NBA so while not led by a foreign player it is the “foreign” team and continues the back and forth pattern

All these make the aspect that narratively it’s been USA vs World players believable to me

I do think if a team like the Celtics repeat as champions it could skew some points here but overall at just these five years I prefer this than just calling it the Jokic Era because he has three mvps

Written Sep 19 2024

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Drumroll … Western Conference Champs!

GAME 5: HIGHLIGHTS – View now in the NBA App – https://nba.shar.estori.es/go/6e2d4881-ca93-3a1b-96a3-3a12d57fb431/a9925f73-d8d1-5fc6-0d51-3a12de4727f8 Dallas Mavericks duo of Luka Doncic and Kyrie Irving, led their team to beat Minnesota Timberwolves’ duo of Anthony Edwards and Karl Anthony Towns today to clinch the Western Conference title and advance to the League’s Finals . The Finals Series…