2024-'25 NBA Season

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Grady Dick with another big game. He’ll be one of the players spearheading the new era of white American basketball players. Soon it’ll be Cooper Flagg, Grady Dick, Tyler Herro, Chet Holmgren, Austin Reaves, Dalton Knecht, and Payton Pritchard. Few other guys like Reed Shepard hopefully break out.

This new group of white Americans in the NBA looks promising.
 
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jacque said:
Grady Dick with another big game. He’ll be one of the players spearheading the new era of white American basketball players. Soon it’ll be Cooper Flagg, Grady Dick, Tyler Herro, Chet Holmgren, Austin Reaves, Dalton Knecht, and Payton Pritchard. Few other guys like Reed Shepard hopefully break out.

This new group of white Americans in the NBA looks promising.
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I wonder if this happened as a result of white Europeans like Jokic and Doncic dominating the scene along with other Balkans, so now White Americans are gaining more confidence in playing the game
 
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jacque said:
Grady Dick with another big game. He’ll be one of the players spearheading the new era of white American basketball players. Soon it’ll be Cooper Flagg, Grady Dick, Tyler Herro, Chet Holmgren, Austin Reaves, Dalton Knecht, and Payton Pritchard. Few other guys like Reed Shepard hopefully break out.

This new group of white Americans in the NBA looks promising.
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Don't forget Braun, Kispert, and Clingan. Braun is now starting for the Nuggets. Kispert should be. Scoring around 15 points off the bench per game and Clingan at just 20 years old should become a starter if not by the end of this season, by next. He had 7 points and 6 boards in 11 minutes last night for the Clippers!
 
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I wonder if this happened as a result of white Europeans like Jokic and Doncic dominating the scene along with other Balkans, so now White Americans are gaining more confidence in playing the game
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I think this is a huge part of it. The facade has been broken, American whites seeing that the 2 best players in the league over the last few years are whites that don’t rely on explosiveness. Americans equate explosive measurables with “athleticism”, which is very incomplete. I believe Jokic and donnic are both very athletic players, just not explosive athletes. Either way American whites are now unburdened by the myth that the best you can be is a role player to the blacks. Psychologically willing to not back down from being the alpha vs a black is I believe the biggest reason we are seeing this very welcome uptick
 
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I can watch that Christian Braun Video of him dunking on Rudy Gobert over and over. It's so nice to see a white man with confidence and
swagger who is not ever intimidated by the brothers. Would love to see the kid in the NBA Dunk Contest as he might just win it. Only
McClung can beat him in my opinion.

On a side note I wish the Rockets would play Reed Sheppard. To see the 3rd overall pick in the 1st round only get 5 minutes a game is a slap
in the face. It would never happen to a magical athlete in my opinion. When your drafted that high it's a given you will play alot! Not when your white. On the bright side he is very young playing only 1 year of college so he will be fine in a few years. It's just frustrating as he can
drop 20 points a night right now as a 19 year old if they just played the kid.
 
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Braun with the vicious dunk! Not a fan of Westbrick, but good to see him have Braun’s back! Jokic was running up to make someone’s face mincemeat too if he had to. Lol
 
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Shame the nuggets ended up losing, but it’s not like they won’t be in the playoffs so I’d rather see a white man effuse that swagger towards the brothers. That mindset is more important than one game
 
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Huff looks in great shape! Much leaner than in college! Good stuff @Phall
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Huff stuff highlights Grizzlies victory over Sixers

One play on Saturday encapsulated everything Taylor Jenkins and the Memphis Grizzlies hope to do this season.
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I mostly remember Huff from his college days at Virginia. He was a bit of a stiff. He looks like a different player now and is a much better shooter than I realized. So far in his brief NBA career, he’s shooting 44% from behind the arch and is 24 for 25 at free throws.

Memphis seems to have found a steal and also might be the Whitest team this year. Edey (if you count him), Aldama (Spaniard), LaRavia, Huff, Kennard (should be back from injury soon), Konchar (also hurt), Spencer (2nd round pick injuries too) and Castleton. So 8 White athletes total out of 18. The team is also super young. Marcus Smart is 30 and he’s the oldest vet they’ve got.
 
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Last night stats....
Doncic 34/7/15
Jokic 28/14/13
Hero 27/6
Edey 25/12
Dick 26/5
Poeltl 24/11
Vucevic 23/10/6
Wagner 22
Zubac 17/12
Pritchard 18
Reeves 17
Sabonis 16/16
Braun17
Giddy 15/7
Nurkic 15/15
Holmgren 14/9
Divincenzo 14/5
Allen 14
Kessler 12/16
Larson13
Decent representation!
 
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Tuesday night, no football, so time for the NBA to take the spotlight. No games scheduled, presumably because of the election. What about those of us who don’t watch election coverag? I need some live sports!
 
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icsept said:
Tuesday night, no football, so time for the NBA to take the spotlight. No games scheduled, presumably because of the election. What about those of us who don’t watch election coverag? I need some live sports!
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MACtion starts tonight.
 
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It's good to see Zach Edey playing well. It just makes me so angry that Luke Garza who has similar talent & skill is still just not allowed
to play for the most part. I have no doubt he could be a very good starter but they don't even seem to want the guy on the team. This
happens to so many of our guys including guys that won the National NCAA Mens Basketball Player of the Year.

Very happy to see Grady Dick averaging almost 22 points per game through 8 games. He is further along then most of us thought he would
be in his second year.

Payton Pritchard is one of the leaders in the NBA in 3 pointers made. Amazing for a guy who comes off the bench.
 
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The only two triple-doubles last night were from Jokic (23-20-16) and Sabonis (17-11-13), both in WINNING efforts.
 
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Phoenix at Dallas tonight on ESPN. Luka is the sole remaining White on the entire Mavs roster, from what I can tell. No problem. He is such an alpha basketball savant. Kyrie is a good watch as well. Go Mavs!
 
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Phoenix at Dallas tonight on ESPN. Luka is the sole remaining White on the entire Mavs roster, from what I can tell. No problem. He is such an alpha basketball savant. Kyrie is a good watch as well. Go Mavs!
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Kleber is still with them. He must be dinged up again.
 
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