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What are your best guesses about the NBA 5 years from now? (alien.top)

submitted 11 months ago by Languard00@alien.top to c/nba@nba.space

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After silently judging as I scrolled through posts riddled with hot takes from 5 years ago I thought...

What are your hottest takes about how the NBA will look 5 years from now? (Go wild with your guesses, nobody will be judging you......)

My hot takes are

Josh Giddy will be in the MVP race
The Booklyn Nets will have either made or won the finals due to Bridges and Ben Simmons showing out
LeBron will continue to refuse to retire, while still putting up 18/4/4. And will blame it on wanting to play with his wife's uncles barbers daughters stepson 17 years from now.

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[–] DrownedInBeans@alien.top 1 points 11 months ago (11 children)

This is why as a Celtics fan I want nothing to do with Porzingis. Some fans are excited for his potential on this team but my concern is pretty valid and simple: we have literally never seen anyone in the history of the NBA that looks like Porzingis help lead a title contender. Every single lanky/goofy big dude over 7'2" inevitably has injury/durability issues and they never hold up to the demanding workload of a regular season + a long playoff run.

And he's the highest paid player on the team, so if he goes down it's not like they can replace him with a decent backup. If he goes down the team is fucked.

[–] Languard00@alien.top 1 points 11 months ago (3 children)

Smart take, but do you think maybe his role as not the #1 star player on the team might mean he can rest and avoid injury a bit more? My boss (a celtics fan) describes him as more of the really good horse instead of the unicorn... so maybe he could thrive being 2nd/3rd option? Still think you guys have an insane team this year

[–] DrownedInBeans@alien.top 1 points 11 months ago (2 children)

i dunno i wouldn't bank on that. he's one of only 2 solid bigs on the roster and the other is 38-year old al horford. the team doesn't have guys like grant williams and smart to do all the dirty work and banging down low with dudes like embiid and giannis anymore. don't see how they can get away with just resting porzingis and minimizing his role. he's the highest paid player on the team, he's kinda expected to have an impact night-in and night-out.

also "just keep him healthy for the playoffs!" is something fans love to suggest before a season, but things never play out like that in real life. aside from the 2022 warriors pretty much every single championship team has all their rotation guys play like 80+ games (reg season + playoffs). porzingis needs to get reps in and build rapport with his teammates, and then plays pretty much every game of an intense 20+ game playoff run. if the celtics go to the finals this year then it'll be the most demanding and impressive thing porzingis has ever done in his career.

[–] CavalierShaq@alien.top 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

They actually do have a guy like smart... jrue holiday

[–] DrownedInBeans@alien.top 1 points 11 months ago

i love holiday and there's not a more perfect player to fill smart's role, but one place they definitely differ is their size/strength and ability to guard bigs. that's probably marcus smart's biggest defensive strength - his versatility. jrue is also a great defender but he's much better on the perimeter and he uses his length to swallow up guards. he's also 33 and he and porzingis have the highest salaries on the team, so if he gets hurt doing that dirty work smart did then it'll be a huge blow to the team.

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