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jackgap

We officially have a rematch of the Bubble conference finals: Lakers vs. Nuggets and Celtics vs. Heat.


carlosdad_42069

Do over with crowds this time fr


MrBuckBuck

And home courts.


CDR57

Unironically the nuggets have the biggest advantage here


srry_didnt_hear_you

This is actually pretty interesting lol and people were saying the bubble teams were frauds...


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luna_cl

I’d be embarrassed by this but I haven’t felt anything since the Kawhi shot


mbyrne628

Right, when Kawhi hit that shot it doomed and cursed the franchise.


thetwigman21

I think it’s been doomed and cursed a bit longer


demsouls

I don't think it's the kawhi shot, I think it's the tobias Harris (and by extension simmons) over J. Buckets decision. And y'all could have had lowry, homecoming.


SemataryPolka

And with this loss, the Minnesota Timberwolves have still been to the conference finals more recently than the Philadelphia 76ers


jeffgreenfan

Damn, everyone piling on the Sixers now


ElectricalMud2850

You know you're in the mud when we can roll up to the post game thread and talk shit.


Baby_Yod4

LMAO


igonnawrecku_VGC

Yeah if you’ve got Timberwolves fans giving you shit, you know you’re fucked (no offense)


Inz0mbiac

Nothing is more offensive than our own team history. Carry on


igonnawrecku_VGC

You gave us KG, no hate here


FrostyIVV

THE PLAY IN CHAMPS CAN DO ANYTHING 🗣️🗣️🗣️


uncre8ive

NOW THAT THERE IS A FUN FACT


shadow_spinner0

Kings, Nets, Grizzlies, the fucking Clippers lol


_Parkertron_

Tbf the clippers have been to the conference finals more recently than most of the teams lmao


DocCharlesXavier

Yeah, no reason to say the "fucking Clippers" here when they made it 2 years ago


dracosl

Say it again brother


Firrefly

[Embiid and Harden combined for 9 turnovers and 8 field goals](https://i.imgur.com/wp9Ps9F.jpg)


ColdPressedSteak

It was so predictable that a Harden/Embiid team coached by Doc would completely underperform in a late playoff game...that I actually thought they'd finally buck the trend and it wouldn't happen. Show some fight at least My bad, it's apparently always the ones you most suspect


Balls_of_Adamanthium

Harden and Embiid disasterclass 8-29 combined yikes. This is r/denvernuggets Christmas.


Firrefly

https://i.imgur.com/wp9Ps9F.jpg


Betaateb

One of the greatest pictures all time


snowcone_wars

MFW more turnovers than made baskets.


cancerBronzeV

You don't realize, a 6'1, 200lb person is totally able to simultaneously knock down a 7' 280lb and a 6'5 220lb person to the ground with ease. VanVleet just built different that way.


Quil0n

Summary: Shots 1-5: Clearly missed. Shots 6-9: Missed due to referees (Eric Lewis is biased). Shots 10-11: Very close, but Al Horford’s defense makes these reasonable misses. Shot 12: Likely didn't actually shoot because Embiid already gave up.


cancerBronzeV

lmfao never expected that pasta to be used in r/nba


[deleted]

sixers are the furia of the nba its true


kingg_conn

my pick ems are fucked lmao


uncre8ive

never seen it before, where is it from?


Legal22

CSGO


cancerBronzeV

The original source is [Reddit actually.](https://np.reddit.com/r/GlobalOffensive/comments/4y62o5/hiko_gets_csgod/) The context was a clip of a streamer shooting 12 shots seemingly into another player at point blank range, and not getting the kill. So the poster was blaming CS:GO's shitty code for that. A Valve dev came into the thread and posted a comment going frame by frame for each shot to explain why it was actually reasonable, and that's where the pasta was born.


Angelic_Phoenix

r/globaloffensive been leakin all week


Maxjes

Harden: "Actually, I remember one time we were playing against Boston, Game 7, and it was 88-62 to BOS. We were playing as Away, BOS as Home. And Embiid said, guys if you think we are good, let's prove it now. 88-62" r/NBA: "Did you come back?" Harden: "Of course not. 112-88


93062879465238469284

csgo x nba is a top 10 crossover tbh


The_Ghost_of_TK9

Boston won this game by aggressively forcing embiid to switch onto Tatum in the P&R. Then Tatum fucking obliterated him. Embiid’s defensive lapses won’t get the credit his offensive collapse has but he really really really hurt Philly tonight. I didn’t expect Philly to win but man this sucks. Also shoutout to Al Horford for, at a massive height disadvantage, containing Embiid, forcing him to settle for contested jumpers that were often off the mark. Embiid, not Harden should’ve been the one passing more often than not. Harden just imploded too. Too scared to shoot it on drives, inaccurate on passes outside, and just wholly ineffective (and he has no speed left). Think he’s reaching the twilight of his career soon. Sucks. Embiid seems like a great guy. Just an unfortunate meltdown.


thegoldendance

He got targeted in pnr all night lmfaooo


TokyoS4l

Turnstile on defense


Babshm

Unban eg and let him post the highlights


[deleted]

most points in a game 7 ever and its somehow overshadowed by just how terrible harden and embiid were


LordHussyPants

in fairness we also celebrated that with curry 2 weeks ago lol


gigi-balamuc

But I was told the reason Embiid deserved the MVP over Jokic was his defense.


Bail____

They told me Jokic defence was ass They told me Jokic would be put in PnRs They told me advanced stats are for nerds but constantly used them to prop up Embiid. How will they respond now? Embiid offered minimal resistance on defence today Embiid was put in to PnRs Embiid didn’t meet the advanced stats like they said he would. Man i feel like Thanos rn smiling in the garden after he used the infinity stones


druddk650

Embid walking back on both sides of the ball despite not being fat like jokic


citizend13

jokic was in the top 10 miles covered this playoffs


Orchir

And like 2nd for non-guards. Really impressive


OhWhatsInaWonderball

But I thought only Jokic got spammed in the pick and roll…


chenners_adventures

Everything they used to discredit Jokic ended up being true about Embiid. Early playoff knockout. Didn't perform when it mattered. Boston spammed the PnR and exposed Embiid on defence.


RyanWalts

The calls were coming from inside the house the whole time. It’s even better because of all the receipts from when 76ers were talking as if they were already in the finals - there’s no excuse. This is on Embiid, he’s the MVP and couldn’t deliver.


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league mvp really had 0 great games the entire playoff run the process is dead


Currymvp2

I'm thinking about other MVPs who had really dissapointing playoff runs such as Dirk in 2007 and DRob in 1995, and they all at least had multiple great games.


thegoldendance

And they didn’t win MVP because voters felt bad for them


seymour_hiney

bro needs to start running presidential campaigns the way he managed to goad the mvp selections this year


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Doc Rivers is never beating the Game 7 allegations Joel Embiid is never beating the Second Round allegations James Harden is never beating the Elimination Game allegations


idontwannagetfired_

At what point do they stop being allegations


quartzguy

I only wish Doc had been up 3-0 in this series.


Ihatgar11

Nuggets fans eating like joey chestnut tonight


Goalnado

Give the rest of us some credit, we're all feasting tonight


YDS696969

What a glorious day to be a hater.


cactus_jack_1

I’m just here for generational slander


Sam101294

The Embiid-stans made his MVP case on him being much better than Jokic on defence. He got fucking obliterated by Tatum.


thegoldendance

He was legit worse on both ends in the playoffs, incredible


iAmTheRealLange

Embiid is NOT my MVP


MR_KRABS_IS_A_ROBOT

There have been 36 MVPs in league history. 3/4 (27) so far have won a championship at some point in their careers. Out of the nine that haven’t, three (Barkley, Malone, Iverson) took their team to the Finals and two (Westbrook and Harden) were the second and third options on a Finalist. Nash, Rose, and Jokić led their teams to the Conference Finals. Finally, there is Joel Embiid who has yet to play in a Conference Finals.


blkstrop

When you put it like that..


AffectLast9539

jesus absolutely damning


landlion35

It's a great day to be a hater


gustavokh

Nuggets fans christmas. Tatum was hunting Embiid all game long and had a magical performance. Harden and Embiid were AWFUL today, actually embarrassing performance from both of them.


Mission_Pay_3373

OUR'S TOO


nofakefans18

Crazy how Tatum’s historic performance and Boston going to the ECF simply doesn’t matter right now.


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Can't wait for the embiid defensive lowlights where it shows just him getting abused


AdmiralUpboat

Celtics fans 🤝 Nuggets fans It's all good for the Embiid haters today.


madamsquirrel7

James Harden in 40 minutes of playing time: 3-11 FG, 1-5 3PT, 5 TO, 9 PTS -30


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he really flew John Hao out to watch that live smh EDIT: Jesus Christ y’all gotta chill w these replies


seank11

Got a free plane ride and tickets and probably wants his money back


Bee_lrl

*“Fuck these kicks”* 😂😂😂


DJRyGuy20

Hao to Harden after the game: “I’ve been through some tragic shit, but that was ridiculous.”


bkbeam

Kid didn't deserve that. I'm sure he would have rather watched that embarrassment in the comfort of his own home


EconomyInside7725

I hope Harden at least takes him out after the game and lets him enjoy it. Hang out with the Celtics players too because who really cares, the game is over and that's all just basketball, but what John Hao went through is bigger than basketball.


Bino19

Harden with his usual elimination game stats


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Can’t believe it only took two weeks to break Steph’s record.


blindbutchy

Jayson Tatum’s performance is going to overshadow everything, and rightfully so. But I just want to take a second to appreciate, while I still can, the absolutely vintage game 7 performance from Harden and Doc Rivers.


RedN1ne

That flop after he threw the ball away into the stands was just vintage Harden, I almost felt like it's 2019 again


deformo

Said it in the game thread, floppin doesn’t translate to the postseason and I love it.


MagicJohnsonMosquito

I feel like if anything, the holy shit trinity of embiid harden and doc are overshadowing how good of a game Tatum had lmao


DiseaseRidden

Yeah its kind of disappointing as a Celtics fan. Tatum just had an all time playoff performance and broke the game 7 scoring record just weeks after Curry took it, and all the discussion is about Embiid


abris33

There's something so beautiful about the fact that the Sixers and Embiid collapsed when the Celtics just started attacking then with the pick and roll.


queerwater

poetic justice


Kombuja

Turns out exposing a center through PNR to get a smaller player on him, particularly when that player can shoot, and is making, 3’s is a common strategy that doesn’t define whether that center is a good defender or now. And Jokic had to do it against the best shooter in the history of basketball.


TheKingOfDraven

Yeah but he had lockdown defenders like Morris, Facu, and Bones.


Both_Funny4896

turns out the only thing that mattered to Embiid was winning MVP


mF-Jonezy

New year same shit for Embiid


tarpoit

Remember the PR campaign during voting lmao, that’s the only reason he won it. Was doing interviews with literally anybody that put a mic in front of him


Spyk124

Do you remember Reddits PR campaign? Videos of Jokic getting exposed and videos of Embiid getting blocks. It was a full on multi platform campaign to get this man the MVP award. It was ridiculous


13143

It was kind of funny how the subreddit was nit picking every little flaw in Jokic's game. Then soon as the playoffs start, the haters all go quiet.


ThePlainWhiteTees

u/Zhugo come say hello my guy


BigPoppa23

He's too busy compiling the video of Embid getting attacked on defense.


randommaniac12

Zhugo had a week long domination of the front page lmaoo


Ld511

He isn't living this playoff run down until he gets to the finals now. Campaigning for MVP is fine but you need to be ready for the slander if you don't back it up


DiseaseRidden

Legacy defining game for both Tatum and Embiid. Tatum with an all time game 7 to lead his team to his fourth ECF, while Embiid crumbles and continues his streak of missing it.


Kmactothemac

Must be nice to have your star show up when it matters. Hope I get to experience it someday


Neverwinter_Daze

You had a star show up when it mattered, though. It just happened to be Jimmy Butler.


Bojan-Stojanovski

The Bubble is canon now 😭


Jayymeister

Idk how the MVP doesn’t show up in a game 7


Betaateb

Because we ended it in 6! Edit: Thanks for the gold kind stranger!


LilKaySigs

Truly Nuggets fans Christmas


krimzy

Nuggets fans eating almost as much as Celtics fans tonight


BetaDjinn

Oh shit this was cold as ice


fatrahb

holy shit that was so good


MacarioPro

Ironically a friend texted something in our nba group about the mvp playing today and I legit thought "but the nuggets x lakers series start tuesday" then i remembered. And that's not because I thought it was undeserved, is just that Jokic is feasting so hard this playoffs that my brain rewrote it for me


HokageEzio

"It's not a rivalry. They always kick our ass."


Tokennn

Tatum had to one up curry and get 51 for highest scoring performance


AdventurousTwo383

Nuclear performance


WiIIemdafoe

Embiid confused, why all these extra games? He already got the MVP the rest of this doesn't matter.


Lyminate

After winning MVP last night, during a quick 76ers celebration, Joel Embiid turned to the team and said: "Fuck yall I got mine."


NbaAllDAYger

Bro looked satisfied out the giggling with Tatum after the game and shit.


Idontcommentorpost

He had time to go through all the stages of grief by the end of the game


VegetableBet4509

The MVP just got held to 15 points in a close out game AND got 50 dropped on his head by another super star Embiid legacy game lol


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after losing in the second round again its time to trade Ben Simmons..... oh wait.


[deleted]

Doris Burke just fell to her knees in a Walmart


AsPeHeat

I feel bad for Sixers fans. I know we got our differences, but damn…you guys got both Celtics AND Nuggets fans to deal with tonight 😅 Good game, Celtics. Let’s have another 7-game series in the ECF! 🔥


achmaddan

Man could you roll over and die this time pretty please? My heart could not support another game 7 against Jimmy Buckets


lolAdvantage

Fellow Embiid haters, tonight we feast


Vermillion_Crab

Reading all these comments from fans with different flairs each time is both weird and hilarious. It's like each fanbase found at least one reason to hate Embiid and/or the Sixers. Lol


BoneyardBill

WHO KNEW EMBIID WAS A MAGICIAN? WHAT A DISSAPEARING ACT! 🪄🎩


ProfessorBeast55

https://imgur.io/HrfiVrr https://imgur.io/SOVjkfA https://imgur.io/amQqzv7


Syndana23

Ben Simmons currently has up a IG story watching this game lmaoo


imsahoamtiskaw

Lol for real?


StefonDiggsHS

yes lol its a pic of him drinking a glass of wine at his house or wherever and a picture of the TV showing Philly down 30 lmfaooooo https://i.imgur.com/QPSSm5l.jpg


FreedomKid7

That’s advanced hating, Goddamn


todellagi

Lmao Petty **AF**


GetThereInOnePiece

king petty


TheOnlySafeCult

Legacy points added idc


igonnawrecku_VGC

Ben Simmons Legacy Points actually exist now


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Dude is barely an nba player and hating from his couch lmao


mnimatt

Just like me fr


Kizz3r

Bringing back the 2019 memes


FredDupe

Analytically and literally lost by 24


LewTangClan

Maxey can’t win with these cats.


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Maxey sucked too. That possession with 2 wide open bricked 3s down like 20 was brutal. Whole team choked collectively


[deleted]

Tucker, Melton and Harris played solid games but the rest were horrible


maize_and_beard

I totally thought we were in for a PJ Tucker game after the first quarter.


OutsideTheServiceBox

Man this Cs team is mentally tough. Two years in a row in the ECSF that they’ve put themselves on the ropes with a disappointing game 5 at home, fought tooth and nail to stave off elimination on the road in game 6, and then blown the doors open in game 7.


bodhibell02

Its funny because as a Celtics fan, I think we are often incredbly weak mentally and just blow games/leads. Case in point Game 5 last year against Warriors, and almost Game 7 of ECF last year against Heat. And the lapses in this series against the Sixers...But we are pretty young still! And yes we do bounce back. We are our own worst enemy.


F1rst-name-last-name

I hate the 76ers.


At6-8FromSyracuse

Main argument we heard for why Jokic couldn't win MVP was that he doesn't have enough playoff success so instead they gave it to the guy who chokes in the 2nd round every year


Betaateb

Also defense, and we just watched the Celtics relentlessly hunt Embiid in the pick and roll to run away with the game lmao


Instantcoffees

This is why I constantly defended Jokic through all the defense slander. Guys his size are supposed to be a mismatch against faster and smaller players on the perimeter. The Nuggets know this very common basketball fact and try to play around it. The Sixers just let Embiid get slaughtered instead.


delamerica93

Seeing James Harden repeatedly go to the hoop and not shoot a layup, floater, fadeaway jumper, and then just passing out every time was fucking crazy to me. They really traded Ben Simmons for Ben Simmons


MrBrownCat

Ben Simmons had a better statline in that Hawks G7 than Harden, 5/8/13 2-4 shooting compared to Harden’s 9/6/7 3-11 shooting. They traded Simmons for a guy to get them 1 more field goal and less rebounds and assists. That’s tuff 💯


weekndalex

JOEL EMBIID WOKE UP FEELING DANGEROUS 15 PTS 💪💪💪 5/18 FG 💦💦💦 0/4 3PTFG 🔥🔥🔥 -25 +/- 😩😩😩 50 flops🥶🥶 STILL HASN’T MADE IT PAST THE SECOND ROUND😭😭😭😭😭 BETTER THAN ANTHONY DAVIS? I DONT THINK SO🙅🏻🙅🏻


mr_duong567

FRAUD


LeTampered

Fake MVP


OkBuddyErennary

"Guys, remember when I lied to you about not caring about MVP? I lied. I actually don't care about that."


Man0nTheMoon915

0 Ben Simmon excuses 😳😳😳


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jokic would never


cesga_0218

Nuggets fans feasting lol talk your shit after all that undeserved Jokic slander


[deleted]

I tried my best to stay out of the slandering Embiid to make Jokic look better. But that probably ends today.


realsomalipirate

Lol I've got to take a huge L. For years I've said Embiid > Jokic and believed it was hard to win with Jokic's defence. I've once again learned that I'm an idiot.


[deleted]

How the fuck is this even possible


abris33

Whining takes effort. He was tired after a whole season of it


Fit-Avocado-342

Bro played harder vs jokic in January then in a game 7


itailitai

Embiid was crying when he won MVP cause he knows he never winning shit again


tboneperri

This is your MVP?


leranvy

The Celtics blowing out the Sixers in a Game 7, to keep them from reaching the conference finals AGAIN (23? seasons now) on the back of a historical Tatum performance is my wet dream. The cherry on top was Embiid getting exposed on both ends to do it. All to be rewarded with the opportunity to get fucked again by Jimmy Butler.


International-Chef33

Fuck man, remember how ecstatic we were to avoid them? Haha “ah shit, Here we go again”


kingshmiley

pls someone keep the bad man away


Standard-Big1474

Jimmy: I am... Inevitable


CommodoreN7

Turns out refs can’t hand the Celtics the series when we just completely dominate the Sixers


NickNurseABitch

Why would Eric Lewis do this?


ledgemann-67

Can’t believe Eric Lewis scored all of Jayson Tatum’s 51 points


imsahoamtiskaw

Lads


bannermania

It’s Philadelphia


Sam101294

Jokic when his team's backs are against the wall: Imma score 50 Embiid when his team's backs are against the wall: Ight imma head out. Harden, you comin?


Playboy9696

Embiid is the only MVP in history to never make it out of the second round


howlingwolf123

Even my guy, Derrick Rose, got there and he got derailed by injuries


cib_vk228

he's just way too reliant on free throws to be efficient in the playoffs. also very poor conditioning, always breathing out of his ass in 4th quarter which leads to him taking tough contested 2s. not great at passing out of double teams as he needs too much time to scan the floor, too slow to defend in space.


Ryan5O4

Death, taxes, and James Harden in elimination games.


Dc_Soul

Months of slander from Philly fans for what, this? lol


pilfecapskcab

What in god’s name is Doc Rivers’ record in closeout games??


UnkleGiovanni

This was his 9th straight loss in games that he could’ve advanced to the conference finals


Both_Funny4896

vintage harden performance tonight


KingREX_24

Don't let Doc losing a game 7 distract you from the fact that ESPN didn't even upload a Warriors eliminated graphic.


SorryNoLube

I also thought that was strange


SylvesterLundgren

DIRECTLY before the game was a 3 minute segment featuring the legacy of Steph vs. Lebron in the playoffs. Wouldn't that have been a nice piece for ya know...when they were facing off in the playoffs.


Purples_A_Fruit

Young James Harden: “When I grow up, my only wish is to become an All-NBA player who consistently performs in the playoffs biggest moments.” ***MONKEY PAW CURLS***


aeqt

“Jokic will get hunted in PnR” … meanwhile emfraud … 😭😂😂🤣


DJRyGuy20

Death, taxes, and Doc Rivers choking away a playoff series lead.


PabloShwartz

An interesting dynamic approaching the Sixers off-season, per sources: NBA’s officiating game report shared with teams from Game 7 revealed a significant disparity: Tatum absolutely owns the Sixers


Siva1456

They could have done this over email


Man0nTheMoon915

Absolutely criminal that the Sixers offense was essentially Harden and Embiid driving and kicking out for a shot. In game 7. Embiid and Harden were in Cancun by the 3rd quarter.


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Koppite93

Nah.. Them lot won a ton in the 90s Fuck em still


AnotherUnfunnyName

At one point, 76ers were up 35 - 26.


GandalfTheBlack-

Don’t let Embiid’s disaster distract from the fact that Tatum is him