The Silver Fern

Jokic did win an MVP finishing 6th in the West.

I think Jokic was better than SGA, but I can understand them giving MVP to someone on a 68 win team. No matter who won between the two, there were gonna be a lot of complaints.

Jokic is clearly more important to the Nuggets than SGA is to the Thunder though. Thunder still won 5 of their 6 games without SGA last season. They won those games by an average of 22.6 points. They are loaded compared to the Nuggets.

Steph drops 49 on the Spurs after dropping 46 on them a few days ago.

Starting 5 for the International team are basically the 5 best players in the league.

PG - Doncic
SG - SGA
SF - Giannis
PF - Wemby
C - Jokic

Probably doesn't matter what the NBA do to spice up the All Star game because the players won't play hard anyway. It'll only ever be good if the players play seriously.

Cameron Johnson has been a big disappointment. Nuggets really need him firing to be a threat to OKC.

@nonpartizan said in NBA 25/26:

Damn. Jokic already has 18 in the first.

25 now. I hope he pushes on and goes off for 60+.

His career high is 61.

@ACT-Crusader said in NBA 25/26:

@Dice said in NBA 25/26:

@ACT-Crusader said in NBA 25/26:

@canefan said in NBA 25/26:

@ACT-Crusader said in NBA 25/26:

@gt12 they had some pretty good pieces around him. The Kyrie acquisition, the Washington trades which they won big time, getting Lively in the draft (a perfect fit). Luka just had to be the superstar.

To be fair Fat Luka carried them to the finals....

With the other pieces playing D…

Should the Nuggets trade Jokic then?..

Jokic defence is fine. He has tremendous hands and gets in the passing lanes more than people give him credit. Plus the effort is there.

He's my favorite player so I don't want to really rag on him, but he cheats so much on defense. He barely moves out of the paint at times and will often not even contest jump shots. His teammates obviously know he's vulnerable on D so they constantly sag off their guys to help him. But in saying all that, his offense overwhelmingly makes up for his defense. Doncic is in the same boat, although not to the same degree.

@ACT-Crusader said in NBA 25/26:

@canefan said in NBA 25/26:

@ACT-Crusader said in NBA 25/26:

@gt12 they had some pretty good pieces around him. The Kyrie acquisition, the Washington trades which they won big time, getting Lively in the draft (a perfect fit). Luka just had to be the superstar.

To be fair Fat Luka carried them to the finals....

With the other pieces playing D…

Should the Nuggets trade Jokic then?..

Attack looked a lot better with Kini at the back.

Kiwis still going with CNK at fullback. I would've given Kini a run at FB before the final(assuming Kiwis make the final).

NAS dropped for Willison is a good move.

Taumalolo is back. He and AFB were massive against the Kiwis last year.

One of the best sporting performances ever.

He's been quite cold in the playoffs, so it's nice to see him have a pop off game like this.

The Unc Bowl didn't disappoint.

AKP is kinda bad, but it doesn't hurt to add some competition.

Please help us if we end up with him and DWZ as our starting winger. We'd need to score 50 points to get the win.

I don't see it. Suns don't need another guard, let alone an inefficient guard like Green. Their 5 highest paid players are all shooting guards. None of them fit well next to each other.

Brookes is a good role player, but doesn't move the needle for a team like this.

10th pick is OK, but usually doesn't pan out to be anything much. And 5 2nd rounders is a bunch of fluff.

Perfect conditions today. Could be a high scoring game. Pretty much every Moana game has been.

I kind of understand Leniu here though, even if he's wrong. Of course he wouldn't want to do an interview with JT.

The NRL stays winning with this drama though. Every week they have something to feed their media.

Nyika did some good stuff in the first 2 rounds, but once the 3rd round started, it was one way traffic.

Fighting this late is crazy though.

Brutal KO loss for Nyika. He was out cold for a while.

@African-Monkey said in Blues 2025:

@Dice said in Blues 2025:

@gt12 said in Blues 2025:

I'm surprised they were able to keep all four 10s/15s.
Can anyone add more to the rumor about Perofeta leaving for Japan?

The benefits of being a winning team.

I remember the days when no 10 wanted to come here. Even bench 10s who would've started here avoided us.

Ahhh the real days where we had Chris Noakes, Baden Kerr, Bryn Gatland, Dan Kirkpatrick, Simon Hickey amongst others that I'm sure I have missed.

A combined highlight reel of this lot would be less than a minute long.

@nzzp said in Blues 2025:

@African-Monkey Jimmy Gopperth FFS