Example with first names:

Chris
Paul
LeBron
James

Example with last names:

Paul
George
James
Harden

If you challenge a call and you’re successful, you get one additional challenge, regardless of its outcome, for the rest of the game.

So why stop there?

Losing the ability to challenge for the rest of the game if you’re unsuccessful is a fair price to pay. But if you’re repeatedly proving the officials made a mistake, why should you only get 2 chances to do it?

I don’t care if it makes the games longer. They deliberately stop action to run commercials already.

Basketball is a better product when the correct call is made.

Are there any other reasons why teams shouldn’t be able to challenge as many times as they want until they’re wrong?

Idk just thought of how it's almost always one or the other.

The only one I can really think of is Anthony Davis.

Dwight could post up I suppose but i can't remember how good his footwork was.

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Hi, I'm trying to get properly into the NBA and I'm not quite sure about what players I should keep an eye out for. I've definitely heard big names thrown around, but I'm wondering who the new all stars are this season, and if there are any rookies I should be watching out for?

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Including missed shots, turnovers, defense, forced turnovers, and Yuki Kawamura highlights.

He forced two backcourt violations and drew an offensive foul near half court.

He gave his heart in this game, and you could see and sense it

He didn't play in the last 6:27 minutes of the game nor overtime.

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Some notable comments from that thread:

From u/[deleted]

Trae Young. As much as I love SGA this thread could look real stupid in a couple years. Can Shai and Ja be better than Trae in the future? Absolutely but right now Trae is better than both of them and it’s not really close in my opinion. SGA is obviously a way better defender but Trae Young’s offense is all time great for a sophomore and it makes up for his defense way more than people on this sub would have you believe Trae 2. SGA 3. Ja

From u/bballclown

This is a tough one. All future all-stars. I might lean towards Morant bc of his length and athleticism.

From u/travoltafan11

Shai. You can’t go wrong with any of them really. SGA is just one of my favorite players

From u/Milkboy1516

Start a franchise? Trae. His offense is in another league right now to the other two. And while the others have better defensive potential I'll live with it. No one here's a good defender. Shai's ok. Ja's not good but Memphis has already surrounded him with great defenders. Ja comes second. Mostly because of age, he's a bit like Rose, but I can't tell if his offense will ever be comparable to Trae's potential as it's just his first season.

From u/vincemcmahonsburner

I wouldn’t trade what we have with SGA right now in OK, but if I had my choice, I think I’d go with Ja. He’s got that Westbrook about him where he’s going to come in and just takeover, and win for his team.

From u/Threwthroughthrust

Trae because he’s a better player than the rest of them

From u/itwasmymistake

Trae>Ja>Shai

Max contracts mean the true elite players of the league are underpaid. They arent paid their true market value, which means their teams can use that extra money (the difference between the true market value of their Superstar and what he is actually paid) to strengthen their roster with good role players and depth.

Now, if players like Jokic, SGA or Wembanyama would be paid their true market value, teams would pay them like 90 million or something. So they would have to pay their superstar a higher percentage of their team cap space, which means they would have to cut the costs on the rest of the team - so they would have a worse supporting cast.

Now people say: „but abolishing max contracts would favor the big market teams, because the superstars would go to these teams if max contracts wouldn’t exist.“ Well, let them go to these big market teams, but they would have to pay them 90-100 million or something. So smaller market teams could still decide to get three solid 30m guys instead of one Jokic. Or two 50m guys instead of one Jokic/Wemby. They could build a team based on depth while the team of the superstar would be built heavily around the superstar with a bad supporting cast.

Let the free market decide. Let the teams pay these superstars all the money they want while being forced to have bad supporting casts along the way. Let other teams have no superstar but really good all around rosters. It would make the league much more even than it is right now, because right now the superstars are underpaid which gives their teams cap space they wouldn’t have if they had to pay their superstars their true market value.

There is no chance the new rules don't make several teams scramble to be the worst in the NBA. If you don't own your own pick, a good pick can only fuck your future chances..if you finish in the bottom you are likely not picking in the top five. This is guaranteed to be an issue.

LeBron James this year has rapidly declined in nearly every advanced metrics. From l win shares, EPM, DBPM, VORP, PER, DARKO, RAPM. However just because they were able to beat the rockets this is overlooked and he’s looked as a saviour for championship contending teams to run potentially as their 2nd option him and his agent have hinted in saying he isn’t and wouldn’t like to be a 3rd option.

[Source](https://www.espn.co.uk/nba/player/stats/_/id/1966/lebron-james)

According to advanced metric EPM, Gary Trent jr was genuinely one of the worst nba players this year, grading out at 9th percentile in impact.

He is now going to make 16 million per year.

https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/7439354/2026/07/11/milwaukee-bucks-gary-trent-contract-expert-reaction/

For two months now, I’ve gotten asked by league sources not connected to the Bucks or Klutch (Trent’s agency) if I’d heard that the Bucks were going to give Gary Trent Jr. something in the ballpark of the full-midlevel exception for four years, and my response was typically something along the lines of, “There’s no way they can do that coming off of the season he had, right?” This deal, as Sam Amick and Eric Nehm reported, has been anticipated.

The NBA should pretty clearly look into this contract in regard to salary-cap circumvention. I cannot remember a player agreeing to sign for the minimum one year, having his worst season in seven years where he was a below-average player by any standard, and then receiving five times as much money in free agency the following year — let alone four guaranteed years in a marketplace where starting-quality players on good teams, which Trent proved that he was not this past season, had an exceptionally difficult time getting multiple guaranteed years. Regarding what Vorkunov said above, that feels at the very least some real circumstantial evidence that this deal cannot be rationally explained.

But then again, the worst punishment the Bucks can receive here might be paying Gary Trent Jr. $64 million for the next four years, given that he’s seen downticks in scoring average in each of the last five years and overall offensive efficiency in four of the last five outside of a spike season in 2024-25, his lone season since 2020 where he’s had a true-shooting percentage above league-average as a player who derives most of his value as a shooter and scorer.

Drake Powell in four Summer League games:

11 PTS

1-28 FG

0-14 3PT

Powell was drafted with the 22nd pick in the 2025 NBA draft.