Bluelantern

Holy cow. With Jimmy Butler out for the season with a torn ACL. With Moses Moody out for the season with a torn patellar tendon. Quinton Post has been out for a while with a foot injury. Yet somehow this team beats out the Clippers in the Play-Ins. Draymond locks up Kawhi. Porzingis goes for 20, Horford knocks down 4/7 3s, Gui gets 20 and Steph does Steph things and gets 35 despite coming back from being out with runner's knee for 2 months. Absolute madness!

OOF. Jimmy Butler's torn ACL is pretty much the end of the season. Best case as constructed is Round 2 of the Playoffs if we're super lucky. It's gonna be pretty interesting to see what the front office does after this. Will they still trade off Kuminga? Can they offload Jimmy or just have to wait until he returns in a year? Everything is still on a timer with Curry's age increasing despite being awarded as an All-Star once again this year.

Thank goodness all that drama with Kuminga is done. So much hot air and wasted ink writing about him and his stupid agent. I've pretty much been soured on him this summer completely. He refuses to play in the system and yet wants to get paid big bucks. He made all this buzz about betting on himself, and wanting a player option, just to buckle and sign on the offer that has the team option. Hopefully he can be traded for a good piece because I don't have much expectations for him of anything new from the past few years of little progress. I'm impressed with the front office's work. Horford, Melton and Seth Curry all look like great choices. The young guys have a lot of potential in taking that next step up. The biggest issue will be how lucky or unlucky will the team be with injuries this season since the vets are so old. If the team's healthy, I'm hoping for a long post season run.