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Former Los Angeles Clippers trainer Randy Shelton is suing the franchise for wrongful termination, among other things, after he claims he was fired after complaining that Kawhi Leonard was being subjected to unsafe and illegal treatment for injuries.

Welcome to the second night of NBA games for the 2024 - 2025 season.

Threads are below. No links for the sailors this season. Company policy! Do NOT bite the nba or use streams to the east! You'll be in big trouble.

This years designs are below organized by the groups, what does everyone think?

Link since the pic with all of them isn’t the easiest to see some of them.

With the season just starting thought it would be fun to post some predictions for the season for us to look back on at the end and see how they turned out.

Who’s going to have a breakout year?

Dark horse candidates for awards?

Surprises and upsets for the playoffs?

Anything else you want to throw out there is fine too!

Welcome to the first full night of NBA games for the 2024 - 2025 season.

Threads are below. No links for the sailors this season. Company policy! Do NOT bite the nba or use streams to the east! You'll be in big trouble.

Micheal Ray Richardson was a brilliant player: a four-time NBA All-Star guard. He was also the first player banned for life by the league for drug use, something which was far more common during his playing days. Back in the 1980s, substances like cocaine were not only part of professional sports but also society and entertainment at large, and Richardson says talk about drugs was routine during what some still call the NBA’s cocaine era. “During warmups,” Richardson says, “guys on different teams would say, ‘Yo, man, I got what you’re looking for. Let’s get together when [the game] is over.’ And boom that’s how it got going.”

At the time, drugs were “everywhere – it was like a fad,” says Richardson, who also goes by the nickname Sugar. But in the NBA, it alienated many fans. So much so that to correct the problem, the NBA instituted a three-strike system, which led to Richardson’s 1986 banishment (all of which he discusses in his forthcoming memoir, Banned).

Today, aside from the 10ft basket and the five-on-five competition, the NBA does not resemble the league in the late 1970s and early 1980s. But when it comes to drugs, that change took time. For Richardson, who grew up modestly in the midwest and only got into drugs after succumbing to peer pressure while living in New York City and playing for the Knicks, drugs were not a part of his early life. Then they overtook him and led to a debilitating years-long addiction. But his story is far from unique. When David Stern took over as commissioner of the NBA in 1984, one of his top priorities, along with promoting the Magic Johnson-Larry Bird rivalry, was cleaning up the game. That meant suspensions and lifetime bans (Richardson was also the first player reinstated to the NBA, in 1988, but he never returned to the league).

Knicks @ Celtics 7:30pm EST T-Wolves @ Lakers 10:00pm EST

Nike is re-upping its partnership with the NBA & WNBA as their official global outfitter for an additional 12 years

ESPN's David Purdum reported Friday that FanDuel and DraftKings are among the sportsbooks that will no longer offer "under" prop bets for those NBA players who are in the league on two-way or 10-day contracts.