Well, 2022 is over. We obviously wish you a happy new year 2023, with some wishes that we have tried to formulate for the NBA and basketball. We wish, therefore, for this new year:
– A title at the World Cup for the Blues, by eliminating Team USA in the process. This time, it is forbidden to be taken out by a forty-year-old at the gates of the final.
– A first injury-free season for Victor Wembanyama.
– A return of Kawhi Leonard at its best — much like last year. With their top star duo and incredibly deep roster, who could really stop the Clippers?
– A good season for Brittney Griner in WNBA. After all she’s been through, she deserves it.
– The end of the galleys for Paige Bueckers. The NCAAW’s most captivating player has been held up in the infirmary too many times since joining UConn. Now we hope to see her on the field to make the defenses dance.
– That people start putting some respect on Pascal I’m sorry. The guy plays the best basketball of his career, but hardly anyone cares.
– What Mat Ishbia be a pretty cool owner for the Suns, just to close the Robert Sarver chapter for good.
– One more year for Gregg Popovich. Although it is believed that he will retire every year, no one is ready yet.
– A League Pass that works. It should go without saying, but…
– The end of “we must break everything and rebuild” as soon as a team loses three matches in a row. The appeal of novelty is cool. Consistency is better.
– A rebuild for the Bulls. It may seem contradictory, but here we have to really smash everything and get the tank out, I promise.
– A change of management for the Hornets, because the situation is becoming dramatic. Missing free agency is done. A dubious choice to coach the team, it’s done. Incomprehensible moves in the draft, let’s be crazy. Half of the workforce in prison: even that is done. But you know what Charlotte hasn’t tried yet? Fire Mitch Kupchak and his front office. And it should possibly be considered at this stage.
– That people who spend their time saying that the NBA was better before become an endangered species. But that is a utopia.
– That we stop using “overrated” and “underrated” all over the place as if it were the sinews of war.
– It would be nice ifAdam Silver formalizes a news concerning the expansion, story that we are fixed. We want it all: the names of the cities involved, the date of their entry into the league, a tribute to the Wolves before their move… Oops.
– What Draymond Green stop treating LeBron like a demigod and defend him in any debate or argument like he owes him $1 million. We understand the respect, but after a while it becomes a bit awkward.
The moments that marked 2022
– The announcement of a Paris Game 2024 with a very heavy poster. No disrespect to the Bulls and the Pistons, but if we can be entitled to a Boston-Brooklyn or a Philadelphia-Cleveland… Ah and less hopeless starting prices for places, while we’re at it. Because we know people who checked “sell a kidney” and “mortgage the house” on the purchase form for this year’s game. It’s a bit excessive, even if the GOAT Alex Caruso will be on the Bercy floor.
– That the players and the owners agree and that we avoid a lockout for the 2023-2024 season. Note, the last one had allowed Dirk Nowitzki to become champion in stride. Maybe that’s not a bad thing actually…
– More Malika Andrews on ESPN and in our lives.
– A title of Bavarian D7 champion for the great Antoine Pimmel and an AfroCup in stride with Nigeria, now that he can apply for dual nationality.
– An appearance by legend Thierry Normandie in the Reverse podcast or the Late Session on Twitch.
– A new team for Evan Fournier. Because there the Knicks, we can’t take it anymore.
– A new team for the Knicks, actually. Because there the Knicks, we can’t take it anymore.
– A new owner for the Knicks, to think about it better. Because there the Knicks, we can’t take it anymore.
– That Greta Thunberg is interested in the NBA to smoke all the Twitter trolls with space punchlines.
yes, please do enlighten me. email me at [email protected] https://t.co/V8geeVvEvg
— Greta Thunberg (@GretaThunberg) December 28, 2022
– In the Christmas gifts, we gave Victor Wembanyama to several teams who would need him. But in reality, our wish is that he ends up in San Antonio. It would be cool for him to be in a franchise that works so well. And above all it would allow Pop to end his career in style as he deserves.
– Well, there we were talking about wishes, huh. Because if we talk about fantasy, it would be that the Lakers have the 1st pick and have to send it to the Pels.
Trumpets of 2022
– The return of Game of Zones. It’s still an absolute sadness that the series ended before being able to deal with the brothel in Brooklyn, the Ben Simmons saga and the setbacks of the Lakers.
– That LeBron stop calling himself the King, because there was only one and he left us on December 29, 2022.
– By the way, that – even if you continue to criticize, debate, whatever you want – you all continue to enjoy every moment that these talents offer you, because between the death of Pelé, the 60th birthday this year of Jordan and the 42 of Alex Carusothis life is definitely going too fast.
– That a Silicon Valley engineer created an application capable of emitting Bill Russell’s laugh as soon as you get depressed. Kind after watching a game between the Hornets and Wizards.
– What Kyrie Irving admits that he had been playing a role for a hidden camera documentary for 3 years, so that we can finally understand what this shit was and start to fully enjoy the virtuoso that he is.
– That we introduce a second time Michael Jordan in the Hall of Fame. Not for his accomplishments as an owner in Charlotte, no. But for having sportingly ensured that John Stockton et Karl Malone are not NBA champions. Stockton has just released that 1,000 (!) athletes were, according to him, dead “because of the vaccine against the Covid”, he who had already appeared in a documentary piloted by the QAnon movement last year. It’s ugly to see the icons of our youth turn into Uncle Albert on Christmas Eve after 6 glasses of red. For Karl Malone, do we really need to explain?
