Alex Speers

Not everything was negative though.

I interpreted triple double cocaine bear as at least a mildly positive reference to

KD brushed aside the accusations at Rockets practice, saying, quote, I'm not here to get into Twitter nonsense, which convinced no one, given his well-documented history of getting into Twitter nonsense.

Now, we only got one night of games this week, but there were some notable ones to talk about from Thursday night.

First, the Detroit Pistons complete.

completely obliterated the New York Knicks for the third consecutive time this season, winning 126-111 in Madison Square Garden.

In their final meeting of the season, Cade Cunningham put up 42-8-13, which included going 5-11 from three.

This was a game that was affected by those suspensions coming out of the Pistons-Hornets brawl, so Detroit did this without having both all-star Jalen Dern and Isaiah Stewart

But when you got B-Ball Paul, you're in good hands.

And Paul Reed picked up the slack for the missing big men and scored 18-7 with three blocks in the game.

That loss drops the Knicks into a tie with the Cavs in the standings.

But those two teams will play very soon, playing next Tuesday in Cleveland.

In Cleveland's first game back, they played the Brooklyn Nets.

They won handily.

Brooklyn is one of the teams that's tanking.

And just to wrap up the tanking news this week, Sham Sharania reporting on Thursday that Commissioner Adam Silver informed the league's 30 general managers that the NBA plans to make anti-tanking rule changes for next season.

All right.

That one I find weird.

That just seems rude to the Pacers.

That's just a mean thing for the Pacers.