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- Comment on Sources: EuroLeague teams reject offer to merge into NBA Europe 1 week ago:
According to the article, the league as a whole rejected the offer, but certain owners are rumored to be interested. I am sure the NBA is working with those owners to campaign on their behalf and/or looking at ways to move those teams from Euroleague to NBA Europe.
- Comment on Relish every moment 1 week ago:
As my therapist likes to point out, no one is calling out my gross incompetence, so I can’t be doing that bad.
- Comment on What's your opinion on Alan Ritchson 1 week ago:
I assume it is because the show is too popular. Amazon makes more from show viewers than they lose to upset Trump fans.
Also, they have started a spin-off series, Neagle. Maybe it is a ploy to reduce the role of Ritchson in the franchise, though I assume it is to reduce the royalties they pay to the book author. I noticed that the opening credits to Neagle do not mention the author, probably because it is not based on any of the books, just a character from the book universe.
- Submitted 2 weeks ago to nba@lemmy.world | 2 comments
- Comment on Blazers fire new play-by-play announcer hours after hiring him. 2 weeks ago:
I am not a fan of judging someone harshly for something they posted on the Internet, 15 years ago, as a pre-teen, so I think it is stupid if the Blazers fired him to dodge bad publicity instead of just having him apologize and claim that he has grown and matured since then. I would believe him.
On the other hand, by the time the article was written, the offending tweets had not yet been deleted, so it could be the case that the guy refused to apologize and doubled down instead.
I just checked, and now the Twitter account is private. Hopefully, that is because the (former) announcer is going through and deleting all the embarrassing cringe bait.
- Comment on Xbox Reportedly Plots Second Layoff Wave This Week, with Blizzard and Halo Studios both in the Firing Line 4 weeks ago:
I wonder if the timing is affected by multiple Xbox studios unionizing.
- Comment on 5 weeks ago:
All I know about him is that he has a very large YouTube audience and that he does particularly well among young adults. That is an audience that has (a little bit of) disposable income but is still learning how to make good use of their money. I assume Mr. Beast advertised his book non-stop on his channel, so his viewers went out and purchased it.
- Comment on Kallax Storageborn is a Skyrim mod that adds an inventory-focused companion voiced by Matt Berry 5 weeks ago:
Wendy’s released an RPG back in the day. Supposedly it was solid, if a bit silly, though it included meta-gaming rules for bribing the DM with food.
- Comment on Why does most of the world use WhatsApp as their messaging app rather than RCS/SMS? 5 weeks ago:
I use SMS specifically because of the network effect. Almost everyone I want to communicate with has a cellphone, so all of them are capable of sending and receiving text messages. There is no need to list my installed messaging apps and compare it to theirs, we just need to exchange phone numbers.
My longest and most active conversations (chatting with my wife or my closest friends) are going to be over a more feature rich app, but if I need to set up a quick chat with 3 or 4 people, I am not going to think what messaging app we all have in common, I will just start an SMS group chat.
- Comment on Life is hard 1 month ago:
If your car windows are totally fogged up, you cannot clearly see what is in front of your car and therefore, your vehicle is not safe to operate.
- Comment on 1 month ago:
Hollywood perfected royalties. If structured right, you can promise everyone at the company 200% of the games profit and never pay them a cent.
For example, you sell all rights to the game to a shell company owned by the studio’s parent for 1¢.
- Comment on The Los Angeles Clippers Have Been Stripped of 5 First Round Picks in Kawhi Case 1 month ago:
Would have really lost my interest in the league if they had let this slide since it just makes the richest teams have a massive advantage. Really glad they did this.
One of the great things about the NBA is that owners cannot simply buy a championship. It did not work for Prokhorov and the Nets and it has not worked for Balmer with the Clippers.
Obviously the inverse is true. Plenty of teams fell out of championship contention because the owner tried to cut payroll.
- Comment on unfathomable 2 months ago:
I thought that the US banned flavored vapes. If your home country has not, encourage politicians to ban vapes altogether.
- Comment on Does the USA have gifted schools or was Spider-Man Homecoming lying? 2 months ago:
A magnet school is just a school that will take students from anywhere in the district instead of only students that live nearby. Some require tests to attend, but others do not.
But yes, there are public schools for gifted students that admit purely based on academic merit and exam scores. In theory, a rich student would not be able to buy their way in. In practice, having a tutor who can coach a child on exam specifics is a very large advantage.
- Comment on BREAKING: Bernie Sanders just introduced the Guaranteed Paid Vacation Act — a bill to guarantee at least two weeks of paid vacation to every full-time worker in America. Over 90 other members of Cong… 2 months ago:
I am all for it, though I worry that employers will start treating 10 days as both a minimum and a maximum (for regular employees). I expect that the most American workers gets 10 days or less, so this law is going to be good for them and the CEOs who get 52 weeks off per year are going to keep getting that, but there are high-skilled workers who take 3-4 weeks off per year. Their employer is going to standardize on 2 weeks of per year for everyone from the janitor up to the vice president. If the employee tries looking for a job, many companies will have already switched to the 10 day standard and the rest will either follow suit, calling it “matching industry norms”, or they will use the extra vacation days as golden handcuffs.
I hope not, but I am a pessimist.
- Comment on 'Locking a gameplay trailer behind a Netflix subscription is a new level of greed' — GTA 6 callout Rockstar for 'paywalling' the game's extended look 2 months ago:
This is GTA 6. The game could just be Hello World and it would still be the best selling game ever. They could have started taking preorders earlier and it could have also been the best selling game of last year.
People know how popular the last game was, assume that this one is going to be even more, and feel like they need to be first to play it or they will be left behind. They feel like they need to preorder the game so that it doesn’t sell out, despite the fact that it is a digital download.
- Comment on Why do seemingly well-adjusted adults find it acceptable to loudly play tiktoks on public transport? 2 months ago:
I love using my phone speaker. I do not always have headphones in my ears. I know some people can walk around all day with an earbud in their head, but I am not one of them. When I am messing around on my phone and decide I need to watch a video that includes audio, I can just turn up my speaker and listen. At home only, mind you. I would have to be totally devoid of empathy to blast loud audio in public.
- Comment on Another Clippers-Kawhi side deal 2 months ago:
I did not watch the video but I am guessing it is the same as this article: espn.com/…/report-leonard-had-undisclosed-sponsor…
TL;DR: Allegedly, Kawai was sponsored by Daktronics, the company that made the scoreboard for the Intuit Dome.
- Comment on Could I theoretically grind up one of those pink salt lamps and use it to season my food? 2 months ago:
Since this is “no stupid questions”, I will follow up with a question and demand that you not call me stupid: what about the lamp makes it “not food grade”? I assume that both salts are just NaCl, so do salt manufacturers put the salt through some process to remove dangerous contaminants or something?
- Comment on Would you rather be reincarnated into a world of magic or reborn as yourself (with your current knowledge fully intact)? 2 months ago:
I would never choose to be reborn as myself with my current knowledge. I would know how my life could turn out without knowing all the steps I did to get there. I don’t think I would be able to get my wife to fall in love with me and I know that I would never be able to find the exact breeder that sold me my dog.
Sure I would be able to see loved ones who have passed, but would I be able to enjoy that extra time knowing that they will soon develop a disease that will kill them?
As much as I would love to imagine how much better my life will be if I made the right decision at some juncture, I would not want to lose out on all the treasure I discovered taking the wrong road.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
The only part of my hair grooming that is “for myself” is trimming my mustache so food does not get caught in it.
Everything else is is for looks and other people look at me much more often than I look at myself. Even when I see myself in a mirror, I try to see myself as others would see me. My wife is the person that looks at me the most and is the person whose opinion is most important to me, so I ask for her opinion about how I groom myself.
- Comment on LeBron chooses 76ers, will sign 2-year, $8 million contract 2 months ago:
I assume the plan with Embid is that the team should not need him until the playoffs. During the regular season, he can play light minutes and take frequent rest days, just enough to keep him in shape and maintain chemistry.
- Comment on LeBron chooses 76ers, will sign 2-year, $8 million contract 2 months ago:
I assume he is chasing one more ring.
- Comment on LeBron James says he will play with the Philadelphia 76ers next season 2 months ago:
George’s contract is a year shorter.
- Comment on LeBron James says he will play with the Philadelphia 76ers next season 2 months ago:
You missed some headlines. The Sixers traded the broken Paul George for Jaylen Brown.
It seems that the new Celtics ownership is operating on the idea that the second apron will become a de facto hard cap for NBA payrolls and that existing contracts are not providing a good enough value. On his own last year, Brown was earning his max contract, but apparently having both Brown and Tatum on the court together is not worth paying 2 max contracts.
Other teams seem to be agreeing with them about the second apron being mutually assured destruction, but it could all be cover to force players to take less money.
- Submitted 2 months ago to nba@lemmy.world | 11 comments
- Comment on Alternative Instance for this Community Vote 2 months ago:
I found OP’s first post about moving the community: lemmy.world/post/45941792
- Comment on The Celtics are trading Brown to the 76ers 3 months ago:
The Pacers? They tanked last year but are bringing back most of the roster that made the finals in 2025.
- Comment on The Celtics are trading Brown to the 76ers 3 months ago:
And that is that for the Celtics.
Seriously, why would they make that trade? Brown is, arguably, the best player on the team (and until Tatum fully recovers, there is no argument). The only reason to dump him for picks is if the team is going for a radical rebuild, except they signed Robinson to a fairly big deal.
I assume the owners do not want to pay for two max contracts. If they don’t want to pay, they are not going to be able to seriously compete.
Or maybe Brown told the team he wanted out and this is the best offer they could find.
- Comment on Poll: Will you buy GTA 6 when it launches on your platform? 3 months ago:
The poll does not break down if people are not buying it because they object to some aspect of the release or they are not buying it because the game does not appeal to them. It makes it sound like there is a large boycott of the game when it could just be GTA indifferents (like me) stuffing the ballot box.