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- Comment on Ayton to sign 2-year deal with Lakers 6 days ago:
Maybe LeBron can get him to man up and reach his potential…whatever that is. LeBron has an amazing record of getting the most out of the guys on his teams, hoping I can respect Ayton yet. So far has just been disappointing and he doesn’t really seem bothered by it. Every player can’t be KG intensity but man, for what some of these clowns make they should care a whole lot more.
- Comment on The Denver Nuggets are trading Michael Porter Jr.... - ESPN 1 week ago:
Porter was pretty streaky, and disappeared for games in the playoffs. if Johnson can be more consistent, especially in playoffs it is a win. What they do with the extra $ saved from Porter is also a good question I’m curious to see how they answer. Denver being out so early was just weird this year.
- Comment on Harden to sign $81.5M deal with Clips 1 week ago:
Philly was miserable last year, so PGs numbers reflected that: PG had his most complete season ever 2 years ago and finally showed he was ready to carry and be the man in the playoffs. If embiid hadn’t fallen apart a long with apparently all their team chemistry, they should have been playing and probably beating NY in this year’s conference finals. As it was, they missed that mark by miles.
Anyway, Kawahi has been status quo for as long as he’s been in LA, if he happens to be playing in a given year it’s a surprise. Take PG over that any day, Kawahi hasn’t added much except years to his game.
- Comment on Harden to sign $81.5M deal with Clips 1 week ago:
Kawahi such an albatross, Clips completely hamstrung with his contract eating up enormous space when he can’t be counted on to be healthy. Ever. They were fools for letting George go over Kawahi.
2-year deal is smart for clips with Harden; he showed some tread still left on his tires last season but in another 2 years he might finally agree to 6th man money and give clips flexibility to move on a new marquee player.
- Comment on A Public Lands Sell-Off Is Struck From the G.O.P. Policy Bill | Senator Mike Lee, Republican of Utah, said he would withdraw his proposal after it faced intense intraparty opposition. 1 week ago:
And where is the political opposition using this silver platter delivery of pissed off voters to siphon them for future elections? Where are the tall radio slogans? The bumper stickers? The slogan getting repeated in the news until even the left starts using the language? The black and white TV ads showing a rich jerk building a 4th mansion at a pristine waterfront lake?
The right is effective because their PR and media game is on point. Dems keep appealing to the “principles” and “better nature” that has unfortunately shown to be effective. Progressive parties (e.g. not Dems) need Dem money so they can actually run effective campaigns.
Don’t give to Dems!
- Comment on Buss family agrees to sell Lakers 2 weeks ago:
Yeah, 6 for Celtics seems low to me too for many of the same reasons for the Lakers. The league doesn’t exist as it has or will without those two teams, they are farm more valuable than 2x or 3x the Grizzlies, for example.
- Comment on BREAKING: The Boston Celtics have traded Jrue Holiday to the... - ESPN 2 weeks ago:
PDX looking to dump salary and commit to the tank it looks like. Holiday probably retires in a year or two? Portland got nothing from this except salary dump.
- Comment on Emotional Haliburton helped off with leg injury 2 weeks ago:
Dudes Achilles lasts for decades but couldn’t make it 40 more minutes to get him through the series. Just brutal for him and team.
- Comment on Thunder win NBA Finals in Game 7: Shai Gilgeous-Alexander leads OKC to first title, Pacers falter without star 2 weeks ago:
Especially a few minutes into the 1st quarter. So deflating for the poor guy, his team and the series. Damn Achilles man, just hang on for like 40 more minutes dude, could have had a ring! Maddening.
- Comment on BREAKING: The Phoenix Suns are trading two-time NBA Finals MVP... - ESPN 2 weeks ago:
No. He hasn’t made a good team win yet. He’s played on a bunch of good teams and hasn’t taken them to a chip. He rode coattails in GS on a multi-time champion of course, and then bailed to do nothing with the nets, nothing with phoenix and will do nothing with the rockets.
This, he may raise the floor of a team, but won’t raise their upper limit of potential to winning it all, hence not a ceiling raiser.
- Comment on BREAKING: The Phoenix Suns are trading two-time NBA Finals MVP... - ESPN 2 weeks ago:
Shockingly he exits like a tool after not providing them the lift they need. Durant has always been a floor raiser, never a ceiling raiser. He’s never wanted to be the guy, the leader. Hope rockets aren’t hoping for much out of him. We’re at “Scottie Pippen in Portland” time.
Good on Phoenix for moving on, I’m sure they’d move Beal as well if NJ hadn’t given him a no trade clause lol…PHX still screwed.
- Comment on Haliburton's no-look pass sets up ferocious Siakam poster 2 weeks ago:
Thanks, forgot I have “read” posts hidden.
Hopefully as we grow we’ll have enough participation for a comment thread for each game. One of the things I miss a good deal about the media site that must not be mentioned was the quality, speed and variety of content for NBA. They pretty much became the news cycle themselves
- Comment on Haliburton's no-look pass sets up ferocious Siakam poster 2 weeks ago:
Where is the game thread?
- Comment on Buss family agrees to sell Lakers 2 weeks ago:
It’s weird but $10B for the Lakers sounds frankly low? If the Grizzlies are worth 3.5B, the Lakers are 10x easy if you’re taking the super-long-term ownership perspective. When the NBA finally sells internet games direct to the public, when they get to set ad prices instead of legacy TV folks, as internet media and entertainment and sponsorship and athletics continue to evolve, the future seems very bright in an increasingly global world as the #2 or 3 global sport behind soccer and maybe cricket/F1.
I guess it’s one of those things; LeBron is worth way more than he makes relative to other players but due to the structure of income and payments etc. he can’t really be paid what he’s worth. It makes the league overall stronger, and the wealer teams in the league benefit from income resistribution from the big market workhorses like la, Boston, Miami, etc.
Still…$10B? In 2025? Especially given the tax advantages…
- Comment on The Grizzlies are trading Desmond Bane to the Magic for Kentavious Caldwell-Pope, Cole Anthony, four unprotected first-round picks and one first-round pick swap, sources tell Shams Charania. 3 weeks ago:
So grizzlies get worse, except in the distant future and magic don’t get anything that will take them to the next level. Grizz werent going anywhere with this core but appear to have thrown in the towel as they should have, but still looking waaaaay out now. Lose/lose.
- Comment on Trump Administration Ends Program Critical to Search for an H.I.V. Vaccine 5 weeks ago:
- Comment on Sources: OKC's Gilgeous-Alexander wins NBA MVP 1 month ago:
That’s how 20/20 perspective works.
TbF, I think George has played his best basketball with the clippers. Kawahi ruined the team before it got started, though that was on the clippers. Should have moved him years ago.
- Comment on Severance’s Skin-Deep Critique of Capitalism 1 month ago:
Found the anti-feminist! /s
- Comment on Celtics star Jayson Tatum has surgery on ruptured Achilles; no timetable for return 1 month ago:
Yeah cavs have yet to show mettle with a few good chances in their recent runs so they’ll probably look to mix it up. Where does Giannis end up? The East seems like it’s all falling apart.
- Comment on Edwards' halftime talk sparks Wolves to 3-1 lead 1 month ago:
If you didn’t already know Ants caliber from his weird rookie season due to COVID, his first playoffs in his second season 21-22 against Memphis showed all you need to know about what to expect next. It seems the general public started to catch on only in 23-24 because he simply is too talented and icy to ignore.
He is the absolute complete package.Honestly lots of Kobe and Jordan vibes, and that is almost never fair nor appropriate to say.
Min has the ability to beat OKC or Den if they made a comeback and they should absolutely beat NY (And I think Indiana) but would be super fun to see two new teams to the finals and NY would lose its mind even getting there. Min might just get a ring and be decently setup for a repeat.
- Comment on Celtics star Jayson Tatum has surgery on ruptured Achilles; no timetable for return 1 month ago:
Wow Tatum and Lillard, 2 top 20 players within a round of each other and we probably won’t see either during the regular season. with Giannis on the prowl for a new team, Lillard may be traded and have played his last game in. Bucks uniform, he’s not going to waste his last few years in MIL if Giannis bounces and MIL would be happy to be rid of his contract while rebuilding, though he’d be a great mentor if he stays.
Boston will have to shake things up around Tatum while he’s out.
Crazy how much different things could look a year and a half from now when both Tatum and Lillard return.
- Comment on Mavericks win NBA draft lottery with 1.8% odds 1 month ago:
Watch the video you’re responding to. This is the drawing.
They may theatrically reproduce it later but there is a reason E&Y rep and the speech happens at the beginning of the linked video. Billionaire money is on the line.
- Comment on Mavericks win NBA draft lottery with 1.8% odds 1 month ago:
- Comment on Mavericks win NBA draft lottery with 1.8% odds 1 month ago:
If I’m Spurs I call up Milwaukee and talk about Giannis.
My God what a team the Spurs would have, also not a terrible exit from relevance for Milwaukee. It was inevitable, might as well go gracefully.
- Comment on Giannis open to exploring best fits outside Bucks 1 month ago:
Where are possible fits that wouldn’t have to hit their talent or future to land him? If I’m Giannis, I’d plan an extra year in MIL to be able to go to a team much richer in talent and future and guarantee my next 4 or 5 are more successful.
- Comment on Unable to complete training videos, because the password reset link doesn't work. 1 month ago:
You are probably caught in a catch-22; many such HR systems didn’t used to require security questions to make resetting passwords easy. Then, of course with modern data breaches the companies over time added in the requirement. The problem being when they added the security question requirement, they didn’t do the critical piece of requiring all current users to update/create security questions so any login attempt outside SSO and you’re screwed. Someone else’s problem boss!
- Comment on Draft Executive Orders Aim to Speed Construction of Nuclear Plants | Potential actions could include overhauling the Nuclear Regulatory Commission & leaning on the U.S. military to deploy new reactors 1 month ago:
Oh good, a new Godzilla plot.
- Comment on No One Has Ever Defeated Autocracy From the Sidelines 1 month ago:
The irony of this great piece being published by the NYT as opinion rather than front page news and a rallying cry is the sad irony of the NYT business putting it’s political, advertising or financial fortunes ahead of the country it was founded in that is deeply wounded. That is of course the point of the oped.
It’s ok for papers to have a voice and a direction; if the NYT really presented progressive news with the same presumptive entitlement of its coverage of pro-business and it’s practices, unquestioningly hegemonic crap it has spun out for 30 years or more we wouldn’t be here.
- Comment on Gregg Popovich stepping down as Spurs coach to become team president 2 months ago:
Classic and classy dude. Impossible shoes to fill, he was as smart as he was honest and intolerant of bs.
- Comment on US House of Representatives Votes to Repeal California’s Clean Truck Policies | Lawmakers voted to stop the state from requiring that an increasing share of new trucks sold there have zero emissions. 2 months ago:
All christofacists want is to have it both ways, what’s so hard to accept?