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One thing I’ve been mulling over, and which we won’t know an answer to until Jaren’s back, is that the FO bet that MEM’s top 7 is just flat out great.
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#Grizzlies lineups using only these players
Ja Morant
Desmond Bane
Dillon Brooks
Jaren Jackson Jr
Steven Adams
Brandon Clarke
had a +26.2 net rating in the regular season (245 poss) and a +23.0 net rating in the playoffs (114 poss)
from @grizzliespod @grindcitymedia twitter.com/grizzliespod/s…
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I mean, everyone assumes BOS has called about KD, and that call pretty much has to include Jaylen. But the fact that BOS is blanching at including Smart, yet not at Jaylen, kinda blows up BOS's spot.
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It’s especially poignant bc the vet has perhaps fictionalized his own story, or at least put it into narrative. But it’s a narrative that helps, so perhaps it’s not poignant. Really don’t know how this makes me feel, but I feel.
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“My life was saved not once but repeatedly, by more people than I will ever know.” REDEPLOYMENT, wrote a banger.
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I’ve been up for 8 hours already and I’m eating breakfast.
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I think I'm lower on Turner than most on NBA twitter. With that said, this is a two picks + swap situation or not worth discussing.
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A potential Lakers trade package sending Russell Westbrook and a first-rounder to the Pacers for Myles Turner and Buddy Hield is currently dead, sources tell @bkravitz.
The Pacers want an additional first-round pick added.
More: theathletic.com/news/lakers-pa
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Again, I wouldn’t do that if I were UT (just keep the wing!) but swapping Green for RJ and Fournier for Dillon gets them out of a ton of money going forward. (Dillon prob lands in NY, tbh)
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If I was UT, I'd just keep RJ, but they don't seem to want him, but he's not the best fit with Jalen/Mitchell, so there's a decent shot RJ is in the Mitchell deal, but UT is dealing him elsewhere. RJ next to Ja/Bane isn't the best either, but it works better than in NY.
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Just idly thinking that, if UT trades Mitchell for Fournier, RJ, Quickley and let's say 3 1sts and a swap, if they would then swap RJ, Fournier to MEM for Danny Green, either Adams or Brooks, and perhaps two 1sts (or a young player and a 1st).
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I'll offer that a lot of people who voted for Biden do not want to rip up the filibuster or pack the court. They want senators to give women back their rights, and that seemingly not being an option is exactly the problem.
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I do think, in general, especially the left does not feel like Biden is fighting for them. There are people every day screaming to rip up the filibuster or pack the court. Given the tactics of the right... there's a better argument today than there was a decade ago for that.
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and the expectations - not to mention what he himself said he'd accomplish - were wildly out of step with what has been reality. We arguably should've seen that coming relying on a Dem from WV to keep a majority. And then you have the Supreme Court...
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The thing is, I get why people are discontent. There has literally been one disruption after another, not to mention the tradeoff of inflation for that low unemployment. And Biden hasn't been as visible as previous presidents trumpeting what they've gotten accomplished.
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What if two years ago, I told you that by the end of Biden's first two years:
- 10 million new jobs
- 3.6% unemployment
- 86% drop in COVID death rate
- biggest ever infrastructure bill PASSED
- first gun safety bill in 30 yrs PASSED
(wait, just getting started...keep reading)
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Replies claiming everyone thought the same thing last year which is not accurate. They were a trendy dark horse candidate, sleeper division bet.
They lost two really good rotation guys and Jaren is out for a while. The bottom isn’t dropping out but they are worse. twitter.com/JoeMullinax/st…
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I’ll amend and say that probably one of the 2nd year guys is the Otto replacement, at least in the reg season. But we’ll see how that works in the postseason.
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Otto porter to JaMychal Green is a massive downgrade.
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more than likely, the teams have more information than we do, but at the same time, the agents have somewhat similar information (probably) so are these deals really negotiated from a point of strength?
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because I don't have perfect information on what a cap spike will look like, how much smoothing there will be, etc, there's a small-ish, but real chance, that some of these contracts turn sour.
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OKC and MEM have made the bet that every long contract signed this offseason will look great in 4 years.
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ESPN Sources: Oklahoma City Thunder forward Kenrich Williams has agreed on a four-year, $27.2 million contract extension. The deal, negotiated by @PensackSports, comes for an undrafted player who had no Division I offers out of high school.
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While both guys may sing in Conte's system, will either be good after Conte (inevitably) leaves? Richarlison in particular seems like a bet on Conte's system and surrounding him with better players.
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aside from that, they're securing depth, which will absolutely help in all comps. They should have been aiming to add at least one star. Instead they spent over half their budget on Bissouma and Richarlison who are both good, but flawed, players.
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Going into the summer, Spurs had $150mm to spend, and while I don't hate any single deal, the overall summer has been pretty poor given the outlay. The biggest part has been making the Romero signing permanent.
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I love Keldon Johnson. This is a lot for a player I love.
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San Antonio Spurs forward Keldon Johnson has agreed to a four-year, $80 million contract extension, Klutch Sports’ CEO Rich Paul and agent Lucas Newton tell @TheAthletic @Stadium.
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I don't know what my favorite word is, but my least favorite word is "discourse." Pure signaling.
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there's no cost to just not saying who you're drafting. No cost.
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It's kind of wild that a guy whose team flipped the number 1 pick for the number 3 pick to take Jayson Tatum doesn't understand why the Magic held their cards close about drafting Paulo.
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Gotta assume PHX will be salary dumping at least two of Saric, Craig and Cam Payne.
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No time for you on the Challenge if you can’t swim or run a mile.
I suspect that Ainge would prefer Barrett to getting maximum picks out of the Knicks and he'll spend months claiming he needs both.
We've got movement!
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RFA center Deandre Ayton has agreed to a four-year, $133M maximum offer sheet with the Indiana Pacers, his agents Nima Namakian (Innovate Sports) and Bill Duffy (BDA Sports + WME Sports) tell ESPN. The Phoenix Suns have 48 hours to match the largest offer sheet in NBA history.
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Then again, if I take a week off my times suffer, because I'm old now. So maybe its just that I'm old.
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I have no idea how athletes got COVID, cleared protocols, and then got right back to it. My times are way off still and I cleared it about 4 days ago.
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joins me to talk about the Grizz quiet offseason
🤫why so quiet?
☁️ how KD situation impacts everything
👀 deciphering the Danny Green situation
✍🏻 things we wanna see from rest of the offseason
🥷 is there something in the dark
TAP IN
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Herschel Walker is going to be blown away when someone explains *farts* to him.
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I obtained audio of more than a dozen recent Herschel Walker campaign events that show his dubious claims about China and “bad air” pollution were not joking one-off remarks, but rather a regular feature of his stump speech. #gapol #gasen
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New GBB Live will be recorded tonight, as will have on the show to talk about the Grizzlies' offseason.
QOTD: Why is the Grizzlies offseason quiet right now?
- No moves will be made44.4%
- Something in the dark55.6%
45 votesFinal results
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“Here’s a thing that is hard to imagine: being so inventive a writer that when you die, the language is impoverished.” (This sentence sums up nicely my feeling on finishing Infinite Jest)
This poor woman Jabeur just beat herself for the Wimbledon Final.