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  1. 16 minutes ago, Neonmoon said:

    Or as the richest nation on earth, we could raise taxes 

     No. Taxes can only go down*, because of something JFK said in 1962. God appeared to Arthur Laffer in the form of a wild conjecture and gave him a cocktail napkin sketch showing that as tax rates approach zero, revenues rise vertically, QED.  
     

     

     

     

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    * except on middle class people and below.  Because fuck them

     

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  2. 1 hour ago, TwiceHorn said:

    The "Truth Social" juror was seated, but:

    Some commentators have suggested that Trump might find a guardian angel in Juror 2, the only one to have admitted to following Trump on Truth Social and to getting his news from the platform. But the media consumption graphic only tells part of the story. “I read basically everything,” Juror 2 said. “I follow Truth Social posts from Trump on Twitter. I do follow Michael Cohen, Mueller She Wrote, and some more.” He said that Trump has done some good for the country, but added “it goes both ways.” (That doesn’t sound exactly like a MAGA diehard.)

    https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2024/04/trump-jury-selection-manhattan-juror-2-merchan/

    That sounds like a dummy. Advantage timeline.

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  3. 47 minutes ago, LurkingHorn said:

    I get that he's not 100%, but the way he's moving on defense indicates his issue right now is way more mental than it is physical

    Completely disagree. Dead legs- that is, the kind of long term fatigue associated with poor recovery from minor injury and overwork impacts vertical and explosive movement first and most. This is why “active recovery” is a thing- you can have dead legs and still jog and jump rope all day.  Defense is mainly lateral and horizontal movement and reactive hand-eye coordination, all of which Luka has in spades. But he’s very sore and doesn’t have enough lift to get his shot off, which is why he’s forcing it through his shoulders and arms. Dead legs takes about a week of rest and recovery to get over at his age. 
    He’ll be a little better for the rest of the series because he’s got a break between each game, but won’t be 100% until next season. That’s just how it is. 

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  4. 15 hours ago, Rex Kramer said:

    Honestly I just don’t care enough to think about it. I’ve seen some bad calls this series, but no group of calls in any one game has affected the outcome. I just don’t get worked up by officials and never really have except over the occasional Longhorn football game. I’ve seen one and possible two times Big 12 refs cost us games against OSU and once against Bama in ‘22. All at home. No officiating anywhere else has approached those screw jobs. 

    You’re talking about bad officiating that changed the outcome. That happens in football. Screw jobs were the officials seem to intentionally put their thumb on the scale to manipulate the outcome seem rare in football. The only equivalent I can think of is “Grant Teaff’s going away present” in 1993.

    I’m talking about the kind of screwjobs that are unique to the NBA, particularly when they can extend a playoff series. A few off the top of my head:

    Game 5 ECF, Knicks-Bulls ‘93 (Charles Oakley)
    Game 2 Finals, Celtics-Lakers ‘08 Celtics (Lakers shoot 10 free throws, Celtics shoot 38)
    Game 6 WCF, Kings-Lakers 2002
    Games 5-6 Finals, Heat-Mavs, 2006 (and Games 3-4 are pretty bad too)

     

  5. 3 hours ago, Rex Kramer said:

    I read this and my eyes glaze over. Is there a source for this other than an admitted convicted degenerate’s word for it?

    Oh it’s all speculative of course, but the Donaghy thing is a pretty huge red flag, and can we honestly say it’s been fully addressed? Despite the NBA’s line (which you have accepted and repeat above, and that’s fine), it’s tough to imagine that he was unique, particularly given his background, and there have been multiple investigations by ESPN a d others that suggest it’s not. 

    There’s no equivalent in the last 90 years of pro baseball or 70 years of pro football. And look, I don’t even think a conspiracy theory is required. People’s motivations and biases can be all over the place beyond money. They may be actively collaborating with mobsters like Donaghy, who made very little compared to his partners, or they could be merely putting their thumbs on the scale for other reasons- Marc Cuban and Robert Sarver (Suns) were both unusually public about calling out uneven officiating and many people have argued they both paid the price for it. You can decide whether that makes sense to you or whether there was a corruption issue beyond bias.  You can decide whether it matters that so many of the same names that always seemed to pop up in poorly officiated games in that era were from  Delaware County Pa, and that they were all longtime friends and associates across generations, or that some of those associations include mob ties. 
     

    All that said, you are correct. No matter how much smoke there is, I can’t point to the fire. But after watching NBA basketball for the last 45 years I don’t think there’s anything stranger to me than the idea that the four people overseeing the development and performance of NBA officials are Mark Wunderlich, Eddie Rush, Bennett Salvatore and Joey Crawford. 

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  6. 4 hours ago, Rex Kramer said:

    It’d be quite absurd. Thankfully you’re not going there. 

    Of course I’m not. It’s ridiculous on its face. 

    BTW- did I say two referees who were specifically implicated? I meant *four*.  There are four former referees  implicated in *allegedly* rigging games now in senior roles overseeing NBA referees as part of the NBA referee development and performance group (out of four members), but only three of them were specifically implicated in fixing playoff games against the Mavs. And it’s not as though the Mavs were unique- one was  also involved in the notorious Game 6 of the 2002 WCF between the Lakers and Kings, and several other infamous officiating disasters. 
    How silly of me.

    Well at any rate I’m not paranoid enough to think there’s something systemically wrong here.

  7. 4 hours ago, Rex Kramer said:

    But clearly you know better than to lend your support to an asinine conspiracy theory against Luka. Thank God. 

    Of course I’m not. I mean, it’s not as though *two* former referees specifically implicated by Tim Donaghy in *allegedly* fixing games against the Mavericks (including both games 5 and 6 of the 2006 NBA finals) are now occupying VP level operations roles supervising officials. That would be absurd, right?

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