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  1. 7 hours ago, HtownHorn said:

    The only way to get playoff experience is to play in the playoffs. You want Sengun and Thompson playing as many games in May and June as possible. Durant makes that more of a possibility than Jalen Green.

    I’m confident most Rockets fans outside of 3putt would trade Green for Durant. It’s the Suns’ demands (and ESPN/Ringer/Athletic similar mock trades) of including Reed, Jabari, Cam, and/or first round picks in the deal that makes it a stinker. Sorry KD, wish it could’ve worked out. Not blowing up the team’s next 5+ years for 60 games of KD making $50m.

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  2. 9 hours ago, UpperWestside said:

    I find none of the rules helpful to teams being able to stay together. I would rather see a team like Denver be able to go add pieces and try to win instead of having to stay under a tax threshold. The next CBA the players negotiate needs to entirely do away with this. Either spend wisely to field a winner or be bad.

    Shocking news: Fan of LA/NY team with huge financial advantages favors ending salary caps so the Lakers, Knicks, Rams, Giants, and Jets can spend like the Dodgers, Yankees, and Mets. “Either spend wisely…” doesn’t apply if there’s no cap and your team has nearly unlimited money (see: Yankees).

    9 hours ago, Chewbacca said:

    Yep.  Dynasties in the NBA are done under this CBA.  You cannot keep teams together anymore.  Celtics are gonna look a lot different next season. OKC is probably next on the clock when they have to pay everyone.

    8 hours ago, MrX said:

    Gotta have some type of exemption for re-signing a home grown guy to the max. Jokic, Wemby, Tatum, Booker, etc. staying around shouldn’t hurt their respective franchises long term by tying them close to the second apron.  
     

    Even guys like SGA and Haliburton who didn’t necessarily start their career where they are now but got there early enough probably shouldn’t count, or count as much. 

    The NBA lets you resign your players even if you’re over the cap if you’re willing to eat luxury taxes? If you build a “dynasty” level team, you can keep it together like the Warriors did (until they decided not to resign Klay). The 90s Bulls could’ve hung on a couple more seasons but Jerry Reinsdorf decided he was done shelling out. This current system already favors big market teams that are able and may be willing to pay the taxes if they can assemble a great roster. OKC had 3 young future HOF players on their team and blew it up because they knew couldn’t afford to keep them. Also, small market NBA teams have a disadvantage keeping/attracting free agents when they all seem to want to play in LA, NY, or Miami. If you gave those teams unlimited cap room, very few stars would ever remain with their original franchises because they’d all be joining super teams in those cities. If I was an LA/NY fan, I’d also want rules that hugely favored my teams. 
     

    If you really wanted more opportunity to keep and grow dynasties while having parity and fairness to small market teams, the non-star majority of NBAPA should band together like the non-QBs/stars of NFLPA have to get more equity instead of the top 5% taking over half the money. NBA could increase salary cap/revenue sharing so players in total get paid more, but reduce the max and supermax levels so one or two players don’t make 80%+ of a team’s payroll. If LeBron and Luka were individually capped at a peasant’s wage of $25 or $30m/year, the Lakers could afford a third or fourth “max” player and have year to year flexibility in free agency. 

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  3. 2 minutes ago, royiv said:

    They announced that the Ayatollah of Rock ‘n Rolla will be holding a free concert in Tehran Central Park this Saturday. Be there or be bombed.

    Glasses Why Dont We Have Both GIF by nounish ⌐◨-◨
     

    Also the HEB in Tehran will roll out some new delicious faux bacon. 

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  4. On 6/13/2025 at 10:49 PM, DeepEastTexas said:

     

    The penultimate episode of Clone Wars, Shattered, is perfection. For as much as everyone talks about the tension and build up in the Gorman Revolution episode in Andor S2, those 3 minutes of zero dialogue with just Kiner's score playing in Shattered are amazing! Just captures everything perfectly, outstanding storytelling. 
     

    Those last episodes of CW are the best SW content since ESB. I say that as a huge fan of Andor and Rogue 1. 

    IMO, the tragedy of Anakin’s fall is more powerful from the perspective on Mandalore than what we see in ROTS. Fuckin’ Maul, once again, tells the Jedi exactly what’s going to happen. Ahsoka refuses to believe it until she feels it happen and has the “oh fuck” realization immediately followed by Order 66. I understand Maul’s wanting to piss on Palpatine’s plan to flip Anakin, but he should’ve been smarter to think he could defeat Anakin and Kenobi by himself (when he couldn’t beat Kenobi alone previously and then got beat by Ahsoka). He might more effectively fucked Palpatine by dropping a dime on him to the Jedi sooner, get his revenge on the sith, and still run his pirate game in the Outer Rim. *All this shit you’d know what I was talking about if you’d stoop to “watching a cartoon”*

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  5. 39 minutes ago, immamac said:

    Red Wedding didn't do shit for the overall plot. 

    20 minutes ago, atomheartbevo said:

    The Red Wedding was merely masturbatory material for the fans.

    The Red Wedding removed Starks from power in the North and eliminated the primary front of the war with the Lannisters, gave Winterfell to the Boltons, set up Sansa's marriage to Ramsey, caused Arya to go East and get trained by the faceless men, and later Arya's murder of all Frey men. It did some shit.

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  6. 1 hour ago, Dutchrudder said:

    FVV option must be picked up to trade him. At 44m, I don't think the Suns will find anyone willing to trade for Fred during the season, so they would be stuck with him for 1 year.  Booker, Beal and Fred is not a championship team, so the other assets they get back would need to be considerable.  

    However, compare that to Rudy's contract, or Vassell, both have significantly more future money guaranteed. Neither is going to be a trade asset that returns more picks. FVV is at least a one and done option for them. 

    The other thing about this trade is that you may need to give KD a 2 year $122m extension as part of the trade. If that's the case, that would be problematic for the team's cap situation, unless hes willing to take a moderate discount. Maybe he agrees to 2 years 90m? I know it's not 73 win Golden State, so he may not be willing to drop 30% in value, but he's 36, and the extension is for his 37/38 years. That's a huge liability given his injury history. 

    If that extension is part of the trade, do you still do it? 

    I found the answer about FVV after I made the last post (can't trade a player with a player/team option until it is exercised). KD turns 37 in September, so the extension will really be for his 38/39 seasons. I wouldn't give him $60+ per year for that. Either treat it as a one year rental (and pay accordingly in the trade) or get him to extend for a more reasonable salary based on age/injury risk. For salary matching purposes, Houston's 2025 base salaries are:

    • Sengun - $33.9
    • Jalen - $33.3
    • Brooks - $22.1
    • Jabari - $12.4
    • Reed - $9.6
    • Landale - $8
    • Eason - $5.7

    They could re-sign and trade FVV (don't know why FVV would agree to that). If they decline FVV and don't re-sign/extend him, it puts them under the cap where they could sign another free agent and/or re-sign Steven Adams, then pull a trade for KD or someone else.

  7. I've seen realistic sports writers put a fair value on KD based on his age, injury risk, and only one year left on his contract, but there are more who think Houston should give way too much. ESPN mocked 5 trade proposals yesterday and had Houston giving up #10, the 2027 PHX pick, Reed, Cam, Brooks, and Londale. The other offers they pitched seem like less capital than what they have Houston giving up. Minnesota offers Gobert plus spares, Spurs offer Devin Vassell, Harrison Barnes, and #14 pick, and Knicks offer OG Anunoby, Mitchell Robinson.

    I don't think I'd give up Reed + multiple good assets; maybe tell them to pick two from Cam and the two first rounders plus salary filler. Can FVV be traded prior to declining the team option to serve as filler...like include him, then PHX declines the option, then FVV is a free agent (and could re-sign with Houston)? Or Jalen + Brooks?

    https://www.espn.com/nba/story/_/id/44108357/kevin-durant-trade-proposals-four-deals-suns-star

  8. 19 hours ago, Hate said:

    I don’t know if I can get into cartoons. 

    It makes my head hurt that there are diehard Star Wars fans who have no idea who Ahsoka Tano is.

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  9. 14 hours ago, billfromlaketravis said:

    The Spurs thread is a trip. Those assholes think they can trade a couple spares and the 14th pick for KD. 
     

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    If that's the best offer PHX gets, it's possible.

    13 hours ago, Dutchrudder said:

    That's about what they gave up for Fox, so maybe they are just spoiled now? I don't see KD going there though, they still have a lot of questions marks. He needs a surefire contender, or to go somewhere good for so cheap that they give up nothing and become a contender by gaining him. 

    He'd be walking on a team with Wemby, Castle, Fox, CP3, and the #2 pick (Harper?). Not a bad crew to roll with.

  10. I was interviewed in a documentary, but that's not a movie and did not qualify for SAG card status.  In high school, I was in a gallery crowd while filming Tin Cup, but I don't think any of the shots or angles where our group stood were used in the final cut. My FIL was one of the dudes that opened the giant gate in the most recent King Kong reboot.

  11. 19 hours ago, Js1 said:

    People seriously didn't notice that or are we all just doing facetious Friday? 

    619 is the San Diego area code. It’s his way of showing love to the folks back home. 

  12. 2 hours ago, ATXbronco said:

    I stopped paying attention to McGrady after he left Orlando.

    How come it never worked out with him and Yao Ming. Did he already have some negative-impacting injuries that first year or two?

    Yao kept getting hurt. The team was excellent when they both played. They were good even when Yao was hurt. 

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