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I just spoke with a German photographer who was at the USA/Germany game. I dialed international. He was effusive about LeBron and how he took the end of the game over. I got his email and we're setting up a time where I can record the convo. I'm fucking doing this.

I'm a 29 year old alcoholic that has barely been able to hold a job the past 7 years. I think my Wells Fargo checking account has negative $500 in it right now. My life has no purpose or direction. I'm fucking lost and depressed and confused. I've been waiting for anything to make sense. Most of that likely doesn't surprise y'all - I mean shit a lot of you probably already assumed it. Tonight while commenting about the direction of the league something lodged itself within my conscious and I can't get rid of it and it has me impassioned and motivated and I believe that it's something that I want to do. I also think it's going to be near fucking impossible to do while having anyone take me seriously but I want to give it a shot. I believe I have to try and do it to give myself any semblance of peace or direction. I've always liked writing (60k posts holla) and the English language and have felt for years that I wish I had've majored in English in college. It's not like I've done anything with my fucking accounting degree. It was your comment @aggie08 that did it, if I'm being honest. I typed some shit and you said "spot on" and some switch deep within me flipped. My dad, after writing a weekly college football column for years, wrote a book about his life and Texas football that never reached a wide audience. A decent amount of folks here have read it. It was pretty good - not great. So maybe it's something genetic. Anyway. I want to write about LeBron, Durant and Curry and their era as American superstars and how intertwined all of their legacies are and tie the entire narrative around the '24 Olympics. Very, very early working title would be: American Giants: James, Durant, Curry and the last great era of the American superstar I already googled it and "American Giants" isn't a title that anyone has published. A lot of y'all are probably laughing and/or think this is insane and think that I'm a drunk and that none of this will ever happen or that I'll forget about it by tomorrow but I promise I'm dead serious and I'm going to try and do this. Tear me apart, support me, give me connections - fucking whatever I don't know. I'm gonna go for this. We'll see what happens. Thanks guys

I also think the Olympics reinforced a lot of this (re: where is the American superstar). There's a difference between being good in the NBA, posting great advanced metrics and even winning a lot of games (or a title - i.e. Tatum) and being so obscenely experienced and adept at the game at a base, visceral level to where when you're close to 40 years old your nation turns to you to carry the flag when France and Serbia are at the door and trying to break their way in.

Thank you for looking past my surly attack on your HC A lot of that hate is because you assholes have been good for a decade now.

Yep that's this team in a nutshell. I think our ceiling is Tre turning into a March legend a la Melo or AD.

One of my favorite videos ever.

It was a bad result but UCONN was also desperate for a win. We'll see how we show up in SEC play. Not super optimistic about this group but I'm not going to totally write them off quite yet.

Anyone use it? I'm still on a 3 month trial of YT premium and it guess it comes with that. I've had Spotify for forever but I've finally gotten sick of it for a few reasons. Checked it out last night and the playlists and algorithm or whatever was a lot better and it ran better and used less bandwidth than Spotify does on my PC. I guess the one thing I'm wondering about is if I can listen to certain podcasts outside of Spotify.

That's actually very cool. Good way to reward the teams that made the dance.

Huge.

DBU is back baby.

I don't like Kerr. I think he's a whiny, preening bitch and has been for awhile now. He carries himself like he's Pop or Phil Jackson and he isn't. Spo does laps around him as best coach of this era imo. LeBron, KD and Steph carried ratings the entire last decade. None of their teams are marquee anymore and none of them are sniffing any MVP discussion. You have SGA, Tatum and two Euros trying to carry the league and the only one of those four with any personality isn't particularly likeable (I don't think Giannis is very likeable either). It feels like we're witnessing a more rounded decline version of what happened post-MJ. To pick a word, there's a lack of magnanimity. Ant and Wemby have personality and could be the future but I'm not sure Ant is good enough and the Spurs are a fucking mess (TWolves haven't been much better this season). I mean shit - the best player in the league's team is a mess. The product also needs help - they HAVE to do something rules-wise about the 3P volume. I'll keep saying that I think they should cut the arc off at the sidelines. Start with something like that. Another thought - while I'm digressing - I think the new cap apron rules - while promoting parity - are bad for fan interest and ratings. It's hard to stack superstar talent and that is what led to the amazing ratings we saw in 2016 and 2017.

Which one of you morons pushed some buggy-ass mess of a mandatory system update that won't download and interrupts anything I'm trying to do on my phone every 90 seconds. Do some fucking QA next time dipshits.

That's a horrible photoshop. Looks like some 16 y/os verbal commitment pic.

That's honestly a pretty good gig. P4 conference - great location - not a ton of pressure. They played competent football at times this season.