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UpperWestside

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  1. I know exactly who Dr. Buss bought the Lakers from. I also know who helped finance that transaction. If you’re going to incorrectly attempt to correct someone at least know the history behind how Dr. Buss bought the Lakers and how Donald Sterling was part of making that happen.
  2. Yeah she’s off the island now.
  3. Did you miss the part where I specifically said I grew up an Oakland fan or why I watch the Yankees? The Yankees money has gotten them one trip to the World Series since 2009. The same amount as the Mets and one less title than the Royals. Let’s not let that get in the way of hating on teams solely because they have more money.
  4. I support the Yankees solely because it's my mom's team. I grew up a fan of Oakland because my favorite player played for them. I am ALWAYS in favor of teams spending. I hope the Dodgers keep spending money. I hope every team that can will spend money on players. I think Jerry Jones is a moron, but I do think the Cowboys should be able to spend whatever they want on their team. There should not be a cap in any sport. There should only be a floor. If you aren't willing to pay to get players too bad. Denver should be building a mini-dynasty. Instead the cap screws that up for them. OKC is about to have their team gutted because of the cap. It's dumb and the players have a terrible CBA in basketball.
  5. Gifts aren’t free.
  6. If you use IG follow the stonersportsnetwork. That man’s commentary on anything he talks about is great. He was on point on this one.
  7. 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.
  8. Probably contributed to the sale. I am not a fan teams being penalized monetarily for trying to keep winning. We’ll see how much the new guy wants to pay in luxury taxes to win.
  9. Her role is more ceremonial than anything.
  10. I just don’t have any gripes with her. Not nostalgia or any other reason for lack of complaints. Things change and I’m glad she is staying on in an official capacity.
  11. This should be fun to be honest. Go buy us a center.
  12. She had to get control from her moron brother and work from there. I don’t have any gripes with her. Dr. Buss should’ve left the entire team solely to her.
  13. I think most Lakers fans knew this day would come. As Bruin noted I am glad she will stay on as the governor of the team. She’s always been the one most like her father.
  14. I hope Jeanie stays on in some capacity. All I can say is thank you to Dr. Buss for having bought the team with a little help from the worst owner in pro sports history in Donald Sterling.
  15. It’s one unforced error after another. I cannot really fathom the stupidity of a league seeing its golden goose get roughed up repeatedly while doing nothing about it. Just the dumbest people possible in charge. I almost half expect for Silver to step in and run the league himself instead of watching the brain trust continue doing what they’re doing.
  16. So I know Clark likes to talk, but she is like Larry Bird in that respect. He talked start to finish, but he backed it up. I watched the game today and Sheldon was physical from the jump. Clark told her to play basketball in the 1st half. Sheldon, being a scrub that plays for a garbage team that couldn't win the women's SEC right now, just kept hacking. Then Clark really let her have it after she bombed another three in her eye in the 4th. The Sun coach looked disinterested in doing anything to stop this. He looked more like he should have a job as a bellhop than a basketball coach. These players are just so dumb. Clark was clowning your entire backcourt all day long and made it look simple. Deal with it and enjoy being out of the league next year.
  17. Let’s get Auriemma in here to remind us what a meat grinder of a league this is. The talent coming up over the next few years hopefully pushes a lot of these older players right on out the door and into the unemployment line. More of Clark, Bueckers, Watkins (Hopefully fully healed) and less of the players that can’t shoot 40 percent from the floor.
  18. Oh absolutely. I just always wonder what it was that was their breaking point that they could not get back up from. I spent a pretty good amount of time just watching folks and trying to learn more about the world around me. I feel like there just has to be a better way in a society as abundantly blessed as we are. Seeing people give up on whatever their hopes and dreams were in life and descend down the path of homelessness just gets to me.
  19. I’ll take everything you can possibly think will go sideways next year will indeed do just that.
  20. I took some advice from this thread and watched the first one. I enjoyed both films. It was cool to see how it started and how Affleck portrayed his character in the first film. The nuance about how he talked different in the 2nd film does not matter one bit. The things explored in both movies about autism were pretty interesting to me. I do not see a whole bunch of characters in movies that I can relate to, but this is for sure one that really hits home.
  21. That’s definitely an old man yelling at clouds take. Clark has to be laughing about stuff like this. She dishes it out and backs it up.
  22. The assist part I am genuinely impressed with even if they were playing one of the dregs of the league that is actively trying to lose games. That means she is realizing that other players need to take shots that don’t shoot the worst percentage from the field in the league. Hopefully this wasn’t the league’s first mebound triple double. Also that player for the Sun that pulled her hair. If Reese had punched you, well, you would have deserved that.
  23. Il Duce would like a word with you. The Italians ran him right the heck on out of there when it became apparent he was a bumbling moron who was not a great cult leader.
  24. I came into work today and the first highlights I see were from this game. I mean sweet Baby Jesus those shots were just ridiculous. By the way this was Clark's 9th 30/5/5 game of her career. It took her 45 games to do this. The WNBA all-time leader is Taurasi. In 565 games SHE HAD TEN. Someone please tell me again why anyone should listen to anything these former players say when their records are being obliterated by a player they thought was not going to transition into being a star immediately?
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