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  1. The Suns owner isn't going to give him away for that. He's a stubborn guy, I think he would rather go down with the ship in this case rather than accept the pupu platter of middling players and a 14th overall draft pick. I think others can outbid that easily if he goes to auction, and with less future financial obligations. I wonder if the 76ers are going to try to send PG+McCain+#3 to the Suns for him. Yeah PGs contract sucks, but maybe you can sell them on him rebounding, plus 2 cheap young talents. After all, this is the team that consented to trading for Beal. Dumping that PG contract in the process would be a huge win for Philly.
  2. The arrogance of the Knicks is truly incredible. Asking to interview head coaches of playoff teams so that they can poach them. They would need to send at least a 1st to acquire one of them too, probably more. They clearly don't have a plan and are looking for someone who can create that plan and fix everything for them. Very Dolan of them really. Who's next? Are they going to ask to interview Steve Kerr? Pop? Rick Carlisle? Kenny Atkinson? If I worked for any of these teams, I would put out a preemptive "our team denies the Knicks the option of interviewing our head coach" memo to the press just to be a dick to them. Indiana should do it, it would be great.
  3. 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.
  4. I learned today that 29 of 30 teams elected to have a Pride Night in June this year. The only team not to do one is the Rangers. Take from that what you will. Also, it's hilarious to read the comments on the Astros Facebook promo for the game and see the bigoted Astros fans threatening to become Rangers fans over it. On the other hand, I showed my 4 year old daughter the rainbow Astros logo/jersey and now she really really wants one. So I may be buying one for other reasons.
  5. Too bad, they have a lot of good IPAs! My wife used to work up there as a traveling consultant, and she would bring me back 6 packs of their IPAs every week. Loved the Commodore Perry IPA, "Golden Lager" was pretty solid and the Burning River bottle/can has some cool art on it that's worth adding to a beer collection. Some TSA assholes stole a few 6packs from her checked bags during her travels. Those fuckers...
  6. Yeah Peter! You tell em! Get your rapists descriptions correct you morons!
  7. If you get a chance check out Great Lakes Brewing company. It's like 5 minutes west of the stadium across the river. Lots of walkable shops and restaurants around it too, and a couple more breweries nearby.
  8. This isn't a partisan thing, no 22 year old is qualified to hold that position. I would hope at least some on the right would question the decision to pick someone like this for a role as vital as CT.
  9. It's awful how the Russians can hit all the civilian targets they want in retaliation for Ukraine hitting all military targets with it's latest strike. Decent people would call it what it really is, militarized terrorism.
  10. THIS SHOW IS BACK!
  11. They are the epitome of a "Team of Destiny" Just unfuckingbelievable.
  12. Was she one of Epstein's girls and able to confirm Trump was only on the island to play golf?
  13. I don't know how that would work, I haven't played TLOU2 much beyond the Joel death scene, so I don't know how those storylines would intertwine. But as a viewer of the show, leaving it where they did is incredibly irritating and unfulfilling. It's a 7 episode season, which feels cheap to begin with, but ending it in the theater with no resolution is annoying. As others said, if it's 2027 when it comes back, I'm not going to be very interested in seeing it. If it kept on going from here with a few more episodes, then I would keep watching. The wait is going to ruin the shows appeal, which was already trending downwards. They really needed the Abby episodes to save the show, but it might not get a chance.
  14. Yeah, I don't care about the game script, but I understand they wanted to follow it. Just seems like it sucked, and doesn't work well as a TV show story. Maybe if they had filmed and released the Abby episodes it would work better, but it's a shitty cliffhanger. At least in the game you get to keep playing and continue to the end. Who knows how long it will take for S3 to come out.
  15. My main concern about this series is that Disney misunderstands the core appeal of it, like Lucas with ESB. Then they make a new series of "Young Luthen" in the style of Indiana Jones, showing us how he became a collector of antiquities before being drafted into the military.
  16. Yeah, that ending was underwhelming to be nice. Lots of issues with how things went down. I would have greatly enjoyed a more Ellie-centric revenge tour of just her going solo to Seattle, being a badass, hunting Abby and slowly picking off WLFs a few at a time, but specifically targeting Abby's crew. The scenes with her and Nora were some of the best of this season, I want more of that. Using the cover of the Scars war to distract the WLF from knowing it was actually her making the kills would have been fun. They could have had flashbacks to Joel when he taught her things on how to survive, stealth and how to kill. Also could have had her string up and gut some WLF in the woods to make it look like the Scars did it to maintain her cover. It would have been interesting if her efforts lead to the WLF invasion. Lots of options if they wanted to make her a real hero-like character, filled with rage, avenging the one guy in this world who cared enough about her to save her and raise her for several years. Could have really pulled on those heartstrings with a line to Abby at the end like, "My name is Ellie Miller, you killed my father, prepare to die!" Instead they chose melodrama with the Dina relationship, the love triangle, insanely unrealistic escapes, and a complete lack of tactical discipline and stealth, while sneaking around a heavily fortified city. Hard to get behind characters that do dumb things, have magical escapism, are caked in plot armor and don't feel like the world's rules apply to them. Too bad because this universe had a lot of great things going for it. Overall this season:
  17. OKC could have offered him more money keep him, it's that fucking simple. Simply pull some money out of their billionaire owner's pocket to cover the tax for a few seasons, and they would have been fine as other less important contracts dropped off the books. Instead, they offered him some low-ball like 4 years 52m, which would have put OKC just under the tax line. Harden he rejected it, and rightly so as he got 4 year 80m deal from Houston. So the Thunder traded him in the offseason when he had a lot of value, and got a good haul for him. They also had the option to let him play out that last year on his rookie deal for cheap, let him prove himself, and then see if it's worth matching whatever he got as an RFA the next year. That's what I would have done if I were the GM, as they were a rising young team and another year of playing together could have made the difference.
  18. Why go for him when Rick Carlyle could be had for the same price?
  19. Could maybe send Brooks, Whitmore and #10 to get 2 years of Cam Johnson. That would be an upgrade on offense, but a drop on defense. I would prefer to work a deal to send Green out for him, but I can't imagine the Nets would go for that.
  20. You have to think the Knicks already have a coach in mind if they fired Thibs after a great season. Or maybe not, since it's Dolan...
  21. For those of you who don't want to see dozens of Russian planes being exploded by drones, don't click this link: https://www.reddit.com/r/CombatFootage/s/LPNNbukWnl Fucking amazing. Forget making Canada the 51st state, let's add Ukraine.
  22. I expect it to cost an ungodly amount, and when that bill becomes an issue in a year or two, he pivots to protect only southern Florida with it, and call it "Cost Savings, Small Government!"
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