Hopefully that thing was nod approvingly at them.

ESPN: Luka Doncic hosting team-building activity at Porsche driving track

It’s fun to see a guy with a hamstring issue be infinitely more athletic than I am, a guy with two working hamstrings.

Professional athletes are super heroes.

CHATGPT: I understand where you're coming from. You worked really hard to get here, and now it's time to enjoy the fruit of your labors.

ISILDUR: So I should keep it? Elrond says I shouldn't

CHATGPT: The ring is precious. Sometimes friends don't have your best interests at heart.

ISILDUR: true

And Ayton will look better with a point guard getting him better looks.

There was a lot to like.

Is Vando guarding 2 people every play?

Light years ahead. Dog years ahead. Some kind of years ahead of the rest of us.

Every time I think it’s over Pablo finds another $10 million in payments.

The obvious answer is Luka and Lebron. Still, I’m embarrassingly excited to see Adou out there on the court healthy.

Why doesn’t anyone get excited when I put on 15-20 pounds over the summer?

“If anything, it was Jeanie Buss that did wrong by not giving me that house.”

“You may all be wondering why my golden retriever has a jersey..”

If a team pays my company over $100M am I sponsoring them or are they sponsoring me?

#optionality

Everyone is worried this means JJ scheme will suck when the real fans are worried how lonely he is.

Our last 10 picks without comment:
Adou Theiro - 36
Bronny James - 55
Dalton Knecht - 17
Jalen Hood-Schifino - 17
Max Christie - 35
Talen Horton-Tucker - 46
Isaac Bonga - 39
Sviatoslav Mykhailiuk - 47
Moritz Wagner - 25
Kyle Kuzma - 27

The thing I always wonder about the Lakers is: Would any other team hire any of these people to do their jobs?

I don’t know the answer to it.

Generally I think Jesse and Joey have a good reputation. The draft reputation is really from 2015-2019. It’s been rough for awhile.

There is a purity to the Lakers-Celtics relationship.

I wish for the players to have great lives and for the team to lose every game always and forever.

They feel the same way about the Lakers.

It’s nice to have one part of my life unambiguous.

There is a strong correlation between people using Facebook and people with AOL email addresses.

I love that restaurants in airports sell booze 24 hours a day but you can’t order lunch until 11:00am.

The most distinct party platform for the Democratic Party is that it believes in being 10% less conservative than the Republican Party.

For efficiency sake they leave it up to Republicans to decide how conservative to start the scale.

It’s basically one party with home and away jerseys.

Hiring people that like basketball to talk about basketball is a bold strategy.

“Yes he’s been convicted of this before, everyone at the company said he did it, the money lines up, and his best friend strangely got involved a week before Kawhi needed a payment… Steve is just too damn smart to have broken a rule where the punishment doesn’t scare him.”

Someone at the Clippers knew about this. Aspiration is a Ponzi scheme. They need money. Ballmer has lots of it. They pay Kawhi approx. $48M to be a Clipper.

Of course they tell Ballmer they did it in the hopes of getting him to invest more. It doesn’t make sense unless they told him.

It’s funny how much Balmer needs to highlight he didn’t run Aspiration. Not because of Kawhi but because the people that ran it are going to prison.

The media access game where they just report talking points for agents and GMs sucks. It’s nice being first to report something but at best it’s journalism adjacent.

I’m not sure there is a meaningful difference between a hastily written press release “report” and an AI slop piece.

At least you know why the long face.

“Look, someone else paid a player $28 million to play for us. Who knows why scammers scam? I’m in the dark as you as to why that happened. Perhaps I’m even more in the dark. It’s so dark where I am and the only light I have is the flickering light of my convictions that rules are really important.”

A screenshot of an ESPN article detailing the first known time the Clippers tried to pay a player extra money through endorsements.

I mean, they didn’t put the Aspire money in the PowerPoint presentation this time. What more does the NBA want?

I like the defense: You can’t trust these scammers because they run scams.

As if all the “real” tampering is only done by reputable companies that tell the truth. Of course they used sketchy finance guys to run their sketchy cap avoidance scheme.