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In the first game Draymond was also keeping somebody (I think Sabonis) tied up on the ground in the backcourt on the missed Wiggins 3. God I hope someone gives this asswipe what he has coming before he retires.

State Farm Arena to Krish Salon (random business on the same intersection identified in the article) = 29.1 miles And just for fun: Kaseya Center (Heat) to FLA Live Arena = 35.0 miles Footprint Center to Desert Diamond Arena/Jobberdome = 18.1 miles Canadian Tire Centre to LaBreton Flats = 17.2 miles

That's been Booker and the Suns for years now. Loser core of stat queens that don't want to do the dirty work, only ascended to relevancy when they got Chris Paul (who's a dick), then when that sputtered out this year they traded the farm and gave KD the frontrunning internet troll a free bailout from the fire-hosing monsoon in Brooklyn that he orchestrated in the first place. What a nauseating team to potentially have holding up the trophy. I'd be overjoyed if the Clippers took them out.

The KG era was by far the best they've ever looked. It was very 90s corny-fierce, but it worked and was befitting of the name. The launch set was too generic, post-KG was a non-committal reeling-in of the prior set, and their current "primaries" (although I feel like they never wear them, for the better in this case) are total garbage. I think part of their problem is they're just another blue team, and... that's it. Do they have to be blue? They're not the Knicks or Warriors, they have no tradition they need to stick to. For the KG era I liked the black alts, white home, and [sizable gap] and the blue primary roads in that order. I kind of like the black (or is it charcoal?) with lime they've been wearing this year. Maybe look at going that way.

Anyway Minnesota's beating up on the Thunder as I type this so the playoff field is as good as set: WEST Nuggets over Timberwolves: The Wolves are a train wreck, there shouldn't any possible way to blow this barring serious injuries. Grizzlies over Lakers: Last time the Lakers were the sp0000ky low seed they faceplanted in round one. Now they're two years older and have literal nobodies in the playoff rotation. I don't want to hear it. Kings over Warriors: Normally I give the defending champs plot armor, but GS fits the same profile as Brooklyn last year and the Lakers the year before: sitting back all year and settling for a crap win-loss record while still having the nerve to beat the "y'alls don't want to see us in y'alls building in the playoffs y'all" drum through the media, then oops out in one. Flipped the switch, lightbulb was out. They also don't have a bunch of guys playing for contracts this time around. (That said, if the Warriors do win this series, they probably beat Memphis too since they are clearly in their heads, then anything can happen against Durant and the Suns.) Suns over Clippers: Am I crazy or is this the real Western Finals? I don't trust Phoenix mentally, I don't trust the Clippers physically, and I trust Denver less than either of them. Phoenix is better on paper. - Suns over Nuggets: Denver is a guilty-until-proven-innocent team and they did absolutely nothing to separate themselves this year. Meanwhile Phoenix has beaten them twice with Durant in the lineup. Grizzlies over Kings: There's a non-zero chance that Memphis self-destructs and loses (more) players by way of Morant getting himself suspended for more off-court bull:censored: with teenagers or Brooks starting a brawl or something, and gives the Kings a shot, but how can you really predict that? - Suns over Grizzlies: Somebody has to win this conference and the sea is parting for the winner of Suns/Clippers. EAST Bucks over Heat: Miami is always somewhat of a threat, although that was said in 2021 as well. Celtics over Hawks: I don't trust the Celtics farther than I throw them, but the Hawks been a mess all year and don't seem to have gotten any better under Quin Snyder. This would be a pretty galactic choke. 76ers over Nets: The Nets look like the classic star-less underdog that puts a (needed?) scare into the favored team before getting dealt with. Can I call them going up 2-1 in the series before Philly kicks it up a notch? Cavs over Knicks: Randle laid an egg last time he had a great season and the team made the playoffs. I'm not buying the Knicks, at least not yet. - Cavs over Bucks: Giannis has had a little bit of a fall-off this year if advanced stats are any indication, Middleton's been hurt all year and hasn't gotten going, Garland's been giving the Cavs prime Middleton-like offense, Jrue can't guard both him and Mitchell, both teams have dueling DPoY candidates but the Cavs have been the best defensive team in the league... unless I'm missing something, this looks surprisingly winnable for Cleveland. The Bucks do have a history of choking the higher seed when they appear to be bulletproof. 76ers over Celtics: Embiid looks like the best, most motivated player in the league right now, and Harden is better than Jaylen Brown. The Celtics meanwhile have been too cool to take of business ever since the December Phoenix game, it's gonna catch up to them at some point. - 76ers over Cavs: Embiid would easily be the best player in this series, Cleveland gets a playoff education. FINALS Suns over 76ers: I'd love to see Embiid (and to a lesser extent Harden) win it all instead of Chris Paul and KD the superteam farmer, but life's a and then you die. The good news is that the last team to win the title with fewer than 47 wins is the 78 Wizards, so any Western team not named Denver, Memphis, or Sacramento is up against some serious history in that regard.

That'll show em

So ignoring the Sunday issue... I know they don't own the Jazz anymore, but is Larry Miller corp or whatever still capable of being principal owners of a big league team, as far as we know? Or at this point are they just another group of yokels and pitchmen making websites and drawing on napkins while they wait for someone with actual money to come along, like Nashville? If it's the former I would think this puts their bid way out in front of all the other roll call cities. I think we've established that no one important wants to own/build anything MLB-related in Portland or Montreal, and Vegas entered the "two more weeks" meme zone a while ago.

And at some point somebody in baseball with clout might ask if it's really worth blowing up their entire schedule just to be in Utah.

And they need ("need") a new stadium because why exactly?

Watch out, Western Conference

If Utah's suddenly in the market for more sportz I would think NFL (since Sundays are apparently fine now) or NHL would be better fits.

Has to be Celtics-Nets. The Celtics basically outsourced their rebuild and only have Jayson Tatum and Jaylen Brown because of that trade. The Nets even before making that deal were a sloppy mishmash of former fringe all-stars that was going nowhere. Neither Pierce or KG lasted two full seasons in Brooklyn; Pierce left in free agency after one, KG's corpse was sent back to Minnesota partway through year two. The Celtics finished better than the Nets in year two, then only got better while the Nets dropped into the bottom of the conference. Honestly the trade Phoenix just made for Durant might soon earn a place in this discussion. Durant will be 35 next year and has missed half the season every year since leaving GS, Chris Paul is officially old as :censored:, their other principal players are overrated and not gonna get any better, they handed a potential 26 year old franchise player to Brooklyn, and all of their first rounders in the second half of the 2020s (save 2026) are now tied up. If the Suns win the championship or at least come close enough to justify the gamble, it's fine, but if not...

Good. The Mavs as an organization have gotten really arrogant and insufferable, and they deserve the embarrassment of being deadline buyers and still finishing bottom five in the conference. I hope Luka blows town at some point soon to take Cuban/the organization down another peg. Of course Luka himself isn't blameless in all of this either, he's not interested in anything that doesn't involve stuffing his stats.

Okay, approached and then assaulted. Still not shedding tears, unless the guy really didn't do or say anything (which I doubt).

> mouthy fatso yells insults at player then gets approached and intimidated by that player oh no that's horrible

Kind of. There might be 2 or 3 seasons total since 2006 where the Kings have even finished top 10 in the conference. They've been wretched for a long time.

At 35-37 it's a little late to start thinking about lottery odds. Anyway, watch the Celtics lose to the Spurs in Boston on Sunday. Just watch.

Why is that? Charlotte is a footprint franchise in a transplant haven that cares way more about college ball; their lot in life is Monday and Wednesday night schedule filler for the marquee teams. Don't say Jordan, the NBA owes him nothing as an owner. Ewing was expected to be the great center of his time but oops bad knees.

Gorman plans on retiring next year (after over 40 years) according to a recent Boston.com article. I wouldn't dare say that this is a good thing, because he's an excellent voice and broadcaster, but he has sounded tired and flat on a lot of telecasts since 2017 or so, and especially since Tommy passed away.

The NHL rigging their lotteries would be dumb given how little impact a top player has compared to the NBA. But good news, the NHL is really dumb, so instead of rigging it or maybe just allowing this year's top prospect to land somewhere where he might be appreciated, they would totally cheat in order to send this year's top prospect down some black hole where he'll never be seen or heard from again, just so Bettman can more easily convince some government sandbillies in greater Phoenix to push another bogus stadium through so the NHL's most useless franchise can continue being useless, because this is a for-profit league and we need to Grow The Game, sorry you can't understand that sweetie-cakes.

The NHL expands when they want cash; long-term health of the league is not their concern. There's a reason none of the other, better, more intelligent major leagues have cared to expand at all in the last two decades*, while Bettman spent the mid-2010s beating down doors in Vegas and Seattle looking for expansion partners. And then COVID happened and wiped out that whole take so now they have to expand again, oopsie poopsie. *Pushing three decades if you strike the righting-a-wrong expansions into familiar cities that were the NuBrowns, Texans, and Bobcats.

I was gonna say in the other post that I wouldn't be too shocked if the Raiders up and decided to shuffle back to California at some point, if only because they're the Raiders and they're weird, and the NFL carouseled another team into Vegas in their place (wouldn't be that much dumber than the events that transpired in 2017)... but upon further review the Raiders kicked in $1B toward building Allegiant Stadium, so not happening. I do wonder if the Knights are at risk of getting myspaced if/when an NBA team moves in, since I would bet on them mimicking the Diamondbacks and slapping together a superteam within 2-3 years of their inception. Especially if LeBron is in the ownership group. Yeah, your specialty. Along with the "nuh-uh sweetie, this is what you ackshually said and this is what I ackshually said" twerk'n'jerk that you're looking to get going now. I didn't twist anything. When you first dropped this argument in this post, you specified Rays' fan support. Which implies that visiting fans shouldn't be considered. If there were more Red Sox road games at the Trop, we would come out for those, too. Think really, really hard about what kind of phenomenon could be occurring that would result in 11% of the Rays' home slate getting the same meager turnout from local Rays fans as 100% of the Rays' home slate. The rap on Mexico City that I remember is that it's really poor, and while there are 20+ million people in the area, only a portion of that population should be considered for sportz purposes. How much? Hell if I know. Half (10 million) is still a lot, on par with Chicago and GTA, to the point where leagues would probably be in much more of a hurry to move in if that was an accurate number to be working with. A quarter (5 million) puts it on par with Seattle, and there are plenty of cities below that with multiple big four teams. We still have the "so why hasn't it happened yet" question lingering. I don't think I buy altitude or language barriers as reasons why. I had to Google since I don't know anything about Pittsburgh, but St. Pete isn't that. The Cranberry equivalent here would be Palm Harbor or something.

Hard to say. The A's (if they go there) would appear to be the obvious answer, but if Vegas builds them a new baseball-specific airplane hangar it will become a Marlins situation and we/they will be stuck with them. A nine-game slate of Rays games at the Trop would still be a desert if you kept opposing fans from attending. I'll let you try and figure out why. Put on your thinking scarf. (Or just continue spamming "math, sweetie" like an incurious twitteroid, in which case I'll get more memes ready.) Maybe I shouldn't have posted it, but only because it clearly distracted anyone from finishing the cumdumpster/Bob Nutting alley-oop that I offered up.

Unlike the Rays and A's, who never go more than a few years between playoff berths, Pirates fans have good reason to be pissed off and disengaged. Save for 3 and a half random seasons last decade, nobody under the age of 35 remembers that franchise being anything other than a willing and consenting cumdumpster for the rest of baseball. But noooooo you can't just stealth merge them with the Rays and give them actual scouts and a player development program, teams for nobody that are really good at winning 88 games a year with no money and no fans are sacred and must be preserved!

Owners short on cash again, huh? Atlanta Spirit figured out that could just have their events without the hockey-team-for-nobody clogging up arena availability and turned in the keys. You'd think that someone with authority over BB&T/FLA Live Arena would have come to the same conclusion by now regarding the Panthers.