But its not off screen mental gymnastics. The show clearly shows us that even someone who has read the book (Sam) wouldn’t be able to come to that conclusion without Bran’s knowledge of the past. Anyone in Old Town could have read it, but it only means something to someone who knows about Reaghar and Lyanna and Jon.

I know they touch on a lot of stuff like this in the books, but if there’s anything to it, then it will probably stay in the books. They don’t really have time to get into why Lyanna died in child birth in the show.

Ok but still, they are going to be able to play two very capable wing defenders next year, which is an improvement over last year.

Wait, are you just going to ignore the other side of this? Celtics also lost their best player, IT, and Cleveland added IT. And not to mention that the Celtics lost most of their good role players. Bradely and Crowder were huge on defense for them (and Crowder went to Cleveland). Personally I don’t think either team…

I don’t think its possible to over value a top 5 pick that you don’t have to be a bottom 5 team to get.

1. Um, they did have plan. They found a scout party and lead it into an ambush. A net doesn’t help unless there’s only one. They’ve still got to fight off the others first. (I’ll agree it was a little too convenient that only one survived after the WW was downed.)

Fuck, man.

Yep. And it’s also a rarity for people to even recognize the klan in this case. I’ve explained why there aren’t 3 Ks posted to people at the Reds park and they usually say “Oh, I never thought of that. Not a bad idea though.” Just because one ignorant idiot on twitter was too dumb to ask what the Ks meant doesn’t mean…

And notice how this summer, the one summer LeBron can’t leave because he signed a 2+1 last year, is the summer Gilbert turns back into a cheap shit.

Nah, he’ll make it.

That’s crazy! My team traded an unproven 2nd year player, a torn ACL, a 7 ft finnish guy that can’t play defense, and $3.5 million for everyone’s favorite superstar and a guy in the 16 pick I can’t even remember because I’m too excited about the first guy.

Let go on a couple sabbaticals if he wants. He really should only be playing 60 or so games at 32 mins per in the regular season anyway.  

Well this is just outright false.

Yeah I agree with most of this. Getting rid Russell seemed like a lot, and unless you really are high on Ingram (All 9 pts, 4 rebs, and 2 asts in 29 mins), Russell was their best returning player. To me this means they have to go get George now. The whole goal for the Lakers has to be to get LeBron, but is he really…

I seriously got to believe Rob Pelinka was behind most of this. I’m still just as skeptical of Magic as you are.  

In no way would Love make sense for the Pacers. If they get rid of Paul George, that means they’re going full rebuild, and a player like Love is the last kind of player a rebuilding team wants. Too old to build around for the future, not good enough to lead a team to a championship, but too good to tank with. The Cavs…

How do the Cavs continually get mentioned in these trades? I really don’t understand what assets they have that would make a team trade an all NBA caliber player. If you’re getting rid of a player like George or Butler you’re intent on going full rebuild, and Kevin Love does not help a team rebuild, he helps a team…

As a born and raised Cincy guy who knows exactly how horrible the PBS deal is I would do it again in a heart beat and torpedo FCC to hell to bring back the Royals.

Or the stadiums just won’t happen? That’s pretty much what’s happening here. The city isn’t paying for the arena upgrades so they may not happen, and the city isn’t paying for the FC stadium so it looks like it’s going to move across the river.

This is all a moot point to me because if the Pacers accept a Love for PG swap their GM should be jettisoned into the sun. I always chuckle when people start talking about potential trades that one side would never actually agree to just because it makes sense for the other side.