Of course, now people do, but it wasn’t always that way. I mean there was a time when NBA teams actually debated if Golden State should keep Curry or Monte Ellis or if drafting Curry was a good move in the first place.

I agree. I’m not sure if he’s jacking up shots as his own form of hero ball, or if the team has been coached to give him the ball with the clock winding down, and I’m really not sure if the difference between those two matters.

As far as evaluating if Young’s an NBA-caliber talent, I would like to say that teams starting game-planning for Steph Curry during his college days. The only difference being Curry was in a conference with far less talent than the Big 12, so he was still able to still shine. Remember when some jamoke team played…

It’s crazy: 2.5 games separate the nine seed and being swept in the second round of the playoffs!

What’s crazy is that you didn’t even mention the two new Star Wars movies. Possibly the biggest white boy nerd fantasy leaned hard into diversity with its new leads, killed off its old two white male leads, made white men in general the bad guys, and made over $3 billion (box office alone) in the process.

Guys, I’ve read the comments, and I want you to consider this: Saric is an a-hole for dunking AND Clarkson is an a-hole for responding.

Fun fact: His real name was Declan Patrick MacPresley.

They don’t even bother writing stories anymore. It’s like these two are having a discussion on their own reddit post.

$184M is a huge loan for one entity, even one as big as Apollo, to take on by itself on one commercial real estate property. That “triple the average amount” is completely accurate, as following the recession, most banks/lenders cap out at roughly $70M on one property. If it’s higher than their cap, they bring in…

Sorry, I posted somewhere else and got my wires crossed and was responding to that. But yeah, it would create other problems with the lottery, but they could move back the trade deadline after the lottery to accommodate for it. I’m wondering if it’s worse than the current system or just slightly better.

Thanks! Again, only winner gets top pick; the rest are in a lottery by record or eliminate the lottery and do it solely by record. Your imagining a world where the Miami Heat today are somehow guaranteed victories over the Pistons or Bulls in a one-game series. Or that the Clippers would destroy the Nuggets no problem.

One thing: in this version the lottery would be by record and not finishing place in the terrible teams tourney. The scenario your describing is a huge risk for that team. “Yes, we are definitely going to win this tournament, or place second” seems like an impossible thing to predict, especially in a more grueling…

I’ve always like some type of bottom-teams single-elimination tournament that lasts a week (kind of like college conference tournaments). In this terrible teams tourney, final two become the 8 seeds in the playoffs; winner gets the top pick in the draft; all other teams are in the lottery.

This is really good. There are some potential (though minor) issues, like:

Jared Kushner...real smart kid.

Shoot. Sorry. How about this: Kobe beef hot dogs are sandwiches, and only a big ol’ dum-dum would think otherwise.

Kobe fan here. Lebron is better than Kobe.

They wouldn’t make $25K in the G-League in this scenario. They would make their rookie draft contract scale ($1M-$5M), play a season (maybe two) in G-League to get their shit together, then come up at age 20 having played against pro-level talent night-in, night-out, all without the national spotlight and the issues…

Right, but that’s the rub: they have to declare eligible for the NBA Draft. When they declare, they lose college eligibility (or their “amateur status”):

No, it’s the guy who dodged the draft with “bone spurs.”