The Raptors made a similar gamble last year in trading for Kawhi Leonard, and while it has worked out so far, it will look less wise if Toronto fails to win the title this year only to see Leonard sign elsewhere in the summer.

That and lots of people think they are clever and pay month to month while bouncing between services.

The issue with that comparison is simply that soccer teams actually care about those intermediate titles. A lot, actually! Winning the Premier League is a huge accomplishment that fans recognize, teams celebrate, and everybody really makes a huge deal over. Even if a team flops in Champions League, they still…

Especially since it’s not like disabling push notifications for news means that you’re going to ignore your phone for hours or days on end. It just means I’m not going to feel my pocket buzz and immediately check it.

Yes, as a second round pick - which actually furthers the overall point that GSW was not built through high lottery picks. They built through the draft, yes, but not through some focused “gotta collect high lottery guys! lose a ton of games to get top draft picks!” tanking plan, but instead through smart use of lesser…

In fact, you could go a step further than that: Of this year’s four conference finalists, none of them were really built through high lottery picks:

What’s an article of clothing that you wish would come back into style or finally become popular enough to acceptably wear in public?

I’m legitimately wondering what he’d have done if Chris had actually picked up the phone to call him.

Celtics snatched home-court advantage away from the Bucks with a Game 1 win.

I think you’re way overrating how much attention the “general public” is paying to the minute details of politics. We’re almost 18 full months from the next election. Anybody who’s paying serious attention to Congressional committee hearings this far out is almost certainly serious enough on politics that they already …

Depends what you mean by “vents”.

Given the amount of free time the Kings always have in May and early June, you’d think they would have figured this out years ago.

It’s pay to win if the only way to get an in-game item that affects gameplay is to pay for it. Period, end of statement.

Usually I get calls from numbers similar to mine on both cell and landline.

Defining the transactions really is the key part though. While there are certainly obvious cases on either side that few-if-any people would argue with, there’s a vast degree of judgment involved in picking transactions.

The original article actually had dividend stocks as the third highest ‘recommended’ option (out of 8) - just behind “real estate crowdsourcing” and “creating your own products”*. Nicole’s summary seemed to focus mostly on real estate (possibly because ‘rental properties’ are what many people first think of for passive…

Sure, if they only call you once, it’s clearly a wrong number.

obligating your fake invites to giving you a gift when you’re doing this type of wedding specifically so they won’t show up

#1: it’s more expensive for everyone you did invite and want to come. Some of them probably won’t come because of expense.

Yeah, this is really the thing. If you want to do a destination wedding, that’s fine; it’s your day, you do whatever you want...but you need to realize that there will absolutely be people who you do really want at your wedding that will not be able to attend.