I have slowly purchased the majority of all my Christmas gifts. Lots in person, much online.

Today I will visit a few of my favorite local restaurants that are doing buy $100, get $100 deals.

And that will mostly conclude my shopping.

No fights. Nothing hectic. Yeah, it’s better.

Yielding human ingenuity, creativity, and gumption to algorithmic robot psychics is the last level of hell to me.

Strongly disagree about it being the greatest.

Catchiest? That I can get on board with. There’s brilliance in simplicity and it has it, but it’s nowhere in the pantheons of actual Rock N Roll epics.

It is a perfect stadium / concert song though.

Yeah. Williams will always have some question Marks. Maluach was definitely a 2 years down the road pick. But that is entering tail end of Booker prime. But with Beal eating up CAP until 2030, yeah, possibly landing a top-5 next year is exactly how you build around Booker on the low end of the Tax.

Blindly backing into the player everyone wanted Ayton to be 7 years, a free agency, and 3 trades after Ayton because the Lakers failed the trade to acquire him and ended up with an injured Ayton is next level Stranger Than Fiction shit.

Gal who can whoop your ass with sarcasm and football knowledge?

Just re-read. Shit…. Actually 4 years of my life. And now NIL makes all of everything that all of that was moot and a free for all. LMAO what a time to be alive.

Anyways, Bilas is generally good. But he slurps and knob gobbles with the best of them.

2 years of my life, I got interviewed by Fox Sports and The Athletic off this. Also argued with Van Pelt on Twitter… LMAO… different life: x.com/therealestjm...

For almost 2 years Bilas made Miller the face of that ESPN story, which was disproved at every turn and wasn’t even factually accurate in timeline. But it was a ESPN report. So he peddled it. IARP cleared Miller of literally every NCAA charge stemming from the report.

Oh, Bilas toes that company agenda. I watched him slander Sean Miller during the Ayton/Dawkins scandal, because ESPN broke that “story” ignoring the previous days Yahoo report that had several Duke players linked to monetary amounts alongside Kansas, both with more actual physical proof, but Yahoo.

Sailor Jerry for me

Booker is closer to a maximized Roy. Midrange, scoring primary secondary passing. Good but not great athlete. Good but not great 3-point shooter. Good elbow post up game.

Cade at this point really is like early Rockets Harden before he got 3-ball dominant with some of the PG Rockets Harden.

IMO

*Mid-40

I worked 200 hours this month. Fuck LA

Caleb Love?

“Mothers who love freedom more than their kids and don’t mind a single-life do-over because Anti-Vax gave them a second chance at childless recklessness find RFKjr to be a chainsaw voiced, yak-wrestling, bear-eating, brain-worm enabling Sexy Senior Jesus Serial Killer type… (more)”

Is Charlotte or Atlanta that much better for the cost with Morant over next 2+ seasons? Would you want to extend him for what he’d ask at that age/injury history?

Same is true with Miami vs Powell. But Powell has low-mileage and late-bloomer status. Herro is 25 and has more usable upside I think.

Looking up the congrats, Young can opt out and likely will to get a larger guaranteed deal, so that changes my view on age, but also makes him arguably less valuable to any rebuilding team like Charlotte or Memphis.

Morant will be like 29 (and an old/broken 29) at end of his deal.

Of them Morant when healthy and right minded can be a franchise changer. But is that who he is any longer? There’s no proof of that.

Atlanta is infinitely better off selling Young low but getting a prospect and a pick, and some depth contracts. Make it a 3-team with Nets even who are under the CAP.