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A bench of McKinstry, Baez, Cruz, and a C. Hinch is like a kid on Christmas Eve right now.

Quiet, Piggy.

Do you mean who can/would offer more in a trade for Markkanen or who (trade target) can/would offer more games played over the next 3 1/2 years?

Damn, you win the week. It’s a real address for a real deli and they have bagels. https://heavenlymarketnyc.com/

The only decent thing about that was that the jerseys were of a contrasting color rather than the same color as the court.

The NBA wants more competition for an all star game. Maybe invite far ends of benches to play for some game exposure to give their careers a boost?

I like this realignment.

He’s due $27M in 2026 ($5M paid by Colorado) and $15M in 2027. He’s on the down slope. I don’t know, I don’t think he’s all that intriguing anymore.

20 minutes later…. The clock is ticking down too slowly.

This game is incredible. I was debating whether to watch or not.

I doubt he’ll be signing for small samples.

You might be on to something.

Fine by me. He had control issues before the layoff, no reason to think he’ll suddenly figure it out now.

I’m sure I’m guilty of it. I try to be honest about free agents that I think he would go after, but I’m sure some of my personal bias gets in the way a bit.

Thanks for correcting me on the playoffs. I’ll plead ignorance to assuming every regular season leads to a playoff now that the Ivy League has a postseason tournament. And I agree with you, playoffs can cheapen a regular season.

I normally hate the alternates, too. But the jerseys and court are simple and sharp.

Thank goodness for Washington being Washington.

Nice cut by Green.

You’re jelly you didn’t drop it, yo.

Yes. Lucky for the Pistons they’re at home next few games, no travel.

The thing with promotion/relegation that gets me is basing competitive grouping and/or playoff odds on the previous season’s standings. That doesn’t compute to me. I don’t know if this is a decent analogy or not. But it’d be like taking last season’s group of five or six or whatever college playoff entry and bumping them into a power conference while knocking out a team from the conference in to the MAC or CUSA or wherever that promoted team came from. That’s silly to me.

6, 7?

Small sample size, but I liked Stewart and Duren starting together. But now that you mention Holland & Duren, I can see pairing Harris & Stewart together. Maybe those duos work well enough together to be viable against most other teams.

So 20 teams total or 40 teams total? Are they also suggesting the promotion/relegation foolishness?

I think Satchel Paige said that about Cool Papa Bell. It’s such a good line. And such a good nickname.