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one injury to a key player and the whole team falls apart.

ivey not developing is really hurting them. go get mpj. the nets want to lose games and everyone else is keeping their powder dry for the giannis sweepstakes.

now he's missing dunks too.

MAKE A LAYUP! ANY LAYUP WILL DO!

he's such a bitch.

hopefully he did the usual izzo and passive aggressively blame the refs.

i'll take that bet.

if caris misses a few more games he wont qualify for any nba awards this year...

i love how they cut to JB after holland fouls the 3 pt shooter from behind AFTER he's shot the ball: "jesus ****ing christ..."

no one on this damn team can shoot. youre playing a team of 40 year old has beens and 20 year old never will be's. come on.

he cannot shoot. not one bit. unless its a dunk, he cant make it. its pathetic for someone so athletic.

curling is awesome. love curling. i want to see curlers on those 70s athletics shows. they'll show cheryl tiegs who is boss.

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would you give up a first for zion? a first and ivey?

has steve kerr talked to his brother in law about china yet? he hasnt said much about it in a while.

arent trey murphy and herb jones 3 and d guys?

i know this makes me a bad person and a hater, but seeing the leafs in last place just makes me happy.

if you are going to bet on duren's continued development and give him a big deal this summer, you better use those draft picks to find an athletic shooter who can take some of the load of cade. they cant continue to exist with zero spacing. ausar is great but cant shoot. holland tries hard but cant shoot. ivey means well but hasnt recovered from getting cheap shotted...and cant shoot. this is the group that was destined to be your core. you found your star in cade, now use your future picks to get a pippen to his jordan.

i dont really agree with any of this. 1) i disagree with the basic theory behind it, which appears to be that every team needs to be on an "equal playing field" or a "more equal playing field." i believe you should be rewarded for success and punished for failure, not the american sports way, which is to reward failure (the ability to get the best young talent at an extremely cheap price) and punish success (the more you spend on labor, the more you have to pay a penalty). so we will never agree because i value this more than you. 2) historically, teams that dont spend can also win. the royals won. the rays were in the world series. the brewers and cleveland won divisions. lower payroll teams can and DO compete. and win! the current system allows them to do so. it does a really good job of it, quite frankly. i dont care that small payroll teams dont win every year, or every other year, or even once every five years, but they DO WIN. And they are in the playoffs every season, winning divisions over much higher payroll teams. the yankees didnt win every year in the 80s, 90s, and 00s when they had the highest payroll and the dodgers likely wont win every single year either. and even if they did, i'd be fine with it, just like i'm fine woth baseball in the 1950s when the yankees DID almost win every year. 3) higher payroll teams can make up for mistakes easier. sure. they can sign big, fancy free agents like juan soto, alex bregman, aaron judge, gerrit cole, or xander bogaerts that supposedly guaranteed championships but turned out not to. 4) competing and not winning is ok. sport is fun because it's sport. and baseball is better when it has a villain to root against.

thomas is a 26 year old, in his prime, talented two way center with tons of compete signed to a very very team friendly deal. why would st louis trade him? and if they did, why would they trade him for nate danielson - a prospect rated by most in the back end of the top 100 prospects - and a pick likely to be in the 20s (if the wings got thomas)? i dont see it. you'd have to throw in genborg and/or mbn plus a pick to even consider it. this isnt quinn hughes, thomas is SIGNED. hughes was going to walk for nothing. you'd have to blow st louis away. if i'm st louis, i start the bidding at seider. detroit won't do that. but then i say edvinsson and danielson and a #1. that said, i hope youre right. i'd love to have thomas, even if that's not what detroit needs. detroit needs a top 4 defenseman more than it needs a center.

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why? baseball owners are billionaires, why shouldnt they have to pay the product?

none of that is a problem for me. you have to pay talent, or replenish your talent by turning your expensive assets into less expensive but more valuable assets. you have almost the entire prime years of a player's development at below market cost, the fact that you have to pay them over market cost for their final years is not always a good thing, but is rather a choice. everyone cries about the dodgers, but what about the mets? they dont win ****. everyone cries about small markets but what about the padres? they spend money. small markets cant compete with small payrolls? what about the brewers? cleveland? detroit? so what that more teams with higher investment in a certain type of product (older declining players) win more games? i see no problem with that. its ALWAYS been that way in baseball. to me, it should be more like that in other sports too. invest in your product if you want to win, either through paying higher end talent higher end salaries, or investing in its development. simple. salary caps are ways for owners not to spend on their product. this american sports obsession with "every team having an equal chance to win a championship every year" is uniquely american and, in my opinion, unnecessary to enjoynent of the sport.

The east is so bad that this team might just survive any playoff series, but their flaws are well known, and the strategy to exploit them is too. the key to them winning in the playoffs will be cade's ability to shake double teams and a second scorer to emerge, and how do they cover for duncan robinson's defense? can tobias be a reliable #2 scorer every night? can cade carry them despite constant double teams and making him work on defense? can anyone else space the floor besides robinson? is jb the coach to come up with this plan? i dont know. they need a trade pretty badly, imo. ivey was supposed to be that guy but injuries have apparently sapped him of all his previous explosiveness. use those #1 picks and get something of value for this year. grab yourself a porter: michael or bobby will do. get a second point guard. do something!

better than nothing, but not good enough in the atlantic.