Deleterious

Just read in The Athletic that Cade is now one of six active players to have a signature shoe with Nike.

We in this case meant our restaurants. Poorly worded. We are rounding down because we picture a customer getting upset when we round up. We don't want our employees to have to deal with upset customers. The 6% will be baked into the menu price. If something costs $23.48 now, it will cost $24.89 which will be rounded up and show as $24.90 on the menu.

Drummond was with Nike, but I don't think he had a signature shoe. You probably have to go back to Grant Hill for that with Fila.

This is how bad Indiana is.

Just what you want to hear when your niece is graduating from law school in the spring.

Draymond considered punching the fan, but the fan was larger and facing him.

Is this an audition for seeing how Atlanta looks if they move Trae?

League average is 25.6 FTA's per game so far this season per team. Last year it was 21.7.

Probably hurts having Cade miss a few games, Thompson as well. But the Pistons are becoming a very slow team. Pace is down to 100.8 which ranks 13th in the league, far too slow. Hopefully they start to run more as guys get healthy.

Marc Stein reporting Darvin Ham is a name to watch for the Pelicans job Joe haa to be trolling people at this point.

I'm going to regret this. But can anyone layout what a Markennan trade looks like?

Setting the POS is simple. A couple of clicks in our admin panel, save it, and it pushes it to every terminal on the network. Then it just depends on how you pay. If your bill is $45.59 and you pay with a $50 bill, the employee types in $50 and it knows it a cash transaction, so it will round down to $45.55 automatically. If they swipe a card, the price will remain $45.59.

We are losing the penny tomorrow. We are going to start rounding all cash orders down to the nearest nickel. We figure if we went both ways someone would eventually have a fit and we don't want our employees to have to deal with that. Only about 12% of our transactions are cash, so not a huge deal. We are also about to get a group of employees together to study the idea of including sales tax on our menu prices. So if you order three things that are $25, $10, and $5 your final total is $40 instead of $42.40.

Some interesting stuff in there. 4 takeaways from the ESPN-YouTube TV deal

Is it just me or do those 4 pictures give a strong 60's vibe?

I think your argument would be stronger if Ivey and Duren were locked up on long term deals. But both are headed to restricted free agency this summer, and that lowers their value. Markkanen is Utah's biggest trade chip right now. If you trade him for a package built around Duren, you have basically just committed yourself to matching any offer he gets this summer. What if some team throws a $35 million offer at him? You really want to pay Jalen Duren $35 million a year? The alternative is let him walk and now you turned Markkenan into a handful of draft picks in the 20's. Picks you will never make because you are about to get fired. I agree that Robinson's contract has value, but not to a team like Utah he is under the cap. You would be better off looking at contenders for him. Teams looking to get under one of the aprons or luxury tax penalty. But I don't know if they can afford to lose his shooting. Maybe they can move him this summer.

A rebuilding team would take McCain from Philly over anything Detroit has. He looked good in a short time as a rookie last year, and more important, has 3 1/2 more years on a cheap contract. Portland has a bunch of picks they could throw at Utah. Including the possibility of an unprotected Milwaukee pick in 2028 and the right to swap picks with Milwaukee in 2029. Those could be valuable if Giannis bolts. Rollins is locked up for $4 million per year for another 2 1/2 years. Utah would take him over Ivey/Duren/Holland. Not sure Milwaukee would trade him, but they might to try and appease Giannis. You get the point.

No legit contenders. They won't risk a third of their cap space on a guy that will only play 60% of their games. So Houston is a no. Plus, they should focus more on a PG type. Atlanta pairing KP and Markkanen? Jesus, you would be lucky to get 100 games played combined from them. It will be a team that is between a 5th seed and somewhere around the playin level. A team that needs to take a big risk to take that next step. Milwaukee, Philly, Chicago, Toronto, Phoenix, Portland, Clippers, maybe Sacramento. Teams like that, probably.

How the Pistons stacked up last week. Numbers are from Sun-Sat.

With a .077 win rate, Indiana is on pace to win 6 games this season.