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  1. dviss1

    dviss1 Emcee Referee

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    What I like about Gallo and what I don't:

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    Hey, but at least it's an 22 mil expiring.

    Giving up a 1st for him is crazy to me tho...
     
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    yeah, it's pretty funny. When somebody tweets the most recent news about a team, it seems for some the assumption is that's the first the team is hearing about it too. That 2 + 1 contract was almost certainly agreed to the night the Clips traded for PG13
     
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    In Nerd News, Magic: the Gathering has created a Magic card in honor of Reuben Patterson:
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    Really? Classless? Bullshit.

    The NBA ships players wherever the hell they want to. They make sure to pay players only their guaranteed money and cut them before their contracts are guaranteed.

    NBA teams have bidding wars. Apparently one is going on for one of the Morris Twins.
     
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    Looks like the mind flayer
     
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    No, Mind Flayer was Rasheed :)
     
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    4DCCE647-919A-4ED4-8705-A6F9BE2B5756.jpeg

    FTFY.
     
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    Was gonna say when I first saw that. Had to have been intentional the way he circled that.
     
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    I realized how stupid it looked when I finished the post. LOL.
     
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    it's not bullshit

    yeah, NBA teams trade players. That's been true since the league started. Big fucking deal. The players know that when they sign contracts. It's not some loophole that teams slip into a contract when the lights are out and the player's back is turned. It's up-front, explicit, and understood

    I know it seems old-fashioned, but a person's word should still mean something. The Spurs and Morris reached an agreement. The Spurs agreed to create the flexibility to give Morris 10M/year. Morris agreed to sign the deal. The Spurs then made the move to create the room by trading away a player. And Morris apparently is considering breaking his word, and that's exactly what he's doing, for more money.

    he hadn't signed so he can do it...if he wants. Tough shit Spurs. But as I said and I'll repeat it: I wouldn't want Morris in a Blazer uniform because of how I'd view his character after this news
     
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    That seems OP 2mana wow!
     
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    Do you feel the same way about Neil, he told Gordon that he wouldn’t trade him and turned around and went back on his word. It is definitely telling about someone’s priorities when they make choices like this. I would say they all have the same priority...$. Morris has a limited window to make $ so he is getting what he can. NO wanted to make the team better because that’s what he is paid to do. Neither is better or worse I think people view them very differently though.
     
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    yes. Did that happen?
     
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    B-Roy If it takes months

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    Eastoff But it was a beginning.

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    RG not RB... I call fake
     
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    there you go

    by the way, I'm not an Olshey fan, at all, so it's fine if I have another reason to dislike him and it fits with the snake-oil view I have of him

    I guess it's a tough-shit world. It's tough-shit for the Spurs that they went after a player that they needed to make a move in order to sign him and took the player's word in good faith. And it's tough-shit for Eric Gordon that he didn't put a no-trade clause in his contract

    I want to say that my view is informed by spending 35 years as a self-employed contractor: construction, remodeling, carpentry. I deal in contracts and verbal agreements all the time; as in dozens and dozens, sometimes in a a single year. I've never stiffed anybody on a verbal agreement and I've never gamed a contract. I have been stiffed on agreements several times and I've never dealt with those people again, whether they were customers or other contractors. So it's not like I'm coming at this from some idealistic perspective. I've lived the real world consequences of broken words
     
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    That would be the dumbest possible thing they could do.

    Rush KD back from an Achilles.

    That’s a Knicks move.

    Don’t. Be. The. Knicks.

    If he is even *remotely* close to healthy — they should sit him until the all-star break — at least, in my opinion.

    Same thing I hope we do with Nurk.

    None of this “play your way” into shape B.S.

    Practice. Get comfortable. Knock the rust off. Build trust in your body. Get used to the impact. Then integrate yourself back into games.
     
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    It's NOT FAKE, it's just early.

    Blazers will be officially changing their name to the Pacific NorthWest SuperBlazers, and their jerseys will be Red (Blazers) and Green (SuperSonics).
     
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