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@Pellieslife I think I remember rumors that Weaver wanted to hire Kevin Ollie as HC after Casey and was pushed by ownership to hire Monty instead.

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@cheddachaz @just_adavis You trade players at peak value when not competing to accumulate draft picks for more bites at the apple. OKC/HOU/SAS stacked picks to facilitate team building.

A rebuild doesn’t have to mean losing for 4+ years. Short sighted win now mindset will drive fans away too.

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@just_adavis We’re bad already. It makes no sense to keep everyone and just to be less bad when you can acquire draft assets which is the primary way a small market bad team can get better. No one is saying tank. They want to take peak value for players from a roster that can’t compete.

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@NOLAPels_Saints They should be loading up on 2028 picks now. That draft looks good.

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@HPbasketball The city doesn’t get the revenue from the Mods center, he does!

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@ChaseMcRaw Fact #1 - while the city owns the building and the Blazers are technically tenants, they don’t pay rent and the city doesn’t get revenues from the building.

Fact #2 - in the sale agreement from Blazers to City, they agreed to split operating costs for Moda center

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@ScoopB Gross

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@amitisinvesting All the hyperscalers have to do is say that they are re-evaluating capex spend and all of the bottle neck trades get blown up.

Nvidia will lobby hard for them not to do that, but if memory stays out of control, it will happen.

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@atacostsubstack @saintspelican23 @cheddachaz @just_adavis Speaking of opportunity costs, the missing ‘26, ‘28, and ‘29 seconds from the disastrous Devonte Graham signing still costing us years later.

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@Jason

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@CWB8686 @thoughtcrime___ He was not.

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@optionscjp $50M/yr brand awareness campaign funded via dilution is silly. Tech CEO’s are not choosing IREN because of a Warriors sponsorship.

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@DavisPenick @ProPelsTalk He would not

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@matthewjuhren Depends on what the rental agreement states.

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@SprtsDrnk It’s roughly an 8% chance of happening if both teams don’t make the playoffs and aren’t in the bottom 3.

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@HeeraniPK Dan and bros are going to get some sweet comped season tickets.

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@Kyr504 The org has 2 main goals in conflict with each other.

1. Build a contender around Fears/DQ
2. Don’t lose, compete now for play-in

1 requires a rebuild and maximizing draft assets.

2 requires keeping the vets and spending draft assets.

Try for both, fail at both.

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@IREN_Ltd Bet this comes with pretty posh season tickets for Dan and bros.

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@IREN_Ltd So you paid an unknown amount to purchase Awaken which advised you to pay to be a Warriors sponsor???

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@TX4LIFE01 @FOS There is no scenario where he would be willing to split costs. He could pay no taxes and he would be saying that the economic benefit to the city far exceeds the cost of renovations.

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@CouchsideIQ @FearTheBrown Pels were 11th of 15 with the same roster last season when heavy tanking existed. They would be in that 12-14 range with the roster today if teams aren’t tanking.