@BlazersLead@BucksLead And I say that as someone who likes him personally and appreciates his many virtues as a player. But I think the Blazers would be best served by putting their eggs in another basket.
Because your values and how (or whether) you choose to document monumental life (and death) moments is so much better/more righteous/more dignified?
I saw years' worth of videos in every kind of scenario documenting this dog's life. Why would his death not also be part of that?
As someone who just lost my own dog at 15, I appreciated very much this video. Condolences and thanks to the dog's family.
Not setting myself up for disappointment at all. He will return at or very close to his peak self. That is simply the kind of life story he's been authoring probably since the day he was born but certainly in the professional aspect of it.
And there's one metric I will predict now: he will have the highest 3 point percentage of his career on high volume.
@Brady12Clark I am not giving up 25 year old Deni and two swaps for 31-32 year-old Giannis with high bodily mileage, a rash of injuries at critical times the last 3 seasons, and only under contract for a single year. But that's just me.
Perhaps the most helpful thing I can say is that I am personally so grateful for what you and your team do, what you invest of yourselves physically, financially, and emotionally every single day. In my own heart, you are doing it for me as much as for the dogs and for yourselves.
Thank you a million times over. If I were rich, I would give you a great deal of my fortune.
The redemption of man--if there is, in fact, to be any such thing--is a Sisyphian task. Those who are motivated by Love--as you are--have no choice but to put shoulder to boulder and push uphill, every single day, no matter how many times the boulder rolls back down.
The logical, binary, "good vs evil," left-brained part of our intelligence, the part that thinks it is the arbiter of all knowledge and truth and that thinks material reality is the only reality, will always struggle to understand this struggle on its own terms. But just keep leaning into Love. That's what connects all opposites, all "realities"--inner and outer, subtle and gross, good and evil--and it leaves breadcrumbs on a trail of Truth you can't presently imagine.
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@jenny_lynn618 I'm crying, for your pain and for my own. I lost my beautiful Yorkie 12 days ago. I know what you are feeling, and you have my deepest condolences.
The love you shared with Gordie is obvious from the pictures. A lovely tribute to a lovely soul.🙏
This.
I saw a few episodes of The Wire. All were competent, only one even close to compelling.
The Sopranos, on the other hand, is, in my estimation, the deepest, most affecting, most searingly honest character investigation in the history of film, let alone television. It was also one of the funniest things you could ever watch.
It worked on all kinds of levels for all kinds of audiences because it was so fundamentally truthful about human psychology and the nature of human aspirations and failures and the conflicts between ego consciousness and the "something deeper" that most of us know is there, even if we refuse to trust or acknowledge it.
Massie's not only the most conservative member of congress - in the freedom and constitutionalist sense - but also the smartest.
He graduated from MIT with a B.S. in Electrical Engineering and Master of Science in Mechanical Engineering and while there, invented a haptic computer interface, founded a technology company in his dorm room, got dozens of patents, and made millions of dollars.
Today the tech he invented is used in surgical training, robotics, and molecular research, among other things.
In terms of the combination of acting and writing and the sheer emotional intensity of witnessing something that intimate and real (the sense of voyeurism was sometimes overwhelming), it's unsurpassed. Maybe unequaled.
But there are nearly a dozen other episodes just as powerful in other ways, especially in terms of the use of symbolism and subtext to convey important narrative developments in utterly sublime ways. (Employee of the Month, The Test Dream, Join the Club, etc.)
To me, that show was utterly the greatest artistic achievement in the history of television/film.
True enough. But given the structure of the roster as it now stands and the positions of most need, as well as who is likely to have the highest trade value coming out of this season, the young player who should be top of the list to include for a superstar is Scoot, not Shaedon.
Personally, I'm not opposed to seeing who we can get over the summer with Grant's contract plus some draft capital (buying a mature but still-young, borderline all-star type) but otherwise keeping the roster intact with all non-free agents. I think there's enough size and versatility (and minutes) to run all of Jrue, Dame, Scoot, and Shaedon at the guard positions, with Shaedon also playing a sizeable chunk of minutes at the 3. Unfortunately, there will almost certainly be injuries to all of those players at some point in the season, and they will probably be conservative with Dame's minutes early in the season anyway. So depth there is a necessity. Revisit at trade deadline based on how things look at that time.
ESPECIALLY after hearing the subtle statements Dame made at his exit interview (those with "ears to hear" know what I mean), he is going to be at the top of his game to start next season. And I do not for a moment underestimate how big an impact he can have on a team that is already elite defensively but struggles to shoot the ball and (sometimes) to generate quality shots in the half court.
This is an important point. I'm far, FAR from a salary cap/CBA guru, but I don't think they have room to extend Deni this year, stay out of big tax penalties, AND keep their current salaries. If what I read is correct, they would have to move Grant or Jrue (I'd much prefer to keep Jrue) and do some unspecified shenanigans (creating a trade exception or whatever magic potions exist for moving money off the books) to lock Deni up this year on an extension.