Jacob Beck

[ArtButMakeItSports @ArtButSports]

Martyrdom of Saint Simon Zelotes, Saint Judas Thaddeus, by Martin Johann Schmidt, 1796

[Mark Cuban @mcuban]

When you flatten the odds, the number of trades will explode. It was impossible to know who would win the tankathon in the off season, and the leading tankers aren’t trading their picks at the deadline

BUT you can have a good idea who isn’t a top 8 team in your conference. And teams will do everything they can to trade for their firsts.

Get 2 non playoff firsts in a draft, and you have a good shot of having better odds than the bottom 3 this year.

And even 2 picks at 5.4 pct each, makes you the equal of a tankathon 4 or 5 team.

The question is what puts you in a position to trade for 1sts?

Cap room at the deadline.
Teams that were headed to the 2nd apron and needed saving. Give me that future first.

Willingness to trade good players.
Want my best player. We aren’t going anywhere this season. Give me that future first.

I think the games to stay out of the bottom 3 will be fun. I think the protection limits are smart. Don’t want teams in the playin making decisions on draft vs win.

But teams still have to figure out how to win and now, grabbing as many picks as possible, is the highest value approach

Once you know you have the little c next to your team … can’t make the bottom 3, if it’s before the deadline, you can get aggressive

If you don’t have a team you like, you make any trade that gets you a first.

Just imagine if you have a good young team. But just not good enough to win a ring. And you believe the best player ever is coming this draft , you literally could trade your future firsts , plus your really good young , valued players and when combined with your own pick, or picks you already had, get 5 firsts that give you, with some luck , a 40.5 pct chance of winning the lottery.

Still an almost 60 pct chance you won’t.
But it sure would be interesting as it plays out.

The good news for the nba, the bottom 3-2-1 is smart. The better news for Shams , the trade rumors are going to be off the charts as teams try to “aggregate up” to get the best odds they can

[Carnell Tate @carnelltate]

You next fam!

[ryan @AngryPredsFan]

Genuinely at a loss trying to figure out what the refs were thinking on this season ending icing call, even the sharks commentators immediately clock that the draw should be at centre and are also confused at the draw being in the preds zone

[Dr. Robert King @kingbtc]

and if you want to know all this is because im the best in the world at cryptography & systems engineering

cooked some new theoreticals (its always just theory nothing is ever real) though while I was gone.

gonna hole up till probation over and flush 'em out & get @Haste going

[Alex Daugherty @AlexDaugherty1]

The Predators have won 5 straight and 7-of-10 since they were ready to sell at the deadline.

Barry Trotz rn:

[The Ginger Swindler @lilydsmith]

you will pry this app from my cold dead hands

[Dr. Robert King @kingbtc]

improper exhibition of a dangerous weapon

[Carter Donnick @CDonnick1]

The one thing Nacua’s attorney isn’t denying is the bite mark and I gotta say this is the craziest shape for a mark I have ever seen lmaoo

[MeekMill @MeekMill]

I need a GitHub too! Is it like that or nah?

[tic toc tic @TicTocTick]

Two minutes before that Iran post, someone purchased 42000 lots in a single trade.

This trade would have made a profit of $500 million in half an hour for whoever bought this.

[Dimitri Filipovic @DimFilipovic]

this rocked

[Aakash Gupta @aakashgupta]

Let me explain exactly why every new subdivision in America looks like the top photo, because the math is wild.

A mature tree increases a home's value by 7 to 19 percent. On a $400,000 house, that's $28,000 to $76,000. A single shade tree produces the cooling equivalent of ten room-size air conditioners running 20 hours a day. One tree on the west side of a house cuts energy bills by 12 percent within 15 years. The bottom photo is worth more, costs less to live in, and sells faster. This has been documented by the University of Washington, Clemson, Michigan State, and the USDA. The data is not in dispute.

Removing those trees saves the builder roughly $5,000 per lot. Concrete trucks need twice the dripline radius of every standing tree. Utility trenches need flat ground. A bulldozer flattens 200 lots in an afternoon. Preserving trees adds weeks and thousands per home.

So the developer pockets $5,000 in savings and the buyer eats $50,000 in lost value for the next two decades. The person making the decision and the person paying for it have never been in the same room.

The Woodlands, Texas is the proof of what happens when they are. George Mitchell bought 28,000 acres of Houston timberland in 1974 and preserved 28% as permanent green space. He forced McDonald's to build behind the tree canopy. That McDonald's became one of the highest-volume locations in Texas. The first office building, designed to reflect the surrounding forest so you couldn't see it from the street, leased completely.

The Woodlands median home price today: $615,000. Katy, a comparable Houston suburb that clear-cut: $375,000. Named #1 community to live in America two years running.

Fifty years of data. The trees are worth more than removing them saves. Developers clear-cut anyway because they sell the house once and leave. You live in it for 30 years.

[Russell Vannozzi @RussellV_MSP]

The sample size is small, but Predators rookie Ryan Ufko appears to be a player. His second career goal comes on a wicked blast from the point.

[Rob Perez @WorldWideWob]

Worst trade in professional sports history.

[Mitch Goldich 🐙 @mitchgoldich]

The biggest game of the first round is on Friday, when Long Island battles Arizona for iced tea supremacy

[Joe Kent @joekent16jan19]

After much reflection, I have decided to resign from my position as Director of the National Counterterrorism Center, effective today.

I cannot in good conscience support the ongoing war in Iran. Iran posed no imminent threat to our nation, and it is clear that we started this war due to pressure from Israel and its powerful American lobby.

It has been an honor serving under @POTUS and @DNIGabbard and leading the professionals at NCTC.

May God bless America.

[ESPN @espn]

Matt Duchene with an absolute beauty 😮‍💨

[NHL @NHL]

WOOOOOW 😱

WILLIAM EKLUND WITH A GOAL YOU'LL HAVE TO SEE TO BELIEVE!