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@DiedSuddenly_ I’m someone who doesn’t currently have an opinion on what is causing this. I do agree that there is a spike though. Anyone have links to any papers that show if the cause is vax as opposed to Covid itself?

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@melanieweisner @JustinBonomo @CharlesKassin_ Why continue to engage with him when he just red herring’d with his “what about Israeli military” nonsense. To pull that BS when he should instead say he doesn’t empathize w people who support groups who aim to purposefully massacre civilians tells us everything we need to know

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@deanondraft I guess using 12 games from this season to understand if he’s improved or not doesn’t seem logical to me. But yeah I agree by end of season, we’ll have a better picture of where he’s really at

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@merztrk55427161 @StephBoyarthree @WizardOfOsu @jay_pea619 @Peeps_LitesUp Yeah it’s already toxic enough on this gd app. Take care dudes

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@StephBoyarthree @merztrk55427161 @WizardOfOsu @jay_pea619 @Peeps_LitesUp I get why you think that, but ultimately you need to reach a certain threshold to qualify for an asterisk. To me, the ‘15 and ‘19 rings reach that threshold, and ‘20 does not. I’ve laid out the reasons why. Anyways, time for bed, I appreciate the civil debate from you and 👑 dude

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@StephBoyarthree @merztrk55427161 @WizardOfOsu @jay_pea619 @Peeps_LitesUp It’s relevant bc I’m making the pt that LAL were gonna win regardless (according to most ppl and Vegas) so they don’t get a *. GS does get a * bc they were 50/50 going in, and they got incredibly lucky with injuries

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@StephBoyarthree @merztrk55427161 @WizardOfOsu @jay_pea619 @Peeps_LitesUp Nah, he just played the worst supporting cast known to man in the finals. He won but couldn’t even win FMVP 🤷

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@StephBoyarthree @merztrk55427161 @WizardOfOsu @jay_pea619 @Peeps_LitesUp If you really thought those lines were bad, you’d have like $100MM bc you’d just bet on the bad lines lol

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@StephBoyarthree @merztrk55427161 @WizardOfOsu @jay_pea619 @Peeps_LitesUp You can cherry pick all you want, but if you put your own money up against those lines, you’ll go broke in a minute. The point is, those series lines do a muchbetter job of reflecting general public perception at that time than you waving your hands saying lakers had no shot lol

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@merztrk55427161 @StephBoyarthree @WizardOfOsu @jay_pea619 @Peeps_LitesUp Nah man, everything thought Bron was winning that one, Vegas lines are good. They had just cooked the nuggets the series before

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@StephBoyarthree @merztrk55427161 @WizardOfOsu @jay_pea619 @Peeps_LitesUp You can’t just conflate a preseason long line with a series line. Vegas series lines are legit af and bake all sorts of info into them. A pre-season line is full of uncertainty, esp when new players join teams. I agree that those shouldn’t be trusted. But that finals line is good

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@StephBoyarthree @merztrk55427161 @WizardOfOsu @jay_pea619 @Peeps_LitesUp Sorry, true price was about -315 not -375 fwiw

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@StephBoyarthree @merztrk55427161 @WizardOfOsu @jay_pea619 @Peeps_LitesUp So you’re saying a team that’s favored -375 gets lucky and an even easier path, and now they get an asterisk next to their title? No way. A team that was 50/50 that really lucked out and gets to play Bron and a bunch of fringe NBA players deserves the asterisk imo

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@StephBoyarthree @merztrk55427161 @WizardOfOsu @jay_pea619 @Peeps_LitesUp Yes. I would certainly be making excuses for lebron bc ppl would prob pile on him for losing, but I would not take anything away from the team that beat bron in this scenario bc he still had a decent team around him

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@StephBoyarthree @merztrk55427161 @WizardOfOsu @jay_pea619 @Peeps_LitesUp Two big differences - Bam still played 4 games in that series (even if he wasn’t 100%), and Dragic played 2. And secondly, the second and third best players for the cavs were delly and JR. For Miami, they still had crowder, d rob, herro, Nunn, iggy to support jimmy