The Luka trade wasnโt made for LeBron. One could argue that was part of taking him for granted cuz they shifted to a team building model that didnโt account for him being part of the future instead of a roster made to win now.
Kenny Smith says the Lakers HAVENโT taken LeBron for granted ๐
โIn college I played with Michael Jordan. In the NBA with Hakeem. Never in their tenure did I hear the word โmy teamโ or โtaken for granted.โ The things they worried about, were not cookies. Or seats on the plane or seats in the stands. Did the Lakers take him for granted? I would say no. When he wanted AD to be there, they went out and figured out a way to get him. When they needed to make a trade for Luka, they did it. When they needed to draft your son, they did It!โ
Cowboys LB DeMarvion Overshown, whose rookie contract expires after this season, now has hired agent David Mulugheta to represent him. Mulugheta represents, amongst others, Micah Parsons, George Pickens and now Overhsown.
The research behind this is wild. Your sperm carries a set of instructions that tell your genes when to turn on and off. A Duke University study found that THC rewrites those instructions. The more weed in your system, the bigger the changes. It goes straight for the genes your future embryo needs in its first week of life.
I had to read the "day 3 crash" part twice. For the first three days after fertilization, an embryo runs entirely on the mother's DNA. Day 3, the father's genes switch on. If those genes carry cannabis damage, the embryo just stops growing. Fertility doctors see this happen in their labs: embryos that fertilized fine and looked healthy on day 2 go completely still by day 5.
Boston University tracked 1,535 couples trying to have a baby. Men who smoked weed once a week or more doubled their partner's miscarriage risk. That number held up even when the woman herself never touched cannabis. And the miscarriages clustered in the first 8 weeks, right when the father's damaged DNA would be doing the most harm.
Duke also found that the specific genes THC alters in sperm overlap with genes linked to autism. One of those genes, called DLGAP2, helps brain cells communicate with each other. It was changed in cannabis users' sperm. When researchers bred THC-exposed male rats and checked their offspring, the same altered gene pattern showed up in the pups' brains. The damage crossed a generation.
Weed has gotten way stronger over the last 30 years. THC content was about 4% in the 1990s but nearly quadrupled to 15% by 2018, and modern dispensary strains regularly sit at 20-30%. Concentrates go up to 95%.
Quitting for about 11 weeks (one full cycle of sperm production) reverses some of the DNA changes. Not all of them. Duke's lead researcher says men should stop at least 6 months before trying for a baby. Half of your kid's genetic blueprint comes from you, and right now, THC is editing that blueprint before conception even happens.
Victor Wembanyama stats last season:
24.3 ppg, 11 rpg, 3.7 apg, 4.9 stocks per game
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Victor Wembanyama stats this season:
24.7 ppg, 11.5 rpg, 3.0 apg, 4.1 stocks per game
Nick Wright believes itโs โdisingenuousโ that people are moving the goal post against Lukaโs MVP case in favor for Wemby:
โIn real time people are trying to change what the historic qualifiers for MVP are in service of one guys candidacy, in Victor Wembanyama, and against another guys candidacy in Luka Doncic, which is an award that has NEVER been 50% defense, 50% offense. Changing it up I think is disingenuousโ
(Via @WhatsWrightShow)
Victor Wembanyama is a bad 1-on-1 isolation defender.
This season he is allowing 1.09 ppp allowing an opponent FG% of 48.6, which ranks him in the bottom 20.8% of the NBA.
Heโs an elite shot blocker, but thatโs it. ESPN is lying to you.
๐จ let me explain what just happened..
TSA workers .. the people who screen your luggage at airports.. stopped getting paid because Congress couldn't pass funding..
today Trump signed an executive order to fix it.. problem solved.. hero moment..
except..
Congress didn't go rogue.. his party controls it.. the funding stalled because of chaos in his own house.. TSA workers went without pay because of a problem he had the power to prevent..
and he had the power to sign this executive order the entire time..
in 2019, Trump's government shutdown lasted 35 days.. TSA workers called in sick in record numbers.. airports descended into a state of utter confusion.. security lines collapsed.. he eventually ended it the same way.. an executive order..
same playbook.. different year..
create the emergency.. let people suffer through it.. sign the paper.. take the credit..
Somewhere a TSA agent is paying their overdue rent with a paycheck that should have never stopped.