C Rad Stu

Big fan of The Utah Jazz, Utah Utes and the Chicago Bears. I try to stay positive and grateful but sometimes the emotional irrational fan slips out.

[Tony Jones @Tjonesonthenba]

The Utah Jazz get a standing ovation coming out for warmups

[Tony Jones @Tjonesonthenba]

Cody Williams was fantastic tonight. On some levels you’re supposed to look like that in your third summer league. But with Cody, it’s clear he’s come a long way and the Jazz were right to be patient with him

[Kevin O'Connor @KevinOConnor]

Darryn Peterson...my goodness. He looks like a STAR.

[Mike Levin @MikeLevin]

DOGE deletes itself on July 4th. It will be remembered as a hugely destructive failure.

Musk promised $2 trillion in savings.

What we got, by DOGE’s own unverified math, was $215 billion. Even that number was never proven.

The costs were atrocious. Nearly 140,000 federal workers pushed out. Veterans waiting longer for care. USAID dismantled while people died overseas as a direct result. 20-year-olds with Red Bulls and no college degrees rummaging through Americans’ most sensitive data.

Musk, the world’s richest man, a federal contractor with billions in government business, auditing the government that pays him, accountable to no voter anywhere. 

Even Musk now says he wouldn’t do it again. The guy who ran it calls it a mistake.

Government reform was there for the taking. Both parties know federal technology is outdated. Both parties know waste exists. Fixing it required serious people working with career civil servants who know where the problems actually are. Instead we got a chainsaw, a photo op, and years of lost expertise we now have to rebuild.

Now Trump’s budget director says there will be no final accounting or receipts. They promised transparency and they’re closing up shop in the dark.
They’re counting on us all to forget.
https://t.co/LhgbGUY2Ca

[jess ⚡️ @JessNoFace]

as a soccer fan of 3 weeks it is unforgivable what these refs are doing to our beautiful game

[POLITICO @politico]

Data center boom collides with record heat, testing power grid https://t.co/yypQRdbGOH

[Taylor Twellman @TaylorTwellman]

Hey @FIFAcom where was VAR on this?!

[Alexi Lalas @AlexiLalas]

‘Sup.

[Bill Simmons @BillSimmons]

Iconic Tillman free kick. Favorite USA goal of my lifetime other than the Donovan/Algeria goal. Still reeling from the dubious red card on our best guy…, one team grabbed jerseys for 2 hours to stop advantages, the other team had an awkward collision somehow become a red… what?

[Deseret News Sports @DeseretSports]

Analysis: Looking at Jazz deal to send Walker Kessler to the Lakers from all sides

Story by @NBASarah

https://t.co/bnXpCxIePQ

[Andy Larsen @andyblarsen]

the jazz got more for walker kessler than the celtics did for jaylen brown, send tweet

(But honestly I think this is true, I do not want to be the team paying PG on that contract)

[Art Cummings @ArtTakesNote]

Updated Rudy Gobert trade haul for the Jazz:

- 2023 Minnesota first-round pick (Keyonte George)
- 2025 Minnesota first-round pick (Walter Clayton Jr)
- 2027 unprotected Minnesota first-round pick
- 2028 Lakers first-round pick swap
- 2029 Minnesota first-round pick (top-5 protected)
- 2030 Lakers first-round pick swap
- 2031 unprotected Lakers first-round pick
- 2033 unprotected Lakers first-round pick

🤯🤯🤯

[Bobby Marks @BobbyMarks42]

The Jazz should have asked for the Hollywood sign in the trade also.

[Kevin O'Connor @KevinOConnor]

LMAO. Wow. The Jazz make out like bandits here. Two firsts AND two swaps? You gotta be kidding me. All that said, Walker Kessler, if healthy, is an ideal fit for Luka Doncic. But man what a high price to pay. Huge risk.

[Tony Jones @Tjonesonthenba]

BREAKING: The Utah Jazz are trading center Walker Kessler to the Los Angeles Lakers for a picks package that includes 2031 unprotected and 2033 unprotected first round picks, and 2028 and 2030 pick swaps, League Sources tell The Athletic

[Adam Cochran (adamscochran.eth) @adamscochran]

We’ve had birth right citizenship for 157 years.

And, while Matt Walsh hates it, it takes only a few hours with an Ancestry subscription to find out it’s the only reason he is American.

Like nearly all Americans, within 2+ generations you’ll find that Matt’s relatives only became American by birthright citizenship.

They came from Ireland, Australia, England, Scotland and Austria.

Most of them *never* naturalized as citizens.

But their children born here became citizens.

“Ending birthright citizenship” isn’t about “illegals” if it was then Trump’s team would have had a more tailored argument and would have likely won today.

It’s fully kicking the ladder out from underneath you.

When people like Matt act as if they’ve got some right to the land of opportunity that you and your children don’t deserve.

The reality is, 80% of Americans today have ancestors who came to America and never naturalized between now and 1866.

And if you go back 2-4 generations in their family tree basically none of those relatives were in America.

Meaning they owe their own American status to the very policy they want to get rid of.

There is a hubris in thinking “just because my Grandparents were American we must have been American forever” when the only reason they were American is because of birthright citizenship.

[Andy Larsen @andyblarsen]

Not following this super closely (not my chair not my problem) but... aren't there only two NBA teams with the requisite cap space to give Kessler offers in the mid to high 30s annually? So "multiple" doing a lot of heavy lifting here

[Kevin O'Connor @KevinOConnor]

Kinda wild the Raptors gave up more for 35 year old Kawhi Leonard than 27 year old Kawhi Leonard.

Raptors gave up this for 35-year-old Kawhi:
Brandon Ingram
Gradey Dick
2 firsts
1 swap
2 seconds

Raptors gave up this for 27-year-old Kawhi:
DeMar DeRozan
Jakob Pöltl
1 first (Keldon Johnson)

Obviously, the circumstances are different. Leonard after the 2017-18 season had a lot of uncertainty with a weird injury and he wasn't committing to sign anywhere but Los Angeles. Leonard now is coming off a healthy, dominant individual season and fully committed to extending in Toronto.

Still, I don't think anyone could have seen things playing out this way when the Kawhi trade happened in 2018. No chance.

[Ben Golliver @BenGolliver]

Kawhi Leonard:
- playoff wins with 2019 Raptors: 16
- playoff wins in 7 years with Clippers: 17

- salary with 2019 Raptors: $23 million
- salary with Clippers (2020-2026): $293 million

[Scott Garrard @ScottyGZone]

In related news, Aspiration is now opening a branch office in Toronto.