Luc

Elder Emo, retired guitarist of Courtesy Flush, and bball rec league scrub. MPLS. Dolphins and Lakers fan (yes, that is weird)

[kuz @kylekuzma]

After sitting here watching NBA free agency this year and overall NBA movement over the past 2 years somebody has to say it....

The new CBA was sold as parity, but the first and second apron are starting to function like a hard cap on player value, team continuity, and player movement.

Teams are no longer making purely basketball decisions. They’re making fear-based apron decisions. That means good players get squeezed, homegrown cores get broken up, fan-favorite teams lose their identity, and the overall product loses some of the nostalgia and continuity that made people fall in love with the NBA in the first place.

This isn’t about players not understanding business. It’s the opposite. We understand that the NBA is a business. That’s why the @TheNBPA has to operate with elite business acumen, elite negotiating strategy, and real foresight.

The owners and the league walk into these meetings with killers that continue to run circles around us time and time again with elite lawyers, economists, cap experts, media strategists, and long term business operators. Players deserve a PA that is just as sharp, just as prepared, and just as aggressive about protecting our upside.

Too often, it feels like players are informed after the fact instead of being truly educated and empowered before decisions are made. That cannot continue.

The next CBA is a do or die moment for us as players. It's only going to get worse for us. We need transparency, accountability, and a serious re evaluation of who is representing us and how they are representing us.

This is not anti parity. This is pro player, fan, and product. The league is strongest when players are valued properly, great teams can stay together, and the people representing us are operating at the same level as the people sitting across the table.

[Luc @ibeluc]

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[Silver Screen and Roll @LakersSBN]

Should the Lakers trade for Myles Turner? https://t.co/OBNk0nSwDv

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[Jenni @hashjenni]

THE PRESIDENT RAPED LITTLE GIRLS.
THE PRESIDENT RAPED ADULT WOMEN.
THE PRESIDENT IS A PEDOPHILE. THE PRESIDENT IS A CONVICTED FELON.
THE PRESIDENT IS GUILTY OF INTERNATIONAL WAR CRIMES.
EPSTEIN FILES, EPSTEIN FILES, EPSTEIN FILES.

[Luc @ibeluc]

Heavily influenced TOYPAJ
Courtesy Flush - Last Chance Goodbyes
#poppunk #blink #blink182
#elderemo https://t.co/sCbbe1W9mI

[Samantha Ruddy @samlymatters]

The girl in your freshman social studies class who raised her hand to ask why there’s no white history month is running half the major news outlets.

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[Adam Schefter @AdamSchefter]

Dolphins and Pro-Bowl RB De'Von Achane reached agreement today on a four-year, $68 million contract extension that includes $32 million guaranteed, as @Schultz_Report reported.

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[Power to the People ☭🕊 @ProudSocialist]

BREAKING: U.S. Military veterans are occupying the Cannon building in the nation’s Capitol to protest the US’s war on Iran and Israel’s genocide on Gaza.

[Tom Morello @tmorello]

The Strokes raging against the machine at Coachella. Salute!