@JonesOnTheNBA part of it is also about nba fans becoming ever more championship or bust with first mj then kobe, where number of rings becomes an important metric in all-time debates and otherwise great teams that lose in the playoffs (e.g. the '18 rox) are frequently and mercilessly clowned
@liliana_leigh@agraybee tbf the teachers/profs would usually tell us that was the explicit goal of them allowing 1 page of hand-written notes for an exam
@Sheng_Peng also worth noting that a lot of the "announced crowds" over the past few years were likely double (or more) of the number of people that would actually show up to those games, definitely have been to some games where i doubt there were more than 3,000 actual people in the stands
@CoachVass my honest answer would be that 12 teams is too many for the playoffs, but with the system we have i don't think you should benefit teams that, through choice (being independent) or performance (losing 2 games in a shit acc) missed out on getting an extra game against a top-3 team
@CoachVass the simple answer to me is a team should not get punished for playing a 13th game when the others can't/won't and had the same record after 12 games as the other teams with a more difficult schedule
@Sheng_Peng interesting that they're going l-l/l-l/r-r for the dpairs, assuming that along with klingberg being off the pp that means lilje and kling are gonna be healthy scratches tomorrow?
@Wilson__Valdez too busy talking about how they need to leave the demoncrat party over a few party members reaching a deal to end a govt shutdown, who are themselves getting pilloried by a majority of the members of said party
these "principled antiwar journos" ultimately just want dems to fail
@Sheng_Peng@shaaaaaaaaaarks assuming that if eklund is activated off ir, that means cardwell is assigned to the cuda? if so, would cards have to physically go to abbottsford or could they have this be a paper transaction while he remains with the sharks as a de facto 13th forward?
@JonesOnTheNBA gordon also is a massive improvement story tbf. just 18 months ago a key part of the def strategy in their playoff loss v minny was that the wolves could crossmatch kat on jokic w/ rudy "on" ag, but rudy was often pretty aggressively helping off aaron and he couldn't make 'em pay
@agraybee tbf this is about the most fitting "tribute" for the type of person he was, his life goals, and the life he led. truly became the change he wanted to see
@beyerstein dude was a thug and provocateur whose lifes work was to use violence and propaganda to make the country and world less safe, prosperous, and trusting. still doesn't justify his assassination, because stooping to the gutter he called his home makes everyone worse off
@souljagoyteller arab and muslim americans should be proud of their votes for trump and stein in 2024, just like they should remain proud of their bush and nader votes in 2000
@AltHistoryFan @jwilcox79 if the southern border is the most important issue for someone in maine, that's probably a euphamism for a bunch of other reasons why this person is likely an unattainable voter for dems - recall that trump scuttered lankford and co's bipartisan border security bill in 2024