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@RedNinetyFour Remember when Morey had new math…

This is what someone who thinks he’s playing 4D chess, but really isn’t, sounds like.

@WorldWideWob If we were to move away from nba tradition, can go the NFL route. Ross teams always in white. Home teams in their colors. Gives fans the opportunity to represent their colors at home in unity with the home team. But the hodge podge that the nba is today isn’t it.

I see we have some new players in the NBA jersey arena. Its ethos, and our fight, has been centered around one key principle: home basketball teams wear white at every level of the game, in every league in the world. It is quite simply a basketball tradition, without it being a written requirement. What Nike has done has not only oversaturated the market with mostly unpopular designs, but uniforms that get left behind after just one season. The constant turnover has one goal: sell as many jerseys as possible, at any cost, even at the expense of the franchise’s brand equity. It is a statistical fact and focus group tested/proven that children like new jerseys, and their parents buy them. Non-white City Edition/Classic uniforms are often worn at home, it has a minimum appearance mandate because of the NBA’s partnership with Nike, forcing the away opponent to have to wear their home whites when they’re chosen. Every NBA game that’s played where the home team is not wearing white is a papercut to the sport’s tradition. Not the NBA’s, but basketball’s. It won’t be a tradition that’s destroyed overnight, but as children grow up and it becomes more-and-more accepted because it was never something they cared about or understood, the home whites will eventually be perceived to be just another option. You will rarely, if ever, see an NHL home team in their away white sweaters. Even though it’s the opposite of basketball, NHL/hockey have always maintained the tradition of the home team’s fashion look. I like to think they do this because it is something their paying customers appreciate and continue to support with their wallets. What the NBA doesn’t understand is the sales spreadsheet may suggest that this new jersey strategy is working because so many people are buying them, but what they are sacrificing to achieve these short-term results is the legacy of the sport that made them so cool in the first place. This business strategy, undoubtedly, will lead to apathetic fashion, market dilution, and diminishing returns with no ability to revert back — because that culture, both literally and figuratively, will be dead.

@BimaThug @fyrebear He’s not even a full time starter. Is a “duplicate” as Udoka calls it. And just generally unreliable (we’re not talking Naz Reid here). Why would anyone think he’s worth that besides his agents

"An informed prediction on the average annual salary for forward Tari Eason’s next contract: $22 million." houstonchronicle.com/sports/rockets…

@RobertFreundLaw How is a consumer supposed to know this?

ChatGPT allegedly shares your chat query topics, user IDs, and email addresses with Google and Meta, according to a new class action lawsuit filed today.

@KevinOConnor @JonesOnTheNBA Easy answer - white jerseys don’t sell nearly as much as the colored one (can’t show loyalty if everyone wears white). Easier to promote colored jerseys at home to make more people want to buy

What happened to home teams wearing white jerseys? The home team has worn white in only 22 of 66 NBA playoff games so far this year. Ten years ago, home teams wore white in 83 of 86 games, including every round two, Conference Finals & Finals game. From 97% to 33% in a decade.

@SecondAmendment @torchystacos They are not tipped employees and make minimum wage at least. Whoever put this up is likely an employee trying to fish for tips

This is supposedly at a @torchystacos in Houston... Rice village to be exact. Torchy's is not full service... It is counter service and you get your own drinks. 20% tip for you to bring my food to me is stupid, and if the restaurant does charge service fees then I will take it out of the tip I am over "tip culture"

@RoyIsThaTruth This doesn’t make sense. If she was a fake employee how could she override at self checkout?

MEMPHIS WOMAN ARRESTED AFTER PROMOTING HERSELF TO “WALMART DISTRICT OPERATIONS SUPERVISOR” AND GIVING HERSELF FREE GROCERIES FOR 5 MONTHS MEMPHIS, TN — A Memphis woman was arrested Tuesday after allegedly spending the last five months walking into the Walmart on Germantown Parkway dressed like she owned the place and “approving” her own groceries down to prices usually reserved for yard sales and Shelby County school bake sales. Police say 34-year-old Tiffany Lamar pulled off the scheme with nothing more than confidence, a fake badge, and the kind of attitude usually only seen from HOA presidents and people who return half-eaten rotisserie chickens. According to investigators, Tiffany bought a blue Walmart vest off Facebook Marketplace for $7, laminated her own badge at the FedEx Office on Poplar, and labeled herself: “Tiffany — Regional Checkout Compliance Director” Which, according to Walmart corporate, is absolutely not a real position. But apparently nobody questioned it because she carried a clipboard and walked fast. Employees say Tiffany would arrive every Saturday around noon, storm through the front entrance yelling things like: “Corporate’s watching shrink numbers today!” before marching directly to self-checkout like she was preparing for battle. Police say her weekly “executive-level overrides” included: • 8 frozen Red Baron pizzas marked as “employee morale supplies” • A 55-inch TV discounted to $3.17 under “bird damage” • Two air fryers labeled “training equipment” • A family-size pack of ribs entered as “seasonal inventory loss” • Three candles marked “emotional support lighting” • A 24-pack of Dr Pepper rung up as “hydration reimbursement” Loss prevention officers said Tiffany became increasingly bold over time. “She started wearing a Bluetooth headset that wasn’t connected to anything,” said one employee. “She’d pause mid-transaction and say stuff like, ‘No, Doug, I don’t care what corporate says, Memphis runs different.’” Investigators say the scam finally unraveled after an actual store manager noticed Tiffany’s badge also listed her as: “Assistant Vice President of Frozen Meats.” Authorities detained her in the parking lot while she was loading 17 reusable bags into a dented Nissan Altima with a drive-out tag from 2022 and a bumper sticker that read: “Boss Babe Energy.” When questioned by police, Tiffany reportedly insisted she was “basically management spiritually” and claimed she was due for a raise. She now faces charges including theft, fraud, impersonating an employee, and whatever crime covers putting a rotisserie chicken under “research and development.” Meanwhile, Memphis residents online have already started calling her: “The CEO of Self Checkout.

@Paritolkks Family wealth will rarely pursue venture type businesses. Those are money losing proposition, and the paper gains you see in equity are not realized until way later (if that). You can’t sell Indian employees with equity either

Anant Ambani has launched Vantara Creamery, a new ice cream brand from A2 Gir cow milk, including Malai Kulfi, Guava Chilli, Filter Coffee, Kesar Peda, and Butter Caramel. Indian billionaires has massive wealth and capital, yet most big business families still can’t move beyond campa cola, chai, masala, namkeen-type businesses. Meanwhile, Western billionaires are building companies like OpenAI, Anthropic, SpaceX, and Meta that are shaping the future. For a country with this much talent and money, we still think too small.

@alexgroberman What does this post have anything to do with the video

Here is something people don't seem to realize about Panda Express: In 1983, Andrew and Peggy Cherng opened the first Panda Express inside a mall food court at the Glendale Galleria in California. They made $3,000 in the first month. Andrew had been running Panda Inn, a sit-down Chinese restaurant in Pasadena, since 1973 with his father. Peggy has a PhD in electrical engineering from the University of Missouri. The fast food restaurant was her idea to scale. By 1993, they had 100 locations. By 2017, they hit 2,000. Today, Panda Express has more than 2,600 locations and is on pace to hit 3,000 by the end of this year. It is the largest Asian restaurant chain in the United States. Annual revenue hit $5.9 billion in 2024. They sell more than 100 million pounds of orange chicken a year. Their goal is to become a $10 billion business. [If you want to see what Google AI, ChatGPT, Claude and Grok are saying about your business right now, start here (it's free): seo-stuff.com/free-audit] Here is the part that makes Panda Express different from nearly every restaurant chain in the country: 93% of those locations are company-owned. Not franchised. Company-owned and operated by the Cherng family. For context, McDonald's is 95% franchised. Subway is nearly 100% franchised. Most major chains franchise because it scales faster with less capital risk. The franchisee puts up the money, takes the operational risk, pays the royalties, and the parent company collects fees on a business someone else built. It is the fastest way to put locations on a map. The Cherngs said no to that model. They kept 93% of every location under their own roof. They hired their own managers. Trained their own cooks. Controlled their own supply chain. Chose slower growth over faster expansion because they wanted to own what they built. Andrew Cherng is now worth $4 billion. Peggy Cherng is worth $3.7 billion. Combined, the couple is worth $7.7 billion and they own 100% of Panda Restaurant Group. No public shareholders. No board of directors answering to Wall Street. No franchise partners who control the customer experience at 95% of their locations. Just two people who opened a food court restaurant in 1983 and spent 40 years building something they completely own. They have given $100 million to City of Hope for cancer research. $30 million to Caltech for medical engineering. Their Panda Cares Foundation has donated more than $172 million to Children's Miracle Network Hospitals since 2003. You can do that when you own the entire business instead of collecting royalty checks from someone else's operations. This is exactly what is happening to most businesses and their marketing visibility right now. [If you want to see what Google AI, ChatGPT, Claude and Grok are saying about your business right now, start here (it's free): seo-stuff.com/free-audit] Paid ads, social media, email campaigns, influencer deals, PR placements: these are all the franchise model. Someone else owns the platform. Someone else controls the algorithm. Someone else decides how much it costs and who sees your content. You pay for access, the leads come in, and the moment you stop paying, the visibility disappears. You are building on someone else's land. That's the difference between paid ads and SEO/AI search optimization. ChatGPT has 900 million weekly active users. Google AI Mode is rolling out to millions more. These systems recommend businesses based on authority signals they evaluate independently: owned content, backlinks, entity structure, domain credibility. No ad spend influences the recommendation. The businesses that show up in AI recommendations built the authority signals those systems evaluate. They did not buy their way in. They earned it. [If you want to see what Google AI, ChatGPT, Claude and Grok are saying about your business right now, start here (it's free): seo-stuff.com/free-audit] Like I said, the Cherngs could have gone the McDonald's route and franchised 95% of their locations. They would have grown faster. They also would have owned less. The franchise fees would have been income, not equity. The brand experience would have been in someone else's hands. Instead they own 93% of 2,600 restaurants and 100% of the parent company. Owned assets compound differently than rented ones. The businesses building authority in AI search own their visibility the same way. When Google changes an algorithm, when ad costs spike, when a social platform deprioritizes business content, it doesn't matter. The authority compounds. Every piece of content, every backlink, every citation signal builds on the last one. That is the Panda Express play. You build slower, you control more, and you own everything you build. That is the gap SEO Stuff was built to close. seo-stuff.com Panda Express started in a mall food court in 1983 with $3,000 in first-month sales. Forty-three years later, it is a $5.9 billion business with more than 2,600 locations, 93% of them company-owned. The Cherngs are worth $7.7 billion because they chose to build slower and own everything rather than franchise faster and own less. [If you want to see what AI is saying about your business right now, start here (it's free): seo-stuff.com/free-audit] The question is whether your business is building marketing assets you own or paying for visibility that belongs to someone else's platform.

@tomhaberstroh @TrueHoop Is there a video of this

Wemby dunked this putback Look where he is

@clutchfans So 10 people out of 400ish in the league voted for Alpi. lol

The Athletic did their annual anonymous poll of NBA players and Alperen Sengun was voted the most overrated player in the league. Said one player: "He's crying every play. He's talented, but, dude, just play hard." nytimes.com/athletic/72535…

@jamiequint @Chase But if you could get 2000 of value as a part time job, wouldn’t you?

Finally cancelled my Chase Sapphire Reserve because @Chase turned getting $795 of value out of the annual fee into a part-time job.

@NickFriedell What do you do when both games are in the same time zone

The money is the money — but I still can’t believe the league signed off on a plan to have playoff games overlap each other on a night when there were only two games. And then the second one, which is great, isn’t nearly as accessible to fans because of where it’s airing.

@yegormethod Congratulations. You are the same as every car salesman in the world

I add a fake "onboarding fee" of $500 to every proposal then "waive" it on the call "Normally there's a $500 onboarding fee for new clients but honestly if you're in by friday i'll waive it since we already did the strategy session" They just received a $500 discount on something that was never going to cost them $500 People don't evaluate price in a vacuum. They evaluate price relative to what they almost paid. $8K feels different when 30 seconds ago it was $8,500 I've been doing this for 7 months and not a single person has questioned it. They just feel like they won something Many lessons

@ankurnagpal What defines a startup from any other private venture

A weird tax loophole with early stage startup investing that almost no one knows about: If you invest in a small startup that has raised less than 1M in funding And the business fails You can write off up to 50K (single) or 100K (married) from your ORDINARY income aka salary

@PauloAlvesNBA Better than the one liner. Still not aligned with his philosophy. We were very slow into getting sets so you could argue even getting into a set quicker had its merits. Generally PGs are also a “coach on the floor” - pointing out things, making free throws, etc which all help

Here is Rafael Stone's full, 3 minute answer to the "Why didnt you get a true PG question?". It didnt boil down to the single quote everybody is throwing around, he goes pretty in depth into what went into the decision. Listen to it, it'll serve you better than a one liner.

@ByVarunShankar Well sure, if they can’t defend or shoot or dribble then they’re useless. But usually it’s a PGs job to guard the point of attack, be the first one back in transition defense, dribble, get guys organized, not turn the ball over, etc. you know, all things we were terrible at.

Stone said doesn't feel adding a PG for PG's sake is helpful. Doesn't want someone who just gets you into sets / isn't a threat after the initial pass / can't defend or shoot.

@RedNinetyFour Part of the problem of him making all nba team last year. Supermaxes handicap teams more than help them in current CBA

Amen Thompson is a tremendous young player that I hope retires here but the prospect of giving him a max contract this summer, quite frankly, is a little bit terrifying. Right now, not only can he not shoot but he also can’t dribble. I don’t think that last point has really been absorbed by conventional wisdom. That being said, I do think the Rockets really did him a disservice this season by playing him at point guard and you saw those negative effects on both ends. I also do think his shot—at least off the dribble—will eventually come. I had been noting the soft touch on his floaters (coming out of the right-left euro), but as the season progressed, we saw some middies sprinkled in with surprisingly decent form. All bets are off if that becomes consistent. An absolutely fascinating player given that his upside is a top 5 player, but so much of his ceiling is theoretical.

@WallStreetApes Starbucks is a drive thru now for over half their orders. You don’t get an experience, just hurried along. Are those going to be cheaper?

Starbucks CEO defends a cup of coffee costing $9 He says the customers needs to just not think about it as a $9 cup of coffee, you’re paying for the “experience” of getting a Starbucks coffee “In some cases a $9 experience does feel like you're splurging, and then what that means is we have to make it worthwhile.” He says Starbucks customers “want to have a special experience and regardless of what your income level is, in some cases, a $9 experience does feel like you're splurging — well, this is a really affordable premium experience” How out of touch could a person possibly be…

@RedNinetyFour Also. Okc awaiting the winner..lol. First team to go to Cancun between rounds

@RedNinetyFour This kind of conversation is such espn fodder. Bro we lived this in 2013 already. Team just needs encouragement but can’t get ahead of themselves.

Are we really about to go down in history as the first team to come back from an 0-3 deficit?