Keith Reid

@Aykis16 *Michael

Vivek Ranadive is potentially a few weeks away from having hired two coaches named Mike who won NBA championships after he fired them

@bantheshift Bailey sucks. Happy with the trade

Sorry it’s just very funny that Buster Posey, the HOF catcher who knows about the importance of calling a game, decided Patrick Bailey and his golden glove weren’t getting the job so they settled with… a catching rotation including a guy who literally can’t play the position

@FightinHydrant No

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@Sam_Vecenie If teams didn't work to manipulate the system, there wouldn't be changes.

Honestly, also think it’s totally insane that we’re legislating consecutive top-5 picks. I get maybe top-3 picks. But saying a team can’t get three top-5 picks in a row — on top of this lottery structure where it’s gonna be exceptionally hard to do so anyway — is such overkill.

@RajChipalu A 9-foot-tall running back that just falls down for 3 yards a carry, but the coach punts on 4th and 1 anyway.

??

@matthewk36711 Outside of a great return for Arraez and seeing if Eldridge can figure out the majors, the rest of this is minimal value. Better plan is to also see if you can get a huge return for Webb and see if there's any chance to unload Chapman and Adames.

What I would do if I were Buster Posey: 1. Play Schmitt at a corner OF until the deadline w/ Eldridge at DH. Then trade Arraez, Schmitt becomes everyday 2B. 2. When Webb returns, move Houser to the pen and McDonald stays in the rotation. 3. Call up Blade Tidwell and Dylan Smith for Borucki and Brubaker. The lack of swing-and-miss does not belong in an MLB bullpen. 4. Cut the three catcher system, a massive constraint on an already-rigid roster. If you’re going to trade Bailey and parade Susac/Rodriguez as your catching tandem of the future, then stick with those two guys. But using Haase as the backup C with Rodriguez as a pinch-hitter/OF/occasional C does not work.

@CarmichaelDave 17 Safe Fox over smaller Mitchell 18 Vlade didn't want 'big market' guy 20 Traded flashy PG w/ lmtd d for boring workhorse center 21 Davion limited point of attack defender 22 Keegan - boring getting more boring 24 Gritty Devin Carter 25 not flashy Nique What's the pattern?

I’m sure the discourse on this will be measured and nuanced

@jjss64 It would be Kareem

If we are starting a nba league from scratch and every player in the history of the league is available, is Wemby the number 1 pick overall?? Ahead of Jordan, ahead of Lebron?

@brooklynnets85 They had the answer and let him go. #Poku

Calling it now: OKC does literally anything they can to trade up for Mara It might even look like a crazy overpay Nothing matters to them anymore other than matching up with the Spurs and none of their bigs can do it, Mara has the outlier size to give him at least some issues

@aakashgupta It's almost like GoT was great thanks to the source material, and not the executives or actors.

Kit Harington just confirmed that the most expensive character in TV history is now narratively worthless. And nobody's connecting the math. Jon Snow generated an estimated $501 million in HBO subscription revenue based on screen time alone across eight seasons. He appeared in all 73 episodes. He was the emotional center of a franchise that produced $3.1 billion in subscription revenue and $6 billion in profit for Warner between 2015 and 2018. HBO came to Harington and said: build a show around this character. They spent two years trying. Two years of scripts and development on the single most bankable name in prestige television. And the guy who played him for a decade walked away and said "nothing excited us enough." Think about what that means. HBO could not find one story worth telling about the character who carried the most profitable drama in cable history. The reason is sitting right there in the Season 8 finale. Benioff and Weiss wrote Jon into exile beyond the Wall with no political ties, no conflict, no relationships, no unresolved tension, and no source material to pull from. They gave him the narrative equivalent of a closed bank account. Every possible sequel has to start from: man stands in snow with no motivation, no antagonist, and no connection to the world that made people care about him. Now look at what's actually working. House of the Dragon: set 200 years before the finale. A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms: 100 years before. The Aegon the Conqueror series: even further back. Sea Snake, 10,000 Ships, same direction. Every single surviving Westeros project runs away from Season 8's ending. The one attempt to go forward died in development. 1.7 million people signed a petition to remake that finale. HBO lost over half its 18-49 audience within a year of the show ending. And Benioff and Weiss rushed those final six episodes reportedly because they had a Star Wars deal waiting. They lost the Star Wars deal too. Kit said he looked at photos from Season 8 and saw himself exhausted. He was. Everyone was. The show that averaged 43 million viewers per episode in its final season was running on fumes creatively while setting viewership records, which is the most dangerous combination in entertainment. Record audience, collapsing craft. The gap between those two lines is where franchise value goes to die. HBO made the right call killing SNOW. But the reason they had to kill it is the actual story. Season 8 didn't just end Game of Thrones. It locked the entire franchise in reverse gear. The only safe direction for Westeros is backward, because two showrunners turned the forward timeline radioactive on their way out the door.

@heykevinjohn Great time at the yard! Its the #SacLife

A’s attendance over their three game series against the Giants: Game 1 - 12,348 Game 2 - 12,489 Game 3 - 12,541 Three game average: 12,459 fans

@C2Cbsbl 5 innings. G's pen blows the game anyway.

Giving up Kyle Harrison in the Rafael Devers trade is going to end up looking like a very very bad decision when it’s all said and done The dude has been an ace this year #SFGiants #ThisIsMyCrew

Bailey could win the next 10 gold gloves and neither the Giants nor the fanbase will regret the trade.

@TheNBABase Doug Christie tricked him back into ball stopping.

DeMar DeRozan says Gregg Popovich 'tricked' him into becoming a playmaker in San Antonio “He tricked me. It was a crazy thing. He tricked me. I remember my first shootaround when I got to San Antonio. We were going through walkthrough. Pop told everybody I’m the point guard. I had never played point guard in my life. But it put me in a position of like, ‘Man, I got to get everybody else going.’ You know? And it opened up a different type of vision that I didn’t know I had. So, it made me a playmaker first. And fourth quarter, he’d always say, ‘Do what you need to do. Go win the game.’” (youtu.be/nuLGcDprQX8?si…)

@CarmichaelDave Acuff, Flemings or Brown for Giddey would likely go down in the Haliburton for Sabonis category. Maybe an immediate boost, but worse and worse each year after.

Sigh For those of you unfamiliar with Giddey’s game, he’s younger than Nique Clifford, is on his way to averaging damn near a triple double. He’s only getting better. Now ask yourself, if you got those numbers out of this year’s pick, how would you feel? Some of you are more stuck on “Door #3” than reality.

I’d happily do that

@NateDuncanNBA Also traded a 2029 1st round pick, a 2nd and Mathurin’s RFA rights. Indefensible trade.

It was clear at the time of doing the trade that the 5th or 6th pick would probably be a point guard. So Pacers would be looking to trade it now, without as much matching salary. Would they get a better (and cheaper) player without losing part of their core than Zu? I say no.

@throwing_daniel JHL is one of the overpaid veterans, lol, but the rest is correct.

Getting rid of Jung hoo would be ditching a humble guy who wants to improve and is hungry to win at a time when we should be sending off overpaid veterans who want to relax

@SactownAnthony @KingKC_916 Just noting that pre-draft hype doesn't always pan out and lottery luck - even tanking (remember TankingForWiggins) doesn't guarantee the best player. There's an opportunity in this draft to get an all-nba guard at #7, so that's the goal now.

@KReidme @KingKC_916 Okay. The last sentence is obvious. Of course that' what is needed next. But, are you really arguing that it is better to have less top-end talent options to choose from because former employees of the Sacramento Kings made bad choices in the past? Cuz, that's kinda strange.

I mean…draft good players, make good trades and you’ll be fine.

@SactownAnthony @KingKC_916 Kings have proven it doesn't matter. Bagley, Robinson, Tyreke all top 5 while players better than them drafted 7 or later. Paul George drafted 10th when DMC was 5, and even Fox at 5 when Donovan Mitchell went 13th. Draft the best player at 7, how bout that?

@KingKC_916 Fair enough. Quick question though, is it easier to draft good players with a top 5 pick or the seventh pick? PS - I am not even an angry Kings fan. It is what it is.

@DeuceMason Draft the best guy at 7 (Acuff, Wagler, Flemings all good) and get Lavine and DeRozan off the books. It's not like we traded the 5th pick for Zubac.

So, you've had some hours to process. How are you feeling about the results of the draft lottery?