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Barkley is far more charming and willing to laugh at himself and be self deprecating. Draymond has the worst of Shaq’s insecurities/defensiveness with none of Diesel’s humor.

Aside from being one of the greatest players in NBA history and an all-time great TV personality, Charles Barkley is one of the nicest, decent human beings in sports. You should watch how he treats people who cannot do a single thing for him. With all due respect to Draymond, I honestly don’t think I could listen to him over a whole NBA season.

Rumblings have predictably started about progress on the A’s ballpark slowing as available funding is depleted. The $1 billion funding shortfall remains unaddressed. No amount of breathless cheerleading by local journalists can alter that simple reality.

Charles Barkley in his four seasons as a Houston Rocket: 16.5 points, 12.2 rebounds, 3.9 assists, 4.0 box plus/minus Draymond Green’s last four seasons: 8.6 points, 6.5 rebounds, 6.0 assists, 0.5 box plus/minus

Precious: "I've been on a lot of winning teams, and it hasn't been as fun. Our record does not reflect the camaraderie of everyone… it's that joy of, 'Hey, we're going to go out there and give our best…' It's not always like that everywhere else."

BREAKING: A jury has found Live Nation and Ticketmaster to be an illegal monopoly that overcharges fans, per MorePerfectUnion

Maybe teams like Wizards/Jazz/Kings/Pelicans/Bulls/Nets wouldn’t have to “tank” to try to get good drafts picks if San Antonio wasn’t awarded 3 top 4 picks 3 years in a row, or if the play in Hawks wasn’t awarded the number 1 overall pick, or Dallas getting the first pick

As of the time of this posting, the tweet below has 1.4M views. The two sets of free throws shown were the result of: 1) Christie wanting to stop play so he could call his use-it-or-lose-it timeout before time dropped below 3 mins. 2) Cardwell fouling Seth during a live rebound, and the Warriors being in the bonus. McDermott, the same guy who gave the foul after being instructed, made a 3 the very next possession from a set play Christie drew up.

#PlaytheWestWay @cityofwestsac at Birdies!

Play the West Way ⚾️ @RiverCats and @Athletics opening day! WestSac had some amazing restaurants! @THCwestsac

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@sama Wow, I can’t trust using your platform at all now. Deleting immediately

Tonight, we reached an agreement with the Department of War to deploy our models in their classified network. In all of our interactions, the DoW displayed a deep respect for safety and a desire to partner to achieve the best possible outcome. AI safety and wide distribution of benefits are the core of our mission. Two of our most important safety principles are prohibitions on domestic mass surveillance and human responsibility for the use of force, including for autonomous weapon systems. The DoW agrees with these principles, reflects them in law and policy, and we put them into our agreement. We also will build technical safeguards to ensure our models behave as they should, which the DoW also wanted. We will deploy FDEs to help with our models and to ensure their safety, we will deploy on cloud networks only. We are asking the DoW to offer these same terms to all AI companies, which in our opinion we think everyone should be willing to accept. We have expressed our strong desire to see things de-escalate away from legal and governmental actions and towards reasonable agreements. We remain committed to serve all of humanity as best we can. The world is a complicated, messy, and sometimes dangerous place.

This sequence is “The Vivek” 1. Dumb trade to clear cap space for a dumber move (Jonas/Saric) 2. Dumb overpay signing (Schroeder) 3. Undermined ASAP w/ next move (Russ) Then… 4. 2nd dumb trade to fix original dumb move (Hunter) 5. Lost an asset (Ellis) 6. Less cap space

@marvel_updat3s Just binged the whole thing. Had to keep going. Really really good. I was surprised

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BREAKING: The US Treasury posted a $284.4 billion deficit in October, the worst opening month to any fiscal year in history. This exceeds the previous record of $284.1 billion in October 2020, during the historic pandemic response. Government spending jumped +18% YoY, to $688.7 billion, bringing the 6-month moving average up to ~$590 billion. To put this differently, US government expenditures averaged ~$22.5 BILLION per day last month. The deficit spiral is accelerating at a record pace.

More SAC notes - Zach is bad with DeRozan - Schroder, Russ, Ellis bad with Zach - Zach bad with Russ - DeRozan, Schroder bad with Sabonis - and several other bad combos - (Ellis and Monk don't seem to hurt anyone's play) That's a lot of combos needing to learn to play together.

Doug Christie and his coaching style of pride and doing it for the city is a complete misfit to a bunch of vets that have zero connection to Sacramento. He should’ve been coaching a young group from the start. Quite literally nothing on this team makes sense.