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@mygoatwardell @naaayorks @warriorsworld Curry is small. I think he's worked out OK

@naaayorks @warriorsworld I don’t agree. Philon is another small guard in an already guard heavy roster. Jimmy has to be moved because there are no other moves to be made that puts us into contention. Our wings going into next season will be gui and that’s it, Yaxel is to talented and fitting to pass up.

I understand the calls for Yaxel, but if the Warriors move Jimmy they’re basically right back to where they were before the Butler trade, desperately needing another ball handler. That’s where Philon makes sense. In a perfect world, they’d find a way to draft both.

@naaayorks @gottopro1 Philon has to be the guy

CNN’s @KFILE reveals the man leading the hantavirus response in the U.S. is a specialist in penile implants with little public health experience and hosted a podcast called “Erection Connection.”

NEW: 50 empty Waymos invade Atlanta neighborhoods and circle their cul-de-sacs for hours early in the mornings. Residents say they are getting waymo traffic than usual and have tried combating the cars with a neon green sign, which only made the problem worse. The Waymos didn't know what to do and clogged the entire street. "We have small animals and pets, got kids getting on the bus in the morning, and it just doesn’t feel safe to have that traffic," one resident said. The residents say Waymo has not given them a response yet.

Google is making $62 billion a quarter destroying the websites it NEEDS to survive. This is literally a death spiral that ends with Google killing itself. Let me explain what's going on... Google added AI summaries to the top of every search result in 2024. When you Google something now, the answer sits right there on Google's page. You never have to click anywhere. Google took the information from someone else's website, summarized it, and kept you inside Google's ecosystem. The result: 60% of all Google searches now end without a single click to any website. Small publishers lost 60% of their traffic in one year. Medium publishers lost 47%. Even the biggest names in media, the New York Times, the Washington Post, Business Insider, all saw traffic fall between 22% and 55%. The Axios CEO called it "a referral extinction event for the ad-supported web." Google's response to all of this was to tell publishers they can "opt out" of having their content summarized. But opting out also REMOVES your description from normal search results. So the choice Google gives you is let us steal your content for free, or become invisible on the internet. That's extortion. The Washington Post laid off another round of journalists this year because of it. Stereogum, one of the most respected music publications on the internet, had to BEG readers for donations. Business Insider cut 21% of its staff. Dozens of smaller publishers have shut down entirely. The people who actually CREATE the information Google summarizes are going bankrupt while Google posts record revenue. But here's where this gets interesting and where everyone stops thinking: Google's AI summaries are only as good as the content they summarize. If the publishers who write the original articles, run the original investigations, and create the original data go out of business, there is nothing left for Google to summarize. The AI starts recycling old information, the answers get stale, the quality drops, and users start noticing that Google's summaries are increasingly wrong, outdated, or useless. Google is essentially strip-mining the internet for short-term revenue. They are extracting all the value from content creators without paying for it, driving those creators out of business, and then wondering why the quality of their own product is declining. This is exactly what Napster did to the music industry in the early 2000s: Made content free, creators went broke, and quality collapsed. It took a decade to rebuild. Google is doing the same thing to the entire internet at 100x the scale. Rolling Stone, Variety, Deadline, The Hollywood Reporter, and Billboard are now suing Google for antitrust violations. Chegg, the education platform, lost 49% of its traffic and is suing too. The UK's competition authority just ordered Google to let publishers opt out without being punished. The DOJ already ruled Google is an illegal monopoly. And Google's defense in court is genuinely unbelievable. They argue that publishers CHOOSE to let Google index their content and can leave anytime they want. That's like saying you choose to pay protection money to the mob because technically you could close your business and move to another city. Google controls 90% of search. Leaving Google means leaving the internet. Meanwhile Google is investing billions in custom AI chips to make these summaries cheaper at scale. Every quarter the problem gets worse. The internet as we've known it for 25 years ran on a simple deal: Publishers make content. Google sends traffic. Advertisers pay for the traffic. Everyone wins. But Google just BROKE that deal and kept all the money.

@BowCurator @Darryl1960 @KlayForTrey I will. After you stop repeating Size Queen narratives that you heard from others

@devdotcom @Darryl1960 @KlayForTrey Stop talking ball man lol

The fact that the Warriors have a chance to draft an SGA replica is crazy

@StanW4gner @midnight___lamp @KlayForTrey Measureables don't equal buckets. But OK. Not arguing with you

@devdotcom @midnight___lamp @KlayForTrey brunson draft combine : 6’1 at 198lbs philon draft combine : 6’2 at 176lbs

@BowCurator @Darryl1960 @KlayForTrey Go further... Warriors lack bucket getters regardless of size

@devdotcom @Darryl1960 @KlayForTrey Without Chet and hartenstein that series looks completely different because the paint is open gym. That’s what the warriors issue is. No easy points because they lack size. Everything is hard. This isn’t a difficult concept. Small teams generally struggle against bigger teams.

Dozens of empty Waymos invaded an Atlanta neighborhood and circled a cul-de-sac for hours with no passengers wsbtv.com/news/local/atl…

@jrichardgoodman @Maree415 It was weird to hear Stackhouse speaking on the Jim Rome podcast about his Warriors experience in the past tense. Makes sense now

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@midnight___lamp @KlayForTrey I don't disagree with that. But the starting point can't just be Size The Warriors have a talent and skill deficit at so many positions. We need better basketball players all over the court. Don't get me started on athleticism. But skill comes before that

@devdotcom @KlayForTrey Ok he’s bang average sized for a guard… we need to target positional size IMO

@BowCurator @Darryl1960 @KlayForTrey Ayton... Kleber.... Hayes... You can't seriously watch that series and say the Lakers loss because of size. Bron was guarded by Dort and Caruso. Rui is NOT small C'mon man. Do better

@devdotcom @Darryl1960 @KlayForTrey To another team, WITH SIZE lol. You didn’t think this one through did you?

@BowCurator @Darryl1960 @KlayForTrey Tell the Lakers. All of that size worked out well for them

@devdotcom @Darryl1960 @KlayForTrey A small talented player doesn’t do much when they lack size. They NEED size.

Steve Kerr had nothing left to prove. But at a crossroads in his career, facing down the pains of his past convinced him he had everything left to play for. Wright Thompson shares the full story 👇 spr.ly/6014BBxluE

ESPN's Wright Thompson says Steve Kerr story was his 'favorite profile' sfgate.com/warriors/artic…

What can sports teach us about life? Sometimes the wrong lessons, says author Wright Thompson. Sports often push the idea that winning is everything—but the greatest athletes, like LeBron James, are defined less by their wins and more by who they are outside the game.

“Gambling is going to destroy American sports,” argues author Wright Thompson. “The greatest casualty of it is that there is a generation of people who are being taught to commodify everything. I mean, they’re being turned into optimized machines. It’s really dangerous.”

Wright Thompson says you can be a “ghost” to your children, passing down burdens, or an “ancestor,” passing on your best qualities—an idea from Bruce Springsteen. “We have to be able to look clearly at our families in the past and take the things we admire. And, you know, some stuff should die with my dad, and some stuff should die with me.”

ESPN’S Wright Thompson has written a powerful new book on the murder of Emmett Till — and how the rhetoric of the Mississippi gubernatorial race served as the backdrop. “The rhetoric of the 1955 Mississippi governor’s race would be familiar to anybody watching your show tonight.”

Wright Thompson profile of MJ when he turned 50 in 2013 watching clips of Lebron is another classic “competitive gene out of control”: espn.com/espn/feature/s…