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i miss watching the wizards play playoff basketball i need this so bad next year trae ad ky and sarr please im begging yall

Magic shot 4-37 in the 2nd half.

Want the real story on Ja'Kobi Lane? Here's what Todd Heap and Torrey Smith said about the Ravens' third-round rookie. "I've been watching this kid make plays since he was 13 years old. ... He probably has the most upside of just about any receiver in this draft." -- Todd Heap

Just caught up with a buddy who does some consulting for Ernst & Young. After a few drinks, I offered to pick up the tab if he told me which pick the Wizards were gonna get, but he was pretty drunk at that point and just kept repeating “Antawn Jamison” over and over lol

This is heat-check time for Klutch

Gerrit Cole goes in-depth on his new over-the-head windup, which he picked up while playing catch with Yankees PT & Rehab Coordinator Joe Bello last summer. “I just generally enjoy the rhythm of it. I think it keeps the tempo of the delivery kind of upbeat and fluid.”

The Pistons get another star next to Cade. The Mavericks keep building around Cooper Flagg. Should Detroit & Dallas make this trade to send Kyrie Irving to the Motor City this summer? 🤔

They’ll care when they win the lottery and not care to root for losing. I don’t think the proposal is great. I don’t really care, to be honest. The teams did this by not caring about the integrity of the sport instead of caring about getting an 18 year-old to run their multibillion dollar business. But I don’t think it’s healthy for fans to be more invested in getting a higher percentage of lottery odds than carrying whether young players are getting minutes or you’re in stealing the right principles or your building a scheme. This is a problem that shouldn’t exist. Teams need to do what’s best for them? Sure. But we are so far off the fucking rails with what professional sports supposed to be for Basketball. It’s a joke, and that part has nothing to do with silver, or gambling, or anything else. It’s about teams, not willing to uphold basic values of competitiveness.

Am I alone in not totally hating this? It isn’t perfect and I think the outrage over tanking this year is generally overblown and a symptom of the quality of this class, but this at least forces teams to try, which is a gross thing to say. It’ll probably make it a lot tougher for the really bad teams to make a quick fix, but we keep seeing the same teams in the bottom 5 every year anyways.