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DeMar DeRozan

@rvpats1212 @UnderdogNBA Tbh at this point if you’re not playing that game you’re not trying to win. It’s objectively a smart and efficient strategy. It’s on the league to stop rewarding it

@UnderdogNBA Chris Finch is correct. The Nuggets flopped and flailed their way to 33 free throws in game 1. Truly pathetic. It's time for the Wolves to start flopping for sure.

Chris Finch on officiating: "The league's in a place right now where you draw the contact, spill away, and get rewarded. Guys who try to play through contact ... stay with the drive, they tend not to be rewarded ... Maybe we ought to start flopping too."

@D_Richard_11 @luxthos Because the loot pool is much smaller for a raid boss than a dungeon. It’s hard to target the 1-2 items I want from a dungeon when there are 8+ possible drops

@luxthos I'd even argue don't use them on mythic. Boss isn't hard and you need to use 2 tokens for 1 raid roll. Not sure why they did that.

For Unholy Death Knight: If you set your loot spec to Blood, Chimaerus is a really good option for Bonus Roll loot tomorrow with the Voidforge. You either get your BIS Boots, Trinket, or Chest (assuming you're clearing it on a high enough difficulty for you to get upgrades).

@UnderdogNFL Bros a ram next year

Schefter: This season considered to be "hugely significant" for Joe Burrow and his future in Cincinnati.

@JxdenZ @jay_pickz1 @MySportsUpdate Love is a lot better. I don’t think they should draft him tho

@jay_pickz1 @MySportsUpdate Yall have Skatteboo y would u take love?

The #Giants will now have the No. 5 and No. 10 pick on Thursday night.

@PicosBarber @DovySimuMMA @BenoitSt_Denis The guy who got tuned up by moicano?

@DovySimuMMA @BenoitSt_Denis Paddy Pimblett might have CTE. Why would he sign a contract to fight BSD? Surely he knows he has zero path to victory against Benoit? Someone tell Luke Riley and Shem Rock to admit this fool to a mental ward.

‼️BSD drops promo for his next fight, He will face an English man next. 99% it’s going to Paddy Pimblett. A rosbif (roast beef) is a French term for an English man Paddy has said he will return during IFW this summer via @BenoitSt_Denis

@RickeyScoops Goat back

@MMApadre @thefightbubble He said 50k bonus so it must be from his fight before Blaydes

Feels so weird seeing Hokit out of character 😂

@artifical989 @PlayoffKings

Our Rookie big d*cks Draymond green — “f*ck that, curry’s backpack following me, man shut up” *Green shoves Maxime in frustration*

@Herotherogue Really upsetting that he didn’t close the quotation

bro?

Draymond and Steph just lot to one of the worst teams in the league who are purposely tanking lmao

@Eli__hernandez7 @Shadarek wowhead.com/news/patch-12-…

@Shadarek Where are class patch notes

Can't wait to see how blizzard panic nerfs devourer after Feast of Souls is uncapped in the .5 patch. The AoE damage especially in larger pulls will be unbelievable.

@Betsycashmoney @RyanLSack @JoeHulbertNBA 100% he’s #36 in GP and #18 in points scored. It’s not some crazy anomaly

@RyanLSack @JoeHulbertNBA I actually don't think it stands out, because it's largely a longevity stat. 20ppg, every game, for nearly 20yrs adds up. And regardless of his flaws, he's a model of durability/longevity/production. If you're trying to discredit that, you're being a hater.

I hate how people are calling this "Spreadsheet FC" The problem here isn't the use of stats-- this is simply a bad argument. On/off isnt relevant to cumulative scoring or longevity. Using on/off to discredit Demar's elite durability isn't being a "nerd," it's being a hater.

@ETrainSports Even if you could come up with a good roadmap/framework, good luck getting the owners to agree to it

@nightmayne 100%

I hate the relegation argument. Yes, the Sacramento Kings have made some terrible basketball decisions, but the fans should not be punished for ownership’s mishaps. If anything, NBA fans should lobby for Vivek Ranadive to sell the team, but sure, let’s hurt the fans I guess.

@UnalivedHorse @user05298546 @Nerd_Sesh @Carsobi He’s #36 in games played and #18 in points scored atm, the shock and horror

@UnalivedHorse @user05298546 @Nerd_Sesh @Carsobi It’s a points scored list not best players list. Long career + extremely healthy + consistent points will land you on this list. Why would you ever use this as some sort of barometer for how good they are

My thoughts on DeMar DeRozan

@DaveBallSports @Betsycashmoney This is a massive overhaul to the entire league and would be extremely difficult and long process to achieve well.

@Betsycashmoney The problem of perennially bad teams is often ownership. NBA could introduce relegation and reframe the way the entire league works. No incentive for losing. AND Incentive for winning. Perennially bad teams would no long be NBA teams.

Flattening lottery odds swaps one problem for another: There's no incentive to make the playoffs as an 8 seed if all lottery teams have a 35% shot at a top 5 pick And that's much worse problem-- if teams are tanking to miss the playoffs, that's a *FAR* worse look the for league

@KevinOConnor “there is no longer a single point in the standings where losing helps you” there is if protected picks still exist

During the NBA GM meeting this week, one person suggested make the bottom three teams ineligible for the top picks entirely. The league, per multiple sources, found this to be way too extreme. But then another person on the call offered a softer version of the same concept: What if the bottom three teams just had slightly lower odds than the teams ranked four through 10? Not zero. Just a little less. Sources on the call say Adam Silver responded enthusiastically to this idea. Which speaks to the state of lottery reform. The 18 team/8% odds for the top 10 concept is simply still just the concept. The specifics of it will change by the time the league votes on it in late May. And adjustments — like this one — are still in heavy consideration. I think it’s brilliant. Under that structure, with the bottom three teams having slightly worse odds, there is no longer a single point in the standings where losing helps you. Tanking all the way to the bottom hurts you a bit. It’s not quite relegation that you’d see in the Premier League, but it’s the NBA’s own form that would punish being the worst in the league. And much like Premier League teams have entertaining games to prevent relegation, NBA teams would too. Picture two bad teams in late March, both within a game of the bottom three, both desperate to win. That's a win for the fans. Picture the front office of the Wizards doing the calculus on whether to shut down Trae Young and Anthony Davis and realizing that, actually, no, the vets need to go play, because falling in the standings is a real cost now, not a reward. That's a win for the sport. Picture Sacramento intentionally fouling Seth Curry late in a game, and the conversation around it shifting from "nefarious tanking" to "bad coaching." That's a win for the league. More on @YahooSports:

@413fx @LegacyOcho @Fullcourtpass @KevinOConnor @TheNBABase Surely teams won’t just try and tank from 12th place to 9th now!

@LegacyOcho @Fullcourtpass @KevinOConnor @TheNBABase Yeah so they actually have incentive to not suck, nba fans shouldn't be mad about this unless they have a shit GM, in which case you were fucked anyway. This will hopefully force a firing because you get nothing for being dogshit.

Adam Silver is reportedly "enthusiastic" about a new lottery reform proposal that would give the bottom three teams worse odds than teams ranked 4-10, per @KevinOConnor (h/t @TheNBABase)