Stupendous

@FTFonFS1 @Chris_Broussard So tired of the Scoot slander. Tells me that you guys don’t actually watch games.

Report: Grizzlies trade Ja Morant to Blazers. @Chris_Broussard reacts: “This was a salary dump for both teams... Portland a couple of months ago looked like a young team that was building something… Now, they look like, a potential powder cake.”

OG ANUNOBY. PUT IT IN THE LOUVRE.

OmG. #Knicks

@Stallion83 Was going to get this for my son until I read that. Hopefully they add it eventually.

I was shocked to find out NBA The Run has zero offline modes. No local co‑op or single‑player at all. Completely online. Big bummer.

@blazerbanter @DannyMarang @CHold Well said. This sucks.

Really can’t express how big of a loss it is to all Blazers fans to lose @CHold. One of the only through lines from the B-Roy years to now. To lose that is to lose a piece of the franchise. His coverage, insight and humor will be missed greatly.

🐐🐐🐐

@CHold @trailblazers So incredibly disappointing to hear. Thanks for all the years of fantastic work and coverage. Hope you’re able to take a break and that an even better opportunity arises for you.

I have indeed been let go after 18+ years with the @trailblazers. My sincerest thanks to all of you who have read/listened/watched/engaged with my work over the years.

@FutbolKicks @PolymarketSport Consistently one of the best fanbases in the league… #RipCity

@PolymarketSport Why would anyone want to do business in the hellhole that is Portland? Move the team to Nashville.

🚨BREAKING: Portland Trailblazers owner Tom Dundon could move the franchise to another state Frustrations are growing as Portland politicians aren’t taking the relocation threat seriously

@Manu_Sisti Claude

I’m shocked more people aren’t making $10,000/month with Claude. It’s simple. I shared it with a single mom... she now makes $4,000/month working 1 hour/day. Usually, I'd charge $199 for this, but today I'm giving it away 100% FREE (Claude prompts included) Like + comment 'Claude' & I'll DM it to you Must follow me to get DM. FREE for 48 hrs only.

@AndrewBolis Money

You can earn $9000/month if you have ChatGPT, a laptop, an internet connection, and 60 mins a day. Normally, I charge $83 for this guide, but today I'm giving it away for free. Like + reply 'Money' and I'll send you my full guide for FREE. Must follow me to get guide in DM. Free for 48 hours only.

“Before I played with Kawhi, he was the best player I played with” -- Brandon Roy really was one of the greatest "What Ifs" in NBA history

@WCCSG_ All I know is it isn't Arizona.

Who has the best logo in this graphic?

@SeattleSonics Why do you ask…? 😏

If the Sonics came back tomorrow, what era jersey are you riding in with?

@aakashgupta As a former Red Robin busser, I pour one out for my Dirty Bird homies...

Red Robin is a case study in how to kill a restaurant chain from the inside out. In 2015, the stock hit $92.90 per share. Revenue peaked in 2017 at $1.4 billion across 573 locations. Families loved the place. Bottomless fries. Birthday parties. “Gourmet” burgers when that word still meant something in casual dining. The brand had real equity. Then management panicked about rising minimum wages and made the single worst decision in the company’s history: they fired all the bussers. January 2018. CEO Steve Carley cut bussers across every location, eliminated expeditors, and replaced kitchen managers with generic “back-of-house” roles. The logic was pure spreadsheet thinking. Labor costs were rising, so remove labor. The savings looked great in quarterly earnings. The second and third order effects were catastrophic. Tables stopped getting cleared. Wait times ballooned. Walkaways increased 85% year over year. 75% of the dine-in traffic loss came during peak hours, the exact window when the restaurant makes money. Ticket times out of the kitchen jumped a full minute on average. Customers who waited 20 minutes for a table and another 20 for a burger stopped coming back. Red Robin’s own CEO at the time, Denny Marie Post, admitted the damage was self-inflicted. And here’s the compounding problem. While Red Robin was gutting its own service model, it simultaneously launched a “Tavern Double” value menu at $6.99 to drive traffic. Orders of the cheap burgers jumped from 9% to 15% of all orders, which cratered the average check. So Red Robin was now serving worse food, slower, in a dirtier restaurant, at a lower price point. That combination is how you enter a death spiral. Meanwhile, 16% of locations were in malls. Mall traffic was already declining. Those locations saw 5.5% sales drops versus 3% at standalone stores, dragging the whole system down. Management acknowledged the problem quarter after quarter and did nothing about it for years. Five CEOs in 10 years. Think about that. The one leader who provided stability, Michael Snyder, was with the chain from 1979 to 2005. After that, it was a revolving door. Every new CEO launched a new turnaround plan. Every plan was abandoned by the next CEO. The North Star plan. The First Choice plan. New menu rollouts. Loyalty program reboots. None of it addressed the core issue: they’d trained an entire generation of customers to think of Red Robin as the place where the service is terrible. The contrast with Chili’s makes the failure even clearer. Kevin Hochman took over Chili’s in 2022 and did the opposite of what Red Robin did. He simplified the menu, invested in operations, launched a $10.99 “3 for Me” deal that went viral on TikTok, and let the food speak for itself. Chili’s just posted 31% same-store sales growth. Red Robin’s comparable revenue was down 1.2% for all of 2024. Both chains were in roughly the same position three years ago. One chain invested in the customer experience. The other spent a decade cutting it. Red Robin’s $65M market cap and Chili’s $3.3B market cap tell you which approach works. The stock went from $92 to $3.61. That’s what happens when you optimize for the quarterly earnings call instead of the customer walking through the door.

Wishing a happy Pitt Thursday to those that observe. @hbo

@JakeMorrisonNBA The only thing “breaking” here is my brain.

SNOOP COMMENTATING DURING STEVE KERR EJECTION 😅

@blazersjoe @TrailBlazersPR It’s referring to the neck, fyi!

@TrailBlazersPR 😂 Kris Murray about to go into labor or what??

INJURY REPORT 12/26 vs. LAC (1/2): OUT Jerami Grant (L Achilles Tendonitis) Scoot Henderson (L Hamstring Tear) Jrue Holiday (R Calf Strain) Damian Lillard (L Achilles Tendon) Matisse Thybulle (L Thumb Lig Tear) Blake Wesley (R Foot Fracture)

@anymanfitness 2007 OG here!

Lots of people posting this info since it’s now public. I haven’t seen anyone who has been on X longer than I have. Can anyone beat May, 2013?

@vintagehoops Shareef Abdur-Rahim!

Who is the FIRST player that comes to mind when you see this logo

@Zeez_IV @Dame_Lillard Tell us, what we will remember “Zeez” for?

@Dame_Lillard Another overrated bum who wasted his career with the trail blazers If you retire today, you won't be remembered for anything

So because I have a year of eligibility left… does that mean I can go back and play my last season at Weber state before I retire from basketball?