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Loved what Philly was able to get. Was some talk about moving up to the early teens to get Mitchell, or "settle" for DeJean at 22. To think that Mitchell fell in our lap at 22 is amazing. We'll see how tonight goes, hearing that there is a possibility of packaging our 2 second round picks and moving into the first few picks to get Edgerrin Cooper, but there is also a strong want for Javon Bullard. Cooper is probably gone before 50, Bullard is right around 50. I personally would love for us to get Maason Smith or Kris Jenkins and pair that with Bullard. If we can do that, I'll consider it another great night. If we can't get one of those two DTs, I see S and highest LB/CB on our board. Not a 49er fan, but considering their top 3 WRs are all on their last year of their current deal, solid pick up for a team that doesn't have a lot of current holes/needs.

As long as we have sun and 70s it'll be warm enough for the kids to jump in and have a good time. Wife would like it to be a lot warmer before I get in.

opened our pool today, sorta. Now to add the chemicals and the solar cover to warm it up some. Should be ready to use by next weekend!

Four episodes into the second season of Reacher. Like the show, and the guy that plays Reacher. Hope they make more seasons.

CP3 is guaranteed 30 million for next season. Whatever he agrees to in term of buyout is the hit the Warriors take against the salary cap. It won't help the Warriors sign a key piece, and with the team being so far over the cap, they don't get all the money to spend. If they renounce all their cap holds, the salary on the books (assuming every option is picked up) for next year is $170M for only 9 players. If team options aren't picked up, and those rights are renounced, the Warriors remove an additional 13ishM from salary and two more players. If GPII turns down his player option, about another 9 comes off the books and the Warriors are down to 6 contracts at roughly $148M. The salary cap is predicted to be around $145M, so the Warriors are still over the cap even if no option is picked up. Meaning, all they can do is the Mid-Level Exemption, Vet Minimum and Rookie deals. If they can agree to a buyout with CP3, it saves them salary, but won't give them any extra 'buying power' for free agents, it'll probably move them a few million under the cap and give them one more Exemption they can use to go over the cap. Only way to get a star player is via trade and not sure the Warriors have the pieces necessary for that to happen, unless they mortgage the future and trade multiple 1st round picks and include players like Kuminga and Wiggins to make the trade work salary wise. Dunleavy is going to take the fall for Myers contracts and cap challenges he left behind. Resigning Dray for 4 years and resigning Poole to a max extension is hurting this team. Next year, they will have a lot of money available with basically only Dray and Steph under contract. That would give them the flexibility to sign a star in FA and probably enough room to sign a good role player. Warriors are cooked for next year, it'll be a struggle for them to make the play-in.

What star are you realistically thinking the Warriors could get for what they can offer? And is he a good fit for the style that Kerr runs? After renouncing the rights to Klay, they will basically have the cap space equivalent to the MLE, meaning to get a star they will have to trade for him. Salary-wise they'd have to move multiple pieces, and potentially picks. I don't think the Warriors will be able to get a star without mortgaging their future and moving a lot of picks. I do not envy Dunleavy at all. The only rumored star I've heard that could potentially be on the block is Spida Mitchell. Maybe AD if Lebron leaves in FA to go play with Bronny. There's always moves that shock me over the summer, that said I think the Warriors are cooked.

I imagine, curious to see if they try to move Dray and/or Wiggins, let Klay walk and if they do, does Steph want to stay for a rebuild and do they want to pay Steph during a rebuild? And now with CP3 being an expiring contract, what will they do with him? Myers left at the right time, a lot of pressure on Dunleavy to get this aging team back into championship contenders. To do so, most, if not all, of the core will need to be replaced. Splash Bros run is over and not sure they'll be able to find players good enough to run Kerr's style at a high enough level to compete. Next year, if they keep the same core, not sure they are good enough to even make the play-in game in the West.

The way Chucky's family has been treated, and the way Chucky has been treated at PBA, I'd say there is about .0001% chance he's heading to Lincoln. If the team-up with former teammate FF is an option, the opportunity is in Omaha.

Playoffs sorta set. Love how Milwaukee tanked to ensure they can avoid the 76ers in the first round. There has been some fan discussions in the West about Pels and Lakers tanking the 7/8 play-in game to avoid Denver. Huge risk doing that, but huge reward. Denver, IMO, is the best team in the West and the longer you can avoid them, the longer your playoff run will be. All 4 teams in the play in match up better with OKC than Denver, be interesting to see who falls on the sword to be 7th seed.

that looks amazing. I'd love to go to a game there and have those views.

Maybe all three could end up in Lincoln...Dotzler, FF and Kyle. Anyone know if Dotzler is getting any interest from any school? I remember he was a lightning bug in HS. Quick and could get to the rim at will, very good on ball defender and so-so 3 point shot.

Was he HS teammates with FF? They could be reuniting in Lincoln maybe

If I'm Kentucky, my first phone call is to Hurley and make him say no multiple times before moving on to anyone else.

Not only that, he's a liability on offense with his limited range and athleticisim. No one plays a 5 exclusively in the post anymore. He has no mid-range, no 3 point shot, and no handles. Defensively he's got slow heavy feet, and will get eaten alive on PnR or in space against most every other 5 in the league. He's just not an NBA player. Hell of a great college player, and could probably be successful playing professionally internationally. He'll get drafted, but will have no impact in the NBA. He's going to be like a less athletic Hasheem Thabeet in the NBA. That said, about 70-80% of this draft will also be busts and not last. For him, if he gets drafted in the lottery, gets that guaranteed money, he should be set for life once he gets cut in 2-3 years and if he wants to keep playing, enjoy your international career.

Still an outside chance for either the Suns or the Lakers to be the 6 seed. If I looked at it correctly, the Pels, Suns, Lakers and Kings can be anywhere between 6 and 10 depending on how the last 4 games shake out. In the East, there are teams that can be anywhere from 2 to 7. It'll be an interesting last few games and hopefully an entertaining playoff. And as always, as long as the dirty c-bags in boston don't win it all, it's been a good season.

I think he transfers after hearing what the scouts say he needs to improve on. A lot of wild speculation about where he ends up, I don't think he stays in the draft.

Most mocks I've looked at, don't have Alexander drafted. I've never done the research to see how many undrafted are 2-way contracts. Watching him struggle against the better teams they played and get completely shut down against a few of these teams, I don't think he's even worth a 2-way contract. Seeing what Tennessee did to him, what St Johns did to him he's probably a 6th man-type G-League player. Ashworth just had a kid and bought a house in Omaha, he'll be back for the Jays next year. Not sure how much Kalkbrenner improves staying at Creighton, but I'm not sure how much he can improve in general. He's a great defensive big, but he is not strong and has limited back to the basket skills and doesn't have the range or athleticism to be a stretch 5. IMO he's about maxed out his potential. For both Kalkbrenner and Alexander, it'll depend on what their significant others are willing to do. Kalkbrenner just got engaged, not sure his soon-to-be wife will want to uproot to somewhere in Europe for a few years and try to start over multiple times in multiple countries. Same goes for Alexander and his long time GF. The chance that all three come back to Creighton is a lot better than 0. At this point, I'd say it's closer to a coin flip that all three come back. And for all three, NLI money is good, they play in front of 15000 fans, they aren't getting that in the G-League or in international leagues. And those options will be there in another year, barring major injury. I can see the pitch from Mac of trying for a final four one last time before the real world of basketball kicks their butts and has them only playing at the Y.

Technically, 4 of their starting 5 can come back. Ashworth, Kalkbrenner both have Covid year left, Alexander could go back as well. None of these three should go pro, none will make an NBA roster, unless they want to go international or G-League they aren't pro level players. With NLI, they probably make more at Creighton than they will in the G-League. They also have Miller/Jasen Green as their other starter. They do lose Farabello and Sheierman, with the latter being a huge loss for them and the few who entered the portal but never played because they only went 6/7 deep.

Oh...OK, there it is, I found the disconnect. It's you. While you're "pretty sure this isn't the case", I do the work, and know it's the case. So Mav, can I call you Mav? Anyway, so Mav, I work in finance at a major university. I have friends who work in finance at major universities. Locally, I have friends who work at UNO, Creighton, UNL, Chadron and College of St Mary's, I correspond on a regular basis with finance people at other universities both in state and out of state. I have friends that work on the academic side, I have friends who work on the athletics side. I have worked on both sides. I have worked in audit at a major university, where part of my job was going to departments making sure the accounting practices they were doing in said department followed GAAP and university guidelines (you'd be shocked at some of the "creative accounting" athletics and development will do to provide tax benefits to major donors) so when all departments are rolled up to Treasury to finalize our reports, there are no accounting anomalies between departments that need to be corrected. Our annual NCAA audit is a stickler for accounting irregularities within the athletic department. The main commonality between all these different schools, whether the athletic department is in the black, the red, or relatively breaking, even was how capital projects were funded. While each university will have it's own naming formats, we all do it the same. There's this crazy account and budget for each school that is some derivative of "Capital Projects". Projects that are just too big for the department to handle, ie new dorms, new chem labs, upgrades to infrastructure (think repaving parking lots, upgrading HVACs, expanding buildings etc). The funds for this budget come from various sources, donations, state funds, fundraising events, and a portion of net profits from the university. Individual departments will submit proposals annually for capital projects, these are then reviewed by the board. Some are given a green light, some a yellow and others a red. Within green and yellow, they are then prioritized. With every proposal, each department will project how much they will fundraise to help mitigate the total estimate. Athletics will follow these same principals, even the ones who are in the black. That's because regardless of the net revenue/loss in athletics, they do not have capital projects in their annual budgets. This is because there's a whole different department that has that budget (that crazy Capital Projects department). So, when UNL announced major capital improvements to Memorial Stadium, it had already had a proposal done, with estimates of cost and fundraising goals, gone through the approval process, given a green light and allowed to proceed. Athletics will help fund the project, but they do not, and more importantly CANNOT, fund the project entirely. Now when funds to the university as a whole are reduced, one of the first areas that will be impacted will be the Capital Projects budget, as usually those are not priority needs for the university to run day-to-day operations. Hopefully, you can see where this is going...but I'll try to dumb it down for you and the board. Mav, when capital funding budget is decreased, I want you to take a wild guess on what that means for current capital projects? Yes, you are correct, those capital projects now have less funds available. Good work using your deductive skills. To counteract that, the project has to be modified to fit within the new budget, or the project department will have to make up the difference in fundraising. In some rare cases, the department will request a temporary allocation of their annual budget to the capital budget. Doing so usually means a reduction in overhead within said department. The biggest overhead that can be reduced is staff, hence why it doesn't happen often. Now follow along with me Mav on a fun little ride, when the governor reduced funds to UNL (based on what we've learned above) what do you think happened to their stadium upgrade capital project? Correct!! The project now has less funds available. While it's nice that UNL Athletics operates in the black, it will give them a little bit of wiggle room for some shortfalls, that net revenue in no way covers the new variance within the project. This gives athletics a few options, either go back to the people that have committed above and beyond their normal donations to UNL, to help fund this capital project and ask for even more money or modify the current project to fit within the new budget. One thing I know (notice here how I didn't say pretty sure?) about UNL Athletics is they will not request a temporary allocation of their budget to the capital project. That's just not what they do. All of this is still a dumbed down version of what the finance team will do, and this team will be on both the academic side and the athletic side, all rolling up under Treasury. The one take away I want you to understand Mav, athletics is not covering this project 100%, and (I can't emphasize this part enough) would never be able to do it on their own, the university handles this project. And while you're "pretty sure that's not how this works", I can emphatically tell you, you are wrong, and it is how this works.

Cost them the game. Horrible call. They should have had the ball down 1 with 19 seconds left.

And @Mavric you'll have to keep in mind that this is a MAJOR capital project, Athletics isn't generating that money on their own. University funds go towards that. Athletics makes enough to keep the lights on and the equipment clean, with enough to throw academics a few bones. Capital expenditures like this are a different category, a different budget and the finances for that are more complex and a hell of a lot more than athletics can handle, even with fundraising.

You'll just have to take my word for it that when university dollars are less than expected it impacts athletics budget.

It is correct and not correct at the same time. The money received isn't earmarked for the project specifically so in those terms, I am incorrect. The university received less money, in turn, Athletics budget was impacted. I just went A to E instead of listing every step on how it reduced the funds. It's a little more complex and nuanced then I'm stating in the post. I'm dumbing it down here. As for how I know, I work in accounting, work with people who do accounting work for the university. We have adult pops once on occassion at local watering holes and talk numbers and spreadsheets. Fascinating stuff, some of the functions I've been able to incorporate after these pops has been such a time saver. Sometimes while talking numbers and spreadsheets we talk about what's going on with our specific employer.

@Mavric Lorewarn hit it, reduced the amount of money for the university, which led to a reduction for this project.

They are, just unofficially. Don't think the scouts won't be keeping an eye on DR and DK to see how they deliver the ball, how accurate the throws are and the arm strenght they both have. They'll make mental note of that for when they are draft eligible.