Guy Chamberlin

I don't know about this. Given the original injury, it was considered highly optimistic Embid would return for the regular season, and the best case scenario was getting him back for the playoffs. Being cleared for practice isn't the same as being cleared to play. I've never heard anyone doubt Embid's competitive fire or call him a pu&&y outside of Reddit forums. You sure don't want to come back too early if the rest of your career is on the line. On the other hand....last year Zion Williamson was reportedly cleared to play for a New Orleans team scrapping to make the playoffs, but didn't return, saying he was "physically fine" but it was a matter of when he mentally "felt like Zion." And then there's Kawhi Leonard, who sure seems like a competitive beast, but has sat out long stretches of his career, refusing to let team doctor's treat or diagnose him.

Also, the stock market might consider layoffs, consolidations and off-shoring as positive moves that will create more profits for stockholders, but perhaps not so great for employees and tax bases. The old investor class had the money and patience to play the more conservative long-term stock game. We've moved to more of a casino model. I think a lot of the standard metrics for measuring corporate health have been abandoned in order to gamble on unicorns. It can work as long as everyone agrees to share the faith, like chain letters and paper money.

It's always been a mistake to consider the stock market the primary indicator of economic health.

Well that's pretty much what I said in my Sunday post. But I'm still willing to call Popovich one of the NBAs greatest coaches. I got no quarrel with Bill Belichik either. I guess you could accuse any coach of thriving with great players, but sometimes they become great players by playing in dynasties. A lot of players were drafted ahead of Parker and Ginobli. And Brady. I will say that Phil Jackson got incredibly lucky twice. Still a great coach by most accounts. I'm sure there are coaches who are famous for getting the most out of lesser players, but no one is jumping to mind.

The Trev to A&M story was huge to us, but low priority on the national sports wires. I think some insiders might have gotten a kick out of the first round match up, but I don't think it drives tv ratings much beyond the average 8 seed vs 9 seed.

It would be an even more derogatory insult in Great Britain or Australia.

It may not be a coincidence that Popovich lost his wife in 2018 and was pretty devastated. Some assumed he would quit coaching as he was getting older and had already accomplished everything, but he may have re-committed just to keep himself busy.

Mods? Isn't this a TOS violation?

Like I said, it's more of a softening rather than blatant pro-Putin agenda, although that softening has consequences, including a changing rhetoric on Ukraine that is increasingly dividing Republican lawmakers. (Trump himself has called Putin's invasion "smart" and "savvy" and said Putin could do whatever he wanted against any NATO ally caught slacking, and he's the leading candidate to be President fwiw). https://www.pbs.org/newshour/world/how-stalled-u-s-aid-for-ukraine-exemplifies-gops-softening-stance-on-russia I do think foreign aid is the hot potato it's always been, asking U.S. taxpayers to simply accept the expenditure of billions to fight murky and often unresolvable wars. If Congress were to open the books on our commitment to Ukraine and Israel at the same time, things could get interesting. Demanding that the U.S. no longer serve as the world's policeman creates an odd coalition of the Left and Right, and would likely signal the end of the American empire. I doubt that we're going there, myself.

It's important to point out that Trump had alienated a huge swath of banks, lawyers, and investors long before his Presidency. His reputation for dishonesty and non-payment was not a political hit job, it's just who he is and always has been.

Maybe the other kids weren't trying to find you because you have cooties.

Four seasons is also a reasonable time frame for Pop to have identified, assembled and coached up competitive young talent, and/or worked with the GM to buy or rent some proven performers. If you tanked for Wemby and still boast the worst record in the league, who would you get out of this years' tanking?

You're a weird guy. Sometimes I respond as if you want to be taken seriously, cause you spend a lot of time in P&R. Then I remember how much you like to hide behind your whimsy.

Yeah, it's kinda taken out of context, but the biggest difference I can see is Trump declaring a bloodbath if he isn't elected, and Trump declaring a bloodbath if he is elected.

In a nutshell, Archy. Early in his Presidency, Donald Trump stood next to Vladimir Putin and told the world he trusted Putin over the unanimous conclusion of his 17 U.S. intelligence agencies. Republicans anxious to support Trump quickly began softening longstanding rhetoric around Putin and Russia. Fox News was already on board, its pundits having aired segments showing the shirtless Putin and wishing aloud Obama was this manly and commanding. Trump gets blustery about NATO not paying its bill, not quite understanding how the agreement works. Putin joins a list of other world leaders, including Viktor Orban, admired for their autocratic rule rather than democratic principals. Next thing you know, Fox pundits, farther right media, and elected Republicans are wondering if Russia is the real victim in the Ukraine war. Yada yada yada...Tucker Carlson goes to Moscow, declares it nicer than any American city, expresses his disgust for the United States, and gives Putin the hand-picked platform he wanted. Tucker is currently on a short list for either Vice-President or Secretary of State in a second Trump term. Bada-bing, bada boom. It's not just two douchebags in t-shirts.

Ooops! https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/02/23/republicans-view-putin-more-favorably-than-they-do-leading-democrats/

What was Musk hiring Lemon for, and why would he choose Lemon?

It really, truly, blatantly, hand-in-front-of-your face is.

I recommend Elmer's glue and sand for the desert regions.

If we're being totally honest.....these and other protests may well be affecting the Presidential election. I take that bridge all the time and would be really pissed if I was on my way to the airport. People in Marin County hate to be inconvenienced, and these things make us suffer just like the Palestinians.

Yeah, teach, I'm pretty sure the invasion intends to get the hammy terrorists, but you and Ben Netenyahu are suggesting that the deaths of tens of thousands of Palestinian women and children are acceptable collateral. Others might observe that this general dehumanization of Palestinians is a big part of the problem. Others still have noted that Netenyahu has always intended to colonize Gaza, and has historically propped up Hamas because they make his job easier. I hope you are not sharing your genocidal beliefs with your pre-K art students.

Yeah, but when people complain about Russia interfering with our elections, they're merely hypocrites. When people claim Russia isn't interfering with our elections, they're naive or willfully dishonest. One party doesn't want to consider Putin's motives at all. It's leading candidate disagrees with you. I also think social media has changed the equation a bit: it was sobering for Americans to consider the sheer number of posts and accusations we consumed that were churned out by Russian bots America's most famous interventions in other countries' elections tended to be bipartisan and well-hidden from the American public. A public that didn't much know or care either way.

When haven't we?

I think the issue is the 30,000 citizens, most of them women and children, who have already been blown to s#!t, and the thousands more currently being starved to death. Sure, you can say f#&% them, but they've already been f#&%ed by all sides. Also if you advocate "get rid of them all" you can't mock the pro-Pally bros who are calling it genocide. Just own it, I guess.

It's already a quagmire. But the death and starvation among civilians in Gaza has reached horrific proportions, and some of this is a Netenyahu issue more than an Israeli issue. Regardless of election timetables, doing nothing is becoming less of an option. The question is whether either Hamas or Netenyahu would intervene if a powerful ally/enemy is dispensing aid to the people the ally is attacking and the enemy is avenging. The other question is whether you help starving people who are being prevented from getting aid, and that's an easier answer.