Days without games are the worst

“Does the prospect of the rich getting richer make you more or less excited about tuning in to the tournament games tonight?”

No, but if it makes them more motivated and thus the game more competitive, a purpose has been served.

Because the rep is based on what seems like a more sensible definition of scary than is given here.

LeBron (sometimes rightly) complains about a lot of calls / no-calls.

He accepts this one (as he wasn’t doing it to protect himself or anyone else), but the comments section here goes into refs bad overdrive.

Ouroburon

Nothing to do with Kobe.

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Just a great player doing great things. We don’t need to bring Kobe into everything.

They had injuries which didn’t result from not having Javale and Dwight.

Well, yes they will, eventually.

I am in the UK and either watch (very) early East Coast games before sleeping or very late West ones after getting up early.

Or I watch full replays.

In any case, I stay off reddit and avoid spoilers until I have watched everything I want to.

A lot needs to be considered Here are a few:

• How distressed the main asset is (will they cause problems if not traded)
• How long / much left on the contract
• Are the picks likely to be any good - not all pics are equal in terms of present or future value
• Competition among trade partners - can they be played off against each other
• Was the trade request (and surrounding circumstance) public

Hate is not the same as apathy.

They were labelled as dull because of the uncontroversial star players of two consecutive eras - Robinson and Duncan (cue the Duncan Robinson jokes).

“most people felt as though the Lakers were fleeced”

Nope.