One more day till a long weekend AND some pretty solid content drops.. This time last year I was trying to drag anyone and everyone I knew to Bad Boys 4 Life. Which naturally it didn't disappoint. It was shortly after that we stopped going to movie theaters. I think that might have been the last one I saw till finally seeing Tenet in October or November.
Quick trivia answers.. then I will dive into some sports talk..
LaMelo Ball (who I was sooo far wrong about.. )..
10 and then you are shut out permanently
Houston! -- And then there was 1.
WANDAVISION!! Super heroes, sitcom tropes!!!
The Saints
Octothorpe - Thanks Good Housekeeping..
Alright MASSIVE deal in the NBA yesterday as James Harden was traded for tons of goodies.. and now joins the Nets in Brooklyn.. which led to a ton of great jokes about only 1 ball and now Brooklyn's team mirror's Brooklyn stereotypes. But I do have two items.. to sound like an old man..
First - All these NBA trades are just getting ridiculous. Trading picks in 4 years from now. What they need to do, is stop trading these damn draft picks.. and just do Soccer style transfers.
Player wants to leave, find a team thats willing to pay your buy out fee (specified in your contract or with some type of calculation based on current contract and age) and then just sign a new contract with your new team..
You would need to set up seperate transfer budget that can carry over from season to season and if you sell players that amount is added, to prevent a super-rich owner from just buying a super team, or put some type of restrictions based on income. It's not perfect, but at this point players are unhappy ALL the time, so why not let Fritta or whatever his name is solve some of his cash issues with a direct payment of 150 mil from a Harden Transfer fee.
Second - The way players move teams and kids / fans are growing up they are not ingrained to support one team any more. They tend to follow players. In the past I think kids were raised only really having access to their one local team and that was their exposure to the sport. So they got this deep bond with those colors. Now days that does not happen, a kid in Orlando can watch Luka on YouTube and be a "Mavs" fan.. So is it a just going to be a permanent shift? And diehard supports of a team become the outliers?
Will it be a bad thing?