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So we want to trade our one rim protector and still improving 23(!!) year old center for a 32 year old over the hill point guard? Yep sounds like the Pacers....let’s trade Sabonis while we are at it and bring back George Hill too....hope this is rumor is fake as hell.

Nor should they. He'll be 32 at season start getting paid 32 and 1/2 million this year in 34 million the next year. That's going to be a pass for me. Memphis is already made clear they want to dump him so they are going to have to lose on this deal

One of the mysteries of my life: how a 3 year old human and a 18 pound Boston Terrier can somehow occupy 80% of the available space of a king sized bed.

I'm mixed on Conley. Celtics have been linked to him as well, though the Celtics are pretty much linked to everybody :). I really like him as a player and would love to have him on my team, but I'm not giving up "star" value for him. He's an aging point guard on a big deal who while certainly one of the better pg's in the NBA, he's never made an all-star team, never been an All-NBA player, though I do realize the backcourt spots in the West have been really competitive during his career. I think he'd be a fantastic pickup for either the Pacers or the Celtics, a really good, smart, team guy that plays hard and is a leader, and with the right pieces around him you can win big with him as your point guard, but I wouldn't break the bank or mortgage the future to get him.

Please for the love of God never let the Pacers get Lance back.

True, however Gasol did not fetch as much in return as what I thought(Jonas V/CJ Miles/Delon Wright and a 2022 2nd rd pick). Jonas V may not opt into his deal and if that is the case, Memphis really didn't get much in return besides role players off the bench(Wright and CJ). I go back and forth. I think we need another type of player similar to Conley or better in order for us to move the needle with Vic. I do not expect the pacers to just sit and wait to let the young guys of holiday/leaf/this years 1st rd pick to grow. If they work a trade of turner/leaf/1st for Conley and resign Thad($13 mil IMO) and Bojan($16 mil IMO) it looks like this: Starters - Conley/Vic/Bojan/Thad/Sabonis Bench - Holiday/Sumner/Doug...................They would need to sign a backup PF and backup C with their remaining money after resigning both Thad and Bojan. You could probably get O'Quinn back on a cheap deal and get Lance to come back cheap for backup SG. We would be thin at PF with Thad and Alize.

Need to look at it from the other team's perspective, to them, that's just not enough for Conley. He's getting a little long in the tooth but is still one of the better pg's out there and has been a/the centerpiece of that team.

I like #1 and Conley would be a great pickup but I doubt if we could sign both Thad and Bojan if we get Conley. I think Bojan will have some desperate team offer him over 20 mil a year.

Issue with the Pacers are kinda two-fold. They have had some sketchy player acquisitions opting to trade and not sign young guys and draft picks for older guys in effort to win now trading for Scola and signing Al Jefferson and Stuckey and Monta Ellis etc and the fact they won’t go over the cap. If you won’t go over the cap then it really limits what moves you can make. When you are getting to back to back ECF and you won’t pay to get over the hump...your not going to beat a Heat team full of stars who spend the money. The Pacers are also risk adverse...if it means pushing to get an 8 seed and a first rd exit so they can get the money from two playoff games they will do it instead of selling off pieces and setting themselves up for the next year and acquiring young talent. They are happy to be middle of the pack then to tank and rebuild...they want the money from butts in seats over going all in on a process.

No bump. There are thresholds over the cap where you get progressively fined for going over the cap. In Kembas case they are far too far away from being competitive to lock him up to those numbers....if it would have been Klay instead and your trying to keep your championship caliber team together ok. Thing with GS is that they are so far over the cap that even if Durant doesn’t re-sign they will still be over the cap (you can only go over the cap to keep your own players) and thus couldn’t replace him. The only reason they signed KD to begin with was a rare case when right after the collective bargaining agreement the cap jumped way up and GS still had Klay, Curry, and Green all on like rookie/affordable deals...so they could sign Durant and then as those guys came up they went over the cap to re-sign them. So GS can go back over the cap to re-sign Durant but if he walks they can’t spend that money to find a replacement...that’s why this will likely be the end of their dynasty if Durant leaves.

All day long. I worked at The Tudor Room during my years at IU. 10% was the write in tip on one of our former President's (may he rest in peace) check every day. He also said to me the first time I waited on him he didn't want any preferential treatment because he was the President but he did ask for an iced tea with 3 lemons cut a certain way the moment I saw him enter the restaurant. His meal was $7.95 every day and charged to IU. So fun getting a .79 cent tip daily from him.

Meh. I'd rather watch a game that starts at 9 than have to try to rush home for a 5 or 6 PM start. I realize most of the population is in the East time zone but still I don't think this argument holds much water. I always DVR games with early starts. Actually, I rarely watch anything live anymore. Not even Sports. I'll wait 30-45 minutes to start watching a game and FFWD through commercials. Don't know for sure but TV ratings seem to be based on whose watching live TV.

I don't have any to add, but I will say of all the far-fetched futuristic stuff I've ever seen on TV, the Star Trek Teleporter is the one I'd like to see actually developed. Says it all about what I think about air travel.

Used to do a fair amount of air travel but now it's limited to just a few trips each year. For our posters who travel the skies often I'm sure they could add several. My few are those who try to run up the aisle and get off plane before others, people who take their shoes off while flying to be comfortable, those who can't seem to talk at a normal tone to the person next to them, and the window seat passenger who gets up 4-5x during a flight. Was on a flight from Indy to Atlanta few weeks ago. Air travel is about 1 hr 15 minutes. This must have been some active bladder because it was 4x during the flight alone. Never an offer of I'm sorry or whatever.

Well, poop.

Dog walkers who don’t clean up after their pets

People who leave their shopping carts in or in between parking spaces when a buggy corral is only 10 steps away.

I'm so adamant about it, one year as a joke on my birthday at previous company I worked at every employee got to work a little early and backed into their parking spot. 😡

Airline travelers who try to carry on bags that are clearly too big to be carry-ons, and then complain and hold up other boarding passengers as they try to squeeze the bags into the overhead bins..

OMG. I thought I was the only one bothered by this. I put a hex on everone that does. Also refuse to park next to someone that does this. Driver door next to driver door bothers me to an unhealthy level.

People who back into parking spaces. If I ever run for president, my entire platform will be centered on making it a felony to back into parking spaces. I realize there could potentially be a benefit to it, but I'm sorry to the 5% that can successfully do it, but the other 95% that try to and can't are ruining it for you. No more!!!!

Web sites that have a pop-up message asking me to turn off my ad-blocker.

Anything I buy that is hard to unpackage or has crap instructions for assembly.

I think Lance is funny as hell. I'd take him back on the 2nd unit if he was on a cheap veteran contract.