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Just now, BGleas said:

I don't really care, I just think it's funny and kind of typical Paul George that he said "my MVP season". That isn't something that someone that has never won the MVP says. 

Oh there are all kinds of comical quotes out there from many of them. Guys here just hound PG, nothing new. The guy was right there for League mvp. I don’t care either, just find this stuff comical 

1 hour ago, dgambill said:

Wake me up when he gets a ring. Lots of guys get max contracts in the nba. A rich guy got richer.

Lol he’s laughing on his way to the Bank. Dude’s a great player all the pacer fan hate is just silly jilted girlfriend stuff 

15 minutes ago, BGleas said:

Trying to remember when Paul George was an MVP?!?!

He finished second or third just the season before last. The quote is funny but come on now 

4 hours ago, BobSaccamanno said:

I just saw a ranking of the top players in the league and they still had him 15th.  That’s still impressive.  I’m not sure I could recreate the link but it may be ESPN or CBS.  

He was just 10th, but dropped because he just had a rough season.

And the ranking means nothing anyway.
Just before this season he finished in the top 3 for League MVP and defensive MVP and was second overall in scoring. Who else do you think has done that? 

2 hours ago, KoB2011 said:

Paul George just signed a max extension - 5 years and could be worth up to $226M. 

lol at those who tried to push the idea that the clips were going to part ways with PG. The continuing bashing of PG, by Pacers fans, really gets comically bad. 

2 minutes ago, dgambill said:

They can add Harden to Zion if they move draft picks and say Ingram and Ball of another young player or two. I mean they are loaded with young guys. Take your pick if your Houston but if I’m New Orleans I look to add a ball dominant scorer to Zion...because you want to pull attention away...all the doubles and the special defenses Harden gets and his ability to drive would open up tons of open lanes for Zion. Plus Zion doesn’t need the ball much to create offense. Lot of put backs and would be great pick n roll. But look what Pelicans can work with.

 

PG Bledsoe, Ball, Kira Lewis

SG Hart, Redick

SF Ingram

PF Williamson, Jaxson Hayes

C Steven Adams, Hernangomez

But the real thing they have is tons of draft picks to offer. I can’t even list them all...so read this article. In the next 3 years they have a boat load of first and second rd picks. They wouldn’t have to include much or maybe bring in a 3rd team to send picks to and move one of their players to Houston....like Sacramento. If I’m the Pelicans I do it. I can compete now and still have my star or stars if they can keep Ingram too for the future.

I can definitely see them adding Harden with Zion, but not trading Zion.   Zion is a real building block, a young centerpiece. Harden? Houston just broke everything up for a reason. Together though that could be really effective 

3 hours ago, Seeking6 said:

Which is why I hesitated in even participating in this thread because it ultimately leads to sides/points,etc...

Now I know nothing about the gaming industry and Penn National specifically but when a stock or others are oversold on fear/emotions because of the pandemic...and it was trading at $38/share and goes to less than $5 inside of a month? Why not buy? $5k investment is now worth $78k 9 months later. Now I dumped at $35 and $50 to lock in profits but there is money to be made on technical side of trading without lumping them into the hot stock category.

Historically I agree in the Peter Lynch way of investing you describe but different times now. For example. Doordash IPO at $102. I say no way. It's an overpriced product that in next 6-24 months will post low revenues because more and more people will be going out for food instead of deliver. Will I be wrong? Maybe but when I see stocks like I've mentioned in this thread before get hit as hard as last March hit some stocks.....it wouldn't be prudent not to investigate and invest.  Of course just my 2 cents. 

 

Nothing wrong with looking for bargains and buying low to sell high. I was just saying earlier dollar cost averaging, proven over multiple decades with many major market swings, has always out-performed market timing. And generally you’re better off - imo - buying stocks in companies you know and understand, and believe in, than going for that stock you really don’t understand. Exceptions? Absolutely. As an investment strategy though, well, risky approach 

3 hours ago, dgambill said:

I think Miami is holding out for Gianis honestly so probably not. I just think if I’m a team like the Pelicans how do I keep all these young guys and not have them leave like AD and Cousins. You have to start building a culture. Maybe you move Zion or maybe Ball and Ingram or do something and then build around Harden now and a couple young guys into the future. But who knows....never rule out Boston or GS using their pieces plus a 3rd team to pull something off. Whatever the case NBA is about winning now. You always think your window is bigger than it really is. You can’t wait because the landscape changes so quickly.

The Pels will build around Zion, he looks like the real deal. No way they move him and definitely not for Harden.

10 minutes ago, dgambill said:

Contenders I would watch for would be Miami, Nets obviously, Bucks, and my dark horse Pelicans...lots of young assets and who wants to wait for all them to develop.

I can't see Miami / Butler wanting Harden.... Nets make no sense to me, given that there's only one ball.... I can see the Pelicans or Bucks, though if I'm Greek Freak I really don't want Harden pounding the ball into the court either....

3 hours ago, Reacher said:

Were you aware of that fact? We have a lot of parents and teachers on this board that might be interested in knowing that- even if you aren't.

That's ridiculous. You only focus on those for some reason. Your comment above is a soft type of censorship. If you want me to submit posts / articles to board approved "fact checkers" please let me know. Otherwise, feel free to ignore those posts / this thread since it bothers you so much. Again, I think everyone here can make up their own mind as to the value of what they read. 

I'm not going to engage you in debate on the Board. I will only add this -- it is extremely clear what you're doing. You don't fool anyone. I do not like or appreciate it, as a mod. I personally don't care if some think its 'chicken sheet' to shut down this thread. If the complete BS doesn't stop the mods will discuss this again. As an aside, you are a long-time poster here. You've had lots of good posts, lots of good discussions, and I've personally not had a problem with you, until your posts/thread in this part of the board. It's extremely clear that you have an agenda. If you can't put your agenda aside, this thread ends. 

7 minutes ago, 5fouls said:

Some of you guys continually pound on him for linking stories from far right sources.  Well, he linked one from a major news network and he still gets criticized.

What pisses me off about everything related to Covid is that so many people can't see that there are two sides to the story.  A lot of truths and untruths on both sides.  This thing has been politicized by both sides to the detriment of the country and its people.  

Kids dropping out of school is a major, major, fallout of Covid.  It's not something to sweep under the rug.  No, my kids have not dropped out of school, but their education has suffered immensely.  eLearning does not work well for either of them.  

Edit:  As far as censorship is concerned, I can guarantee you that if someone else linked the exact same story, but prefaced it with 'Kids dropping out of school at an alarming rate', you would not have responded the way you did.

No Fouls don’t guarantee what I would do. What pisses me off is the constant complete BS in this thread. I am one who thinks it should just be shut down. Of course no one wants to see kids drop out of school. And of course we’re all intelligent enough to see exactly what Reacher has been doing in this thread since day one. Don’t slant this Fouls, it’s obvious. 

2 minutes ago, 5fouls said:

It's a CBS news story.  Can we only link CBS stories that match a certain line of thinking?  

Come on Fouls stop. Stop trying to make this some BS censorship crap. Every single “story” Reacher links is to seek to minimize the Virus, mask-wearing, the level of hospitalizations, the level of deaths, etc. etc. etc. No one fails to see this continuing Schlick. 

18 hours ago, 13th&Jackson said:

I'm about 20 years older than you, so here's me talking to my 40 year old self, based on experience.

At age 40 put all of your tax-deferred retirement accounts (401k, 403b, IRAs) in an indexed target date fund (hopefully your employer offers those at a very low fee). Look at the balance once a year and leave it alone. Max out your annual contributions or put in as much as you can and increase it 1% annually until you hit the max.

Keep three years of living expenses in cash or near cash investments.

Open a taxable brokerage account (Vanguard, Fidelity Schwab). Allocate to stocks based on 110 minus your age (110-40 = 70) or 100 minus your age if more conservative. Put most in high dividend  and dividend growth ETFs (with low fees, Vanguard, Fidelity, Schwab) and have the dividends automatically reinvest in the ETFs.

Put about 1/4 to 1/3 of the stock allocation into individual blue chip dividend paying stocks. Limit to the number you can follow (20 is probably a good number). Invest in companies that have paid dividends for a very long time and have a history of increases. Try to avoid highly cyclical companies that cut dividends in a recession. Favor health care and consumer staples. You can mix in a few other well managed dividend payers (JP Morgan, Apple, etc.). Sometimes these companies just get caught in a sell off and you can buy them when their dividend yield is relatively high. By doing so, your total dividend return will be higher than just buying the basket ETFs.

Put 5-10% in high growth ETFs such as biotech and tech. If you want to play, you can set aside up to 5% to invest in individual potential high flyers but be prepared to lose it all.

Put the rest in bond ETFs, including muni bond ETFs if you are in a higher tax bracket.

The goal is to build a sustainable income stream that will support you in retirement without having to sell and take capital gains.

I have no direct experience with robinhood, but their platform has crashed on high volume days. Not good.

https://www.fastcompany.com/90545646/robinhood-crashed-again-just-as-demand-for-newly-split-apple-and-tesla-stock-was-heating-up

Good Luck.

 

Good advice and breakdown.

One simple rule I follow outside of my 401K, for individual investments - invest in companies you know, like, and think will do well long-term. Don’t buy the “hot” company stock, market timing especially on companies you don’t know I s a waste. 
 

Examp - I invested, long-term in Apple in the late 90s, along with a few others I know, buy from / use and think highly of. They’ve done extremely well over the long term. 

How about some of the forgotten movies best left forgotten? 
Waterworld 

1 hour ago, Reacher said:

More children have dropped out of school than the number of people who have died from Covid.

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/public-school-enrollment-coronavirus-pandemic-60-minutes-2020-11-22/

Why do you keep this up? Seriously. 

4 hours ago, bluegrassIU said:

All kidding and hate aside, I seriously think Cal looks not well.

He looks like he has gained 40 pounds, looks unkempt and almost sounds unhinged when doing interviews.

He is barely recognizable. I do not mean it as funny, just makes me wonder.

This is him the other night...

 

I honestly think that’s just age and a bad diet catching up with him. He’s always been out of shape and well kind of soft — I don’t mean that as some kind of cut down I’m talking about his physique. He’s also always looked like that when yelling (imo). Now his team isn’t ready and he doesn’t have the crowd and home court to help. 

7 hours ago, Seeking6 said:

Won't get into specifics but this past March was the single greatest buying opportunity of a lifetime. More so than financial crisis 08/09, tech bubble burst in March of 2000, black friday in 1987....all are kids play compared to what we just were given. We bought Penn National, Mercadolibre, Beyond Meat, and of course more Apple when the overselling based on fear took place. 

If there's one positive to Covid....the amount of $ that's been made in the markets over the last 8-9 months.

Not meaning to directly contradict this but any timing of market approach always results in lower returns than steady dollar cost averaging. Investing steadily and continuously — if you’re at least 10 years from retirement— over time will beat any big market upticks and downturns 

12 minutes ago, IUFLA said:

 

Look, I know it's a serious thing. I know going out like I do could expose me to harm. Everybody understands that by now. I don't need to be scared into complicity... 

 

 

 

But a large number of people continue to gather and not even wear masks. It’s irresponsible and just plain stupid. I’m not advocating any “source” mince facts, but the reporting of the clear growth in hospitalizations, cases, and deaths is not being exaggerated, and repeated attempts by some to claim otherwise is what is BS political crap that needs to go away. Everyone should recognize by now how the Virus is continuing to spread at a high level, is continuing to kill lots of people, and should not be attempted to be minimized. I’m so disgusted with the sheer stupidity of that entire “approach” to a national health crisis. 

On 12/5/2020 at 9:20 AM, IUFLA said:

Posting about John Denver over in the music thread made me think of "Oh, God!" with Denver and George Burns.

Saw that in the theatre, a long time ago lol 

2 hours ago, mrflynn03 said:

So, a couple weeks ago I saw a mouse in the house. Ever since then my wife is convinced there is a mouse because of the way the cats have been acting. 

I haven't told her I saw one. Just waiting for it to show itself so she can scream and jump up on the kitchen table. 

Come on mouse. 

Well she literally just found out as I was typing this! Perfect timing. 

Hahahaha🤣🤣🤣🤣!!!

First, we may want to set up a watch to see if Mr Flynn is still with the living, after his wife saw this....

Second, here’s a mouse story —

Taking my daughter back to school in NH (pre-Covid). Rent a car at Boston Logan. Some cheap rental company, because it was cheap. Driving I95, night time, going around 80.

My daughter, in passenger seat, suddenly shrieks, and bats at her shoulder, something hits my leg. I’m like, what was that? She says I don’t know but something tickled my ear. It’s dark, can’t see anything. I take the next exit and pull over, search the car, can’t find anything. 
Get back on the inter-state, back up to 80, semis on either side,my daughter suddenly shrieks again - she says oh my god I see it, it’s on my suitcase behind us looking at me! I say what - what is it?she says it’s a mouse! 
We’re driving, fast, it’s dark, the mouse suddenly scampers under the seats. I’m like Jesus Christ it better not go for my pant leg! We’re close to the hotel now, I pull off the exit, still haven’t seen where the little thing went, as I slow down my daughter shrieks again! I’m getting used to it now. She says it’s next to your arm on the console! I loo down and the mouse is sitting there between us looking at me. I roll the window down and grab the mouse and swing it out the window - what a drive lol 

Let’s not go down the political rabbit hole any more, please. And there is politics, and then there are the facts of how bad Covid is right now. Stay out of the political BS 

MSU in a 4 point game 2d half with W Mich 

Just now, southsidehoosier said:

10th I believe 

The value of pre-season rankings, on full display 

17 minutes ago, IUFLA said:

Greensburg is raking UK over the coals...

 

And what was UK pre-season ranked? 

UT and Villanova in a 2-point game with about a min in 1st