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Haha, right! Gotta support our new guy 🤣 For real though, I definitely chimed in because he joined the Eagles, but my opinion wouldn't have changed if he had been traded to a different team.

Maybe Josh Smith? Once a Hoosier always a Hoosier...

I hear what you all are saying and can agree that making those comments publicly is somewhat tone deaf and he probably said it awkwardly. With that said, he's not comparing his salary to ours, he's not saying he can't eat off of $16M, he's comparing his salary to the other top WR's in the league. $16M would slot him in as the 16th highest paid WR in the NFL and really 17th because Cooper Kopp is about to get paid too.

Assuming he gets his knee cleaned up, someone will sign him.

Depends on what you mean as "ambassador on staff"? Recruiting Coordinator isn't an ambassador position, it's an actual real job. Would it be great to have Zeller present around the program after he retires? Absolutely! But, I doubt he'd be good at or have any really interest in an entry level position that is all about grinding the recruiting scene.

Gotcha. The few Blazers games I watched earlier in the season he was in the rotation and playing well. I hadn't realized that he fractured his patella and was waived by the Blazers after their deadline deal. He was always going to be out the rest of the season. He's still a player with value, but I wasn't aware of that injury.

How would it be Zeller? He's a current NBA player.

Bob Knight?

If the rule really is that NIL deal can't be contingent on attending a particular school, then the NCAA need to get on this Ruiz guy/Miami quickly and make a statement. I know they won't, but geez you have to put some guardrails on this thing.

I still think we're going to see a bunch of longer tenured college coaches start to leave the game. I don't mean guys like Boeheim in their 70's, those guys leaving are inevitable, but I mean some coaches in their 50's and early 60's. Why would anyone want to deal with not only having to re-recruit your team every year but also have to do it based on how much NIL money you can get them? Being a coach at this level was already hard enough. I'm not saying players don't deserve money, just saying why would a coach want to deal with that if you're at a level where you could maybe go to the NBA and coach or move into broadcasting?

4-year deal was part of the trade.

Like what my Eagles have done here!

We actually most likely won't find out. Even if a player transfers after the 5/1 date we won't know what really happened. We'll have posters make assumptions as if they know and complain that IU did something wrong, but that's all it will be, assumptioms and message board fodder. We won't know how it actually went down.

Agrew, LeBron was still the best player in the league 3 years ago even with Giannis winning MVP. But, IMO Giannis had passed Durant at that point

Miami is the #1 seed in the East and Atlanta was the 8th seed and had a really disappointing season. It's great to see Oladipo back and contributing, but he's not remotely the reason the Heat are where they are. He's a "nice to have" addition. He actually didn't play much in the series until the last 2 games.

I actually would view the Heat as a tougher out than the Sixers. Obviously, Embiid is a bigger challenge and difference maker than anyone on Miami, but I just think Miami is so tough and physical.

Absolutely! Fun stuff to debate and chat about. Agree with you on Giannis' improvement and specifically his shooting over the last year+. I just think that's a different conversation than whether or not he was better than Durant before last season. I think the numbers and the hardware show it's been more like 3 years that he's been better than Durant.

Definitely significant, but when you have the best player in the world sometimes you can overcome those things. I think this is a fascinating series. Giannis is Giannis and the Bucks have really good role players around him, even without Middleton. On the flip side, the Celtics are one of the few teams, especially with Robert Williams back, that can match up going big and match up going small and not really lose anything. Obviously nobody really matches up with Giannis, but the Celtics are one of the few teams with multiple defenders and looks they can throw at him. It should be a great series. I still lean Bucks, but the Middleton thing is big.

Giannis still worries me a ton, but definitely a break here for the Celtics.

I would say it's more like 3 years. Over the last 3 years Giannis has 2 MVP's, 1 DPOY, 1 Title and 1 Finals MVP over that span.

I don’t think he was better than LeBron those years, he was just on a better team. LeBron was still the best player in the league IMO, and then it was a quick shift to Giannis.

Meant to reply to your other part too. Yeah, Celtics-Bucks should be a great series. Honestly, I think that's really the ECF. They're the two best teams in the East. It will be a tough one though, Giannis is just so hard to defend, and almost impossible when he's getting all the whistles. Should be fun to watch.

Completely agree. Like I said, I'm a Giannis fan but he gets away with a ton of charges and travels every game.

The Warriors were, are and will be Steph Curry's team until he hangs it up. He's the best shooter the game has ever seen and he is the leader of that team. Everything they do is about Steph Curry. Their entire offense, even when Durant was there, was built around Curry. Durant was phenomenal, of course, and sure is the most talented in terms of the total package, but there were other guys you could have put in that Durant role and they still would have won. Curry is the irreplaceable one there.

Yeah, meant Bucks.