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bucks did as good as they could. its hard to move a max guy, let alone a top 5 max guy, because you might realistically only have 2-3 teams who make any sense as a trade partner anyway, and that's not even considering how hard it is to trade a salary like that. miami still looks like a 7-10 seed to me, and that's ignoring Giannis' calf that keeps barking. From the heat's perspective, you can either be middling with giannis or be middling without him, so you might as well sell a bunch of jerseys. Him and Bam are kinda roughly on the same career timeline, so if giannis blows an achilles or whatever, I guess you just move bam for a pick or 2 and then go full-tank (as full-tank as you can in the new cba) anyway i guess my take is that the bucks did probably as good as they could, and miami was fake anyway. the most interesting thing from the trade is learning in real-time that star salaries have gotten so bonkers that its much more valuable to trade a mid-level star like desmond bane or mikal bridges than giannis, because you have to eat 50 cents on the dollar to move a future $60m guy

they were playing a team from texas, man

79-3 is my best so far

that bottom 3 is too funny. one guy who can't shoot and two guys who get put in action every single time they're on defense

lmao

his tangible skills might be the best ever. But his intagible skills might also be the best ever. It's really crazy. He's shohei on steroids in a sport where 1 guy can make you a championship contender. When you start thinking about what his next decade is going to look like, a fun exercise is to imagine how easy it is to put a comptetent team around him (easiest ever) and how difficult it is to conceptulize a way to slow him down (toughest ever.) Pretty scary concept. It's really just his outlier size working, potentially, against him and i really dont want it to get him. I wanna see how far he can push things

I think Wemby is, or will be very soon, the best player in the world (and eventually ever as long as he stays healthy.) But it is funny to see how much better he is against OKC than everyone else. Part of that is that he's just such an awesome competitor and he turns it up against OKC. But he's also just so uniquely built to frustrate us. He shuts the paint down so you dont have to help and we have no open 3s. We have no one big enough to wear him down physically. He's incredible. I dont even know what to say. I can't even bad faith an argument against him.

the mathis stuff seems pretty simple. He's 22 and he's in A-ball. He's the same age as Kurtz, Caglianone, Sal Stewart, Caminero, etc. If he's an actual prospect and a good hitter, he should be mashing without striking out. Kurtz is obv a different level prospect, but he's the same position and the same age. When he was 22, he also had a good walk rate and a 30 percent strikeout rate. He was just doing in the MLB, hitting .290 with 35 bombs. Cags was striking out 20 percent of the time in AA and he can't make contact in the majors.

the bulls are really a mess. they finally miss the play-in and their reward is (likely) landing in the worst spot in the draft. too low to get a blue chip, but too high (and you're too bad) to take some older college junior role-player. if you end up at 9 or 10 just trade the pick, let billy go (he will not do a rebuild) and crash out next season. I like Buzelis and Giddey but they aren't even championship building blocks, so if a tank year costs you them too, well ... ok fine

it's actually spelled caroline anyway

i like the way the ball sounds of ballesteros bat

cade horton was holding the offense back it seems

3 weeks ago i would have told you i had no faith in matthew boyd and cade horton to be good and/or make it to the ASB and I still would have said this is an 88-win playoff team. there is plenty of middling pitching languishing around, the cubs' 2026 has rested and still rests on the defense (elite) and the bats (TO BE DETERMINED) im not trying to be an optimist, because i hate this team franchise and front office, but i think we're fine.

there's probably the same likelihood that steele is done as a relevant pitcher than there is that he comes back and posts a sub-4 era this year

good, maybe jed will stop trying to stock our rotation with soft-tossers now that he knows they just get hurt like the flamethrowers anyway get. real. horsefeathers. pitchers. please.