buddha

which is why you dont abandon it.

they already have one in seattle. abandoning a market like dallas has reprecussions too, especially in short term loss of revenue.

the lions cant afford trey hendrickson after this year. not unless you want to let hutch walk. and they cant afford micah parsons either. its much more likely they let jamo walk after next year and collect the comp pick. the lions arent going to be in the position to be handing out big free agent deals after next year. their roster is too talented to sign everyone. theyve entered the phase where they will be relying more and more on cheap talent through the draft because their roster is about to be very pricey. i'd be stunned if they re-signed jamo. they still have branch, laporta, kirby and hutch to extend. those guys all seem to embody lions "grit" more than jamo, who appears to be more trouble than he's worth. still better than drafting lewis cine...

i understand that, but from a league perspective you dont move a franchise from the 4th (soon to be 3rd) largest city in america to las vegas. i know what happened in seattle but the league acknowledges that was a mistake AND it had to do with arena issues. does dallas have arena issues? i dont think so. but to your point, if they DID want to sabotage the team, trading away your #1 asset for a pile of magic brow beans is a good way to do it.

they'll be getting a good chunk of his money for 18 years. well....their mommas will be getting a good chunk of that money. lets just hope they put some of it askde for the future. lol. who am i kidding?

i would love to trade ras too, but who would want him? he's a passenger on most nights. aimlessly skating around and not doing much of anything but being big and occasionally getting in the way. but i guess if there was an organization dumb enough to give justin holl 3×3 there's probably someone dumb enough to take rasmussen for a late round pick.

well, he certainly is one of the biggest dicks in the nba.

kane was one of their better players this year and a big reason why debrincat got 39 goals and their power play was one of the best in the league. i dont see why next year would be any different. if they let him go i see it as the same as letting ghost walk and then bringing in the walmart version in gustafsson. if youre replacing kane with ehlers, that's one thing (although they are very different players), but if youre just moving up berggren or bringing in another $2m washed up reclamation project then youre better off with kane. speaking of ehlers, do we really need to spend $8m on a smallish winger who has trouble playing 70 games a year and is about to be 30? it will tell me what type of team you want to be. do you want to be big and "hard to play against"? if so, you dont sign ehlers. sign ehlers if you want to play with speed and possession.

look, i come not to bury tobias harris but to praise him. but every time we brought up kat this year we all laughed about what a soft pansy ass he was and said we cant wait to see him play weak in the playoffs. and now that its happened - just like it happens every year - you say "what a great job by harris on kat." i mean, sure. but we all know - and YOU know - that kat is a pansy. that's why jb putting harris on him works. not because harris is bad or because harris is a lockdown defender, but because KAT IS A PUSSY. he wont post him up and wont be aggressive. i dont want to take anything away from harris. he's a soldier doing yeoman's work. he IS playing against a guy who is 4 inches taller and 50 pounds heavier and he's staying with him. that says something. and he stepped up when stew got hurt. harris has been a good teammate all year. he's been professional. he plays hard and not dumb. but he's still tobias harris. he's a 4th option forced to be a 2nd or 3rd option because ivey is hurt. and that's ok. he is what he is and right now he's contributing to a team that just stole home court. let's all be happy.

gavrikov is a legitimate top 4 defenseman who would help. but you have to overpay him to get him out of LA. even with that, its much more plausible than marner. i think they have a legit LW to play on the top line with larkin/raymond: marko kasper. go get your dman to push chairot to 3rd pair where he will be good. bring up danielson and mazur. buy out tarasenko. let berggren walk. bring back kane on a $4m deal. get gavrikov for $6 and tavares for $7. kasper-larkin-raymond debrincat-tavares-kane soderblom-copp-rasmussen mazur-compher-danielson gavrikov-seider edvinsson-johansson chairot-buium holl/gustafsson (whichever one you dont cut)

either way, this has been a fun series so far.

harris deserves credit for playing physical with kat, but he didnt stop him at all in game 1. the reason kat didnt score on him in game 2 is because kat is a pussy and refuses to post up and brunson refuses to pass him the ball. brunson has to play hero ball. people get on thibs for not "calling plays for kat," but i suspect much of the late game nba game is more about players with the ball in their hands deciding what to do with it rather than the coach yelling from the sideline. brunson was really pissed at ausar and schroeder that game. he was going to play hero ball against them no matter what thibs is saying. and kat being the pansy he is isnt going to demand the ball. he'll be 10 feet behind brunson saying "yeah! yeah! you get em jalen!"

moving the mavs to vegas makes no sense considering sacramento still has a team.

brunson also needs to pass the ball. and kat - if he had any balls at all - would get in the post and demand the ball. but as we all know, kat has no balls so it wont happen.

from jeiii on the knicks: "knicks were frustrated by the lack of calls in the first half." lol wut?

he also sat out a year just to get out of san antonio. no sympathy for kwahi.

KAT in the 4th: 0 points. 0 shots. 2 rebounds. never change you big pussy.

schroeder stepped up where beasley, thj, and harris didnt. great job in the 4th. and he was playing brunson as tough as you can given the refs protecting brunson all game long.

love schroeder getting in brunson's face. where you at, msg?? cant hear you anymore!

DO NOT FOUL THE SHOOTER

the refs know the assignment.

can we set a pick for cade to get anunoby off him?

the refs are so ridiculous.

they double cade, why dont we double brunson? really miss stewart.