Deleterious

Marshall is pulling out if its bowl game against Army. They said they lost too many players to the transfer portal. Louisiana Tech will replace them.

Keith Smith just Tweeted that there is a $20M Luxury Tax disbursement to be paid to teams not paying the luxury tax. If Detroit stays below the salary minimum for more than 1 day, they will not be eligible to receive that payment. TLDR; Something is happening in the next 24 hours. Could be a trade. Could be as simple as signing a free agent. But they will fill that salary void so they can get that payment.

It better not be for this guy. Bulls Seeking First Round Pick For Nikola Vucevic

Kuzma for THJ would be fine. But they didn't need to cut Reed to do that. They already had the space to take Kuzma on.

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Trump solved the NJ drone mystery.

This is extremely odd. His contract doesn't become guaranteed until January 10th. He was a pretty nice trade chip until then for teams that wanted to dump salary. Not much of a reason to cut him like this.

Cup game ratings are in the toilet. Hawks-Knicks did 1.4M OKC-DAL did 1.4M MIL-ORL did 1.1M For context. MIL-Bos (Not a cup game) did 1.28M last Friday. Difference being, they didn't shut the rest of the league down. There was a full slate of games, unlike cup games.

Rutgers plays at 3PM today on Fox if you want to see Bailey and Harper.

I need a first round pick to take Lavine for salary filler. I need a second one if they want Ivey too.

It gives the student athletes a week off to concentrate on finals. Almost said it with a straight face.

I'm a sucker for anything CIA and/or black ops related. It is a good time to be a fan of those types of shows. Three I recommend right now: The Agency The Day of the Jackal Lioness

What is it with some guys?

Nope. He turns 30 in March and injury prone players usually don't fare well as they age.

If you had told me on draft night 3 years ago that Ivey would be scoring 17 ppg and shooting almost 37% from three in game 25 of season 3, I would have jumped for joy. Those are solid numbers for a third year player. Jaylen Brown was something like 13 ppg and 33% his third year. If he continues to develop he has a nice shot at being a 20-22 PPG player that shoots 38%-40% from three next year. That is a $30M a year guy all day. Especially since we already know the cap will rise by 10% each year for the next 3-4 years due to the new TV contract. By year 2 and 3 of a $30M a year deal he will be making less than 15% of the cap. Even if things go totally wrong, that contract doesn't hurt you at all. Plus, on the chance he does hit the numbers are projected, you just saved $15M a year because at those numbers he gets a lot more expensive than $30M a year. So whats an Ivey trade look like? He wont bring back a lottery pick, at least not for the next two years. The drafts are too good and people will demand lottery protection the picks. So a trade wont bring help until a few years from now at best. Not real Ivey wont bring back a star in a trade. Even packaged with other Pistons, there isn't enough to put together a trade for a star. So a trade seems like a lateral move at best. The time to trade everyone was this past summer. That includes at least listening to Cade trade offers. I said this summer that being bad enough not to make the playoffs but good enough not to secure the 5th pick is the worst possible position to be in. Here we are. Bad odds at obtaining a top pick. No cap space. Players with some trade value, but not likely to bring back anything special. Coming up on two decades of it now.

It's going to end up being some marketing thing isn't it?

Not a good shooter. Solid/OK on defense. Eh, depends on price I guess.

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Yeah, it's related to the greatest tournament in the history of sports. I don't think any of tonight's games were on the schedule at the start of the season. They were added as teams were eliminated from the tournament.