Deleterious

From Basketball-Reference: Forbes said they made just over $80m in profit for 2022-23.

Road House was entertaining enough I guess. The CGI was brutal though and that is always a big turn off for me.

Securus is back in the news. Lawsuits: St. Clair, Genesee counties conspire with telecom firms to gouge inmate families

I would be 100% against the league forcing anything. Only time I agree with that is a situation like Sterling in LA. You would also have a hard time justifying the league stepping in. This isn't a Philadelphia situation where they were attempting to lose. The Pistons are trying to win they just suck at it. Gores also spends money. They are always well above the minimum salary floor. They play in a new arena and just spent millions building a state of the art practice facility.

But who would want the Andretti's with their massive funding and being backed up by a major car company. Screw those guys!

That was his best closeout in 6 months.

He has two max contracts he could sign. 25% of salary cap - This is available in all scenarios. Sign and then demand trade. Demand trade then sign with new team. Even entering free agency. 30% of the cap - You have to do certain things to trigger this. The things left available to Cade are win DPOY next year or make all NBA next year. The one catch is you can only sign this type of deal with the original team that drafted you. So potentially the Pistons could offer the most since they are the only team that could offer the 30%. But he is not winning DPOY. If he continues to improve all league isn't totally out of the question. But his odds would not be good IMO.

Rumors of Ferrari talking with Adrian Newey. Lewis was huge. Newey would be even bigger.

I saw him talking about Duquesne a few days ago and didn't understand why. Now It makes sense.

But he has to wait a year to be traded after he signs it. And it takes away the qualifying offer which is his only real leverage. He could be looking at two years before the Pistons finally trade him. If Weaver is running the draft in June, I demand a trade July 1. The only risk there is if he makes all nba next year he would be eligible for a larger contract if still a Piston but not with his new team. I have zero faith in Weaver and wouldn't be mad at a young guy wanting to waste more time here under him. Cade is a max player all day every day. I also think 3rd year Cade is better than 3rd year Hali. Cade has a much bigger bag on offense even though Hali is a better shooter. Hali is a better PG/passer. Cade is bad on defense but still better than Haliburton. But maybe I am showing some recency bias since Haliburton has been terrible since the all star break.

Will Cade sign an extension this summer?

My new Weaver conspiracy theory. He never tanked. He is just so inept at his job we all assumed he was tanking.

Stewart is also out the rest of the season with a pulled hamstring.

Someone said this was posted at Costco. Glad to see businesses starting to push back.

With the 3rd pick in the 2024 NBA draft...

I don't see them having much value. Best case is probably a very flawed player like Lavine who has a massive contract.

For those wanting to trade Ivey/Duren. What are you looking to get in return? I feel like their value might not be that high right now.

Hopefully a different/new GM will be looking for trade partners.

I bet we still would have said Cade left too much time on the clock.