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Brian WindhorstBrian Windhorst

The NBA Finals will be tied 2-2 by the weekend

Right when you think you got it figured out, the Heat will put you right on your backside. So my guess is that we'll be 2-2 by the weekend, but that's just a guess. I don't have like a great feel for it.

The Nuggets won both games in Miami over the weekend (Games 3 and 4) to take a 3-1 lead, meaning the series was not tied 2-2.

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Jun 7, 2023
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Big CatBig Cat

Jay Monahan is the biggest scumbag in the world

Jay Monahan, the biggest scumbag in the world, the biggest scumbag in the world. He brought in 9/11 families to act as a human shield for what he was doing behind the scenes, which was negotiating with the LIV tour to try to make the PGA tour more money in the long run. While again telling the golfers on the PGA tour, don't do business with these people. They are evil. So yes, he's the biggest piece of shit in the world.

This is a subjective moral judgment and personal opinion.
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Jun 7, 2023
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LIV Golf comes out of the merger looking like the Michael Scott Paper Company

The LIV tour, by the way, they come out of this smelling like roses. They're the Michael Scott Paper Company comparably to the PGA tour. They started their own tour. Everybody laughed at 'em. Their ratings were bad. But at some point along the way, the PGA tour needed the LIV tour just as much as the LIV guys needed the PGA tour.

LIV successfully forced the PGA to the table, effectively validating their disruptive strategy.
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Jun 7, 2023
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Big CatBig Cat

In 10 years, PGA players will realize the LIV merger was the moment they started making a lot more money

It's gotta suck to be a PGA tour player today because they were blindsided. [But] in like 10 years they'll probably look back and be like, yeah, we did make a lot more money. They already are making more money because of the PGA having to compete with LIV. They're probably all gonna make a shitload more money now.

PGA Tour purses and signature event prize pools have indeed ballooned since the merger announcement, with the 'PIF' investment intended to further solidify this growth.

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Brian WindhorstBrian Windhorst

Trae Young's contract is one of the worst in the NBA

In this current day and age in the NBA... you cannot afford to have a contract on your books that's a massive overpay. And there was nobody bidding that for Trae Young. To give Trae that contract, it just, it kills you... if I would amend my statement to 'It's one of the worst contracts,' if that's what you consider a victory, then I'll concede that.

Whether a contract is the 'worst' is a subjective value judgment based on performance and cap mechanics.
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Brian WindhorstBrian Windhorst

The Wizards only gave Trae Young a max contract so they could bench him and secure the #1 pick

They already promised him they were going to sign him when they traded for him. And the reason that they did that was because they needed him to not play. Because if he had played, they might have won a bunch more games and they might have not gotten the number one pick. So they told him like, Trae, we're going to take care of you, don't worry. So we're on the same page, we're invested in you, we're going to bench you.

This is an internal report that is difficult to verify but stated with high conviction by an insider.
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Brian WindhorstBrian Windhorst

Jaylen Brown's trade value around the NBA was shockingly low before his trade to Philly.

I did not have a feel for how low of a value that Jaylen Brown was in the NBA. I just didn't have a feel for it. Teams were rejecting Jaylen Brown, the offers, even for the draft picks, like three and four picks. They were rejecting it.

Windhorst is reporting directly on the offers and rejections he heard from NBA front offices during the trade sweepstakes.