The Houston Rockets are paying $128 million for Fred VanVleet's 'culture' more than his on-court talent
Houston did a lot of things in free agency and they did the most with VanVleet... Three for 128... He's a culture setter. They're paying for the culture. It is like paying $123 million for m and m's if he was actually good.
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Anything you say at a Championship parade should be, that's like, that's client patient confidentiality. You can't, can't hold that against anybody. You're drunk at a parade. You're gonna say what you want.
The Jeremy Grant contract was the straw that broke the camel's back for Damian Lillard
The biggest loser in free agency is Jeremy Grant. Jeremy Grant got 150 million to return to the Trailblazers. Now on paper you're like, wow, that's a great deal. But the contract was the straw that broke the camel's back for Dame. He was like, this is, this is what we're doing in free agency. We're resigning Jeremy Grant. Yeah, fuck you guys. I'm out.
The theory that Portland should treat Dame Lillard 'correctly' to attract future free agents is the dumbest theory in the world
The the theory that the Blazers should treat Dame correctly so that they could get future free agents is the dumbest theory in the world. They're not gonna get future free agents. They should get whatever they can get.
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I think it was probably hurt and probably aggravated it during the fight. Now, would it shock me to know that Conor McGregor tore his ACL in training and then he just pretended that it wasn't hurt? No, that wouldn't surprise me either. But I think it was probably something wrong with it and when he went out there to try to fight on it immediately, just it told him, 'no, you can't do this.'
England was the much better team, but Erling Haaland is a one-man squad for Norway
England was a much, much better team. But... that guy that didn't pass the ball to Erling Haaland, give me a break. Haaland, you are a one man team and that's okay.
The World Cup being expanded to 64 teams is just a monetization play by Gianni Infantino
He wanted to turn it into American sports and he wanted to use this World Cup to learn how we're able to monetize every single facet of our sports. And the fact that it was somebody whispered like, 'Hey, you know, the NCAA tournament they used to do 64, everybody loved that bracket.' He thought about that and he was like, 'that's a great idea. I think I will, I'll try to do that.'