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I'd say bottom 3. His moves since the title have been straight up sabotage.

You have Lebron, have a team in LA, and are the biggest brand in basketball and still can't bring in a decent role player?

- Made the WB trade which was an abomination. "Lebron wanted him" is a lame defense. Lebron also wanted a guy like Lue. Pelinka didn't listen. Yet he did trade for a terrible fit and gutted our depth

- Speaking of Lue, hired a terrorist as the head coach instead of Lue or literally anyone else

- Let Caruso walk even though he wanted to stay here. Not like this team needs guard defenders or anything...

- Decided to get Russell when no one else fucking wanted him because he is the worst playoff performer on earth

- Can't find ONE role player that can consistently contribute in the playoffs? How the fuck is that possible? The Nuggets have guys like KCP, Gordon, and Porter giving the Lakers the work while we have dudes that look like G leaguers out there.

Managing to get every single move you make wrong is somewhat impressive...

I don't mind people's gaming tastes, it's absolutely okay for them to play these types of games. I'm just curious as to why everyone I encounter in real life ONLY play these games??? Like the combo I always see in real life is teenager/adults: Play 2K, Madden, CoD, and maybe Fortnite/GTA5 on the side. Smaller kids: Roblox and Minecraft. That's it. Again, I have no issue with this but it's so strange to me how I'm 17 turning 18 very soon and yet I somehow feel like I'm behind with the times of what people like to play these days 😭 Like you don't fw no Mario, no Spider-man, no GoW, no nothing??? Like it's genuinely hard for me to find ppl with a common interest in video games with me unless I purposely seek them out in specific groups.

It's always going to be hard for US sports to truly get into the EU market because of our time-zone differences makes it so that normal east coast games start between 0100-0200 and west coast games 0300-0500.

The NBA is scheduling more and more games that air early enough for the EU market to be realistically able to watch it. These playoffs we got a lot of play-in games and we are getting so many playoff games on the weekend that are watchable. Today is the first time I've ever seen a Friday game on "EU time", with Bucks Vs Pacers starting at 2330 in Sweden.

Around 10 years ago we were lucky if we got a couple of games a season, before that it almost never happened.

How does the American public feel about this? Does anyone mind?

We are obviously thrilled that we can catch some games. The EU market is massive so there's definitely money to make.

When it comes to time-zones the Asian market is a bit better off. They can catch games in the mornings or noon.

In what will be a landmark move in sports media history, the and Amazon Prime Video have the framework of a deal that will make the streaming service one of the main homes for the league’s games, executives with direct knowledge of the talks told The Athletic.

It is expected that Prime Video’s package will include significant regular season and postseason games, perhaps even some conference finals. The anticipation is that the final contract will be for at least a decade and begin the 2025-2026 season.

ESPN/ABC, as the website Puck reported Thursday, also has a framework of a deal with the expectations that an agreement will be completed. ESPN/ABC are expected to keep the Finals on its networks for the duration of its deals. Like Amazon, ESPN’s new contract is also expected to be at least a decade in length.

All of the details are not finalized yet, but all sides are under the expectations they will get done. The NBA, Amazon and ESPN all declined to comment.

The NBA prefers to have three companies involved in its new deals, but has not ruled out adding a fourth.

I was hoping Apple would come in over the top and add NBA to their MLB coverage, but it looks like going forward the NBA will be sort of Basketball Ghidora of ESPN/ABC/Amazon Prime. Which I'm not too sure I dig much, if at all.

13 French players have declared for the NBA Draft 2024 so far, making this year's class the largest of its kind for France.

Up until now, the max number of French players drafted in a single night is 6, back in 2016, a record that could very well be broken in 2024.

Here is the list of French players that have declared for the Draft:

• Zaccharie Risacher

• Alexandre Sarr

• Tidjane Salaün

• Melvin Ajinça

• Mohamed Diawara

• Armel Traoré

• Adama Bal

• Noah Penda

• Mohamed Diarra

• Yacine Toumi

• Pacôme Dadiet

• Zacharie Perrin

• Ilias Kamardine

Anybody else feel this way? Feels like all the creativity is gone in favor of jerseys you’d see in a video game jersey creator. These Clippers jerseys are especially terrible. You’d think you’d want good branding for your billion dollar global franchise.

In what will be a landmark move in sports media history, the and Amazon Prime Video have the framework of a deal that will make the streaming service one of the main homes for the league’s games, executives with direct knowledge of the talks told The Athletic.

It is expected that Prime Video’s package will include significant regular-season and postseason games, perhaps even some conference finals. The anticipation is that the final contract will be for at least a decade and begin the 2025-2026 season.

ESPN/ABC, as the website Puck reported Thursday, also has a framework of a deal with the expectations that an agreement will be completed. ESPN/ABC is expected to keep the NBA Finals on its networks for the duration of its deals. Like Amazon, ESPN’s new contract also is expected to be at least a decade in length.

All of the details are not finalized yet, but all sides are under the expectations they will get done. The NBA, Amazon and ESPN all declined to comment.

There will be a third part (TNT or NBC) and possible a fourth partner.

The fact they're announcing this so quickly probably means there's going to be a pretty sizeable bump in the cap.