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ORIGINAL: Mark Anderson

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ORIGINAL: David Levine

What a wonderful choke job!

Couldn't happen to a more unlikeable team.

I'm not seeing this. Who is unlikeable? Wemby?

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So what does the model tell us? First, each extra inch of height was associated with a 31.4% higher injury hazard. As seen in the graph below, the survival rate for someone like Giannis at 6'11 is much worse than the baseline, and the opposite is true for a 6'3 player like Stephen Curry.

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ORIGINAL: David Levine

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ORIGINAL: Mark Anderson

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ORIGINAL: David Levine

What a wonderful choke job!

Couldn't happen to a more unlikeable team.

I'm not seeing this. Who is unlikeable? Wemby?

The whole manufactured team. They make bad trades and signings and get rewarded with top picks in great drafts. They're all a bunch of floppers and complainers - led by Castle.

Wemby is good for at least one dirty play every game and he's turning into a douche off the court with all his visiting with monks, walking barefoot and other PR stunts. Plus the league is so far up his ass, they had to pass SGA on the way in. He's allowed to goaltend at will on both ends and should've been suspended at least twice so far this postseason.

Even when he threw that super dangerous elbow at Naz and got ejected, somehow the narrative for the next game was "Wemby's redemption".

He's so good, but he absolutely gets gassed and he gets pushed around. Maybe intense conditioning will help with the first, but his frame and high center of gravity will always be a problem fore the second.

Can he "bulk up"? Should he?

Longer limbs put extra torque and stress on joints, ligaments, and tendons - and those things are not proportionally stronger on a bigger guy. And while adding muscle increases strength, any extra weight magnifies these issues.

This dude did an interesting study on height vs injury in NBA players:

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So what does the model tell us? First, each extra inch of height was associated with a 31.4% higher injury hazard. As seen in the graph below, the survival rate for someone like Giannis at 6'11 is much worse than the baseline, and the opposite is true for a 6'3 player like Stephen Curry.

https://aryanjha.medium.com/figuring-out-why-nba-players-get-injured-using-cox-proportional-hazards-226a717eb55c

So what is the answer?

Is bulking up so he can play high 30s, low 40s as needed at the risk of a shorter career the way to go? Or is he a 28-32 MPG player that goes all out when he's in the game?

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ORIGINAL: DavidAOlson

Wemby playoff... "highlights"

Collected dirty plays...
https://bsky.app/profile/gtconway.bsky.social/post/3mobpocjjvc2k (clip)

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ORIGINAL: DavidAOlson

Wemby playoff... "highlights"

Collected dirty plays...
https://bsky.app/profile/gtconway.bsky.social/post/3mobpocjjvc2k (clip)

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ORIGINAL: David Levine

I think the Lakers will be a really dangerous regular season team and an easy out in the Playoffs.

They won't be able to stop anyone.

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ORIGINAL: Bill Johanesen

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ORIGINAL: David Levine

I think the Lakers will be a really dangerous regular season team and an easy out in the Playoffs.

They won't be able to stop anyone.

Yeah.

A top 3 and D guy would work but the entire league wants those and there are no picks to trade. I'd trade Reaves for one.

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ORIGINAL: David Levine

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ORIGINAL: Bill Johanesen

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ORIGINAL: David Levine

I think the Lakers will be a really dangerous regular season team and an easy out in the Playoffs.

They won't be able to stop anyone.

Yeah.

A top 3 and D guy would work but the entire league wants those and there are no picks to trade. I'd trade Reaves for one.

They'll probably be a 4-6 seed just by feasting on bad defenses and teams that aren't locked in. But that will all change when the Playoffs start.

Even keeping Smart instead of signing Grimes would've helped some.

Does anyone outside of Kessler in the regular rotation play a lick of defense?

And Kessler is a very good shotblocker, but he's not a particularly versatile defender.

Even Gobert struggled on those Utah teams that had no perimeter defenders.

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ORIGINAL: David Levine

Trump's DOJ and SEC is investigating Mark Walters and now Walters has sold his team to Ivanka Trump's brother in law.

Nothing to see here.

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Former NBA player Malik Beasley is negotiating a plea agreement with the Department of Justice after initially pleading not guilty to charges that he altered his play in certain games in 2024 to enrich sports bettors and ease his own debts, his attorney said Saturday.

In July, Beasley entered a not guilty plea in New York federal court. He was among the latest big names caught up in a sweeping federal gambling investigation.
Beasley’s attorney, Steve Haney, told The Associated Press in a text message that they were negotiating an agreement with the government ‘’with an expected direction in the coming days.’’

Beasley, 29, and sports agent Paolo Zamorano, who has also pleaded not guilty, were among six people charged in an indictment unsealed this summer detailing a gambling scandal that has involved more than three dozen arrests.

Zamorano, 39, formerly represented another co-defendant, ex-NBA player Ed Davis, who had lent money to Beasley and is accused of acting as his ‘’gatekeeper’’ in the alleged scheme.

Beasley is accused of fixing or trying to fix his performance in at least four games while playing for the Milwaukee Bucks in 2024 by under or overperforming bookmakers’ expectations. In exchange, the indictment said, the bettors bribed Beasley — and his debts to Davis were reduced or eliminated.