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How fucked up do things have to be in Indiana for this to happen? Why hasn't there been a Woj hit piece about that locker room yet?

Baynes signed with Detroit yesterday. I guess Diaw is the backup center?

Look out for my incoming longform piece "Nik Stauskas has an NBA contract and still uses Cricket like my high school drug dealer"

I'm bullish on the Bucks because they seem to have a clear plan and identity that really fits in with where the league is going. They're a team that is going to attack ball-handlers, switch on screens, and try to force teams into bad shots. The offense could still use some work (someone on twitter joked that the Bucks are the Warriors if the Warriors shot 10% from 3) but it's getting there. Adding Parker and his shooting should help spread the floor for MCW and Giannis to attack the basket.

The Bucks will be the ones overpaying Monroe.

Khris Middleton gets 5yrs/$70M from the Bucks. I'm totally fine with that number, even if he was playing at or near his ceiling last year.

The Kings want Calipari to coach AND run their front office. Please, basketball Jesus, I don't ask for much but I need this to happen.

Goddamit, why couldn't he have retired after last season, gone out on a high note, and UW could have chased Smart or Marshall? Oh well, I'll enjoy his victory lap, even if the team won't be very good. We'll see where the program goes from here. I'm guessing Bo's lead assistant gets a crack at it for a year or two, but unless he's the second coming they'll go for a sexier hire soon.

"Look around. This is your future" is the cruelest thing you could say to Porzingis.

Kevin Love is opting out. This should be fun.

I didn't think anyone would make new uniforms worse than the Clippers' but Atlanta proved me wrong.

Can we talk about how bonkers that is for the Knicks? Starting PF is the one roster position that they really have covered, so of course they chase a PF in free agency.

Clippers are so boned next year. They've got $59M tied up in 8 players and have to try and re-sign DeAndre and fill out their roster. Even if they decline the option on Crawford and Hudson that only saves them about $7M. And I'm not sure the ownership (or CP3) are going to go along with burning a year before the cap goes up and they can make some signings. I expect them to do something exceedingly foolish in the offseason. The Bucks sent Ilyasova to the Pistons for... it doesn't matter because they're getting waived. Now Milwaukee has the cap room to chase a FA center, and it pretty much closes the door on Monroe coming back to the Pistons.

Whitlock is reportedly out as the head of The Undefeated (AKA Black Grantland). Leon Carter will be taking over on an interim basis. I am completely unsurprised.

If anyone is looking to get into D&D Amazon has the 5th edition core books for around $25 each.

FF XIV is $10 on Amazon today and comes with a free month if anyone is looking to try it.

I like both of those changes. They also changed that you can't pull a Howland and call timeout right before a media timeout. Pitino got a 10-year extension from Louisville.

Just going back to 2000, Stanislav Medvedenko, Todd MacCulloch, Tyrone Hill, and DeSagana Diop all started finals games.

It's really good! It doesn't feel nearly as grindy as WoW did, and the quest writing is much better. And, except for chat, it plays really well on PS4.

Record Keeper is a free mobile game. I forget exactly what the framing device is, but you're collecting characters from all the FF games and taking them through battles. It's pretty darn good, as F2P games go.

I play it, but it doesn't really have its hooks in me the way it does with some people. It's a pretty solid little time-waster, though. I tried the FFXIV free trial and was so pleasantly surprised that I ended up buying and subscribing. It's not materially different than most MMOs, but the amount of thought and polish that goes into the design is really remarkable. I also started a new game of FFX and, boy, I had forgotten about how terrible all of the voice acting is.

I believe that people in the NBA deliberately feed Jalen bad information because he's such an ass. Andrei Kirilenko has quietly retired. He really came along a few years too early; his game would make him a massive star today.

Why not go for Thibs now that he's available? Isn't he the rich man's Scott SKiles? Why pay Thibs for a couple of losing seasons when you can get Skiles for half price? I like Orlando's players, but I don't think they really have a core there. You can't play Oladipo and Payton together in the backcourt, there's just not enough shooting there. Harris is good but I think he's close to his ceiling. The Vooch is good but not great. Gordon has no offensive game. All their starters are guys who would be the third option on a good team.

I didn't think that was even a controversial position anymore. I don't know of anybody out there repping for the triangle except Phil. Scott Skiles got a 4 years deal from Orlando even though he'll get fired in 2.

I'm not sure anyone but Phil still considers the triangle a great offensive system.