2022-23 Team Developments: News / Trades / Free Agents / Rumors

blazers shoot 12-42 tonight from 3 and lose by 25 to the wizards

stevie wonder saw that one coming

 

please reply to that tweet with your caption lol

 

If you're wondering about our financials this summer, this is a must read

 

one thing i didn't know from that piece: we retain beasley's full bird rights even if we decline the option. so, it's possible to basically negotiate a longer-term extension with him, decline the option, and sign him to it.

guessing rob will have a talk with beasley's agent about what the alternative deal would look like before deciding whether to terminate. prior to reading that, my assumption was that the only path was to exercise the team option on beasley. but if he's willing to take a bit less for an extra year or two, everyone could be served (it would also reduce the chance he was traded again next year).

 

I totally believe that today's world is like that. Media is not independent and whatever you read was written and produced with a specific intent.
I'm not saying this applies at a micro level and there's a mega plot or conspiracy theory or journalists meet in secret to decide what truth to convey. But at a macro level, and notably by the owners of media outlets, there's an editorial bias and a general message to spread. Either by personal beliefs, shareholders' requests, big corporations lobbying or whatever other mechanisms.

Media is the most powerful way of manipulation of masses. And capitalism made a few individuals and corporations mega rich that enabled them to control the narrative. That's why certain topics get more attention than others. It depends on who it serves.

A random example I remember John Oliver covering. It was about plastic recycling. Basically there's only 2 out of 7 plastic types that are recyclable. Most people don't know this. The general narrative is "if you want to save the environment, recycle" and "if you don't recycle, you don't care about the environment". So the burden is on the people and this was something Coca-Cola lobbied to create and it still lives to this day. But in reality, most things you send to recycling are useless, not to mention when the recycling processes don't answer the demand. And then the real problem is that the plastic crisis is actually big corporates' fault and the real solution is one of this two:
A) big corporations should be responsible to recover the products they sell and apply circularity solutions on them (= more cost to corporations)
B) big corporations transform their business models and use only recyclable products (= less profit to corporations)

Yet, the narrative is that people don't recycle enough.
This happens across the board in anything in life. Even science is arguable nowadays, because it depends on what the presenter wants to show. The only "good thing" is that it's made by both sides of any discussion, so the fields levels.

As for how you navigate it, there's no good solution. Mine is to be mindful of it and try to question things and not take anything as certain. See the sources used and build some kind of trust with the different messengers, but always with a pinch of salt.
For example, I like to follow John Oliver because his team does extensive research and presents a lot of facts and different sources. But even him have a specific message to pass as he supports the left. There was already a couple of bits where I think he went too far and either magnified certain things or closed his eyes to others. And I don't think he is told by whoever to say this or that, it's just what he defends. It is what it is. There's just too much information nowadays and a ton of ways to communicate. We live in a world where everything is polarized and every communication channels are biased because of that.

That sums up our season lol my god

 

yeah, well put. i'm not suggesting we blindly take in information, just that the opposite (fundamentally rejecting anything as valid except what you already believed) is an even worse alternative. belief in your own omniscience is worse than being gullible, and, paradoxically, also ends up making your more gullible. i can't imagine this existence. it seems impossible to live this way if you take it to its logical conclusion.

edit: anyway, back to the actual convo: i also forgot that outgoing trades only count the guaranteed amount now, which was probably a good change in the cba.

 

sorry if this was already posted.

 

Man. Having a starting PG that is respectable at taking 3s is a luxury that we just haven’t had in two years ..

 

So thankful for this trade! bye russ!!

 

If Love doesn't come here I'd be shocked

 

Russ going to the Clippers makes too much sense

 

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That'd be a nice pickup for Miami

 

I could see him in Miami, maybe Denver too. I'd be fine with him coming here but he probably wants a legit shot at a title or significant minutes and I'm not sure we can offer either.

 

I actually would be surprised if we got Love. Wouldn’t mind it, but don’t think it makes much sense.

Not really any room for him in the rotation. We have Bamba under contract for $10 million next year, so I feel like we’re obligated to play him as our “stretch 5” and due to his size he should at least on paper be capable of better defense than Love at this stage of his career.

Would be great to have Love as a veteran locker room presence, emergency depth, situational playing time, etc, but I don’t see why he’d leave the 4th seed in the East to ride the bench on the 13th seed in the West. I figure he wants to go somewhere that is both competitive AND can offer him decent playing time.

 

Love it still is better than Bamba in my opinion. I think we should audition both and try to keep whoever performs better until the end of the season. I dont think we'll have trouble offloading Bamba in the summer if we need to.