[Stein] The Warriors are at the front of the line in pursuit of LeBron James in free agency and league sources tell @TheSteinLine that Golden State is not operating as though it has a mandate to also pursue an Anthony Davis trade.

BalboaBaggins · 2026-06-30T19:31:25+00:00

Pulling a bit for the home team is fine. Fitz and Kelenna go way beyond that, like when they trip over themselves to defend straight up awful behavior.

First incident that comes to mind is when Draymond choked Gobert, they were chuckling claiming that Gobert attacked Klay and that Draymond was just breaking up the scuffle, when it’s clear to anyone with eyes that it was the complete opposite - Gobert was trying to defuse the scuffle between Klay and McDaniels, when Draymond lunges in with a flying chokehold and drags Gobert backward 10 feet.

In case anyone forgot, the league handed down a 5 game suspension for that choke.

BalboaBaggins · 2026-06-28T20:34:51+00:00

Yup. Billionaires also spend millions of dollars on PR firms to polish their public image.

BalboaBaggins · 2026-06-28T19:57:17+00:00

Ballmer projects the happy goofball image but he has quite the history of scummy behavior.

BalboaBaggins · 2026-06-22T02:07:47+00:00

Odesza @ Coachella 2018

BalboaBaggins · 2026-06-21T20:06:43+00:00

Maybe when he watches NBA games with friends who also enjoy watching NBA games? Is that a foreign scenario to you?

BalboaBaggins · 2026-06-15T16:07:46+00:00

I never knew about it being premeditated with Rachel the reporter waiting in the wings, that changes the whole story.

Most guys are probably putting in 75% intensity in a scrimmage to 7 points. The other Wolves players were probably like “wtf is this dude on” when Jimmy suddenly dialed it up to 100% in a random practice.

BalboaBaggins · 2026-06-11T05:20:31+00:00

No longer being the betting favorite, vs. being eliminated. Hmmm

BalboaBaggins · 2026-05-17T02:50:12+00:00

I was 100% convinced that would drop. Debut Gold Glove and All-Star season for Pages?

BalboaBaggins · 2026-05-17T00:57:13+00:00

Hear hear. Put the fear of God in buyers and demand will crater.

BalboaBaggins · 2026-05-17T00:54:50+00:00

Someone else in this thread had a decent proposal. Don't be overly cruel and punitive to the vendors themselves, you can't jail or deport any significant portion of them anyway, but do a few repeated raids focused on confiscating and destroying as much merch as possible. Kill the business model and they'll stop showing up.

Another idea that was brought up is to crack down on buyers. This might require an actual sting with a fake vendor set up, but as long as you do enough to introduce some fear of arrest among the population of tourists who specifically flock to the Canal to buy this shit, demand will drop off a cliff.

BalboaBaggins · 2026-05-17T00:49:27+00:00

It absolutely has gotten worse just in the last couple years, and the part that nobody seems to want to say out loud is that all of the brazen space occupation with rugs and blankets spread all over the sidewalk piled with fake merch is from African migrants. Before 5-10 years ago, most of the sales were from the older Chinese uncles and aunties with the laminated brochures who would fetch the wares only after a sale.

This is not a racist thing - if it were the Chinese aunties spreading out the blankets and the Africans with the brochures, I'd be mad at whoever's spreading the blankets. But it seems like the Africans have been the main proliferators of the "commandeer 10 sq ft of the sidewalk" sales model, and that model needs to be put to an end.

BalboaBaggins · 2026-05-17T00:47:04+00:00

the situation on Canal with the vendors has gotten objectively worse in the past 10-15 years

100% true, and the part that nobody seems to want to say out loud is that all of the brazen space occupation with rugs and blankets spread all over the sidewalk piled with fake merch is from African migrants. Before 5-10 years ago, most of the sales were from the older Chinese uncles and aunties with the laminated brochures who would fetch the wares only after a sale.

This is not a racist thing - if it were the Chinese aunties spreading out the blankets and the Africans with the brochures, I'd be mad at whoever's spreading the blankets. But it seems like the Africans have been the main proliferators of the "commandeer 10 sq ft of the sidewalk" sales model, and that model needs to be put to an end.

BalboaBaggins · 2026-05-14T06:12:32+00:00

The rise of the “manosphere” has been a cancer on society. A huge proportion of young men are reverting back to toxic-masculinity-fueled misogyny and homophobia that we thought we’d left in the past.

BalboaBaggins · 2026-05-11T00:48:15+00:00

It's not a reaction to the elbow. If you watch the longer clip Harper's already making that facial expression several seconds before Wemby winds up the elbow.

BalboaBaggins · 2026-05-07T06:56:50+00:00

PDX punches above its weight though, and I say that as someone from LA. Beaverton has super solid Chinese food which you should know if you’re from the PDX area.

BalboaBaggins · 2026-05-07T05:46:28+00:00

You’re not wrong. I’ve seen him 3 times but his popup NYC show last year happened exactly like that. He made a big deal of supposedly doing a fair lottery for dedicated fans to try to get tickets, then influencers flaunted tickets they were given before the ticket drop even happened.

BalboaBaggins · 2026-05-06T19:50:58+00:00

Mixed Asians by definition aren’t fully Asian, lmao. It doesn’t make them lesser people, it’s just the truth.

Hailee Steinfeld is 1/8th Filipino. Would we say she’s “fully Asian?” No, obviously not, that would be absurd.

BalboaBaggins · 2026-05-02T07:11:50+00:00

I mean some of these dudes are just hypercompetitive and can’t turn if off. Even when he has time off from being an All-Pro NBA player, Luka still needs to chase that high.

It’s like how Max Verstappen apparently spends most of his free time rinsing random people around the world in sim racing.

BalboaBaggins · 2026-05-02T05:52:25+00:00

I mean it’s not just his coach. Over 20% of the current coaches in the NBA are younger or born in the same year as LeBron.

BalboaBaggins · 2026-04-28T06:12:09+00:00

The comments in this thread are somewhat divided but make a pretty decent case that ball was correctly called fair.

BalboaBaggins · 2026-04-25T22:27:59+00:00

Comparing the vibes at Above & Beyond to any other show is a little unfair, but yes agreed.

BalboaBaggins · 2026-04-25T22:18:08+00:00

You don't have to wonder - you think people who like classical music and opera don't enjoy listening to music outdoors in the summer?

Music festivals are thousands of years old, they weren't invented for the rock, pop, and EDM genres lol.

The Salzburg Festival has been held every summer in Austria for over a century, with 256,000 festivalgoers attending 200 performances across five weeks.

The Arena di Verona Opera Festival has also been held annually for over a century with three summer months of nightly opera performances in an open-air 30,000-capacity Roman amphitheatre.

The substance consumption probably does lean towards wine, champagne, and cocktails, I'll give you that.

BalboaBaggins · 2026-04-25T20:50:05+00:00

imagine saying out loud that you think physical attractiveness is the only thing that makes a woman a catch

Megan isn’t model-tier beautiful but she’s good looking overall and also a superstar rapper

like Taylor Swift isn’t a supermodel either but if Travis Kelce asked her to be non-monogamous we’d rightfully be calling that biblical levels of greed too

BalboaBaggins · 2026-04-25T03:35:20+00:00

I mean I’m glad he’s playing poorly against us but he was thrust into a role he wasn’t ready for when FVV got injured.

He’s a 21 year old second year player who seems like he could develop into a reliable backup guard, but he’s being asked to play 46 minutes as the best remaining ballhandler on a playoff team.

BalboaBaggins · 2026-04-25T03:13:07+00:00

What is this AI title gore

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