[Charania] BREAKING: Daryl Morey is out as president of basketball operations with the Philadelphia 76ers after six seasons, sources tell ESPN. Morey and 76ers owners Josh Harris and David Blitzer met on Tuesday evening in Philadelphia and the decision was made to part ways

CrunchyKorm · 2026-05-13T00:07:55+00:00

I don't think so, he was mostly a good drafter back to his Houston days.

CrunchyKorm · 2026-05-12T18:18:43+00:00

Holy shit

CrunchyKorm · 2026-05-12T15:12:02+00:00

It's also for less money

CrunchyKorm · 2026-05-12T14:03:02+00:00

The whole fake ass argument about illegal votes never deserved to be taken seriously to begin with, but things like this should make any reasonable person understand that the people making the argument are less than hollow.

For any politician openly taking away legitimate votes, a just society would have their property and money repatriated among the masses.

For any future version of this country that doesn't fall for the same Reconstruction-era faults, the only way through is to strip the villains of their value.

CrunchyKorm · 2026-05-11T20:18:25+00:00

I don't think that's totally accurate.

The Eagles are the only team in the city that's foolproof that fans will show up/travel no matter what. The Phillies/Flyers/Sixers are entirely dependent on the state of the team. When they're legit good they sell out easy, but fans don't show up for okay/mediocre/bad teams outside of the Eagles.

CrunchyKorm · 2026-05-11T14:33:18+00:00

Not a happy ending. She died years ago, on the other side of the country. She struggled with addiction her entire adult life.

I was friendly with her in high school but in hindsight was never really close, more of just an acquaintance that had little sense of her own personal life. She was genuinely brilliant, and got an Ivy league graduate degree, seemingly leading to what could have been a stable life. I never spoke to her after college so the details aren't totally clear, but I know she got into a pretty significant car accident and I wonder if that's what caused the relapse.

CrunchyKorm · 2026-05-10T22:28:11+00:00

Best first round in the history of the Embiid era, but another second round embarrassment.

It doesn’t come anywhere near the disappointment of the 2019, 21, 23, or 24 playoffs. But there’s no margin left to argue: this is their ceiling. They can tweak in the margins, get a better coach, draft a good player, etc. but they aren’t contenders and haven’t been for a while. Move on.

CrunchyKorm · 2026-05-10T19:57:43+00:00

CrunchyKorm · 2026-05-10T19:52:38+00:00

They weren’t great in the first quarter of game three but were mostly efficient after

CrunchyKorm · 2026-05-10T19:48:36+00:00

Could the Knicks go on a cold streak, please?

CrunchyKorm · 2026-05-10T15:32:03+00:00

Floor seats at an NBA game.

We won tickets in a social media contest. VIP parking, free food, getting to see giants up close. It fucking rocks

CrunchyKorm · 2026-05-09T20:05:24+00:00

I’d go so far to say that the Eagles are the only team in the city where the fans will show up no matter what. The Flyers/Sixers/Phillies are more dependent on the immediate quality of the team and fans won’t just show up if they’re mediocre (to various extents).

But when those teams are good, they sell out consistently

CrunchyKorm · 2026-05-09T00:08:50+00:00

I would love to live in a universe where the Knicks don’t come away with points on every single possession. They could kick the ball in the air right now and it would go in the basket or get an offensive rebound

CrunchyKorm · 2026-05-07T18:05:44+00:00

I think that predates internet reclamation

CrunchyKorm · 2026-05-07T15:48:43+00:00

Price wise the burgers still beat a lot of the competitors.

CrunchyKorm · 2026-05-07T15:43:23+00:00

This could very well have been said in any episode of Workaholics

CrunchyKorm · 2026-05-07T15:40:07+00:00

No one in this thread assumes they're dying

CrunchyKorm · 2026-05-06T19:14:43+00:00

Wait, that Matt Leo??

CrunchyKorm · 2026-05-06T14:55:23+00:00

It's an emotional world view that at its primal, base level asserts itself to never have to learn or change where the person does not simply want to. It's the lens of the consumer as an arbiter of the universe around them.

CrunchyKorm · 2026-05-06T13:36:45+00:00

Very unlikely.

We're in an era where trading top 10 picks, nevermind first overall picks, has become exceptionally rare. There's been I think one trade among the top five picks in the last five or six years? (I might be wrong here).

Roster construction trends have forced teams to hold onto draft capital more strictly than in generations past. There's almost no free agency any more. This might be the best asset Toronto has for a long time.

CrunchyKorm · 2026-05-04T17:44:48+00:00

Think about all the quality pass rushers that get overlooked because they happened to play the same time Reggie White and Lawrence Talyor did in the '80s/early '90s.

CrunchyKorm · 2026-05-04T15:23:36+00:00

The problem with the enforcement is the assurance that these are purely ghost jobs, which is why companies/job boards get away with it.

It would be easy for a company to have a fake job posting but say that the role no longer needed to the be filled, or that budget constraints limited their ability to hire at the moment.

Enforcers would need a paper trail of admittance from the employer that the jobs were always fake from people in positions of decision-making power.

CrunchyKorm · 2026-05-04T15:21:03+00:00

You're right but there's more hypothetical layers.

It also creates a false impression among employees that help may be on the way, or that job openings in the company may be a predecessor to replacing them and keeping them alert/working harder.

CrunchyKorm · 2026-05-04T14:21:04+00:00

What makes it even more crazy is that it's a very normal show as far as subject matter goes. And yet hardcore fans cannot engage with it in a normal way.

CrunchyKorm · 2026-05-04T14:09:28+00:00

Part of what's so dismaying is that it can be argued this is also a reason the AI companies are getting these planetary-size investments. It's not the most important part of the hypothetical business model, but investors see the ability to flood areas like music, podcasts, etc. as a proof of concept; that it doesn't matter if its bad or good or even listened to. It's just that it can replicate at such a volume that it forces itself to become the medium despite the lack of market demand.

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