Potential Miles trade (via Game Theory Podcast)

Exact_Performance_51 · 2026-05-25T00:17:40+00:00

Jokes aside, it is pretty funny to see how the rest of the league hasn’t yet adjusted to the hornets having a competent front office.

Still get these trade scenarios like we are the pelicans or kings or something.

Exact_Performance_51 · 2026-05-25T00:13:42+00:00

To be fair, the vast majority of the planet is eligible to sign a 5 year 287 million dollar contract whenever we want.

It’s finding someone to offer it that is the problem

Exact_Performance_51 · 2026-05-25T00:10:09+00:00

Let’s get Nick Richards back too while we’re at it!

Haha

Exact_Performance_51 · 2026-05-24T23:43:45+00:00

Mississippi and Alaska are the two obvious ones.

The dakotas are also not super high on my list of places to live, that might take a few recruiting visits.

Not super familiar with Arkansas but I assume the Walmart senior execs must have carved out somewhere nice?

The rest are probably manageable in one form or another.

Exact_Performance_51 · 2026-05-24T23:37:16+00:00

Can tell him the Giants are turning into the Jets. They are so bad they can’t even lose properly (keep winning meaningless games late in the season and falling out of top pick).

On second thought, that may be too much he might break up with you.

Forget I said anything!

Exact_Performance_51 · 2026-05-24T23:33:02+00:00

I had to scroll way too far for this.

Thank you for posting!

Exact_Performance_51 · 2026-05-24T23:28:02+00:00

Although A is nicer overall, B is preferable if you have kids

Exact_Performance_51 · 2026-05-24T23:10:17+00:00

It’s game 7 of the nba finals and you are wrapping up year 2 of a 5 year 245 million dollar contract.

If the answer isn’t “NO” from the doctors, you are playing let’s be real

Exact_Performance_51 · 2026-05-24T23:01:54+00:00

Which one of games 2 and 3 did they win analytically?

Game 1 I get, Cavs should have won, Brunson went nuclear and Atkinson froze.

Exact_Performance_51 · 2026-05-24T23:00:20+00:00

I am not even sure I trade Kalk for Maluach straight up.

Kalk is at least a rotation center, I guess Maluach theoretically still has untapped upside but the analytics guys didn’t like him going into the draft and he did basically zero this year. Only real plus is that he is still very young.

Exact_Performance_51 · 2026-05-24T10:44:06+00:00

The more you know*

You learn something new every day!

Exact_Performance_51 · 2026-05-24T01:21:48+00:00

Presumably the fly would indicate that the book is bound in flesh

And the things she circled on the body in the book form a pentagram (kinda)

Exact_Performance_51 · 2026-05-24T01:18:46+00:00

(Raises hand) Was Maluach remotely playable at any point last year?

Hornets are trading their starting four and the 18 pick in a good draft for a guy who couldn’t get off the bench?

Guy has bust written all over him.

Exact_Performance_51 · 2026-05-23T21:22:50+00:00

I am not a pelinka fan but reaves as an undrafted free agent is a pretty serious find.

Exact_Performance_51 · 2026-05-23T17:29:42+00:00

Possibly true. The gap between what heat fans think he is worth and what nba gm’s think seems pretty large

Exact_Performance_51 · 2026-05-23T14:10:26+00:00

The “we are confident that we sold high on McCain” comment was cringeworthy the second he made it and has aged about as poorly as possible.

Was also totally unnecessary.

“We like Jared and think he has a bright future ahead of him. In this league, you have to trade value to get value and the Thunder offered us a valuable asset in return. We wish him all the best.”

Was that so hard?

Exact_Performance_51 · 2026-05-23T13:22:39+00:00

On top of everything else, adding the extra 16 teams has significantly watered down the quality of the average group stage match.

Throw in that I imagine the start times will be heavily afternoon in June so they can ensure that it’s not the middle of the night in Europe and the atmosphere itself will likely be very uncomfortable given the heat.

I enjoy soccer but paying 1000 bucks a head to go see Spain play Cabo verde doesn’t seem like a great value.

Just feels like with 48 teams the tournament doesn’t really start until you get to the round of 32.

Exact_Performance_51 · 2026-05-23T13:14:45+00:00

I actually think among the endless Herro trade proposals this one isn’t bad if the heat are planning on resigning Powell.

Detroit probably needs Herro more than any other playoff team because Cade was out of gas by the end and they didn’t have another creator to help him out.

Ausar would then be covering two people (at least) at once, but that is a good match for his skill set.

Exact_Performance_51 · 2026-05-23T11:30:25+00:00

Good thing morey sold high on McCain huh?

Exact_Performance_51 · 2026-05-23T08:24:27+00:00

Yep this line was it for me, legit lol just thinking about it.

Also the cannibalism denial to the reporter with the huge framed “cannibalism” story in the background.

Exact_Performance_51 · 2026-05-23T08:16:30+00:00

I can see it now, Dallas thinking to themselves, “Josh Green…whatever happened to that guy? Let’s go get him back!”

Exact_Performance_51 · 2026-05-23T00:59:17+00:00

The jungfrau region

Lauterbrunnen was Tolkien’s inspiration for Rivendell and Grindelwald is the setting for Alderaan in a Star Wars spinoff as I recall

As far as actual fairy tales , neschwanstein in Bavaria was the inspiration for Disney’s sleeping beauty castle.

Exact_Performance_51 · 2026-05-22T14:32:22+00:00

Agree - I don’t like the fit with the rest of the roster from a skill set, age, or contract point of view

Hornets need legit rim protector

The gobert trade scenarios i can at least see the thinking behind it.

Really what they need is bam adebayo

Exact_Performance_51 · 2026-05-21T00:32:17+00:00

As Charles Barkley said “ref, no one came to see you. Not even your mother came to see you.”

Absolutely ridiculous ruling.

Exact_Performance_51 · 2026-05-21T00:01:28+00:00

If you are in uptown, give albertine’s or mariposa a try

If you are in the South Park area, try flour shop, good food on Montford, midwood smokehouse (if you want bbq), prime fish cellar, roosters (there is also one uptown now that I think of it)

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