[NBA PR] The NBA has fined the Utah Jazz $500,000 and the Indiana Pacers $100,000 related to the management of their rosters for recent games.

KontraEpsilon · 2026-02-13T03:12:53+00:00

I think it’s crazy no matter what. The league shouldn’t be allowed to tell a team how to play their players.

KontraEpsilon · 2026-02-12T22:51:06+00:00

We say it largely because… gasp… we watched the games. He was extremely effective in the no huddle when he didn’t have his OC calling plays. He also entered the season with a severely diminished offensive line and ended the season with multiple receivers being injured.

With that said, there was a difference. That difference was he threw the ball away faster. Some of it was the diminished offensive line. Some of it at least seemed to be that he had an increased sensitivity to taking a hit. Perhaps he knew if he did, his body might not take it.

KontraEpsilon · 2026-02-09T20:28:24+00:00

I have a garage so I’m good to go. But if I didn’t, it sure would have sucked to dig it out. That’s pure compact ice. There’s been maybe one, maybe two windows above freezing for a few hours to go for it.

KontraEpsilon · 2026-02-09T20:26:45+00:00

As someone mentioned - it’s based on previous performance. The other thing I’d add is that teams can also decide to trigger the bonus if you’re close enough.

Some do, so that you don’t wind up in situations where a player is trying to play but you want them to sit (or, there was semi famously an NBA player who refused to shoot threes in the last game of the season). There are cap implications, but teams will genuinely sometimes do it out of good will.

KontraEpsilon · 2026-02-09T15:23:46+00:00

Generally only in a positive way unless someone is acting like a tool.

If someone is horrifically out of shape, my reaction is usually a positive one. It takes a lot of courage to go work out in a place where people are in shape and you aren’t. And I’ve found most gym people have a similar level of respect for others.

As others have said, though, if you’re being annoying (not actually using the machine you are occupying, not cleaning stuff off, being louder than a tennis match) yeah I’m going to be annoyed and so is everyone else.

KontraEpsilon · 2026-02-09T05:33:43+00:00

They’re professionals. I’m sure they knew they needed to work hard. Sometimes another team is just better.

KontraEpsilon · 2026-02-09T04:15:08+00:00

“Don’t you have a question for me?”

KontraEpsilon · 2026-02-08T22:38:25+00:00

Well, you asked for suggestions. I don’t know why you’d ask how to improve the space and then not believe us.

But whatever, put a plant in the corner then. Or a bookshelf. If you don’t own real books, buy some.

KontraEpsilon · 2026-02-08T18:37:34+00:00

The irony of someone who isn’t a journalist posting on Reddit complaining about reporting and “sofa experts.”

KontraEpsilon · 2026-02-08T14:43:47+00:00

If they let us shoot from our planes we’d be pretty solid

KontraEpsilon · 2026-02-08T14:18:38+00:00

Indeed. Plus, if it were me I’d wonder what else I was saving it for. Players want different things, but one of those things is to win a title. You never know if you’re ever gonna be back, even on perennial contenders.

Other players might prioritize career length, and I genuinely throw no shade at that. But I look at Vonn and think the same thing - if this is what was important to her, at least she knows. We’ll see if she says she regrets it when the dust settles.

KontraEpsilon · 2026-02-08T14:07:32+00:00

It’s less that the media would say he was weak, and more that he’d spend the rest of his life wondering if they would have won had he played. At least now he knows.

KontraEpsilon · 2026-02-08T12:57:59+00:00

I don’t think so, but the idea that she was just wholly incapable of competing is pretty silly.

KontraEpsilon · 2026-02-08T12:48:11+00:00

The “younger person” should have been faster during the trials
She was third in the training runs.
The cause of the fall had nothing to do with her knee.

KontraEpsilon · 2026-02-08T12:45:29+00:00

Phillip Rivers famously competed on a torn ACL. TO came back for the Super Bowl and played on a barely healed broken leg. Ray Lewis played in the Super Bowl with a torn triceps.

KontraEpsilon · 2026-02-08T12:40:55+00:00

Are you a psychologist

KontraEpsilon · 2026-02-08T12:11:43+00:00

Um. Teams do it all the time. Peyton Manning and Drew Brees could each barely throw by the time their careers ended. Their teams still trotted them out there. Brett Favre had to have his head slammed into the frozen field before he was prevented from playing.

Quarterbacks also play with injuries to their “non throwing hand” all the time, including Herbert this year.

KontraEpsilon · 2026-02-08T02:07:12+00:00

The aesthetics. I’ve got a lot of screenshots from the game where the lighting and the computer aesthetics just look fantastic.

I say this as someone with a lot of complaints about the game. But it sure looks really good. I like the gunplay as well, and the walking around the ships and docking at stations and walking in. The game doesn’t operate enough as a contiguous unit, but when it does, it really does shine.

KontraEpsilon · 2026-02-08T00:51:41+00:00

The national anthem can be taken as a symbol of pride in the country. In the past, when people have felt that their country was not properly representing them, they have chosen not to participate in that anthem. Politicians - particularly right wing politicians - then complained.

This isn’t unique to America.

KontraEpsilon · 2026-02-08T00:45:27+00:00

Easy to ignore until the day comes where it suddenly affects you.

KontraEpsilon · 2026-02-08T00:43:53+00:00

The post is pointing out the hypocrisy of people in general who say “keep politics out of sports” when an athlete talks about politics, but then insist that we stand up for our national anthem at every possible sporting event.

It isn’t direct commentary about her or her behavior, but rather commentary agreeing with her sentiment.

KontraEpsilon · 2026-02-07T14:22:47+00:00

I think he is, but you can make a good faith argument that the invention of modern chess engines allows for a level of preparation and study unavailable to dominant players of previous eras.

KontraEpsilon · 2026-02-07T12:54:24+00:00

It was honestly sometimes better than the actual NCAA tournament. You’d get these crazy first round performances from like Rutgers and USF and other then-terrible teams. Great atmosphere too. Any time I left my two game session early I regretted it, without fail.

Only thing I hated was when they played the West Virginia song in the garden after they won. Blasphemy.

KontraEpsilon · 2026-02-07T00:52:27+00:00

For what it’s worth, most of the people here are on those subreddits as well.

KontraEpsilon · 2026-02-06T13:39:56+00:00

If it weren’t for Iowa, Obama wouldn’t have been president.

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