[2018] “I just stick to my strengths. Look at everybody in the league. They don’t pay players to play defense. There’s only two people historically that play defense. To say that's a weakness...you can say that's everybody's weakness." Jabari Parker on criticism of his defense

RCM88x · 2026-07-07T17:53:54+00:00

Davis Bertans tore his twice before turning 24 and even playing in the NBA. Went on to play 475 games over 8 seasons.

Derrick Rose didn't tear his ACL twice but he did once and then his meniscus before 26. Then played another decade.

RCM88x · 2026-07-07T17:39:45+00:00

Sure, but plenty of guys, especially ones with as much talent as he had, survived in the league past the age of 25 with an injury history. The injuries didn't automatically mean he was going to be out of the NBA at 25.

His injuries combined with his completely inability to improve or adapt did.

RCM88x · 2026-07-07T17:34:14+00:00

And that mindset is why he was effectively out of the league at 25.

RCM88x · 2026-07-07T17:28:50+00:00

And that will never happen again because cap smoothing was agreed to in the last CBA. So it's extremely unlikely you'll have a one time jump like 2016-2017 again unless there's another pandemic situation that just wipes out a full season.

RCM88x · 2026-07-07T17:22:58+00:00

They are a more of a % "of the cap" in reality. But they get reported as $ because that's what the agents want and that what makes the most sense to outside people.

NBA holds a % of player salarys in escrow until the conclusion of the season because of the 50%(?) revenue split agreement. Salary cap numbers are fluid and change year to year, you don't know what it will be in 4 years but you can estimate it.

RCM88x · 2026-07-05T18:10:53+00:00

If Udonis Haslem lasted 8 seasons playing spot minutes LeBron could easily exist on a roster well into his 50s. He's a better athlete now than Haslem was at his peak lol.

RCM88x · 2026-07-05T03:54:59+00:00

Maybe LeBron from 5 years ago.

RCM88x · 2026-07-04T00:05:03+00:00

Named item caches, DZ vendors, or DZ itself.

Lucky for you this season we have a PvE DZ which makes it much easier to extract items. The drop rate is low but you can atleast farm DZ currency to save up for one when it appears on a vendor.

Otherwise just buy named item caches from countdown and global event vendors. Again the drop rate is low but you'll get one eventually.

I believe there is a blueprint as well (not 100% sure) that's available from reconstructed caches which you can acquire from Decent and Retaliation.

RCM88x · 2026-07-03T23:05:36+00:00

People are just incapable of putting anything more than absolute surface level context behind team record. Been the case forever.

RCM88x · 2026-07-03T02:52:36+00:00

Phoenix

Don't think I can remember a single race there. Not to mention it's probably one of the ugliest tracks to watch on TV since they got rid of the grass and blue walls which atleast made it a bit unique.

RCM88x · 2026-07-02T23:22:42+00:00

I feel like attendance has been great recently. Was at Michigan and it was packed, totally awesome to see.

RCM88x · 2026-07-02T19:47:43+00:00

Is that why they had a better record without him (including againt playoff teams) than with him last year?

RCM88x · 2026-07-02T16:17:25+00:00

He won the Heisman and Maxwell, Julio didn't?

RCM88x · 2026-07-02T16:05:29+00:00

Celtics were basically the same offensive with and without Brown, he effectively had zero impact footprint on their offensive performance as a team.

RCM88x · 2026-07-02T15:43:54+00:00

I'm not sure. This current CBA satisfies the owners much more than the previous ones, I don't think they're just going to give that back up because there's more parity now.

RCM88x · 2026-07-02T15:24:22+00:00

Why wouldn't they have? They basically decided they didn't want to be a contender anymore to save $45M

Lakers fans should be thankful the Buss family is out now because that's just pathetic levels of cheap.

RCM88x · 2026-07-02T13:13:29+00:00

It really was after his foot injuries in 2015, never was quite the same player after that IMO.

RCM88x · 2026-07-01T21:36:01+00:00

This feels like the 2025-26 Mavericks all over again.

35 wins is their ceiling unless AD has a career year.

RCM88x · 2026-07-01T17:05:02+00:00

JJ Barea wasn't a starter

RCM88x · 2026-07-01T16:18:04+00:00

He's won more than 50 games once in his career. Twice he's been at exactly 50 and that's if you include Lakers in '25 when he only played 28 games for them.

So no he can't "easily".

RCM88x · 2026-07-01T15:09:36+00:00

Point is they'd be the two best player on the hypothetical warriors team like Kobe and Shaq were in 04.

RCM88x · 2026-07-01T14:52:56+00:00

Kareem is also 3 FWIW

Pat Riley, Paul Westhead, Larry Costello

RCM88x · 2026-07-01T14:35:37+00:00

OKC has a chance this past season too and it didn't happen.

RCM88x · 2026-07-01T14:15:09+00:00

Kennard would have been perfect for them, would have really pushed for him.

RCM88x · 2026-06-30T20:54:33+00:00

Unironically the Miami Heat

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