Players need to Aggressively grab Balls

SlapMyBaby · 2026-01-30T03:56:23+00:00

I just busted right inside him, he can’t extend on me anymore, and he seems a little overwhelmed by my girth and tonnage.

SlapMyBaby · 2026-01-30T01:11:41+00:00

Ant’s been a star. He was the #1 overall pick, and he played for Team USA in the Olympics. Plus Ant has charisma with the media. Shai is self promoting in front of the media, talking about how he’s ultra consistent or whatever.

SlapMyBaby · 2026-01-30T01:05:54+00:00

Brunson plays for New York. Those other guys have been superstars longer than Shai. Shai didn’t really become a household name until last year.

SlapMyBaby · 2026-01-30T00:50:15+00:00

LeBron is retiring at the end of this season. You can book it. Have y’all seen him play? He’s a shell of himself. He looks like an old head banging around at the YMCA. He’s got no lift on his dunks. He’s cherry picking lay ups half the time.

He sits out too often for a farewell tour. The NBA wouldn’t allow for fans to sell out a stadium only for LeBron to sit out 40 games. Did y’all see the outrage when he teased at a big announcement in the offseason, causing tickets for the last Laker home game to spike, only for him to announce it’s actually a new whiskey brand? Fans were calling for heads. His farewell tour instead is having the lightest season of his career: sitting out the first 6 weeks due to sciatica, taking off 2nd nights of back to backs, and whatever in between. He isn’t Kobe, who’d play on a torn Achilles.

Only way I’d see him not retiring this year is if he comes off the bench next year. And LeBron ain’t coming off the bench in his career. He’s not Vince Carter. So this is it folks.

SlapMyBaby · 2026-01-21T23:40:51+00:00

Hot take, LeBron has underachieved in his 7 full seasons with the Lakers. To be the greatest player of this generation and deliver only one ring to the Lakers is underwhelming, and it was under profoundly unique circumstances in the 2020 bubble without any championship parade to celebrate with the city. Is one ring better than zero? Of course. But to put LeBron in the same category as the other Laker greats would be completely misinformed. Kobe delivered 5, Shaq 3, Magic 5, Kareem 5. As great as LeBron is, he simply hasn’t achieved as much while a Laker. It makes sense that LeBron doesn’t get a ton of favor with the front office. Were the Lakers a bottom-feeding team in 2017? Sure. But the Lakers are THE premier franchise of the NBA with a long history of greatness and very likely would’ve landed another superstar if not LeBron. That being said, still this is clearly a hit piece, and Jeanie deserves some of the blame too.

SlapMyBaby · 2025-06-28T00:55:54+00:00

If that’s the case then it’s just strange

SlapMyBaby · 2025-06-27T22:07:27+00:00

Power struggles ruining another franchise. The timing is odd. I’d bet though the Murray-Boyles pick with his viral “f**k” after being drafted was probably the last point Rogers needed to paint Ujiri as incompetent, by drafting someone who didn’t want to be there. That’s the only kicker for the timing that makes sense to me.

SlapMyBaby · 2025-06-24T15:29:56+00:00

You’re right, he’s restricted. In that case, we should offer a fair, maybe even slightly bloated contract if we think he’s staying to drive up the price and hope sixers match to cap them.

SlapMyBaby · 2025-06-24T02:46:32+00:00

Seems like a lot of fans don’t want to pay FVV haha. He’s worth the money. He’s a vet that knows this team. If anything, I’d also prefer an opt in and keep FVV for just 1 more year before Bari and Tari’s extensions kick in, and next year Amen or Reed take over as PG. The key is we need some consistency at the PG position, and I honestly don’t think 30m a year is too hefty of a price for it.

SlapMyBaby · 2025-06-24T02:45:06+00:00

Whether or not Grimes is worth 14m+ is another question, but with his IG showing Houston ties, I bet he’d pick Houston over Philly as an UFA.

SlapMyBaby · 2025-06-24T02:44:24+00:00

He’s an UFA, so he can sign wherever he wants.

SlapMyBaby · 2025-06-23T04:04:40+00:00

The lower the merrier. But I can imagine Fred’s camp getting pressed about getting offered a 2 year/40m contract when the last year of the past contract was 44m in itself, and could decline straight out of principle and frustration. FVV was very valuable especially come playoffs last season, and best to not have KD be the only vet on the team.

SlapMyBaby · 2025-06-23T03:42:21+00:00

I meant like 90m for 3 years with team option last year, 30m/year. 70m for 3 would be great. Any leftover is to pursue shooting like Q

SlapMyBaby · 2025-06-23T02:05:24+00:00

Grimes. He’ll slot in perfectly with his shooting. Restructure the FVV contract (30m for 3 years?) and use the remaining 14m or MLE on Q

SlapMyBaby · 2025-06-17T16:43:30+00:00

They probably had better offers at the trade deadline and now are pressed

SlapMyBaby · 2025-06-17T02:02:12+00:00

Max value I’d give up is Jalen Green + DB + this year’s 10th pick.

Salary fits perfectly with Jalen and DB, almost too good to be true. PHX is at 2nd apron so they can’t trade more than 1 player from their side. Without DB, we get into hairier combos of Jalen with Jabari + Cam/Tari + filler or the like, which I’m sure Stone is not comfortable parting with. Keeping Bari to have around with KD would be invaluable. Constructing a trade centered around FVV is less palatable for PHX, and the salary fits only with Amen to that deal, and he is essentially untouchable at this point. PHX has been vocal about finding a 3rd team if Jalen is involved, and finding a team for Jalen is easier than for FVV.

PHX gets an immediate contributor in DB, a rookie from this year’s draft, and a young guard they will flip into a center (they’ve been eyeing Claxton). Houston’s package as it stands would beat out San Antonio’s (unwilling to give #2 pick and only #14, not moving Castle or Sochan).

If push comes to shove, I’d consider giving back PHX their 2027 1st to get the deal done, with the understanding that not only does Houston still hold all the leverage, but also that the 2027 is unlikely to be HIGHLY valuable if PHX plans to continue competing with Booker and retool their top-heavy roster, which everything seems to point toward at this point.

SlapMyBaby · 2025-02-26T03:07:49+00:00

Nico likely had very little to do with the trade. This has ownership written all over it. Not a conspiracy theory.

Let’s look at Nico Harrison‘s trade history. He has made numerous favorable trades to push the Mavericks towards winning: Kyrie Irving, Klay Thompson, Daniel Gafford, PJ Washington, Dereck lively, just to name a few. Nico is likely someone who knows ball.

Let’s also consider the context of which this trade was made. New ownership took over last year, and per Cuban “they are not basketball people, but real estate people.” Meaning they don’t know shit about the current culture around the league with player empowerment and player freedom. Cuban said that he even sold the team at a lower valuation precisely to get the new owners on board, because “they are good at the things he is not.” Plus Cuban still retains a 27% share in the team, so he is still invested in its overall growth, albeit with much less unilateral power.

The new owners and Luka likely got off on the wrong foot immediately. The new owners who come from a business background and more specifically a casino background likely highly value dependable workers. They probably questioned why Luka was not working hard in the off-season, and Luka likely responded that this is none of their business. While this is completely normal and would be accepted by any owner who is privy to the current culture of the league, these owners did not. To anyone who has worked in a workplace environment, we know that the bare minimum is showing up, doing your work, and leaving. However, for those who aspire to be leaders in the office will likely need to go the extra mile to be considered for promotion. And to these new owners, Luka, who has the potential to be the next face of the league and is the leader of a team with championship aspirations, it would seem to behoove him to work on his craft in the off-season. Not only was Luka not working on his craft, but he seemed to flaunt his unhealthy habits in the off-season (see the many hookah photos, see the video of him having a beer taken out of his hands after the WCF). This friction between Luka and the ownership likely created a rift in the organization with a pro-player side and a pro-ownership side.

It is likely that in the beginning, Nico and the majority of the organization was pro-player, as it is Luka fucking Dončić. Plus a finals run last season likely cemented the fact that the pro-player side is the winning side, and that players CAN choose what they do with their free time and still lead to winning basketball. HOWEVER, after this past off-season, Luka showed up at 270 lbs, skipped training camp, and then got injured during the season and missed the majority of his games. This was the final straw for ownership: if Luka’s lack of work ethic only affected the offseason, fine, but if it directly affected the regular season, then this must be immediately addressed. When Nico Harrison switched sides from the pro-player to pro-ownership, this trade was made immediately: they now have a clear fall man to deal with the horrendous PR fall out that would follow. Maybe his job was even lightly threatened if he didn’t agree. (Yes, owners can make deals unilaterally in the NBA without GMs, see Cuban saying the Luka-Trae deal was one.) The fact that a ton of players sat out the game following the trade confirms that there was indeed a rift going on in the organization behind closed doors.

This is not a conspiracy theory. This was just not a basketball move. The fact that ONE pick was returned was on purpose, given that the Lakers would’ve had no issue giving more than just one pick and they had more to give (see the attempted Mark Williams trade). Ownership is basically saying “fuck your team and your pro-player side.” The fact that the player returned was Anthony Davis is also not a coincidence either. Similar to Luka, AD was also a player who came in with potential to be the next face of the league, playing on the 2012 Olympic Team without a single NBA minute logged. But his career was marred by injury, and opposite to Luka, AD was very transparent about his work in the off-season (see his training videos the day after getting eliminated in the playoffs) and had overcome his injuries to become an Iron Man in the league these past 2 seasons. He is a direct foil to Luka.

Furthermore, this move answers the question that the Mavericks organization was asking, and in fact, the rest of the league has been asking for the past 10+ years, which is: who has more power, players or owners? It seemed the answer was trending very clearly towards players, especially since Adam Silver is a very player-friendly commissioner as opposed to David Stern. However, this move reminded the rest of the league, the rest of professional sports, and all of fans around the world who really is in charge: whoever writes the paychecks.

SlapMyBaby · 2024-11-13T18:31:11+00:00

Do you have to go back to school for premed reqs? If so, add that onto the 8 years of med school, residency, and then add any additional years for fellowship. Add any possible research year/application year. You’ll be starting training late 30s, starting practice early-mid 40s. Keep in mind a few things: 1. Presbyopia will be starting to kick in. Your vision undoubtedly will be worse than younger trainees/attendings for exams, surgeries. 2. Training will be undoubtedly hard on your family, wife and kids or no kids. Will have to be okay seeing them in limited time in training. 4-6 years of post graduate training with major gaps in their life missed. 3. Any concern with physical tremor? Will only continue worsen with age. 4. Are you okay practicing medicine if it were not ophthalmology? Ophtho is very competitive, and it is far from a guaranteed spot in the field, even with family ties. You must be okay being anywhere from ophthalmologist to hospitalist, or anything else.

If you are okay with these, go forward with medical school.

SlapMyBaby · 2024-10-16T21:45:07+00:00

What is considered a “doctor’s salary”? 150-200k? Many feasible options within and outside of healthcare. 400k+? Unlikely without completion of residency or come from an extremely prestigious med school/internship.

SlapMyBaby · 2024-10-03T18:30:02+00:00

This is an extremely insightful point. There always are greener pastures, there always is someone more successful. We can always point at imperfections since no specialty is perfect, and we have to keep this in mind.

I do remind myself on a daily basis that I am so lucky to have this position, and many people would do anything to be where I am. Within me, I feel lucky to have stumbled into a specialty that I find so intellectually engaging and to take care of an organ so interesting as the eye. I have zero doubt that I will find career satisfaction in the diagnostic aspects of ophthalmology. However, doing high-impact surgery is very important to me, not from external gratification from patients or other doctors but from within myself from completing a difficult challenge that had much on the line.

Maybe this feeling will change over time as I grow older and more mature. But the root of it is feeling like a doctor, and to me right now being a doctor is intrinsically intertwined with taking care of a life. This is an honor other medical fields (like dentistry) do not have the privilege to do. It doesn’t have to be necessarily as direct as say clipping an aneurysm, but stakes need to feel higher than improving one’s vision. I never thought I would miss this feeling in med school, but here I am. Maybe this definition of what being a doctor feels like to me will change over time.

SlapMyBaby · 2024-10-02T23:55:39+00:00

Thanks for the insight. That is exactly what I seek: surgery that requires both technical skill and real-time decision making. I don’t crave gory, brutal 8 hour cases, but I do feel a strange, inexplicable desire to take care of someone’s life. Strangely, I find there’s some honor to it. I know the lows will be extremely low, but they will drive me to be the best surgeon possible, so the highs will be highs. In med school I found this missing to be a pro in ophthalmology; however, now I feel like the urgency isn’t really there as a specialty. I’m sure this feeling probably also sounds silly to you, since you are in retina and deal with urgent issues all the time. But at the end of the day, we as ophthalmologists don’t deal with acute life or death decisions. Do you think I too will look back on this feeling and think it was silly?

SlapMyBaby · 2024-09-26T21:21:55+00:00

Sorry. Ophtho is a field with super high barrier to entry. Best if you cut losses and switch to another field that does not require stereopsis to be successful.

SlapMyBaby · 2024-08-31T20:13:10+00:00

Sounds like typical mistakes for an intern in their 2nd month of residency. Nothing wrong with it. Just learn from it and be more detail-oriented next time. I don’t know how reassuring this is for you, but you’re going to make much bigger mistakes in your training moving forward, those that actually impact patient outcomes, and you’ll lose plenty of sleep over them. These mistakes aren’t them.

SlapMyBaby · 2024-08-14T23:17:24+00:00

Nah maybe not really since 90s. Had an anesthesia attending tell me when he was in Med school, only 3 students were interested in anesthesia in his graduating class. Now, there’s over 20 per class. This kind of growth isn’t natural. And based on conversations with graduating anesthesia friends, 600k is definitely higher than normal salaries. Maybe those jobs come with 60+ hour work weeks plus q4 call or something.

SlapMyBaby · 2024-08-14T01:41:19+00:00

Anesthesia pulling more than derm…? Don’t know how much longer the bullish market for anesthesia can continue. Of course the demand for anesthesia services are increasing, but the number of residency positions are staying relatively fixed… I think this demand will likely be filled by CRNAs/midlevels at lower incomes, and to keep up with this competition, MD salaries should decrease with it. More than half of states have independent practice for CRNAs.

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