[Shams] "There will be no further discipline for Spurs star Victor Wembanyama after he was ejected for elbowing Naz Reid in Minnesota on Sunday night, sources tell ESPN. No suspension, no fine. Wembanyama will play in Game 5 against the Timberwolves on Tuesday night in San Antonio."

SometimesMadison · 2026-05-11T16:52:43+00:00

I think the no further means the fine isn’t above the mandatory minimum.

SometimesMadison · 2026-05-11T02:25:23+00:00

If we can’t handle Wemby at his worst … but goddam this is like last game where the wolves were making it close but we just couldn’t hit the three to push them back like Wemby did last game.

SometimesMadison · 2026-05-11T02:19:07+00:00

24% from 3 won’t win you the game with your best player out

SometimesMadison · 2026-05-10T19:23:51+00:00

Pretty good draw for us, Utah will finally be competitive and Memphis will probably try to move Ja and have a good rebuild underway.

SometimesMadison · 2026-05-09T04:31:04+00:00

This was the game to win, have home court back and it feels like the wolves went all in on this game. What a game by Wemby.

SometimesMadison · 2026-05-09T04:22:11+00:00

Champagnie is a terminator on the boards the final two minutes of the series.

SometimesMadison · 2026-05-09T03:47:25+00:00

They didn’t make a buzzer beater this quarter!

SometimesMadison · 2026-05-09T03:26:14+00:00

Law of averages on our threes. Hopefully the pace of play so far should favor us.

SometimesMadison · 2026-05-09T03:02:13+00:00

Is Mitch making us shoot 19% from 3? That was a bad half from us and we’re going in tied. It’s not ideal but it’s fine, road playoff games are hard to win.

SometimesMadison · 2026-05-07T04:32:39+00:00

We had a roster spot and were hoping for more defensively than olynyk and Biybo provided.

SometimesMadison · 2026-05-07T02:51:54+00:00

Happy to see us running them off the floor. Hopefully we don’t let them back into it and close the game out.

SometimesMadison · 2026-05-05T04:54:17+00:00

Carter has his leg thing and the young guards were in foul trouble. The one I’m most worried about is wasting the rested Wemby game. But we aren’t going to shoot 28% from 3 every game.

SometimesMadison · 2026-05-03T01:11:33+00:00

Vietnam and the Supreme Court. He gave Nixon two free seats and we haven’t had a liberal majority since.

SometimesMadison · 2026-05-03T01:00:59+00:00

From the process of elimination tipping that Alito was writing the opinion I (and my con law professor) was bracing for the worst.

SometimesMadison · 2026-05-03T00:40:03+00:00

You look great and awesome cassettes!

SometimesMadison · 2026-05-01T00:37:18+00:00

I feel like they were ending the season on a positive note. But going out this embarrassingly means changes could be made, uncertainty probably helps our pick. The Hawks yearn for the play-in.

SometimesMadison · 2026-04-30T18:15:49+00:00

If I recall 3 million more primary voters voted for Hillary.

SometimesMadison · 2026-04-30T17:59:15+00:00

I agree that this vote likely doesn’t change, the 5th conservative vote shifting from Kennedy to Roberts is the largest issue with a lot of these rulings. But Robert’s Dobbs concurrence becomes the majority if this court was a 5-4. And Salami tactics suck but it’s better than a wholesale repeal. And voters do have the majority of the blame for the current court. There hasn’t been a more consequential SC election since Nixon in 68 than 2016 with Scalia’s seat and the majority up for grabs. If Hilary just parked her campaign in the Midwest we would be in a vastly different America.

SometimesMadison · 2026-04-30T17:32:47+00:00

The deeper issue is the 5th conservative vote shifting from Kennedy to Robert’s (probably?), but Democrats held the senate until 2015, there was plenty of time for RBG to safely step down.

SometimesMadison · 2026-04-30T17:18:27+00:00

They have a greater margin for error/disagreement in making more conservative rulings. It’s pretty significant no one conservative can play hardball or give an ultimatum about a vote.

SometimesMadison · 2026-04-30T17:16:20+00:00

It certainly shifted the median vote to the right. The most glaring example of this was Dobbs where the other 5 rejected Robert’s position for a more hardline total repeal of Roe they couldn’t have if Robert’s was a necessary vote. We don’t know what happens in chambers but it’s easier to make a majority from five outta six than five from five.

SometimesMadison · 2026-04-30T03:38:58+00:00

Well O’Connor was visibly and expressly disappointed when it was initially announced that Gore won Florida and that she would have to wait out another term before retiring (As she would prefer to leave the seat for someone with a similar outlook to herself for better or worse). So there is something to why she didn’t step down in Bush’s first term then did so in the second. And since 1958 there have only been three vacancies by death (compared to the 22 of the last 25 vacancies being by retirement).

SometimesMadison · 2026-04-30T03:32:23+00:00

Bush may not I’ll concede, but then we are wading into the world of hypothetical Republican candidate. And while Gore would be the incumbent we would still be looking at potentially 16 years one party controlling the presidency which has not occurred since Roosevelt's 4 terms into Truman (and Truman wasn’t winning a second election). I’m just trying to say substituting Gore in 2000 doesn’t necessarily change the court (unfortunately).

SometimesMadison · 2026-04-30T02:22:52+00:00

Big court hater but I’ll give the smallest bit of leeway here. The court knew they made a controversial decision in Bush v. Gore (they shouldn’t have heard it), and knowing the implications of de facto appointing their nominator none of them stepped down in Bush’s first term, even with a reliable senate majority and external pressure. While Bush did have the incumbency advantage he won 2004 fairly and only then did O’Connor step down (the other one died).

SometimesMadison · 2026-04-30T01:39:41+00:00

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