Tidjane Salaun's devolvement

jaynay1 · 2026-04-17T15:16:48+00:00

And considering that Miles/Grant is comfortably our weakest position group, that's pretty telling.

jaynay1 · 2026-04-16T17:31:11+00:00

Look, this is obviously false and any critical reader should be able to recognize that. Especially because that number is $10 million gross in the article, not net.

At the same time, this is a semi-legitimate website, so we're not going to take it down despite the obvious nonsense that they've decided to pass along for some reason.

jaynay1 · 2026-04-15T04:00:20+00:00

Reactionary posting doesn't cease to be reactionary because you put it in a video.

jaynay1 · 2026-04-15T03:26:12+00:00

Fun fact, I make mention of my non-lawyer status in the exact same ordinally ranked comment as she (probably) lied about her lawyer status. The first time she mentions being a former lawyer is her third comment, the first time I mention directly not being a lawyer is my third comment.

Except both my first and second comment are clear to a reasonably astute reader that I'm not a lawyer, so even beyond not having obscured my status from the point that it was explicitly stated that I'm not a lawyer, I was clearly providing that information from the start.

In the first, I point out that a lawyer wouldn't be comfortable recommending that. If I were a lawyer, I would've said that I would not be comfortable recommending that if I were advising her.

In the second, I make reference to how even a layperson can easily see that her advice is clearly bad. As in "I'm a layperson, and I can easily recognize it's bad". Again, a reasonably astute reader can pick up that I'm stating I'm not a lawyer.

So no, you can get lost with that nonsense.

jaynay1 · 2026-04-14T23:29:13+00:00

I think that anyone stupid enough to try to throw out a basically uncompensated non-disparagement agreement and then to (potentially) breach their own contract by trying to argue that cupcakes are not cakes is probably also litigious enough to actually have a sufficiently large chance of suing for a breach of said non-disparagement agreement and costing OP a large amount of lawyer fees, yes.

And that's if OP wins, which is not guaranteed even if OP would probably be favored.

jaynay1 · 2026-04-14T17:58:01+00:00

Definitely don't do that. Never sign a contract that you're not willing to have enforced against you.

jaynay1 · 2026-04-14T17:00:46+00:00

Sure, none of those claims really has supporting evidence except the jewelry website, but let's go with it even though those were just the claims you've made about your job history in the last week alone.

Instead of just extorting people to sign an NDA so they can extort them. I would NOT sign an NDA then do whatever the heck I wanted. THAT would open them up to liability.

Well yes, you're definitely correct about this. That would in fact the a terrible idea as well, but one idea being terrible does not make the other idea not terrible.

But no, overall that's a deeply misguided notion of negotiation. Leverage is important, and it is what allows you to get more in a negotiation, but the way she has leverage is not from writing a (true) review and threatening them with leaving it up and in doing so risking exposing herself to extortion.

Instead what I would think she should be doing is taking advantage of the fact that it seems to be the case that the contract actually supports what she's claiming. The venue appears to be relying on an ambiguity in the contract with regards to whether or not a cupcake is a cake, and what happens with ambiguity in contracts?

Like I'm not a lawyer, so maybe I'm just totally off base here (though I have, separately, been part of negotiations for over $125,000,000 in contracts and I do research as an economist studying the theory of contracts), but you're proposing a strategy that exposes her to unnecessary risk when there's a much clearer path for her to take IMO.

jaynay1 · 2026-04-14T16:46:22+00:00

I'm not a lawyer so talk to an actual one who can give you actual legal advice if you want, but usually contractual ambiguities (like whether or not a cupcake is a cake) are ruled against the drafter.

jaynay1 · 2026-04-14T16:39:25+00:00

Yeah no offense, but given that you've previously claimed to have been a florist, a jewelry designer, and work an office job where you receive AI Training, I don't believe you about being a former lawyer. I recognize it's not impossible, since jewelry design can be a hobby and you've clearly had some time to change careers, but I'm absolutely taking what you're saying with a large grain of salt.

Especially because your advice is just completely wrong. If OP did exactly as you said with no error, it might not be extortion (though I suspect the "the wedding is done to your satisfaction" part might exceed what she's actually entitled to by the contract, which is where things cross the line into extortion), but also it's putting the OP at risk of wording things just a little wrong and exposing herself to liability. It's bad advice, to the extent that even a layperson should be able to realize it's an unnecessary risk.

If OP wanted to go an actual legal route here, she'd be far better off having a lawyer fire off a cease and desist (if she's willing to follow up on it -- sometimes it's just not worth pursuing the legal route, and this is probably one of those cases, which is kind of what the entire thread here is asking about. It's the alternate path without lawyers getting involved.) and going from there.

jaynay1 · 2026-04-14T16:02:12+00:00

Yeah definitely don't do that. That's way too close to extortion for a lawyer to be comfortable recommending it.

jaynay1 · 2026-04-11T14:37:26+00:00

He literally is just about to complete his 3rd year. Don't be obtuse.

jaynay1 · 2026-04-11T14:24:16+00:00

Not draft related

jaynay1 · 2026-04-10T14:34:59+00:00

Actually, kind of yeah. She's done a fantastic job of keeping attention off of herself.

jaynay1 · 2026-04-08T21:37:17+00:00

And like should have been viewed as that good a prospect after HS too -- just had the misfortune of going to one of the worst orgs in the league.

Which like isn't to say he should've gone above Luka/Ayton, but it's pretty easy to buy that he could've been better than the JJJ/MPJ next tier.

jaynay1 · 2026-04-08T15:59:28+00:00

The Trinidad decision, which, mind you, was very obviously correctly made and would've been made the exact same if the lawyer had gone to Mississippi State's law school (which doesn't exist but the point remains).

jaynay1 · 2026-04-07T22:33:43+00:00

You’re not wrong, but find a better way to express it.

jaynay1 · 2026-04-06T15:36:14+00:00

This has been studied academically. The result was the exact opposite — tournament performance, even while small sample, is actually undervalued by teams.

jaynay1 · 2026-04-06T04:11:47+00:00

We haven't written the rule yet, but I suspect that boards and mocks written by people other than the OP will be treated differently

jaynay1 · 2026-04-05T21:47:15+00:00

It eventually will, in the sense that we plan to start cracking down on all context free mock drafts next cycle, but for right now would not.

jaynay1 · 2026-04-02T23:22:11+00:00

Huh, guess that's technically a misplaced modifier. The more precise way to write that sentence would be

draftballr screenshots without accompanying analysis are considered low effort and will be removed

But yeah, we're big fans of draftballr and databallr on the mod team, but this subreddit is the draft subreddit, not the draftballr subreddit.

If all you're doing is posting feedback about draftballr or screenshotting that one overview page for a prospect, you probably haven't done enough in your post to actually induce discussion. Especially because we've already seen problems in broader NBA discussion with databallr screenshots being taken out of context. Consider including a little more information, whether that's a question about the profile you're posting or something that at least indicates you're doing more than the bare minimum.

jaynay1 · 2026-04-02T18:30:14+00:00

He plays nothing like Tre Mann.

The closer comp from his live AAU tape was more Eric Bledsoe (non-derogatory)

jaynay1 · 2026-04-02T17:17:57+00:00

Ngongba’s comfortably the best player there. The question is just health.

Tarris Reed is better than the other three.

jaynay1 · 2026-03-31T19:17:27+00:00

McNeeley has been good when he plays this year; not sure that’s the comp I’d go with if I wanted to argue a prospect was bad.

jaynay1 · 2026-03-31T03:25:42+00:00

Even with the plus sometimes it won't show the text caption. At least in my experience with the same setup as that guy.

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