UpperWestside
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NBA 2024-25 Playoff Thread
How did this become such a popular name?
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NBA 2024-25 Playoff Thread
Yeah kinda the same deal as my childhood hero Magic who was not exactly a defensive wizard. He did try harder though on that end than Luka. You put someone out there with him that can defend and runs the floor baseline to baseline. I am 100 percent fine with Luka not ever being better than mediocre to average at defense. His talent of controlling the pace on the other end is unmatched by any other point guard in the NBA. The Wolves and most any other team besides Memphis were going to beat the Purple and Gold this year once we completely vacated the center position by rescinding the trade for Williams.
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Tracking Trump Administration and Cabinet picks
I want RFK to start a study where he and Elmo head to Papua New Guinea. I want them left there with no anti-dote for when they invariably get bitten by snakes, malaria giving mosquitoes and everything else that entails. I want to see how much these manly men can take. Just two morons and nature. Let’s see who wins.
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The Worst Trade in NBA History: Luka traded for AD
Haven’t thought about Ted DiBiase in God knows how many years. Man that’s a throwback. I have a friend that is really into wrestling and his younger brother was doing some amateur wrestling events for several years.
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NBA 2024-25 Playoff Thread
I didn’t see the game, but Rui is one of those guys I do enjoy watching. He has a pretty good backstory with his family and whatnot. Unfortunately for my guys we have no size, at all. I assume that gets fixed this off-season when we get an actual center and not a Make-A-Wish guy manning that spot. I did say the winner of game 5 wins the series so I got that part of the series correct. Good luck against the Dubs. Going to be hard to play Gobert much in that one. Would not shock me to see Draymond miss a game in this series for an attempted decapitation of Rudy.
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Elon Musk: Nazi traitor piece of shit [Confirmed]
His crash is going to be the biggest belly up in the history of the modern world. I hope I find him on a street corner in Durban one day begging for food. He deserves to be thrown to the sharks there. Pretty sure most South Africans would volunteer to make it happen.
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Ukraine War
This is example eleventy billion in Russia’s despotic history of the value their culture places upon human life. The world would be better off just walling off the country from the rest of civilization. As horrific as TFG is at the moment this is a country with century upon century of examples of how little the life of a person matters. At a certain point the blame for how Russia operates cannot just be placed upon Putin and his cronies when generation after generation operates in this manner.
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Tariff wars, they have began
We’re not king of negativity. We’re just not.
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Tariff wars, they have began
That whole tourism thing is not going so well. We'll do better out here because we're not on the mainland and tourists from Japan, South Korea and China are still going to make it here. Tourism in the continental US? Good luck keeping your jobs in tourist areas. Should see a good amount of restaurant closures across the major tourist cities this year as well as many hotel chains taking some huge hits.
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The Worst Trade in NBA History: Luka traded for AD
Any reasonable Lakers fan (Haha I know) can say that our championship for this season was getting Luka. The roster has no credible center that Luka can use to get easy points. LeBron is getting way too many minutes, but again there is no credible big. Rui is overextended as well, but he plays hard and generally makes the right play on offense. He works well with Luka. This team just has to find two bigs who can run with Luka. He gets that and things change quite a bit for next year’s outlook.
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NBA 2024-25 Playoff Thread
I didn’t see the game, but his line seems like his normal Big Game James line. This guy will make the Hall of Fame on the first ballot and yet he will have choked in almost every single big playoff game. It’s incredible just how not good this guy is when his team needs him the most. The only time I can remember him coming up big was that one game with the Sixers. I look forward to whatever person introduces him for his Hall of Fame induction and proceeds to have to lie about how great he was.
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Lincoln Riley to USC
That story made me laugh only because that is exactly how things work out here. The Ryan brothers are national treasures. Somebody has to pick up the slack and attempt to fill the role of The Old Pirate in college football.
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Trump’s America
In that scenario there is no way they don't actually have him get those tattoos in El Salvador before he returns. Evidence issue solved for TFG. Now he can just drop him off at the Mexican border and say case closed.
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Trump’s America
Europe doesn't like us. Canada doesn't like us. Most of Africa would shoot us into the sun due to Elon if given the chance. Bob in Idaho this is all your fault for not being more patriotic and sending money to your favorite president!
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Ukraine War
Sounds like a great time to bomb some Russians. Shouldn’t have any problems finding them on the 9th.
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Ukraine War
Absolutely him.
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Trump’s America
Every accusation with this cult.
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Deion Sanders "Coach Prime" Now At Colorado
Wait until Shedeur gets shipped to Dallas for a 7th round pick next off-season. I was honestly shocked Dallas did not pick him. That would have been the most Jerruh thing ever.
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The children are gone
Gotta admire @realgreggymfor starting this thread then never coming back once things predictably went south in a hurry with the adults back in charge. Since he always talks so much about his playing days on the basketball forum I decided to see some of the team pictures for the years he would’ve been a player. There are high school teams I have seen play over the past 30 years that would murder the teams he played on at UT. One of the team pictures looks like a bunch of guys from a 24HR Fitness that showed up and got handed jerseys.
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Warfare. Alex Garland makes a war movie
Cas Evac is for casualty evacuation so you did indeed hear it right @austingirl.
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Warfare. Alex Garland makes a war movie
I feel that this adds a level of authenticity to the film. The Americans did not come out as heroes at the end. Their mission was not completed. The evacuation was a horror show. I feel like that was the point. We got probably as close a look as any civilian such as myself will get to seeing how war looks when things go sideways. To me it takes a lot to make a film about what may have been the weakest and most helpless moment these guys had as soldiers. I appreciated what was shown. War is not fun and it is not a game. Men and women die and do not come home when stuff goes wrong. For those of you in this thread who served all I can say to you is thank you. It’s not adequate to say the least. I am pretty defensive about defending the men and women that serve so thank you for doing what most of us will never do.
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2025 NFL Draft
I followed this draft, well, about as much as I follow hockey. I guess since I do not have a team I root for that I'll just root for Skattebo to truck some people while playing for the Giants. He'll probably have a pretty short career, but it'll have some good fireworks while it lasts. Glad he's getting an opportunity to play in the NFL.
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Elon Musk: Nazi traitor piece of shit [Confirmed]
He’s all of it. A terrible human being with no restraint and no one to tell him to shut up and go away. American wealth built this idiot and hopefully it’ll be America that takes it all away from him when we come out the other side. For now this clown will now focus more attention on making sure EVERYONE hates Tesla. I am all for him destroying the company. He does not use any restraint with his thought process or how his actions are almost never in the best interests of any company or group he is associated with. If nothing else he is an interesting study for psychologists in how a completely deranged neurodiverse mind works when there are no guardrails put upon it.
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Deion Sanders "Coach Prime" Now At Colorado
This is probably the only issue I have. I don’t care about test scores. Those tests are ridiculous anyhow. Doing what that front office guy did was pretty cowardly. If you think he sucks just attach your name to it.
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Deion Sanders "Coach Prime" Now At Colorado
I don't think that he will, but I also will take the not giant leap of saying Dillon Gabriel will do the same thing as every other Browns QB and either get hurt or fail or both. Neither of these guys are surviving that franchise without being maimed at some point.