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Obviously I don't like the number of FRPs given up (but these days that's the going price for a young 25 year old multiple All Star who once scored 57 points in a playoff game. It's extremely unlikely any of those FRPs were going to yield a talent like Mitchell). Mitchell is a bit undersized at the 2 but his wingspan makes him play and seem like he's 6'4" - he certainly doesn't play small. Biggest issue going forward is obviously the black hole on the wing; too bad Lebron signed his extension - imagine him walking into this situation in FA next year. But I could see the Cavs going all-in trying to sign Andrew Wiggins would be a very good fit with this team. Overall though it's impossible not to be excited for the team. Garland needed help on offense Mitchell delivers that and then some. If Mobley (whose offensive development is the most important variable for the team's future) can turn into Bosh/KG on offense then the Cavs should be top 4 in the East for the next 5-10 years. Man, the East is just stupid good: Boston, Milwaukee, Miami, Philly, Brooklyn, Toronto, Cleveland, Chicago, Atlanta - THREE of these teams will be relegated to the play-in and 1 won't even make the playoffs For whatever it's worth, several of the respected talking heads love this trade for Cleveland:

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I think the temptation to sign Lebron to 1 + 1 deal in 2023 (with Love' contract coming off the books) would have been too great to resist and with 2 all-stars & a mobley entering his 3rd year it's a team tailor made for Lebron as he wouldn't have had to do all the heavy lifting. As the Cavs are currently constructed, I think they have a somewhat limited ceiling until they get a good, 2-way wing (Lauri ain't gonna cut it in the playoffs) and Lebron would have fit right in (even at his advanced age with Garland/Allen/Mobley to lean on). Even with all of the drama that Lebron brings, a short-term deal next summer to go for broke in 23-24 and/or 24-25 - I would have done it. Those kinds of good 2 way wings are exceedingly and I don't know where the Cavs are going to get one, so Lebron would have been the best option (Jaylen Brown ain't walking through that door). But my guess is that Lebron and his family are perfectly happy in LA building his "brand" and playing out the string even if it means struggling to get to the play-in tourney. And meanwhile, it's August 19 and Collin Sexton is still a (restricted) free agent.

It may not make them good but at least they’ll be relevant. As for Lebron, he’s content with playing out the string in LA and he’s done winning titles. If he was so inclined, he could have walked into a great situation in Cleveland next summer…

I guess we have to assume Hanks wife is wearing purple.

wtf

Tsai is worth over $8 bilion - KD can bully a lot of people but Tsai ain't one of them.

Boom - this last bullet point. Speaks to the issue of the league over promising.

Everybody spazzing over 24 women when the NFL only presented five of those cases to judge Robinson and none had ANY evidence of criminal wrongdoing. It’s crazy how many people think Watson is a rapist of multiple women, but that’s what happens these days with a media that over promises and under delivers. Insteadof branding Watson as a serial rapist, the media should have focused on the morality of his behavior, like they did with Tiger Woods. That angle would have at least been an honest critique rather than try to brand Watson as something he isn’t and for which there is no evidence.

Stop making shit up. There was no evidence of force, threat of force, or coercion. And two grand juries found not enough evidence for anything criminal. Watsons a creep but no sexual predator. And all these women were conveniently repped by the smarmy lawyer friend of the McNairs. And the NFL would be beyond stupid to appeal - yeah Goodell go ahead and man-splain to a federal female judge what is and what is not sexual assault and why Watson (who is young and black) deserves a year while the old white guy owners like Irsay, Snyder, Kraft, and Jones (for the peeping Tom settled lawsuit) deserve no punishment for their misdeeds. Unbelievably great trade for the Browns, who now have a franchise QB locked up for 5 years along with a stacked roster.

4 games max and twitter and Texan fans (who had visions of top 5 picks dancing in their heads) melt down.

When there's a metric shit-ton of money involved in grants and pharma profits, there's going to be plenty of motivation for thieves to get involved, even well-educated thieves. Another story from earlier this year about crooked Alzheimers swindlers researchers.

This should have been the lead story on every newscast this weekend when one thinks about how many people and their families are suffering from this insidious disease. A 6-month investigation by Science provided strong support for Schrag’s suspicions and raised questions about Lesné’s research. A leading independent image analyst and several top Alzheimer’s researchers—including George Perry of the University of Texas, San Antonio, and John Forsayeth of the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF)—reviewed most of Schrag’s findings at Science’s request. They concurred with his overall conclusions, which cast doubt on hundreds of images, including more than 70 in Lesné’s papers. Some look like “shockingly blatant” examples of image tampering, says Donna Wilcock, an Alzheimer’s expert at the University of Kentucky. The authors “appeared to have composed figures by piecing together parts of photos from different experiments,” says Elisabeth Bik, a molecular biologist and well-known forensic image consultant. “The obtained experimental results might not have been the desired results, and that data might have been changed to … better fit a hypothesis.” tldr - The last 16 years of Alzheimers research and all the money spent on that research and developing drugs is based on data that is extremely likely to be fraudulent. So the state of the research is set back about 16 years.

Tom Cruise was right. Just kidding...sort of. In all seriousness, you are absolutely correct that we are way overmedicated as a society and so many of us (not everybody, obviously) want the quick and easy solution that a pill provides when faced with the slightest bit of discomfort.

And that anonymous GM's name rhymes with Rat Piley.