Already going into training camp with Wood & Vando injured.

Sadly, we seem to be stuck with him. No great replacements available for trade and no depth on the current roster either. Not sure how Gabe is gonna look this season and Reaves isn’t a PG. Eventually, LeBron ain’t gonna be able to do it all. Guess we just have to wait for the inevitable D.Russell crash come playoff time.

Automatic technical foul everytime a player makes the twirling finger replay sign…lol. But for real, take the refs out of the equation once it goes to replay; just let the command center make the call at that point. Would save a ton of time and minimize slowing down the flow of the game. Probably a ref’s union thing though….

Looking at the entire landscape right now….I think our ceiling is barely avoiding the play-in. You’ve got teams like HOU & MEM who will definitely be in the picture this season.

I think folks have alotta misconceptions about pro athletes. I have a few friends & fam who were marginal pros (nobody you’d probably know) and they’ll all tell you that most dudes aren’t trying to be Kobe & Brady. They know they have an extremely limited shelf life and that most careers are over before they hit 30 years of age. Guys in that situation are trying to get paid while they still can and leave with a decent nestegg to start the next stage of life that’ll be substantially longer than their playing careers. We ain’t talking about generational wealth here. Ideally you’d want to spend as much time in the NBA as possible but sometimes it just doesn’t work out that way and you do what you gotta do. The shifting CBA rules don’t make it any easier either.

It’s actually alot like any other workplace; you’ve got a small percentage who really give a sh!t and want to move up into management & above. You’ve got another small percentage who are truly no good at their job but do the bare minimum to keep from getting fired. Then you have the vast majority who just wanna do their best, get paid on Friday, and go home. But that kinda ruins the illusion that everybody will spill blood for a ring.

I was talking with my niece’s fiance a coupla weeks ago who tried for about 3 years to make it to the NBA but could never quite catch on. Got an offer to play in Turkey that paid him way more than he woulda made on a minimum NBA contract. Also paid for just about all his living expenses. Spent 5 years there and the only thing he regrets is that he didn’t do it sooner. Everything ain’t for everybody…..