Monday, May 11, 2026

Here we go...

Sources: Bucks seeking trade offers for Giannis Antetokounmpo

Shams Charania for ESPN so this is completely legit.

...ownership and front office officials expect to maintain their trade deadline asking price of a young blue-chip talent and/or a surplus of draft picks, sources said.

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The Bucks' trade saga with Antetokounmpo began a year ago. ...including last summer, when Antetokounmpo informed all parties that he had a desire to play for the New York Knicks. The Bucks believed the team was set to be a contender in the Eastern Conference and decided to hold on to him after failed traction in talks with the Knicks last August.

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...Multiple teams expected to pursue Antetokounmpo this offseason, such as the Golden State Warriors (No. 11) and Miami Heat (No. 13), received their lottery picks to solidify potential offers.

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Rival executives believe that Antetokounmpo's desired teams will be the largest factor in his trade destination.

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"The conversation will be simple: Where does [Giannis] want to be moved, and where will he sign long term?" one source with direct involvement in the situation told ESPN.

[It is not going to be that simple. Beer has to get the right return. His no. 1 has always been Mamdani City. He has never mentioned Miami except that it is a "beautiful city. beautiful, beautiful, beautiful city." That it is, but Giannis does not read as a South Beach guy and the "Heat" is dreck. There are nine or ten teams just in the Least that can offer him a shorter path to the Finals than the "disorganized, disgruntled, not meshing "Heat."

If Antetokounmpo suddenly says, "I want to take my talents to South Beach" I will be one surprised mofo. But the "Heat" offer was the last one standing in February, and New York did not want to break up its core last summer. It seems reasonable that they would not want to break up this roster now when they are on a jaw-dropping run in the 'loffs. Shams does not mention Miami as a destination. I don't think it is a destination. But Beer came close to accepting Miami's offer in February, calling it off only 18 hours before the trade deadline expired.

Hope, Miami, HOPE. But make it evidence-based hope to avoid emotional meltdown. Maybe it happens but from where I sit, it will not happen.

Sensitive City erased a Z 4-point HT lead with extreme prejudice, 38-21 in 3Q. That is character.

Cavalry Rides to Sensitive City's Rescue in the Pawn Shop, defeating Zollner 112-103 to even series 2-2

Hantavirus usually spreads from rodent droppings and is not easily transmitted between people. But the Andes virus detected in the cruise ship outbreak may be able to spread between people in rare cases.

“This is not another COVID. And the risk to the public is low. So they shouldn’t be scared, and they shouldn’t panic.”-WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus

T.A.G., let me ask you some questions:

-Then why are the passengers and health workers in that photo dressed as if in preparation to give mouth-to-mouth resuscitation to polonium patients? Why were the Americans who were onboard the MV Hondius immediately flown to a quarantine facility in Nebraska?

-You don't even know for sure if the Andes variant does spread between people, right? And, if it does, that's in rare cases, correct?

-There were a total of 146-149 people onboard the MV Hondius. There are 10 confirmed or probable hantavirus patients, three of whom have died. Therefore, 6.7%-6.8% of the total number of people onboard got infected with the virus, right? That is a high infection rate, right? 6.7%-6.8% sounds HIGH to me.

Those infection rates affirmatively PROVE Hantavirus-Andes DOES spread between people, don't they?

Those infection rates affirmatively DISPROVE state-of-medicine knowledge on either 1) whether this is Hantavirus-Andes or 2) what the transmission rate is between people, correct, isn't that correct T.A.G.? No further questions you make me sick.

The Defining Moment of Our Time is Israeli, American-Enabled Genocide

WHAT DOES DIOGENES of Sinope have in common with Alexei Navalny and the unnamed man who stood before a column of tanks near Tiananmen Square in 1989? Tracing 10 qualities of moral resistance across two-and-a-half millennia, Gal Beckerman argues, in his new book How to Be a Dissident, that these figures share something more elemental than politics, ideology, or biography. Each of them, at a defining moment...measured every action against a single instinctual question: Can I live with myself?

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...dissidence is not a political stance, not a career, and not a personality type. It is what happens when the distance between what you believe and how you act becomes intolerable.

-Sasha Razor book review of How to Be a Dissident, Gal Beckerman

USMLE Today (II)

Anybody can study when they are feeling tip-top. A successful student is one who studies when not feeling tip-top, who pushes through malaise or fatigue with determination and stamina.

Determination, stamina, and strategy were the components of the Golden Apple, the ancient Greek symbol of success.

USMLE Today

I look for clues in the fact pattern. I look for phrases/terms repeated in fact pattern and answer choice. Sometimes I get the wrong answer, sometimes the right. But my test-taking strategy is VALID even for medical brainiacs. On a question today:

"...a diamond in the rough would come in quite handy at the moment at 601 Biscayne."

I swear I never heard another person use "601 Biscayne" before I did and I never heard Ira use it until after I did.

Public Occurrences May 11, 2026

Fed Up, Zelensky Takes Gloves Off With the Trump Administration

With peace talks on ice and Ukraine now more self-reliant, President Volodymyr Zelensky seems to be stepping away from the United States.

NYT

One thing is for sure, Volo, you cannot rely on the Toilet Nation. Yes, best to step away from that outhouse.

7:48 am:

25% of Toilet People Believe Assassination Attempts on Florida Felon Fake

Sunday, May 10, 2026

Toldja!

I toldja with 6' even left and Ice -3 that Ice would win. I have it in writing.

FT at last. Ice (2-2) 114 Alamo 109

Over. 114-109, 9.8". WAIT, Alamo FTO

Wolves Dire. Full Den Mtng :13.1 112-109

Ayo Dumbasso had the ball stolen leading to Alamo cutting it to 5. One more turnover and we're heading to OT...unless Wolves "foul up 3".

112-109, :20.6

Oh no

112-105, 29.1"

110-103, 1:12

Ice 107-103, 1:17, Alamo FTO

ICE!!!!!!!!!!! 107-101, 1:56

"...the Duncan Robinson experience..."

Why does Ira Winderman use stupid phrases like that. There was "the Kyle Lowry effect" and "the PJ Tucker-something," maybe "experience", too.

ICE! (not popular in Mnpls) 98-97, 5:12 left

Yes

MIAMI — In perhaps a metaphor for where the franchise has stood in recent years, the Miami Heat found themselves running in place at Sunday NBA draft lottery, starting the random-but-weighted drawing as the No. 13 seed and exiting the process with the No. 13 pick in the June 23 first round of the draft. Ira

95-97, 5:32 Ice Full Chill

Ice hardening: 94-97, 6' left. (prediction: Ice wins)

Ice softening: Hotspurs (2-1), without Wembanyama, 94-86, 8:49 4Q

Victor Wembanyama (RIGHTFULLY) Ejected from Ice-Alamo game

He through a vicious elbow actoss the windpipe of Naz Reid.

114-141 NYC (🧹)

Knicks fans...may have made the loudest statement yet. They raised brooms outside the arena and waved “Always Knicks” towels once inside, all while noisily neutering the few Sixers fans that didn't make a few extra bucks on the secondary market and stuck around.

The 76ers' franchise failed to stop Knicks fans in their effort to buy tickets.

The 76ers were greater failures in trying to stop the Knicks on the floor.