I toldja with 6' even left and Ice -3 that Ice would win. I have it in writing.
Sunday, May 10, 2026
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".
"...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.
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
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.
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.
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If the sweep and the Knicks' fan takeover didn't saddle the Sixers with enough bad news, there was one final cutting blow to the ego — Philadelphia's two first-round 2018 draft picks are still playing: Mikal Bridges and Landry Shamet, of course, for the Knicks.
AP
Philadelphia has a real inferiority complex, trapped as they are among Washington, D.C., New York City, and Boston. This is traumatic for the people of Philadelphia.
Lessons unlearned...Miami fails to move up, will pick 13th in draft
No. 1. Washington Wizards
No. 2. Utah Jazz
No. 3. Memphis Grizzlies
No. 4. Chicago Bulls
No. 5. Los Angeles Clippers (via Pacers)
No. 6. Brooklyn Nets
No. 7. Sacramento Kings
No. 8. Atlanta Hawks (via Pelicans)
No. 9. Dallas Mavericks
No. 10. Milwaukee Bucks
No. 11. Golden State Warriors
No. 12. Oklahoma City Thunder (via Clippers)
No. 13. Miami Heat
No. 14. Charlotte Hornets
Viral Occurrences May 10, 2026
WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus reiterated that the general public should not be worried about the [hantavirus] outbreak.
“We have been repeating the same answer many times,” he said. “This is not another COVID. And the risk to the public is low. So they shouldn’t be scared and they shouldn’t panic.”
Yes, you have, but our lying eyes see differently:
Even so, those disembarking and personnel working at the port of Granadilla in Tenerife wore protective gear during the evacuation process, including face masks, hazmat suits and respirators. Video obtained by The Associated Press showed passengers on the tarmac donning similar suits and being sprayed down with disinfectant.
“We have been repeating the same answer many times,” he said. “This is not another COVID. And the risk to the public is low. So they shouldn’t be scared and they shouldn’t panic.”
Yes, you have, but our lying eyes see differently:
Even so, those disembarking and personnel working at the port of Granadilla in Tenerife wore protective gear during the evacuation process, including face masks, hazmat suits and respirators. Video obtained by The Associated Press showed passengers on the tarmac donning similar suits and being sprayed down with disinfectant.
Saturday, May 09, 2026
Barry Jackson: "Lessons learned" BY Miami from the Nine Teams Who Have Leapt the "Heat" in the Last FOUR YEARS
Q to the Nine Teams: "Why Haven't You Adopted the Miami Way?"
A: "Because we don't want to go 44-38 for twelve fucking years."
That's a point, Barry.
The answers for Barry Jackson are the same no matter who is learning from whom: no "lessons learned" (save a little shuffling)
It was April 10, 2022 — the final day of the NBA’s regular season — that the Heat stood atop the Eastern Conference standings. It hasn’t happened a single day in four seasons since.
[Since then] a bunch of teams jumped the Heat. Nine teams finished ahead of them in this season’s Eastern Conference standings.
Those nine do not include the injury-riddled Pacers...
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The Heat, frankly, could have schooled many of these teams on roster-building for the first 25 years of the Pat Riley era.
But those teams who jumped Miami didn't want to attend Pat Riley U!
For the Heat, there’s no lesson to be learned from tanking. There’s no lesson to be learned from Cleveland acquiring Donovan Mitchell...
Jackson's (601 Biscayne's) answers become tautological as here. There's no lesson from tanking because we're not tanking.
So I’m not going to sit here and say that most of these teams that jumped the Heat have discovered the magic elixir.
But in our view, there are a few lessons that could be learned — or at least ideas worth considering — from what other teams did the past four years:
▪ Boston: There’s no lesson to be learned from landing generational talents high in the lottery...
Pause: Accepting Beans' offer of multiple draft picks to jump and draft non-generational-non-talent Justise Winslow is a lesson unlearned. Unpause
▪ Indiana and Toronto: We understand the Heat doesn’t like trading a good player for another good player unless it believes the move clearly improves the team.
But sometimes, simply shuffling the pieces can help, in our view.
Lesson 1: learn how to shuffle.
▪ New York: Let’s be real: The Knicks have risen to this spot mostly because they smartly projected that Jalen Brunson would be far better than he was......
As it was explained to me [by 601 Biscayne], the Heat doesn’t prioritize collecting a bunch of first-round picks (though it got one in the Jimmy Butler trade with Golden State) because it’s trying to win every year. We get it. It’s a noble approach.
Pause: Noble is not the word for it. Heads I win, tails you lose. Heads: Miami doesn't like first-round draft picks because it's trying to win every year. Tails: They're not winning every year because they don't have first round draft picks. Miami conclusion: We still don't like draft picks. Unpause
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▪ Philadelphia: For the Heat or anyone else, there’s absolutely nothing to be learned...
▪ Atlanta and Toronto and Orlando. This can be summed in one word: Length! And adequate positional size.
Here I want to add the substance of a post that I drafted but didn't publish:
Erik Spoelstra invented positionless basketball. Pat Riley wasn't a particular fan but deferred.
That has resulted in roster homogenization. The ideal player for positionless is 6'6"-6'8". Tall enough to defend the post but not so tall that he's lumbering. Quick enough to defend Allan Iverson but not too small. A good shooter but not a ball hog. A good defender but not Dennis Rodman-inept at scoring. Every player is expected to be capable of playing all five positions and to be good at everything. Good but not great.
So Jackson's "adequate positional size" is really dumb.
Spoelstra had always wanted to play fast-paced. So he fitted a version of Memphis "wheel" offense to the "Heat" last summer. Riley said in his season wrap-up that in Spo's offense who gets the shot is not dependent on who is a great shooter (since there are no great shooters, only equally good shooters) but on who ends up with the ball in the last 8-second trimester. Riley thinks "you gotta get the ball to your guys" (the great shooters. Spo doesn't think he has great shooters).
Conclusion: Riley is not going to get Spoelstra to play positional basketball.
MISSED it. Sensitive City (1-2) Tops Zollner 116-109 in Pawn Shop
James Harden hit three clutch shots in the final two minutes...
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The 17-year veteran hit a 16-foot step-back jumper to extend the lead to 108-104. After a driving dunk by Cunningham, Harden made a floating 7-footer to put the lead back up to four.
Cunningham responded with a 3-pointer before Harden provided the decisive blow with 25 seconds remaining on a step-back 3-pointer while being guarded by Harris to make it 113-109.
Public Occurrences May 9, 2026
Putin Thinks Rus War on Ukraine Ending
“I think that the matter is coming to an end,” Putin told reporters of the Russia-Ukraine war... He also said he would be willing to negotiate new security arrangements for Europe and that his preferred negotiating partner would be Germany’s former Chancellor, Gerhard Schröder.
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Putin was speaking at the Kremlin after setting out his view of the war’s causes. He blamed “globalist” Western leaders, saying they promised NATO would not expand eastward after the 1989 fall of the Berlin Wall...
He is correct, we did. The U.S. through James Baker to Mikhail Gorbachev.
Viral Occurrences
Hantavirus
Three people are dead, seven others now ill in an outbreak of this rodent-carrying infection. Eight, including the three fatalities, were on board the Dutch luxury cruise ship MV Hondius. Two others, remote from the ship, were reported on Friday.
The mystery here is two-fold: 1) the vector 2) the infection of humans.
The Plague's was rodent-borne too, specifically fleas on rodents. The fleas "jumped ship", off the rats on ships and onto humans. The Plague was in the 14th century. Sanitation, rodent control, hygiene, and medicine have made some progress in seven centuries. Therefore it was surprising that rodents would be aboard a luxury liner like the Hondius. Indeed, this outbreak is "the first of its kind documented on a ship".
Too, Hantavirus has a harder jump to make to humans than the small, hopping fleas of the Plague. Hantavirus needs to make a Great Leap, either by a bite from a rodent or, gross alert, inhalation of aerosolized urine of the rodent. How do either of those happen to six people on a luxury cruise ship in the 21st century? You're thinking six different people did not kiss an infected rodent onboard the Hondius, that the outbreak started with rodent-to-human infection and then spread from human to human. I am too! But...
Human-to-human transmission is extremely rare. There was like one reported case before the Hondius. World Health Organization testing has determined that the hantavirus onboard the ship is the Andes variant, "the only hantavirus species known to be capable of limited transmission between humans, through close and prolonged contact, according to the WHO." Thus, "WHO officials have repeatedly said the risk to the public at large is not high and the virus is not transmitted easily."
Easier than WHO thinks! In the two cases reported Friday, one was a woman who became ill after sitting "near" (not "next to") one of the infected cruise passengers on a plane flight.
Viruses are a bitch, as we all know from our experience with COVID-19. Viruses mutate so frequently that human virus hunters are always a step behind. The behavior of this hantavirus, whether the Andes variant or a sub-variant of the Andes, or a completely different variant, is unique or extremely unusual.
One can only hope that this hantavirus does not spread to the U.S., or that if it does it infects only MAGAts because WHO "puts the fatality rates among infected people in the United States at up to 50%."
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