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[Barry] ESPN saying it will be hard for anyone to top possible Warriors offer of Butler, 4 unprotected firsts & Kuminga for Giannis and Kuzma
JBIII? According to Shams, Beer is looking for young talent and/or multiple first round draft picks. JBIII does not fill that mug. The 4 unprotected 1st rounders plus Jonathan Kuminga is very good. But does it top the "Heat" offering Bam + say, Tyler, and however many firsts we have, three or four I think, if we get our pick back from the Terry Rozier trade? Beer would be getting two All-Stars from us. From Golden State, they'd be getting Kuminga, who will become an All-Star when he gets the p.t. The beauty of the Bam-for-Giannis trade to me though is that both teams get a like replacement. Now, of course, I have no fucking idea if Pat Riley would trade his Captain, not even for Antetokounmpo. But if he doesn't, and if Bam is the lynch pin for this deal, then Riles is a dotard.
NBACentral
@TheDunkCentral
The Heat believe they have a real shot at landing Giannis Antetokounmpo, per
@TheSteinLine
“So what team out there could actually tempt the Bucks into a deal in the next week-plus? The most common answer to that question when posed to various league executives continues to be Miami. Now is that merely because the Heat themselves are said to be transmitting a vibe of confidence that they can somehow sway the Bucks? Possibly. Miami, for what it's worth, is said to believe it has a real shot at crafting a pathway to Antetokounmpo.”
(Via http://substack.com/redirect/2/eyJ…)
The Stat
I noticed at HT that although we had a nine-point lead, possessions were within one as I recall and we were losing on the component stats, offense boards and turnovers. We had Simone Fontecchio alone to thank for our lead. Well, The Stat at FT tells the tale as well as the scoreboard does.
Shots: Miami 88 Orlando 104! +16 ✅"Magic". To let the full force of this stat hit you between the eyes, consider: Miami shooting, 50%; Orlando 50%. Miami shooting three 44%; Orlando 42%. We shot better than they did from range! We even had more FTs and more makes! 21/23 to 13/17. The difference: Orlando took sixteen more shots.
Offensive Rebounds: Mia 9 Orl 12 ✅"Magic.
Turnovers/points conceded off: Miami 18-24 (!), Orlando 7-11 ✅"Magic"
Ballgame.
Erik Spoelstra started the same lineup he has for...too long, four games maybe. And it went the same way. I don't know if Spo is punishing 3J for fucking his ex-wife or what, but Jako started and was completely ineffective, 20', tyoo points, as many points as turnoverS, -6. 3J played 28' off the bench: 13 pts, +2. But Andrew was the anchor man tonight (in +/-): 32', 16 pts, -15.
The "Heat" 3W streak ends. They fall to 25-23 -->43-39.
We have lost FOUR straight to Orlando!
In hallowed Bang Bus, Orlando blew it wide out open in the 3Q to blow the fire of the "Heat" out. 20-40 in the quarter was the difference. FT MIA 124 ORL 133. The L broke our 3W streak; the W broke Orlando's 4L. We cannot beat this team.
Diz 8-0 run, "Heat" 21-32, 1:56 1Q
Lose this one and it will be our fourth in just over one-half season to the same team.
GIANNIS ANTETOKOUNMPO, MILWAUKEE OPEN TO TRADE
The mid-season trade deadline is February 5 but Milwaukee is in no hurry and may well wait until the summer. Milwaukee wants "blue chip young talent and/or a surplus of draft picks." Miami, Minnesota, New York, and Golden State are "serious suitors" for Antetokounmpo.
While this news is a dramatic departure from the previous public stances of Milwaukee and Antetokounmpo, it was expected by the cognoscenti. For the "Heat", it is a dramatically positive development. They're in the ballpark. The team has had 11 and one-half seasons of an average record of 44-38. Antetokounmpo would instantly deliver them from that purgatory of mediocrity. For the same reason it is also a defining moment in Pat Riley's last years. The "Heat" haven't landed a "whale" since, by my lights, LeBron James sixteen years ago. Jimmy Butler, in the undersigned's opinion, was a very big fish but not a whale. Of course, the undersigned does not know what Minnesota, New York, and Golden State have in mind, but I do think that if Riley is willing to include Bam Adebayo, with whom Antetokounmpo is largely redundant and a significant upgrade, Miami could land this whale. And with Bam as the lynch pin, to the extent that Giannis has a say, and the reporting today from Shams Charania is that the org. and player are working collaboratively, I think Miami would vault over the two Leastern Conference suitors as a title contender and preferred destination for Giannis.
One Wig, One Purse, One Skirt
Deliverance-Born, Identity-Changing, Cross-Dressing, James Donald Bowman aka James David Vance, Married to "Non-White"
Dago Bimbo Pamela Jo Bondi Honored as Distinguished NAIF
"'Bimbo' has been used by some right-wing influencers and critics to describe Pam Bondi"
See Google, even your AI cites rightist racists use of bimbo to describe Bondi so it's okay!
"Which Way Western Man, the title of a 700-page antisemitic book, long a favourite among white supremacists" CBC
Homeland Security
@DHSgov
Which way, American man?
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