I’d say Miami is somewhere in the 40% – 45% range to win game 6 at home if Vincent is back, but that’s a question mark.

If the Celtics win game 6 they are probably 80%-85% to take game 7 at home given the atmosphere and momentum they’ll have.

Right now I’d rate this as close to a pick’m series, but I might still make Miami a very mild favorite.

Did the Athletic article get discussed?

What I took from that article was that a lot of teams overpaid for players and left themselves in a difficult situation, but one of them was NOT the Knicks.

That’s what I’ve been saying to the pessimists all along. At the end of the season there will be a handful of teams (call it 8) better than us, but few of them have both internal upside, flexibility, and assets like us.

The goal is scour the market, see what’s available, and try to get better without doing anything stupid. Whether that makes us a contender next year or not will be dependent on what deals become available and how much internal improvement we get, but it doesn’t have to be next year. We are young and have some time. Just keep moving forward.

But if it gets too stressful and drawn out and starts affecting your mental, physical, or financial health, and as you said you don’t need the money, maybe settle for a compromise short of 62. Ultimately, the goal should be to cruise into the next phase of your life as healthily and stress-free as possible. I still sometimes brood about the battles that I’ve won and lost in my job but at the end of the day, they get smaller and smaller in the rear view mirror.

i don’t really need their money…even more so, i really don’t like getting hustled or taken advantage of – it’s a feeling of being violated…

i’ve been able to regain my wits, memory and strength a bit…i imagine like yourself, if i get knocked down, really good chance i’m gonna get up swinging…

Most interestingly, the NBA landscape seems simultaneously wide open for a team to grab a ring after coming in from left field … and remains littered with disappointed teams that made the same effort but must repair talented-yet-flawed, capped-out, asset-deprived, 40-something-win teams. Rarely have so many teams paid so much for so little.

So, get ready for the Summer of Stuckness. We’ve heard plenty of chatter this could be a very active summer, with a lot of teams willing to shake up their rosters. But willingness is only half the equation. So many teams have painted themselves deep into corners that it’s hard to see how they could plausibly extricate themselves with a meaningful trade.

How can trades happen if nobody can make a deal? The three teams that should be selling (Portland, Chicago and Washington) insist on buying, and the bad teams have nothing the good teams want. But the biggest obstacle to trades this offseason, by far, is that a number of teams that otherwise would be dealing like crazy have choked off all their options.

It then goes on to name the names of nine stuck teams and discuss their individual situations: Atlanta, Brooklyn, Dallas, Golden State, LA Clippers, Miami, Milwaukee, Minnesota and Phoenix.

Every day where Daniel Vogelbach is in the starting lineup for the Mets is a day on which I die inside a little

Why? He’s the crown jewel of Billy Eppler’s trading deadline haul last year!
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Good luck, Geo…hope it works out!

i don’t know, my instincts are telling me it might be best to follow this through…get the VA to assist with the disability discrimination filing, and see this whole process through to it’s conclusion…

not for the potentially bigger payday, but hopefully that will help to ensure other folks with a cognitive disability don’t get hustled by this company…

although they’ve stated to me they’ve done absolutely nothing wrong – they wanna give me 2 months severance pay/health coverage…funny – that’s exactly what i suggested three weeks ago…

i’m looking for two years now though…take me through til age 62…we shall see…