Every off-season, NBA teams take low-cost fliers on former lottery picks and stalled prospects. How often do these bets pan out? I looked at the historical data to find out. First article at the new site! Do Cheap Fliers on Failed Prospects Work? intheno.net/do-cheap-fli...

Do Cheap Fliers on Failed NBA Prospects Work?

Every offseason, NBA teams bet on former lottery picks and stalled prospects. Which gambles actually pay off, and what can history teach us about finding value?

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Who is the fictional character you relate to the most?

Dave DuFour 🐉@davedufour.bsky.social · 5d ago

Who is the fictional character you relate to the most?

whenever someone tells you that it's simply impossible for police to be charged with misconduct or criminal charges, you can tell they're wrong because some cops do get charged regularly — when they are whistleblowers or reformers prosecutors are actually extremely eager to help drum them out!

Phil Lewis@phillewis.bsky.social · 5d ago

Prosecutors charged an LAPD officer with felony eavesdropping for making secret recordings of his colleagues’ racist, sexist and homophobic comments on the job

I've seen a lot of things on the 76ers focused on the offense but that's going to be good/great. Yes, some players will have to sacrifice; for a while they will. These are their Defensive DPM rankings: 145 Embiid 297 Edgecombe 323 LeBron 457 Maxey 498 Jaylen

The theory that Infantino is setting up his post-term limit gig where he'll personally skim off tens of millions from FIFA is really the thing that makes the World Cup sale story come together

#1 on r/all and deservedly so www.reddit.com/r/interestin...

From the interestingasfuck community on Reddit: These cats were put in separate cages because they kept fighting

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The current news on CNBC is "SELL AI; BUY SANDWICHES"

“Ms. Moreno, the daughter of Senator Moreno ... has said that Mr. Miller scalded her chest and stomach by throwing hot water from a skillet at her body; held a gun to her head; pushed her against a wall and hit her head; and fractured their daughter’s collarbone and bruised her shoulder. ...

I continue to believe that the owners will feign towards a fight to lower the BRI split but will be using that to negotiate a "compromise" that keeps 50/50 but simplifies the entire cap/tax/apron system into a codified hard cap under the idea of "well, we already functionally have that anyway."

Tom Ziller@teamziller.bsky.social · last wk.

Free Newsletter Wednesday features an inquiry as to what the greedy owners of the NBA will try to claw after next since they have achieved their long-held goal of a harder salary cap www.teamziller.com/nba-owners-g...

Lindsey Graham in hell having to build a ballroom by hand and every time he gets close to finishing the Central Planning Board knocks it down for a code violation and he has to start again, for all eternity

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · last wk.

Hannity: "My President, Lindsey probably has a heavenly version of Mar-a-Lago. It may even be a little bigger. I wouldn't be surprised if he added one big beautiful ballroom and an arch somewhere on the property. Because he would want to obviously duplicate his dearest friend in life. You."

Down with matcha Up with Dan Cong Oolong tea that tastes like honey

Cindy aka Mrs. Celtics ☘️@mrsceltics.bsky.social · last wk.

Got it before the end of the month. I might be the only person to have done this both with and without glitches.

Ryan Bernardoni@dangercart.bsky.social · 3w ago

I got my eleventh Balatro unseeded gold stake naneinf (probably a world record?) but it was a kind of bullshit run using the Bean bug. I'm going to try to put together an unseeded gold stake Ante 39 using the Bean bug now. If I get it before the end of the month that would be good.

Sources: LeBron will be playing the position of “LeBron” for the 76ers

Shams Charania Tweets@shamsbot.bsky.social · last wk.

RT @espn: .@shamsbot.bsky.social reports the Philadelphia 76ers are planning on LeBron James playing at the point guard position 👀

LeBron and Maxey forming a clique and bringing in VJ so LeBron can convince him that it's Good, Actually that he has 12% usage while Jaylen and Joel try to form a rival faction but that breaks down because they both think they're the leader. The Attitude Era is coming to the Xfinity Mobile Arena!

If VJ wants to know what it’s like being a #3 pick on a good team that undergoes a roster overhaul going into his second season that involves adding multiple high usage vets with complicated personalities, he can always ask Jaylen

Chad Finn@chadfinn.bsky.social · 2w ago

Edgecombe isn’t getting more than five shots in a game again until 2030. 😂

The stage of the process where the contract of “The Process” is the biggest hindrance to reaching success for The Process™️

Mitch Goldich@mitchgoldich.bsky.social · 2w ago

There’s some renewed interest in The Process, so here’s my timeline refresher. The Sixers are currently in what I call late-stage Process. It doesn’t end until Embiid is gone. Welcome LeBron. It’s been a journey.

The factions that are going to develop on this team are going to be fascinating. It's too bad it's 2026 and not 1986 and so no one can become a team embed for a season tell-all book.

@markjonesespn.bsky.social · 2w ago

I’ve been saying it during all my national broadcasts of the Sixers For the last two years I’ve been saying ”Lebron has become a mentor and and workout partner of Tyrese Maxey in Thousand Oaks..they’ve established a bond and Lebron is a big supporter and fan of Tyrese” This was an easy call💯

You can't say "no" to LeBron but the 76ers are going to be worse than the sum of their parts, clearly

God I love him so much

LeBron caught by lip readers saying “10,000 Lakes” to his wife like Kyrie telling KD “two max slots”

Patrick Fenelon@patrickfenelon.bsky.social · 2w ago

It would be extremely funny if the reason why LeBron hasn't announced where he's playing yet is that he wants to play in Minnesota because of the basketball fit, & he's been arguing with his wife about living here this whole time

Another good and reasonable extension by Brad Stevens, the man who loved extensions before the rest of the league did

The best thing about repainting a bathroom is that you first get to be poisoned by bleach fumes in an enclosed space

You need your birth certificate to get cheddar bay biscuits at Red Lobster

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 2w ago

Scalise: "For God's sake -- you can't get pasta at Olive Garden without a picture ID! Why not be able to show a picture ID to vote?"

Tom Ziller@teamziller.bsky.social · 2w ago

A dude who made his billions commoditizing high-interest auto loans for desperate people is trying to hold the city of Portland and Blazers fans hostage. The NBA is helping ... *him* www.teamziller.com/blazers-tom-...

“The Guardian wins the ‘Caption of the Year’ competition: - William Merrin @theguardian.com

If you haven't seen it yet, BBC's montage at the end of the World Cup was fucking tremendous www.youtube.com/watch?v=20Fi...

BBC FIFA World Cup 2026 Closing Montage

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One goal conceded in the entire World Cup

No one has ever scored a goal in regulation time in a World Cup Final in the US Spain have never scored a goal in regulation time in a World Cup Final

If Enzo hadn’t just been sent off, Paredes gets sent for that

Sent off because you kind of dove and then complained for a yellow card