From an NZ perspective, it's a real bummer that Steven Adams got injured this past NBA season. It's been one of the big what-ifs of NZ basketball in the past decade to see how much he could elevate the Tall Blacks, and apparently Adams had finally expressed an interest to join the World Cup team prior to the injury.
The Tall Blacks did well in the first quarter, but seeing Canada do anything they wanted in the paint really did hammer home how much we miss having NBA-caliber talent on the team, especially on defense.
Around this time last year, Atlanta put together a package centered around two unprotected picks and a pick swap to trade with the San Antonio Spurs for Dejounte Murray. After averaging 20 points...
Cash rules everything around me.
Probably the most thorough breakdown I've seen about the salary dump of Collins that occurred a couple of days ago. I get the cold hard CBA realities this was done under, but it sucks to see him go given all he's done for the team; I wish him all the best in Utah.
I also hope there's another move to be made in this FA period, otherwise the complaints about penny-pinching by the front office are just gonna intensify...
All good - I was aware of that and had originally planned to create a login at Beehaw and subscribe from there accordingly. But I didn't create one there since their signup process is also a bit more involved; they want you to explain why you're signing up.
Fair enough, but 1) I'm mostly a lurker so probably wouldn't be able to actively contribute to their ideals and 2) I figured if most of the communities I want to sub to are available here I should probably start with my initial login here :D
Wanted to ditch Reddit following all the nonsense around their API changes, but still wanted Reddit-esque news aggregation + discussions from somewhere.
Googling for alternatives initially led me to Beehaw, but they don't have the sufficiently granular niche communities I wanted. Searching for communities I wanted to subscribe to led me here, and after refreshing myself on how the fediverse worked I realised I should just create a login here instead. So far, so good!