BREAKING: The Pistons are trading Jaden Ivey to the Chicago Bulls in exchange for Kevin Huerter and Dario Saric. They also are swapping 2026 first round picks with the Minnesota Timberwolves (1-19 protected).

How many on the celebrity roster are actually better players than Alex Antetokounmpo

“Giannis, you’re in! Ajax and Jericho, you too!” Only way he should be allowed on the floor.

“Someone to take on Immanuel Quickley’s $32m deal” is Horst’s music

Excited for Horst to trade salary for Cam Thomas tonight like a guy in a movie trying to seem crazy by firing his gun up in the air. “You don’t think I won’t keep Giannis?! TRY ME.”

Mikal Bridges is officially traded eligible which unofficially opens Giannis-could-be-traded season. If he isn’t moved by Wednesday afternoon, I imagine it doesn’t happen. Too many moving parts

we said all along that they wanted Gawker dead not because we embarrassed a pro wrestler but because the Epstein story is one Gawker was covering a decade before most other people caught up & was just one of many stories exposing powerful people and their misdeeds

Wtf

It would be tiring to hang on to Giannis until the offseason as a fan, but it wouldn’t change what the product on the court looks like one bit for the next five months. The difference between getting an 8/10 return now and a 10/10 return in the offseason is huge. Quality>speed

A very quick Giannis trade thought if it really is just Knicks, Heat, Warriors, and T-Wolves: Any of those that isn't the Warriors would get done early next week so the Bucks could re-package incoming players elsewhere.

Per Shams, “Giannis informed the Bucks he thinks it’s time for both sides to move on.” But it’s not a trade request lalalalalala

Gotta get through this all-star “caliber” slop period of Wiggins/Powell and two picks kinda crap first

Heart goes out to Dan McQuade’s family and all of the @defector.com people. Enormous loss. Sending love

One thing @tiwindisch.gspn.info said about the Miami GA offer being sneaky good is it's diversified between picks and players. Extension of that: Wouldn't want picks only from the other team. Not smart to bet against a GA team short-term. Try to get their distant picks and other 2026-2028 picks.

I am NOT requesting a new home. I merely have all of my things boxed up and my bags packed, and all the lights are off.

How is this even real. Doc is trying hard to get fired and collect a paycheck on the beach

What first radicalized you and why for so many of us was it the Spongebob episode where he and Squidward go on strike

The funniest part of the Bucks/Mavs postponement is Cooper Flagg’s injury designation went to doubtful while the team was on the tarmac. Like, “Doubtful (left ankle; middle seat for too long)”

Statement from the National Basketball Players Association:

They've changed the takeoff time to 1:10pm CT after over an hour of pushing it minute-by-minute. Generally interesting: flight time is listed 1 hour and 32 minutes. For commercial travelers, DFW-->MKE is 2:15! Pedal to the metal!

For what it's worth, the Mavs plane is still on the ground at Love airport.

BUCKS GAMES WILL CONTINUE UNTIL MORALE IMPROVES

Ummmm

Generous of the person whose loved one this is to share this. No doubt Alex was one of the helpers. May we be as ready and brave when our fellow people are in harm’s way.

Haliburton just went way up in my estimation

Classic Shams syntax to get “federal agents” as far from the verb “shot” as possible, then AGAIN in the second sentence! @defector.com

Arrest them

Hard to understate how stupid it is to have let Giannis keep playing this game. Doesn’t matter the outcome. Irresponsible

There are three things Thanasis loves: 1) His brothers 2) when a teammate is guarding iso near the bench 3) trying to one touch control last-second heaves with his foot

You guys think players trash talk CJ McCollum for instituting a salary cap?

Not exaggerating when I say that the collective action in Minnesota will be studied for generations if not centuries to come

Minnesota: "School officials say the [5-year-old] child was used as bait. They say [ICE] agents made little Liam knock on the door to ask to be let in in order to see if anyone else was home."

Gonna say this once for all the Bucks fans. The team has three needs: —PG. KPJ/Rollins are combo guards on a real team. —Wing (2). Bucks have two elite bench 4s and zero wings. —a huge backup big. The traits: IQ, effort, rebounding. GA needs plays off. No more microwaves/olds. Trade accordingly.

Like bracing for winter, would be surprised if any Bucks trades happen until Feb 1. Eric Nehm pointed out the kind of deals to take on unwanted money seldom happen until the deadline. (And in the Nuclear Event, Mikal Bridges can’t be traded until 2/1 anyway.)

Seeing Indiana be this good at football is seriously like watching Dynasty Mode in real life

🎶 Everybody’s doing a brand new NANCE now 🎶

Half the battle with this guy is just reiterating government can and already does good things that are so ubiquitous they’ve become invisible. He’s able to remind you in a way that you understand that good government can exist outside of a 24/7 vengeance operation, and in NYC already does.

Matt Prater, as Marisa Tomei said in MY COUSIN VINNY, “dead on balls accurate”

My new thing is when Doc talks about how the team is doing he’s just talking about himself. Example: “it was tired legs.” Translation: Doc had a long flight and is feeling it. Example: “We just didn’t have it.” Translation: “I just didn’t have it”

If I had what some of these NBA guys have gone down with, I’d be doing this in a pair of Depends. Brutal stuff

if you read one non-sports thing today that doesn't involve the words Minnesota or Greenland, make it this:

One thing on my mind: seeing videos in Minneapolis and elsewhere that make me proud to share an identity with people demonstrating and showing up for their people. They raise the mantle on what it means to be a citizen. So may we all.

“They chased him, he got home and when we closed the door they shot him.” MN orgs/electeds say👇🏽this is the family calling the police with ICE outside, after a man was shot in the leg with a pregnant woman & child inside Different than DHS’ shovel story: www.instagram.com/reel/DThEdD8...

Okay Bucks fans, what’s more likely: 1. Horst knows they’re trading Giannis so a coaching change doesn’t matter. 2. Horst is going for a gap year anyway, and Doc seems to be accomplishing that on his own. (I don’t think blind stupidity about this team being good is a reason. They’re not dumb.)

Alternatively: Giannis is getting traded and this is all pointless anyway so why fire the coach midseason.

The optimistic reason Doc is still around is something like: You’re not hiring the next Will Hardy mid-season and Ham/Buckner/Joerger is just more of the same. Doc’s already driving a pretty good tank. So let it happen

Very excited to listen. Elite thumbnail. Like someone is saying wild things on the work Zoom call.

Hearing Sacramento and Miami tied to Ja makes me more optimistic the Bucks smoke is shoehorning themselves in as a facilitator. Clear guys on both teams the Bucks would be happy to take on.

Has registered that some of these “big” names floating around the Bucks are tank commander types for a post-Giannis era (though hopefully not)