Austin Ainge was asked about his philosophy on tanking, manipulating minutes to improve lottery odds, etc. His answer: "You won't see that this year."

Right off the bat, Ryan Smith says that Austin Ainge will have final say and giving recommendations to Smith. So, that's a lot more clear than the last time the Jazz hired an Ainge

No. I don’t want Tre Johnson, Kon Knueppel, Jeremiah Fears, Derik Queen, OR Egor Demin. They don’t play ANY defense. Trade up for VJ Edgecombe or trade down for Noa Essengue or Nique Clifford and start stockpiling two-way players. I’m tired of watching Utah get cooked on defense.

“The death of truth is the ultimate evil.”

“Our show is about what happens when history comes knocking on your door” - Tony Gilroy on ANDOR

It is my unpleasant job to present the 2024-25 Cleveland Cavaliers with the Honorary 2020-21 Utah Jazz Award for fraudulence

Amen

ANDOR creator Tony Gilroy on the relevance of the series “I’m writing about how I feel about all the revolutions, about all the insurrections. People legitimately fail to recognize how puny their individualism is” (1/2)

Here’s hoping Andor’s final episodes are mind melting and discourse inducing 🥂

No. I don’t want Tre Johnson, Kon Knueppel, Jeremiah Fears, Derik Queen, OR Egor Demin. They don’t play ANY defense. Trade up for VJ Edgecombe or trade down for Noa Essengue or Nique Clifford and start stockpiling two-way players. I’m tired of watching Utah get cooked on defense.

Image of library book display labeled: “It's A Warning Not An Instruction Manual.” Books on display: • On Tyranny • Twenty Lessons From The 21st Century • 1984 • A Handmaids Tale • Diary of Anne Frank • Parable of The Sower • Fahrenheit 451 • Animal Farm • Brave New World ~TAiLS of a Bookworm

Jazz GM Justin Zanik on drafting No. 5: "This was always the most likely individual outcome that we expected and kind of prepared for, given that the flattened lottery odds since 2019."

Andor tomorrow. Savor it.

When you realize that the Jazz have a 14% chance of getting Cooper Flagg tomorrow:

CDC reports 216 child deaths this flu season—most in 15 years Measles surpasses 1000 cases—first time in 30 years USA has the lowest life expectancy & highest infant & maternal mortality of any developed nation on Earth This is what RFK + the for profit health scam industry has wrought us. Smh

A witch-possessed Wookiee Jedi is still one of the absolute wildest things we've gotten in years & I love it

1. Rumeysa Ozturk, a 30-year-old Turkish doctoral student at Tufts, speaks after a federal judge ordered her release following her arrest by federal agents on the street. She calls the United States “the greatest democracy in the world” and says she has “faith in the American justice system.”

These playoffs have demonstrated how important the need for solid perimeter defenders and bigs who can shoot. Golden State, OKC, NYK, Boston, and Minnesota’s rosters all have defenders across the board. Denver, OKC, Minnesota, NYK, Boston, and Indiana all have great shooting bigs. CLE is the outlier

This. SO. Freaking. Much

A lot of people didn't grow up watching Mister Rogers & Sesame Street every day & it shows

“He’s a messenger…” 🥲

This is fascism.

You’ll never make yourself small enough for people who don’t actually love you. So be unhinged, stick to your needs, deeply love the things you love. It doesn’t need to make sense to anyone and if you’re too much, they aren’t the ones. A small circle who loves you is gold.

The same kind of folks who spent years complaining about masks that slowed the spread of disease are now wearing masks to facilitate the spread of fascism

NEWARK, N.J. (AP) — New Jersey mayor is arrested at ICE detention center where he was protesting its opening, acting US attorney says.

Provo, UT

He is resegregating every institution

Page 200 of ‘The Rise and Fall of the Galactic Empire’ by Beaumont Kin.

This is awesome and both reddy red reddddd states

That distinction from the opening crawl - and Rogue One in development - meant we had to craft any victories won by the REBELS crew to be specific to their cell, or localized in such a way that it wouldn't upset the 'first victory' moment that created the state of civil war.

“Holding her is dangerous. If word of this gets out it could generate sympathy for the Rebellion in the Senate.” / “There’ll be no one to stop us this time” are Ep IV lines with huge lore implications that shape the roll out of conflict in this particular era. I think they’re often overlooked.

This guy is evil but he's a genuinely great boss. Supportive, protects his team from shit work from above, gives great advice and has no time for kissarsery. You just *know* he ended up working for the New Republic. Also, Anton Lesser is always magnificent. #Andor

Her. #Andor #TheResistaunce

This.

Can't stop thinking about how ANDOR decided that the Star Wars universe canonically has trashy daytime talk shows and right-wing cable news

I still cant believe this actually happened. #andor

This.

eight years ago today we all watched the glory of zendaya falling madly in love with tom holland and the internet was never the same

The NBA Draft Lottery is on Monday! Here is how you can watch, stream, and listen to the NBA Draft lottery.

Linda McMahon, Secretary of Education, sent Harvard a letter. They graded it. Bwahahaha.

The Prime Minister of a sovereign country came to the United States today and actually had to tell the President of the United States - to his face - that his sovereign country wasn’t for sale. And would never be for sale. That actually happened today.

I feel like we've been saying this forever but it's worth saying again. Book bans do not exist in a vacuum. They're not one off events. Book bans are the canary in the coal mine. They usher in an era of censorship, fascism, violent scapegoating. Authors, join the fight: @authorsabb.bsky.social!!

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If Jazz or Spurs land Cooper, one of those two could start to catch up to OKC with their treasure trove of assets. But part of why OKC is this good is how they ALWAYS hit on their picks and trades. It’s like they got the game genie fired on all GM decisions. Not sure any team can compete w/ that.

OKC is this good *and* has the richest asset collection in the NBA. Gg everyone else

This.

Jazz fans, It’s not likely Utah gets Cooper Flagg. But I’m still saying that there’s a chance. Utah Jazz Lottery Pick Odds. 1st Pick: 14% 2nd Pick: 13.4% 3rd Pick: 12.7% 4th Pick: 12% 5th Pick: 47.9% @benshoops.bsky.social

The prevailing sentiment that we can’t treat people like humans because we don’t have time to see of they are, in fact, human is horrific.