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I predicted Lou would win after episode 1. She immediately seemed like Greg's favourite, and that pretty much guarantees victory (unless you're Rhod Gilbert and you make it work against you). For example, see Josh Widdicombe, Noel Fielding, Bob Mortimer, Liza Tarbuck and Kerry Godliman.

We got Jake Layman, you can't rule anything out . Out of those 10 I have to say the Spurs, Mavs and a potential sophomore slump Nuggets as play-off missing risks. And I guess you have to throw the Warriors in there with only one superstar and a Draymond compared to the multiple stars of other teams. Meanwhile in the East other than the Bucks, 76ers, Celtics and Pacers the whole thing is wide open. Even the Nets aren't a certainty until Durant is available.

Allow me to be the first to congratulate the Milwaukee Bucks on their winning of the Eastern Conference in 2020. The trade for George includes the Clippers sending the Thunder the highest amount of draft picks, most of which are first round, in history.

Due to no Pittsburgh teams I ended up following the Timberwolves because I liked their young roster and their navy/neon lime green colour scheme. I wouldn't recommend choosing a team based on colours.

I dunno, just feel sympathy for someone who has suffered a pretty severe run of injuries and isn't able to find a deal when they should be in their prime at just 28. I've been watching some Summer League games today, some of the Grizzlies players had some superb three point shooting.

Oof, probably should have been a straight red. Have to think that's game over now. That fall to the ground from Morgan though

Oh Steph

Serena's lowering herself to play with some guy who's only ranked 227th in the world. Serena and Federer, now that would be cheating.

Ha, English people drink tea with their pinkies up. That's hilarious.

It looks like the rumoured Serena/Murray partnership is going ahead, unless Serena is just trolling the press.

Woj is reporting that there is "zero interest" in DeMarcus Cousins league-wide. I feel sorry for him .

That's really annoying, I'm in the exact same boat in terms of having Detroit and was looking forward to trying PES. That said, anyone who doesn't have Detroit needs to take advantage of this, it's great.

In slightly bizarre news, the Warriors have basically said they intend to retire the No. 35 jersey for Durant.

Updated my post with all the latest deals. As far as Russell signing with the Warriors, my biggest concern is that instead of DLo going to KAT in Minnesota, that KAT will opt out next year and follow him to the Warriors...

I'm just going to use this post to update stuff as I'll be following Woj's Twitter for a while. Official stuff in bold. Fun fact, the #1 trend Worldwide is "NBA Free Agency". The #2 trend is "Knicks" which is just fans going into meltdown as, you know, they haven't signed anyone. Kevin Durant has signed for the Brooklyn Nets, 4 years, $164 million Kyrie Irving has signed for the Brookyln Nets, 4 years, $141 million Kemba Walker has signed with the Boston Celtics, 4 years, $141 million Khris Middleton has re-signed with the Milwaukee Bucks, 5 years, $178 million (largest contract for a 2nd round draft pick in history) Klay Thompson has re-signed with the Golden State Warriors, 5 years, $190 million Brook Lopez has re-signed with the Milwaukee Bucks, 4 years, $52 million Harrison Barnes has re-signed with the Sacramento Kings, 4 years., $85 million Derrick Rose has signed with the Detroit Pistons, 2 years, $15 million Jonas Valanciunas has re-signed with the Memphis Grizzlies, 3 years, $45 million Gerald Green has re-signed with the Houston Rockets, 1 year, unspecified amount Kristaps Porzingis has re-signed with the Dallas Mavericks, 5 years, $158 million JJ Redick has signed with the New Orleans Pelicans, 2 years, $26.5 million Ricky Rubio has signed for the Phoenix Suns, 3 years, $51 million Nikola Vucevic has re-signed with the Orland Magic, 4 years, $100 million Dwight Powell has signed an extension with the Dallas Mavericks, 3 years, $33 milion Terrence Ross has re-signed with the Orland Magic, 4 years, $54 million Garrett Temple has signed for the Brooklyn Nets, 2 years, $10 milion The EuroLeague's Nicolo Melli has signed for the New Orleans Pelicans, 2 years, $8 million Al-Farouq Aminu has signed with the Orlando Magic, 3 years, $29 million Damian Lillard has signed an extension with the Portland Trail Blazers Ben Simmons is expected to sign an extension with the Philadelphia 76ers Danuel House has re-signed with the Houston Rockets, 3 years, $11.1 million Bojan Bogdanovic has signed with the Utah Jazz, 4 years, $73 million The Indiana Pacers have sent a first round and two second round picks to the Milwaukee Bucks to acquire Malcolm Brogdon, who has signed a 4 year, $85 million deal. Jeremy Lamb has signed for the Indiana Pacers, 3 years, $31.5 million Ricky Rubio has signed for the Phoenix Suns, 3 years, $51 million Trevor Ariza has signed for the Sacramento Kings, 2 years, $25 million Thaddeus Young has signed for the Chicago Bulls, 3 years, $41 million Rudy Gay has re-signed with the San Antonio Spurs, 2 years, $32 million Terry Rozier has agreed to a 3 year, $58 million sign-and-trade to from the Boston Celtics to the Charlotte Hornets. Thomas Bryant has re-signed with the Washington Wizards, 3 years, $25 million Rodney Hood has re-signed with the Portland Trail Blazers, 2 years, $16 million Tobias Harris has re-signed with the Philadelphia 76ers, 5 years, $180 million Mike Scott has re-signed with the Philadelphia 76ers, 2 years, $9.8 million Nerlens Noel has re-signed with the Oklahoma City Thunder, details yet to be announced. DeMarre Carroll has signed for the San Antonio Spurs, 2 years, £13 million Julius Randle has signed with the New York Knicks, 3 years, $63 million George Hill has re-signed with the Milwaukee Bucks, 3 years, $29 million Taj Gibson has signed for the New York Knicks, 2 years, $20 million The Philadelphia 76ers have signed and traded Jimmy Butler to the Miami Heat in exchange for Josh Richardson, with Kelly Olynyk and Derrick Jones Jr going to the Dallas Mavericks Al Horford has signed for the Philadelphia 76ers, 4 years, $109 million DeAndre Jordan has signed for the Brooklyn Nets, 4 years, $40 million. Kyrie Irving and Kevin Durant's contracts are less than the max to allow Jordan to fit in under the salary cap for $10 million per year Ed Davis has signed for the Utah Jazz, 2 years, $10 million Mike Muscala has signed for the Oklahoma City Thunder, details unknown Mario Hezonjia has signed with the Portland Trail Blazers, 1 year, minimum salary The Brooklyn Nets have signed and traded D'Angelo Russell to the Golden State Warriors, Andre Iguodala has been traded to the Memphis Grizzlies for draft picks to make room. Russell's contract 4 years, $117 million Bobby Portis has signed with the New York Knicks, 2 years, $31 million Patrick Beverley has re-signed with the Los Angeles Clippers, 3 years, $40 million The Utah Jazz have traded Derrick Favors to the New Orleans Pelicans for 2021 and 2023 second round draft picks Tomas Satoransky has signed with the Chicago Bulls, 3 years, $30 milion Wayne Ellington has signed for the New York Knicks, 2 years, $16 million Michael Carter-Williams has re-signed with the Orlando Magic, 1 year, minimum Seth Curry has (re-)signed with the Dallas Mavericks, 4 years, $32 milion The Miami Heat have traded Hassan Whiteside to the Portland Trail Blazers in exchange for Mo Harkless and Meyers Leonard Austin Rivers has re-signed with the Houston Rockets, 2 years Reggie Bullock has signed with the New York Knicks, 2 years, $21 million Jamal Murray has signed a 5 year, $170 million max extension with the Denver Nuggets Troy Daniels has signed with the Los Angeles Lakers, 1 year, $2.1 million Elfrid Payton has signed with the New York Knicks, 2 years $16 million Maxi Kleber has re-signed with the Dallas Mavericks, 4 years, $35 million Enes Kanter has signed with the Boston Celtics, 2 years, $10 million Ish Smith has signed with the Washington Wizards, 2 years, $12 million Cory Joseph has signed with the Sacramento Kings, 3 years, $37 million JJ Barea has re-signed with the Dallas Mavericks, 1 year, minimum Richaun Holmes has signed with the Sacramento Kings, 2 years, $10 million Frank Kaminsky has signed with the Phoenix Suns, 2 years, $10 million Wesley Matthews has signed with the Milwaukee Bucks, details unknown Edmond Sumner has signed with the Indiana Pacers, details unknown

I may be in the minority but I actually think Jarrett Allen would be a better option than Jordan, but I guess reputation and being KD's buddy counts for something. Meanwhile Jimmy Butler looks very much like signing with the Heat, which will finally give the self-centred egomaniac the big fish in a small pond status he's been searching for since leaving Chicago.

England beat India to continue their mad roller-coaster of a tournament. MS Dhoni played the most bizarre innings I've seen in a while, happily taking singles when they needed fifteen an over, and then refusing singles in the last over.

The race finished over two hours ago and still nobody knows the results, at least not publicly. Someone on Twitter made a valid point, which is that if this was a football cup final and the winning team had lifted the trophy they probably still wouldn't be evaluating a VAR decision two hours later.

Holy crap what a finish. I feel sorry for Leclerc again, but that might be the best dry weather drive I have ever seen by Max.

From a T-Wolves standpoint we're trying to find a trade victim partner for Andrew Wiggins which would free up the cap space needed for D'Lo Russell to sign and play with his buddy KAT. Sounds like a good turn of events if it happens, so I will instead expect that we somehow end up trading KAT to the Nets by mistake.

I was confused as to why that was, so I've looked into it, and the whole "grid positions move depending on the time the penalty was given" has left me even more confused.

Lando Norris is going to start 4th tomorrow after grid penalties to Hamilton and Magnussen. It also means four different constructors in the top four grid places for the first time since God only knows.

Jimmy Butler, known team-first player, will no doubt fit in well with the harmonious relationship between Paul and Harden. The Lakers are sending Bonga, Wagner and Jemerrio Jones to the Magic to make contract space, which I believe means they don't currently have enough players under contract to field a five person team.

Too late for the 2020 Olympics though where the scores would be through the roof in the Tokyo Dome.