Chris2K

The last hour has been mad, I refreshed Woj's Twitter after a fifteen minute interval and about ten trades had happened. My favourite might be the Lakers trading Pat Bev to the Magic for Mo Bamba.

This just begs the question; who are the 2023 versions of Paul Pierce and Kevin Garnett?

Well this is what I get for going to sleep during the trade deadline silly season. Firstly, and obviously most importantly, Conley is a great short-term improvement on D'Lo, who has deteriorated quite spectacularly this season. The only issue is that he's very good friends with KAT, so I'm worried this might encourage KAT to look elsewhere. How the Suns managed to get KD without giving up CP3, Booker or Ayton is crazy. Those 4 on the same team gives them no excuse not to at least get to the finals, provided they can all get/stay healthy. And they need to win now, given that they now have next-to-no 1st round picks for the rest of the decade. Jakob Poeltl has gone to the Raptors, which is strange because I was expecting him to go to a bigger contender like Boston, but also because the Raptors were expected to blow up their entire team and they seem to be going the other way.

Nothing says "2022-23 Lakers" like LeBron breaking the scoring record whilst the team loses at home to the Thunder.

I must be some kind of prophet. Some time between posting it and joining the Mavericks, Kyrie's apology about his anti-semetism has been deleted.

I'm just a stick in the mud who likes variety, so having three teams running predominantly red and black liveries is annoying. Not McLaren and Midland running identical liveries annoying, but still annoying.

The Power Wash Simulator x Tomb Raider content is fun, although that's purely based on it being new Power Wash Simulator content as I've never played a Tomb Raider game. I'm sure people that have will have a lot more attachment to any references or easter eggs.

Huh. They have both Duracell and Gulf as sponsors, both of which have iconic colour schemes that could be integrated into the livery, and they just stick with "lots of different types of blue". Bit disappointed to be honest. I've just seen Duracell's "battery" colouring at the top, which means they had the thought to do that, but not to extend it to more of the car...

At this point I believe the Timberwolves' next first round draft pick hasn't been born yet.

I thought they were trying to get Doncic help, not a hindrance. That's a 2029 first round draft pick by the way, so who knows what it'll be worth. That said, I have to think this is not what Kyrie was expecting to happen, last week's unprompted LeBron lovefest made it clear where he wanted to go.

Irving prepared to sit out the rest of the season if he isn't traded before the deadline. Literally, the worst team-mate in the history of professional sport.

According to Woj, the Nets are getting a lot of enquiries... about what Kevin Durant is likely to do if Kyrie leaves. It's quite funny how Kyrie is the #2 guy in his own trade request.

What a wonderful way to repay the organisation that stood by him whilst he put himself on a pedestal of stupidity and ignorance. Twice. I really hope this is the part where his ego tells him he is so intelligent that he can make a league as successful as the NBA just by his "star power" and "talent" alone and doesn't darken the doorstep of another NBA team.

There's no doubts surrounding him. His actions and words were recorded. How footballers keep getting away with this is beyond horrifying at this point.

I think it looks alright, but then it isn't the vehicular personification of the Russian flag, so the bar to clear is pretty low.

As if people didn't want Wrexham to win the replay already...

Either way it doesn't seem very.... sporting. I don't understand why we keep loaning out Gil, he's doing well enough but if he's going to be successful in England he needs to play more in England, not keep reverting back to how he plays in Spain.

Got really greedy with Hitman Freelancer and paid for it. On the New York bank level I killed my three targets with a surprising amount of ease, but had seen that there were free Merces to collect inside the bank vault. I got killed trying to open the vault, not knowing it was a highly suspicious action. Lost around 10,000 merces, my epic silenced silverballer and my trusty lockpick. I can't even be angry at the game, it was entirely my fault.

Perfect picture to use, if nothing else. It wouldn't surprise me if we call it all off because we don't want to do business with them any more.

I've managed to watch Poker Face through... means, and it is really entertaining. It did make me think of a question though: With these shows, do you prefer the "show the murderer at the start, spend the episode watching the detective pin them down" method, or the "show the death at the start with the murderer hidden, spend the episode finding out who did it" method? Personally I think I prefer the latter as the added mystery makes it more intriguing and can provide some big twists, the former usually takes away a lot of interest for me as it's like getting a spoiler for what you're watching from the show itself. That said... Poker Face stuff:

To have all four QBs on your roster injured at the same time is insanely bad luck. Fair play to Purdy for going back in, but I doubt he's going to throw anything other than the shortest of passes, if any passes at all, and the Eagles are going to be sat waiting for every screen or run.

I'm enjoying Freelancer, but one failure seems to destroy everything you've done up to that point, which feels too harsh. Case in point, I failed a Leader mission in Colorado because I got randomly spawned in the middle of the compound in my suit, and naturally got shot by all the hostile armed guards before I could do anything about it. Because of that I failed the mission, failed the syndicate thread, lost my gear I took with me (including a silenced pistol), lost half my merces and somehow even lost items I didn't take with me for good measure. I'm now left with 900 merces, a variety of very loud shotguns that make you immediately notorious if taken as gear, and a hammer.

A fun Reddit thread here delving into the likely manipulation of statistics by the Grizzlies for Jaren Jackson Jr, to the extent of him being credited with blocks and steals where he isn't even involved in the turnover play. My favourite is the one where the ball gets thrown directly to Desmond Bane, and Jackson gets given the steal.

I'm desperate to see Poker Face, but there's nothing scheduled for what channel/streaming service it's going to be on in the UK.

I'd be lying if I said I wasn't confused that so many of the character models in Ishin are the character models of the standard Yakuza protagonists, right down to the eye-patch, despite being centuries apart in time.