The Jalen Duren scenario in the corporate world: Your salary request - $150k Your company offers 80% - $120k Your salary last year - $25.4k Your qualifying offer salary - $37.5k Are you turning down $600k over five years in hopes a different company will offer you more than a $120k salary?

Forgot where this came from, but the good news is shooting percentages in summer league have barely any correlation on determining how they’ll perform in the league He does need to be more efficient though, for sure

Ebuka Okorie over his five Summer League games: 23.3 PTS 4.3 REB 5.5 AST 3.0 STL 36.4% FG% 17.4% 3PT% 88.2% FT% I have no concerns over the shooting splits and believe in his archetype succeeding in the NBA. #detroitbasketball

One of these guys signed for $4 million and the other signed for $64 million

Still waiting on the details of Kevin Huerter's deal, but I've got Detroit ~$47m under the tax. Plenty of room to sign Duren and make another trade to bring in a bigger salary, but for now, feels like Detroit is done. They currently have 15 guys so somebody will have to be waived once Duren signs.

Today is the last day for Detroit to use the rest of Schroder’s TPE ($8.7m) Here’s one way to use it and fill the backup PF position

Would Denver entertain Cam Johnson for Caris LeVert from Detroit? Helps Denver in their attempt to avoid the first apron and Detroit takes a chance on Cam staying healthy. Both deals expiring at the end of the season, too.

Absolutely love this trade. Played 70+ games and shot above 40% from deep in four straight seasons. Here’s what I wrote a week ago:

Very intrigued in Jarace and his ability to be a 3-and-D PF - volume going up and efficiency still high

Basically takes until Gobert to reach a top-earning center that can’t shoot You could make an argument for AD too, but at least Gobert and him are All-Defense level guys I was a little more concerned after seeing this lol

Showed my fiancé the height difference with Jose Alvarado guarding Wemby and she said it reminded her of this scene from Elf

Found this nugget tonight about Paolo’s performance that should leave Detroit fans feeling positive heading into Game 6.

CADE CUNNINGHAM HAS RETURNED

Happy Sun-Bathing Sunday from these two beauties

Fears at the free throw line, two guys posting up, and Carr under the basket on the baseline… This spacing is horrendous

So, what happens when Jalen Duren starts making these consistently? And he's not even 23 yet? SHEESH. Good luck to the rest of the league.

Jalen Duren with 17 first-half points and is making off-the-dribble 18 footers

Decent start to McGonigle’s MLB career

CADE GONNA GET THAT MVP

Is that Beef Stew’s music I hear?! HE’S BACK.

Don’t have a way of watching the Red Wings, so gotta go see them live when they come to Nashville GO WINGS

Just a diabolically fun picture

Just ~slightly~ smaller than our Great Dane

Interrupting this program to let yall know that our household has signed a new puppy to a lifetime contract

Sports are the god damn coolest thing on the fucking planet, man

You already know where we need to hang this

@oobh.bsky.social look at what I saw in the comments on my recap last night 👀