Fred Smith
@fredsmith
Car and racing writer with too many hobbies and not nearly enough vintage Mercedes sedans
He’s getting 5:1’d in one of his better polls and talking about “as governor.” Big Bill France was working with a more serious political movement when he led segregationist George Wallace’s doomed presidential campaign in the *70s.*
I’m sure McFarland isn’t explicitly endorsing the specifics here but Fishback is pretty proudly the candidate of the young far right. It is his defining and sole trait, and he’s getting obliterated by establishment voices because of it.
The carfax is actually clean but don’t worry the mileage more than makes up for it
So that 2024 draft lottery sucked, huh? Tidjane Salaun, sixth pick in that class, is currently playing in his third Summer League. Dillingham and Carter were both salary dumped before the start of their third year.
Some people think these guys are exclusive to bluesky, but don’t worry, this is just what the internet is like now
What has to go wrong in someone's life for them to come out as the sort of person who thinks the ad for their E28 needs a poorly-rendered Einstein in it
This is also how the Kings landed Raynaud last year. One weird trick to greatly increase the value of your second rounders: actually want the guy you take and convince him that you do.
The Sixers own LAC's 2028 first-rounder. 2029 is only a top-3 protected swap. Draft picks unlock again in 2030, but there are risks of that one disappearing in the investigation to come over how Kawhi was, uh, sponsored. Worse still, the Thunder own the good part of the 2027 pick:
I love this site's janky trending tab. These really are the five news stories, aren't they?
That’s also fine, I’m not without my imperfections. I genuinely think cars should have this many buttons.
Both Vecenie and ESPN's Jeremy Woo have moved Darius Acuff down to the Kings pick in their mock drafts out today, and both are doing it off the suggestion that Mikel Brown Jr. is the direction the Nets are likely heading.
Still cracking up at the deadline buzz that both the Grizzlies and the Kings assumed that the other would give up a pick to get off their man in a rumored Ja-LaVine deal. I'm all for it as a flat double salary dump, I'm much more all for it with assets going to Sacramento.
Terrible graphic on the left, actual San Diego beach on the right. Not much in common here.
Pete Hegseth shelled the highway last time he was here, excited to see what he gets up to this time
It gets weirder: That race happened exactly five years ago tomorrow. This year's Jimmie-KMag-Cody Ware reunion is just missing Max Chilton and Dalton Kellett
Love when a draft profile suggests that someone is kind of a lot to deal with in polite terms
I'm the guy who designed the sectors at Le Mans. I was working backwards and I really thought I nailed the first two. Only had like a mile left at the end but I didn't want to try again. Kind of like when you run out of sign while writing something in big letters.