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Jun 22, 2022Liked by Tom Ziller

I would buy a Tortoises team shirt (original colors) or a "Burnin' Shell" Sam Cassell (their best player, and mascot, in the late 90s) caricature tee. Those teams from the 80s weren't the most athletic but would just outlast you with steady execution for 48 minutes.

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Thank you for listing when the WNBA games are and how to watch. My 7 year-old daughter will watch her first game this afternoon.

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If Seattle gets an expansion team, it should have to be called the Yaks, or the NBA will put the team in Boise.

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Very insightful! The most notorious example of a team drafting for fit over talent, of course, was the Blazers taking Sam Bowie over Michael Jordan because they already had a star wing in Clyde Drexler. And as to your point about “sure things”, even Luca had his doubters: the three teams that could have drafted him and didn’t! (And Phoenix going for Ayton could also be viewed as drafting for fit.)

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