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It’s crazy. We have a local radio guy here that grew up with him that I play poker with and they are good friends. He says Bayless is the nicest guy you would ever meet and his on air personality is 100 percent contrived for $$$.
He seems like a genuinely nice guy just with some disgusting sports takes
 

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Idk just like with SAS, I look at how they act/what they say on their private platform aka podcast as the real them over what they put out there on debate shows
Gotta be honest, I don’t GAF who they really are. In fact, I already know who Skip Bayless is. He’s a piece of shit human being who became famous and kicked off a national career writing an irresponsible story in which he projected that Troy Aikman was gay. He’s a fucking asshole.
 

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They haven't done much in FA Since they added a washed up Pippen and Stoudamire but those moves actually made them competitive....and that was a long ass time ago....LOL.
They were in the conference finals just 5 years ago. Since 15/16, they've had 4 of their 6 playoff runs ended by the Warriors and the Lakers (during lockdown). Lets not act like this team was floundering, they just weren't championship material (like 90%+ of the league).
 

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Gotta be honest, I don’t GAF who they really are. In fact, I already know who Skip Bayless is. He’s a piece of shit human being who became famous and kicked off a national career writing an irresponsible story in which he projected that Troy Aikman was gay. He’s a fucking asshole.
Settle down little fella. No need to be so angry at 909 AM
 

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A little off topic but I really want the Lakers to add Christian Wood....

Great insurance in case or when inevitably AD gets banged up.

Depends on how you look at it. Offensively, sure. Defensively? He's pretty terrible other than some blocks. I'm warming to the idea of kicking the tires on Giles (and still wish Noel was a real option).
 

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The Vegas league? Maybe. He hasn't seen the real NBA yet.
Yep there's a very small % of the summer league who even makes the league. Those rosters are usually made up of 2-4 1st/2nd year guys then the rest are just people praying for a training camp invite somewhere
 

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It’s crazy. We have a local radio guy here that grew up with him that I play poker with and they are good friends. He says Bayless is the nicest guy you would ever meet and his on air personality is 100 percent contrived for $$$.
I have heard the same but there are also several articles that say he is a POS....the one I remember off the top is the Rolling stone one.

The truth is he is probably somewhere in between the 2 calling him a POS and a good person.
 

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They were in the conference finals just 5 years ago. Since 15/16, they've had 4 of their 6 playoff runs ended by the Warriors and the Lakers (during lockdown). Lets not act like this team was floundering, they just weren't championship material (like 90%+ of the league).
They made 1 WCF with Dame....the FO has failed to surround him with the talent to become a true contender.

That's pretty much just a fact at this point.
 

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They made 1 WCF with Dame....the FO has failed to surround him with the talent to become a true contender.

That's pretty much just a fact at this point.
Are you confident that he can be the #1 on a true contender? To me, he needs to be a #2 at best, he's just not that guy. So the question becomes can you bring in a #1 to carry him to the finals, and that simply isn't an easy task in Portland (and why they instead spend big on guys like Grant).

Not so easy to add a #1 to a team with a guy who will be making $60M per on his own supermax contract even if Portland was a destination franchise.
 

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How does Miami have 3 firsts to trade?
I think they have two they can trade and if they remove protections on another pick they would be able to deal another.
 
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