Big Turk

And why would I listen to anything from the same guy who claimed "Banks were too big to fail", handed them billions of dollars in taxpayer funded bailouts for them brazenly violating laws, committing fraud and destroying many people's lives, all while their companies made billions and billions of dollars in profit off that bailout, never faced any real consequences for their actions(which should have landed many of them in jail) and paid out hundreds of millions in bonuses. Would be like the cops catching you breaking into a mansion and robbing it and then not only not arresting you, but helping you load up you trunk with valuables and giving you a police escort home.

True or false regulations are reactive, not proactive?

It's a shame you don't have a deep enough understanding to know the truth and just spout random thoughts with no basis in reality.

Read the whole post. You may actually learn something.

Not if you are a key player it doesn't. And that's why you almost always only see it being players that know they are still the starter no matter what.

It was negotiated in the CBA that's why. For starters and other players secure in their status on the team, they can pretty much not show up and be OK. For others trying to make the team or fight for a starting job or primary back role, it can be voluntary to show up, but it is also voluntary as to who they decide to keep on the roster as well.

There are no such thing as "unnecessary regulations". Regulations don't just happen just because. They come from companies doing shady things and then trying to sweep it under the rug and not get caught, usually to boost their bottom line profit and CEO bonuses. Then regulations are created to prevent them from doing that anymore. Then as always, they find a new gray area or loophole to exploit until they are forced to pass another regulation to deal with it. And so on, and so forth. I worked for multiple large global banks. Why do you think there are so many banking regulations? Because as a "cost of doing business" these banks would willfully do shady things and happily pay the fines since they are far less than the profits they made. They literally have people whose sole job is to come up with new ways around regulations and laws to make money. It's essentially legalized white-collar mafia like activities without any criminal penalties. You think these companies care about some fines? It only hurts when regulations are put in place that can cost them their charters or licenses to do business among many other stiffer penalties. So if you want regulations to be lowered, simply have companies stop willfully and brazenly doing shady, illegal things and getting caught red handed. Good luck with that. The reward is too great and the risk of doing it is far too low to act as a deterrence. Until a regulation is passed. Regulations are REACTIVE, not proactive.

Don't believe anything you hear this week related to the draft. There are more smokescreens going up then you would see at NASCAR races if every car was burning oil.

It's workable...brings another well respected and loved veteran presence into the locker room at the very least to help the younger guys

Plenty of players skip these. Far more important for trash teams like the one Vrabel is coaching to have players show up than perennial powerhouses

It's pretty amazing to hear player after player say how much they loved being here and wanted to come back...

Voluntary means voluntary. I don't understand why it's expected players attend.

Let's not pretend it's the WNBA all of a sudden that has never turned a profit in any year in it's entire existence.

Ratings rallied to only be down 2% by the end of the season, which is the same as the NFL was down. Which should not be surprising since ratings are only tracking TV watching whereas cord cutting continues to gain momentum and isn't properly tracked yet. Salary Cap estimated to be going up 10% next year so clearly the revenue continues to be strong.

Please tell me how flooding the economy with money via interest free loans to businesses and multiple stimulus checks to US citizens didn't do the same thing under Trump?

The Fed created a soft landing that almost nobody thought possible when it first started, and the US in general capped inflation far lower and got things under control quicker than the majority of other countries. We were one of very few countries that capped inflation at under 10%

That doesn't seem to be the case...and the season prior to this one was the highest attendance mark of all-time, so if anything it would show they are getting more popular than ever. https://www.sportsbusinessjournal.com/Articles/2025/04/15/nba-has-second-highest-season-attendance-mark-ever/

Kinda sad they just got done cleaning up his mess from the first term and now we will need to do it all over again.

Oh...you silly goose. Rich people get richer during times like this by buying more when it craters and then riding it back up when it inevitably goes back up.

They don't have a plan other than trying to make rich people richer at the expense of everyone else.

Here is what the world thinks about Trump's Tariffs. US Dollar in freefall with it only accelerating. That peak high? Exactly 1 week before his inauguration. Dollar has plummeted ever since. But yes...great, great job. Trump following the MABA game plan... Make America Broke Again

I don't have a side. I'm not dumb enough to believe this is about any side other than rich or poor. You are the person watching the magic show thinking what you see is real. I'm the person watching that knows it's all misdirection designed to get you to pay attention to something else so they can do whatever they want while you aren't looking at them. Education matters. There is a reason why Trump targeted the people he targeted and it wasn't for their intelligence, I can assure you of that.

The Thurman Thomas Screen game!

Just a way to trash the economy and allow the rich to essentially steal from the middle class.