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I just want the jersey so I can travel around the southern U.S. wearing it so that I can spend an exorbitant amount of time answering questions about how to pronounce the name.

My above post covers it. If he wants to be difficult, let him. I imagine what he really wants is to be a name in the NBA. Refusing to show, not playing, trying to exercise powers that do not belong to potential draftees... none of that is a path to being a big name in the NBA.

Exactly. The NBA draft system is not ideal as far as workers' rights are concerned, but it is voluntary. The terms are clear. You put yourself up to work for the first team that picks you. If you wanted to pick your team the draft was NOT the right avenue to accomplish your goal. He got picked...

I hear the NBA gives out really good consolation prizes for stuff like this.

Do you have any tips on how I can prepare?

The response to this by our MAGA friends is to "git good" essentially. Work harder. Do more than everyone else and they will make you a team lead and give you full time after you've been there a few years, plus a $1 pay rise.

That I don't know, but I do know that unskilled labor has no power and the primary way for an unskilled laborer to make more than min wage is to do a job that most people are not willing to do, for whatever reason. A cushy cash register job? Min wage for you and most will not hire full time...

Lies and sensationalism spread MUCH faster than the boring old facts and reality on social media. Plus there's no special dopamine hit when you just say "yeah, I guess the experts got this" compared to "I know this one special thing the experts don't want me to know." We're all just Pavlov's...

$16.50. Cost of living for an individual in NYC is $4130, for a family it's just shy of $9000 16.50 x 40 = 660 660 x 4 = 2640 Our minimum wage is NOT designed to allow a person working full time to actually live. And the Republicans keep wanting to scare us with socialism. Make capitalism...

Well the wrong skin color and either speaking Spanish or speaking English with an accent. We shouldn't have to be exposed to other languages in our own country!

People cry at graduations too

ACE! I'm in it for the poker puns! Let's go Boler, learn some poker sayings to use completely wrong. I'm here for it!

Have you seen Adam Silver?

Jewish people who grew up in Israel have been persecuted?

And there is no incentive for a rookie to pout and play like **** just because they are somewhere they don't like. If they want to be worth anything in the league after their rookie contract they need to make the most of their minutes, regardless.

We have no idea what the damage is. Speculation like this can only be described as "for entertainment purposes only."

MUCH better for me at the moment