Austin Ainge was asked about his philosophy on tanking, manipulating minutes to improve lottery odds, etc. His answer: "You won't see that this year."

Right off the bat, Ryan Smith says that Austin Ainge will have final say and giving recommendations to Smith. So, that's a lot more clear than the last time the Jazz hired an Ainge

No. I don’t want Tre Johnson, Kon Knueppel, Jeremiah Fears, Derik Queen, OR Egor Demin. They don’t play ANY defense. Trade up for VJ Edgecombe or trade down for Noa Essengue or Nique Clifford and start stockpiling two-way players. I’m tired of watching Utah get cooked on defense.

a woman in a blue jacket is standing in front of a podium with a star wars logo on it ALT: a woman in a blue jacket is standing in front of a podium with a star wars logo on it

“The death of truth is the ultimate evil.”

My question: With Utah likely drafting a non-defender again now that Flagg and Edgecombe of the board, how does Utah start building their defensive identity? Bring the worst defensive team in the league is NOT fun.

“Our show is about what happens when history comes knocking on your door” - Tony Gilroy on ANDOR

It is my unpleasant job to present the 2024-25 Cleveland Cavaliers with the Honorary 2020-21 Utah Jazz Award for fraudulence

Amen

ANDOR creator Tony Gilroy on the relevance of the series

“I’m writing about how I feel about all the revolutions, about all the insurrections. People legitimately fail to recognize how puny their individualism is”

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Here’s hoping Andor’s final episodes are mind melting and discourse inducing 🥂

No. I don’t want Tre Johnson, Kon Knueppel, Jeremiah Fears, Derik Queen, OR Egor Demin. They don’t play ANY defense. Trade up for VJ Edgecombe or trade down for Noa Essengue or Nique Clifford and start stockpiling two-way players. I’m tired of watching Utah get cooked on defense.

Image of library book display labeled:

“It's A Warning Not An Instruction Manual.”

Books on display:
• On Tyranny
• Twenty Lessons From
The 21st Century
• 1984
• A Handmaids Tale
• Diary of Anne Frank
• Parable of The Sower
• Fahrenheit 451
• Animal Farm
• Brave New World

~TAiLS of a Bookworm

Jazz GM Justin Zanik on drafting No. 5: "This was always the most likely individual outcome that we expected and kind of prepared for, given that the flattened lottery odds since 2019."

Andor tomorrow. Savor it.

When you realize that the Jazz have a 14% chance of getting Cooper Flagg tomorrow:

CDC reports 216 child deaths this flu season—most in 15 years

Measles surpasses 1000 cases—first time in 30 years

USA has the lowest life expectancy & highest infant & maternal mortality of any developed nation on Earth

This is what RFK + the for profit health scam industry has wrought us. Smh

A witch-possessed Wookiee Jedi is still one of the absolute wildest things we've gotten in years & I love it

1. Rumeysa Ozturk, a 30-year-old Turkish doctoral student at Tufts, speaks after a federal judge ordered her release following her arrest by federal agents on the street.

She calls the United States “the greatest democracy in the world” and says she has “faith in the American justice system.”

Utah has Markannen, Hendricks, and John Collins, but ZERO perimeter defense. Utah has got to get away from drafting BPA when there’s defenders on the board. They missed on Desmond Bane, Ryan Dunn, Jaden McDaniels, and gave away Nickiel Alexander-Walker for nothing. The culture HAS to change.

These playoffs have demonstrated how important the need for solid perimeter defenders and bigs who can shoot. Golden State, OKC, NYK, Boston, and Minnesota’s rosters all have defenders across the board. Denver, OKC, Minnesota, NYK, Boston, and Indiana all have great shooting bigs. CLE is the outlier

This. SO. Freaking. Much

A lot of people didn't grow up watching Mister Rogers & Sesame Street every day & it shows

“He’s a messenger…” 🥲

This is fascism.

You’ll never make yourself small enough for people who don’t actually love you. So be unhinged, stick to your needs, deeply love the things you love. It doesn’t need to make sense to anyone and if you’re too much, they aren’t the ones. A small circle who loves you is gold.

The same kind of folks who spent years complaining about masks that slowed the spread of disease are now wearing masks to facilitate the spread of fascism

NEWARK, N.J. (AP) — New Jersey mayor is arrested at ICE detention center where he was protesting its opening, acting US attorney says.

Provo, UT

He is resegregating every institution

"When now we visit the Memorial to the Missing of Ghorman, the Graveyard at Alderaan, the Wroshyr Mural on Kashyyyk, or the Hall of the Unknown on Chandrila, among others, we must reflect upon the fact that so vast was the system of Imperial genocide that we may never know anything about the majority of those we lost except for the fact that they died."

Page 200 of ‘The Rise and Fall of the Galactic Empire’ by Beaumont Kin.