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Grant Hill says the best player he ever played against was Kobe, not Jordan.

Fat boy Luka and Grandpa LeBrick are out of favor with new owner Walter. Thank god. Can't let stupid Mavs fans and hype rule. Package both and get real title winning players. Gotta fire Pelinka find a real GM.

For the LeBrick lovers out there, like CJ. Looking at all time stats. Kareem has a higher career free throw percentage than LeBrick. That's a 7'2" gangly center who is a better all around shooter than a 6'8" forward. Skill matters.

Use to hear about this all the time. How Magic was the only player in the history of world versatile enough to play any position on the floor (1-5) and do it well enough to win a title while doing so. Now we have pencil goobers hammering us with analytics.

Lakers sold for $10 billion. Highest price in history. Reminds me of Magic being the only rookie to ever win Finals MVP. Only point guard to ever play center in the NBA Finals. 42 points, 15 rebounds and 7 assists in game 6 clincher when he was 20. Convinced head coach Paul Westphal to start him at center in place of injured Kareem.

This goes way beyond sports. We're talking about tyranny on a historically grand scale. Have said that, I do intellectually admire a few Jesuit academic orders.

I'm indifferent to that. The only school I'd positively root for ND to beat is the criminal sooners.

Remember that the lowest ranked WR in last year's group, McCutcheon, is showing the most thus far. There's quite a bit of future talent on campus budgeted into the equation.

The "committed" part of this is more tenuous than ever. These kids are being promised millions by some schools that is very unlikely to ever be paid. When they start figuring that out, it will be interesting.

Can't stand Notre Dame, but hope he does really well unless it's a game winner against Texas.

Don't think Texas views it the same way. One of my favorite recruiting stories from last year is that DK Moore asked Texas for tickets to the Georgia game in Austin. Texas told him no. You can guess why.

There's the locker room dynamic of this as well. To this point, there hasn't been a team that ridiculously overpaid high school recruits and made it work with team culture and chemistry. Aggy '22 class being a prime example. Legally, I'd guess some things will happen quickly. The likelihood of the clearing house being able to reject third party payments is preposterous on its face. I can't think of a high profile example of anything like it in US history. I doubt the "affiliated" cap on NIL deals last very long, but it may make it through this cycle. What's affiliated? Who decides? The clearing house is not a disinterested third party. All to say, those schools that have kept spending like there's no tomorrow will at best face a period of legal limbo that's unlikely to permit them to hang on to most of the funny money deals.