Recent content by hrdboild

We're now onto the next coach after the next coach since the Hali trade. It's just pointless to keep making the comparison. I think that deal made sense at the time since we've seen that Sacramento GMs have a very small window to show progress and keep their jobs. McNair did what nobody before...

The trouble is, once we know who a player is at the NBA level so do the other 29 teams and most of them can outbid us when you factor in that if the offers are equal most players will go to a team in a bigger market or a state with lower income tax.

The team with the worst record has won the draft lottery 8 times in 41 years so it's hardly a certainty. Sacramento had the worst record in the league (and an even better 25% chance to land the #1 overall pick) in the 2009 draft lottery and ended up picking 4th. Yes he admitted to betting on...

I'll still go see Final Reckoning, but I'm in complete agreement that Dead Reckoning Pt. 1 lowered the bar to such an extent that I'm not all that excited about this one. Which is a shame because it seemed like McQuarrie and Cruise had a lot of runway left based on their earlier collaborations...

I think you've misread what the Donaghy scandal was about. He didn't claim that he had officials helping him to manipulate game outcomes or even that he consciously did that himself (though it's hard to believe he wouldn't have). That was another case of the NBA PR machine going out of their...

We don't have a huge pool of franchise success to pull from, so I take it as a positive that there are a few former players out there who still consider Sacramento not just a box to check in their careers, or even worse an ordeal to endure, but a home that they'd like to return to in their...

I'm not confident that I even remember what I was arguing at this point. It was something about glass stones and houses made of lath and plaster I think? It's probably reasonable to just ignore me. I enjoy words a little too much I'm afraid and once I get the hose turned on I'm not always sure...

I get what you're saying in abstract and like you I want to be careful about getting specific on anything overtly political so I'll try to frame this carefully. We're communicating through an online message board so I can assume everyone here is at least a little bit aware of some current events...

I'm going to take the A Train to City Hall right now and get down to the bottom of this whole scummy sewer of bad money and charlatan charity plates... Once upon a time the lawyer-suited stiffs on the top floor had conducted their games of chance on the up and up, turning a clean profit and...

The Sacramento Kings (players, coaches, staff, owner, fans) get cheated by a rigged system in some small way in nearly every game and we're certainly not alone in that. Everyone is still making money though, so you accept your place in the hierarchy and make the best of it. Each of the U.S...

I guess my point is that the concept of the known is not fixed, it's always been changing and it will always continue to change. In a broad way, that mutability of knowledge (not truth itself, but the lens through which we access it) is the defining principle of what Science is. You're framing...

You're assigning weighted probabilities to outcomes as if they are quantifiable certainties but scientists can't even agree on fundamental principles of how the universe works. Is it spooky action at a distance? Is there an as-yet-undiscovered Unified Field Theory which will one day seem as...

As long as we're talking about the Pelicans, you can't leave out the significant detail that the team was without an owner for a period of time and thus was de facto owned by the NBA for roughly 2 years. I wasn't sure when that period of time was though and my brief cursory searches seemed only...

So it was just blind chance that the Cleveland Cavaliers won the lottery in the year (2003) that the #1 prospect was Akron, Ohio native Lebron James. And it was blind chance that the Chicago Bulls won the lottery in 2008 when the #1 prospect was Chicago native Derrick Rose (1.7% odds). And it...

It actually would not have been possible for them to fall to 6th with the worst overall record. They did fall to 5th though, which is almost as bad. The Wizards are picking 6th.