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Your favorite thing that happened on this date in history?

  • "Around the World in 80 Days" by Jules Verne published (1873)

    Votes: 3 13.6%

  • "White Light/White Heat" by Velvet Underground released (1968)

    Votes: 5 22.7%

  • Ernő Rubik receives patent for the Rubik's Cube (1975)

    Votes: 2 9.1%

  • The Americans premieres on FX (2013)

    Votes: 1 4.5%

  • Serena Williams defeats Justine Henin 6-4, 3-6, 6-2 to win the Australian Open (2010)

    Votes: 0 0.0%

  • The Beatles' final public performance (1969)

    Votes: 8 36.4%

  • "... Baby One More Time" by Brittney Spears reaches #1 on the Billboard Hot 100 (1999)

    Votes: 1 4.5%

  • The Lone Ranger premieres on ABC Radio (1933)

    Votes: 0 0.0%

  • "Blackstar" by David Bowie posthumously reaches #1 on the Billboard 200 (2016)

    Votes: 2 9.1%

  • Damn it, Slim, you left out _______________!

    Votes: 0 0.0%
  • Total voters
    22
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Sacramento Kings 12-37 (3-21 Away) @ Boston Celtics 29-18 (14-8 Home)
30 January 2026, 4:30pm PT/7:30pm ET
TD Garden, Boston, Massachusetts

Last 5:
Celtics 3-2 Kings 0-5

Series:
Celtics lead 1-0​


Game Preview:
Leading scorer Jaylen Brown may miss Celtics' matchup vs. Kings (NBA.com)

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Injury Report (as of 2pm ET):
Celtics:
Neemias Queta - PROBABLE (illness)
Jaylen Brown - DOUBTFUL (hamstring)
Jayson Tatum - OUT (Achilles)

Kings:
Malik Monk - GAME-TIME DECISION (ankle)
Russell Westbrook - GAME-TIME DECISION (foot)
Keegan Murray - OUT (ankle)



Referee Assignments:
Brian Forte (#45 - Crew Chief), Jacyn Goble (#68 - Referee), Matt Myers (#43 - Umpire). Thirty-seven years combined experience.



Mister Slim Says: Seven losses in a row, with the vets playing heavy minutes in most of them, means no takes from me.

Play the kids.
 
LPKingsFan said:
Flew out to Boston to brave negative temps to see this in person. Hope it is at least entertaining.
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Beanpot starts Monday, I was yay close to coming out this weekend, wanted to take my child to look at my alma mater and see the one sport we're good at, but he can't miss school time per his mom. All things considered maybe June is a better time to try to get the class of 96 together and spend a few days in the city.
 
pdxKingsFan said:
Beanpot starts Monday, I was yay close to coming out this weekend, wanted to take my child to look at my alma mater and see the one sport we're good at, but he can't miss school time per his mom. All things considered maybe June is a better time to try to get the class of 96 together and spend a few days in the city.
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Friend group picks an away game each year to see, and Boston was it this year. I enjoy visiting, and have family here, but even with our tradition of wintry away trips (Buddy’s game winner in Detroit was a highlight) this is the coldest yet. May shoot for a spring game next year!
 
Tough poll.

I never quite managed to fully appreciate Velvet Underground. I know they're musically influential as all get-out but I can't just sit down and listen to an album.

Bowie's Blackstar (album and/or song) is just so, so much better than a 69-year-old has any business writing. I listened to only that album for maybe a week after he passed.

The Rubik's Cube is of course one of the best puzzle/toys ever, from a mathematical point of view. I used to be able to solve one in about 90 seconds, because our high school chem teacher challenged the class to learn how. Should still be able to do it, but haven't tried in a decade. (But no, I know a relatively easy, but slow algorithm, not the complicated analysis that allows people to solve the thing in 4 seconds!)

Around The World In 80 Days is pretty easily the best of Verne's most famous three novels (with Journey To The Center Of The Earth and 20,000 Leagues Under The Sea) because it actually has a plot. It stands up OK today, though I was a bit annoyed that I figured out the "twist" about 20% of the way through.

But for this poll, I went with The Beatles. Hard to say that their FINAL PERFORMANCE is something to favorite, but my vote really goes as a tribute to The Beatles themselves. They burned bright and then burned out, but boy did they do some wonderful favors for the musical landscape for a couple of decades following.
 
LPKingsFan said:
Friend group picks an away game each year to see, and Boston was it this year. I enjoy visiting, and have family here, but even with our tradition of wintry away trips (Buddy’s game winner in Detroit was a highlight) this is the coldest yet. May shoot for a spring game next year!
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It's been a long time since I've been, I will probably be all bitter about why favorite landmarks are gone, but I can't wait to take junior sometime in the next ~7-9 months and hopefully it motivates him for the final steps of his college push. I really want him to have his own experience some place nobody else in the family has been but if he wound up at Boston or Tucson I'd be super excited to visit regularly.
 
Capt. Factorial said:
Around The World In 80 Days is pretty easily the best of Verne's most famous three novels (with Journey To The Center Of The Earth and 20,000 Leagues Under The Sea) because it actually has a plot. It stands up OK today, though I was a bit annoyed that I figured out the "twist" about 20% of the way through.
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20,000 Leagues Under the Sea was one of my favorite books in elementary school. Did a book report or two on it, I believe. Not sure I ever read Around the World in 80 Days, though. May have to do that...
 
Capt. Factorial said:
Tough poll.

I never quite managed to fully appreciate Velvet Underground. I know they're musically influential as all get-out but I can't just sit down and listen to an album.
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But for this poll, I went with The Beatles. Hard to say that their FINAL PERFORMANCE is something to favorite, but my vote really goes as a tribute to The Beatles themselves. They burned bright and them burned out, but boy did they do some wonderful favors for the musical landscape for a couple of decades following.
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I just can't with the VU. Maybe because they are always lumped in with the other precursors to punk that I love but Lou Reed seems (seemed) insufferable. In Please Kill Me: The Uncensored Oral History of Punk, a book that was as much kill your idols for me as anything I have ever read, he comes off like one of the biggest pricks of all.

Beatles are not my favorite band, I'm a Stones guy, but their final performance is/was something to celebrate. They had not performed live since August of 1996 (at Candlestick!). The "concert" was unannounced. They had to fight off police to have it. And it's pretty obvious from watching their interactions while rehearsing and arranging what would become Let It Be that they were done. Especially George. But John was nodding off from the junk half the time. It was just bad. So this thing happened that has since been immortalized, without it we'd have gotten nothing from their peak creative era. Revolver was released the week before the Beatles final tour and penultimate performance in August of 1966. So yeah this was an easy call for me.

If it weren't there I'd probably have gone Rubik Cube, what can I say, I spent more time with those things and their offspring/ripoffs than any toy I had in ~3rd grade.
 
Warhawk said:
20,000 Leagues Under the Sea was one of my favorite books in elementary school. Did a book report or two on it, I believe. Not sure I ever read Around the World in 80 Days, though. May have to do that...
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The problem that I had with 20,000 Leagues is that it's a lot of long meandering with interminable lists of ocean fauna that the narrator is observing. It starts out promising with a massive hunt for a suspected giant sea monster (which turns out - to the knowledge of only our narrator and his two companions - to be a submarine in a pre-submarine technology era) but it just quickly devolves into a travelogue with a couple of silly adventures and a completely ridiculous Antarctica segment that likely was overly fantastical for the time it was written. And the ending comes out like Verne looked down and realized he was 15 pages from a hard ceiling and had to find a way to exit. Not that in elementary school it might not capture the imagination in a different way.

Around The World is a lot of travel but less travelogue and actually has an interesting plot, and the implausibilities are more logistical than fantastical, which for some reason I forgive much more easily. Quick read, too. If you're really dedicated you could knock it out in an afternoon, but at any rate you'd have to be otherwise occupied to not finish in a week.
 
QWERTYLICIOUS said:
Soooooooo, which places do you really want him to leave off of his list?
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Duke. Arizona State.

I'd also prefer he not go to college in Oregon but that's just because I want him to take advantage of the opportunity to get out of where he'll have spent the first 19 years of his life while he can.
 
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