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Seems like all the talk of this draft is there isn't much drop off to the mid first (mainly cuz the top sucks). So maybe?

He’s 100% going to kneel during the anthem this season. Let's pump the breaks there. Has he even managed to type the words Black Lives Matter yet?

Well Trump went after him first right?

I'll give him the benefit of the doubt and assume he gets that and it was a rhetorical question.

The team who can still field a roster by week 10 wins the trophy

I'll give the new Bulls regime the benefit of the doubt (and I like Karnisovas), so maybe moving up helps? Getting pick #7 again would indeed be ridiculous. I hate that the 6 teams outside of the top 16 that get to restart the season will be in the lottery with the 8 teams whose seasons ended in early March (and won't start again until December). I'm completely cool with the Bulls not coming back, I honestly had to desire to watch them again (not that I was watching before) but they get the shaft a bit with no revenue from local broadcasts, not to mention less development time for the players. Not a huge disadvantage but a slight one. I think they should make the lottery only for the 8 teams left out, and give every team 1/8 odds for each pick. The Bulls last 17 games were going to be pretty brutal and there was a good chance they would have dropped before the end of the year. I think they had 2 wins over +.500 teams all year and 11 of their last 17 were against over .500 teams including a west coast trip to play Houston, Denver, LAC, LAL and Utah. I honestly would have loved to see a losers bracket tourney to decide the picks.

Thanks for the contribution. One thing you said has really stuck out to me in all this and it's how much harder it is to deal with ignorance over just plain hatred. Hatred is a easy deflection for people including the ignorant who can sit there secure that they're not the problem because "look at that racism, that's what's wrong with America smh". The ignorant can be just as hard to move and the condemnation against them too light to force movement. He's already taking a lot of blow back on his apology, so we'll see if it chips away anymore at his stance.

So Brees comes under fire for his comments about kneeling and the flag yesterday. He issues an apology through Instagram. I don't know if it's the power of celebrity or just being in the position as a powerful white male, but these dudes can't ever seem to issue an apology without making a huge chunk of it about them (we see it frequently in the me too era). But this apology, complete with the cheesy ass photo comes off like he's more concerned about how his words were interpreted than he is concerned about black men being gunned down while jogging or choked to death by police. https://www.instagram.com/p/CBA1P3gHpT_/?igshid=1qpebi6fcx5yo I know Brees does a lot of direct action in the NOLA community, and I'm sure he has good intent, but damn dude, why is an unequivocal apology so hard for guys?

Sign that man to a lifetime contract.

RIP Jerry.

Could have been worse, they didn't even go into "No Tippin Pippen"

I thought they showed it really briefly but didn't really go into the specifics and actually talk about it. That's what I was thinking, I clearly remember them showing him doing something, an announcer saying something along the lines of "Dennis is going to be gone for a while." and then him walking off the court. It may have been something with a player though. What's kind of wild is that in my head I was thinking the ref headbutt in 96 was a bigger deal at the time, but he got 6 games for that verse 11 games for the camera man incident. In today's age, is a guy getting any less than 20-25 games for conduct like that?

I thought they showed it really briefly but didn't really go into the specifics and actually talk about it.

Yea that's one area where I'm not believing it just cuz Michael said so. I think most importantly Jackson was going to be done. But I also can't imagine guys like Kerr, Longley, etc not also wanting that payday, and definitely Pip would have wanted his pay day, so I don't think it'd have been everyone back on 1 year deals. Most those guys got 50% of their entire career earnings in those post 5 championship years. I think it would have been the Bulls maxing out their cap for 3-5 seasons or so on a primarily mid to late 30s roster. That said, thats with a frame of reference of Krause having already introduced so much friction between management and the players/coaches. If he's more low key to the few years leading up to it, maybe everyone is all on board after 98. And even if Jackson still is insistent on leaving because of his "7 year rule" maybe in that case MJ agrees to stay if it's someone favorable from the existing staff. Or if Jackson leaves, perhaps Michael follows suit, even if the rest of the core is there. Came across a good article that talked about what that cap hit would have actually been: https://www.cbssports.com/nba/news/why-keeping-michael-jordans-bulls-together-for-run-at-seventh-title-would-have-been-a-very-costly-mistake/ Obviously 99-03 ended up being dog horsefeathers anyways, but under that scenario they'd have locked themselves into a painful slow decline those 5 years.

I agree with your whole post really, should give credit for doing something formal, just am in the mindset where having a bunch of second generation guys filling up the league ala the Shanahans/Gibbs/Schottenheimers, maybe a couple Harbaughs with full control, and way more GMs and FO guys wouldacouldashoulda been happening There's definitely been meaningful gains with guys like Rivera (a two time HC with a long and quality first run), Lynn, and David Shaw over at Stanford getting a taste, Brian Flores is going to get plenty of leash in Miami, and several of the up and coming young coaches in the game are minority candidates which feels different All the proposals that were not draft comp related passed. None of the draft comp rules were passed. https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/29194925/nfl-approves-rooney-rule-changes-tables-minority-hiring-incentives Of note, the FO requirement is far ranging and includes senior non football roles like marketing/IT. And it's specified female applicants would meet the criteria as well.

He got lots of interviews, but they didn't spend a ton of time on his game, I think was Regular Show's point. Makes sense that he got a lot of air time though. Scottie is kind of dull to listen to. Rodman was probably hell to get to focus. Harper and Kukoc are fine to listen to, but Kerr is definitely a good interview. They didn't even include Longley... Yeah, I don't think they mentioned how incredible a shooter Kerr was in the doc? He was a key role player on the team, and I didn't fully appreciate him until I got older. I really wanted more Kukoc and Kerr. Also, they weren't going to travel to Australia to interview Luc Longley (that's why he isn't featured in the doc). They had to travel all the way to Montana to interview Phil Jackson lol. Kerr is really articulate and always gives great interviews. He understands the game and team dynamics really well and gives thoughtful answers. The question about whether they discussed what happened to their fathers never even registered with me until this doc. Yea they didn't cover in the same way that they did like with say, Rodman and rebounding. It was more alluded to it that flat out praise his contributions as a sharp shooter. If I was some 20 year old watching it, I might think "oh he that one shot, but they must be interviewing him so much cuz he's one of the biggest coaches in the sport now"

Even though he never started a game I think he was arguably 5th most important player on that second three peat. Assuming you have Toni at 4? Yea. With Kerr it's just that recognition though that him and Harper were splitting minutes even though at the time, it was just "Harper is the starter". And as good as Harper filled the role that was asked of him, his role was probably easier filled than Kerry's since Kerr was so elite at what he did. Obviously there was a lot of O/D switching with those 2 in tight games, but being trusted like in 97 speaks volumes to his role with the team.

He got lots of interviews, but they didn't spend a ton of time on his game, I think was Regular Show's point. Makes sense that he got a lot of air time though. Scottie is kind of dull to listen to. Rodman was probably hell to get to focus. Harper and Kukoc are fine to listen to, but Kerr is definitely a good interview. They didn't even include Longley. Did Randy Brown also not get air time? He was at least as important as Wenington and Bucheler.

Even though he never started a game I think he was arguably 5th most important player on that second three peat.

I'm less sold on the draft pick ideas. The other changes about not allowing teams to block candidates for coordinator roles and extending the Rooney rule to minority candidates are easy ones. With the draft comp thing, I'm not convinced it will affect teams decisions that much, but it will definitely create questions for every minority candidate who gets hired whether they were the best candidates. I know it's easy to rag on the NFL as being a cesspool, but on the issue of minority hires it's easy to forget they're the only league really doing anything like the Rooney Rule. The NBAs coaching/executive representation issue is just as bad and they're doing nothing formal (they have some diversity advisor in the league office that teams can consult and that's it). The NBA is doing much better than the NFL. Not sure what the numbers are now, but at one point there were as many as 14 black head coaches. Several NBA assistants are minorities. The NBA has also been the most proactive by miles in hiring women as coaches, referees and executives. NBA executives aren't really as diverse as it should be....but they are doing better than any other league. 20% of NBA exes are minorities. Over 36% of the NBA league office are minorities. Almost 46% of assistant coaches are black. I'm sure the NBA has some sort of program, they just don't feel the need to announce. Even if they don't, they are still doing pretty well, all things considered. NBA definitely better on the gender front. As far as racial diversity the league player makeup is higher black then the NFL, so it would follow it would have a higher coach makeup, though I don't know exactly where the ratios fall today or over the past decade or so. Still it definitely just came up with the Bulls VP search as far as the NBA having a diversity issue in the executive front. And the NFLs Rooney rule did seem to work for a while, before falling back off, so they're reacting, perhaps a little too reactively instead of proactively, but they have acted pretty well all things considered.

I'm less sold on the draft pick ideas. The other changes about not allowing teams to block candidates for coordinator roles and extending the Rooney rule to minority candidates are easy ones. With the draft comp thing, I'm not convinced it will affect teams decisions that much, but it will definitely create questions for every minority candidate who gets hired whether they were the best candidates. I know it's easy to rag on the NFL as being a cesspool, but on the issue of minority hires it's easy to forget they're the only league really doing anything like the Rooney Rule. The NBAs coaching/executive representation issue is just as bad and they're doing nothing formal (they have some diversity advisor in the league office that teams can consult and that's it).

New Rooney Rule enhancements to be propsed: Cliff notes: Stop the ability for teams to block assistant coaches from "bona fide" coordinator roles Draft comp for minority hires at GM/HC and coordinator levels AND QB coaches Extend Rooney rule for coordinator roles Possibly double the required number of minority candidates for GM/HC roles. https://www.nfl.com/news/owners-to-vote-on-resolution-to-incentivize-minority-hc-gm-hires

Stop bringing up the Jets before you get this locked again.