When he asked you where you wanted to go, were you thrilled or maybe a little scared since it was unexpected?

Same. Best non-vacation week of the year for me.

Scoot Henderson has a career winning record of 5-4 and has won five of his last six games. Without Scoot, Blazers are 1-8.

The Blazers welcomed Brogdon on Twitter (they didn’t welcome Jrue), so they might keep him for now. It seemed he was unhappy when the Celtics announced that Derrick White was going to start over him after Smart was traded, so I don’t know why he’d want to backup Scoot. Unless he’s not going to backup Scoot, then I’d have to ask what the hell the Blazers are doing. But if he turns out to be okay with it, I’d be more than happy to keep him.

(Edit): They just announced that he’s wearing 92, so it looks like he’s staying for now.

Portland needs a back up point guard to replace him and some forward depth. Right now they’ve got seven other rotation players not including him, not yet knowing what they have in Kris Murray or second year Jabari Walker:

• Scoot
• Sharpe
• Simons
• Thybulle
• Grant
• Time Lord
• Ayton

Everyone else is super raw except for Knox, who probably won’t get much better than he is. But perhaps they’re more concerned with developing that raw talent than with depth right now, since expectations aren’t necessarily going to be measured in wins this year. I guess we’ll know once they trade him.

Jrue Holiday for Time Lord, Brogdon, a GSW '24 1st Rd Pick (top 4 protected), and a Celtics unprotected '29 1st Rd Pick.

Outside of all the media rumors and social media back-and-forth, who knows what that Riley-Cronin relationship is really like. Maybe it’s fine and all the rumor bluster is just way overblown. Either way, I think it’s going to be a lot easier for us to trade Jrue than Dame.

As a Blazer fan I wish him the best, no hard feelings. I hope he gets that championship. I’m looking forward to the new-look Blazers:

• Scoot Henderson
• Anfernee Simons
• Shaedon Sharpe
• Jerami Grant
• Deandre Ayton

Looks like we’re going to move Jrue.

The effects of gravity spread at the speed of light. If the sun suddenly blinked out of existence, it would take eight minutes to both see it disappear from Earth and notice a change in our planet’s motion. In other words, the planet would continue to orbit that empty space in the middle because the sun’s gravity, much like it’s light, would still be extending out to us.

The universe is expanding in every part of space all at once. Some places are so far apart that the collective expansion between them is growing at greater distances in a given amount of time than light can travel. And the same can be said for the effects of gravity, but the motion of objects caused by gravity at great distances is far, far slower than the speed of light.

Our galaxy is moving in a direction that is caused partly by something called “The Great Attractor.” But even though it’s causing us to move, we will never reach it, and it’s influence on us will gradually weaken. And it’s not even that far away compared to most of what we know is out there.

That being said, this news is interesting.

Can someone update the right column to show “Portland Trail Blazers” (the official spelling) rather than “Portland Trailblazers”?

1. First downs don’t stop the clock except the last two minutes of the 2nd and 4th Q.
2. Can’t call consecutive timeouts.
3. 1st and 3rd Q can end on penalties, they are applied at the start of the next quarter.

I think the first one is really only going to make a big difference, but they want to reduce the number of plays in a game.

They’re making a Netflix animated series coming this November featuring the entire original cast and based more on the graphic novels than the film was. I can’t think of too many reboots with the original cast, but I hope it’s awesome. I liked the film quite a bit, so if for some reason it’s not I can always fall back on that.

I used to be an /r/CFB Poll member, but I deleted my Reddit account toward the end of the 2017 season. They’ve started ramping up again this week, and I was waffling about whether or not I was going to do the work to keep track of my own poll throughout this season, but if you’re going to do one here maybe it’ll give me an excuse. Give me a few hours and I’ll put a vote in there.

Big Ten preview games this season:

• Week 3: Washington @ Michigan State
• Week 7: Oregon @ Washington
• Week 10: Washington @ USC
• Week 11: USC @ Oregon
• Week 12: UCLA @ USC

It’s bittersweet for me as an Oregon fan. I’ve watched the Pac-10/12 for 30 years, and I’ve loved watching my team play everyone in this conference. I know there’s a lot of anger out there right now and it’s justified. I want to keep playing the Beavers every year, but if they want to tell us where to shove it, I get it.

I don’t expect this to be resolved before the Big XII 2024 lineup is finally set, but this might push the remaining four corner schools to move more urgently. If the Big Ten is talking about it now, then there was probably a lot of weight to that “blood on hands for delivering the killing stroke to the Pac” argument. Still doesn’t mean it will happen, but it would leave the Pac-12 North in a tight spot if it didn’t. I’m sure the B1G’s preference is to integrate two schools at a time, but if they have any interest in getting any more schools for a discount, they most likely will.

UO and UW definitely want to have that linear exposure, and it sounds like there won’t be much of that with this deal. I don’t know how either of them would sign this deal, even if they didn’t care about the money, and even if they had to wait some years to join the B1G if that’s an option.

Oregon’s beat writer, James Crepea, just tweeted that “Multiple Pac-12 ADs told me this winter/spring streaming only was not acceptable.”

I think Stewart Mandel said it best, “Larry Scott sold the schools on the Pac-12 Network based on how much revenue they could hit based on low/medium/high subscriber projections. It turned out to be below low. Hard to imagine the schools making another risky bet on a newish platform.”

I think the SEC can get away with pioneering something like this, maybe the Big Ten. I don’t see it working for the Pac.

Wonder if it’s something like CU’s leaving pushed others into the mindset of “show us and we might leave, or don’t and we WILL leave”.

Probably the Big XII telling schools they’ve got to plan out their 2024 season, and with only 11 months left they’re already pushing it. Then again, the Pac’s in the same crunch.

Dame wanted to have a “puncher’s chance” at contending, and he can do that in a number of places. As a Blazer fan I want Dame to succeed, and I want him to get what he wants, but I also don’t want my franchise to be on the ass-end of a terrible trade. I really think if he had given us a few options that this would be over by now. People have questioned whether a number of Cronin’s previous trades weren’t perhaps overpays for what they got in return, but he always sent his players to places and situations they wanted to be in (Powell/Covington to LA, McCollum/Nance to NOLA, Hart to NY, Payton II to GSW). Doesn’t mean we have to entertain unreasonable offers if that’s what they are.