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And doing it as the youngest player on the team.

I’m not getting the Hatton talk. How he can he possibly be eligible for a waiver? He played 4 years post-Covid. No injury history. He played in, what, maybe 20 games last year? Was William & Mary not D1 his freshman year?

Local H is plain cool. Scott Lucas is great. They also did a great version of Wolf Like Me and a lot of their catalog is just fun.

Surprised it took that long, though it looks like DDV isn’t Creanish and busting out offers after 1 good viewing.

Unrelated to Lyons, but fwiw should the staff get really involved with them: saw the Placide twins play a couple of games for Sunrise Christian last year and, while they’re not Cooper and Ace Flagg, 1 of them, I believe it was Gavin, was a lot better than the other. They’re not comparable prospects.

And 5/0 ast/to. And I’m confident he defended. Nice, indeed.

13 pts on 8 shot attempts with 5 rebounds and committing 4 fouls all in NINE minutes of game time is a pretty stunning stat line.

Yup, been a minute since a kid has seemed as genuinely excited about committing to IU, and, yes, he seems to be graciously acknowledging all of the good will. Sign of good parenting. 1 side note: I may simply be too old at this point to ever get my mind around a 17 yo referring to a college HC as DRock, which Moody’s done a bunch, but clearly it’s affectionate and respectful so I just need to get over it.

Currently watching season 4 of The Bear. Feels like they’re still struggling to thread some stuff together but, man, whomever picks their music never, ever, misses.This is from a Dion 1975 solo album called Born to Be with You and it’s freaking awesome. Just a perfect song. Wow, love it. Didn’t know that guy was even recording at that point. Now I gotta break out the full album.

Outstanding! Big fan of that kid.

Least they could do for the guy after posting that freaking picture of him.

So, DDV and Johnson are in Prince George’s County, Clark is in Richmond, VA, Norton’s on the west side of Indy and Adams is in Lausanne, Switzerland, on Lake Geneva and in the foothills of the Alps? Huh Snark aside, pretty sure both the FIBA and DMV Live events are streamed if anyone’s interested.

https://www.espn.com/nba/story/_/id/45585873/2026-nba-mock-draft-four-players-no-1-pick-options-peterson-dybantsa-boozer-ament ESPN’s 1st ‘26 mock. What a ridiculously good class. Notable names: 19. Braylon Mullins 30. Braden Smith 49. Mackenzie Mgbako 55. Flory Bidunga

So happy for that kid. Given how bad Denver’s bench was maybe he can figure out a way to eventually scratch out some minutes. And, man, if he can playing with Jokic makes everybody money.

Marquette- Big East UK- SEC Louisville- ACC Kansas St- Big 12 Love it. Now if they could just schedule a PAC 12 ga……Nevermind.

Ok, someone please clarify, is it Hansen Yang or Yang Hansen? Either is an objectively awesome name.

Got to post every NBA draft season because it will never not be hysterical.

IUBB hosting Kansas St at AH 11/25 per a bunch of folks.

I think there’s a pretty decent chance that Ainge drafted him as an asset and not a piece and he’s open for business on moving him on to 1 of the teams that wants the kid. They’ve got a ton of overlapping pieces and maybe they use him to make a deal to get off a contract like Sexton or Clarkson. Or, they think the kid’s a star and there’s nothing he’s gonna do about it.

Silver said during the broadcast last night that there were 7 achilles injuries League-wide this year after none last year and they’re digging into it. And the Pacers had 3 of them? I’m not a statistician but the odds of that sound kind of long.

Wow, to add insult to the injury of how badly he lost the genetic lotto, as Cooper Flagg’s hugging his twin brother Ace after being drafted it’s pretty clear that Ace at the ripe old age of 18 has a receding hairline. Swear to God, that kid can’t catch a break.

Congrats to the young man. Imagine a fair part of it was a combination of an early offer and relationship there combined with him pretty clearly wanting to be a PG which Martelli I’m sure was willing to commit to and I doubt IU or UT would. Personally, I didn’t love him and don’t regret a miss here. Would be far more disappointed missing on Moody.

Interesting that 90 mins from his announcement there are still no crystal ball predictions entered. Kudos to his people for keeping their mouths shut.

Link to Jackson’s commitment announcement. 5pm ET.

https://www.patreon.com/posts/moving-on-from-7-132217420 Very nice read from Caitlin Cooper on sort of the nature of fandom and, specifically, Pacers fandom. Such a fan of her work.