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Roland17:
If you are George Hill, how will you feel? You get traded by the Bucks, they win the Championship the following season and they bring you back after the winning the Championship..

I wonder what was going through his mind during the ring ceremony

I just looked at my wrist, I got time today....

Roland17:
Remember what I told you during that argument? At some point, the owners are going to fight and they will fight dirty! I better not hear any rubbish from anyone about it when that time comes. They are already telling you their direction with how they are handling this Kyrie and Simmons situations. This is not just about seeking trades but the owners are intentionally balking and refusing to entertain trade offers just so he can learn a lesson.

Bro! This is what I was thinking, but am like, nah, they wouldnt go this low. They cant possibly fight this dirty. Especially with Simmons. Morey is a really savvy GM, and I couldnt understand why they didnt unload him this offseason. Unless Morey and the Sixers front office actually want to prove a point and punish him.

Khanben:
Just read that MPJ's max contract is not fully guaranteed. Just want to ask is D Ayton worth a max contract?
IMHO he is like Gorbert great in his role but not someone you give the max or like in the case of Gorbert the supermax. If Ayton can take the kind of deal Jaylen Brown took from the Celtics then that's cool. Even if he waits till next year I don't think the market will give him max money as RFA.

Ayton is definitely not worth max. Strangely, I think if they had missed being in the Finals last year and he did not get outclassed by Giannis, someone may have thought he deserved max. Last year's finals exposed him big time and dropped his stock.

This Simmons situation has gotten ugly. On one hand, I love Daryl Morey in the hot seat. On the other hand, I detest the lack of professionalism from Simmons.

I had this argument with Roland17 sometime ago on owners vs players. So far this offseason, he has been more right than me - Kyrie, former players defrauding NBA health insurance, and now Simmons. This is going to cost players at the next bargaining agreement.

Roland17:
I take God beg you, comot eye for where Malika dey

No be you just talk say Candace Parker and Liz Cambage na your WNBA wives..

a40 is just seeing. nothing wrong with that

Khanben:
So how can research be funded when they are strong lobby groups who will block any look into it every step of the way. Look at the state of cannabis research, it has been either totally blocked or so grossly underfunded, that for a plant which is ubiquitous in all cultures we still don't know as much about it as we should, because of the cigarette lobby.
Medical research and other scientific research are sadly dependent on money and policy allowances So IMHO the existing researchers are doing the best they can with the limited targets and areas they are allowed to research.

I didn't even know there was a cigarette lobby. But yeah, it is really sad the number of people with chronic pain addicted to legal opiods when they could have used cannabis.

Khanben:
Thanks for the list. But as an aside you do know in the USA the conservatives will kill any attempt to research some of these. For example I remember a school which introduced Yoga and meditation to students and saw great results with the students, but the religious cons went mental and claimed it was a religious ploy to convert their kids and killed it. Same thing will happen with traditional, Chinese, Reiko, Qigong etc.

I cant blame them. You should only engage in what you are comfortable with. The spirit-mind-body connection should not be taken lightly as you can get yourself in trouble without even knowing you are in trouble. I personally think you can incorporate the stretches without all the divine self stuff and get benefits.

DeeMain:
Alternative Medicine: simply means other healing methodologies that are not orthodox medicine. When combined with orthodox medicine it is called Complementary medicine or Integrative Medicine. Examples:

Traditional Chinese Medicine
Acupuncture/Acupressure
Herbal Medicine
Energy Medicine/Energy therapy
Mind-body Medicine
MetaMedicine/German New Medicine
Homeopathy
Naturopathy
Chiropractic medicine
Osteopathic medicine
Massage therapies
Body movement therapies e.g. Yoga, tai chi, Qigong, dance therapy
Hypnotherapy
Electromagnetic therapy
Reiki
Aromatherapy
Reflexology
Biofeedback
Meditation/Visualization therapies
Healing prayers/Spiritual healing

The list is not exhaustive.


For funding: WHO, Governments, NGOs, Corporations, wealthy individuals. Same way medical science research is being funded.

some of these, I havent heard of. Will look them up

Elevation church has already tweeted a rebuttal. They did not invest. OPs post itself is fraudulent

steady986:
No vex o, I be novice. Does this mean that not everyone on my roster will score points daily?

P.S. Make una tell Killrhymz to leave my Clint Capela alone o, I no wan trade. Baba get like 5 bigs come still dey look me wey get only 2

I responded in the app.

And pls ignore killrhymz's ogbanje trades. He tries to get away with it each year. I spray holy water on my app everyday to ward of evil hearts

SmooshCHN:
Thats a good start.
Nobody is talking about Birdman and Bhudda Skillz winning the draft.

you are trying to lebron me, even before season start

dont forget to set your teams guys. @ steady986 When you click "Start Active Players" on the fantasy app, you will get an option to also set players for the whole week. That way, you dont have to remember to do this everyday. Just watch out for DNPs and injuries and alter your daily lineup if needed. You kuku be bball news guy

aliondo:
When you see my team,you go get hope..

Meanwhile@Buddhaskillz,...

every year his squad is vicious

Roland17:
419 Commissioner

I should not eat again? My God will judge you

KNIGHTBlaed:
It's almost draft time o. Where una dey?

I feel robbed

All set for nairaleague draft tomorrow! 6am PDT, 2PM nigerian time. May my enemies oversleep!

In round 1 of tomorrow's draft, we draft according to who won last year. After that its snaking, to give a fair chance to everyone. See definition of snaking below:

1 Killrhymz
2 birdman
3 KNIGHTBlaed
4 oisujeh
5 aliondo
6 SmooshCHN
7 Hohenheim
8 Hardetayour
9 donlittle25
10 steady986

In Snaking drafts (standard), pick order reverses each round. So, the team with the first pick in odd-numbered rounds gets the last pick in even rounds. Non-snaking drafts don't reverse, so the same team gets the first pick in every round.

A40:
May God forgive these clowns comparing Ali who refused to go to another country to kill people to a ninja who is simply refusing to make himself available for work. Smh

when history is not taught, this is what happens

Khanben:
The major issue is most people don't know how drugs get approved. Ivermectin is an approved horse dewormer, to put it through the testing for covid means you have to take a drug you know was developed for an animal and then get a test group of humans who have covid and then use it on them, instead of giving them already known treatment. You know what that will entail a freaking huge lawsuit with incredible payouts if people die during those trials. We are not talking dummy crash testing when we talk about medicine, we are talking about putting actual human lives in the balance to test a theory which already has a serviceable conclusion (i.e invermectin is a horse dewormer).

PS: Medical science has not failed anybody, we the people have continued to fail ourselves by letting capitalist, control things as important as medical research.
When you vote and support politicians/policies that insist of keeping medical research a profit based endeavor, what is currently occurring is what you get. Investors only care about return on capital, saving lives is an afterthought.
One thing should be self evident by now; Research of all kind in very costly and if the only funding available for researchers are controlled by investors then said researchers have no choice but to focus research on what those who pay the bills want them to do.

Thanks for adding this. I should mention though, that Ivermectin is used for river blindness in west africa, and has been for some time. I even remember the name of the parasite: Onchocerciasis from secondary school Obviously different dosage than given to horses. But Ivermectin is known to be safe for humans. Many studies on this abound. In particular, Japan views it as a wonder drug, because of the minimal side effects and other benefits.

Also, at the start of the pandemic, a Nigerian research institute did a 6 month study and found positive effects. Based on that study, several senators were dosed on Ivermectin and recovered. There was an even larger study in Argentina. I dont have the bandwidth to google either now.

So to me, this should have been enough for FDA to change its stance. Just because it is not being used already in the USA, is no reason to discount the usage in other parts of the world. Are the people using it for river blindness not people?

No one is saying medical science has failed anybody. But there is politics around that science, and sometimes results in less than optimal outcome. After all, people are people. The fact that Ivermectin usage world wide is not well known in the USA tells you not all facts are on the table. And these are the kinds of things than give anti-vaxxer conspiracies life.

DeeMain:
I think Kyrie is lost. I think he is still struggling with self definition. How can you be this insanely skilled and still let everything wash down the drain for next to nothing? The cause he claims to be fighting for(which I think is a cover up by the way) is way too small compared to the gift and glory he is giving up. And please don't compare him to Muhammed Ali.

Or is this about a gift and a curse?

more like an unmanaged gift. If he had no skill and was just flipping burger at some low paying job, nobody would care what his views are. Like they say, your gift can take you where your character cant keep you.

DeeMain:
Having said that my opinion is that there is a reason a phenomenon like the anti vaxxers movement is on the rise. The reason:
Medical science failed us, simple.

...

We need a medical system we can trust again.

I believe this is partly behind some of the frustrations of many anti-vaxxers.

And no I am not an anti-vaxxer.

I agree with you on this. No doubt, big pharma is more interested in money than saving lives. And FDA has colluded with them on occasion. It is well known that former FDA officials land cushy jobs in the industry on retirement.

I would even take it further. Drugs like Ivermectin should have been studied by FDA before dismissing it. There are dozens of large scale studies in multiple countries going back decades that show it is safe, and can be used by humans. More recent studies have shown some effect against the virus.

With all that being said, it is still a stretch to use this to conclude that you wont take the vaccine. For every distinguished scientist that hates the vaccine, there are 100 distinguished scientist that approve it. No matter the corruption in big pharma, there is more safety in checks by 100 people versus one lone wolf.

Instead, I think what we have is the same phenomenon that birthed a Trump presidency. Some people have figured out how to weave half a dozen true facts into a web of lies. And they know how to addict and perpetuate it in people's minds. There is a technique to it, and I fear we will see more of this in the future. As in, you will see the blue sky, and someone will be convinced its not blue, its really red. Or that the earth is flat. We have 500,000 dead in one year from one virus, and you will still see people trying to excuse it

Krismas:
How do u know this? Abi u be witch? Its not in the OP’s story. According to the narrative, d school claimed he was 60yrs, i.e due for retirement, then on compassion he was redeployed, to which he CONSENTED. So it seems someone convinced him he can make more money suing the school than working as a lecturer.

Read it again, its there. And Im sure he would have tendered the said letter in court too.

Compassion where? Lol. If it was retirement and he consented to redeployment, it would all have been documented, and the court would have ruled in favor of the school. This is a university, not a mom and pop shop. The retirement was an "explanation" made up to look less guilty in court. Thankfully, the judge looked at the mans contract, not dem say.

Hopefully there is some internal review within the university to fish out those who tried to bully this man, and why. They just cost the school N10m.

steady986:
So Kyrie has said he isn't anti-vax and needs time to process all that is going on. It went from I'm skipping the VAX due to religious reasons (whether rumours or true), to I'm a voice to the voiceless, to I'm not anti-vax and need time. I see what he's trying to do here. He's wants our sympathy but doesn't want to own up for all the noise he has caused in the past few weeks. Las las baba go collect the vaccine then come out and say there was no doubt in his mind he was going to take the vax, that he just needed time.

What I am seeing with most antivaxxers, when you refute their theories with hard facts and numbers is that they shift the argument to something else. To be able to say gee, I am wrong is nearly impossible. Because they would have to admit they have been bamboozeld into believing nonsense. Till now sef, there are Trump supported still asking for more audits!!!

Android17:
I said I won't say anything again but I just want to say Kyrie is now my favourite player in the NBA. I just read that the Nets offered him a chance to take regular tests before games and he refused - that is ballsy. I would not have refused that option. The man is fully committed to his convictions and I will always root for such a player whether I agree with him or not. I pray he goes to a team that will let him play and I will also be praying that he wins an MVP and finals MVP to go with another ring. He has heart and he deserves to succeed. As for other wise people who can smell a rat - 70K healthcare workers were fired in NYC for not taking a jab during a "pandemic". If anyone could think, they should find out how in one breath someone can complain about health institutions being overwhelmed (hoax) and in another breath, you fire the workforce that would have prevented you from being overwhelmed. Like someone on the Chelsea thread said, I laugh in new world order. Don't forget brethren, that these same healthcare workers were called heroes because they worked during the heat of the crisis last year when there was no jab available. Now they are selfish because they won't take a "free" jab. But this is about science!!!!

In case you were referring to me, I know nurses and doctors. So this is not some theoretical research I am doing on the internet. One of your antivaxxers even challenged me on that. So I sent him the URLs to several states EMS capacity indicators (most states track emergency room capacity in real-time and post it online in Yankee). He verified I was telling the truth, but did that change his stance? Of course not . He just moved on to another "research" he had discovered. As usual, you guys will ignore any evidence that doesnt support what you want, and just go find "research" that supports what you want to hear. Carry the h*ll on

HigherEd:
I think this is a case of someone who really knows his right and is willing to explore it. So redeployment in a workplace without consent is potentially illegal? Never knew.

Not if he has a contract tenuring him at a specific dept. Someone wanted to punish him for having the effontery to have a contrary opinion. Luckily, the man knew his rights.

People talking about their rights to not take the vaccine, except when they actually get sick as a dog, these same people have no problem driving to the hospital and insisting already overworked nurses treat them. We currently have people dying of treatable issues because the emergency wards are already filled with covid patients, and surgeries are being postponed. Even cancer treatments schedules are now messed up! Social and mental help is now scarce as resources are diverted to covid problems. Even law enforcement are feeling it as murder rates double - all the social work that would normally reduce mental breakdowns is limited.

But no, I wont walk down the road to take a free vaccine, because... Kyrie deserves every bit of crap he gets for this nonsense. He said he is thinking of workers that are being forced to vaxx. What of the nurses with mental breakdowns? The diabetic that needs surgery but dies before he can get one because there is no space. The millions of other people who cant get good healthcare. What of those guys?

Knowledge without wisdom is dangerous!

Khanben:
Simmons has the mentality that is probably the worst kind for a pro athlete. He does just enough to earn his checks and the competitor in him is possibly non existent. IMHO he only came back because the sixers kept the money and he actually experienced missing the checks first hand

This makes sense. It explains his refusal to address his offensive issues year after year

Nairaleague draft time is this Saturday, 6AM PDT 2PM Nigerian time). That way everybody has recovered from Friday night party, and not yet started Saturday owambe. _{The person I am referring to knows herself}

We have 10 confirmed as is, if anyone knows how to reach joephemzyz (I hope he is ok ) and skywalker, lemme know. anyone else that want to join, ping me!

aliondo - Confirmed
birdman - Confirmed
donlittle25 - Confirmed
Hardetayour - Confirmed
Hohenheim - Confirmed
Killrhymz - Confirmed
KNIGHTBlaed - Confirmed
oisujeh - Confirmed
SmooshCHN - Confirmed
steady986 - Confirmed

Joephemzyz - Waiting
skywalker5 - Waiting

KNIGHTBlaed:
Birdman abeg which time be draft for Naija time?

2PM Nigerian time (6AM PDT). I think that is the most convenient time on Saturday?I can move it earlier or later, but I think towards evenin g people will be in other places

steady986:
I don't know if I'm overreacting sha, as it's just preseason. But I don't like what I've seen so far. Now we already have 2 injuries going into the season.

Make I just give the team one month first. I'll make a definite conclusion after that.

This lakers team has the feel of the Boston Celtics when Garnett and Ray Allen joined Pierce. Celtics picked up veteran swingmen like Posey and just filled the bench with players who used to be good, but now a little older. Lots of one year rentals and almost retiring players looking for a ring.

If this Lakers team develops that same type of chemistry and can play lockdown defense for 15 minutes most nights, they have a good shot of OGing the younger teams. This is going to be real tricky.

A40:
Finally!! Brooklyn grew a pair. I say they take it one step further and give Kyrie a hard deadline. Show up at so so date or forget about the season.

Props to Nash for playing the right amount of politics so that he does not look like the bad guy should Kyrie return. I actually feel sorry for Kyrie - a fool that doesnt know hes a fool. Maybe a hard stance will wake this guy up. But I think a trade might be in order. Trade him far away, where all the funny influences cant reach him.

Fame is hard!

Nairaleague fantasy basketball is drafting this weekend. no stories that touch o

Please see list below. If your name shows "Waiting", please ping me so I can confirm your roster spot. If you are interested in joining and your name is not on the list, ping me as well.

Also pinging donlittle25 and skywalker5. steady986 looks like you just joined. Welcome


aliondo - Confirmed
birdman - Confirmed
donlittle25 - Confirmed
Hardetayour - Confirmed
Hohenheim - Confirmed
Joephemzyz - Waiting
Killrhymz - Confirmed
KNIGHTBlaed - Confirmed
oisujeh - Confirmed
skywalker5 - Waiting
SmooshCHN - Confirmed
steady986 - Confirmed

Blast from the past - December 3, 2020:

steady986:
Washington with Westbrook and Beal just made them a playoff contender. The East is stacking up real good.

birdman:
Westbrook will subtract from Beal, so I expect them to miss the playoffs. Just the facts

I hope you are right about WB this time. He should not come and waste LeKings time

steady986:
So the Lakers are 0-4 in preseason so far. Wahala dey o. Perhaps they're not as good as I thought they'd be. There's certainly a weird feel about this team. Make we dey see sha, but the signs are not good.

I keep telling guys to stop looking at names. There is only one rock and LBJ is not a magician. I want to see what the Lakers look like defensively come season start. Defense is their hope, because offensively, I can name 3, 4 teams in the west alone far better than they are. As far as I am concerned, Lakers have a big 2. I dont consider WB and Melo as legit championship threats. They have to prove me wrong.