The only mechanism the Lakers are projected to have in free agency is the taxpayer midlevel exception, worth $5.7 million, because LeBron James is expected to pick up the final year of his contract for $52.6 million, sources told ESPN. On the trade market, Dalton Knecht and the Lakers’ 2031 first-rounder will continue to be positive assets the Lakers can include in offers, as well as the expiring contracts of Rui Hachimura ($18.3 million), Gabe Vincent ($11.5 million) and Maxi Kleber ($11 million) as Pelinka searches for a center. Pelinka indicated that Reaves would not be traded when asked about the team’s core after the season. Source: ESPN
Pretty happy about this if it happens. Denver's offseason was going too well. and Valancunas usually gives Sengun fits. edit: nevermind looks like this for after the upcoming season..
Is he expecting to face ninjas in addition to the standard five defenders on the court? How the hell does this get you ready for the NBA season?
I once had an intern that believed the fights in the movie were a real event still happening. He told us how disappointed he was when he went to Italy (was his first time every leaving Texas). We thought he was pulling our leg but he was dead serious.
Where I used to live in the UK is a very historical city called York (you may have heard of the American city that was named after it ) and we'd commonly get US tourists asking where all the Vikings and Romans (yes both of them, expected at the same time no less) were, without any hint of humour. It actually makes you feel bad having to disappoint people who've travelled so far, but like seriously, wtf?! haha
I kaainda get the Gladiator movie being famous and a good movie kinda impressing young and stupid enough to make them think gladiator fights (to death??) were still a thing in this day and age. But... which movie made York, England so famous that the impressionable crowd that doesn't understand concept of history starts asking its locals for whereabouts of vikings and sh*t?
I don't think it had anything to do with movies tbh. If you look up guide books of York (which most tourists do) it's got significant history for both and has tours and museums etc built around that. For whatever reason we'd often get Americans (only Americans in my experience) thinking Romans and Vikings are contemporary groups of people more than historical, in much the same way many of them didn't realise that "New York" was named after regular York, and that in fact the majority of your town and city names are just rehashes of places in Europe that have existed since long before the USA existed. It's this really surreal experience trying to explain that we didn't name any of our places after your places. Obviously it's far from the majority of Americans, and most who visit are cosmopolitan, well educated people. But I've only ever experienced that kind of blissful ignorance of history with American tourists, nobody else. If it helps though Japanese tourists will walk around taking photographs of garbage cans and all kinds of random stuff if it simply has a coat of arms (most of our towns and cities have their own) displayed somewhere on it. We all have our quirks haha.
Historically York was built by the Romans and raided by the Vikings. Is it fair to ask if there are any decendants left?
