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In my 76 years, I've had 3 shoulder injuries. Nothing else has ever hurt that bad. Your arm just hangs there uselessly with no comfortable position. Even after the acute pain is gone, the shoulder will be weak. My injuries were different from Steph's & he's still relatively young, so perhaps he'll heal faster than I did.

My injuries. ~age & recovery time.

40: R shoulder bursitis (RSI) from playing volleyball. Cortisone shot ended the pain, but a few weeks to regain strength

71: Burst calcium deposit in R shoulder, possibly from earlier injury or from slamming into walls on the racket ball court decades earlier. Had to suck it out with a needle, then weeks of strengthening work.

74: Tripped & jammed my R shoulder (possible subluxation?) when I fully extended my arm to catch myself against a wall. Less painful than the others. Didn't seek treatment for a few months. Once I did, a couple months of PT. It's still not 100%, but I'm lazy about continuing the work & not a pro athlete.

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We've lost at full strength to weirder rosters than the ones Golden State will be using. My preview: https://dubnationhq.com/p/time-to-tank-or-tread-water

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We'll win the classic "Wtf? Did that really just happen?" game tonight. Calling it now.

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Dec 16, 2022·edited Dec 16, 2022

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Draymond Green (quad) listed out Friday."

I saw he was questionable, but now Draymond is out tonight. When did the quad injury happen?

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Has anyone else been watching "Last Chance U" on Netflix, about East LA Community College? Intense series. I haven't finished but I have some strong opinions about the coaching.

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Kind of weird to think that after tonight the road trip will be half over. Starting off with a B2B sort of moves things along.

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Dec 16, 2022·edited Dec 16, 2022Author

Preview will be coming in a bit folks

Thanks for your patience. Work-life balance currently out of balance

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Entertaining article from The Ringer on the 2020 draft: https://www.theringer.com/nba/2022/12/16/23511791/nba-draft-2020-james-wiseman-anthony-edwards

>> This chart of the top players in the 2020 draft demonstrates two patterns. First, the order of this draft class doesn’t really matter—in fact, the correlation between pick number and WAR for players selected in the first round in 2020 is 0.08, which means no discernible relationship. (If anything, the slight positive correlation means players picked later in the round have more value than players picked earlier so far.)

Second, the five players from this class with the most career WAR to date are all guards.

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On the Sunny side ...

Steph gets his days off for the season early.

This should unlock Poole as he can settle into his starter mentality and production.

This should get Donte up to 28-30 min a game and who can complain about that.

Moody is sure to get 1-2 more minutes a game as Kerr runs out of cards to play.

Draymond sure to get kicked out of 10 games while Curry sits as we all know he doesn't like to play without him and this should lead to some fun 4th qtr Kuminga time.

Klay is gonna break his single game 3 pt record. Unfortunately, it will span 5 games.

We will continue to get 5 min per press conference of Kerr talking about the value of 4 year college players and another 5 minutes talking about what a good person Wiseman is and how he is doing everything required of him in the G League to get him back into the NBA ... in 2026.

The down side. Despite more minutes over the next 4 weeks, we still won't know who JMG is.

Ahh Hell, the truth is, we were all getting tired of Curry, right? Being so despicably good all the time. Gimme a TY/Lamb PNR any day.

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That sure is going to tank the Christmas day ratings.

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Anyone else picturing Steph playing in a sling like nothing's wrong?

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There is no ''next man up'', on this team, when Steph goes down....

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Did someone say tank for Victor?

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One more lotto pick would help the bench. That may be a necessity given the current difficulty with the salary cap.

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OMG. Memphis punched the Bucks with a 141-101 win. The only silver lining I can think of for our Christmas Day showdown with Memphis is that we play at home.

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Wow. Suns up 64-37 against the Clippers at halftime.

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