As raps are playin Spurs + former spur/rap great debo dominating the league this week... started thinking back to Kawhi/Demar Trade, and the obvious result of it - the greatest NBA champs ever

Started wondering whats our next MEGA trade???

*contract years includes this season

• FVV (28 in Feb) : ~$20m/yr [2+1 years remaining player option "likely opting out"]
• Pascal (27) : ~$33m/yr [3 years remaining]
• OG (24): <$20m/yr [4 years remaining]
• GTJ (22): ~17m/yr [2+1 years remaining player option "likely opting out"]
• Scottie (20)*** 2021 ROY soon to be SUPER MEGASTAR [2+2 Rookie contract]

Like Brian Windhorst said previously about Scottie, if Scottie is going to be the man going forward, with our top-heavy roster, Masai will likely have to trade 2 or 3 out of the 4 when Scottie's rookie extension arrives, right?

with very contract-friendly players, even Pascal's these days, will Masai cash in now or wait a season or two longer? We can't pay everyone or can we????!!!??

The way Freddie is playing, his extension or next contract will be max? super-max? OG, Pascal, even GTJ might be asking that much also. The trade value of these four must be insanely high this season...

If OG was playing with Steph, Klay, Dray... = Championship locked?

If Freddie or Pascal was at Chicago, Denver, Cavs or Vancouver Grizzlies?

or GTJ goes to Lakers or Mavs?

I'm sure the money or assets doesn't really work with the above scenarios, but all im saying is trade values are super high, we aint winning this year or next year with the current top 5. I dont think?

What yall think Masai gonna do? and when? Try to rebuild with the younger trio of Scottie, OG + GTJ + whatever we get back from Pascal + Freddie? or try to trade 1 or 2 raps + picks to win before we need to give Scottie the supermax rookie extension? Maybe, Dame + Nukic? Zion lol??

Apologies for the long-ass post - HNY 2022 yall

Introduction

This is part 3 of my series of chronicling rap music of 1981, 1991, 2001 and 2011. Part 1, about 1981 and 1991, can be found here. Part 2, about 2001, here. I’ve noticed some confusion about why I’m doing this, so here’s a short breakdown about me:

• I’ve started a journey to listen to pretty much all relevant rap music in the history of the genre in 10 years’ time. In 2020 I didn’t keep meticulous notes, in 2021 I did.
• I’ve picked 10-year intervals to keep things interesting for myself.
• I’ve been listening to a lot of different rap for around 20 years now and I’m very familiar with pretty much all major releases through rap history.
• My job allows me to listen to music for large parts of the days, and I often don’t stop when I’m done with work.
• I like writing about rap and my aim is to help people find new music they might not yet know.
• Besides rap from the years mentioned above, I’m also listening to whichever albums I want to listen to at any given time, around 150 different albums in 2021.
• I’ve listened to 259 rap albums and a grand total of 4354 rap songs from 2011.
• 1 song per artist on the list. Some artists could’ve easily had multiple entries on the list, but it would make for a terribly boring list.

2011 Songs of the year

The list of great rap songs is very long. Probably longer than any of the previous decades. There simple were more good rappers from very diverse backgrounds making great music at the same time: both mainstream and underground, from all regions. I’ll provide breakdown by aesthetics, because otherwise the list will become very unwieldy.

Brick Squad

Following Waka Flocka Flame’s classic 2010 Flockaveli, Brick Squad kept shitting out 20+ song mixtape after mixtape in 2011. Save for Waka Flocka & Slim Dunkin’s “Twin Towers 2”, most of those tapes were at best just pretty decent. It’s notable that practically every artist on Brick Squad was able to release a great song as a solo artist in this blessed year:

• Bo Deal – Safe Sex ft. Mello G Blanca
• Slim Dunkin’ – I Gotta Eat
• Waka Flocka Flame & Slim Dunkin’ – Twin Towers Intro
• Waka Flocka Flame – Stereo Type
• Wooh Da Kid – I Prefer
• Frenchie – Scream My Adlibs

Song breakdown:

• Bo Deal’s Safe Sex, featuring

26/30 rankers reporting this week. /R/NBA's Power Rankings are published every two weeks which is a bit different from most rankings. Other than that we rank the teams the same way as our competition. If write ups are left blank the team rep decided not to submit. We are still looking for Lakers and Pelicans reps. See their comment box in the table to apply. We encourage any user to fill in the blanks in the comment section. Rankings were supposed to be completed prior to today's games.

I don't want to step on anybody's toes here, but the amount of non-dad jokes here in this subreddit really annoys me. First of all, dad jokes CAN be NSFW, it clearly says so in the sub rules. Secondly, it doesn't automatically make it a dad joke if it's from a conversation between you and your child. Most importantly, the jokes that your CHILDREN tell YOU are not dad jokes. The point of a dad joke is that it's so cheesy only a dad who's trying to be funny would make such a joke. That's it. They are stupid plays on words, lame puns and so on. There has to be a clever pun or wordplay for it to be considered a dad joke.

Again, to all the fellow dads, I apologise if I'm sounding too harsh. But I just needed to get it off my chest.

FiveThirtyEight has a player projection model they use to decide how good a player might be. Using the rosters listed from each team on ESPN (which may not be completely up-to-date), I wrote down what it had to say about each prospect .

Atlanta Hawks

• Trae Young - Future All-Star
• Bogdan Bogdanovic - Borderline All-Star
• Clint Capela - Borderline All-Star
• John Collins - Up-and-Comer
• Kevin Huerter - Up-and-Comer
• Delon Wright - Key Role Player
• Danilo Gallinari - Rotation Player
• Gorgui Dieng - Rotation Player
• De'Andre Hunter - Rotation Player
• Skylar Mays - Rotation Player
• Onyeka Okongwu - Rotation Player
• Cam Reddish - Rotation Player
• Lou Williams - Offensive Specialist
• Solomon Hill - Scrub
• Brandon Goodwin - Scrub
• Jalen Johnson - Good Prospect
• Sharife Cooper - Good Prospect
• A.J. Lawson - Marginal Prospect

Boston Celtics

• Jayson Tatum - All-Star
• Jaylen Brown - Borderline All-Star
• Marcus Smart - Borderline All-Star
• Dennis Schroder - Average Starter
• Al Horford - Key Role Player
• Josh Richardson - Rotation Player
• Jabari Parker - Rotation Player
• Aaron Nesmith - Rotation Player
• Enes Kanter - Rotation Player
• Romeo Langford - Rotation Player
• Payton Pritchard - Rotation Player
• Robert Williams III - Rotation Player
• Grant Williams - Defensive Specialist
• Luke Kornet - Defensive Specialist
• Juancho Hernangomez - Scrub
• Bruno Fernando - Project
• Juwan Morgan - Project
• Juhann Begarin - OK Prospect
• Sam Hauser - Marginal Prospect

Brooklyn Nets

• James Harden - MVP Candidate
• Kevin Durant - Borderline All-Star
• Kyrie Irving - Borderline All-Star
• Nicolas Claxton - Up-and-Comer
• Joe Harris - Average Starter
• Patty Mills - Rotation Player
• Blake Griffin - Rotation Player
• DeAndre' Bembry - Rotation Player
• Bruce Brown - Rotation Player
• Jevon Carter - Rotation Player
• Timothe Luwawu‑Cabarrot - Rotation Player
• Paul Millsap - Scrappy Veteran
• LaMarcus Aldridge - Way Past His Prime
• James Johnson - Scrub
• Tyler Johnson - Scrub
• Mike James - Scrub
• Sekou Doumbouya - Project
• Reggie Perry - Project
• Day'Ron Sharpe - Good Prospect
• Kessler Edwards - OK Prospect
• David Duke Jr - Marginal Prospect
• RaiQuan Gray - Marginal Prospect
• Marcus Zegarowski - Marginal Prospect

Charlotte Hornets

• LaMelo Ball - Future All-Star
• Miles Bridges - Average Starter
• Terry Rozier - Average Starter
• P.J. Washington - Average Starter
• Gordon Hayward - Rotation Player
• Kelly Oubre Jr. - Rot

Atlanta Hawks

Boston Celtics

Brooklyn Nets

Charlotte Hornets

Chicago Bulls

BASICS:

Born: October 15, 1995

Jersey Number: 32, then 22

Bats: Right

Throws: Right

Position: Starting Pitcher

Drafted: 2014 by the Cardinals, Round 1, Pick 34

MLB Debut: September 1, 2017

Teams: Cardinals (2017-present)

Twitter: jack9flaherty

Instagram: jflare

2021 STATS:

Games: 17

Innings Pitched: 78.1

Wins: 9

Losses: 2

ERA: 3.22

Strikeouts: 85

CAREER STATS:

Games: 93

Innings Pitched: 487.1

Wins: 32

Losses: 34

ERA: 3.34

Strikeouts: 567

CAREER AWARDS:

NL Pitcher of the Month - August and September 2019

THINGS YOU MIGHT NOT KNOW:

He had the best batting average of NL pitchers in 2019.

He is a fan of the Lakers and Kobe Bryant.

He led his high school to a California state title and had a 0.63 ERA his junior and senior years.

He is adopted.

HIS BEST 2021 MOMENTS:

He had seven straight wins

He hit a home run

He got his 500th career strikeout this year

He had an 8 K game

OTHER GREAT MOMENTS:

He took a no hitter into the 6th in 2019

Here's his first career K

WHY I LIKE HIM:

He's a great pitcher and has good morals as well.

PAST PLAYERS:

11/15: Mike Trout 11/16: Jose Ramirez 11/17: Randy Arozarena 11/18: Jonathan India 11/19: Freddie Freeman 11/20: Corbin Burnes 11/21: Robbie Ray 11/22: Shane Bieber [11/23: Bryce Harper](https://old.reddit.com/r/baseball/comments/r0i

Do your worst!

TL;DR

Made all-time hometown rosters with original 30 NBA teams + 25 new teams to split populated areas and big teams (spreadsheet + map)

Player Pool and Team Pool

I used the top 969 players who have at least 10000 minutes played in their career.

Why 10000 minutes played? Because that's the lower standard set by Basketball-Reference to get on their ABA career leaderboard (15000 MP for NBA). I added George Mikan, because even though he hasn't played enough minutes, he's featured in All-Time ESPN NBARank and Bill Simmons Hall of Fame Pyramid.

I started off with the current 30 teams. To split up the Lakers and Clippers, I gave the Clippers their proposed Inglewood site.

As I looked at the map of player hometowns, I realized that there were:

• some areas that had a lot of players, but few close NBA teams
• some areas that had bloated rosters with too many players

Based off city population and arena size, I added 25 new teams.

• I obviously had to give Seattle their team back
• Birmingham, North Little Rock and Shreveport helped to split up the South
• Pittsburgh and St. Louis were big cities without teams
• Berkeley added to siphon off San Francisco
  • if I add Oakland, it takes away too many players
• Anaheim and Westwood added in Southern California (Clippers & Lakers)
• Winston-Salem and Raleigh to pare down Charlotte
• Lansing to prune Detroit
• 2nd Atlanta team in suburb of College Park
• 2nd Washington team and Baltimore
• 2 more teams in Chicago (Rosemont and South Side) + a team in Gary
• 2nd Indiana team + Louisville & Lexington
• 2nd Philadelphia team in suburb of Wynnewood
• 3 more teams in the New York Area (Newark, Queens and Long Island)

The Method

I started off gathering hometowns due to this fantastic database by Reuben Fischer-Baum ([original article source here](https://deadspin.com/infographics-where-do-pro-basketball-players-come-from-5132615

For context I'm a Refuse Driver (Garbage man) & today I was on food waste. After I'd tipped I was checking the wagon for any defects when I spotted a lone pea balanced on the lifts.

I said "hey look, an escaPEA"

No one near me but it didn't half make me laugh for a good hour or so!

Edit: I can't believe how much this has blown up. Thank you everyone I've had a blast reading through the replies 😂

It really does, I swear!

They’re on standbi

Pilot on me!!

Nothing, he was gladiator.

Eastern Conference

Atlanta Hawks (2-2)

• Trae Young: 20.5 PPG, 1.5 REB, 9.0 AST, 1.0 STL
• John Collins: 14.2 PPG, 10.0 REB, 1.2 AST, 1.2 STL
• De'Andre Hunter: 13.5 PPG, 2.5 REB, 2.5 AST
• Danilo Gallinari: 12.5 PPG, 6.0 REB, 1.0 AST
• Kevin Huerter: 12.3 PPG, 3.0 REB, 2.3 AST
• Cam Reddish: 11.5 PPG, 2.0 REB, 2.2 STL
• Bogdan Bogdanovic: 11.3 PPG, 2.7 REB, 3.0 AST, 1.7 STL
• Lou Williams: 10.5 PPG, 2.5 REB, 1.0 AST, 1.0 STL
• Clint Capela: 10.0 PPG, 10.0 REB
• AJ Lawson: 8.0 PPG, 2.0 REB
• Gorgui Dieng: 5.8 PPG, 5.5 REB, 2.2 AST, 1.0 STL
• Sharife Cooper: 5.5 PPG, 2.5 REB, 2.8 AST, 1.0 STL
• Delon Wright: 4.0 PPG, 1.3 REB, 3.3 AST
• Skylar Mays: 3.5 PPG, 1.2 REB, 1.0 AST
• Jahlil Okafor: 3.0 PPG, 2.0 REB, 1.5 AST
• Jalen Johnson: 2.8 PPG, 2.8 REB, 1.0 AST
• Solomon Hill: 2.3 PPG, 3.3 REB, 2.3 AST
• Timothe Luwawu-Cabarrot: 2.0 PPG, 1.0 REB, 1.0 AST
• Johnny Hamilton: 1.0 PPG, 2.2 REB

Boston Celtics (2-2)

• Jaylen Brown: 25.0 PPG, 4.0 REB, 3.0 AST, 1.0 STL, 1.0 BLK
• Jayson Tatum: 20.3 PPG, 8.7 REB, 3.3 AST, 1.7 STL
• Romeo Langford: 12.5 PPG, 2.5 REB
• Aaron Nesmith: 10.8 PPG, 2.2 REB, 1.2 AST
• Al Horford: 10.5 PPG, 5.0 REB, 1.0 AST, 1.0 STL, 1.0 BLK
• Payton Pritchard: 10.0 PPG, 3.7 REB, 4.0 AST
• Dennis Schroder: 9.5 PPG, 3.5 REB, 5.0 AST, 2.5 STL
• Theo Pinson: 8.0 PPG, 2.5 REB, 2.5 AST
• Josh Richardson: 7.0 PPG, 2.3 REB, 1.7 AST, 1.0 STL
• Jabari Parker: 7.0 PPG, 1.3 REB, 1.3 AST, 1.3 STL
• Marcus Smart: 6.5 PPG, 2.5 REB, 4.5 AST
• Garrison Mathews: 6.0 PPG, 2.0 REB
• Grant Williams: 5.8 PPG, 3.8 REB, 1.8 AST, 1.2 STL
• Sam Hauser: 4.3 PPG, 1.0 REB
• Robert Williams III: 3.7 PPG, 5.7 REB, 1.3 AST, 2.0 BLK
• Enes Kanter: 3.5 PPG, 5.5 REB
• Juancho Hernangomez: 3.5 PPG, 2.8 REB, 1.0 AST
• Bruno Fernando: 2.0 PPG, 1.7 REB, 1.0 BLK
• Ryan Archidiacono: 0.0 PPG, 2.5 REB, 2.5 AST
• Juwan Morgan: 0.0 PPG, 1.0 REB

Brooklyn Nets (3-1)

• Kevin Durant: 20.0 PPG, 6.7 REB, 1.7 AST
• Joe Harris: 13.7 PPG, 2.7 REB, 1.7 AST
• James Harden: 11.7 PPG, 3.7 REB, 7.3 AST
• LaMarcus Aldridge: 11.3 PPG, 3.7 REB, 2.0 AST, 1.0 STL
• Sekou Doumbouya: 11.0 PPG, 4.0 REB, 1.0 STL, 1.0 BLK
• Jevon Carter: 10.8 PPG, 1.5 REB, 1.2 AST
• Cam Thomas: 10.5 PPG, 2.5 REB, 1.2 AST
• Paul Millsap: 8.7 PPG, 8.0 REB, 2.3 AST, 1.3 STL, 1.0 BLK
• James Johnson: 8.5 PPG, 1.5 REB, 1.5 AST, 1.0 STL, 1.0 BLK
• Day'Ron Sharpe: 7.5 PPG, 3.5 REB, 1.0 STL
• Devontae Cacok: 7.5 PPG, 1.5 REB, 1.0 AST
• DeAndre Bembry: 6.3 PPG, 4.0 REB, 1.3 AST, 1.7 STL
• Nicolas Cl

Dad jokes are supposed to be jokes you can tell a kid and they will understand it and find it funny.

This sub is mostly just NSFW puns now.

If it needs a NSFW tag it's not a dad joke. There should just be a NSFW puns subreddit for that.

Edit* I'm not replying any longer and turning off notifications but to all those that say "no one cares", there sure are a lot of you arguing about it. Maybe I'm wrong but you people don't need to be rude about it. If you really don't care, don't comment.

I won't be doing that today!

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I'm surprised it hasn't decade.

When I got home, they were still there.

What did 0 say to 8 ?

" Nice Belt "

So What did 3 say to 8 ?

" Hey, you two stop making out "