Saw this retweeted by @GSWReddit (/u/Perksofthesewalls?)
Link: https://theathletic.com/3054998/2022/01/06/how-the-warriors-early-bird-rights-on-gary-payton-ii-could-shift-their-future-plans/
>...since Bob Myers signed Payton II to a rest-of-season contract last May, the 2020-21 campaign counts for Payton II’s tenure with the Warriors and the team will have early Bird rights on him rather than the more limited non-Bird. > > What does this mean for the Warriors? > > Quite a lot. Non-Bird rights are deliberately extremely limited so teams cannot game the system by signing players to cheap one-year contracts, then giving them significant raises quickly thereafter. They only allow for the player to receive up to a 20 percent raise off of their previous salary or the minimum salary, so the only way the Warriors would have been able to offer Payton II more than that would have been by using the mid-level exception. Since the Warriors will be deep into the tax in 2022-23 (more on that later), they will only have the more modest Taxpayer MLE available with a projected first-year value of $6.235 million. Beyond that, Payton II taking some or all of the Taxpayer MLE would have prevented Myers from using it on someone else, like giving a capable veteran free agent more than his minimum. > > Instead, early Bird rights give the Warriors the ability to pay Payton II up to 105 percent of the league’s average salary in the 2021-22 season, roughly $10 million this coming offseason. What’s more, early Bird rights are a separate exception so Myers could (at least conceptually) retain Payton II and use some or all of the taxpayer MLE either during the 2022 offseason or even in-season depending on what opportunities present themselves.
To summarize, rather than regular non-Bird rights, limiting the Dubs to signing Payton for 120% of this year's salary, which would be ~$2M/yr, the team has Early Bird rights, or ~$10M/yr. I believe Damion Lee and JTA would also be Early Bird candidates this offseason.
Plus, this also leaves the TP MLE of ~$6.2M/yr available, if the Dubs want to use it to sign a player or re-sign an existing one, like Porter.
Regardless, they're heavy in repeater luxury taxes, so every dollar will incur significant additional dollars, but it's good news that the Dubs have another avenue for retaining guys.
Hey everyone.
I posted a week or so ago questioning whether or not I should read leroux's POTO (and subsequently Susan Kay's' phantom) because I was concerned about it "ruining" my feelings towards Andrew Lloyd Webber's phantom of the opera adaptation.
It did not.
For leroux's POTO: I had a fair amount of warning going in about the excess of Raouls perspective and the grotesqueness of the phantom. I would say I found the book slightly frightening at times but never did it really gross me out. I felt deep pity towards Erik at the end, but more than anything I was extremely curious to know more of his background story (of which so little is given, but much is eluded to).
For Kay's phantom:
This book has thoroughly ruined me.
Kay gives such reasonable explanation for a possible Erik backstory that leaves your heart sore. I cried many times, especially at his childhood story, and my love for Erik as a character grew tenfold.
My only complaint for Kay's novel is that (despite me being an Erik/Christine Stan) the ending feels so different from the rest of the book. I would have been just as pleased, if not more, if the last 100 or so pages did not exist and the story was merely an Erik backstory and didn't touch on Christine at all. However I wholeheartedly embrace this story nonetheless. It truly, deeply touched me.
So there you go, my fears were unfounded. And now my headcanon for Phantom has been expanded exponentially. If anything, I am slightly bitter that ALW didn't really touch on any of Erik's other skills besides singing and killing.
If anyone has any recommendations for other phantom-esque books I'd love to hear it. I would also appreciate a synopsis also without giving away big twists.
In the mean time I'll just be over here quietly recovering from the pain Susan Kay inflicted on me, lol.
I began reading Pierre Leroux's essays (“Individualism and Socialism” and “De la doctrine du progrès continu”), and I was surprised how they make Proudhon's work seem like a continuation (or response to) Leroux's philosophy. The two speak similar languages. Comparisons should be useful, I figure.
Here's a question: With the similarities in their ideas about progress in mind, how do their ideas about the "criterion of certainty" differ?
Looking at parts I highlighted while reading, it seems they come to very similar conclusions, both hinting at a necessarily social character of the criterion. Is it fair to suggest that Proudhon developed Leroux's philosophy, only using different terms to 'make room' for anarchy?
Did Proudhon's ideas on "the criterion of certainty" considerably develop or change after 1853?
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Leroux (in 1834, De la doctrine du progrès continu, machine-translated):
>Christianity, Reform, Philosophy, follow one another like the acts of a drama which approaches its dénouement. Those who consider history on in a casual manner, and page by page, must often find contradictory and incoherent that which is harmonic and continuous. Seeing the Reformation succeed Catholicism, and Philosophy succeed the Reformation, how many people are shocked, and see there only negation, discord and uncertainty! It is because they do not understand the series and the generation of things. So for them, there is death, there is nothingness, in these alternations and these contrasts, while for us, it is life. Their eyes offended by deep darkness, there where a dazzling light shines in ours. For what contradiction is there between the successive acts of a single drama, between the connected and coherent phases of a single evolution? It is only necessary to rise up enough to grasp and contemplate all at once the spirit of evolution in its entirety; and for anyone who is enlightened, that effort is not difficult.
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>[Of the principle of certainty.] [...]
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>In short, there is, there will never be, there can only be one starting point for reason, as for feeling: it is the actual life within us and outside of us.
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>If you confine yourself to yourself, you are in this double alt
Source: https://theathletic.com/3004984/2021/12/08/a-ben-simmons-possibility-trade-scenarios-for-sabonis-turner-levert-and-analysis-of-the-looming-pacers-rebuild/?source=user_shared_article
Edit: I just wanted to post this for information purposes. Don’t really have an emotion reaction to this.
I've been randomly searching places to travel to and I found this: https://www.gofundme.com/f/the-phantom-needs-your-help.
Gaston Leroux's family owns a cafe, and it might have to close. I'm trying to do some additional research to see if there's anything more recent but I haven't seen anything. And given that I can't read French doesn't help much....
Update: I asked about the cafe on the r/Paris. Someone apparently left a review in December so I believe it’s still around! Let’s just hope it stays around!
2021 was an excellent year for you, you got plenty of donations ! Enjoy 😉
> Stray thought: LeBron James is now not the highest-paid player on his team (and Anthony Davis is #3 on his own team)
Per Spotrac, Russ is making $44.2 million this year, LeBron is making $41.1 million this year, and AD clocks in at $35.3 million for a combined $120.6 million in salary.
Just interesting to see the numbers and s/o for Russ for getting that DPVE bag b/c he stayed in OKC, at least initially. From a free market angle, LeBron will always be underpaid due to the salary cap, but he's a billionaire so nobody should cry for him. And from a cap perspective, AD is on a crazy good contract assuming he can stay healthy(5 yr(s)/$189,903,600).
For comparison, Ben Simmons signed a 5 year / $177,243,360 rookie contract extension in Summer '19 that kicked in last season. However AD has more flexibility w/a 24/25 ETO, while Ben is locked in through the 24/25 season.
> Did I just get my wheels spinning about a double sign-and-trade three-way deal involving both Caruso and Theis? You bet I did
> (Bulls and Rockets retain their MLE, Lakers get a trade exception)
Source:https://twitter.com/DannyLeroux/status/1422358986620235776?s=19
Three team trade and the Lakers will be receiving a TPE.
Real gm radio podcast. I fucking hate hearing this ad, and I'm a football fan. I think the guy and his voice just annoy me. Maybe it's just me, and I'm having a bad day haha.
