#NBA 2023/24

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TYRESE MAXEY dedicates career-high 50-point performance in a 137–126 win against the Indiana Pacers to teammate Kelly Oubre Jr., who suffered injuries after being struck by a vehicle in a hit-and-run. Maxey is the ninth player in the Philadelphia 76ers franchise history to score 50+ points in a game, scoring the most in a game by a 76ers guard since Allen Iverson on December 23, 2005 against the Atlanta Hawks (November 12, 2023)

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Draymond Green and Rudy Gobert 2023-24 NBA Regular Season

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Chicago Bulls'ta Onuralp Bitim ve Kenneth Lofton Jr. ile Ayrılık

Chicago Bulls’ta İki Ayrılık NBA ekiplerinden Chicago Bulls‘ta önemli iki ayrılık gerçekleşti. Kulüp, yaptığı resmi açıklamada milli basketbolcu Onuralp Bitim ve Kenneth Lofton Jr. ile yollarını ayırdığını duyurdu. Onuralp Bitim, Türkiye’de Anadolu Efes, Pınar Karşıyaka ve Bursaspor formalarını giyerek adını duyurmuş bir oyuncu. 25 yaşındaki genç yetenek, 2023-24 sezonunda NBA’ye transfer…

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the highly anticipated NBA schedule for the 2023-24 season, featuring an exciting in-season tournament, key matchups, and the highlights of All-Star Weekend. Stay updated on the latest basketball action and events.

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The Golden State Warriors and Los Angeles Lakers have most nationally televised NBA game in the 2023-24 NBA season. Stephen Curry and LeBron James.

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The Greatest NBA Highlights All Time! 2023 #nbahighlights #nba24highlights #nba #24

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Case Study: Determining the Quantity of Food Semeru Requires Daily

Here, we explore how much Semeru needs to eat per day.

First, we need his height. Reddit user ghallo_k places Semeru at a staggering 6'8" in human form. He may be slightly shorter based on shoe positioning, but I'm not interested in repeating anyone's work so we will accept this as fact.

Looking at the common 8-head division in figure drawing, we will assume the groin is the halfway point in height. I took David Lajoya's September 2023 artwork of Semeru, rotated the tail for ease of calculating length, and copied and re-pasted what would be half of Semeru's human body to determine his length as a shark. Using pixel lengths. If Semeru is 6'8” as a human, he is 7'9.5" as merfolk.

Semeru as merfolk is composed of ~50% of a human body and ~80% of a great white shark's body. The latter percentage is based on the weight of the head and body of a shark caught in Kenya in 1996.

Using the above lengths, I estimate his shark portion would be 53.5". If we add the shark head back in, his lower body would originate from a 66.9” or 5'7” shark, which is unusually small. Males typically measure 11-13' in length and 1,151-1,700 lbs.

To determine how much Semeru needs to eat, we will first do food calculations for a 5'7" shark, then cut off 20%. He's around half the size of the smallest male great white sharks, so let's say 1200 lbs of a normal-size shark gets cut to 600 lbs for what his shark form would be if it had a shark head. Great whites eat about 0.5-3% of their total body weight per day, so the shark portion of his body needs to eat 2.4-14.4 lbs per day (this includes the 20% cut due to him not having a shark head). The mean consumed by typical sharks is around the middle of the range, so we will assume the same is true and that his shark portion requires around 8.4 lbs of food per day.

To determine how much Semeru's human half needs to eat, I had initially started by calculating his weight. I did not wind up using this, but I will include it in case it is useful to anyone. I pulled weights from 9 athletes of a similar height: Jordan Mailata 6'8" 365 lbs, Spencer Brown 6'8" 311 lbs, Zach Gentry 6'8" 265 lbs, Pascal Siakam 6'8" 245 lbs, Julius Randle 6'9" 250 lbs, Gustavo Borges 6'8” 216 lbs, Matt Grevers 6'8” 240 lbs, Yannick Agnel 6'8” 198 lbs.

Semeru's physique looks most similar to Gentry, Siakam, Randle, and Grevers, so we'll guess his weight in 100% human form sits around 250 lbs. Just for fun, this gives us his weight in merfolk form: 125 lbs of human + 480 lbs of shark = 605 lbs. Incredible.

I did not wind up using this information because there's the small issue of information for humans being shared in calories and information for sharks being shared in lbs.

Operating under the assumption that swimming is the most calorically demanding exercise from the sports I pulled from (NFL, NBA, Olympic swimmers), we'll look for info there. The only widely publicized swimmer diet I could find is that of Michael Phelps, at 8,000-10,000 per day. Semeru is 4” taller and possibly swims more (*see next paragraph), so we'll guess he'd need to eat around 10,000-12,000 calories per day. We can halve this for his mer-form.

*On one hand, Semeru would swim more than peak Michael Phelps in a literal sense because great whites need to swim 24/7. On the other hand, I imagine Semeru's swimming requires less arm movement than human swimmers and possibly less core muscle use, since he has a shark bottom that can do the majority of the swimming. I have decided not to try to account for these differences in a significant way because I literally can't. The most I will do is use the lower range of food in the paragraph below.

Juvenile sharks eat big fish. Adult sharks prefer eating marine mammals. It is incredibly difficult to find calorie information for porpoises and the calorie information for sea lions varies so widely (120-850 calories per 100g) that I have decided to perform the conversion using from human kcal to lbs using tuna instead. Let us assume that one source I found stating 100g of raw tuna contains ~109 calories is accurate. This converts to 9,174-11,009 grams or 20-24 lbs if he's in human form, or half that in mer-form at 10-12 lbs.

So, 10 lbs required for his human body + 8.4 lbs required for his shark body = Semeru eats 18.4 lbs of food on a typical day. In conclusion (and in my one act of mercy for those who don't use the imperial system): In human form, Semeru is around 6'8" (203.2 cm) and 250 lbs (113.4 kg). In merfolk form, he is around 7'9.5" (237.5 cm), 605 lbs (274.4 kg), and would eat around 18.4 lbs of food in a typical day.

[ourladyofomega]

Longest losing streaks in North American Sports history:

Donald Trump: 34 (May 30, 2024)

Chicago Cardinals (NFL): 29 games (1942-45)

Philadelphia 76ers (NBA): 28 games (2014-16)

Detroit Pistons (NBA): 28 games (2023-2024)

Louisville Colonels (MLB): 26 games (1889)

Philadelphia 76ers (NBA): 26 games (2014)

Cleveland Cavaliers (NBA): 26 games (2010-2011)

Tampa Bay Buccaneers (NFL): 26 games (1976-1977)

Cleveland Cavaliers (NBA): 24 games (1981-83)

Philadelphia Phillies (MLB): 23 games (1961)

Charlotte Bobcats (NBA): 23 games (2012)

Denver Nuggets (NBA): 23 games (1997-1998)

Vancouver Grizzlies (NBA): 23 games (1996)

Pittsburgh Penguins (NHL): 18 games (2003-2004)

Buffalo Sabres (NHL): 18 games (2021)

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Congratulations 👏 🎉

The Celtics are the 2023-24 NBA Champions, setting a record 18th franchise title, the most league titles in history !

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Kevin Durant and Giannis Antetokounmpo 2023-24 NBA Regular Season

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As Donald Trump’s administration continues its relentless reorganization of the United States federal government, documents obtained by WIRED showed this week that the Department of Defense is looking at cutting as much as three-quarters of its workforce that’s specifically focused on stopping proliferation of chemical, biological, and nuclear weapons. Meanwhile, the US Army is using its “CamoGPT” AI tool to “review” diversity, equity, inclusion, and accessibility policies per Trump administration orders. The military originally developed the AI service to improve productivity and operational readiness.

US civil liberties organizations are pushing the director of national intelligence. Tulsi Gabbard, to declassify details about Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act—a central overseas wiretap authority that is notorious for also capturing a large number of calls, texts, and emails made or sent by Americans. And the US Justice Department on Wednesday charged 10 alleged hackers and two Chinese government officials over digital crimes spanning more than a decade as part of China’s extensive hack-for-hire ecosystem.

Ongoing analysis from a consortium of researchers led by Human Security found that at least a million low-price Android devices, like TV streaming boxes and tablets, have been compromised as part of a scamming and ad fraud campaign known as Badbox 2.0. The activity, which the researchers say comes out of China, is an evolution of a previous effort to backdoor similar devices.

And there's more. Each week, we round up the security and privacy news we didn’t cover in depth ourselves. Click the headlines to read the full stories. And stay safe out there.

Cybercriminals Allegedly Used a Backdoor to Steal Taylor Swift Tickets

Two people who allegedly worked as part of a group to access nearly 1,000 tickets to concerts and other events—many for Taylor Swift’s Eras Tour—before selling them on for more than $600,000 profit were arrested and charged with the potential crimes in Queens this week. Tyrone Rose, 20, and Shamara P. Simmons, 31, of Jamaica, Queens, were arrested and arraigned in connection to the theft and sales, according to Queens district attorney Melinda Katz.

Between June 2022 and July 2023, it is alleged that 350 orders—totaling 993 tickets—on ticketing platform StubHub were accessed at a third-party contractor called Sutherland. “The Sutherland employees, defendant Tyrone Rose and an unapprehended accomplice, allegedly used their access to StubHub’s computer system to find a backdoor into a secure area of the network where already sold tickets were given a URL and queued to be emailed to the purchaser to download,” the district attorney’s office wrote in a statement.

They then emailed URLs to another accomplice who has since died, the office says, before posting the tickets to StubHub for resale. While the investigations are ongoing, the District Attorney’s office claimed the proceeds of the cybercrime totaled around $635,000 and also involved tickets for Ed Sheeran concerts, NBA games, and the US Open Tennis Championships.

Payment Provider Linked to ‘Largest Illicit Online Marketplace’ Loses Banking License

Every year, criminals make billions from the operations of highly organized scam compounds in Southeast Asia. As these operations have grown in sophistication, so has the wider ecosystem that supplies them with the technology and services needed to run the scams. And experts say there’s no bigger marketplace than Huione Guarantee—a Cambodian gray market selling scam services that researchers claim has facilitated more than $24 billion in transactions.

This week, according to a report by Radio Free Asia, the banking arm of Huione Guarantee’s parent company, Huione Group, had its financial license suspended by officials in Cambodia. According to the report, the Huione Pay service had its license withdrawn for failing to comply with “existing regulations.” The United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime and crypto tracing firm Elliptic previously had linked money moving through Huione Pay to cyberscamming. “They are willing facilitators of pig butchering and other fraud, so any regulatory action against them should be welcomed,” Elliptic founder Tom Robinson claimed to Radio Free Asia.

Russian Cryptocurrency Exchange Garantex Taken Down in Law Enforcement Action

The US Department of Justice announced an operation this week with Germany and Finland to disrupt the digital infrastructure behind notorious Russian cryptocurrency exchange Garantex. For years, the platform has allegedly been used for money laundering and other criminal transactions, including sanctions evasion. The DOJ claimed in its announcement that “transnational criminal organizations—including terrorist organizations” have utilized the exchange. Law enforcement said that the platform has processed at least $96 billion in cryptocurrency transactions since April 2019. US authorities said they froze over $26 million in funds used to facilitate money laundering as part of the Garantex takedown.

Scammers Are Impersonating Notorious Ransomware Attackers to Extort Targets

The FBI warned this week that scammers pretending to be attackers from the BianLian ransomware gang are demanding ransoms from corporate executives in the US. The demands include claims that the group has breached a company’s network and threaten to publish sensitive information unless a target pays up. Such criminal digital extortion is common enough that scammers apparently feel that they can plausibly make the claims and intimidate targets without even attacking them. The FBI says that the scammers’ ransom demands say that they come from BianLian and range from $250,000 to $500,000 payable via a QR code that links to a Bitcoin wallet. The real BianLian group has links to Russia and has targeted US critical infrastructure since June 2022, according to a November alert from the US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency.

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Li Zhou at Vox:

Caitlin Clark, a college basketball phenom and the top pick at Monday’s WNBA draft, will make a staggeringly low salary in her rookie year compared to her NBA counterpart. Despite her record-breaking performance in the NCAA and the energy that she’s generated for the sport, Clark’s base salary will be $76,535 as a rookie. In the NBA, meanwhile, the first draft pick is expected to make roughly $10.5 million in base salary their first year.

Players like Clark, who was picked by the Indiana Fever Monday night after multiple blockbuster seasons as a point guard for the University of Iowa Hawkeyes, and former Louisiana State University forward Angel Reese, who was signed by the Chicago Sky, have helped women’s college basketball achieve a landmark year. For the first time ever, the women’s final March Madness game, which drew as many as 24 million viewers, surpassed the viewership of the men’s final. “It’s been catapulted this year to a whole new level,” says University of Michigan sports management professor Ketra Armstrong. “People are tuning in to the WNBA draft that never had before.” The fresh attention for the WNBA draft, however, is also spotlighting the problems the league has had with pay equity. For years, the WNBA’s salaries have lagged the NBA’s by a massive margin. That’s due in part to the leagues’ differences in revenue and season lengths. But other factors, like differences in collective bargaining agreements and revenue-sharing, also play a big role. [...]

The pay-gap problem is bigger than any one player

Despite her record-breaking performance in the NCAA and the energy that she’s generated for the sport, Clark will earn less than 1 percent of what her male counterpart will make in her first year. She will be able to supplement her salary through endorsement and marketing deals, but even with those, her estimated earnings will be lower than the base salary of a first-round NBA pick. Clark isn’t alone. WNBA star Brittney Griner — who spent months jailed in Russia — spoke about the reason she played abroad in the offseason, and noted that a big part of it was to supplement her income: “I’ll say this ... the whole reason a lot of us go over is the pay gap,” she said at a press conference in April 2023. In 2023, a WNBA player made a $113,295 base salary on average, while an NBA player made an average base salary of $9.7 million. The NBA’s much larger revenue is part of the reason for this discrepancy: It takes in an estimated $10 billion annually, compared to the WNBA, which has been projected to bring in roughly $200 million. Its season is also about twice the length of the WNBA’s, including 82 games compared to 40 games. Those factors alone, however, don’t tell the full story.

It's a grotesque insult that WNBA stars (and potential stars) such as Caitlin Clark, Angel Reese, and Brittney Griner are appallingly underpaid compared to their male counterparts in the NBA.

The large gender pay gap between WNBA and NBA players is why WNBA players choose to play in overseas leagues during that league's offseason to supplement their income.

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about me :3

lev | she/he/they | 23 | nyc

aromantic-spec and asexual-spec, genderfluid, jewish, ocd + adhd

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interests

nba & wnba, fortnite, pikmin bloom, scott pilgrim, smiling friends, sanrio, fnaf, succession, minecraft, franz ferdinand (band, my former special interest), daft punk

my fave nbas

dario šarić(!!!!!) (my special interest), process sixers, giannis and bros, 2021 suns, splash bros, 2023-24 warriors (kevon looney and chris paul my beloveds), nova knicks + kat

hobbies

journaling, writing, gym, cooking

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cats, rabbits, art history, fashion & style, jewelry

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takes

pro-rpf

PRO TRANS, quite radically feminist

pro-palestine; anti-zionist

leftist with some non-liberal opinions

sports are queer, sports are feminine, sports are culture

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reminders and DNIs

mutuals: 18+ preferred

followers: 16+ preferred

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DNI if you're any of the bigotries, anti-rpf, etc. just look at what i said above and if you disagree on a personal level do not follow bc this is MY mind palace and i make the rules

screenshots are usually allowed, just ask me before posting

I last used tumblr regularly in 2014-2015, I might not understand the modern etiquette of the site so bear with me. I’m kind of an oldhead

there is a lot wrong with me <3

some masterposts:

Franz Ferdinand Masterpost