#San Diego Clippers

[basketball-lifer]

Remembering the Man Who Mowed Down the Sixers

If he hadn't suffered injury in the initial years, he would've reached new heights. His feats in the 1976-77 season alone tell it all

2× NBA champion (1977, 1986)

NBA Finals MVP (1977)

NBA Most Valuable Player (1978)

2× NBA All-Star (1977, 1978)

All-NBA First Team (1978)

2× NBA All-Defensive First Team (1977, 1978)

NBA Sixth Man of the Year (1986)

NBA rebounding leader (1977)

NBA blocks leader (1977)

NBA anniversary team (50th, 75th)

Let's not forget that his team faced a mighty Sixers team that was led by Dr. J, who at the time was at his peak

[10thyearseniors]

Jones Dominates In The G-League

Kai Jones continues to go back and forth between the NBA and the G-League, but when he is in the G, he continues to pst dominant performances. Jones finished with 25 points and 13 rebounds, both season highs, for the San Diego Clippers in last night’s 103-96 loss to the Oklahoma City Blues at the Paycom Center in Oklahoma City. Jones scored 16 in the first half to keep the Clippers in contention,…

[eternal--returned]

World B. Free of the San Diego Clippers (c. 1979)

[valentin10]

Rip City Remix vs. San Diego Clippers - Game Highlights

[myrebelancestorsdiedforme]

Joseph Washington "Jellybean" Bryant (October 19, 1954 – July 16, 2024) was an American professional basketball player and coach.[1] He played for the Philadelphia 76ers, San Diego Clippers, and Houston Rockets of the National Basketball Association (NBA). He also played for several teams in Italy and one in France. Bryant was the head coach of the WNBA's Los Angeles Sparks from 2005 to 2007[2] and returned to that position for the remainder of the 2011 WNBA season. Bryant also coached in Italy, Japan, and Thailand. His son, basketball player Kobe Bryant, was inducted into the Basketball Hall of Fame.

[mostlysignssomeportents]

How Goldman Sachs's "tax-loss harvesting" lets the ultra-rich rake in billions tax-free

Tomorrow (Apr 25) I’ll be in San Diego for the launch of my new novel, Red Team Blues, at 7PM at Mysterious Galaxy Books, hosted by Sarah Gailey. Please come and say hi!

_,.-'~'-.,__,.-'~'-.,__,.-'~'-.,__,.-'~'-.,__,.-'~'-.,_

With the IRS Files, Propublica ripped away the veil of performative complexity disguising the scams that the ultra-rich use to amass billions and billions (and billions and billions) of dollars, paying next to no tax, or even no tax at all. Each scam is its own little shell game, a set of semantic and accounting tricks used to gussy up otherwise banal rip-offs.

If you'd like an essay-formatted version of this post to read or share, here's a link to it on pluralistic.net, my surveillance-free, ad-free, tracker-free blog:

https://pluralistic.net/2023/04/24/tax-loss-harvesting/#mego

The finance sector has a cute name for this kind of complexity: MEGO, which stands for "my eyes glaze over." If you're trying to rip off a mark, you just pad out the prospectus, make it so thick they decide there must be something good in there, the same way that any pile of shit that's sufficiently large must have a pony under it...somewhere.

Propublica's writers haven't merely confirmed just how little America's oligarchs pay in tax - they've also de-MEGO-ized each of these scams, like the way that Peter Thiel used the Roth IRA - a tax-shelter for middle-class earners to help save a few thousand dollars for retirement - to make $5 billion without paying one cent in tax:

https://pluralistic.net/2021/06/26/wax-rothful/#thiels-gambit

One of my favorite IRS Files reports described how Steve Ballmer - the billionaire ex-CEO of Microsoft - laundered vast fortunes into a state of tax-free grace by creating hundreds of millions in "losses" from his basketball team, the LA Clippers. Ballmer paid 12% tax on the $656 million he took out of the Clippers - while the players whose labor generated that fortune paid 30-40% on their earnings:

https://pluralistic.net/2021/07/08/tuyul-apps/#economic-substance-doctrine

That was Propublica's first Ballmer story, back in the summer of 2021. But they ran a followup last February that I missed (it came out while I was on a book tour in Australia), and it's wild: a tale of "loss harvesting," a form of fuckery involving Goldman Sachs that's depraved even by their own standards:

https://www.propublica.org/article/irs-files-taxes-wash-sales-goldman-sachs

Loss farming is a scam that was invented in the 1920s, whereupon it was promptly banned by Congress. But Goldman and other plutocrat Renfields have come up with tiny modern variations on this century-old con that the IRS is either unable or unwilling to address.

Here's how it works. Say you've got a stock portfolio where some of the stocks have gone up and others have gone down. You want to sell the high stocks and hang onto the low ones until they bounce back. But if you sell those stocks that have gone up, you have to "realize" the profit from them and pay 20% capital gains tax on them (capital gains tax is the tax you pay on money you get from owning things; it's much lower than income tax - the tax you pay for doing things).

But you pay tax on your net capital gains - the profits you've made minus the losses you've suffered. What if you sold those loser stocks at the same time? If you made a million on the good stocks and lost a million on the bad ones, your net income is zero - and so is your tax bill.

The problem is that selling stocks when they've gone down is a surefire way to go broke. Every investing book starts with this advice: you will be tempted to hold onto your stocks that are going up, because they might continue to go up. You'll be tempted to sell your stocks that are going down, because they may continue to go down. But if you do that, you'll only sell the stocks that have lost money, and never sell the stocks that have made money, and so you will lose everything.

Back when the pandemic started, your shares in movie theater chains were in the toilet, while your stock in tech companies shot through the roof. If you sold the tech stocks then and held onto your movie stocks and sold them now, you'd have cleaned up - today, tech stocks are down and movie theater stocks are up. But if you sold the cinema shares when they bottomed out, and held onto your tech stocks when they were peaking, you'd be busted today.

So selling your loser stocks to offset the gains from your winners is a bad idea. That's where loss-farming comes in: what if you sold your tech stocks at their peak, and sold your bottomed-out cinema stocks at the same time, but then bought the cinema stocks again, right away? That way you'd have the "loss" from selling the cinema stocks, but you'd still have the stocks.

That's called "wash trading," and Congress promptly banned it. If you've heard of wash-trading, it's probably something you picked up during the NFT bubble, which was a cesspit of illegal wash-trading. Remember all those eye-popping NFT sales? It was just grifters with multiple wallets, buying NFTs from themselves, making it seem like there was this huge, white-hot market for monkey JPEGs. Wash-trading.

Turns out that crypto really did democratize finance...fraud.

Wash-trading has been illegal for a century, but brokerages have invented modern variations on the theme that are legal-ish, and the most lucrative versions of these scams are only available to billionaires, through companies like Goldman Sachs.

There are a bunch of these variations, but they all boil down to this: there are lots of ways to sell an asset and buy it again, while making it look like you bought a different asset. Like, say you're invested in Chinese tech companies through an exchange-traded fund (ETF) that bundles together "all the Top Chinese tech stocks."

Maybe you bought this fund through Vanguard, the giant brokerage. Now, say Chinese stocks are way down, because the Chinese government is doing these waves of lockdowns on the factory cities. If you could sell those Chinese stocks now, you'd get a massive loss, enough to wipe out all the profits from all your good stocks.

But of course, China's going to figure out the lockdown situation eventually, so you don't want to actually get rid of those stocks right now, especially since they're worth so much less than you paid for them. So right after you sell your Vanguard Chinese tech ETF shares, you buy the same amount of Schwab's Chinese tech-stock ETF.

An ETF of "leading Chinese tech companies" is going to have basically the same companies' stock in it, no matter whether it's sold by Vanguard, State Street or Schwab. But as far as the IRS is concerned, this isn't a wash-trade, because you sold a thing called "Vanguard ETF" and bought a thing called "Schwab ETF" and these are different things (even if the main difference is the name on the wrapper, and not what's inside).

There's other ways to do this. For example, lots of companies have different "classes" of stock. Under Armour sells both Class A (voting) and Class C (nonvoting) stocks. Though voting stock is worth a little more than nonvoting stock, they both rise and fall together - if the Class A shares are up 10%, so are the Class C shares. So you can dump your Under Armour Class A's, buy Under Armour Class C's and own essentially the same amount of Under Armour stock - but as far as the IRS is concerned, you just sold your interest in one company and bought an interest in a different company, and you can take a big loss and write down your profits from other stock trades.

The IRS does prohibit wash-trading, but only in the narrowest sense. Brokerages are obliged to report trades in which a customer buys and sells exactly the same security, with the same unique ID (the CUSIP number), within 60 days. Beyond that, IRS guidance is extraordinarily wishy-washy, calling on filers to "consider all the facts and circumstances" of their transactions. Sure, that'll work.

Propublica found zero instances of the IRS targeting any of these trades, ever, for enforcement. That's especially true of the most egregious version of loss-harvesting, a special version that only the ultra-rich can take advantage of, called "direct indexing." You might know about "index funds," where a brokerage sells a single fund that tracks a broad index of stocks - for example, you can buy an S&P 500 index that goes up and down with the total value of the top 500 stocks in America.

Direct indexing is something that giant banks like Goldman Sachs offer to their very richest clients. The brokerage buys a mix of stocks that are likely to track the whole index, and puts those shares directly into the client's account. Rather than owning shares in a fund that owns the stocks, you own the stocks directly. That means that when you want to harvest some losses, you can sell just a few of the stocks in the index, rather than your shares in the whole fund.

Here's how that works. In 2017, the US index was up 20%; global indexes were up even more. Steve Ballmer made a bundle. But Goldman Sachs, acting on Ballmer's behalf, sold s few of the stocks in the portfolio and harvested a $100,000,000 loss, that Ballmer could use to trick the IRS into treating his massive profits as though he'd made very little taxable income.

Goldman uses a whole range of tricks to keep billionaires like Ballmer in a lower tax-bracket than the janitors who clean the floors after his team's games. They not only buy and sell different classes of stock in companies like Discovery and Fox; they also buy and sell the same company's stock in different countries. For example, they sold Ballmer's shares in Shell in one country, and then immediately bought the same amount of shares in another country. The IRS doesn't treat this as a wash-trade, despite the fact that the shares have the same value, and, indeed, companies like Shell routinely merge their overseas and domestic shares with no change in valuation.

Thanks to Goldman's ruses - and the IRS's willingness to accept them - Ballmer's wealth has swollen to grotesque proportions. He generated $579 million in losses from 2014-18, and as a result, got to keep at least $138m that he'd have otherwise had to pay to the IRS.

Goldman's not the only one in on this game: Iconiq Captial - a firm that also offers marriage partner scouting for its richest clients - has $13.2 billion under management on behalf of just 337 people. Among those high-rollers: Mark Zuckerberg, whose $88m in gains from Iconiq investments were offset by $34m in imaginary losses that the company manufactured with wash-trades.

In theory, the simplest form of wash-trading - selling your Vanguard China fund and buying a Schwab China fund - is available to any investor. Leaving aside the fact that the top 1% of Americans own most of the stock, this is still a deceptive proposition. This kind of wash-trading only benefits investors who hold their shares outside of a sheltered retirement account, which is a vanishing minority indeed.

Instead, the primary beneficiaries of this activity are the usual suspects: convicted monopolists like Ballmer, or useless scions of wealthy families, like the kids of Walmart founder Sam Walton, who emerged into this world through very lucky orifices and are thus effectively exempt from the need to work or pay tax for life.

Jim Walton is Sam Walton's youngest orifice-lottery-winner. Young Jim saw a $10 billion increase in his wealth from 2014-18, making him the tenth richest person in America. Thanks to wash-trading, he declared only $111 million of that $10 billion on his taxes, and paid $0.00 in tax on that $10 billion gains.

One way that the rich are especially well-situated to exploit loss-harvesting is in converting short-term gains - which are taxed at 40% - into long-term gains, which are taxed at 20%. For people who make a lot of money buying and selling shares as pure speculation, flipping them in less than a year, wash-trading can create the appearance of long-term holdings. Analyzing their trove of leaked IRS files, Propublica showed that Americans who report over $10 million in income almost never report short-term gains. Instead, two-thirds of the richest Americans report short-term losses.

One fascinating wrinkle is that rich people may not even know this is going on. Whatsapp co-founder Brian Acton, managed to "lose" $2.9 million  when he sold $17 million in shares - the same day he bought $17 million in shares in nearly the same companies from another brokerage. Then, a few months later, he reversed those transactions, selling his new fund and buying the old one and harvesting another $600,000 in losses.

When Propublica asked Acton about this, he told them he was "not really aware of any events like that...Broadly my wealth is managed by a wealth management firm and they manage all the day to day transactions."

This is completely believable and consistent with the extraordinarily frank account of how elite money-management works that Abigail Disney described in 2021, where the ultra-rich are insulated from the scams, tricks and wheezes that lawyers and accountants dream up to keep their fortunes steadily mounting with no action needed on their part:

https://pluralistic.net/2021/06/19/dynastic-wealth/#caste

Could the IRS block this kind of wash-trading? Yes, but they'd need action from Congress. The most effective way to do this would be to force shareholders to "mark to market" the value of their holdings, taxing them each year on the fluctuations in their portfolio.

Propublica notes that this is incredibly unlikely to happen, though. As an alternative, Congress could change the rule that blocks investors from claiming losses when they buy and sell "substantially identical" shares with a rule that applies to "substantially similar" stocks. This proposal comes from Columbia Law's David Schizer, who says the law "ought to be updated to reflect how people invest today instead of how they invested 100 years ago."

But for any of that to have an effect, the IRS would have to change its auditing and enforcement practices, which currently see low-income earners (who can't afford fancy tax-lawyers who'll tie up the IRS for months or years) being disproportionately targeted, while America's super-rich, ultra-rich, and stupid-rich are allowed to submit the most hilariously, obviously fictional returns and get away with it.

_,.-'~'-.,__,.-'~'-.,__,.-'~'-.,__,.-'~'-.,__,.-'~'-.,_

Catch me on tour with Red Team Blues in San Diego, Burbank, Mountain View, Berkeley, San Francisco, Portland, Vancouver, Calgary, Toronto, DC, Gaithersburg, Oxford, Hay, Manchester, Nottingham, London, and Berlin!

_,.-'~'-.,__,.-'~'-.,__,.-'~'-.,__,.-'~'-.,__,.-'~'-.,_

[Image ID: A dilapidated shack. A sign reading 'Internal Revenue Service Building' stands next to it. From its eaves depends another sign, reading 'Internal Revenue Service' and bearing the IRS logo. From the window of the shack beams the grinning face of billionaire Steve Ballmer. Behind the shack is a DC avenue terminating in the Capitol Dome.]

_,.-'~'-.,__,.-'~'-.,__,.-'~'-.,__,.-'~'-.,__,.-'~'-.,_

Image: Matthew Bisanz (modified) https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:NYC_IRS_office_by_Matthew_Bisanz.JPG

CC BY-SA 3.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/deed.en

--

Ted Eytan (modified) https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:2021.02.07_DC_Street,_Washington,_DC_USA_038_13205-Edit_%2850920473547%29.jpg

CC BY-SA 2.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0/deed.en

--

Bart Everson (modified) https://www.flickr.com/photos/editor/1287341637

Eric Garcetti (modified) https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Steve_Ballmer_2014.jpg

CC BY 2.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/

[lboogie1906]

Kawhi Anthony Leonard (born June 29, 1991) is a basketball player for the Los Angeles Clippers A two-time NBA champion, he is a six-time All-Star with six All-NBA First Team selections. Nicknamed the “Claw” or “Klaw” for his ball-hawking skills, he has earned seven All-Defensive Team selections and won Defensive Player of the Year honors in 2015 and 2016. In 2021, he was named to the NBA 75th Anniversary Team.

He played two seasons of college basketball for the San Diego State Aztecs and was named a consensus second-team All-American as a sophomore. He opted to forgo his final two seasons of college eligibility to enter the 2011 NBA draft. He was selected by the Indiana Pacers with the 15th overall pick before being traded to the San Antonio Spurs on draft night.

With the Spurs, he won an NBA championship in 2014, when he was named the Finals Most Valuable Player. After seven seasons with the Spurs, he was traded to the Toronto Raptors in 2018. In 2019, he led the Raptors to their first NBA championship in franchise history and won his second Finals MVP award (one of only three players to win Finals MVP with multiple teams). He moved to his hometown of Los Angeles and signed with the Clippers as a free agent in July 2019.

In 2018, he reportedly signed a multi-year endorsement deal with New Balance, the multinational sports footwear and apparel corporation. He had signed with the Air Jordan brand, a subsidiary of Nike. In June 2019, he filed a federal lawsuit against Nike. According to the lawsuit, Nike copyrighted Leonard’s “Klaw” logo without his consent. #africanhistory365 #africanexcellence

[ediblegardenspointloma]

In My San Diego Garden and Kitchen

The middle of August and finally tomatoes from transplants in late April. Grapril, Gray, Gloom, No Sky July and intermittent Fogust delayed the harvest. Blossoms dropped off some plants with cool temps, little sun and few bees. Admittedly, summer 2023 was worse by our solar panel data and I only harvested 18 tomatoes from four plants.

It should be noted that we’ve been away for six weeks since early May. Faithful garden tenders kept things going but I was not as attentive even when home. I’ll accept the results in exchange for a trip to England, two visits with our son’s family in Massachusetts and camping in the Eastern Sierras last week.

My favorite tomatoes are featured in the thumbnail—Dwarf Rosella Purple and Black Cherry tomatoes.

I plant Early Girl tomatoes most years because they usually produce acceptably here at the coast. And my husband prefers them to the heirloom tomatoes. This year’s crop does not look like Early Girl tomatoes I’ve grown previously which were more rounded and without the creasing. I’m not complaining—just happy to have tomatoes. Some of these will be used for gazpacho later in the week.

Stupice is another reasonably reliable tomato here in the fog belt but this year they’re very small, akin to large cherry tomatoes. I’ll slow roast most of these for a pasta dish.

The Baby Belle peppers have done well. The plants are small but give me red peppers before the red bell peppers are ready.

The Chelsea Prize cucumbers have been squirrelly this year. Odd shapes, fatter and not as long. I’m guessing some genetic variability in the seed source or maybe the weather. Still, they’re crisp, thin-skinned with few seeds. I gathered another four after I took this photo.

So Gazpacho from the original Moosewood Cookbook is ahead when a friend comes for dinner in a few days.

The Emerite green beans are only now beginning to slow down after almost a month of heavy production. These will go to the freezer after blanching. Read why they’re a favorite in my post My Favorite Pole Bean—Emerite.

French sorrel to the rescue when I realized I had no lettuce for a summer salad last night. I repotted a very old plant and it revived, providing a perfect lemony sub.

Here’s Sunday’s church entry bouquet with two different grevilleas. The bees definitely prefer the Moonlight grevillea. I thought by gathering them just after sunrise I’d avoid the bees but found they spent the night in the flowers. I had to bat the flowers with my clippers to move them along. Still plenty of flowers on the shrub for them.

Check out Harvest Monday, hosted by Dave at Happy Acres blog and see what garden bloggers around the world harvested last week.

To leave a comment, click on “Leave a comment/Show comments,” enter the comment, then insert your name. Finally, click on “Comment as Guest” to post comment.

[ritualvirtuality]

inspired by a post i saw, heres every *current* reloadable-balance card for transit systems in the US (as far as im aware). list of the cities these are from below the cut….

many of these cards can be used in the wider region around the city listed

1-1 Holo card - Honolulu

1-2 SmarTrip card - Washington DC

1-3 PRONTO card - San Diego

2-1 Clipper card - San Francisco

2-2 Ventra card - Chicago

2-3 Key card - Philadelphia (SEPTA)

3-1 GoPass Tap card - Dallas

3-2 MyRide card - Denver

3-3 CharlieCard - Boston

4-1 MetroQ card - Houston

4-2 TAP card - Los Angeles

4-3 CharmCard - Baltimore

5-1 STAR card - Jacksonville

5-2 ORCA card - Seattle

5-3 FAREPAY card - Salt Lake City

6-1 MetroCard - New York City (MTA)

6-2 OMNY card - New York City (MTA)

7-1 Easy card - Miami

7-2 SmartLink card - Hoboken + New York City (PATH)

7-3 Breeze card - Atlanta

8-1 FREEDOM card - (🙄) Camden + Philadelphia (PATCO)

8-2 ConnectCard - Pittsburgh

8-3 Hop Fastpass card - Portland, OR

9-1 [idt this card has a ‘name’ as all the stuff i could find just called it a ‘card’/‘tarjeta’ ?] - San Juan

9-2 Connect card - Sacramento

9-3 Gateway card - Saint Louis

these are current designs as far as i know except for the tren urbano (san juan, pr) card bc i couldnt find any more recent photos that werent obstructed by ppls fingers lol

[deathabilly3117]

In 1942 General Douglas MacArthur ordered this Packard Clipper Eight sedan with virtually every option including air conditioning, overdrive, and radio.

The $1,341 base price nearly doubled to $2,600. The factory returned his check and delivered the car to his station in Australia as a gift.

The car was MacArthur's until 1948, when he gave it to his driver who had served the general.

The car sat forgotten in a barn in Texas for 30 years. MacArthur made arrangements through a Navy friend to ship the car on the aircraft carrier Princeton to San Diego.

Then on a military flatbed it shipped to Fort Sam Houston, Texas. It was released to the driver in his home city of Dallas. He made arrangements to have military hardware removed and painted a bright post war color. However, he had to wait as they were busy.

Before he could get it done he parked the car in his small, dirt floor garage. He died in his sleep and it remained there untouched for years. The car still had MacArthur's old army helmet and Corncob pipe in the back seat It may be in Golden, Colorado now

[laresearchette]

Monday, January 01, 2024 Canadian TV Listings (Times Eastern)

WHERE CAN I FIND THOSE PREMIERES?: MAS*H: THE COMEDY THAT CHANGED TELEVISION (CTV) 8:00pm AMERICA'S GOT TALENT: FANTASY LEAGUE (City TV) 8:00pm 90 DAY FIANCÉ (TLC Canada) 8:00pm TAKING ON TAYLOR SWIFT (CNN) 9:00pm KIDS BAKING CHAMPIONSHIP (Food Network Canada) 9:00pm CELEBRITY IOU (HGTV Canada) 9:00pm HGTV DREAM HOME 2024 (HGTV Canada) 11:00pm

WHAT IS NOT PREMIERING IN CANADA TONIGHT?: 2023 ROCK & ROLL HALL OF FAME INDUCTION CEREMONY (ABC Feed)

NEW TO AMAZON PRIME CANADA/CBC GEM/CRAVE TV/DISNEY + STAR/NETFLIX CANADA:

CBC GEM BOOKSMART GRAND DESIGNS AUSTRALIA (Season 10 B)

CRAVE TV THE HANGOVER HOUSE OF KARDASHIAN (Episodes 1-3)

DISNEY + STAR FX’S AMERICAN HORROR STORY: DELICATE (Season 12A)

NETFLIX CANADA ANNIE (1982) BATMAN V SUPERMAN: DAWN OF JUSTICE BITCONNED BRAVEN CHAPPIE FOOL ME ONCE (GB) LOURDERMILK (Seasons 1-3) MAHALIA MANDY ONE PIECE: MARINEFORD SEX TAPE SOMETHING BORROWED WAR DOGS YOU ARE WHAT YOU EAT: A TWIN EXPERIMENT

PWHL HOCKEY (SN1/TSN/TSN3/TSN4) 12:00pm: New York vs. Toronto

NBA BASKETBALL (SN1) 3:00pm: Timberwolves vs. Knicks (SN/SN1) 7:30pm: Cavaliers vs. Raptors (TSN2) 8:00pm: Pacers vs. Bucks (SN/SN1) 10:30pm: Heat vs. Clippers

NHL HOCKEY (SN) 3:00pm: Knights vs. Kraken

MURDOCH MYSTERIES (CBC) 8:00pm: Murdoch investigates the shooting of a local construction company owner who was executed in a barber shop.

DESIGNING CHRISTMAS (CTV2) 8:00pm: Complicated and unexplored emotions may jeopardize everything between Stella and Pablo, co-hosts of a home renovation show, as they work together during the holidays.

A CHRISTMAS… PRESENT (Super Channel Heart & Home) 8:00pm: Knowing that this is to be Paul's first Christmas alone with his daughter, Ashley, since his wife's passing, Maggie decides to bring Eric and the kids for a visit to spread some Christmas cheer.

MISS SCARLET AND THE DUKE (CBC) 9:00pm (SEASON PREMIERE): The sister of a missing woman hires Eliza to find her, but the case was already closed by the police -- creating new tensions between Eliza and the Duke.

GOLD DIGGERS (W Network) 9:00pm/9:30pm (SERIES PREMIERE): It's 1853, and two ratbag sisters from Sydney travel to the Australian Gold Rush in search of their own treasure: newly rich idiots.

TO CATCH A SMUGGLER (Nat Geo Canada) 9:00pm (SEASON PREMIERE): An HSI stakeout leads to nearly $500,000 of meth and fentanyl in San Diego; CBP finds concealed cash and a carload of cocaine at the El Paso border.

LETTERKENNY (Crave) 9:00pm/9:30pm/10:00pm (SEASON PREMIERE): MoDean's hosts a night of standup. In Episode Two, the Skids engineer a country music hit. In Episode Three, Dary gets in with a bad crowd.

[travelstay]

Embrace the New Year with January Adventures in Los Angeles

January in Los Angeles is a great time to kick off the year with plenty of exciting activities, mild weather, and stunning views. Whether you’re visiting for outdoor fun or indoor relaxation, Best Western Suites Hotel Los Angeles LAX Airport provides the perfect place to stay during your January adventures in Inglewood.

Los Angeles offers a variety of unique experiences throughout January. If you love basketball, the Staples Center hosts thrilling NBA games featuring the Los Angeles Lakers and Clippers. Whether you're a fan of the game or simply enjoy the electric atmosphere, catching a game here is an unforgettable experience.

For those interested in gaming and entertainment, head to Hollywood Park & Casino, just minutes away from Best Western Suites Hotel Los Angeles LAX Airport. The casino features exciting gaming options and live entertainment, providing a fun way to spend an afternoon or evening. Afterward, treat yourself to a delicious meal at one of Inglewood's local eateries, known for their diverse and vibrant food scene.

If you’re seeking more outdoor activities, take a day trip to the nearby San Diego Zoo. With its mild January weather, this world-renowned zoo offers a perfect escape into nature, where you can explore animal exhibits in a serene environment. And for fans of classic attractions, a visit to Knott’s Berry Farm will provide a nostalgic winter experience with less crowded lines and a charming seasonal atmosphere.

Call-to-Action:

Ready to make the most of your January in Los Angeles? Stay at Best Western Suites Hotel Los Angeles LAX Airport for easy access to all the action and relaxation you need. Book your stay today at [www.bwplussuites.com] and start your adventure!

[samdelurvanrafigon]

The Philadelphia 76ers are also the Syracuse Nationals. The Sacramento Kings are the Kansas City Royals and the Rochester Royals. The Los Angeles Lakers are the Minneapolis Lakers, and the Minnesota Timberwolves are NOT the Minneapolis Lakers. The Los Angeles Clippers are the Buffalo Braves and the San Diego Clippers, and if Buffalo or San Diego were granted expansion teams, neither would be the Buffalo Braves or the San Diego Clippers. Likewise, the Atlanta Hawks are the St. Louis Hawks, and a new NBA team in St. Louis would not be the St. Louis Hawks. However, the Oklahoma City Thunder are NOT the Seattle SuperSonics, and if Seattle was given a new team, regardless of team branding THEY would be the Seattle SuperSonics (1967 - 2008). The Charlotte Hornets (2014 - present) are the Charlotte Hornets (1988 - 2002), but they are not the New Orleans Hornets (2002 - 2013). The New Orleans Pelicans (2013 - present) are the New Orleans Hornets (2002 - 2013), but they are not the New Orleans Jazz (1974 - 1979), who are the Utah Jazz (1979 - present). The team that played in Charlotte in the Hornets interim and whose personnel was inherited by the Hornets, the Charlotte Bobcats (2004 - 2014), are NOT the Charlotte Hornets, nor are they spiritually represented by any existing NBA franchise. The Brooklyn Nets are the New Jersey Nets, and if a new team was granted to East Rutherford they would not be the New Jersey Nets, but they would retain the de jure right to challenge Brooklyn for the title. This is ontologically correct and I will not be questioned

[47burlm]

What a Great Man-and Great Player I was fortunate to shake his hand and get a autograph He will be missed

William Theodore Walton III (November 5, 1952 – May 27, 2024[1]) was an American professional basketball player and television sportscaster. He played college basketball at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) and in the National Basketball Association (NBA) for the Portland Trail Blazers, San Diego / Los Angeles Clippers, and Boston Celtics. He was a member of the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame and the National Collegiate Basketball Hall of Fame.

Walton played for coach John Wooden and the UCLA Bruins, winning three consecutive national college player of the year awards (1972–1974), while leading UCLA to NCAA championships in 1972 and 1973 and an 88-game winning streak. After being selected as the first overall pick in the 1974 NBA draft, Walton led the Portland Trail Blazers to an NBA championship in 1977, earning the NBA Finals Most Valuable Player Award. The following season Walton was the 1978 NBA Most Valuable Player (MVP).

However, Walton's professional career was significantly hampered by multiple foot injuries requiring numerous surgeries. Walton sat out the 1978–79 season and was then signed by the Clippers, for whom he played four injury-plagued seasons. His career was rehabilitated during two seasons with the Celtics at the end of his career. Playing as a backup center behind Robert Parish, Walton earned the NBA Sixth Man of the Year Award in the 1985–86 season, winning his second NBA championship. He was named to the NBA's 50th and 75th anniversary teams. Walton was inducted into the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame in 1993 and the National Collegiate Basketball Hall of Fame in 2006.

After retiring from the NBA, Walton overcame stuttering and embarked on a second career as a sportscaster, working both as a studio analyst and color commentator with several networks and teams. He earned an Emmy Award in 1991. Walton was a fan of the Grateful Dead, as a self-described "Deadhead", and often mentioned them in his broadcasts. He hosted several podcasts and satellite radio programs featuring the music of the Grateful Dead.

[roletaaovivo]

Qual é a melhor estratégia de apostas ao vivo para jogos de basquete dos Clippers?

🎰🎲✨ Receba 2.000 reais e 200 rodadas grátis, além de um bônus instantâneo para jogar jogos de cassino com apenas um clique! ✨🎲🎰

Qual é a melhor estratégia de apostas ao vivo para jogos de basquete dos Clippers?

Estratégias de apostas ao vivo

Claro, aqui está o artigo:

Estratégias de apostas ao vivo

As apostas ao vivo têm se tornado cada vez mais populares entre os entusiastas do jogo, oferecendo uma experiência emocionante e dinâmica. No entanto, para maximizar as chances de sucesso, é fundamental adotar estratégias eficazes ao realizar essas apostas em tempo real.

Uma das estratégias mais importantes é acompanhar de perto o evento esportivo em que você está apostando. Isso inclui não apenas observar o placar, mas também analisar o desempenho das equipes ou jogadores, as condições do campo ou da quadra, e quaisquer outras variáveis que possam influenciar o resultado. Essa informação em tempo real pode ajudar a tomar decisões mais informadas e precisas.

Além disso, é essencial definir limites claros de apostas antes de iniciar o jogo ao vivo. Isso pode evitar que você se envolva em apostas impulsivas e arriscadas, protegendo assim sua banca. Estabeleça um orçamento específico para apostas ao vivo e mantenha-se disciplinado em relação a esse limite.

Outra estratégia importante é aproveitar as oportunidades de apostas que surgem durante o jogo. Por exemplo, se uma equipe favorita sofre um gol inesperado e suas probabilidades aumentam, pode ser uma oportunidade para fazer uma aposta vantajosa, considerando o potencial de uma virada no jogo.

Por fim, é fundamental permanecer calmo e focado durante o jogo ao vivo. As apostas podem ser emocionantes, mas agir impulsivamente ou deixar as emoções dominarem pode levar a decisões ruins. Mantenha a cabeça fria e confie na análise e estratégias que você estabeleceu.

Em resumo, as apostas ao vivo oferecem uma emocionante oportunidade de envolvimento durante os eventos esportivos, mas exigem estratégias cuidadosas para garantir o sucesso a longo prazo. Ao acompanhar de perto o jogo, definir limites claros, aproveitar oportunidades e manter a calma, você pode aumentar suas chances de lucro e desfrutar de uma experiência de apostas ao vivo gratificante.

Jogos de basquete dos Clippers

Os Clippers de Los Angeles são uma equipe de basquete profissional americana que compete na NBA (National Basketball Association). Fundados em 1970 como Buffalo Braves, a equipe se mudou para San Diego em 1978 e finalmente para Los Angeles em 1984, onde adotaram o nome atual.

Com uma história marcada por altos e baixos, os Clippers emergiram como uma força competitiva na NBA nas últimas temporadas. Após anos de reconstrução e aquisição de talentos, os Clippers se estabeleceram como um dos principais concorrentes ao título.

Liderados por jogadores como Kawhi Leonard e Paul George, os Clippers têm mostrado um desempenho impressionante nas últimas temporadas, competindo de igual para igual com as equipes mais fortes da liga.

Os jogos dos Clippers são uma emocionante experiência esportiva, com a equipe proporcionando momentos de pura habilidade e competitividade. A atmosfera nos jogos em casa, no Staples Center, é eletrizante, com os fãs vestindo as cores da equipe e apoiando incansavelmente seus jogadores.

Além do talento em quadra, os Clippers também têm uma forte presença na comunidade, envolvendo-se em várias iniciativas sociais e programas de caridade.

Para os fãs de basquete e entusiastas do esporte, assistir a um jogo dos Clippers é uma experiência imperdível. Com sua habilidade, determinação e paixão pelo jogo, os Clippers continuam a inspirar uma nova geração de jogadores e fãs em todo o mundo.

Melhores práticas de apostas

As melhores práticas de apostas são essenciais para quem deseja se envolver nesse mundo de forma responsável e com chances reais de sucesso. Independentemente de ser um iniciante ou um apostador experiente, seguir algumas diretrizes pode melhorar significativamente a experiência e aumentar as chances de lucro a longo prazo.

Em primeiro lugar, é fundamental definir um orçamento específico para as apostas e respeitá-lo rigorosamente. Isso ajuda a evitar gastos excessivos e a manter o controle financeiro, evitando que as emoções assumam o controle durante as apostas.

Além disso, é crucial pesquisar antes de fazer qualquer aposta. Isso inclui analisar estatísticas, estudar as equipes ou jogadores envolvidos, e ficar por dentro das últimas notícias e desenvolvimentos relacionados ao evento esportivo em questão. Quanto mais informações forem reunidas, mais embasadas serão as decisões de apostas.

Diversificar as apostas também é uma prática recomendada. Em vez de concentrar todo o capital em uma única aposta, distribuí-lo entre diferentes eventos ou tipos de apostas pode reduzir os riscos e aumentar as chances de retorno.

A gestão de apostas também desempenha um papel fundamental. Isso envolve determinar o valor adequado a ser apostado em cada evento, levando em consideração a probabilidade de sucesso e o potencial de lucro.

Por fim, é importante manter a disciplina e o controle emocional em todas as situações. As apostas esportivas podem ser emocionantes, mas agir impulsivamente pode levar a decisões equivocadas e prejuízos financeiros.

Seguir essas melhores práticas pode transformar a experiência de apostas em algo mais gratificante e lucrativo a longo prazo, garantindo que o entretenimento esteja sempre em primeiro lugar.

Análise de desempenho dos jogadores

A análise de desempenho dos jogadores é uma parte fundamental no mundo do esporte, especialmente no futebol. Essa prática consiste em avaliar diversos aspectos do desempenho individual de um atleta durante uma partida ou treinamento, utilizando dados estatísticos e observações detalhadas.

Um dos principais objetivos da análise de desempenho é identificar pontos fortes e áreas de melhoria de cada jogador, permitindo que os técnicos e treinadores desenvolvam estratégias mais eficazes para otimizar o desempenho da equipe como um todo. Isso inclui avaliar a técnica, a tática, a condição física, a tomada de decisão e outros aspectos relevantes para o sucesso dentro de campo.

Para realizar essa análise, são utilizadas diversas ferramentas e métodos, como câmeras de alta definição, software especializado e até mesmo dispositivos vestíveis que monitoram o desempenho físico dos atletas em tempo real. Além disso, os analistas de desempenho também podem acompanhar as estatísticas de jogo, como passes completos, dribles bem-sucedidos, interceptações, entre outros, para entender melhor o comportamento e a contribuição de cada jogador para o resultado da partida.

Com base nessas informações, os treinadores podem tomar decisões mais embasadas, como fazer substituições estratégicas, ajustar a formação tática da equipe e criar planos de treinamento personalizados para cada jogador. Dessa forma, a análise de desempenho se torna uma ferramenta valiosa para maximizar o potencial de cada atleta e aumentar as chances de sucesso do time em campo.

Tendências de apostas esportivas

Com o crescimento constante da indústria de apostas esportivas, é crucial ficar de olho nas tendências emergentes que moldarão o cenário nos próximos anos. Aqui estão algumas das tendências mais importantes a serem observadas:

Aumento do Apostas em Esports: Os esports estão ganhando enorme popularidade, e as apostas nesse setor estão seguindo o mesmo caminho. Com competições emocionantes e uma base de fãs em rápido crescimento, as apostas em esports estão se tornando uma parte significativa do mercado de apostas esportivas.

Integração de Tecnologia: A tecnologia está transformando a forma como as pessoas apostam em esportes. Desde aplicativos móveis até plataformas de apostas baseadas em blockchain, os apostadores têm mais opções do que nunca para participar do jogo.

Apostas ao Vivo em Ascensão: As apostas ao vivo continuam a ganhar popularidade entre os apostadores, oferecendo a emoção de apostar em tempo real durante um evento esportivo. Com a melhoria da conectividade e das interfaces de usuário, as apostas ao vivo estão se tornando uma parte essencial da experiência de apostas.

Regulamentação em Evolução: A regulamentação das apostas esportivas está em constante evolução em todo o mundo. À medida que mais países legalizam as apostas esportivas e implementam regulamentações, é fundamental acompanhar as mudanças no cenário regulatório.

Ênfase na Segurança e Proteção do Consumidor: Com o aumento das preocupações com a segurança e a integridade das apostas esportivas, espera-se que haja uma maior ênfase na implementação de medidas para proteger os consumidores e garantir a equidade nos mercados de apostas.

Em resumo, as tendências de apostas esportivas estão evoluindo rapidamente à medida que a indústria continua a crescer e se adaptar. Ficar atualizado com essas tendências é essencial para os apostadores que desejam aproveitar ao máximo sua experiência de apostas.