ned nederlander

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Pelicans executive Joe Dumars believes Zion Williamson and Derik Queen need time to gel together, like Jaylen Brown and Jayson Tatum

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When I think of great modern nba duos, I too think of bad defense and no three point shooting.

Fears, Queen, Bey. Trade everyone else for picks and pray.

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Valanciunas - 82

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Should be more loved by Pels fans.

Played 82 games in a season where we won 49 and actually had a pulse.

He missed 11 games total in his three season with New Orleans.

He has played in 10 playoff games as a Pelican. Zion has played in 0.

If we extend Zion I’m out as a fan.

Not good enough. Saudi should be forced to fund $50,000 into every American child’s trump trust account.

We have the richest nation on earth in a vice grip.

Time to put the squeeze on and get our protection money from these gulf states.

An honest answer - uptown near Touro Synagogue and the JCC. Touro is a very healthy and wealthy congregation filled with wealthy transplants and successful locals. The JCC is a terrific facility and community anchor. And that general area is safe, a good mix of college kids, working singles and families. It’s really the clear option for a bougie single Jewish gal. If there are 15,000 Jews in Louisiana, 12,000 of them live in walking distance of this area.

New Orleans though is largely bleak for 35 year old single women. Great for 35 year old single men.

I think we control Murray for one more year and he has a player option thereafter. We aren’t doing anything next year. So unless you plan to extend Murray into his mid 30s, the pelicans should absolutely trade Murray this offseason.

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“This moment requires clarity,” said Sultan Ahmed Al Jaber in a social media post. “So let’s be clear: the Strait of Hormuz is not open. Access is being restricted, conditioned and controlled.”

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You need to start paying us and Iran the troll toll, Sultan.

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The actual red flag with McCoy was that he was supposed to come back and play this year. Never heard why he didn’t.

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Didn’t Derrick Stingley largely sit out his last year with LSU “rehabbing”

I’m not that familiar with his game but if he is truly elite it’s worth a look

Top 10 teenage scorers:

LeBron
Kobe
Carmelo
Durant
Ant
Flagg
Dwight Howard
Luka
Booker
Fears

That’s a legit list

And he’s top 7 in assists and steals for a teenager.

His rookie season has been a wild success

Was a reason given for revoking their visas? Or are we just continuing our Chinafication and punishing whole families collectively?

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No troops needed to be sent back in. They simply needed to be allowed to force the Taliban to abide conditions of Doha, and at the end, they needed to be deployed differently.

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It’s the Taliban. We couldn’t force them to abide by anything for 20 years.

What you are describing is just continuing to fight a war in Afghanistan.

Trump, finally, ended the war. Ending the war means a withdrawal. A withdrawal means a Taliban reconquest.

We could have continued to stay in Afghanistan and keep the Taliban somewhat confined. Or we could leave.

But maintaining some island in Taliban land is not a realistic outcome.

LINK

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the United States, its allies, and the Coalition will complete the withdrawal of their remaining forces from Afghanistan within 14 months following the announcement of this joint declaration and the U.S.-Taliban agreement, and will withdraw all their forces from remaining bases, subject to the Taliban’s fulfillment of its commitments under the U.S.-Taliban agreement.

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“all their forces from remaining bases”

You could use a sharpie and write “except for Bagram” to change reality.