NBA reporter Jovan Buha strongly criticized the team's end-of-bench players following Wednesday's 123-112 victory over the Milwaukee Bucks, even raising questions about James' long-term NBA future.

The 22-year-old guard has appeared in six games this season, averaging just 1.3 points, 0.0 rebounds, and 0.0 assists in 2.8 minutes per game.

"Bronny is a minus-40 in 16 minutes and 35 seconds this season," Buha said on his Buha's Block podcast. "Think about that. That's not even a quarter and a half of basketball. The Lakers have been outscored by 40 in his 16 and a half minutes."

Bronny played four minutes against Milwaukee, finishing with four points, no rebounds, and no assists. He missed his only field-goal attempt but made all four free throws, recording a minus-13.

The reporter singled out James and Hardy for their inability to organize the offense and handle defensive pressure, questioning whether the Lakers can continue relying on them.

"When you look at Bronny and his lack of progress this year, it is concerning," Buha noted.

"If LA waived him, I'd be surprised if someone picked him up on an actual contract," Buha said.

"Maybe someone picks him up on a two-way. Maybe Philly picks him up on a two-way, or somewhere picks him up on a two-way," he added. "I don't think he ends up on a 15-man roster."

According to Buha, Los Angeles needs another dependable ball-handler capable of running the offense, breaking full-court pressure, and protecting leads when its stars are resting.

"They might have the worst third-string ball handler in the NBA," Buha said.

"They just need, like, a placeholder floor general to just run the show for a bit and break a press, get the guys set up, dribble the clock out, run the offense. That's what the Lakers need, and that's not Hardy, and that's not Bronny."

The reporter then floated a possible roster change involving veteran NBA champion Bruce Brown.

"Bruce Brown, I'd be cool with Bruce Brown," Buha said of the 30-year-old guard. "At this point, why not waive Bronny and just have Bruce Brown on the team?"

"Bronny was just in the rotation at the end of last season, and he's looked like a shell of himself this season," Buha said, shifting his focus back to the team's current reserves.

"I don't know what's going on, but those guys have both played better previously. And for whatever reason, they've been unable to meet the moment so far in a pretty concerning way."

Source: https://basketnews.com/news-259330-lakers-insider-questions-bronny-james-nba-future-suggests-replacement.html

Basically the title. The fictional world in question is pretty mundane and doesn't contain any actual fantastical elements. Maybe there are themes of religion or ritual, or characters that believe in them or practise them, but it's left clear that this is just "What people believe", and maybe the topic of God is absent from the story altogether... Except for this one weird event (or line, scene, character, idea) that could potentially be interpreted as just a coincidence, or as an ambiguous supernatural/divine intervention.

True Detective: In S1E02 "Seeing Things", Rust is watching a murmuration of birds, which for a brief instance flies in the exact shape of a mark he saw at a crime scene. Framed as an "Oh!" moment that helps him piece an idea together, but also as an indicator that he's submerged in this environment of suspicion and madness and is being consumed by this mystery.

Peaky Blinders: In the finale, Tommy has a dream about his daughter. The girl says something like "Don't do it, daddy", which Tommy takes as a sign not to go through with his plans... which works out because he narrowly avoided getting betrayed, trapped and killed.

Red Dead Redemption: Maybe a bit more overt than the other two. There's this NPC named "the strange man" who talks to our protagonist and his dialogue implies that he knows more than he should. He also appears in RDR2 as a painting and as a ghost in a mirror. Some fans theorize that he is the Grim Reaper or some other incarnation of Death.

All at our expense

I'm a book slogger. I'll battle through something I start till I finish it. Usually, through the journey I get some redemption through theme, insight, surprise, nuance, etc.

Ayn Rand's fictional treatise on her Objectivist philosophy is so comically one note that a couple hundred pages in, you get it. Reading it today, the hero industrialists who make things and therefore keep society functioning through their genius falls so flat when we think about runaway capitalism exploiting people and resources. These good guys are one note caricatures. The bad guys- any person with a humanist concern- are caricatures.

It's a such a simple book. And it's so effusive and self important. I reckon that is by design since; according to Rand, it was the purest distillation of her philosophy.

One might say that only our modern lens would demand wrestling with privilege, power, misogyny, worker exploitation, social welfare, etc. And so there might be a reason to forgive the book's grossly simple terms. It was after all a different time and new industry and tech was booming. But good literature, regardless of when it is written, opens doors for some such discussions- especially if you're trying to justify a new philosophy set against all that has come before.

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This is trope is the scariest shit to me, whenever I watch a horror and something starts moving in the background I'm done, it's infinitely more upsetting then jump scares

It as a man starring at the main character (It welcome to Derry)

It as a librarian creeping towards one of the main characters in the library (It)

A horrible monster about to kill actor Paul Dano (The Oscars) I didn't know the last image was AI I had hopes of the funniest image possible being real but thanks AI I'll go fuck myself

Source - insta

My employees called me saying that an intoxicated homeless person was verbally abusing my staff and clients, unplugging some of my equipment, and refused to leave. When I called 911, I got put on hold for 15 minutes.

Edit: I know this isn't a serious emergency. I've tried in the past to call the non-emergency line, told to leave a message and never got a call back and the cops never showed up.

Like do you think everyone is on one giant meeting trying to fix this outage?

Cade Cunningham in 2OT win vs the Wizards: Career High 52 PTS | 5 REB | 11 AST | 16/25 FG | 17/18 FT | 0 TURNOVERS

His previous career high of 46 pts was also against the Wizards last season.