The consequences for Matt Gaetz’s sex trafficking scandal haven’t quite hit the fan for the Florida representative, but Thursday brought another indication that the Donald Trump surrogate has some major legal hurdles ahead of him. Despite refusing to acknowledge the severity of the probe into his dealings with a minor, the Justice Department’s inquiry into the case reportedly has him ready for a “scorched-earth” trial if charges do materialize. And now we know things do, indeed, continue to escalate toward charges.
As the New York Times and several other outlets reported, two federal prosecutors have been added to his ongoing investigation, which is not a good sign that things are going well in the potential crimes department.
The Justice Department has added two top prosecutors from Washington to the child sex trafficking investigation of Representative Matt Gaetz, according to two people briefed on the matter, a sign of the complex and high-stakes nature of the inquiry into Mr. Gaetz, a Florida Republican who is one of former President Donald J. Trump’s closest congressional allies.
The prosecutors — one a public corruption investigator with an expertise in child exploitation crimes, and the other a top leader of the public corruption unit — have been working on the Florida-based investigation for at least three months, the people said.
As the Times report indicates, this kind of thing tends to happen when cases continue to get complicated. And it’s also another sign that the Biden Justice Department seems intent on actually prosecuting the politician. The report also noted that Gaetz’s alleged co-conspirator, disgraced Florida politician Joel Greenberg, recently saw his sentencing delayed as part of his plea deal where he’s cooperating with authorities.
It’s all bad news for Gaetz, in other words. But if you ask him, it’s just another day in the life of America’s greatest freedom fighter.
Time will tell if Gaetz actually gets charged, and if the politician will actually be convicted. But it’s a much worse situation than he seems willing to admit.
In the piece, by journalist Joe Lynch, the three artists discuss the journey behind Halsey’s new album, with Trent admitting that deciding to work on the project was a reason to hold off on new NIN music. Of course, Halsey anticipated fans might be upset to learn that, jokingly telling the band’s frontman not to reveal that fact. We’d just finished a lot of score work in a period of a year and a half, and we’d been kind of talking about working on Nine Inch Nails and also were kind of freaked out by the pandemic and not feeling incredibly creative,” Trent Reznor said. “And I think I was eager for anything to keep me from having to write songs myself (Laughs.).” To which Halsey responded: “Don’t tell them that! Everyone’s going to be mad at me — “We could’ve gotten a Nine Inch Nails album?!’”
Well, maybe now we’ll get the Halsey project and a new NIN album in a few more months… maybe we’ll even get a Halsey feature on there. To learn more about the making of If I Can’t Have Love, I Want Power, check out the full cover story right there.
The final 26 names on the NBA’s list of the 75 Greatest Players were unveiled on Thursday and many were names you’d expect, as a lot of new faces not on the NBA at 50 list were saved for the final night.
Among those were a couple players who were considered snubs back in 1996 like Dominique Wilkins and Bob McAdoo, while plenty of current stars also found their way on. Among the new additions was Reggie Miller, who was surprised with his selection on Thursday night when he joined the Inside the NBA crew from San Francisco where he thought he’d be discussing a sitdown interview he did with Stephen Curry (likewise named to the list).
When Ernie Johnson and the crew in Atlanta told him he had made the list, Miller was taken aback, clearly shocked by his inclusion and noting that, while he felt his resume belonged with anyone else’s, he never expected to be among the 75 (actually 76) names listed. The result was an incredibly cool live TV moment that showed Miller, rarely at a loss for words, struggling to figure out just what to say.
It is a really awesome moment that you could tell meant a lot to Reggie. Later on in the interview he would talk about the influence of his sister Cheryl and how this is really a family honor because she pushed him constantly as “the greatest women’s basketball player ever.”
The NBA has been steadily unveiling their list of the 75 greatest players for the league’s 75th anniversary, and on Thursday the final 25 players were revealed. While it was technically a completely new list from the NBA at 50 list, all 50 players from the initial list made it on this year’s version, which wasn’t a big surprise given a number of those who voted made clear they felt no one should be taken off.
While there were a number of current players that made the 75 list, it was also a chance to right some wrongs from the NBA at 50 list, most notably the exclusions of Dominique Wilkins and Bob McAdoo, who each got a spot on the final 25 to the delight of the NBA on TNT crew.
Here are the final 26 players added on Thursday (there was a tie in the voting), as well as the 50 others already names.
Elgin Baylor
Dolph Schayes
Pete Maravich
Dave Bing
Lenny Wilkens
Dave DeBusschere
Earl Monroe
Billy Cunningham
Shaquille O’Neal
Dominique Wilkins
Dennis Rodman
Ray Allen
Dwyane Wade
Jason Kidd
Kobe Bryant
Gary Payton
Bob McAdoo
Paul Pierce
Stephen Curry
Reggie Miller
LeBron James
Kawhi Leonard
Carmelo Anthony
Damian Lillard
Anthony Davis
Russell Westbrook
And the previously announced names:
Bill Russell
Hal Greer
Dirk Nowitzki
Bob Pettit
Oscar Robertson
Giannis Antetokounmpo
Kevin Durant
Elvin Hayes
Jerry Lucas
Willis Reed
Nate Archibald
Bob Cousy
Dave Cowens
James Harden
Hakeem Olajuwon
Kevin McHale
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
George Mikan
John Stockton
Steve Nash
Charles Barkley
Moses Malone
Julius Erving
George Gervin
David Robinson
Magic Johnson
James Worthy
Wilt Chamberlain
Jerry West
Larry Bird
Michael Jordan
Scottie Pippen
Isiah Thomas
Clyde Drexler
Karl Malone
Patrick Ewing
Chris Paul
Allen Iverson
Tim Duncan
Kevin Garnett
John Havlicek
Sam Jones
Robert Parish
Bill Sharman
Bill Walton
Walt Frazier
Paul Arizin
Rick Barry
Nate Thurmond
Wes Unseld
TNT’s Inside The NBA crew is already in midseason form, even in the first week of the 2021-22 NBA season. The panel has discussed Ben Simmons (at length) in the early going, expressed frustration with Kyrie Irving, and even had a bunch of laughs when Shaq indicated that he would “bust Wilt (Chamberlain)’s ass.” On Thursday, there was plenty of chatter as the NBA revealed the final 25 players on its famed 75th anniversary list, but the jokes arrived in full when Shaq showed up late to the set and wandered to his seat during live air.
Given that the entire league continues to discuss the Ben Simmons saga on an hourly basis, it isn’t a shock that Charles Barkley immediately referenced the Philadelphia 76ers star.
“What’s wrong with you, Ben Simmons?” Barkley said. “You mad at us for asking you to show up to work?”
Shaq then proceeded to pull out his phone as the jokes were flying, as Barkley, Kenny Smith and Dwyane Wade picked on him for the late arrival. Ernie Johnson snuck in that this has happened before in Atlanta, and this was the first show of the regular season from the studio. Still, the traffic situation in the hometown of the show probably isn’t quite enough to explain this one away, though the entertainment factor of Shaq’s delay probably made the entire sequence worth it.
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When you think of your favorite IPA, what time of year do you imagine? There’s a very strong likelihood you picture a warm (maybe even hot), hazy, humid, sunny summer day. You probably don’t envision a dark, frigid (possibly snow-filled) winter’s eve or even a chilly, leaf-covered autumn afternoon. But while the warmer months are filled with days and nights when West Coast IPAs, Hazy IPAs, and milkshake IPAs make complete sense, there are actually plenty of IPAs made specifically for the fall and winter.
While not a designated style per se, there are myriad cold weather (or winter IPAs) on the market that are perfectly suitable for seasonal drinking. While many still have the heavy, floral, resinous, bitter hops presence of their warm-weather cousins, some also have more malt presence, contain wintry ingredients (like spruce tips or spices), and have a higher ABV than summery IPAs.
Since it’s only a matter of time before the season of winter IPAs is upon us (and many of these seasonal beers have already become available) I figured the time was right to rank eight of our favorites from the likes of Sierra Nevada, New Belgium, and others. And of course, the only true way to rank them would be to once again set up a blind taste test.
Part 1: The Taste
Below, you’ll see the eight beers I selected for this blind test:
Sierra Nevada Celebration
New Belgium Accumulation
Alpine Windows Up
Alaskan Hopothermia
Upslope Spruce Tip IPA
Troegs Blizzard of Hops
Peak Winter IPA
Five Boroughs Winter IPA
Let’s get our wintry IPA drink on!
Taste #1:
Christopher Osburn
Tasting Notes:
Aromas of tangerine, lemon zest, dank pine, and caramel malts greeted me before my first sip. This was followed by flavors of fur tips, grapefruit, pineapple, floral hops, caramel, and subtly bitter hops. All in all, this is a very complex, well-rounded winter IPA.
Taste#2:
Christopher Osburn
Tasting Notes:
This beer is bursting with tropical fruit aromas like mango, pineapple, guava, grapefruit, and slightly bitter, floral hops. On the palate, I found juicy pineapple, ripe mango, melon, caramel malts, and dank resinous pine that tied everything together nicely.
All in all, it’s an exceptional winter IPA.
Taste#3:
Christopher Osburn
Tasting Notes:
Aromas of guava, pineapple, orange peels, and slightly herbal, floral hops are all present on the nose. Sadly, the palate isn’t as impressive as the nose. It does have flavors of tropical fruits, ripe oranges, bready malts, and slightly bitter hops, but not much else.
Overall, a decent, not overly exceptional beer.
Taste #4:
Christopher Osburn
Tasting Notes:
On the nose, you’ll find light caramel malts, slight resin, and just a hint of pineapple. That’s about it. The palate is surprisingly light with hints of citrus zest, tropical fruits, and slightly bitter hops. The finish is dry, crisp, and bitter. Not a bad beer, but not a very exciting one either.
Taste #5:
Christopher Osburn
Tasting Notes:
A lot is going on with this beer’s nose. First, I noticed aromas of pineapple, mango, and other tropical fruits as well as tangerines, grapefruit, citrus zest, wintry spices, and piney hops. The palate is loaded with more citrus flavors, juicy tropical fruits, bitter, floral hops, and a nice hit of caramel malt at the finish.
Taste #6:
Christopher Osburn
Tasting Notes:
On the nose, I found scents of Christmas trees, orange peels, baking spices, and slight caramel malts. Sipping it revealed notes of toffee, bready malts, tangerine, orange peels, pine needles, and a wallop of slightly bitter, dank hops. It pretty much tastes like winter in IPA form.
Taste #7:
Christopher Osburn
Tasting Notes:
Complex aromas of tangerines, grapefruit, baking spices, and slight hops met my nose before my first sip. The palate is surprisingly bitter, but not unlikeable. There’s a ton of dank pine flavor that pairs well with caramel malts, citrus peels, and slight spices.
It’s big, bold, and highly drinkable.
Taste #8:
Christopher Osburn
Tasting Notes:
Notable aromas of orange peels, dank pine, and caramel malts are prevalent. Sipping it revealed notes of grapefruit, a forest of pine trees, pineapple, and bread-like malts. It all ends with a nice mix of caramel malts and floral, resinous, bitter hops.
Overall, a fairly well-balanced winter IPA.
Part 2: The Ranking
Now comes to actual ranking. The taste test was done completely blind. I didn’t know which breweries I was tasting so I was able to simply nose and taste each selection to rate and rank them. I looked for subtle nuances, complexity, and balance of the use of hops, malts, and various other wintry flavors.
When it comes to winter IPAs, you probably don’t think of New England-style IPAs. But Peak wants to change that idea with its Peak Winter IPA. Brewed with Calypso, Simcoe, Citra, and Azacca hops, it’s known for its juicy, hazy, hoppy flavor created to make you forget about the cold weather outside your windows.
Bottom Line:
I didn’t hate this beer. It’s just not as flavorful as I would like for a wintry IPA. I can’t imagine pairing it with rich, wintry meals.
This year-round expression might not technically be a “winter IPA”, but just because it doesn’t have this official designation, doesn’t mean it can’t fit the bill. Otherwise, why would they make this Mosaic and Citra-hop, citrus-centric IPA available in the middle of winter?
Bottom Line:
Maybe I was trying to fit a square peg into a round hole but this beer was a bit of a disappointment, as the nose makes you believe you’re in for a fruity flavor bomb. The palate is slightly lacking. But I’d definitely try this one again and see if I enjoy it more the second time around.
A play on hypothermia, this double IPA is brewed with a deluge of hops including Nugget, Apollo, Amarillo, Citra, and Centennial hops. The result is a potent, 8.5% ABV beer known for its citrus, spice, and malty flavor created to stand up both to the elements and seasonal dishes.
Bottom Line:
While not perfect, this beer has a nice mix of malt and hops. Complexity and balance are what I’m looking for in a great winter IPA.
With a name like Blizzard of Hops, you pretty much know what you’re getting into with this beer. This seasonal beer is brewed with Pilsner malt, un-malted wheat, white wheat, ale yeast, and Centennial, Chinook, and El Dorado hops. It’s known for its complex, hoppy, malty flavor.
Bottom Line:
I really enjoyed this winter IPA. It had the right ratio of citrus, tropical fruit flavors, caramel malts, and nicely bitter hops.
This 6.8% citrus-driven winter IPA gets its seasonal flavor by being brewed with 2-Row, Carared, Carafa II malts, and flaked oats as well as Citra, Ekuanot, Simcoe, and Cascade hops. It’s malty, hoppy, and a great complement to the seasonal feasts to come.
Bottom Line:
Some winter IPAs lean too heavily on hops. This beer managed to mix the hops side with a ton of other maltier flavors. It can definitely stand up to rich, savory winter foods.
Sierra Nevada is well known for its iconic pale ale, but it’s also known for its fall seasonal Celebration Fresh Hop IPA. Brewed with Caramelized malts and Two-row Pale malts as well as ale yeast, and Cascade, Centennial, and Chinook hops, it’s a beer worth waiting for every year.
Bottom Line:
This is a flavorful, impressive beer. It’s loaded with flavors that work perfectly in cooler weather but is bright and crisp enough to make you feel like you’re enjoying it on a warm, summery day.
This hazy, winter seasonal is the kind of beer that makes a drinker stop questioning the appeal of a mid-winter IPA. This 6.5% ABV winter IPA begins with a base of ale yeast and pale wheat malt. It gets its spicy, piney hop presence from the addition of Strata, Mosaic, Lotus, and El Dorado hops.
Bottom Line:
This is the type of winter IPA I’d drink from now until April (and probably beyond). It’s vibrant, fruity, and has just enough of a malt backbone to remind me that it’s not summer anymore.
There are few scents more reminiscent of late fall and winter than pine. That’s why the folks at Upslope Brewing drops its Spruce Tip IPA every year in late October right about the time the weather begins to change. This 7.5% ABV beer is brewed with American malts as well as Simcoe and Cascade hops but gets an added kick from the addition of fresh pine needles.
Bottom Line:
When it comes to the hierarchy of winter IPAs, this one is hard to beat. It’s obvious this beer includes pine flavor as well as the resinous flavor of the included hops. This duo makes it a highly memorable, drinkable seasonal brew.
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If you’ve ever dreamed of spontaneously walking out the door and treating yourself a day of pampering at a spa without even telling anyone, you’ll love this doggo who is living your best life.
According to CTV News, a 5-year-old shepherd-cross named Gem escaped from her fenced backyard in Winnipeg early Saturday morning and ended up at the door of Happy Tails Pet Resort & Spa, five blocks away. An employee at the spa saw Gem at the gate around 6:30 a.m. and was surprised when they noticed her owners were nowhere to be seen.
“They were looking in the parking lot and saying, ‘Where’s your parents?'” said Shawn Bennett, one of the co-owners of the business.
The employee opened the door and Gem hopped right on in, ready and raring to go for her day of fun and relaxation.
Gem is known to the folks at the day spa, as she’s a fairly frequent visitor there. When an employee called her family, they were surprised that she’d escaped from the yard, but not surprised that she chose to hoof it to Happy Tails.
“She’s one of the many dogs that love coming here,” Bennett said. “I always call it Disneyland for dogs because they play with all their best buddies and it’s amazing to watch them.” Happy Tails is described on its website as “an ‘all-inclusive’ luxury pet resort.”
Bennett said that dogs sometimes slip off-leash in the parking lot and arrive at the door before the owners do, but they’d never had a dog show up totally unaccompanied.
Gem’s owners were super chill about the whole thing, saying, “Seeing that she’s already there, she can just stay for the day,” according to Bennett.
Maybe Gem was trying to tell her owners something. Apparently, she used to go to Happy Tails three or four times a week, but since the pandemic hit, she’s only been going once a week. Clearly, the good doggo feels like that’s not enough.
“Dogs are smarter than we give them credit for,” said Bennett.
Indeed they are. Bennett also told CTV News that owners should pay attention to how the pandemic has impacted their pets’ routines and how that might affect them. Pet owners should also look for signs of separation anxiety in their pets as owners return to working away from home.
For Gem, separation anxiety doesn’t appear to be much of an issue. Sweet doggo just wants her downtime at the doggy spa, and who can blame her? Gem is all of us in this dumb pandemic. Give us a full day in a place where we have no responsibilities, where people wait on us hand and foot, and where we can forget about the wacko world outside and just chillax for a while with our close friends.
Mila Kunis admitted a recent parenting fail on The Ellen DeGeneres Show and it brought up a debate parents have had for ages: should kids be taught to physically fight back when they’re being bullied?
It all started after Kunis and husband Ashton Kutcher’s daughter Wyatt Isabelle, now seven, came home from preschool and revealed she was pushed by a bully. To which Kunis replied, “Did you push her back?”
“Push her back next time,” was the advice Kunis gave to her daughter. “You push her back and say ‘No, thank you,’ and you walk away.” She later elaborated on her instructions saying not to push anyone when they’re on the swings, ladder, or slides but when they’re “even-Steven.”
However, when Kutcher heard this advice he completely disagreed.
“I turned around, and I see Ashton’s face, and he was like, ‘No!'” she said, shaking her head.
Even though Kutcher disagreed, she stood firmly on her advice. “You stand up for yourself, and you say ‘No thank you,'” she said.
Mila Kunis Teaches Her Kids to Stand Up For Themselves | MOM CONFESSIONS
The dispute between Kutcher and Kunis is a topic as old as time. Heck, even The Bible can’t agree on whether or not to take “an eye for an eye” or to “turn the other cheek.”
Psychologist Karyn Healy says that in some cases it may be beneficial for a child to punch back at a bully. “Several studies of pre-school and primary school-aged children have found that being submissive to peers and not retaliating increases children’s risk of ongoing bullying,” she wrote in The Conversation.
But a lot rides on how successful the child is with their retaliation. If the child’s response is wild and emotional, the bullying may intensify.
“Hitting back may deter further aggression if done calmly and competently, but if the child is highly emotional or physically unskilled, hitting back will make matters much worse,” Healy writes.
Healy believes that the best way for a child to avoid being bullied is to respond by being assertive and calm. She adds they should stand up for themselves by using their words and to enlist the help of friends. Also, research shows that it’s important to notify any school officials because “most schools can improve the situation when made aware of the issue.”
Carrie Goldman, author of “Bullied: What Every Parent, Teacher, and Kid Needs to Know About Ending the Cycle of Fear,” says that teaching kids to fight back can make them feel that it’s their fault they’re being bullied.
“Those kids who are unable to fight back may end up feeling blamed for the bullying,” she writes. “Their already fragile self-esteem is further weakened, as they wonder, ‘What is wrong with me? Why can’t I make this stop?'”
Child psychologist Dr. Andrew Mendonsa offers a slightly different opinion. He believes that a child should react physically to defend themselves, but only to remove themselves from the situation, not to get send a message.
“Children do have a right to defend themselves, but they have a right to defend themselves in the sense of escaping a situation,” Mendonsa explained to ABC 10.
“If someone has their hands around their neck, they have a right to break free of those holds,” he added. “But then again, breaking free and then engaging in the situation, unfortunately, is going to be seen as being an aggressor.”
The takeaway appears to be that parents should focus themselves on raising confident children because they are less likely to be bullied. But if they are, they will be able to respond in a manner that doesn’t encourage the bullying to intensify.
Also, it’s imperative that children are taught to notify a teacher or person of authority if they are being bullied.
French poet Arthur Rimbaud was a prolific artist by the time he was a teenager. Equal parts bohemian, provocative, idealistic and avant-garde, his works inspired the songs of Dylan and helped launch an entirely new art form that we still use today.
From the very beginning, Arthur Rimbaud saw his chosen vocation as more of a spiritual calling. In his two letters titled “Lettres du voyant,” a 16-year-old Rimbaud likened poets to “seers,” and strived to become a seer himself by losing his own individual consciousness and being taken over by “the unknown.” The unknown, in this case, being the music of the universe, the greater life force or divinity itself.
To reach this unknown, according to Rimbaud, would be the greatest achievement, “because he has cultivated his own soul—which was rich to begin with—more than any other man! … even if he ends up losing the understanding of his visions, at least he has seen them!”
To accomplish this task, he developed a creative process known as “disordering of all the senses,” by exposing himself to fasting, pain, alcohol, drugs—any mind-altering substance or activity, basically. Which probably sounds like a typical artist. But you know, Rimbaud did it before it was cool.
Unconventional methods or not, they did open his mind up to creative innovation. In trying to encapsulate his dreamy visions in words, Rimbaud helped create an entirely new form of poetry that rejected the doctrines of realism and naturalism in what is now known as symbolism. In escaping the clutches of strict language patterns, Rimbaud allowed for a more formless poem structure, letting the images and their associations determine the poem’s shape. Thus began the prose poem.
It’s no wonder Dylan, a venerable creator of “vision music,” has often cited Rimbaud as a favorite poet. “When I read those words the bells went off. It made perfect sense. I wished someone would have mentioned that to me earlier,” he wrote in “Chronicles vol 1.”
You can definitely see Rimbaud’s influence in the lyrics of “Like a Rolling Stone,” for instance. Though it’s a fun rock anthem, the structure and word choices carry so much more meaning.
At 17, Rimbaud wrote one of his now most famous works, “The Drunken Boat,” which spins the story of a tipsy boat freed from constraint and succumbing to elemental forces … ostensibly bringing it all back to themes of traveling into the unknown. His work garnered the attention of well-regarded poet Paul Verlaine, and thus began a passionate and tumultuous love affair as rocky as the seas in Rimbaud’s poem.
Patron-turned-lover Verlaine invited young Rimbaud to his home, which sparked a wild, drug induced, on-again-off-again romantic relationship between the two. The affair was so tumultuous and chaotic that Verlaine shot at Rimbaud in a drunken rage. Now that’s quite a lovers’ quarrel.
Henri Fantin-Latour’s “By the Table” depicted Paul Verlaine and Arthur Rimbaud and others. upload.wikimedia.org
Their bitter, final farewell gave way to a deeply existential crisis for Rimbaud, leaving him disillusioned on all his ideals, both personally and creatively, which he reflected in his work “Une saison en enfer,” aka “A Season in Hell.” In it, Rimbaud shares the hells of his chaotic attraction for Verlaine, as well as “the failure of his own overambitious aesthetic,” according to Britannica. The book ends with a piece with the simple title “Adieu,” which many conceive to be a goodbye to poetry itself, at least in the distinctive voice Rimbaud carved out for himself.
After that, silence. At least for his poetry. Rimbaud cast aside the philosophical unknown and instead opted for physical adventure, traveling to the Alps, visiting Egypt and eventually traveling back and forth to Africa under the employment of a coffee trader. Which to me feels like an old-timey way of giving up your beloved blog and going to work for Starbucks. Sad.
Rimbaud returned home to Paris only one last time before dying at the age of 37, from what at first appeared to be arthritis, then later was diagnosed as bone cancer. And just like that, the prodigious and prolific writer’s life was cut short. But not without making a lasting impact on poetry.
In a poem titled “Alchemy of the Word,” Rimbaud lamented his failures, writing “I flattered myself with the belief that I had invented a poetic language that, one day or another, would be understood by everyone.” Like many true visionaries, Rimbaud never got to see that his dreams did in fact come to life.
It is unclear why, exactly, he did this, but Philadelphia 76ers executive Daryl Morey appeared on 97.5 The Fanatic in Philly on Thursday afternoon to discuss the ongoing Ben Simmons saga. Morey sat down with longtime radio personality Mike Missanelli to give an update on how things are going, and made clear that his stance on a potential deal for Simmons has not changed.
Morey went as far as to tell Sixers fans that it would be in their best interest to prepare for this to go one for quite a while, as he does not plan on lowering his asking price on a potential deal, and as of now, the only thing that the team has been able to get back in trade talks is “role players.”
“If we can trade Ben Simmons for a difference maker, we will do it” – @dmorey to @975TheFanatic
He said fans should be prepared to buckle in “for a very long time” because right now he can only trade Ben for role players.
Morey doubling down on not trading Simmons for role players: “People should buckle in, this is going to go a long time…if we can trade Ben Simmons for a difference maker, we will do it”
In explaining his approach, Morey stressed his commitment to making sure the Sixers are able to maximize their odds of winning a championship while Joel Embiid is in his prime. Then, in what might have been the most startling thing he said in the entire interview, Morey said that he is willing to let this go for the duration of Simmons’ contract, which would be four more years, to make that happen.
Daryl Morey on @975TheFanatic: “Would you rather eliminate what people perceive to be a distraction, or would you rather have better playoff odds? I’ll take playoff odds…Whatever we have to deal with that helps the Philadelphia 76ers win the title, we’ll do it.”
Morey on his timeline: “You’re going to think I’m kidding, I’m not. This could (go on for) 4 years. … We’re in the prime of Joel’s career…Either Ben Simmons is playing for us, or we have to get back a difference maker.”
Morey: “You’re going to think I’m kidding, I’m not, this could take four years…we’re in the prime of Joel’s career…this is not a day to day [issue}]. Every day, we are going to expect Ben Simmons to be back here, or we trade him for a difference maker.”
All of this comes on the same day that Simmons reportedly went to the Sixers’ practice facility for an individual workout, said he was dealing with back issues, got treatment and the all clear from the team’s training staff, then went home.
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