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Mikimao t1_j7ucia3 wrote

Reply to comment by bigtuna623 in KD to the Suns by Bigpie0u812

>Kyrie is a cancer and KD is a snowflake. Best to move on and reset for the future.

Sure, but it's still pretty unheard of for an actual NBA playoff team to blow it up mid season, like a redditor would.

It's actually pretty fucking shrewd the more I think about it. Most teams wouldn't do this and they leveraged it into a pretty bright future.

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skaterrj t1_j7uax6w wrote

Reply to comment by PangwinAndTertle in How the NFL avoids paying disabled players — with the union’s help by washingtonpost

In addition to what /u/314159265358979326 said, note that the NFL plan said that the judge in each of those cases was wrong. The sheer arrogance makes me even more suspicious of this plan - there's no sense of, "Hey, maybe we did get it wrong this time, and we should think about that."

Ever read Grisham's "The Rainmaker"? The movie was good, but the book was much, much better. In the book, the insurance company basically has a plan that they will reject every claim and then set up a loop between underwriting and claims so that no claim was ever paid. Someone dies after not receiving a treatment that should have been covered, which prompts the lawsuit.

While that's fiction, there's no doubt in my mind that there's some root in fact in it. There's no question that insurance companies make more money when they deny claims, so it's in their interest to do so, which automatically makes them biased against people filing claims.

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binary_spaniard t1_j7uawag wrote

Reply to comment by Nopengnogain in KD to the Suns by Bigpie0u812

But then Kyrie Irving, who wasn't playing because he refused to vaccinate, burnt sage in the locker room and Harden got pissed and treated Kyrie like he was crazy and Harden did passive aggressive comments about lack of accountability and commitment to win by everyone.

And KD sided with Kyrie.

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