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The NBA's Free Agency period, a crucial time for teams to fortify their rosters, is rapidly approaching. Beginning on June 30th at 6:00 PM, teams can initiate negotiations with free agents, albeit with a moratorium until July 6th, when clubs can officially sign players. We'll begin the positional ranking of the top free agents set to hit the open market this summer by listing the best point guards up for grabs: 

For anyone not familiar with the National Fantasy Baseball Championship, they have a public link to show their ADPs for all their formats, along with auction prices. The above draft board is for 15-team ADP over the past week (1/21 to 1/28). To change the ADPs or switch to auction prices, the above picture shows how to change from league size, format, and date. In addition, it is possible to sort by each position (unfortunately, pitchers have one classification) and each major league team.

Free agency officially kicks off at 4 p.m. ET on Wednesday, March 13th, and the legal tampering period begins the Monday before at 12 p.m. ET on March 11th, which is when information on deals will start leaking out. This is a much deeper free agency class than last year’s group for the offensive line, especially along the interior positions. Similarly to last year, the goal with this tiered breakdown is to provide a comprehensive ranking system that people can use as an index to track value for teams signing OL.

When the world is crumbling around us, it’s necessary to focus on the important things. To me, pop culture ranks high on that list. Pop culture keeps me entertained, makes my day pass by, and fuels me with unrelated and far away drama. My days are spent lamenting the job I don’t like, doing an hour of yoga, staring at my cat Hoagie, texting my friends a… ncG1vNJzZmislajAqrTIpaNnq6WXwLWtwqRlnKedZL1wfo9ra2aon6V6pMHLrayrnV2lv6awyJyroqeeqA%3D%3D

Every so often someone writes something about Donald Trump that is so perfect that it goes viral, and then keeps turning up periodically over the years as new people come across it and have to share it. This just came my way and I have no idea if it’s old or new, but I have to share it. “Talented and well-practiced in every vice, a stranger to compassion or empathy, a liar and a cheat so complete in perfidy that he has elevated his dishonesty to hold it up as an ersatz moral principle.

Hi, I’m back! I had a busy start to the new year, which made me put off returning to this newsletter for a bit. But it’s been a whirlwind week for media and culture news. The Oscar nominations came out, and we had the beyond-inane Barbie snub discourse. Jon Stewart is returning to The Daily Show (part-time), Vince McMahon is leaving the WWE (again), the White House is paying attention to Taylor Swift deepfakes, a whole bunch of talented journalists (including some friends and acquaintances) got laid off, and on and on.

“The first rule of investment is: Don’t Lose. And the second rule of investment is: Don’t forget the first rule.” - Warren Buffett “I put two children through Harvard by trading options. Unfortunately, they were my broker’s children.” - Jason Zweig “If you owe the bank $100, that’s your problem. If you owe the bank $100 million, that’s the bank’s problem.” - Unknown “When you want to test the depths of the stream, don’t use both feet.

Whether it’s the holiday season or their birthday, shopping for men always feels like a mission impossible. If I ask my dad what he wants, his answers are practical - things he needs, like pants or a step ladder, and rarely ever something he wants, like tickets to a show or new headphones. When I ask my husband what he wants he says, without fail, “Nothing, just you and Aria (our 9-year-old Tabby cat).

The startling candour of Helen Garner. (The stuff about her avoiding people she knows!) So much to love in this interview with Jeanette Winterson. ‘After a number of long conversations with Nunez on different days, it became clear to me precisely whom her narrators sound like: Nunez.’ Robot voice. ‘No one’s interested in your blood. Make me bleed as I’m reading.’ The ghost novel. A class story. ‘I feel in a high state of paranoia and anxiety.