{"id":25906,"date":"2022-07-06T09:51:31","date_gmt":"2022-07-06T14:51:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/?p=25906"},"modified":"2022-07-06T09:51:31","modified_gmt":"2022-07-06T14:51:31","slug":"wednesday-update-203","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/2022\/07\/06\/wednesday-update-203\/","title":{"rendered":"Wednesday update"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Max&#8217;s Sports Bar will hold a fundraiser this evening to celebrate six years of <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/brittneymemphis\">@brittneymemphis<\/a> being cancer-free. The night&#8217;s profits will be donated to the American Cancer Society Cancer Action Network. Come enjoy good times while supporting a good cause.<\/p>\n<p>From WREG: A former Tiger is <a href=\"https:\/\/wreg.com\/sports\/tigers-basketball\/former-tiger-making-most-of-summer-league-shot-with-world-champs\/\">making the most<\/a> out of NBA Summer League. Lester Quinones got invited to play on the Golden State Warriors&#8217; summer league team and had a game-high 19 points on Sunday. Although it&#8217;s not likely he&#8217;ll make the Warriors&#8217; main roster in October, his performance could be good enough to get the attention of a G-League or overseas team.<\/p>\n<p>In yesterday&#8217;s post, I wondered how Kennedy Chandler was getting paid for participating in Summer League&#8230; turns out the answer is &#8220;handsomely, for an American second-rounder.&#8221; Unlike first-round NBA draft picks, second-round picks don&#8217;t have to be guaranteed any money at all. But Shams Charmia of The Athletic reported yesterday that Chandler has been signed to a 4-year, $7.1 million contract with the Grizzlies, and $4.49 million of that is guaranteed, a record for an American player drafted in the second round.<\/p>\n<p>I watched the Grfzzlies&#8217; Summer League game last night. Observations:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Jake LaRavia had some sweet moves and looked like a guy who&#8217;ll see time at the power forward position in the regular season<\/li>\n<li>We didn&#8217;t see a whole lot from David Roddy. I wonder if the team wants to evaluate them (LaRavia and Roddy) separately since positionally, they somewhat overlap.<\/li>\n<li>Kenny Lofton Jr. (6&#8217;6&#8243;, 275) is gonna be a fan favorite down in Southaven this season<\/li>\n<li>Xavier Tillman Sr. looked like a leader and consummate pro<\/li>\n<li>Ziaire Williams looked good but at times he played some Memphis Tigers-level sloppy basketball<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/dailymemphian.com\/section\/arts-culture\/article\/29608\/opera-memphis-looks-edge-district-for-new-location\">Opera Memphis is looking for a new home<\/a> and 3 of the 4 locations it is scouting are in The Edge District.<\/p>\n<p>Cheers to my friend Air Traffic Mike on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.checkiday.com\/2ff0d947bd020322c3856fb54cfa96f6\/national-air-traffic-control-day\">National Air Traffic Control Day<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s also <a href=\"https:\/\/www.checkiday.com\/677f94c0011849904ddb397b73a1f84a\/national-fried-chicken-day\">National Fried Chicken Day<\/a>. Gus&#8217;s, Uncle Lou&#8217;s, and Jack Pirtle&#8217;s would be my suggestions.<\/p>\n<p>A\/C update: No progress yesterday, no maintenance people came by. I guess they&#8217;re still on hold for parts. Meanwhile, this was going on:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">We were just shy of one degree from beating our record high temp for the day! The rain stayed out of most areas, with only with a few scattered showers south of us. If you thought today was a hot one, just wait until you see the temps for the rest of this week! \/KH <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/V43ehzf1FS\">pic.twitter.com\/V43ehzf1FS<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 MemphisWeather.net (@memphisweather1) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/memphisweather1\/status\/1544471036145635334?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 5, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>I talked to a lawyer and she said that under newly-passed Tennessee law, air conditioning is not considered an essential service to be provided by a landlord. Therefore, I would be on legally shaky ground if I withheld my July rent. So I went ahead and wrote a check.<\/p>\n<p>To add insult to injury, Walgreens&#8217; A\/C is out too. I can&#8217;t even walk over there for 10 minutes of relief.<\/p>\n<p>Back tomorrow unless I decide to take a &#8220;F it, my air is still out, I&#8217;m going to Bardog&#8221; day.<\/p>\n<p><script type='text\/javascript' src='https:\/\/storage.ko-fi.com\/cdn\/widget\/Widget_2.js'><\/script><script type='text\/javascript'>kofiwidget2.init('Tip Jar', '#29abe0', 'B0B57GDFG');kofiwidget2.draw();<\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Max&#8217;s Sports Bar will hold a fundraiser this evening to celebrate six years of @brittneymemphis being cancer-free. The night&#8217;s profits will be donated to the American Cancer Society Cancer Action Network. Come enjoy good times while supporting a good cause. From WREG: A former Tiger is making the most out of NBA Summer League. Lester &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/2022\/07\/06\/wednesday-update-203\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Wednesday update&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25906"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25906"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25906\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25907,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25906\/revisions\/25907"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25906"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25906"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25906"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<!-- WP Super Cache is installed but broken. 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