{"id":28779,"date":"2025-06-17T08:04:45","date_gmt":"2025-06-17T13:04:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/?p=28779"},"modified":"2025-06-17T08:04:45","modified_gmt":"2025-06-17T13:04:45","slug":"tuesday-update-329","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/2025\/06\/17\/tuesday-update-329\/","title":{"rendered":"Tuesday update"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My thoughts on the Desmond Bane trade to the Orlando Magic, now that I\u2019ve had a little time to process it:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Getting Desmond\u2018s $50 million salary off the books will give the Grizzlies a lot of financial flexibility.<\/li>\n<li>Getting 4 first-rounders and a pick swap for a player who\u2019s never been an All-Star is an excellent result. Well done, Grizzlies front office.<\/li>\n<li>Kentavious Caldwell-Pope is a downgrade from Bane at the two, but not by much.<\/li>\n<li>KCP has experience winning championships. The Grizzlies can benefit from that.<\/li>\n<li>I don\u2019t think Cole Anthony will ever play a game in a Memphis uniform. His salary, which is north of $10 million, will be useful in balancing out the money in a future trade deal.<\/li>\n<li>All those first-rounders will be useful for Memphis to pursue a marquee player. Giannis perhaps?<\/li>\n<li>On a personal note, sad to see Des go. The guy had a great work ethic.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Thursday is the Juneteenth holiday, so government offices, banks, and libraries will be closed.<\/p>\n<p>There will be a free screening of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.orpheum-memphis.com\/events\/if-beale-street-could-talk\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">If Beale Street Could Talk<\/a> Wednesday night at the Orpheum. Live performance by Singa B prior to the film.<\/p>\n<p>The civil rights museum will have a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.globenewswire.com\/news-release\/2025\/06\/16\/3100106\/0\/en\/National-Civil-Rights-Museum-celebrates-Juneteenth-with-a-focus-on-community-and-health.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Juneteenth Community Day<\/a> with free admission Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>The Trumpster\u2019s business organization is <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/trump-mobile-phone-white-house-business-361455bb3c65593bade7d4edfe4da7e9\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">getting into the cell phone market<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/joey-chestnut-nathans-hot-dog-eating-contest-16895963672a1638fa83e2040650af39\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Joey Chestnut will make his return<\/a> to the Nathan\u2019s Famous hot dog eating contest this July 4. He missed last year\u2019s contest due to a dispute with Nathan\u2019s.<\/p>\n<p>The Neon Mooners will play Slider Inn Downtown this Saturday at 7:30. No cover and $20 Michelob Ultra buckets.<\/p>\n<p>Congratulations to Fat Charlie\u2019s Speakeasy on Mud Island on its recent 100 on its health inspection.<\/p>\n<p>The $5 parking deal 11 AM-2 PM Sunday-Thursday at 10 Downtown parking garages has been extended through August.<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s all I\u2019ve got.<\/p>\n<p><span data-tt=\"{&quot;paragraphStyle&quot;:{&quot;alignment&quot;:4,&quot;writingDirection&quot;:1}}\"><em><strong>I gratefully accept tips:<\/strong><\/em><br \/>\n<\/span>Venmo:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/account.venmo.com\/u\/Paul-Ryburn\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">@Paul-Ryburn<\/a>\u00a0(8113 if it asks for digits)<br \/>\nCash App: $PaulRyburn1<br \/>\nZelle: paul@paulryburn.com<br \/>\nApple Pay: paul.ryburn@gmail.com<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My thoughts on the Desmond Bane trade to the Orlando Magic, now that I\u2019ve had a little time to process it: Getting Desmond\u2018s $50 million salary off the books will give the Grizzlies a lot of financial flexibility. Getting 4 first-rounders and a pick swap for a player who\u2019s never been an All-Star is an &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/2025\/06\/17\/tuesday-update-329\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Tuesday 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\/28779"}],"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=28779"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28779\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28781,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28779\/revisions\/28781"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28779"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28779"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28779"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<!-- WP Super Cache is installed but broken. 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