For all these years, the Sixers have been trying to find the right players to complement Iverson … and made a big commitment in making A. However, things have changed and plans don't always work out.
If they had tried to put him in a lesser role in which he didn't have to be the go-to-guy every night, things would have been different. I think a change of scenery could benefit A. Andy, you make a great point regarding the "change of scenery. The Sixers have been bad for a long time, and A. A new team will give him energy, and Iverson is so competitive that he will be unbelievably motivated to prove that he's still a great player.
So I do think that whoever gets him will get a huge boost of energy. Just wondering: What do you think would happen if no one ends up wanting to trade for Iverson? Everyone talks like it will happen eventually, but what if a deal can't or won't be made? Terry, that was the point of my column.
Most teams are taking a pass on an Iverson trade. But a deal will happen — it's just a matter of time. Iverson is such a talent that there are some teams willing to take on the risk and his enormous contract.
But the reason that this may take some time is that nobody is knocking Billy King's socks off with offers. Sooner or later, though, things will heat up and King will get an offer that he'll take.
Right now, though, the offers haven't been good enough, so King is waiting for a better one. Despite his positives, there are, in my opinion, far too many on-the-court negatives to make him an attractive candidate for enshrinement. I can only hope my beloved Golden State Warriors don't gut the team to trade for him. Bruce, I think Iverson belongs in the Hall of Fame and that he'll be there one day.
Yes he's had his issues off the court, but it's not like he's Pete Rose — he didn't bet on the game or compromise it in any way. As for your Warriors possibly trading for him? Keep in mind that your squad has some bad long-term contracts they'd love to get rid of Adonal Foyle , Mike Dunleavy , Troy Murphy.
If they can unload a couple of those deals, they might be inclined to make a pitch for Iverson. Steve, I like you, but are you blind?
Last time I checked A. And oh, by the way, he's averaged 28 points a game for his entire career! He plays hard every time I've seen him play. Hasn't the press got carried away with his off-the-court stuff and missed the fact that he is one of the greatest players we have seen in a long time? Sean, I can see very clearly, thank you, and this is what I see: Iverson is one of the greatest scoring guards in the history of the league, but he doesn't dominate in an efficient way.
He's a percent career field-goal shooter, and when your best player is missing almost 60 percent of his shots, it's hard to win. And when your best player is blowing off practice and constantly having trouble with his coach, it's really hard to win. Just to comment on your latest on the A. I have two words for you, Steve: Ron Artest. It may take awhile, but someone will make an offer that Billy King will find suitable, just like Pacers president Donnie Walsh did with the Sacramento Kings in getting Peja Stojakovic.
Michael, there's one big difference between the Iverson situation and the Artest one: money. So while there will be some teams interested in him, most have already dropped out due to financial concerns. Hey Steve, can you explain how trading for a No. Does that mean the next time the trader receives the No. Or is it just a way of referring to a first-round draft pick?
And in regards to trading for draft picks, can the pick recipient choose what year they use that pick in? David, if you trade for a first-round pick, you know exactly what year it is that you're getting the pick. So when Iverson finally is dealt and if there's a draft pick involved in the deal, it will be for a specific year , for example. So the second-place team in the Pacific Division and the fifth-place team in the Western Conference is the No.
Are you serious? You really think the Lakers could beat any of those teams in a five- or seven-game series? Highly unlikely. Burt, first of all, when I ranked the Lakers No. I put them ahead of Phoenix because they were a half-game ahead in the standings and they beat the Suns earlier in the year.
And as for the Mavs, I couldn't put them first — they were coming off two bad losses last week. Look, I don't think the Lakers are the best team in the league, but they earned the ranking. They had the second-best record in the entire league, and the team with the best record the Jazz had just gotten pounded by 30 points by L.
So get over it. But come on, you are putting a lot of wood to the fire. Putting L. History has to play a role in your rankings. As much as I hate admitting it, the Spurs, Phoenix and the Mavs who are nonetheless overrated deserve such credit.
Mayer was unwilling to use any of her own money to buy more Yahoo stock, even though doing so would have increased her upside dramatically. Says one person, she was obsessed not with the reality of her pay but with making sure that what showed up in the filings would lead people to believe that she would earn more than she had at Google. In her first year, Mayer has made believers of some skeptics.
She took Yahoo by storm. Another way of thinking about it is that she Googlized Yahoo. She got rid of the BlackBerrys, replacing them with iPhones and Androids. She started providing employees with free food, like every other Valley company. She instituted a process to allow employees to complain about bureaucracy. She started holding Friday-afternoon meetings called F. Her first hire from Google—indeed, her first hire at all—was a P. But what she has done at Yahoo is phenomenal. Another Valley C.
In an interview with TechCrunch, the influential technology blog, its founder, Michael Arrington, asked Mayer what her superpower was, the thing she was really good at. She has shut down many of the companies she has bought because they are so-called acqui-hires, which are now necessary because talented engineers are so hard to find that to get them you need to buy their companies and lock them into employment agreements.
Although paying a lot of money for companies without revenues is reminiscent of old Yahoo, the view in the Valley is that she has done smart deals. And she is helping Yahoo transition to a mobile world.
Now Mayer says that million consumers visit Yahoo properties each month, up 20 percent from when she arrived, and that million of those consumers are accessing Yahoo properties on mobile devices. Not everyone is completely convinced by these figures. Mayer has also done content deals, from purchasing the rights to old Saturday Night Live clips to build an archive of video content to reportedly negotiating a deal to do a video interview show with Katie Couric, to hiring star New York Times technology columnist David Pogue to write for Yahoo.
Mayer has also been utterly unafraid to make big, controversial moves. Famously, in early , she sent out an all-hands memo, which was obtained by AllThingsD, telling employees that they could no longer work from home. Some are doubtful. She makes decision after decision and, contrary to her public persona, without data and without knowledge. But it has contributed to her early success. Indeed, some of the stories coming out of Yahoo bear a striking similarity to those about her tenure at Google.
She can still be cold to executives who report to her. People feel so dismissed. Mayer still makes people wait. She is never late for the Friday F. Last winter, Mayer had an all-day meeting planned with the top executives to discuss the budget.
The meeting was supposed to begin in the morning. Last December, in a blog post, Mayer announced a revamp of Yahoo Mail for both desktop and mobile. It is, but Yahoo Mail is a big deal for another reason, too.
In other words, if Yahoo loses those people, there could be a ripple effect. The team doing the revamp had worked nights and weekends to meet a short deadline, according to Business Insider. One day before the launch, Mayer called a meeting of the team—and insisted on changing the color scheme from blue and gray to yellow and purple. At least four people who were involved have quit. Just recently, Yahoo rolled out another new version of its mail with purple as the main color , and there have been tens of thousands of complaints.
And there was tension with Daniel Loeb almost from the beginning. But in the fall she refused to make the cuts, arguing that the culture was too fragile to withstand layoffs. What bothered some board members, including Loeb, is that she refused to do any analysis. The system is wildly unpopular with employees, some of whom are taking to the Internet to complain. The improvements in its traffic are not showing up in its financial results. The bad advertising numbers also caused some tension with the board.
Mayer, according to one person familiar with events, argued that they were just a short-term blip but refused to dig under the surface. So he went to Mayer and said he wanted to sell 20 million shares, or one-third of his remaining holdings. On Friday, July 19, Mayer came back to him with a different offer.
She said that Yahoo would buy back the stock itself—thereby guaranteeing Loeb a price that he may or may not have been able to get in the market—but only if he sold 40 million shares. Loeb was shocked that she would want him and his team gone, according to two people, but it was too good a deal to pass up. On July 22, Yahoo announced that it would buy back 40 million shares from Loeb.
There are two ways to look at this, both of which may be true. The other is that she is one of the few people to have outmaneuvered Loeb. He would have fired her. Both are extreme alphas. Dan was going to turn at some point. She ran the first gauntlet. She got him out. Dan had a gun to her head whether she knew it or not, and she orchestrated his departure. Another executive has a slightly different take.
This person thinks that Mayer figured out very early on that being a female engineer—a rarity in a culture that reveres engineers—gave her a pass that other women without that credential would never have. After all, her flaws, like her habit of being late, are easily fixable—should she care to fix them. However, as the New York Times pointed out in , around the time the slang term came about, it originally referred to something or someone who killed a buzz in terms of drugs or alcohol, like cops breaking up a party.
Merriam-Webster added this compound word to its arsenal in The term booty call was recognized by Merriam-Webster in to describe "communication by which a person arranges a sexual encounter with someone.
If you were talking about the police in the '90s, you might have referred to them as the po-po. The slang term, which was formally added to Merriam-Webster in , is just a reduplication of the the initial syllable "po.
While people were referred to as newbies in the '70s, by the '90s, the slang term had clanged to noob. The word, which was recognized by Merriam-Webster in , is the shortened form of noobie , which is a spelling variant of newbie. The act of covering your face with your hand or hands to express embarrassment or dismay has been formally referred to as a face-palm since Merriam-Webster added the word in The action has become popularized in recent years through memes, but it's been around for more than a century, as evidenced by Henri Vidal's Cain statue.
If you're referred to as judgy , you're someone who tends "to judge others harshly or critically. Flexitarian was brought about in the '90s to describe someone who was kind of vegetarian.
The word, which was added to the dictionary in , describes someone whose diet is mostly meatless, with the occasional consumption of fish or lean meats. Although the use of adding "chill" to phrases was popular in the '80s, the slang term chillax wasn't formally recognized by Merriam-Webster until the late '90s.
The term, which means "to calm down," is a blend of the words chill and relax. During the '90s, a form of "rap music featuring repetitive chants and rapid dance rhythms" emerged from the South.
Soon, it became an adjective to describe getting crazy and drunk. It was added to Merriam-Webster at the turn of the century. Miley Cyrus wasn't yet infamously twerking on the VMAs stage, but this word was first used at the beginning of the millennium, according to Merriam-Webster. This form of dancing, which is done by "rapid, repeating hip thrusts and shaking," has become commonplace in American culture.
We weren't posting these on Instagram yet, but camera cell phones brought about the culture of selfies way before we posted them on social media: The word refers to "an image that includes oneself … and is taken by oneself. You could certainly unfriend someone before , but early social media networks like LiveJournal, Friendster, and Myspace gave the term a whole new meaning.
Describing the act of removing someone from your social media network, Merriam-Webster says this slang term was first tossed around in The concept of life hacks —simple, clever tips for accomplishing something more easily—and the term itself have been around since the birth of Facebook in , though they didn't start taking over your feed until a few years later. With the all-consuming world of social media, it's certainly important to be on-brand these days, but the word was around all the way back in This basically just means you're consistent with your public image or identity, like a food blogger posting their latest meal.
The year after YouTube was created, fans figured they needed to give a name to these online celebrities who were uploading popular videos to the platform.
In , YouTuber became the "unofficial" name. If you want to acknowledge someone's tweet on Twitter, you can retweet them. This act of reposting their tweet onto your own timeline was given a name in , the year after the platform was created.
And just like unfriending, the rise of social media platforms like Instagram and Twitter where you could "follow" users rather than "friend" them brought about the act of unfollowing in , as well.
This means you stop "subscribing to the feed of someone on social media. This term is a little trickier, as it's not an actual feature of Twitter, like retweeting.
Instead subtweeting , which was a slang term first used in , is the act of tweeting about someone without actually directly tagging that user—usually done in a negative, or hurtful way. You can thank Nev Schulman for this slang term!
His documentary, and subsequent popular MTV series, gave new life to the word catfish. The s usage of the word isn't talking about the animal, but instead, the act of tricking someone on social media into thinking you look or are someone different than who you actually are. Overly protective parents aren't a concept new to the s, but Merriam-Webster finally recognized a term for these strict, watchful parents in A helicopter parent is someone who is just a little too involved in their child's life.
The word inspo , a shortened version of inspiration , was first used as a slang term in And you still hear it constantly, whether it's food inspo or outfit inspo or even relationship inspo. Bingeable , which describes a television show where there are "multiple episodes that can be watched in rapid succession," was brought about by the rise of streaming networks like Netflix and Hulu.
Anyone who rides on public transportation can recognize the act of manspreading. The term, which Merriam-Webster notes as first being used in , describes the act of someone most commonly a man sitting with "their legs spread wide apart," taking up space from other people in the area.
Jeggings are a type of leggings designed to resemble the look of denim jeans—they really took skinny jeans to the next level, and Merriam-Webster added the word in Slang acronyms are no stranger to the dictionary. FOMO , otherwise known as the "fear of missing out," is a word often used by younger generations, and was added by Merriam-Webster in We're not talking about the act of killing dragons with swords here.
Instead, slay became a slang term often used in drag queen culture, and then adopted by fan culture, to describe someone doing something "exceptionally well. You can say, "Yes, slay queen! Back in the day, you could be both "hungry" and "angry," but there wasn't necessarily a term for it. The word hangry came about in the s to describe this act of being so hungry you're angry about it, and Merriam-Webster added it in Calling your partner your "boyfriend" or "girlfriend" is so old-school.
The younger generation decided they needed something a little more hip, and thus, the word bae argued to either mean "before anyone else" or a shortened form of baby was born. Merriam-Webster added the word in We've learned a lot of new language in , and while many pandemic-related terms did find their way into the dictionary this year, the slang word thirsty is sure to be one we associate with this era for other reasons.
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