The Bay Area can celebrate the dubious honor of having the most expensive gasoline in the whole United States.
Regular-grade gas averages in the Bay Area at about $4.33 per gallon as of Sunday, an increase of about 7 cents in the last week, said Patrick De Haan, the head of petroleum analysis at GasBuddy.
Industry analyst Trilby Lundberg said that the rise nationwide is less than the increasing cost of crude oil, meaning that another rise is due on the horizon. That, in addition to wholesale increases and new taxes on gas, could intensify upticks in cost throughout the nation.
Those cost increases, along with labor shortages in the industry, mean that gas prices are expected to continue to increase over the summer without much relief. Truck drivers and other gasoline workers were laid off during the pandemic, leading to staffing issues.
"It may be a while [until gas prices go down] because of COVID-induced headaches that have persisted," De Haan said. "The oil industry made long-term decisions to shut down production, and here we are and now the oil industry is in the same boat that everyone else is in with labor challenges."
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The Giants lost 3-2. They have lost back-to-back games for the first time since getting swept by the Dodgers at home May 21-23. They had a ton of opportunities in this one, but went 0-for-13 with runners in scoring position. 6/28/21, 10:20 PM
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Still, it is a dream. It was given legs by ESPN’s Zach Lowe and Jonathan Givony, who discussed a hypothetical of Wiseman and the Warriors’ two picks for No. 1. Givony said it was something Detroit would consider because the Pistons were so high on Wiseman last year.
That’s enough for me to make the call if I’m GM Bob Myers. And if Detroit GM Troy Weaver doesn’t immediately hang up, then I’m throwing in every sweetener possible. But it would be so hard to imagine the Pistons not taking one of the most promising prospects in recent memory.
The reason they might consider it is another reason for the Warriors to trade up. Detroit only pulls the trigger if it concludes Jalen Green or Evan Mobley is nearly as good and they’d rather get one of them and another lottery pick as opposed to just Cunningham.
If this were true, the Warriors would probably have to get up to No. 4 to really entice the Pistons. Use No. 7 and 14 to get to No. 4, then use Wiseman and No. 4 to get the No. 1. Weaver would have to get two players he absolutely loves to come off the top pick in this long-awaited draft and it would be hard to do that with No. 7. But Wiseman and Green for Cunningham? If they love Wiseman, it’s a nice bounty.
But if the Warriors can get to No. 4, they could also just take Green or Jalen Suggs and be in a similar setup. Green and Suggs are both listed in the 6-4, 6-5 range, so not as long as the Warriors prefer. But the playmaking, the shooting potential, the potential to become a star as the vets age, that’s also there with the top Jalens.
After No. 4, the question marks get bigger, from the Warriors’ perspective.
All of this underscores why moving up is the move.
Getting the No. 1 is actually more expensive than No. 7 and 14 combined. Cunningham is slotted at just over $10 million, including the customary 20 percent on top). The Warriors’ two picks will come in at just over $9 million. (These totals do not include luxury tax.) The No. 4 pick is set to make about $7.3 million.
The move up isn’t about money, though. It’s about raising the talent level on the roster. The Warriors’ projected starting five is Curry, Thompson, Andrew Wiggins, Draymond Green and James Wiseman. They’ve got Jordan Poole, Kevon Looney, Damion Lee and Juan Toscano-Anderson coming off the bench. And they still have Eric Paschall, who fell out of the rotation at the end of the year.
We know they’ll be adding a veteran with the mid-level and probably another on the veteran’s minimum — we know they want to keep Kent Bazemore. They also have the ability to sign-and-trade Oubre to get another veteran should they find a good deal.
So as the draft picks go, the question is who can come in and insert themselves into that? Who can supplant one of these incumbents? Who can walk in as a rookie and be a no-brainer to be on the second unit while competing for minutes with hungry veterans who earned a rotation spot like Lee and JTA? Who is good enough for Kerr to put in a small lineup at the end of games?
That’s what the Warriors need to get out of this draft. Maybe they can get one at No. 7. But the best chance to do so is to move up.
Sissyfication? Sissification? Sissyphication? However you spell it, Jeff Van Gundy thinks it's happening.
In the fourth quarter of Monday night's Western Conference finals Game 5 between the Suns and Clippers, Phoenix forward Jae Crowder was assessed a flagrant foul after slapping Paul George in the face on a contested shot, a call with which Jeff Van Gundy didn't agree.
While Crowder's attempt to contest the shot was questionable at best, according to Van Gundy it was just another example of "the sissification of the game."
“I’m sick of the sissification of the game.”
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MORE: Twitter reacts to Crowder's flagrant foul
Replays showed Crowder clearly decked George in the face on the follow-through, satisfying the criteria of a flagrant foul (unnecessary contact to the opponent).
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