Is "Baller" Trademarked Yet?

So far in the season, I have gotten to watch at least a little bit of each team, and I have some observations about each team.  While some of these were written prior to a winning/losing streak or a significant injury, they should be applicable for each entry.     Atlanta Hawks:   They might have some issues The immediate focus of the issues in Atlanta would probably be the spat between Trae Young and coach Nate McMillan that resulted in Young not attending a game; while this doesn’t sound like an isolated situation (especially since there were reports that the team tended to side with McMillan), I’m going to focus more on playing style.   They acquired Dejounte Murray to help with defense and ease the offensive burden of Young, but their defense isn’t great and Young has the ball in his hands almost as much as ever.   Their offense has not been good, and there’s a few reasons.   The most obvious one when looking at stats is that their 3’s are ...

On December 8 th , U.S. President Joe Biden announced that Brittney Griner, who was detained in Russia since February, had been released from prison and was heading back to the U.S.  In February, Griner was detained after she was discovered to have had a vape containing less than a gram of hash oil in her possession, which is illegal in Russia.  She pleaded guilty (though there are many legal experts familiar with Russian law who have said that this doesn’t necessarily mean that she was guilty given how the Russian legal system works) and ultimately was sentenced to 9 years in prison and transferred to a penal colony in Russia.   What happened The U.S. and Russia announced that there was a prison exchange with Russia where the U.S. would get Griner and Russia would get Viktor Bout, a Russian arms dealer nicknamed “The Merchant of Death” who was arrested in Thailand in 2008 on terrorism-related charges before being extradited to the U.S.   While this doesn’t sou...