So if you want to find the guy with the highest potential to be the future star, then it makes sense to draft him - if you’re willing to navigate the landmines.” “And if you don’t import winning around him, there are even more skeletons. “It wasn’t until winning was imported - Chris (Paul), Jae Crowder, drafting a three-year guy who could help right away like Mikal - that translated to success,” Jones said to ESPN ($$) recently. Jones’ best player that season, 22-year old Devin Booker toiling in his 4th playoff-less NBA season after being the youngest player in the league three years prior, was now only the 7th youngest player on his own team! He declined to fill out a proper college scouting team, and promised not to draft yet another teenager. In that interview, he declared an end to the endless rebuild. That was their fourth straight season winning less than 27% of their games.Īt the season’s mid-point, Jones was kind enough to give an exclusive interview with Suns fans on Bright Side Night, our annual event where we send thousands of underprivileged kids to their first Suns game. They won only 23% of their games that season, finishing with the 2nd worst record in the whole league. His roster in the 2018-19 included a whopping 11 players aged 23 or younger, including six rotation players aged 21 or younger. If you have a medical emergency, then call 9-1-1.When James Jones took over the Phoenix Suns as interim General Manager in 2018, he inherited a team almost a decade and at least two iterations into an uber-tanking rebuild. A weather inversion is making the odor easier to smell, and we are continuing to investigate the source of the odor. The city sent an emergency alert to cellphones Thursday morning: 'Charlotte Fire Department is experiencing a high 9-1-1 call volume related to natural gas odor in the city. 'Fog or smoke if there's a fire nearby can be trapped near the ground by an inversion until the atmosphere mixes out, which typically happens through the daytime hours,' he said. This can occur in the lowest levels of the atmosphere on a mostly clear night,' said Spectrum News 1 Meteorologist Lee Ringer. 'A temperature inversion occurs when a thin layer of cool air develops under a warmer layer of air.

The smell of gas spread around the city through a weather event called 'inversion,' which is trapping air close to the ground.

The smell prompted the county to evacuate the courthouse in Uptown Charlotte, but the building has since been cleared by the fire department, according to the Mecklenburg County Sheriff's Office. Unless you have a medical emergency or believe the gas is coming from your home or building - please call 911,' the fire department said on Twitter. The city asked people not to call 911 unless there's an emergency. The fire department said the city was getting a lot of 911 calls about the smell of gas. The company said there was no natural gas leak in its system.

A company destroyed tanks of mercaptan, the chemical used to add the sour smell to odorless natural gas, PNG said. Piedmont Natural Gas said it found the source of the smell that spread around Charlotte Thursday morning.

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