My big problem with it is that it DOESN’T WORK! There just aren’t that many franchise-changing guys in any given draft (except 2003, and even then, one of the top four turned out to be garbage). Is it really worth making your product into dogshit on purpose for the chance to get some extra lottery balls?

Don’t the Sixers already have a “centers-only” starting five?

Contenders ...

Danny Ainge is a fucking genius. The Celtics’ version of tanking is to torpedo the Nets and steal their pick. Fucking incredible.

So gross.

Ah, got it. In this example, it looks to me like he’s over-rotating to “sell” the pass as cooler than it is, but I get what you’re saying.

Isn’t that just for show, though? It’s like, hey, look, I didn’t look! (But really, I totally looked ...)

Not a fan of the look-away-after-you-pass-it “no-look” pass in the second highlight.

I’ve lived in Boston for 11 years, and to the extent that I give a shit about pro sports, I root for the local teams, so it’s a bit rich for me to be agreeing that titles aren’t the end-all. But I’m still an Iowa boy at heart, and my only true allegiance is to the Hawkeyes, who NEVER WIN SHIT, and I can say…

DOOOON’T CARE!!!!!!!

(I’m a feminist and support Title IX and am totally supportive of anyone else caring. But still: DOOOON’T CARE!!!!!!)

Not a dunk.

Pud. LOL.

It actually IS kind of dangerous. He sent that bat flying.

Why are the Hawks’ unis blue? WTH?

Hot Take: It’s not oppressive to require players to stand for the national anthem when they’re representing their nation.

I know nothing about tennis, but the athletes that become great are the ones that go all-in: Tiger, Brady, Kobe, MJ, Peyton Manning, etc. The ones who can’t be bothered to give a shit have a ceiling somewhere around Randy Moss. Which is still pretty great. But it’s not “the future” of anything.

Already injured, just like Daddy.

Yikes.

Yes, beat Wiscy! However, it’s still sad that the best NBA Hawkeye highlight from the past two decades is Davis cynically shooting on his own hoop.

Sad Hawkeyes fan give you a plus 1.