I think there are two different scenarios. When the Spurs need help, everyone averages 15-17. I think three or four times this season they had seven guys in double figures. Boston, in what I’ve seen of them this year (not nearly as much), usually gets this two-or-three-guys-go-off kind of thing. Both are really…

Their best option is buying him out. I believe that figure is not luxury taxed. So, while it would be a healthy chunk of change, they can at least expunge him and maybe pick up some mid-level exception players late in free agency.

Yes, that’s an issue. Although it turned out to be the same number of shooters they had this year and they were still in the top half of the league in scoring. They’d just be better defensively. Their problem offensively was that they took a third of their shots from 10-19 feet. If they moved a chunk of those to the…

Fine, whatever. Except that comics don’t have to cross any lines, certainly don’t have to that repeatedly, and don’t have to be anti-establishment. Some of the best comedians ever have been “safe.”

No, I mean resign Jerami Grant, who is a UFA this summer. Melo is almost a mortal lock to opt-in.

Probably he isn’t so bad right now that he must go to the bench...

Paul was very bad last night. He was tentative going to the basket and then by the end of the third, he wasn’t really looking to do that, either. And Russ got him the ball maybe half a dozen times in the fourth and he just gave it right back. He tried a layup at 10:30, then no shots until the first of two fouls on…

I watched a lot of games this year. Being in Phoenix, that usually means I see Western Conference games, so I watched a ton of Thunder, Spurs, and Blazers this season. You can certainly cite Westbrook saying in a timeout with seven minutes to go against Houston that he’s going to take the assignment of James Harden,…

Sorry, but Steven Adams guarding Mitchell is part of their game plan. It shouldn’t be, but OKC mysteriously switched everything on high screens all year, leaving Adams — who moves his feet really well for a big guy but not against quick guards — on ball handlers while wing defenders and small guards commonly were…

Carmelo Anthony took 72 shots in the series. He had two assists, none after game one.

No, he’s too old to do Jerry Lawler.

He made Mike Love seem like a sympathetic figure, if that illustrates things...

I’ll take your word for it.

That might be the best RKO out of nowhere I’ve never seen.

The astounded voice in that clip is Kevin McHale, who is an inch shorter than Giannis and was famous for having one of the longest wingspans in NBA history (rumored to be about eight feet). So if he can’t understand it...

You know what else was cool last night? Giannis’ seven-foot step back:

Hottest take: Batman’s a superhero?

He hadn’t hit it all series, for one. Also, the foul trouble for Rudy. Also, Adams set amazing screens last night. Amazing. His action on those plays gave Russ a little more time than he’d been getting because he held the pick longer and didn’t move to the middle.

Sure. But as I said, one foul shouldn’t flip the outcome of the game that drastically and that quickly. That’s still on Utah.

Some of that, plus it’s Russ’s go-to shot and one of the few jumpers he can reliably hit. Just such a streaky shooter (particularly this year) that when he’s not going, they usually don’t fall. He got into an insane rhythm but it was a close game in the fourth, so I’m sure Gobert played back a bit. Much like the…