Rondo and Holiday are soundly outplaying Dame and McCollum. Lillard’s been particularly bammer, to the point I’ve been wondering if he’s injured or if his dog died or something. Zach Collins has been way more effective and he looks like a fucking hypeman from a Jake Paul video.

If what I’m watching right now is any indication, the Wizards are not “pretty good,” so you can toss those hypotheses right in the trashcan.

He was preposterous last night. Mirotic had a nice game too after he shook off a bad start. But while Throwback Rondo is a nice-to-have, AD is a must-have for New Orleans to win anything more than a game. He’s the smoothest 7 footer I’ve ever watched, which is saying something, as Durant is, you know, still in his…

The best part of all of this is that Playoff BronBron gets to start against ear-blowing weirdo Lance Stevenson. Very much looking forward to Lance doing fifteen crossovers, ending up in the exact same place, and courageously bricking a contested 18 footer in the inevitable moral-victory-close-loss in Game 3.

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he don’t need no point deduction
he don’t need no blow-by-blow
no dark sarcasm, he got his ass kicked
hey! cut man! rod salka got laid low
all in all, he’s just a-nother prick with a wall
on his shorts, he’s just a-nother prick who likes walls

Magic: The Squandering

- I’ve heard Oladipo mention that this year, but I’m not sure we give Russ credit for his success the year he’s not on the same team. Seems a little too convenient.

LeBron has been ridiculous since the Cavs remade their roster (that game against Toronto was particularly frightening, but is indicative of how good he’s been since February). That said? He’s going to get punished for pouting through the month when Isaiah was back by a lot of voters. The Rockets being better than…

Love you too, Albert. Let’s never fight again.

The counterpoints here:

I’m rooting so hard for Westbrook to get his triple double average so we can listen to his MVP voters explain why Big Round Numbers are actually different this year than last year.

Thank you for over-explaining a bad joke and telling me that is was funny. I am now laughing hysterically. Everything is good now.

You can always tell you landed a great joke when both people listening to it are immediately horrified and you shriek “no that’s funny though.”

It’s really been quite remarkable. Jeffvanhungry down here notes those Hibbert/Stevenson/Paul George Pacers who did actually put a little scare into the Heat a few times, but the fact that team is the closest to a true rival is laughable. Without LeBron, the East wouldn’t have a championship in about a decade.

Melo was a token Eastern Conference All-Star last year and he’s noticeably more washed this year. How much of that has to do with Russ is an open question. Paul George has been pretty broken for months and Oladipo, as soon as he was free, became a legitimate first option on a playoff team. Russ is the through-line…

I love this site but maaaaan are the basketball takes frequently very bad. Very Round Numbers MVP was among the worst.

On the bright side, Westbrook is .1 rebound away from another fugazi MVP award on a 47 win team that’ll lose in the first round.

Who saw this trash and said, “yeah, THAT’S a comment I need to elevate from the greys”?

We went from “LeBron James is a Cocksucker” to “Look at this dunk LeBron almost did!” so fast I barely even noticed.