His actual comps are Harrison Barnes and Danilo Gallinari who are a lot like KD and Giannis in that they are tall and play basketball professionally.

“Your dad will be the one who looks like an asshole.”

“Enjoy your silver medals, my dudes.”

I mean, Draymond lead the team in assists. Let’s not pretend that Tony Allen never averaged more than 3 a game. This isn’t some wild hot take.

Bron should go with the 3-1 lead meme. The connotation hasn’t changed at all!

Vivek Ranadive just orgasmed

Double the Stephs, double the fun

Nobody’s letting facts get in the way of their performative boredom today.

Boston plays the Warriors better than Cleveland does so, no, I don’t think you’re wrong. For all the pearl clutching over how bad this Finals was, a lot of that was because Cleveland’s defense is, in fact, very bad.

Why are we pretending they weren’t just down 3-2 to the Rockets? The Finals was ALWAYS going to be bad because the East is bad.

The East is not sending us their best

The site that gave us relentless updates on Oddibe McDowell’s water bill should never ask this question.

I haven’t seen a man in a suit be this simultaneously annoying and worthless since every day in the Trump administration

/self-assured chuckling
//furious note-taking

This is so easy to do with any team. LeBron’s only on Cleveland because he grew up there. The Sixers only have Embiid because he was injured on draft day. It’s pointless and reductive and misses the dozens of other decisions that go into team building.

This is GREAT Kinja.

So we’re just pretending the Western Conference Finals didn’t happen so we can act bored and proclaim the Warriors ruined basketball?

+1. That’s a fantastic podcast.

It’s not. It’s a weird brand of basketblogger performative boredom that was tiresome three years ago.

I forgive you. It’s the NFL, after all. It’s designed expressly to make all of us dumber.