You just gotta love this guy!

You weren’t alone! They were returning a conference finalist that easily could’ve beaten the Cavs. They were adding the second or third best PG in the league and Hayward, who admittedly was a total unknown, but who was a really solid almost-star-quality guy in Utah. We all thought Tatum and Brown would get better…

I’m really hoping for that series. Feel like Milwaukee will dust off the goat rodeo Celtics in 5 or 6, especially without Marcus Smart. A hobbled Embiid means the Sixers can’t do anything major. I felt like Milwaukee & Toronto were going to get there anyway, but things are breaking well for both teams too, so long as…

If this take includes the Warriors, it is ghost-pepper-hot. If it’s East-centric? Vaguely warm.

Agree that Toronto is probably their best competition. But Milwaukee has the best adjustment in that series: playing Giannis 42 minutes instead of 32 minutes. Leonard and Siakim are about as you’re going to do guarding him (maybe Serge can bother him once or twice too) but Giannis is so much better than last year and…

For the life of me, I couldn’t understand why people were falling over themselves to anoint the Sixers or the Raptors or, God forbid, the Celtics. Milwaukee’s season reminds me a lot of the first Golden State championship in that every indicator says they’re a Finals team. They have a transcendent star. They have the…

The featured image is way more illustrative of their dynamic last night. I just love what a leering shithead Durant looks like in the other one.

It’s borderline criminal negligence to not include this picture in the blog

You laugh, but Ty Lue checks all the boxes for this organization:

I’ll remember some Kings guys with you.

I think it’s sorta been obscured by his ridiculous midrange game this year (he’s basically at 55% on 6 attempts a game). It’s almost like he said “Klay & Steph can just make threes. I’m gonna keep doing my weird, tall guy midrange shit nobody can deal with instead.”

Why get new remoras when the ones you have are functioning perfectly well?

I think the staff is trolling us at this point. I hope the staff is trolling us at this point. 

“But if Gentry is looking for anyone to blame for creating a toxic environment in the organization, he should look at the executives above him, who first refused to honor Davis’s trade request.”

no.

I mean, I was expressly talking about fun teams (read: the Nets, the Kings), not that Sixers dross. As a reminder: there are other ways to build teams that don’t involve cynically rebranding tanking as some galaxy brain strategy. The Nets, in fact, are a great example. So are the Warriors. And the Rockets. And the…

They’ve been a favorite league pass team of mine but I’m not a real fan. Every night I’ve seen him, he’s been a plus, including a recent Nets game where he looked like one of the few guys in the league capable of staying with Giannis athletically. No back down, blocked a couple of his shots, wasn’t gonna care if he…

I remain perplexed by fans who want to mortgage “wow, it’s super fun to root for a team full of interesting dudes who like playing with each other” for “maybe in a few years we could possibly make some real noise so let’s suck interminably.”

The GIF party didn’t even mention Jarrett Allen, who is fearless and great around the hoop, will try and block anything, and has a tremendous afro/ninja headband thing that can only be pulled off if you’re incredibly good and cool.