Lebron has for years been wearing special osmosis shoes that can actually penetrate the surface of whatever he is standing on up to about an inch and a half. It’s pretty common knowledge in NBA circles.

Two things have led to where we are:

Re: Blevin. On NPR in Chicago this morning, they had several quotes from cops talking about the (extremely justified) firing of Robert Rialmo. One of those CHUDs said: “What this firing says that, if you’re a cop, and you walk past a school, and you hear gunshots, you should just not go in. Because if you go in,…

Simple. LeBron’s last height measurement came before he did something about his hairline.

In addition to being bullshit, a lot of these measurements were done when the players first came into the league. For players players like LeBron and even some of the one-and-dones, they were still not done growing when they got measured at 18 or 19.

Players like Giannis, Paul George, Jayson Tatum have all grown…

The previous recording/reporting of height was largely done on the honor system/whatever the player said. So some people under reported their actual heights.

I think the idea here is that the height differences don’t necessarily reflect the fact that they wore shoes before but didn’t wear them this time, so much as they reflect the fact that the previous official height listings were bullshit. What I am saying is, I think these ones also are bullshit.

I believe this is more down to U.S. labor law being based on 1930s ideas of work and continuously eroding the power of unions ever since. IIRC they’re pretty explicitly only allowed to work on wages, hours, and working conditions.

“I have no sympathy for the situation.” This is what you are contributing to the conversation? Fuck you want, a cookie?

This is actually a pretty common thing among very tall NBA players, and one that has been written about in WaPo and elsewhere. Durant doesn’t want to be a seven footer, and neither did Kevin Garnett and several others. Broadly, seems like the story is that they’re people who felt insecure about being taller than…

I want to beat that goddamned asshole Blevin senseless for that comment.

The thing people are missing about the strike in Chicago is that it isn’t just about pay; the CTU is only allowed to strike about pay (really?), so they have to roll all the real issues into one big “pay us more” strike. It’s about the myriad other things that are a clusterfuck in the CPS (and I’m sure they have this…

Yet you click and comment. Or you must be thinking of Compete. Not Splinter and HamNo which was a magnificent combination.

Hey genius, the person your commenting to is, like myself, a spouse of a teacher, which means that they know what it’s like to work and not be a teacher. I promise you that it is not the same thing that most workers experience.

The thing that sucks about teaching (I am married to a teacher) is that it is assumed you will work for free. And they do. They are contracted for a specific number of hours per year, but everyone knows that the number of hours are insufficient for prep, professional development and instruction time. So they work a…

I once had a CPU catch fire

Who else is going to give us yogurt takes?

YAY! HamNo Lives!

Don’t ever leave us again, HamNo.

You really had me excited for this movement! Until I read about the . . . drummers.