The Village isn’t that bad.

How can you possibly still care this much, at this point?

Pretty dope how he draped himself in the flag and brought soldiers into this within like a hundred words of what was supposedly intended as a private letter to be kept between the two of them.

And everything’s coming up Ice Cube!

Which is funny because it really seems like the Rams owners want to get as far away from St. Louis as they possibly can, and the city’s officials keep green-lighting the ridiculous demands they’re making. You can just image Kroenke being like, “What the FUCK do I have to do to these people to let them let me leave?”

He has some ideas on where we might start (i.e. his reparations piece in the Atlantic, which if you haven’t read yet you should as soon as you can), but by and large he seems to promote making it right, re-enfranchising the disenfranchised, bringing in the historically shut out, and starting over with a level playing…

Give it a rest, guys. Fuck.

Kinda sounds like you just like Tyson Chandler, who went to Dallas the first time two years removed from playing three seasons with Chris Paul, three seasons in which he had arguably his best years as an individual player. I will give you that he’s a better free throw shooter, but otherwise he and Jordan have very…

Rare is the person in any industry who would turn down a raise to stay at a place where he doesn’t agree with his boss’ decision-making, doesn’t feel he’s been treated properly, and hates one of his closest co-workers. Put yourself in his shoes. One of the coolest and most popular business owners in your industry just…

Didn’t like the way he was used offensively, which reflects poor feelings on his coach, a man who also did/does nothing to prevent Chris Paul from being a petulant bitch all the time (he didn’t play that shit in Boston, remember), and I think the above use of the past tense “hated” refers to Sterling, not Ballmer, who…

Right. Look, man, I live here, and am raising a family here. I’m well aware of the “non-sports cultural assets” this place has, but I’m also aware of what the basketball team means to the city, and in particular to a largely voiceless and politically powerless though still huge sector of the population, and how that…

A non-partisan group probably (possibly?) has different standards than the NBA.

Or Des Moines, or Omaha, or Duluth, any other faceless Midwestern city that’s probably a pretty solid time with a lot going on but no one gives a fuck about but the people who live there because it’s the same as every other faceless Midwestern city to the larger world. Not that we should care too terribly much what…

It’s never been said anywhere this was an either-or situation. This $250 million would in no way effect the cuts to the UW system, and in fact this discussion has been removed entirely from the state’s overall budget so there can be a separate conversation. I understand your complaint, but that’s with Walker and the…

All the stars for you, my friend. Perfectly said.

That’s a great way to see Milwaukee, but keeping a property like the Bucks (one of only 30 such properties in the world) and building a kick-ass state of the art arena and commercial district in which they (and Marquette, and minor league hockey, and Beyonce concerts) reside would be a great way to maintain that…

It’s never economically prudent to build a billionaire a stadium with city and state funds. That said, in this particular deal, the math is better than in virtually every other deal of this kind. At the very least, it’s a much better deal than the city got on Miller Park twenty years ago.

United Center was built differently. It’s like the poor schmucks that bought a 1991 Mustang and then they built a newer, much sweeter one two years later. No matter what you do, you’ll always have a ‘91 Mustang. The bones of the Bradley Center, and the sight lines in particular, are terrible, in ways that can’t be…

That arena is a piece of dog shit that loses out on virtually everything other than Bucks and Marquette games because of that fact, the $500 million provides an anchor for an additional $1 billion (private) in adjacent commercial development, and the Yum Center wasn’t built for an NBA franchise.

You’re ignoring the several hundred millions of dollars in taxes everything affiliated with this that would be lost to the state over the life of this new deal, for starters.