This makes a ton of sense if you forget for a moment that brawls were way more common in basketball in the 70s.

You're clearly the smartest person in the room and obviously qualified to make judgements of intelligence based on four lines written in a Deadspin comments section. You are welcome to your own taste in things, but it is important that you understand how insignificant your opinions and your life are. Keep fighting…

Right. Because the Brit who became pretty good at snowboarding didn't grow up in an area with snow or parents with money.

What's with all this breathing people do? It's so unnecessary, so wasteful, so......unappreciative. No wonder the dead hate us.

I thought it was kinda cool the way he resurrected those unappreciated artists. I say kudos for dredging up historical footnotes like Fitzgerald, Hemingway, Picasso, Eliot, Dali, Matisse, etc.

You think you have a corner on sarcasm? You just need more practice on the receiving end and then you'll be fine.

...and just as quickly as he'd arrived 27 years earlier, The Boz disappeared in an instant, leaving behind only a legend, the faint scent of Drakkar Noir, and a fuckin' cool cloud of hairspray.

Excellent link. Tarantola has many examples of those in his archives.

Exactly. This isn't giving us anything new. ESPN (who televised the game) already has played out the Durant-LeBron angle (pre- and post-game) and a casual fan would have already seen such highlights and analysis above on SportsCenter or the WWL's front page.

Try selling that "football is de-fanged" line to all the guys who weren't able to finish that Chiefs-Colts game. I think some of them are able to receive visitors now.

Tom for a guy who has (inexplicably) become the go-to NBA writer on Deadspin, you're more of a casual fanboy ("I just want to watch the stars duel and my Nuggets, plus David Stern is soooo racist").

There's not enough time, you idiot! Maybe think about drawing up a play next time.

I wasn't keen on the design, and then I saw it in motion and I stopped caring about how it looks. Vrrrrooooooooooooooom!

You realize including the Thunder win over the Spurs tonight, the Thunder have won 5 of 6 against the Spurs? Also, the Thunder didn't even have their second best player tonight and only had 3 players in double figures. The Spurs are 1-9 vs. Indiana, Portland, OKC, Houston, and LAC. The San Antonio's excellence is…

Do you just hate fun? Is that it? Is something about your life so terrible that you need to take it out on everyone else?

Yes, never before have we seen someone that tall bring the ball up the floor and run an offense. It's like Magic, or something.

Crazy. You mean to tell me after this game he didn't run in front of the cameras screaming "Don't you ever talk about me!"? Soft.

In an effort to make KD's fairy tale evening complete, Kendrick Perkins turned into a McDonald's at midnight.

You: proper spelling

The biggest story coming from this whole circus is "MLB So Terrible, It Makes A-Rod Seem Deserving of Sympathy."