Totally agree with everything you said. I like how you put that—disposable positions are OK to fill with your guys. Putting someone who’s not ready or maybe not qualified into a critical position is setting them up to fail and worse setting up your athletes for injury. It makes no sense. It’s just rare to see it blow…

It seems clear to me that Oderinde is where he is because he rode Taggart’s coattails, at least to a certain extent. Their tenures overlapped at Western Kentucky, where Taggart was up-and-coming and Oderinde was just getting his start. Taggart later hired him at USF and then dumped Radcliffe in favor of Oderinde when…

You nailed it. Rhabdomyolysis is no joke. It’s not like “whoops, I asked them to do 20 pushups when they could only handle 18. My bad.” rhabdomyolysis occurs under extreme strain, the sort of trauma that trained strength coaches know to avoid because such traumatic stress is ultimately counterproductive. You build…

In Draymond’s defense, Adams had absconded with his purse, and he didn’t know him.

Adam Silver: Ah, Steven, we’re just

If I make a habit of kicking the air when no one’s around, and then when someone IS around I still kick (in airspace that now also contains another player’s testicles), I fail to see how it cannot be anyone’s responsibility but my own.

I’m a casual Warriors fan and hope they win the series, but let’s remember Westbrook is the dude who finished out a game with a fucking dent in his face. I’m not about to take that dude on about flopping.

It’s not like the Warriors were blowing out the Blazers either even after Steph came back...they’ve been very good, albeit more realistically beatable. Since (and including) their loss to the Lakers on April 6, they’re only 27-8, team. So even though that is amazing stretch on it’s own, they were 55-5 before that.

Maybe if the Warriors cared more about playoff basketball than regular season win records, they would be rested enough at this point to turn this series around.

• After the Draymond Green nut kick was adjudicated, the Thunder closed the second quarter on a 22-5 run

OKC looking to bring in Iron Balls McGinty off the bench early in game 5.

You know how I know Draymond Green is lying? The guy has memorized the names of the 34 people drafted before him in 2012. He flexes his muscles at opposing player after every dunk he makes. He mean mugs every time he blocks a shot.

Warning: the following take is hot; very hot.

Two times makes a pattern. Let's face it- Green is dangerous to Kiwis everywhere.

“A water bottle shower”

This is really the NCAA at its best. Coaches who are not the highest paid state employees; players that wont make a dime from their sport probably ever and probably go to class once in a while. But fuck that. *

I don’t see how it makes sense to do these comparisons. Steph is, what, 6'3" and 190 lbs soaking wet? LeBron has 5-6 inches and 80 lbs of muscle on him and plays an entirely different position; of course James is going to be able to do things that Curry can’t. By the same token, no one has ever shot the 3 as well as…

Talk like that will get you a sternly-worded letter from the Mayor of Toronto.

Conspicuously, 0 of the top 5 players are on the Raptors.

“That’s not how you play hide the cigar...”