So you seem to have missed point of my post, but since I’m here...

“But the voices asking “Why did she stay so long and subject herself to being violated?” sound a lot like people who ask why Trayvon didn’t just talk to Zimmerman, why Freddie Gray ran or—more appropriately— “If it’s not a shithole, why did they come here?”

Wow...it’s wild that some people would consider it more plausible that he would have driven himself into the river to kill her instead of him just freaking out after an accident.

It’s kind of amazing that Paul Pierce throws a petty-ass tantrum and ends up the hero of this story. I’d always penciled Pierce in as a pretty shitty dude, and now I think fell comfortable committing that opinion to ink. As to the idea that he and Rondo are right, let’s remember all the Celtics were “giving” IT was a…

Yes we do. We know he cheated on his first wife with his second wife, we know his son donated bone marrow as he was fighting cancer, and we know he cut his kids out of his will. What we don’t know is anything that make us think the cheating or will-cutting was justified.

The casting of Archduke Whiteman or whatever his name is troubling. As for the tanned extras, what I read was that these were actually handlers and specialists who needed to perform specific functions that required them to be on camera. Which is understandable I guess, if you couldn’t find enough POC trained to do…

My son was heavy into the Buddies movies way back when. I had no idea that that the Santa Paws movies were canon.

“Listen, Air Bud was like … Air Bud was like The Godfather to me as a kid. I’d run that VHS tape back maybe three times a day. A movie about basketball and dogs — two of my favorite things in the world? It didn’t get much better.”

He’s Will Smith; doesn’t he have enough Hollywood social capital to have nixed that line?

And they look heavy as all hell. The bridge of my nose is weary just from looking at the photo.

So I wonder if ESPN would pursue the right flex games in and out of it’s national broadcasts. I’m thinking specifically about the NBA, but I guess it would work for MLB too. If you’ve got a stinker of a national game set for ESPN prime, but there’s a better game airing on a former FS net in the same slot, would the…

“Here are all the valid reasons why the Sixers didn’t play him. Also, the Sixers were horrible monsters for not playing him.” I’m glad he got traded if only to stop hearing about how the Sixers were doing him wrong.

“The flyer is reductive in its oversimplification of the black mind as only caring about black issues.”

I seriously don’t get the #FreeOkafor movement. The Sixers don’t play him because when he’s on the court, they aren’t good. Other teams aren’t trading for him because they aren’t sure he can be good for them. I’m sure there are teams that are curious, but why burn an asset for guy who they’ll probably be able to pick…

“There is a hard cap to what your team can do with Melo on it.” I don’t disagree with that. I will point out though that that is very different than “Carmelo ruins teams”, which is how he’s been treated.

The Nuggets won more games during the Melo era than at any other point in the team’s history. The Knicks made three straight playoff trips with Melo before the team fell apart for reasons that had very little to do with Melo. They won 54 games in 12/13. The last time that happened, Ewing was still on the team.

I want to print this out and staple it to Giuliani’s forehead.

I don’t watch SportsNet, don’t follow Hockey and have never been to Calgary, but just from this thread, I can surmise that Eric Francis is a piece of shit.

Yes, how dare he take advantage of an opportunity to win a title while still in his prime.

This is essentially what I suggested above. Keep the rookie salary scale in place, and give teams rookie exceptions inversely proportional to their record. Bad teams still have a financial edge, and players still have the freedom to choose where they play.