I think guys hate dunham for the same reason we hate sarah Jessica Parker. Strait women and gay dudes won't stop telling us how beautiful and awesome they are. Well one looks like a horse and the other looks like a pedophile troll, and neither ever says anything interesting. If you like them great, but stop trying to…

Serious question: Outside of thoughts about the NBA, when has Simmons made you look at a topic in a different light?

I'm older than Dunham's target demographic. Even as a younger man I was never a particular "hip" guy. So with those caveats let me declare the hottest of hot takes: I just do not understand what is interesting about Lena Dunham.

I cannot even conceive of the greed necessary to attempt to steal everything your child has. And this goes a step further by stealing everything he has and a lot of stuff he doesn't have yet. Un-fucking-believable.

LeBron is like that kid in college who takes an intro to American Government class, watches a few Ron & Rand Paul speeches on youtube and thinks he's figured out how to clean up Washington, D.C. He really thought just because he was around the Heat's culture for a few years that he was going to be able to duplicate it…

So do you think Lebron regrets leaving Miami? Even though the superstars were getting older (Wade/Bosh), at least they had a strong culture, a good coach that everyone respected, and a team with experience winning games. On paper Cleveland looks great, but in execution... well, we've seen the results so far.

Oh man Minnesota won that trade pretty clearly. They got Wiggins + Bennett on cheap contracts for the next 3 years, plus Miami's first rounder from Cleveland (which they promptly traded to 76ers for 1 year of Thad Young, and could end up a lottery pick).

If this guy is a role model for your son, you fucked up. Even excluding the drugs.

I somewhat agree with you. He's discussed as one of the top young guards in the league—in the class of Curry, Lillard and Wall—when he clearly hasn't earned that. Of the top 50 players in the league, though, probably 25 are point guards right now, so he may be in the top 30 anyway.

He was on a team with absolutely zero talent around him before. So, when everyone saw him not hustling and whatnot, they thought it was just a product of him getting tired of always having to be the man.

Morality play?

"Hot take" has pretty much devolved into, "Opinion I disagree with," hasn't it?

Here's the dirty secret about Kyrie Irving - he isn't actually all that good. He's a solid scorer - slightly above average efficiency, but high volume - who provides exactly nothing else. He doesn't play defense. He can't orchestrate an offense.

I don't know though, because advanced basketball metrics are both less sophisticated/evolved as well as less descriptive of the overall game than advanced baseball metrics are. I think watching the games (Wolves Season Ticket Holder Here) proves that while the advanced stats are definitely changing the game for the…

The key is the 51% shooting. Sure, he's the main option, but unlike Kobe he's doing it efficiently

yeahhhh thats gonna turn into a fight with J.R., or at least locker room poison...very awesome Dan Gilbert and David Griffin are wasting the prime of IMO the greatest of all time with this horrible, completely foreseeable bullshit

Cool opinion. JR Smith isn't going to take bad shots that hurt his teams chance of winning?

JR Smith is to the Cavs what Josh Smith was to the Pistons.

So you're judging his performance on 1 loss? Not his 27 wins? Mariota has 4 times as many losses to his name, but is better?

He comes with less accuracy, less ability to read through progressions, higher chance of getting injured scrambling out of the pocket trying to get first downs and being hit by and NFL linebacker. But good football analysis on your part.