I’m sad for CC because, as a fellow Plump American, he’s always been one of my people.

Yeah, sure, but also fuck the Yankees. 

“I felt like I was always truthful with him,” he said, “but things change, and therefore, what I said was not the same as what I’d said previously. It is what it is.”

I don’t believe any of this.

Draymond Green’s a dick-and-balls-kicking asshole but he’s also right a lot of the time. For every can’t miss prospect like LeBron or KD or Zion, there’s a dozen guys every year who have the potential to have long, productive careers in the NBA and never get it because they don’t land in a situation that’ll help them…

He’s not wrong. Of course then the Knicks are out here wondering how certain teams keep getting lucky all the time. Truly a mystery. 

Just emailed you

uh.... can you email me about this? kmckinney@deadspin.com 

thank you! And thank you for reading! May I also recommend this: https://deadspin.com/the-siege-and-fall-of-a-hoops-haven-that-made-all-the-w-1838777225

This is an intense and well-written story, the exact type of stuff that nobody but Deadspin is doing.

the pitches are much smaller than in the top leagues

Yeah, but where were they possibly going to find a high school coach in Texas who HASN’T been caught covering up massive sexual assault allegations?

I meant this as a joke, but as I typed it out I remembered that a coach in my hometown hit-and-ran and killed a black mother and her daughter and then only got probation. …

Lebron literally said “it’s tough for all of us”

silver comes off much better than I expected. 

The full exchange between LeBron and Silver:

Yeah, I really don't expect your average (or goat) basketball player to be able to say anything intelligent about China. But it is pretty fucking obvious the NBA is ignoring human rights violations because they have dollar signs in their eyes. Pretty fucking simple. 

This website called Lebron a “cocksucker” ten years ago, walked it back when he was with Cleveland and “woking up” or whatever and, of course, once it became a little tougher to use the word “cocksucker” as an insult (which I’m still not really over because while completely understanding of why it’s wrong it just…

But he didn’t stop at “don’t rock the boat.” Not rocking the boat would’ve been LeBron giving some milquetoasty answer that either vaguely supported free speech or claiming that “it’s a really complex situation so I can’t say but I hope both sides can work out a solution.”

Instead, he went beyond that by specifically…

Perhaps you should look up the meaning of the word colleague.  

Of course a King supports an authoritarian state.