That was the main factor, but they could have put together a 35-40 win team. As it stands, a team that had averaged about 55-60 wins went down to 20(!), and in the process GM Pop made himself Coach Pop and they got the right ping-pong ball (Duncan) in a draft that had barely any other talent (Chauncey Billups at #3…

I remember as a kid back in the 80s —- the 1980s, not the 1880s, that the game seemed to inherently count (and there was actual animosity/competition between the AL and NL) because there was no interleague stuff. Not to criticize those vital September Tampa Bay vs. Colorado match-ups, but a lesson on unintended…

I look for him to be playing shooting guard by the time his third year with Thibs is over.. not as expression of his evolving skills, but because he’ll be six inches shorter from having been worn down.

On the 1-10 Hardaway Scale for crossovers, this post is a 2.

Richard Sherman has less of a leg to stand on* than the kicker he obliterated and then smirked about.

The Spurs also tanked to get him, and had a team with Avery Johnson, Sean Elliott, and David Robinson already in place. I was at a Spurs/Rockets tank-season game. They started a fat Cadillac Anderson at center.

Oh, that’s precious.

I’ll bet their ratings went from the population of Grand Rapids, MI to the population of Lubbock, TX! Good on their now-irrelevant ass!

On the issue of individual decrepitude, that sort of pantomiming really cuts like a knife.

Folks: when you sarcastically/sardonically respond to Univision Deportes’ daily entreaty to share with them “something [they] should know,” please keep the rest of us in mind.

Alls I know is that the cover of the magazine should just be a tombstone that says “Meritocracy” and a mischievous Sam Hinkie peeing on it like a cartoon Calvin does on a Ford/Chevy logo.

(gets championship ring in pregame ceremony) (whistles for member of entourage) (peels off $100s to pay for ring) (whisper whisper) “I didn’t even know I was on this team, my bad”

I implicitly abandoned the idea in the body of the comment, now you’re just piling on and being morbid in talking about his death, which may or may not occur given the availability of medical nanobots in the year 2070

On the one hand, we can restore transparency and a modicum of faith that we’re not a football-mad hypocrisy factory that treats women as second-class citizens. On the other hand..

I have no idea what the fuck you call people in Milwaukee, or why you have pro teams for that matter.

Nobody loathes Adam Sandler above me, but a sound drop of his swarthy Mediterranean character saying “You like-a the juice?” or “The juice is good!” every time Giannis scores would not be unwelcome. Also, try to make Giannis’s nickname “The Juice.” You know, this is more bother than it’s worth, you’d probably have to…

(gets to half court) (steps through magical barrier) (emerges in short-shorts and knee-socks, takes pass from John Battle, drives to the hole for two)

The best way to D up Jason Terry is by shouting YOUR SOCIAL SECURITY CHECK WILL BE LATE THIS MONTH as he goes up for a shot.

“Shit, that guy sounds like a world-beater” — Charlie Strong

♫ Knight’s a mite maddened