Land of the Living Skies? I thought Aussies were more “Land of the Poisonous Everything”

If he turns out any good, when it’s time to scrimmage at practice he can try to get matchups with PG and shout “cranberry sauce” every time he gets the better of him

I wonder if it’s a coincidence that the NBA is also the league where a single player can have the greatest impact on a team’s success. 

Those industries are not cartels, so in theory you could just elect not to take a position requiring non-compete clauses.

You know, I’m getting realllly tired of the racism on this website. Always reducing people of colour to objects and attributing their successes to their bodies alone - sure the assist goes to Demarcus Cousins’ skull here, but I bet if it had happened to Marc Gasol or Nikola Jokic you’d call it a “heady play.”

Can you completely excise emotion from it though?

“I think this is the only way for me to determine what all the problems are.”

You can’t have the incentive to tank creeping into playoff seeding.

Moore wasn’t turtling though, he didn’t have any idea that he even had to (and also, I would imagine the damage of that attack was at least in part from falling to the ice and being under a dogpile). We was utterly defenseless when Bertuzzi hit him.

Oh, I’m aware of tomatoface - I just never realize that’s the idiot I’m responding to until later

I, uh... okay?

This isn’t the kind of thing the government is going to get involved in. We don’t have players being Bertuzzi’d (ie. where the authorities will get involved) at any kind of significant frequency.

Turtle. It’s a weird place the sport is in right now, eh? You can still have these incidents which are basically one-sided assaults but two fighting majors are handed out in order to avoid giving out a 5 minute powerplay, but more and more (still not enough) the league is acting to discourage fighting and hits to the…

Ugh, I was coming down to comment about how Actually, This is Cool and vigilante justice and all that but you can go fuck yourself pal.

Ehhh, they do a “good” job of controlling it compared to the NHL but they allow it in junior as well (unless there’s been a rule change this year that I missed)

Kind of agree with your barely-concealed shot at the writers but in fairness aside from last year with Cousins (Mirotic was a good pick up too) the media has correctly labeled the Pelicans attempt to build a team around AD a miserable failure.

Yeah. Plus they’re already in line for a top ten pick, and rising. Maybe keep AD on a minutes limit - five, ten per game?

Yeah this is probably not the kind of dressing room you want to bring a puncher into. 

Ray Ratto is a Bay Area vagrant of minimal consequence.

I legit LOL’d going back to read that comment again, but for reasons understood only by me and MLB HOF voters, I have removed by star from it.