They weren’t “bad” until the Jrue Holiday trade (which everyone recognizes as the beginning of the process). Prior to that, they were a projected middle to upper tier Eastern conference team. If Andrew Bynum had just turned out to be a league average center they probably would have been the 2nd or 3rd best team in the…

NBA salary cap rules just don’t allow them to have all of that at the same time. Embiid is on a max deal, Simmons is going to get his max deal in the ‘19-20 season sometime, the Sixers are going to have to give Butler a supermax if they want to keep him, and Harris probably commands a max deal on the open market. I…

I get that Bogut and Livingston are shells of their former selves and Iguodala all of a sudden can’t make a free throw, but even if KD didn’t come back at all for the playoffs, the Warriors would still be the favorites, right? Curry and Klay are still in their primes, Draymond found his game again, there’s an argument…

I might be getting too caught up in the most recent series (where nothing really worked for the Celtics), but Tatum looked like the second coming of Shabazz Muhammad. 

Seriously. The “circle game” has been dead for about 20 years and they’re trying to convince us like “Oh yeah, we all just totally decided to randomly start playing it again at the same time and also we don’t really know what the rules of the game are”. Especially these high school kids who weren’t even alive when the…

Has the punching game actually been a thing for some people? I remember playing it in elementary school back in like 1997, then I never heard about it again until this recent 4chan nonsense.

Miller and Webber both announce like it’s only the 3rd time they’ve ever watched a basketball game. I wonder if the networks have been telling them to dumb it down for casual fans and they’re just taking it to the extreme? Idk, I think they’re both incredibly painful to listen to. 

I’ve only seen her run at the Olympics, but it was pretty clear she was sandbagging the last 50m or so of the 800 so that she wouldn’t break the world record.

But the ruling is really odd no matter how you slice it. There’s still some races she can compete in without taking hormones because apparently testosterone…

Deadspin omits that information because it’s entirely speculation

I’d imagine like most other 70+ year old white dudes, the last time Trump cared about pro basketball was when Bill Walton was playing for Portland.

When it’s pointed out to those people that this was policy in 2017 until Trump himself cancelled it, I wonder how they’ll rebut it? Will they deny it outright as “fake news” or will they go with something like “that was a horrible deal back then, this is a good deal now”?

All this nonsense is so stupidly predictable.

His injury was 19 months ago though. I thought Paul George’s break looked much worse, and at this point in his rehab he was dropping 30 ppg in the playoffs. Is it just a mental thing that some dudes have and some dudes don’t?

Kyrie’s struggles have really made people not notice that Boston has a guy making 31 million dollars this year that’s getting beat by Nikola Mirotic and Sterling Brown on a consistent basis. I looked up the box score after this game and was shocked that he played 27 minutes. That guy was invisible except when his…

Kemba, I’m guessing? Although I’m not sure of a time where there was someone on the Hornets who was better than him, so maybe that’s wrong. 

No matter how good the games have been, I can’t get invested in this series. I mean, who cares who wins? Both of these teams lose to Golden State in 5. 

After that awful stretch with Kornheiser in the booth, I’ll pretty much accept anyone that MNF puts on there now. 

Statistically, Ha Ha Clinton-Dix is a better player than Sean Taylor was. And there’s a very good chance that HHCD will be out of the league before he turns 30. 

He didn’t even need to serve food in the first place. Having a meal at the White House was never part of the championship winner’s visit before Trump. It was just a tour and a photo op. I guess his brain is just hardwired that he needs to think about fast food every 2 hours and some reporter caught him during that…

I don’t get the dichotomy with TV shows vs movies with spoilers though. Sure, Game of Thrones is broadcast at the same time nationwide and there isn’t limited seating, but some people work nights or are out of the house on Sundays for whatever reason. I’ve never watched more than 3 or 4 episodes of Game of Thrones,…

I don’t understand where players learned all this complaining. I only played AAU and high school ball, and it was taught at an early age that you never spoke to the refs. If you wanted to complain, you might passive-aggressively say something to your coach or a teammate loud enough that the ref could hear. But if you…