The issue though is Abbot isn’t fired. ESPN is paying his contract still. If Abbot wanted to right for Deadspin he’d have to negotiate a buyout. I’m not sure how much Deadspin would pay for that work but Abbot has 2 years left on his contract (according to Jim Miller) so I doubt it makes financial sense for anyone…

How is it a Kleptocracy? A handful of guys who would be paid more if their salaries weren’t artificially depressed will now be able to make money closer to what their actual value is.

This doesn’t help Chris Paul as he is already played over 9 years in the NBA (there was a different provision that helped Chris Paul specifically). If anything it hurts Paul a bit since it allows a few teams to use more cap space on certain players and thus have less cap space for other players.

This is in reaction to Kevin Durant leaving and fixing similar discrepancies in the old CBA. Rookie deals are 4 years and then teams can sign players to a new 4 or 5 year deal. That gives the player 8-9 years of NBA experience. A player with 8-9 years of experience can sign a new deal for 30% of the salary cap.…

Tom Ley going to write a counter take (http://deadspin.com/5948944/lets-admire-miguel-cabreras-triple-crown-before-we-put-the-triple-crown-in-the-dustbin-of-history)?

This is incorrect. D-League salaries are kept down because NBA teams only have 15 roster spots and there is no alternative way for NBA teams to maintain rights to the players. It’s a league mandated system that keeps costs down by preventing teams from investing in non-NBA ready players in a logical way. If an NBA…

One thing I’d add to the other reasons given is that it can be beneficial for the politicians of either country to inflame the issue for political gain. There’s a lot of animosity towards Japan from Korea and China and a strong sense of nationalism in Japan. By mentioning the issue, a politician can gain support…

That happened more than I would have thought in that game. I remember frequenting a message board for that game and there would regularly be people making that mistake.

One of the announcers said that the rule for the game (since it’s an exhibition game) was that field goals were not supposed to be rushed so probably why the offensive line wasn’t moving.

You’re reading the data wrong. Barry being so high on that list strongly supports the argument that shooting underhand is the superior method. While I don’t think that very specific subset of data is applicable to the argument at at hand*, let’s assume that this data set is relevant. The reason this is news is because…

It’s common in the NBA to charge money for open tryouts for D League affiliates. There was story earlier this year about Jonathan Simmons on the Spurs borrowing the money for the tryout. Also heard an ex Phoenix employee on an ESPN podcast saying they would charge and run the guys through a lot of sprints early in…

No. There’s still a limit on number of years and max salary a player can sign for (still 35% of the cap from what I’ve heard). Under the old deal, Giannis could either sign a 3 year extension or wait to become a free agent and sign a 5 year deal with his current team or a 4 year deal with a new team. Under the new…

I don’t think Lebron and Durant are the best examples of superstars who will benefit from this CBA. Durant signed a one year contract because the cap will go up next year and because he’ll reach his 10th year in the league and be eligible for a larger % of the cap. The new CBA appears not to have helped him as the…

To add to what others have been saying, Puerto Rico went from being treated under the international rules to being part of the amateur draft. Last I read about it (years ago) it was blamed for a decline in number and quality of MLB prospects from Puerto Rico.

Thank you for writing this. When I saw her name surface I was in disbelief. Had to google to make sure that this was the same woman that you had written about in your articles on Kevin Johnson. Stunned that she would be considered. Confused that the some larger media outlets that mention her don’t mention her scandals.

The article doesn’t excerpt this part of Kerr’s quote. When I saw this on r/nba the top comment notes that Kerr also said:

1.) Think the aliens already know it since they experience time differently. I don’t think it’s going through the motions though. They’re going down this path because they have to (no free will) or perhaps this is the optimal path to get the result they want (humanity uniting and understanding heptapod language).

Abbot was dieing as a result of the explosion.

When I heard this I thought of an excerpt from an audiobook (can’t recall the title right now) that discussed how illiterate people struggled with certain types of logic. Learning to read—at least according to that book and this article (http://users.humboldt.edu/jwpowell/illiterates.htm) shapes how people think.…

The city built the Wizards a practice facility. A $55 million dollar practice facility (https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/digger/wp/2016/07/28/before-construction-can-begin-cost-of-wizards-practice-facility-rises-10-million/)! He still wants more! That’s pretty depraved.