"Hot take" has pretty much devolved into, "Opinion I disagree with," hasn't it?

There were guys not even crossing half court to get back on transition D.

I wish we could give him more time, but this looks like a Blatt issue. For example:

Actually... the dirty little secret about Kyrie Irving is that he moonlights as an older gentleman on the playgrounds, not as has been shown in Pepsi commercials to "school" other pick up players, but instead in hopes of attracting mature, well-red women capable of citing Keats from memory. Also, he collects…

Irving has Westbrook ball hogging skills and thats all

Congratulations, you've memorized the Hot Take Bible on Kyrie Irving.

Here's the dirty secret about Kyrie Irving - he isn't actually all that good. He's a solid scorer - slightly above average efficiency, but high volume - who provides exactly nothing else. He doesn't play defense. He can't orchestrate an offense.

Just a couple of weeks ago you guys were saying LeBron can't finish at the rim, and now you're expecting him to help the Cavs come from behind? Jesus, Deadspin has already gone to shit post-Craggs.

It doesn't matter if he comes back or not, Peyton Manning is done. That was legit hard to watch.

Genuine.

Pictured: A better playoff quarterback than Andy Dalton

The teams very good, just needs the most important position in football, a QB. Unfortunately, signing the QB you have to a +$100 million deal doesn't exactly help 'build' your franchise, when the position you need the most is also taking up a large chunk of the salary cap. Thats an organizational fail.

Kobe also held court after the game on why US players are much less fundamentally solid than their European peers (including himself as a Europe-trained player, and describing some ways he thinks it improved his fundamentals). He cites the Spurs and Gasol brothers as examples, and places the blame for the U.S.'…

I am so happy they are getting the crappiest game of the weekend.

I almost closed this post with the impression that Lin is an idiot despite being a Harvard graduate and a pretty smart ball player. This story should be edited with this Vine or a clip from the interview this Vine pulls from.

Isn't involuntarily shitting your pants a symptom of pretty significant head trauma associated with concussion-like symptoms? I read an article about how this is a thing football players taking huge hits to their head do (maybe even on deadspin itself). So while we can laugh at him for shitting himself, this may…

Why is everybody acting like Scott was in the wrong? They are tanking.

Byron Scott showed Andy Reid-level clock management here.

Grant, Sherman, Buckeyes: Alabama continues a tradition of losing to guys from Ohio.