Dipshits, c.2006: “(Black) athletes are role models. They need to start acting like it. smdh”

I can’t believe a corporate entity allowed this to not only air, but to lead off their big, self-congratulatory show piece and wash away the fantasy that sports exist in a compartment separate from the rest of society.

Who better to take advice on taking less shots than Carmelo Anthony?

Bruh bruh:

Bruh:

Hmmm that’s not quite true- in any deep water environment breast stroke is actually far more useful.

Depends how you look at it — some say the Warriors are experts on choking.

The judge assigned to Draymond Green’s case is named Richard Ball. I am not making this up.

Are you really arguing the guy who won 8 gold medals in one Olympics is overrated?

Well, it would be actually kind of refreshing to find out a Warriors player knew how to grab something by the throat.

Like Draymond, the Deadspin commentariat has never been known to shy away from the low-hanging fruit.

Did you know Draymond Green was once suspended for a pattern of hitting people in the dick and balls?

There’s a huge difference in on-ball and off-the-ball fouls for the ball-possessing team, though. The team with the ball can strongly influence the player that has the ball through skill and strategy. If the defense can foul any player on the court, then they gain an advantage in determining the composition of the…

But that’s where I get back to my comparison. The walk is intended as a punishment too. It certainly wasn’t intended to encourage pitchers to not pitch to the other team’s better hitters. Yes, it means a player on first base but the existence of the intentional walk is a clear sign that the intended consequence…

As Tom Ziller pointed out today, the new rule likely doesn’t go far enough. After all, plenty of teams don’t wait until the final two minutes of each quarter to start hacking.

I hear what you’re saying, and generally I agree that it’s a hard to watch strategy that subverts the intended consequence of the rules, but that tends to be true in a lot of sports. In baseball the walk, which was intended as a punishment for pitchers who nibbled at the corners, is now routinely used to avoid tough…

Free throws are meant to reward the team that had the foul committed against it and to punish the team that committed the foul. It is a perversion of the purpose if it is used to punish the team that had the foul committed against it. I mean, I understand the “Well, they should shoot free throws better” and “We…

I don’t think people ever seriously objected on the grounds of the rulebook being sacrosanct, just that it seemed like a rule that seemed to only be designed to help a very small number of players and make them unreasonably effective given their actual abilities. It would be like pushing back the 3 point line just…

A year after winning the 1999 NBA Finals, the Spurs whimpered out of their title defense in the first round to the Phoenix Suns. At that point, David Robinson and Avery Johnson were both 35, and Mario Elie was 37. Their core did not appear to be capable of running it back. Meanwhile, the Lakers and Blazers had…

The Magic came hard.