It’s a REALLY tight race between Brad, Casey, and Mike Dan Tony. I’d probably lean towards Casey right now for leading the conference by overhauling the team’s offense with the same main personnel.

Ooof. I hope this joke gets the adult, consensual love it deserves.

At least they’ve got those two mostly healthy - the actual least-talented team I’ve ever seen was the lockout Hornets. Eric Gordon was their only competent player, and he played nine of 66 games. Take a look at that roster sometime if you want a good laugh.

Pretty much. Brogdon is fine as a role-player bench guard, but is he any better than like 50 other similar, interchangeable players? Here are the guys still on the roster averaging more than 14 mpg this season: Giannis, Middleton, Bledsoe, Brogdon. Then Snell, Henson, Parker, Delly, Maker, The Worse Zeller, Sterling…

That’s exactly where I was. I also expected them to be giving big minutes to a teenage rookie PG (in addition to the 21-year-old rookie PG who is basically running the team), and assumed that even if Fultz’ season hadn’t gone to shit, that he wasn’t going to be a plus player this year anyway. Assuming a max of 55-60…

Their role players are TERRIBLE, and Parker is basically mid-career Jeff Green. Aside from stars teaming up, Middleton is as good a third option as there is, but there’s nothing beyond their top three. Henson? Snell? Brandon fucking Jennings?

The anthem itself is politics in sports.

Sage Steele is a Kings cheerleader?

If Dwight Howard plays like an All-Pro, then he’s wandered into the wrong sport as some sort of unfunny bit.

He was fun to watch, but “hell of a player” is a bit of a stretch - though he won Canadian League MVP last season. At best, he was topping out as a Boris Diaw type.

I’m no doctor, so I won’t begin to comment on whether he should be wrestling again, or how likely he is to end up paralyzed - his long-term health should OBVIOUSLY be the most important factor here. But selfishly, tears are starting to well up in my eyes thinking that I might get to watch him in the ring again.…

He will be anyway, right? With Boston falling off the pace, Casey and D’Antoni are really the two viable candidates this year.

I’m not sure he knows the meaning of the word “exhibit,” either.

Karius has only started 11 Prem matches - that’s why the xG and conceded are so low. If they had added Karius and Mignolet together, it’d be a different story.

Despite featuring many of the same guys, this year’s team plays a wholly different style than the past several years - DeRozan and Valanciunas have both modernized their games significantly, and Casey’s new offense looks almost nothing like the sets that had been easily defended in previous Aprils/Mays. Also, they’ve…

No contender wanted to sign Arrieta for ace money this winter. You think in three months teams will be knocking down Klentak’s door to give top prospects for a 32-year-old with declining velocity, peripherals, and back-of-Topps-card stats, two-plus years removed from the only season he ever fit the “ace” descriptor?

Crazy, right? But he’s actually turned himself into a pretty reliable bullpen guy, throwing 180 innings with a 2.74 ERA/3.25 FIP and 10+ K/9 from 2014-16 before dipping a little last year working his way back from TJ.

MVP voting is directionally-correct most of the time, in the same way that only looking at any one piece of a player’s resume is directionally correct most of the time. Looking at the MVP, or top scorer, or PER leader, or WS/48 leader, won’t tell you definitively who the best player was, but the leaderboards will give…

You are not wrong. Everyone else is crazyballs.