Semi-warm take: he wasn’t touching a max, possibly not even breaking $100 million, before the injury (obvious ‘it only takes one Dolan’ corrolary implied).

CD vs. CIMA is going to be a banger, too. I went back and watched the SCU/Stronghearts six-man again last weekend, and it got a little smothered on the card, but that match kicked ass.

David West played under 20 mpg in San Antonio, and averaged 13 regular-season minutes and 11 playoff minutes per game with the Warriors. You’re implying that plenty of still-impactful vets are going to want to come to LA for the minimum, and that’s how they’ll fill the roster with good role players - yes, I’m 100…

Who are these great veterans that every capped-out team’s fans think are chomping at the bit to sign on at the minimum? It happened once 15 years ago, that team and those vets didn’t even win a title, and now every team with a couple of good, expensive players thinks that scores of Hall of Famers are going to give up…

At least they had those stories up and down the roster, even if the wrestlers and match quality was occasionally or often lacking.

Portland gave $226 million that summer to Leonard, Harkless, Turner, and Crabbe. 

Because “pays the most” =/= “best”

That’s exactly it. As obnoxious and irritating as, say, Celtics and Lakers fans are during the boom periods, there’s a specific parallel here to the way that Silicon Valley worsens American society.

Worrying about Sargent’s development and how he should have been at one tournament or the other is legitimate. Worrying about Sargent’s absence for its impact on wins and losses in the U-20s is insanity.

The Colts went 6-5 outside of the division, with their wins against Washington, Buffalo, Oakland, Miami, Dallas, and the Giants, and got whipped 31-13 in the playoffs when they played an *actual* Super Bowl contender.

What, 4000 words to say “I saw Adama Traore once, and he did a cool dribbling thing, so he’s the best player in the Prem” isn’t your cup of tea?

I think you’ve described the AFC South pretty damn accurately.

Unless Lacob plans on giving back the 2015 trophy, “injuries suck, but they happen to every team, deal with it” will carry the day.

That image of Hendo collapsing into Klopp, both of them in tears, will be etched in my memory forever.

Did you watch the show itself, or just the freely-available pre-show? Because I’ll give you that the Battle Royal was mostly garbage, as those things tend to be, and Guevara/Sabian was nothing special. But if you watched the main card, I’m curious who/what you thought was “bush league” compared to WWE and why.

While DoN was a better “spectacle,” and no other match on either show could touch the sheer wrestling pathos of Cody vs. Dustin, NXT still came right back and put on a better, more consistent card than AEW’s just a week later.

Funny coincidence, that.

He’s not wired to be an intuitive passer, but part of his pounding the ball and burrowing one or two steps deeper into double teams or a packed lane is that it collapses the defense that little bit more - which then *does* open up the passing lanes wide and clear enough for Kawhi to find his teammates before the…

Maybe they bought it at the Big Lots by Franklin Mills?