This is one of the worst takes I’ve seen on this site.

Are you really comparing James and Davis to Westbrook and PG?

LeBron has been ‘getting old’ since his second season with the Cavs. Last year, he still put up 27/8/8- 5 PPG more than Westbrook on less shots, with an eFG% 10% higher.

Technically, he is right now, at least for a bit.

In order of happiness:

Gasol- Long time coming for a great player.
Lowry- Long time coming for a good player.
VanVleet- On his way to maybe being the 3rd or 4th best undrafted player ever? (Ben Wallace, John Starks, Avery Johnson, VanVleet?
Ibaka- I remember him taking out my Spurs on like an 8-8 shooting night once.
Danny…

The Spurs won 3 of their 5 rings in the heart of the second Lakers dynasty?

The drafted Warriors team was 1-1 in 2 Finals appearances.

LeBron in the 2010's went to 8 Finals and won three rings.

Did this exercise the other day: Dynastic teams in my eyes: Celtics, Lakers, Celtics, Bulls, Spurs, Lakers.

If you give it to the Warriors, then LeBron gets credit as a personal dynasty- 8 consecutive Finals and 3 rings.

Different sites pursue different funding models, but I like The Ringer’s more than most.

now somebody sues, and they say, “Okay, I’m being paid less than a man.”

Here’s the thing: My wife doesn’t have an eating disorder, but she has had gastric bypass surgery. When we go out, she eats, at best 25% of any meal she orders.

My plan is (through necessity at first, more recently through active planning) anti-FIRE. I plan to work until the day I die, but to slowly move toward better and more engaging work as I go.

As such, we are not really focusing on retirement savings, because anything we’d actually need them for is something we’ll never…

So basically another article for people who already possess tremendous resource-based privilege.

Which I get, because the only folks that these ideas are remotely an option for are the top 15% or so.

They don’t need Durant, but they *do* need a fifth starter-level player. If they had a slightly above-replacement level player and better depth instead of Durant’s shadow, this series probably would have been over in 5-6 for Golden State.

It’s tough. Does only a team’s results matter? Or do we adjust for circumstances?

Jordan’s Bulls won their championships in an era with expansion that would make the MLS blush- they added 6 teams between the time Jordan was drafted and he finished his run. They thinned the talent pool by 60 bodies, and the Bulls really…

The key down the road, I think is going to be genre conventions. Sure, there will be different bits of nuance to each game as it rises and falls, but there will be genre conventions specific to FPS, MOBA, Racing, etc that will be easy enough and baked-in enough to be generally accessible.

Further, we’re the first…

Said it above somewhere, but Blizzard missed a chance to create an e-sports league rather than just OWL. Build the teams and whatnot, but don’t limit yourself to one game. Have one game of each genre in the e-sports scene, Olympics-style, and then have promotion / relegation for the games themselves based on…

I don’t understand the demand to make money on a game like HoTS.  It’s an advertisement for all of your properties.  As long as it was coming close to breaking even that should have been good enough.  If it wasn’t, why not scale back rather than Red-Wedding your own property?

That’s why Blizzard should have focused on just creating an e-sports league that *featured* OW rather than being built on it entirely.

The franchises could have supported multiple games each, and you would have kept the same team / city cohesion and continuity, except extending it to Heroes, CoD, OW, etc.

Then, that…

They have run out of whatever vision they had for this series at least 3 years ago.

IW hasn’t had a good release this decade. BLOPS 4 had virtually no new MP content at launch. WW2 was really the only game I spent time with since BLOPS2.

They do need to reorganize to take on the games-as-a-platform titles like Fortnite,…

There will always be people willing to work. The question, as always, is, “Will there be enough jobs that can be done, that pay enough for people to live?”

Do you even listen to yourself? The drivers are the ones fixing the pricing? They literally have no say in the pricing....