I’m glad I’m not the only one who took Barkley’s comments a different way than most people did. I thought he meant that having the cameras focused on him was a bad look, and that it was a bad look for TNT/Turner to capitalize on his grief.

No, you’re the worst.

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This is a reasonable and correct take and has no place in Kinja.

Now if only all black men abused by cops could afford million dollar representation. Or any legitimate representation at all.

I still never understand why Pittsburgh doesn’t ever come up in these talks. City supports every team as well as anyone else and with the state of the art Consol Energy Center being built just a few years ago - it just makes sense for the next step in NBA expansion

Luke Ridnour was inexplicably amazing for me in NBA Live 2005 for Game Cube, and I will always be grateful to him for that.

As I said (as is very nearly the point of the entire article we’re now arguing beneath), J.R. is not a mega-star, and I am not calling him one. I am saying that he has the skills of one, and the mind of a cartoon character, and I’m saying I enjoy that combination. As I went to great lengths to express in the article,…

I think the Pirates have gotten more coverage on Deadspin this week than they got in all non-Pittsburgh media from 1993 to 2010.