“Was I totally misinformed about this” yes.

I can see how it can be read that way based on the first sentence, so perhaps I should have substituted “suburban” for “white.” Where I play is a mix of different backgrounds and I wasn’t trying to infer any one race of people were a certain way.

Fairly obvious from this post that you play pick-up at the whitest courts ever.

So I’m not sure I understand what the problem was with you calling that shot a two. Why were both teams mad at you for watching the toes and making the call? Isn’t that what you are supposed to do? How the hell is anyone supposed to know what is a two and a three if no one is “toe watching” as you call it. I take…

Jump ball? In a pickup game?

Whoa whoa whoa, I’m all for jingoism, but that’s a Fox Sports+Skip Bayless level lede right there. There’s ten other dudes on the pitch, yeah? Presumably paid a lot of money? Just as vested as Messi in whether the team wins or loses?

Seriously, if I had a buddy I was close enough to to share bills, I’d totally live with them forever. I mean, that’s what the ideal of marriage is, right? Buddies who live together, share costs, and also bone.

Don’t you have an all-star ballot to make a mockery of?

The rest of the country has already forgotten that KC even won the World Series last year. You are not important enough to hate.

I love baseball.

I regularly forget the Royals exist.

I’m a lifelong Mets fan and I don’t even hate the Royals or their fans. I don’t mean to come off as a dick, but you guys are so far under the radar it’s gonna take a lot more than a WS title to make anyone have second thoughts about Kansas City. Honestly, I still don’t know what state you are in.

Also, sprints are probably the most fun exercise to do naked.

Rings never were not a stupid way to measure greatness. Robert Horry has seven of them. Was he greater than Wilt Chamberlain?

“Not even close”

Steals are a trash way of measuring defense. Larry Hughes led the NBA in steals—not because he was a good defender, but because he was a terrible one who hunted for steals at the expense of giving up easy backdoor cuts and drives to the basket.

3 years in prison for trolling??

No idea what he’s trying to say or why, but a quick count says that since ‘47 there have been, including this year, 18 NBA Finals that went to Game 7. (26 finished in 6, 17 in 5, and eight sweeps.)

Nominee?? How about all-time champion. That girl owns Curry’s dumb kid.

Not making that assumption seems ridiculous for this case, but making the assumption and charging someone just based on circumstantial evidence is what gets innocent people locked away for decades.

You can raise a family on 100K yearly income. Does that mean you shouldn’t want more if you’re worth 300K per year? This argument is the stupidest argument in these situations yet it still gets thrown around like crazy.