If Lebron thought it was hard to be #1/the face of the league/etc before, imagine how he’s going to feel when the “he should play for free so the Cavs can sign ______” takes start flowing.

Pretty much. There’s no way to e-mail tips directly to The Root writers and I’m not on Twitter. So if I find something of interest to them, I try to send it along in the comments of something relatively current.

The smile will go once the civil suits start pouring in and his fortune starts to go up in smoke.... Gotta remember, lower bar to clear to win a civil suit...

Here is an artist rendition of the defense’s argument

I assumed they know they’re going to get some kind of guilty verdict and are expending all their energy prepping an immediate appeal.

Oh my word THIS

Wow.... The only thing more galling than the fact that the defense thinks so little of this charge that they only spent 6 minutes of court time defending Cosby, is the fact that their dismissiveness might ACTUALLY be warranted. He might actually get aquitted here. And in the unlikely event of a conviction, he is…

In all honesty, does anyone expect the typical rapist defense to be anything BUT “she’s a liar” and/or “she wanted it”?

The best defense is an expensive lawyer.

Damn.

Did the defense rest because they felt really sleepy all of a sudden?

I got a bad feeling about this.

I’m sending out a hearty “fuck you” to each and every party involved here. Hartwell is coming out 1% cleaner than the rest tho, IMO.

On the one hand, I’m against using a child as any kind of pawn in a couple’s petty fighting.

Nah, I won’t even front. This is a look. D-Wade the plug.

How did you notice the track suit next to that ugly ass suit Shaq is wearing?

You know what? The more I see this the more I start to feel like maybe this is the look. Maybe Dwayne is on some new shit we don’t even know about yet.

OK, the tracksuit is bad. But it’s the open chest and gold chains that really make it not work. I like the hair, though. And the sunglasses are amazing. I would murder someone to put those pristine white sneakers into my closet. Come to think of it, I would probably wear those green pants as well, just not with the…

The track suit, hair and gold chains are a gateway drug.