...where both Bo Ryan and Bruce Pearl cut their teeth.

Panda would’ve swung at it. Vlad would’ve hit it.

This is a nutty story to me because Grimes IS ALSO a producer. Like, they’re not only being coercive and shitty, they’re refusing to see her as a peer.

Grimes is also self-produced and an all around indie act. I love her music.

everything

I hate this tweet so much

Does your sister believe in karma? Because I’m afraid she’s in for a lot of it.

it helps build the illusion (delusion) that you yourself aren’t far from celebrity status and all it implies, and also that these people could be your friends.

Buddy. The actual line in the article is, “He was almost as good at his best as Tracy McGrady was at his.” Nobody is arguing Tracy McGrady was “greater” than Kobe or had a better career; I just made the very simple empirical observation that Tracy McGrady’s best surpassed Kobe’s best. It’s not actually a controversial…

I’ll let others argue the numbers but as to eye test on that I do agree. Peak TMAC made the game look as easy and smooth as anyone who ever lived. Meanwhile Kobe’s insecurity always showed in that he made everyone notice at all times how hard he worked.

Please tell me you’re just trolling

Damn, lots of misinformed people in this thread. Dude was a very good player but he isn’t top 20 in either playoff or career PER. Dude barely cracks the top-200 for true shooting percentage and is a casual 53rd in win shares per 48 minutes.

What? Everything in the NBA, and all team sports, is measured on a season-over-season basis. Champions are crowned by the season. MVPs are crowned by the season. All-NBA honors are given out by the season. Seasons are how performance is measured. If you want to figure out whether some unbound, 82-game stretch of…

Uh, that’s exactly what a peak is. That is literally what that word means.

Is that what “peak” means? The highest point achieved?

But actually, nah. McGrady’s age-23 season, 2002-03, surpasses any single season of Kobe’s career by most metrics that aren’t dumb per-game averages. PER, WS, WS/48, BPM, VORP, and so forth all say it was a higher peak than Kobe ever reached.

McGrady’s 02-03 season (his “peak”) was a better single season than any season Kobe had, at least according to the all-in-one metrics (PER, BPM, Win Shares).

I’m not sure he’s a top-20 all-time player, at all. Without bothering to list it out at this exact moment, I’d estimate I can probably think of at least 20 players who belong ahead of him.

Sure. He was better, at his peak, than Kobe was. Does that make sense?