Do you like basketball? Did you watch the video? It was pretty cool and, to me, worth paying attention to. Maybe it’s just me, but I find incredible performances by world class athletes fun to watch.

“All you have to do is practice” is a vast oversimplification. It is often times more of a mental issue than a muscle memory issue. Here’s a really interesting analysis of the struggles of some of the NBA’s worst free throw shooters and why it is so difficult to improve: http://www.espn.com/nba/story/_/id/17115866/real…

Wait, I thought these were just covers by Beach House?

In terms of his total contributions, for sure. In terms of straight talent, it’s close between him and peak Brandon Roy. Roy’s run ended too soon, but he was incredible. I had such high hopes for that Roy, Oden, Aldridge, Batum, Fernandez core. Alas.

Who was hating?

It’s Gorgui Dieng, but good joke. It was an even more effective one before Mitchell blew up this season.

That’s really interesting. I was not aware of that.

Crimini! You really summed up the morel of this tale.

They made Parcells wait. He got in, but he waited.

That one’s the best. He’s also the Round Mound of Touchdown and J-Load (his career apex coincided with that of Jennifer Lopez). Lorenzen probably has the all-time highest nickname quality to football success ratio.

The double tap was undoubtedly the most inventive, but he just didn’t get it cleanly. If he had been able to put a little more mustard on the finish to punctuate the very difficult first part, I think he would have won. As is, it just didn’t look all that cool, even though I acknowledge it was awesome.

1%? I’m sure Chris would be THRILLED if he was making 1% of Aldridge or Horford’s pay (~$200-260K). Unfortunatley for him and the other Deadspin bloggers (except for that GLORY BOY Magary), I’m betting it’s more like 1/3 of 1%.

Your proposed solution won’t solve all problems, everywhere, so obviously, it’s not worth pursuing.

Ha. I originally ended my post with “Because you can’t.” It felt a little too dickish and like I was trying to shut down any debate, so I took it out. But, yeah.

You’ll never guess these 10 reasons why people think you’re uninformed on most issues. Number 6 will make you gag . . . click to find out.

The slope is not nearly as slippery as you make it out to be, my friend. We had an assault weapons ban in place for many years and nobody tried to transform that into a campaign to take away everyone’s hunting rifles. Why don’t you just address the reasonable restrictions that are actually being proposed instead of…

Don’t have time to read the whole thread, so apologies if I’m repeating. The one point I wanted to make, and I think it’s an important one, is that it is not the crazy gun owners who drive the NRA’s policies. It is the gun manufacturers. they want it to be as easy as possible to get any sort of gun they want to sell.…

I’d be interested to hear what you consider a successful team building strategy. I hear you saying that they messed up by getting to many good players that are going to be deserving of max contracts. That is pretty counter-intuitive from my point of view.

Hell, the vaunted “process” in Philadelphia is going to earn them a #8 seed, and quick playoff elimination.

This (or something like it) is a good idea and would address what the league sees as the real potential problem: teams engaging in a multi-year tanking “process” a la Philly under Hinkie.