He’s actually the “right” kind of immigrant, so he’ll be fine. He’s from one of those places like Norway, not some “shithole” country full of brown people.

In addition to the delay issue, review of technical fouls, which are pretty subjective, would be really problematic. In this instance, it could have helped but not often.

What the hell would you have had Silver do? What the Warriors did was completely within the rules. Stern was able to veto the Paul trade only because of the strange situation whereby the NBA was acting as the owner of the NO franchise. No amount of “ball weight” would have allowed Silver to stop the KD signing. The…

Parallel bars would have been better, but this is very good.

It’s a fun thought exercise. I think Bulls would have to change their game more to compete. The math of the three pointer is just pretty hard to overcome and is something the teams of the Jordan Bulls era were just not designed to take full advantage of.

a $30 million check from some Las Vegas whale

Read up on the gather step. I’m not saying NBA refs don’t miss plenty of travelling calls. They do. But 80% of the plays people complain about travelling are pretty obviously legal plays if you understand the gather step.

I think Kerr’s position on this question is the correct one: Under the rules in place while the Bulls were winning championships, they’d top the Warriors. Under the current rules, Warriors would win. 

No doubt. However, I think that has more to do with the structure of the respective games, as opposed to the levels of parity in each league. Lower scoring games like hockey lead to much higher variance and the possibility of more upsets. Some would say the fact that, in the NBA, one of the best 2-3 teams almost…

I mean, they were down 3-2 in the conference finals last year. Agree that the finals were a dud given that the Kyrie-less Cavs had about a 4% chance of winning, but the playoffs were not without suspense.

It’s not charity. This is a $10K advertising/content generating expense. Good for the folks who got to split the money, but it wasn’t a charitable gift.

Why would you assume that the numeral 2 would be the phonetic replacement for “to” but not “too”? The relationship is how the words sound, and “two” sounds no more like “to” than it does “too.” The context of the surrounding words makes clear that “2” is meant to replace “too.” If you’re going to be a jerk, at least…

Aha. Your point number 2 clears it up. Thanks.

Why call this dude a goober? Seems like he was genuinely overcome with excitement and tried to take advantage of the moment to get some high fives from the players. He didn’t get sour at all when the coach shooed him away, just went right on celebrating.

I’m pretty sure that big t-shirt wasn’t his, but was given him to wear for the shot. It says “big shot jackpot” on the back and the logo of Aria, the company that sponsors the promotion, on the front. They probably purposefully gave him a larger size so that it would fit over the clothes he was wearing. So maybe we…

It wasn’t just “pundits.” It was the majority of professional basketball talent evaluators.

It’s already happening in basketball.

I wouldn’t say he’s evil, but hoarding a billion dollars is absolutely, inherently immoral. When so many want for so much, how could it not be?

I grasp only at the truth. If you told someone you were bringing sandwiches to a picnic and showed up with hot dogs, 99% of people would ask you why you brought hot dogs instead of sandwiches. And would think you an absolute tool if you said that you did in fact bring sandwiches. This is because, as I said, a hot dog…