What is a square but the joining of two triangles, my ill-tempered melanotic friend?

I love non-commitment of the kicker. “COULD be the best tasting lettuce and tomato hamburger ever.” Like, we’re not making any promises here, friend, but you never know.

Yeah, but then you already paid for those drinks many times over.

There would have to be some salary matching, as well—my guess is P.J. Tucker and Eric Gordon, who make about $21.5 million between them, or about a million more per year than Butler is paid on his current contract, which expires after next season.

Morey already refused any deal that includes Tucker before adding this haul of picks, so I think Chris is off on that point. Not sure who else they would send along with Gordon to make the salaries work, but I’d be incredibly surprised if it was Tucker.

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.

I have a friend who is one of the professionals approved to conduct the MDMA therapy. She is treating a lot of PTSD, particularly vets, and says that the results are astounding. The only bad part is that, to be approved for treatment, patients have to show that they have tried traditional medications and not gotten…

Must be a flinty crowd.

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…

Not sure if you’re trying to make a joke, or you just don’t get the joke.

I tried to get into making arrowheads, but it made me so tired I always just ended up knapping instead.

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.