Classic. Averages a shade under 130 all purpose yards a game, but he sucks because he wants more money and he doesn't praaaaactice. 

Yeah, this is very true. I mean...I don’t think it’s the end of guys like Marshawn Lynch, really. I just think it means that the next Marshawn Lynch type of guy needs to be able to catch passes as well.

I mean, to be fair, he did have Sammy Watkins and Robert Woods as well, and while neither of them could make a claim to being the best receiver in the league, they were productive enough that having them outside presented enough of a threat that Gurley could still benefit from them being around.

We’re basically exiting the age where you could excuse someone like Adrian Peterson doing exactly dick all in the passing game and having to stick someone like Chester Taylor in the game whenever you were in a passing situation because he was so next level good at running the ball. Fairly or unfairly, being godly at…

The only thing video review should be allowed for is plane-crossing verification. Did the ball/puck cross the plane of the goal line? Did the receiver’s foot go out of bounds? Because its simple! Either it did, or it didn’t. Unlike with making judgement calls on whether LeBron is planted or a catch is a catch. Ugh.…

I was in favor of replay for years, but it’s absolutely ruined shit. I don’t think replay’s going anywhere (fans are not going to tolerate, for example, what was obviously not a goal in the Stanley Cup Finals being mistakenly called a goal with no mechanism to overturn it) but there need to be major changes to stop…

Also fuck charges.

What if officials are required to review plays at full speed? Seems like it would let them catch glaring errors with the addition of multiple angles, but would still force them to interpret the play the way it actually occurs.

I live there now too and you know every single one of those shit talking front-runners have a Kobe jersey hanging in in the back of their closet from 10 years ago.

Replay in itself is not an awful thing. A means to correct glaring, obvious mistakes is in theory a useful tool. The problem with replay in the NBA/NFL/Whatever is that they’ve gone down the rabbit hole of trying to make sure a call is 100% right instead of just correcting an egregiously obvious mistake. We don’t need…

I lived in SF from 2011 to 2016. The number of people I encountered (friends of friends at parties, coworkers, etc.) who were “HUGE Giants fans” went from about 40% from 2011-2015 (still a big number for a city that has a ton of transplants) to about 4% in 2016. Funny how that works.

No shit. My best friend lives out there. He “only follows the Warriors” right now. A few years ago, when they were going to conference title games, he “only followed” the Niners. When the Giants were going to Worlds Series, guess who he “only followed”?

What? In basketball, a player is absolutely allowed to plant himself in the path of a player driving to the basket, so long as he does so before the player starts his upward shooting motion. It’s the driving player’s responsibility to avoid contacting the player, again, unless he has already started his upward…

Also Draymond clearly committed a lane violation on Hill’s 2nd free throw...

Bay Area sports fans are the most shameless frontrunners on the planet.

...that’s a different sport

Given the level of incompetence here, I’m surprised they didn’t retroactively call defensive three seconds on LeBron because he was standing there for so long in the slow motion replay.

The issue is not whether Lebron was there before Durant. As you said, Lebron was clearly there first. The question is whether or not Lebron established himself before Durant started his shooting motion. That’s less obvious and I honestly can’t decide which way this should have gone. In which case it should have stuck…

Durant traveled anyway.

Look, I live in the Bay Area, and all I know is that, this morning, there are people in my office somehow claiming that Lebron James is not really that good and that the refs were helping keep the Cavs in the game.