For me, there is a clear before and after with losing to the Warriors in 2015 while being just great and playing the ugliest, most necessary style possible. That was obviously underscored the next year. Being an underdog helps, but those two finals performances are each works of art, and totally different. What a…

You have to balance that against the possibility that you can write an article that makes people offended online and therefore has a high return rate in the form of clicks.

Not sure we had to trek down the Jordan vs. LeBron path again, but the three does essentially make it a moot issue.

TNT guys suggest it was clean since it was below the rim. I’m not real familiar with the rule. I’m sure someone will post it.

I can’t really understand what the hell his Wikipedia page is attempting to communicate in the whole “may have had a guy murdered” section, but he may have had a guy murdered.

I cannot believe the industry that has built up around the draft. The draft itself: pretty fun (though not really worth watching after day 1, IMHO). The FOX-news 24 hour cycle of coverage leading up to it: all noise, no signal, and at least for this potential viewer of sports things, not even entertaining.

People have gotten really hung up on the lack of Towns and others taking Harden and Paul into the post, and I can understand why. But the fact is getting a switch and playing isolation basketball hoping for a post advantahe is a pyrrhic victory. Numbers suggest the people score less than 1 point per possession on both…

I just murdered a mango. And felt bad. Thank you.

JUST KEEP MOVING THAT SCREEN WILL WORK EVENTUALLY DON’T WORRY REFS NO NEED TO CALL IT.

IMO, depending on the team around him, he is as valuable as any center in basketball other than Davis and potentially Embiid. Gobbling up an entire interior by oneself is extremely valuable, more valuable even than what Towns, Cousins and Jokic have on offer offensively. As good as those guys are, their production on…

Everybody turns into WASP Vince Lombardi when they make that point. It just happens. Can’t be helped. And WASP Vince Lombardi really wants to emphasis TEAM.

Rubio winning the war (yeah, it’s over) by baiting Westbrook into four first-half fouls is basically perfect.

Well then.

This is a strange moment to be upset.

The only place I could even think to start is Pete and Roger on grass, where they have a 90% and 89.2% winning percentage at Wimbledon, respectively. That may miss some five setters on that surface, but not many. In any event, Rafa is at 98% by your accounting. That 8% gap between Rafa and those greats on their most…

I used to let my ego get tied up in my preferred athletes, or whatever that mechanism is that makes one dislike a rival. But I just don’t now. It freed me up to appreciate Rafa around 2013, when he had his first extremely impressive comeback. The dude is a maniac, and there is really nothing like him on Clay.

Fed is the GOAT, but tennis has never seen anything like Rafa on clay.

In watched it a bunch. I don’t think he traveled.

From one sufferer to another, this sucks. But I mean, it was obvious as all hell that getting the 8th seed was an empty “victory” this year. The Rockets have clowned the Wolves for almost every minute of every game the two teams have played this season. Finally in game one things did not go that way, and they failed…

42? 42.