Sorry.  The Zach Lavine contract exists, and I think it has to be factored in.  Bacon wins (like always; its delicious).

He seemed bizarrely lackadaisical about take-down defense, even. Didn’t bother keeping proper distance, and stood straight up.

I’m nothing like an expert, and will probably get shouted down, but hey, why not.  I think he was better a few pounds of muscle ago.  Smooth, fast, and his left hand was really electric.  So if - and with Khabib it is really an if - he clipped him, not even with a perfect shot, he could put him down.  But muscled up…

I don’t want to be here either!

Say what you want about Rogan, but he has waxed philosophical about honor and fighting and sportsmanship in defeat for some time. Not sure how “faux” his outrage was.

Enjoy the ethicity section. Sample size: bigly yyyyyyuge (undoubtedly using your parlance).

You can if you want. Knock yourself out. I’m not unaware of them. However, anybody in good faith would admit that maximal athletic performance is a whole lot easier to measure and understand than academic “success,” and also far less vulnerable to subjective analysis that has often worked to the disadvantage not only…

It’s a reference to a movie. Why so angry?

It certainly can be, and some players use it. Including Federer. But it is almost always controversial. I’d have thought Pavlyuchenkova could do more with that ball, however.

I thought I liked this move, just to shake the league up a bit. But now that I see him in that Lakers jersey I don’t like it at all.

Possibly hot-by-virtue-of-being-lukewarm taek: Butler created this mess, not the Wolves. Had he quietly sought a trade around the draft they could have moved him far easier for something worth getting. Now the Wolves are dealing from a position of extreme weakness, and it makes sense for them to sit on it for a bit…

It must be terrible to be a shy guy and now have the world talking about your weird laugh.  No matter how famous.

It’s a joke, playing on Kavanaugh and countless other rapists, as apologized for by others.

Nothing about the Kawhi situation was smooth.  At the end of the day, S.A. was lucky to find a partner willing to take a chance on the trade.

Thibs is rightly credited for his defensive work, first as an assistant coach on Boston’s championship team in 2008, then as a head coach for the Bulls. Here’s some choice old Zach Lowe on defensive changes in the NBA, which Thibs did not “invent,” but perfected. http://grantland.com/features/packing-paint-nba-defensiv…

Shitty move.

I think he’s beat this time.  May as well go down talking.

Can we have a bit on the “science,” and how it is so definitive.

I didn’t like the way he turned the team around and had by far the best on-off numbers in Minnesota since Garnett anyways!

Bravo.