Agreed. But it’s still ok to hate Bill Simmons.

Except he would have called Cleveland a shithole. Which is uncool. I have friends in Cleveland. Screw you, imaginary Trump!

Put Steve Bannon In Charge of Deadspin, Cowards 

If you guys don’t hire Steve Bannon, then you clearly don’t know what you’re doing.

Kerr’s a funny dude too. During a road trip in Portland (when he wasn’t back on the sidelines) he and some of the players took an Uber to his favorite restaurant. Kerr had his hoodie up. The players got the driver to agree that Walton should be the coach and he was so much better that Kerr. At the end of the ride Kerr…

“If you package that irrational nonsense with glitter and some ribbon, people are going to watch...”

The NBA thrives in part because we get caught up in the off the court drama of it’s players. It’s a feature, not a bug. Kerr knows this, he played in the Jordan/Barkley/Iverson/Kobe/Shaq eras. He’s just saying this to defend his former assistant.

I like Steve Kerr but I think he needs to take a step back here. Basketball is just entertainment. That’s all it is, it’s not like Ball is running the country.

I very much accept this theory. (One Pats beat guy DM’d me to offer the same theory.)

Well put, not many guys dodge that bullet!

Great story. Thanks for sharing. Hopefully someday your boy will understand what a legend Dick was.

A couple of years ago my son and I were killing time while my wife was getting her hair done. We were walking towards a Starbucks to get the boy a chocolate milk when I spotted Dick freaking Enberg walking at us towards the door of the Starbucks as well. I slowed down so that Dick and his assistant would reach the…

Many more established commenters have already replied more eloquently than I ever could. I’ll just say I’ll always remember a lazy Sunday afternoon with Dick Enberg calling a 6 yard catch for a first down by Todd Christensen was more exciting than anything else that happened that day. Thank you for that, dear sir.

The man could make any game sound good.

Not sure how old you are but this should cover it. It’d be like if the Romans waited where Jesus was being resurrected and killed him again right when he came back.

I met Kurt Warner at a football camp when I was a kid, and he seemed like a genuinely good dude. He jumped into some throwing drills right away and handed out signed cards to every kid at the camp. They had a Bible verse on it and some other religious stuff, but he was the only pro to both of those things.

If this were a normal person, I think that applies 100%.

The reason for Skipper’s resignation won’t change what he had done for Le Batard’s career.

I did, which is why I used the word “continuing” in my comment.

Hey, Tom
I wish you and all the Deadspin staff continued balling for the year to come.

—Sean