I enjoy how salary caps are instituted to prevent the rich teams from simply signing all the best players and ensure healthy competition, which is supposedly the foundation of capitalism and its boons for society. But if you suggest instituting a type of salary cap in real life to prevent the ultra-wealthy from…

Yeah, the top-5-8 players in the NBA aren’t the problem—though Russ was definitely in that top-8 when he signed that supermax and everyone already knew it would age poorly—it’s the #10-20 who might get All-NBA Third Team. Restricting the supermax to the All-Second team will help.

But what the NBA really needs to do is…

I actually don’t see why any of the salary of a super-max player has to count against the cap at all. I think the NBA should institute a franchise tag where they get to choose which contract doesn’t count against the cap.

At the end of the day, it’s about the same thing as everything else. The bottom line. A place like OKC being able to offer the supermax is about selling jerseys, selling luxury suites, and tv. Parity is not in the interest of owners, dollars are. Owners don’t care about GMs and deals and drafts and all of that…

I did personally pass on Barry Sanders. Thank you for noticing.

Sad I had to scroll this far down to find a mention of Sweetness.

I’ve always insisted that Walter Payton was the better football player, but nobody was a better running back than Sanders.

Probably the best pure, instinctive runner ever to play in the NFL, though there are arguments for others.

Nope. Emmitt was a really really good back. Though you are right in that he’s no Sanders.

I love that 5 TDs is his 5th best game over. 

One of the most annoying things about Sanders coverage was the running line that he didn’t know what he was doing, he just had fantastic reactions or some such nonsense.

Sanders was awesome, but the coolest player ever was Bo Jackson.

Joke’s on you the taxpayer- he made $150k in overtime alone last year, his healthcare is fully covered, and he gets to retire with a full salary pension for life.

Here’s an alternative view: this policeman has a position with a lot of power (e.g. the ability to arrest) and he used this power illegally to cover up one of his illegal and potentially deadly mistakes. He should be arrested, punished, and blacklisted from working in this industry for life.

So in addition to the stop sign infraction the cop is on the hook for unlawful arrest and illegal imprisonment.

Since I love to play devil’s advocate, the cop ran the stop sign because he didn’t see it, so when someone hits him he’s going to assume it’s the other guy’s fault. He didn’t take the time to investigate the scene properly, being pumped full of adrenaline from the crash.

It took a lot of balls for Houston to make this trade work. Unfortunately, it’ll take a lot of balls to make this roster work, too, and they’re only allowed to play with one at a time.

Most of the picks are thrown into the future. There’s just so many variables that will effect where a 2025 pick will land. Houston might be a lottery team! Miami could be in 2023! Or Pence will be president and basketball will be outlawed and Miami underwater.

now they just need to find someone who will trade them an extra basketball

Whether this makes the Rockets an insanely entertaining unstoppable force after they change their gameplan or it’s a complete nuclear disaster that blows up... I’M SO EXCITED!!!