I’m not about to endorse the entirety of this scorching hot take, but it is a peculiarity of how the sports world regards Olympic achievement that’s always perplexed me.

It’s different. Michael Phelps is regarded as one of the best athletes of all time based on his Olympic medal count. Olympic medal count isn’t the best metric for measuring athletes from different sports. Lebron is a better athlete than Michael Phelps, but based on the “sports” they play, Michael Phelps gets an…

I've tried to put forth these arguments dispassionately before but no one cared. Trolling gets you everywhere.

Well “overrated” is obviously a loaded term, but this is an era of hipster basketball writers constantly writing “NO ONE BUT ME understands how good Draymond is!!” pieces all year. Deadspin said Green was THE BEST PLAYER in game 7 of the finals. Green just camped out at the 3 point line and got wide open looks because…

Um, not that. Not to agree with the other person but very different. An assist leader isn't given an award equalized to that of an MVP whereas with the Olympics all gold medals are equalized.

I don’t live in my mom’s basement but if you’re saying he’s better than ME at basketball I definitely agree

This is some good kinja. Started out as simple trolling, has somehow evolved into a decent argument.

Yeah but basketball doesn’t have like 25 different Olympic events for LeBron to medal in. No one would care if LeBron won gold in 10 ft basketball, 9.5 ft basketball, 9 ft basketball and 8.5 ft basketball

Would love for anyone to explain why in the world we care about someone who can get to the end fastest in inefficient ways. Hurdles is totally different from running, that’s a pseudo-obstacle course that incorporates discrete but useful skills.

He’s only won a single individual freestyle gold medal. Freestyle should be the only event. “Get to the end the fastest.”

If the Earth were round, Giancarlo Stanton’s dingers would go straight into outer space. Think about it, you guys.

Soooooo... this is his way of turning down the VP slot w/o saying it out loud?

I remember seeing a stat mot long after Tamir Rice’s murder that 83% of police brutality complaints were filed against 6% of the cops.

No, the best part is that this was played in Idaho. There is a place called “Coeur d’Alene” in the potato capital of the USA. I kept looking on google maps, zooming out, thinking “surely I’ll see the Bahamas or Cayman Islands or something here soon...” Imagine my surprise when the word “Montana” came into focus.…

Joe Lacob had a team of Silicon Valley programmers create a secret algorithm that determined “Adding Kevin Durant is good.” Will the disruption ever end?

It really is pretty good.

I binge-watch it on a fairly regular basis. Even re-watching some episodes.