Logan was an excellent movie. I didn’t cry, but Logan’s relationship with Laura was the most meaningful of any I’ve seen in a superhero movie. It felt like a real conclusion to his character’s story arc, and (I hope) the beginning of her character’s.

Because it was really the only part of the prequels we had WANTED to see. I wanted the prequels so I could find out how Anakin became Darth Vader, and how the Empire took over. They should just have done three movies on the Clone Wars.

Honestly, I had a long retort planned, but then I kept coming back to this:

You seem to have problems admitting flaws within your plan. It’s not so simple. There’s absolutely a chance it hurts parity. What rookie is realistically signing with Utah? Or, once this current consolidation of talent ends, OKC or Minnesota? You’ll get rookies signing with the top teams (Golden State, Cleveland) or…

Maybe it was because I was tired, and it was midnight, and I was 3 hours into a 3 and a half hour movie, and it was really the ending of a 10 hour movie when you put them back to back to back...but this scene from Return of the King, where Sam picks Frodo up and carries him the rest of the way always gets me. That…

The part of this that gets me is when the guy with the weird head (ok, fine, the Cerean Jedi Master, Ki Adi Mundi) is all like “charge!!!”, and he looks behind him, and no one’s coming...and he realizes what’s about to happen. I don’t know why, but that look of betrayal is just.... ugh.

The problem (or, truly, one of the problems) with the current system is that getting a good pick or two can make you an ok team. Middle of the road. And then you’re too good to get top picks anymore, and, unless you’re in an attractive market, you’re unlikely to get top free agents because you’re not a top team. The…

The kids thing got me about ten years ago, and I haven’t seen it since. Turned it off, and won’t watch it again.

I’m still kind of ashamed, so I won’t say it. But I will leave this here:

Yeah, because good players never leave the teams they’re on to join better teams with other good players...

It’s a far worse deal for the Cubs. So if you dislike them (and I do), then this is a good trade.

I thought about that too, and it’s really the only part of the plan that would really worry me. I don’t think it would happen often at all, but even once would be pretty awful.

I didn’t mean to suggest it wouldn’t stop tanking. You’re right, of course it would. But I hate everything else about it.

You’re definitely right, it’s not without it’s own problems. You could definitely get a situation like you proposed with OKC. And I think that’s the price you pay to eliminate tanking. I’m not so concerned about that.

You are aware that rosters extend farther than the top 3 or 4 players, right? The Warriors just signed Nick Young. He is an average at best basketball player. According to PER, he’s slightly below average. You don’t think they would rather have signed Markelle Fultz? Jesus Christ.

Maybe it’s a sign of how much people hate tanking, but I could not have imagined a worse “solution”. It really looks like something I would think of when I’m high as shit. Seriously, putting all 30 teams in a hat and picking them out one by one is a better idea.

I guess you mean 14, because 16 make the playoffs. But I get you. That’s probably the best idea.

Yup! And, as a Knicks fan, I think it’s very, very important that we go back to that.

Sure. You’d get more examples of the Warriors/Cavs problem we have now, but that would solve the tanking issue.

It’s the problem without an answer. The other stuff (NBA’s age-limit, a team in Vegas) has real implications, because you can solve those issues. You can’t solve tanking. The wheel idea was even worse than what we have now, and I’m relieved that it’s gone.