Second point is mostly correct, first point doesn’t make sense

Thanks for this. But also: holy shit look at who else was in the top 10! PER is a useful stat, but it favors guys who weren’t actually steering the offense (aside from Jordan and the odd .

But isn’t that an argument against Shaq in the video’s context? He was an absolute monster (and honestly, all of the research leading into these debates are causing me to rethink parts of my position), but PER tends to favor big men overall because they’re not ball hogs in the sense that a guard is. They grab the…

I can’t find PER for their title runs since Hollinger’s page doesn’t go back that far (and I’m too dense to leverage other pages). But! Given Shaq’s proclivity to sitting his fat ass in and around the paint and absolutely never moving the ball upcourt, a high PER doesn’t surprise me.

I stopped giving a shit about Finals MVP after Iguodala won it. Same goes for Super Bowl MVP, etc. It’s just too small of a sample size to make qualified judgments

I just looked this up. MY GOD what a great looking game (concept)

CP. Beautifully maintained crap is still crap

I fucking hate Shaq; he has absolutely no good insights ever, and Chuck is exactly right to point out he never won shit when he didn’t have a great backcourt player to dish to him

Astro Vans are surprisingly fun to drive. In high school, my family had one as a loaner while our station wagon was in the shop, and that thing could COOK

This gets into some more theoretical stuff from business school though. Assuming there’s no way to grow also assumes that you can stop innovating the products/services you offer, and I just don’t believe that. Sometimes it’s not about increasing penetration but increasing the sales among your consumers (that…

WAY too early for COTD, but I appreciate this

Oh, I’ll tell you why. They’ve been at such a high level of dominance for a while now, so the haters (myself included) are coming out more and more.

I don’t see how this is unfortunate. A hot goalie is exciting to watch

I’m honestly sputtering that you think the NBA playoffs is “good” because we get ONE good series in the very last round. We’ve had two months of shitty games, played by teams in holding patterns.

You’d need to stash it in your sock or something just in case

Yeah, I was wondering how that passes a safety inspection. A really light crumple could strand you in that thing. Does it get grandfathered in?

I’ve been rooting for a Preds-[Canadian team x] Finals since they rolled my Blackhawks. Hoping Ottawa can close it out

“If he is serious about being a role model, I feel like it would have been in his best interest to show his contrition to the world”

He was insanely hard on Dusty, along with the rest of the city. Stoney’s the best, and I miss having him on my TV

“If there were no salary cap and no max contracts, some teams would undoubtedly spend more, and then all teams would have to spend more, increasing both the potential risk and reward of building a team.”