On the Dunc’d on podcast preview of the Knicks, Duncan speculated that the Knicks, with their 9000+ power forwards, were setting Fizdale to fail. He then recommended that Fizdale, at whatever point he knows his firing is imminent, that he go down firing by starting an all-big lineup:

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Zion headlines will be easier madlibs than coming up with names of Chinese restaurants!

Luckily, you can still get 3 labor disputed vaporware for the price of an NSX!

Like they have in literally every other industry that they want in on, they let them in with caveats, learned the moves, and then worked on punting foreign competition and pushing local product.

The surest sign that China is overtaking the United States as a superpower is how even quicker they are to act like aggrieved, authoritarian-supporting snowflakes.

And let’s not forget India, which just got its first taste of the NBA this week, will soon be the world’s most populous nation and has political matters of its own that in its mind do not require the views of Rob Pelinka, Pat Riley or, heaven forfend, Jimmy Dolan.

I know, but tough shits: if Chinese fans want to be entertained, either demand the NBA back or start a gladitorial league.

And maybe don’t stop there.

So here’s a alternative approach: rather than trying to appease Beijing and its army of online commentators (the 50 Cent Party) for fear of losing the Chinese market...perhaps the NBA should challenge them to find an equally compelling product?

I have no doubt that their RMB and eyeballs will go to other things, like…

Arsenal fans, at least on Arseblog, are screaming “Emery Out!” at the top of their lungs. The team’s record would be a lot worse if Auba or Laca didn’t pull rabbit goals out of a hat seemingly every match. Auba has 7 goals in 7 appearances; that’s not sustainable. Arsenal should be in the midtable.

The real problem is…

That’s a shame because we all know Wednesday night is business time.

“I love shaping earth,” Trump honks to camera, “it’s a canvas.”

It wasn’t my intention to insult the pizza, though I definitely was trying to get a dig in on St. Louis-style.

My intended point was that: 1) it’s bad to be racist; 2) beyond the base-level stupidity of being racist, how much more stupid do you have to be to antagonize a place that presumably serves delicious,…

If it’s two-three aisles, I’d expect the store to label them properly, like “Asian,” “Mexican/Latin,” etc.

My store is in the burb-ish part of the city and is quite large, but there’s only one “ethnic” aisle and the selection is just terrible. I have my preferred East Asian, Mexican, and South Asian markets.

Does Little V’s serve St. Louis-style pizza or something? Antagonizing workers and doing the racisms at a pizza joint seems, among other things, extraordinarily stupid if you have normal taste buds and like pizza.

Tom, are you moving Bear Fridays to Wednesdays?

I’m not asking them to integrate non-Mexican ingredients into the choices. But the selection is very limited.

Proteins: Sofritas

Sort of sympathetic but going to disagree with Chang here: does he suggest a viable alternative? Seeing “ethnic” in the aisle marker is annoying and exclusionary, but most supermarkets don’t carry enough Asian/Latin/Middle Eastern/etc.-centric ingredients to fill up a whole aisle. Unless consumers demand middlebrow…

I’m...not terribly impressed? It’s obviously a marketing rather than an ethical-environmental ploy, and October 1 just conveniently happened to be on a Tuesday (rather than a Monday).

More importantly, I’m not impressed by the vegetarian options at Chipotle, especially when compared to other fast-casual places. Such…

Yeah, this issue came up on the Salty Waitress column over on the Takeout a couple weeks ago.

Speaking as pro-employee, restaurants should integrate the costs of employee health insurance into their pricing. Restaurants who insist on this surcharge are, as you say, just passive-aggressively complaining about…