Because Deadspin is incredibly good at being contrarian. All the blogs and smart basketball outlets were really positive about the process; therefore the contrarian thing to do was hate it, which is what they did. They’re really on the next level when it comes to this stuff.

Because it’s funny as hell when Dion “Kobe Wade” Waiters  is a clutch god for a shitty team on a 13-game win streak, not because anyone was trying to take the Heat seriously

Plenty of them are fine shows and they’re definitely popular but that doesn’t make them prestigious, especially from the point of view of an established A-list (or at least A-list-ish) movie actor

Prestige TV is prestigious. Adaptations of YA fiction on Freeform or the CW are not.

MLS in Sacramento should be the easiest fucking win in the world. I want to say that I’m surprised that they’re fucking it up but I’m not sure that I can.

I dunno man. In an environment where you suddenly have the endorsement of some of the most popular athletes in the world, including the NBA MVP, and where athleisure is blowing the hell up, you really should be growing pretty quickly, I think. There’s no good reason these shouldn’t be fat years.

If they make that trade, they don’t really give that much of a shit, because they’re not trying to win this year if they trade Melo (I mean, they shouldn’t be trying to win this year either way, but trading Melo would make it official), and Rose and Jennings both expire after this year. So going forward it’s Lee and…

I’m not saying it’s a great roster but that team had Andre Miller, Kenyon Martin, Marcus Camby, and Nene around. Those are good basketball players, and even people like Earl Boykins and Buckner are - if not great starters - basically competent basketball players.

I kind of feel like Melo had better supporting casts than Boogie has had? Maybe I’m crazy, but Melo had Marcus Camby, Andre Miller, Allen Iverson and Chauncey Billups at various times - even in the first couple years he had Miller and Camby, which seems better than Beno Udrih, Isaiah Thomas, or Rudy Gay. And the Kings…

Sometimes you forget how awful and obviously stupid and ruinous some of the Kings’ moves have been. Firing Malone and replacing him with George Karl is just some mind-bending stupidity, but it’s good to be reminded that not only was it obviously idiotic but it completely fucked everything up. And that’s not even…

He’s definitely substantially overpaid. But a guy who can score consistently and semi-efficiently on very high usage is still pretty useful on a lot of teams, and becomes especially useful in the playoffs, and the money matters a lot less if you think that you have a genuine chance of winning in the next two years.

Rather than airing pilots, I’d prefer - especially for sitcoms - if they just let shows make, like, 3 or 4 episodes that they would just bury. A bunch of mulligan episodes. Sitcoms take so long to hit their stride, I don’t think a pilot is really enough. Let them find some more space to breathe. Look at how much…

It’s a beginning, at least.

The point about automation has been made since roughly the inception of the Industrial Revolution. And of course he’s not wrong about credulity and superstition and paranoia, but I don’t think there’s ever been a time when credulity and superstition and paranoia weren’t significant elements of our politics.

I can’t decide if this is funnier than the Rajon Rondo 8-second violation, or Lamar Odom just dribbling inbounds

Okafor is useful in the NBA. Like, I don’t believe that he’s going to be a worse player than EG Enes Kanter.

Sure, I agree that liberalism is not in favor of institutions qua institutions, and is opposed to arbitrary, inequitable, unjust, and illiberal institutions. But I don’t think it’s opposed to institutions in general; it wants to build and maintain freer, more equitable institutions that are necessary to establish and…

I didn’t say, and I don’t think, that the Democratic Party is dead in the water. I do think that Trump’s election, and the things that Trump is doing, are doing real material harm to political norms and institutions which are central to governance and extremely difficult to rebuild. And I think that harm persists…

Whatever you think of Bernie, I think the things that you’re talking about, and that he’s promoting, are distinct from the kinds of liberal ideals that I’m talking about here. I don’t think of “liberal” as necessarily being a synonym of leftist, or progressive, or socialist. Bernie being good doesn’t really assuage my…

yeah, I don’t think what I’m talking about here has much to do with either of those things. I definitely don’t think that the kind of ‘classical liberalism’ that modern-day libertarians like to talk about is a good or useful understanding of liberal ideas.