Well, anonymous IF deadspin stops flogging this dead horse. Which it should have many many moons ago. 

This is exactly what teams are supposed to do. Try to get better, rather than tank. The fans, you know... them? They like this. Way better than trusting the process and empty arenas and 75% blown first round picks.

The players union need to also make sure teams use their non-luxury tax salary. Draft lottery position should be penalized based on how far under the cap a team is.

Combine this with randomizing which teams that finished 30-26, 25-22, or 21-18 get access to the top picks, and you’ll dump tanking and maximize player…

Semi-serious: UV light?

Oh, I totally agree, except that I’m an environmental despot: I could give crap all about freedom, liberty, equality, diversity if we continue to trash the planet in history’s largest games of russian roulette

Who would give this haul for a one-year rental? Kawhi is going to be on every GMs press feed when he bolts for LA Clippers or Lakers from Toronto.

The Celtics aren’t going to trade Jayson Tatum and its draft haul for one year of a very annoyed Anthony Davis whose dad has publicly expressed displeasure for the…

Except that Lebron wants to GM a Finals-capable team. That’s all GMs are really supposed to do. Interests and choices of players that are replacement level and only valuable because of “potential” are always fodder in the league. You either play well and are worth keeping, or get to collect 3-10 million a year to sob…

This just pisses off Anthony Davis which will degrade trade offers this summer.

Especially when Kawhi bolts from Toronto. 

Seriously? It puts the logistical onus of shopping at multiple places on you. Oh, you really want to go to five different dealerships and waste an entire weekend? Or sign this offer sheet right now?

It’s still a half season of leverage they lose. If they wait until summer and Boston flames out of the playoffs and loses Kyrie, then Boston and everyone knows they are trading for a demotivated one-year rental and the offers get worse.

Irrational hate is from the fundamental threat gearheads feel to their entire mythos, lingo, history, knowledge base, and change in general.

Either that, or from astroturfers and from the minions of the incumbent automakers. I mean, this is the site that said, “I guess we have to think of Tesla as an American…

Clearly SOOO much worse than the smugness of the usual “car guy”. Or “brand-specific fanboy”. Or “years of cars I grew up with fanboy”.

All a hell of a lot better than “LOL I bought the biggest car possible to troll people who do the opposite” crowd, go trump, global warming is a scam. But there’s a reason this is…

Here’s the test of the “delusional” dismissal: has this Hayden dude actually driven one himself... .hmmm.

IRL:

Well, have you driven both?

Um, neither

Well, they might be overall operation zero emission. Somehow... 

The structural changes and extra cost are always afterthoughts to the overall car platform engineering. For a limited market of buyers. That are buying a convertible in a market of mediocre options, will pay extra, and probably don’t read lots of reviews and reliability reports.

They all are doing it to some degree, per Michigan State, Kentucky. Notice how the SEC is always quiet in this, but they have the most football money washing around? That stuff gets clamped down on, and as we saw in Tallhassee, it starts at the school administration and runs up to local law enforcement, if not higher

Even without chemistry / tech improvements to increase density, manufacture of them will get cheaper due to economies of scale. Assuming lithium and cobalt supply can be solved as well, that should be doable.

It’s actually really easy to make a fast accelerating EV, since electric motors do crazy torque. A “cheap” EV…

Drop 62k on a performance model 3 and your 0-60 is 3.3 to 3.5.

HAHA, it’s funny because you’re laughing at other people that care. 

Acknowledgement of global warming? On Jalopnik?

Is this a New Years resolution thing? You have to do one per year, so save it for a punchline?