Foreign intelligence is pieced together from many crumbs. You pick up a crumb here, get a little crumb there, and add it to your current crumbs and suddenly you have a much better picture of what your friend or adversary is doing. To continue with that analogy, it is extremely rare to find an entire loaf of bread…

Highly doubt IT commands the same haul as Love, but agree that the Celtics are in a good spot.

Won’t even matter. We could line up Giannis with you, me and the next two people to comment and not be threatened by that group you listed.

They could probably trade Kawhi to NY for Carmelo Anthony’s expiring contract and maybe have a shot at one of the remaining Ball brothers in a few years. That’s what I would do at least. 92 pts in an NBA game would be pretty sweet

I just can’t wrap my head around the notion that “fool’s gold” is a 50-win team that clinched the one seed and just got the number one pick in the draft, and “REAL gold” is having a bunch of young guys who haven’t actually done anything yet. Are the Sixers going to use their pick this year to try to draft LeBron James…

I think your recent basketball history is off. This is the Celtics 1st 50 win season since 2012, and represents them just now entering a period in which they are set up to be very good for a long time. It is not the end of the world to me as a Celtics fan that they are not already ready to win an NBA title (remember:…

Yes! You have to actively not like watching the actual real-life game of basketball to value the potential to maybe win some games later over the opportunity to wins lots of games right now.

This confuses me. Isn’t the Process built around collecting picks? Isn’t that what the Celtics have done?

He’s played 31 games in 3 years, but yes, it’s insane to think that health problems might prevent him from ever being a great player.

You’re right, trust the process which so far has yielded the potential to not suck but no not sucking.

The signing of such a high-profile contract is bound to have its detractors, but I am not one of them. Congrats to the whole Deadspin staff on this momentous occassion!

The only semi-effective way to handle LeBron is to hit him in the nuts repeatedly and all that does is piss him off so severely that he will mount the greatest series comeback in NBA Finals history and time travel to retroactively father your best player.

15,000 word write up coming tomorrow (complete with 3000 pop culture references) titled “why the Celtics actually won the game”.

I think I’d like the Celtics 10x more if I didn’t have to read shit like that from Bill Simmons.

That they are, but sometimes they come up with a decent turn of phrase or two.

“This player is soft because, instead of allowing another player to knock him around without consequences, he tagged him back.”

Olynyk is a big dumpy ogre with a habit of making dirty plays and then playing incredulous about the consequences. Many times over he has deserved to get knocked out. To me, Oubre deserves props for keeping his fists lowered.

I AM FILING THE PAPERS TO ADOPT KELLY OUBRE JR. AS MY SON RIGHT FUCKING NOW

Only if 3/7's of this picture was taken in Florida.

Is Law suggesting that baseball is evolving? If so, I hope he enjoys his suspension.