This warms the cold, cold cockles of my heart. You’re a good dad, dude :)

I eagerly await Schilling’s calm, respectful, measured response....

It’s OK, you guys. The WaPo comment section assures me that this is FAKE NEWS.

Gun, no gun, doesn’t matter. That’s 100% the posture you would take if you were going to shoot backwards at someone and I can’t see how an officer can do anything but shoot to defend themselves. Really stupid on the part of that suspect.

It’s a messed up world when I see a video of police officers shooting someone and…

Is there any chance that Scherzer, 10 years from now, isn’t in the Curt Schilling crazy-retired-pitcher-turned-lunatic-fringe-pundit seat?

Pot, meet kettle, I believe you two may be acquainted

Are you for real? Pat Beverley knocked Russ out of the playoffs in 2013 with a stupid and dangerous play. I guarantee Westbrook fucking HATES him. And Beverley has this sort of beef with everyone, I think he’s a curmudgeon that hates everyone.

Crash Bandicoot has to be Adams, right? He’s from New Zealand. Although I’m surprised any of them are old enough to have given a shit about a Crash Bandicoot game.

The “Which one is nick collison” game is pretty tough.

Russ is still the goddamn MVP.

Harden’s hook move to draw a foul is so bullshit. Truly a move that goes against the “spirit of the rules”.

I ranted about this in Slack, but what bothers me about these bullshit foul calls the most (because I am the kind of weirdo who thinks about things in these terms) is: They’re not penalizing defenders for breaking basketball rules. They’re affirmatively rewarding offensive players for successfully play-acting.

Who does James Harden really make better? Is it career 16.6 ppg scorer Eric Gordon, doing that exact same thing again (at slightly lower percentages)? Is it Lou Williams, averaging a bucket more than his career average (at slightly lower percentages)? Is it Ryan Anderson, scoring .4 ppg more than his career average at…

I’ve avoided bringing up triple doubles in this argument, because the larger point, to me, is that he had the best individual season since Wilt Chamberlain was in his early 20s. And just the constant work it took to put that team in a position to win most of its games is pretty historic, too. The triple doubles are a…

Not so much triple doubles as, “Wow, nobody has approached what he’s done in 50 years, and nobody’s done it with a team that legitimately might win 10 games without him.” The Rockets have shooters everywhere. That’s why Harden makes it look so easy; he has a vastly more talented roster.

The Spurs are 7-1 without Kawhi this season. That’s a tenth of the year, and they’ve won 87 percent of their games without their MVP candidate. Their margin of victory in those games is 15 points, four more than the Warriors’ for the year and eight more than the Spurs over the course of the season. He’s a fantastic…

Not sure if you’re trolling, but for the series, Harden is +25. The Rockets as a team are +37. The Thunder as a team, consequently, are -37. Westbrook is +3.

Yes, the guy who, as we saw demonstrated again and again this round, has a roster of bona fide under-the-radar perimeter sharpshooters to dish the ball to, deserves to win the MVP. Versus the dude who averaged a triple-double, dragging a team we know is trash—a point also confirmed in this playoff round—to a 6 seed in…

Clearly the Rockets are the better team, but, if anything, this series has revealed just how valuable Westbrook is to his team while also illustrating that the Rockets can still be very good when Harden doesn’t play well or spends time on the bench.

Another draft day bargain pick for the Dallas Cowboys, America’s Team!