The post isn’t totally wrong (Charles Murray is hardly a martyr).

This doesn’t appear to have been a totally well-thought article, but I’m also not against the idea that a young black man from a difficult background is probably deserving of some forgiveness and, more importantly, help.

I don’t even mind the Russ thing so much. Lou bit on the fake, and Russ leaned into him while shooting. Guys have been pulling that forever, and as far as getting someone to bite your fake is a good thing to do in basketball, at least in theory this is a positive basketball play being rewarded. Plus, if defenders…

Actually most of the nerdy advanced stats (box plus-minus, real-plus-minus wins, VORP, estimated wins added, PER) have Westbrook as either the best in the league, or, at least, ahead of Leonard and Harden. Win Shares is pretty much the lone exception, so I dunno why all these smart dudes are bending over backwards to…

The other side of that coin is Spurs. I remember thinking they hadn’t really given AVB too fair a shot, and, really, were they likely to land anyone better anyway?

Sure, but what if they just... don’t?

Hinkie is a good dealer. I’m happy to grant him that, unreservedly.

Even setting aside The Process, let’s talk about his actual basketball talent-identifying acumen.

It most certainly shouldn’t be. Anyone with a passing familiarity in baseball writing would have known of and respected Jonah Keri long before he ever got to Grantland, and in fact his presence was one, yes among a number of many, reasons that Grantland was considered a Serious Website of Sportswriting basically from…

Yeah, I’m with you. I’m an A’s fan, and it never ceases to be tiresome the way people expect team-building to be this perfectly efficient exercise.

Not sure where anybody proposed any legislation but I’d be happy to read it and then offer my opinion on its helpfulness.

And... we’re in the top-15.

The thing with him is he still has, like the dude above noted, a strong eye. He’s got incredible natural explosiveness. That’s why he dominated the minors and hit well when he first came up.

Yeah, that’s the other thing. I spent the last five or so years living in Asia (and not the Korea/Japan kind of Asia, the beer selection is often, uh, limited). I come back and it’s just so impressive the range you can find anywhere. I really hadn’t appreciated how much it was exploding.

That’s a fair argument, and I appreciate it. And it is good! I will definitely drink one when the opportunity arises, haha.

Here’s a hot take: Pliny is very good and all but to the layman (here’s where I include myself) it doesn’t taste markedly better than any of the other quality IPAs to be had out there.

My initial reaction was like yours. But if anyone is in a position to dispel this, it’s Bomani Jones, and I think it’s telling that he mostly... didn’t try to dispel it.

“Where are the essays advocating on their behalf? What about the trans kids and adults who live in fear? What about those, like me, who constantly wonder what an Attorney General Jeff Sessions means for our safety and the remnants of our so-called rights and liberties? What about the millions of undocumented workers…

They were actually -17 together. The number EPSN tweeted was only for the first half. http://stats.nba.com/team/#!/1610612740/lineups-traditional/?Season=2016-17&SeasonType=Regular%20Season&GroupQuantity=2&DateFrom=02%2F22%2F2017&sort=PLUS_MINUS&dir=-1

His worst-case scenario is, however, appropriately right in the Jimmer Fredette-Nik Stauskas wheelhouse.