Yea, I dont know how he got those bums to the playoffs (and they got a game from GSW!), let alone how he convinced Pau he was still good.

I don’t know. The team pop had this year was pretty fucking trash

Whew. A lot going on here.

Man Bites Dog doesn’t seem so farfetched... I mean.. Florida exists, right?

For an extra $20,000 you can re-write the text books.

He’s the football coach. Probably walking around wearing football coach things.

Literally “dress code violations” is listed as one of the reasons. <eye roll>

To be fair, if you hire a guy named “Strom” and he doesn’t turn out to be a segregationist, you’d feel cheated too.

Is this about the golf team or the football team?

What in the fuck? My best guess is parents of some of (less talented) white kids were sick of their kids riding the bench started leaning on school administrators.

Same thing happened to Mary Kay Letourneau.

Comes from an island. Islands have sand. Sand is gritty. Checks out.

You’re the one spinning this into a “morality play”, Chris.

I think the issue is more that he lets his ferocious competitiveness dictate how he plays his basketball, often to the detriment of the team.

Shaquem Griffin is going to be next jersey i will buy as someone who has bad left hand since birth you and your brother are living a dream myself and my little brother only dream about thank you for been a hero every disabled America disabled citizen in world

Russ seems to be lacking court and team awareness. Anyone could see how his personal vendetta was hurting overall team play. He’s been in the league for a minute and has played with a lot of great players but still seems to have not learned the team concept of basketball

“There are plenty of dudes in the NBA who will sulk and loaf and whine when they personally aren’t performing well, and Russ has never been one of them!”

Diana routinely goes above and beyond to bring this stuff to light and is one of my all time journalism heroes.

Thanks again for all the work you’ve done on this story, Diana.

Yeah, the perpetually terrible playoff Raptors. I have zero faith in that team.