If LeBron left it wouldn’t be to Los Angeles. If anything he’d go back to Miami where he and Wade could just fuck around on the court and still make it to the playoffs until they decide to call it quits.

Berkyjay is the type of guy you find commenting on facebook videos and espn recaps.

You realize that basketball teams are comprised of more than one or two players, right?

You don’t like the Swag7? Must be a silver.

Wow, so the other guy is a Croatian nicknamed “the Killer of the Perimeter”. I guess European basketball isn’t completely useless after all (hahahahahahaha).

Giri, what does HamNo have to say about TRX?

Welcome to the fitness industry.

Lot of good exercises suggested but no one got it right. If you really want to wreck those babies you need to be doing downhill sprints.

The man invented his own signature crossover. I can only think of one other player who’s done that and his name is God.

So to be “fluent” in Mandarin doesn’t actually require literacy of written Chinese

It’s a standard to promote fluency

Go to China and see how useful your knowledge of pinyin is there. They may learn it but they sure as hell don’t use it.

You keep ignoring the fact that no one uses pinyin in a practical application. And speaking of objective evidence, you’ve literally presented none. It’s hard to compare difficulty since people are usually well versed in one before learning the other, but I’ve given my opinion as someone who grew up learning both at…

It’s great that pinyin helped you learn, but you’re not going to find it outside of the classroom. Pinyin is still a separate system from the characters actually used to communicate. It misses the main benefit of having an alphabet, and just knowing pinyin will get you nowhere. The gap between fluency and literacy may…

You have completely missed the point of everything I have said. Pinyin is a useful tool for learning pronunciation, but it doesn’t help you learn and memorize what each character means, which is the hardest part of learning Mandarin. On a practical level, go look around on the street and you won’t find any pinyin.…

That’s not an example, you just described the function of an alphabet. Have you ever been to China or Taiwan? You won’t see pinyin anywhere. You probably don’t even know Mandarin yourself, do you? How’s this for biased. My dad, who grew up in Taiwan and lived there for over 20 years, couldn’t help me with my Chinese…

Where have you ever seen pinyin being used? No one uses pinyin. No one. It’s the same as the ba pa ma fa. Both are alphabets completely removed from Chinese characters. It’s obvious to anyone who’s ever tried to learn Mandarin that it’s much harder than the Romance languages. People always complain about Japanese…

I don’t think Chinese will ever be able to overtake English. It’s simply too hard to learn. There’s no phonetic alphabet so you’re stuck memorizing thousands of characters. Being able to speak is one thing, but how much business can you do if you can’t read or write the contracts?

He was lying. The sleeves were their ace in the hole and they worked.

Barnes is stealth injuring his own teammates to secure that max contract.