Sadly, said hands might belong to NBA hired muscle at some press event. Always hard to cheer corporate security.

I feel so sorry for the kids. Even being NBA All-Stars will not be enough for the ludicrous hype their dad is giving them. Heaven help them if any of them are merely average players, or don't make the NBA.

…Jewish? LaVar got some Anti-Semitic streak I haven't (yet) heard about?

I just reread the end of the article - I'd assumed he was talking smack about Kyrie's upbringing not knowing his situation. But nope, he straight-up emphasized his mom being gone. Assuming LaVar's kids end up succeeding in the NBA, I think it's only a matter of time before they have to distance themselves from his…

Thank you. He's not going toe-to-toe with the shoe companies and the NCAA because he's seeking justice, he's doing it because they cut into his ability to profit from his son(s). That certainly doesn't make him evil, it just means he's no nobler than every other media figure looking out for number one.

This the Tai Lopez thing I've seen the first 5 seconds of several dozen times?

If you're 6'8", the only crowd you're blending in with is a basketball team.

I assumed. Just would have been a contradiction on all counts to have the top-charting black soloist be Average White Band.

Ah, irony. Now I just need to find out that AWB was actually a solo act.

Greatest showman and greatest singer are not the same thing. And there's plenty of room to be a really good singer without being top 10.

I adore Steve Perry's singing, but I wouldn't ever call his work soul of any kind.

Thanks for putting a vision of MC Spicey in my head, Cogito.

Given that he wrote "Uptown Funk" trying to recapture the '80s Minneapolis sound, then got sued because he copied a specific song too closely, that seems an accurate critique.

Think folks may fight you on "R&B" grounds over him.

If you're going to forgive AK for not being good after two albums, I think you have to forgive Whitney for not being R&B after a few albums.

Leonard was an aggressively average singer doing the best he could. Dylan is an actively bad singer who responded to criticism about his voice by deliberately singing worse.

But even Woodie Guthrie could hold a tune way better than Dylan. And you had folk groups like the Limeliters that featured really good singers.

Because the man is an @ss with an ego the size of Texas. Paul Simon is twice the singer Dylan ever was, and he still had the good sense to start his career with a much, *much* better singer performing his works.

Because the man is an ass with an ego the size of Texas. Paul Simon is twice the singer Dylan ever was, and he still had the good sense to start his career with a much, *much* better singer performing his works.

I'd question if we're allowed to disallow the same person at a later date…but hey, if we're not limited to living people, I'm fine with it.