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Siemien is out for the season. 

It’s bad. 

It’s good to get the most easily disproven false equivalence out of the way first. Read more

Don’t sleep on Indy. 

Tobias Harris got $36 million a year? That’s fucking nuts.

“ The only significant member of their rotation dealing with any noteworthy health issues by the time the Finals rolled around was reserve swingman OG Anunoby” . . . except that Lowry was playing with a left thumb that will require surgery and Kawhi has been playing on one leg since the Sixers series . . .

All that money and the best thing he could find to wear to the game was an Adidas golf shirt. What a fucking schmuck. 

These are, indeed, great days to be a Red. #YNWA

Six. Fucking. Times. 

Six times. 

I’m happy beyond description for lads like Jordan, Danny, Juergen, and so on to finally be able to make the chat go quiet. They are winners. Champions of Europe. And no one can ever take that away from them. Read more

I’m hoping they split the 80% two ways and have him hit 40% and Danny Green hit 40% on threes . . .

The only way this could be improved is with Yakety Sax as the soundtrack. 

“Mancheater City”

If your argument is that the only way smaller teams can compete with bigger teams is through massive spending by benefactor owners, you probably need to come up with a new argument. 

Nonsense. Read more

This is really bad take. FFP was not primarily put into place to keep the blood and oil money merchants from taking over European soccer, it was put in place to try to prevent clubs from overspending their way into bankruptcy. Read more

Man, I felt bad for Embiid, until I remembered every time this year he flopped, shit talked, and said he was the most dominant player in the league. Fuck him. 

Uber already subsidizes the cost of rides MORE than 30%, so eliminating her driver component still won’t deliver profitability, plus Uber will then bear the cost of the vehicle fleet, whether they own or lease it. Read more

Yes, but they were promised that they would make significantly more than they do, and they weren’t told that Uber would drop the prices, and hence their wages, every time they needed to juice ridership to impress investors. Read more