3000 people did not die in the two hurricanes that hit Puerto Rico. When I left the Island, AFTER the storm had hit, they had anywhere from 6 to 18 deaths. As time went by it did not go up by much. Then, a long time later, they started to report really large numbers, like 3000...

At least the Suns won’t have to worry about Ariza flaming out in the playoffs again

Is it a requirement that Deadspin can only write garbage takes about the Rockets or did y’all just not quite meet the quota during the WCF? 

Bullshit. Maryland is actually pretty average on gun laws, first off.

When asked about this by the worst host Mike Greenberg on the horrible show Get Up, the best host Michelle Beadle said “I don’t know, it feels like a whole lot of nothing.” The second worst host Jalen Rose had nothing to say.

Boycott the finals. This is trash. Same finals, four times in a row. Incredible.

Same here for both the personal bias and the reaction to Tom’s characterizing this stretch of the series as the failing of the Warriors rather than the success of the Rockets.

and yet they still lead the series 3-2 because the Warriors seem to have lost themselves

That’s great Houston, but more importantly did they do enough to entertain Patrick Redford and the rest of the Deadspin turds!?

Late in the last 2 games they’re both pressing full court and not letting the guards carry the ball up uncontested. looking for lead passes with a guy in your face probably isn’t the best strategy, so they aren’t really trying and the few times they did usually resulted in turnovers. Transition buckets are also only…

Fatigue is definitely part of it. These guys, on both teams, aren’t usually the sort to miss wide open shots or turn the ball over so carelessly. but defensively both teams have done a good job eliminating what the other does best.

65 regular season wins, a number one seed, a dominant first two rounds, ending the longest home winning streak in NBA playoff history and holding the highest scoring team in the NBA to less than 100 in hundred in consecutive games was all it took for Deadspin to write a story acknowledging the Rockets might actually…

Every damn word of this. I’ve sat and listened to four straight years of god worship every time Curry and the Warriors so much as excuse themselves after a fart, and at the same time wondering if my Rockets would ever be able to mount a serious challenge to take down one of the best teams the NBA has or ever will see;…

The Warriors Are Having Trouble With Houston And It’s Ruining My Hot AF Takes

I despise the Rockets for their essential cowardly cynicism

Maaan how many circles are you gonna twist yourself into to avoid saying “the Rockets are a really good team playing an incredibly smart strategy against a juggernaut.”

Seriously. Newsflash - the Rockets are actually playing defense. That is why we are not seeing all the “beautiful game” stuff from GS, all the time. (Also the warriors are a bit beat up and their entire bench is made up of centers for some reason.)

I’d rather watch ugly moneyball and see the twins win than watch the Yankees buy Mike Trout and the complete pitching staffs of the Astros and the Cubs and win each series in 5 unremarkable games.

“Game 2 saw Houston move away from their signature style of depressing isolation...” — according to ESPN, they actually ran almost the exact same number of isolation plays as in Game 1, which according to their data bureau was the most any team has run in any game in five years.

This is such a ridiculously bad take. The Rockets played like this for much of the regular season also. And in what world would the Warriors be “bored” about the opportunity to essentially end the series?