Tre Mason: Man, fuck you guys. Not only am I not holding out, I was actually the first person to show up in St. Louis for training camp this year.

Hopefully the boy’s mother has a chance to speak at the 2020 DNC.

So Wikileaks was cool when they’re taking down Bush and the Republicans, but when they do the same to Clinton and the Democrats they’ve hit rock bottom?

I’m also a fan of Tom’s work, and I think he hinted at how the article would be written via the “Sources” title. But it certainly does feel as if the lawyers took him for a ride a bit.

THIS. This is exactly right. My company disclosed a self-initiated internal investigation a few months ago, and no fewer than 5 different securities law firms put out press releases seeking plaintiffs in a class action suit.

I’d go further. Much of the actual construction of the article, particularly the second and third paragraphs, aligns very closely with how securities litigation press releases are typically structured (stock prices before and after dates of key disclosures, solicitations for insider information, etc.). It reads not as…

Exactly. There are few outfits held in lower regard than plaintiffs’ lawyers, esp. securities plaintiffs’ lawyers, because it’s entirely about trolling for some BS cause of action, then trolling for some nominal plaintiffs. They all put out press releases to say they are investigating, because it is the way that they…

This is pretty poor reporting, has very little context for how financial disclosures and reporting requirements for public companies work.

Whether a call is definitive is a separate question from whether it was the correct call to have made. Without replay, whatever the official calls in real time is the result of the play. With replay, everything that happens in real time is a provisional and tentative result until a committee finishes studying and…

Then if my controversial one is actually right can I change my answer to that while I think Sam Hinkie is a dink, tanking is a much more practical strategy for most teams than the Deadspin approved “Just be smarter/luckier than everyone else”?

That Refs(and especially Umps) getting calls wrong from time to time is preferable to replays on anything close.

Yes, athletics brand is different from athletics success.

Good male feminist

I don't think numbers are your strong suit.

It’s shocking that “loyalty” turned out to be a one-way street here.

I hope they go undefeated and score 1,000 points per game. I hope they melt the arenas in which they play because they make the ball move so beautifully, and so quickly, that the air becomes super-heated with the vigorous masturbation of the assembled angelic hosts of heaven. I hope Kevin Durant, Steph Curry, Klay…

Yep Kobe the guy who stayed with the team that drafted him for his entire career. Greatest Charlotte Hornet of all time

Yes, because the most popular sport (soccer) in the world does not have elite talent aggregation by the top teams in every league except MLS.

I’m not convinced this season will be any less fascinating? Going into last season, everyone assumed it’d be the Cavs out of the East and GSW out of the West, and the exact storyline most predicted played out, and it was one of the most dramatic seasons in NBA history. The storyline’s now set again, and it has the…

When was it, exactly, that superstars wanted to create their own legacy and win titles on their own accord? Helpful hint: unrestricted free agency started in 1988. (Tom Chambers!)