This is some throwback Deadspin shit. Take your star

I honestly do believe that he’ll enjoy the moment to moment experience of playing basketball almost anywhere more than he enjoyed playing alongside Harden in Houston. I still think this is a really raw deal for him, though, because my sense is Chris Paul will very much not want to spend any of his remaining years…

I’m not convinced Paul should be less happy this evening than he was this morning. It seems obvious he wasn’t happy in Houston either, and he just went from a team where he had to defer to James Harden, noted cornball, who offered little reciprocation in effort when Paul did get to run the team. He was playing for a…

I agree!

I think it would be basically impossible for the Lakers to make this work, salary-wise, but I guess at this point we shouldn’t rule anything out.

If Miami can get Paul and picks for random salary dumps... Isn't that better than getting Westbrook? That seems like a way better fit.

So Paul goes to the Lakers now, right?

Ooof...

Here’s your star for nearly making me spit out my Malbec. Now fuck off.

That’s when they want them to be legit players. The West is spoken for until about 2023, anyway.

I’ve never seen anything blown up so fast in Oklahoma City.
-Mayor David Holt

You get eight first-round picks in a week, that’s a pretty good haul. Especially in the NBA where getting one or two players makes such a huge difference, the way they could package all of this to move up in one draft or something...yeah. I mean, it’s better than getting a bunch of contracts back.

Most of the picks are thrown into the future. There’s just so many variables that will effect where a 2025 pick will land. Houston might be a lottery team! Miami could be in 2023! Or Pence will be president and basketball will be outlawed and Miami underwater.

Whether this makes the Rockets an insanely entertaining unstoppable force after they change their gameplan or it’s a complete nuclear disaster that blows up... I’M SO EXCITED!!!

Football guys tend to be the "look at all my children!" sort, so my guess is that Mrs. Vrabel probably can't feel much down there anymore anyway.

That hurt, man…

Nobody:

The real story here is the depressing state of Vrabel’s broken marriage.

+1 bowl cut

Australians: HAHA, Mate! “Rooted in Oakland” is like saying, “Fucked in Oakland!” Crickey!
Oaklanders: If we wanted to say that, we’d just say, “Raiders fan.”