Bad take. The Pistons were missing their best player, Blake Griffin, on short notice, and never had much hope of actually winning the series. But their fans got to enjoy a surprisingly successful season with a meaningful playoff chase down the stretch; they got to watch months and months of competitive basketball.…

Fun fact: “The Touching is, To Me, Off Limits,” was the original title of MC Hammer’s 1990 breakthrough single. 

Off-topic, but any chance the tech team is working on the auto-scroll behavior that keeps returning the window to the ad that’s playing?

Yes, you’ve defined that lunging is the same thing as “turning up field” which is clearly not how the refs have defined it.

Reading this article reminded me of that one really funny column Simmons did, but now I can’t find it anywhere.

He was built to join a 73 win team and be lauded for getting easy buckets. Thought Deadspin usually cuts through the bullshit

Hey man, they’ve already had a bad experience with Redcoats.

Ugh. A racist AND a homophone!

Nobody noticed because it didn’t happen.