Lol, sure thing pal. I’m amazed at how many examples and arguments you’re going to make that support my position without realizing it. Can you please keep responding? I’m really enjoying it. I didn’t address all the other words you used because they just highlight how the primary purpose of players and teams is to…

“Winning is a reasonable synonym for optimal brand promotion.” I don’t think you know what synonym means. Unless you think the league was ecstatic with San Antonia v. NJ in the finals (after all, they were winning! Yay! The brand must have been doing great since their synonyms!). Or the Knicks style of play in the…

This makes no sense to me. If KD really wanted to be treated well by OKC fans then he shouldn’t have left OKC. He made a perfectly rational choice to go to the GSW, but as soon as he did that the organization was absolved of any responsibility to treat him a certain way (beyond the basics of professionalism of…

No, I get what you’re saying. You’re still missing the point. The fact that you even mention selling the story in 3 months demonstrates my point. You asked what the primary responsibility is, and the primary responsibility is selling the brand. You’re talking about ensuring quality, which is exactly the point. …

The problem is he gets pushed in the back BEFORE he touches #35, so even if that contact would have happened it still didn’t happen until after he had already been fouled. It’s an obvious push that was an obvious foul that the refs blew, even if you happen to think he fouled #35 (which I disagree with).

Ay yi yi. Nobody said winning wasn’t important (I literally said winning is great). Winning is the WAY that players promote the league. Yes, Lebron (and MJ, and everyone else) needs to try to win. But they are trying to win in order to sell the product. Thank you for calling me dim while making an argument that…

True. Conversely, the NBA could try to encourage teams to rest players on the first game of the back to back if the second one is nationally televised. Kevin Love could just as easily have returned from injury on Saturday, and Lebron could have rested on Friday instead. Sure, there are reasons they did it the way…

Yeah, fuck those moms and dads who save up and struggle a bit to take their kids to sporting events in order to forge lifelong memories for their children. If it really is a struggle then stay at home where you belong!!

Your’s is one of the few comments that I think gets the balance between the positions here. It is undeniably understandable that people are disappointed when their favorite players are kept out of the game (as opposed to injured, where there really isn’t anything anyone can do). It doesn’t meant that coaches MUST…

This comment makes zero sense to me. If you can’t enjoy something despite it missing some of the very best things about it then you aren’t a real fan? That’s like saying if you can’t enjoy chocolate chip cookies without the chocolate then you should just eat raisin cookies. Lebron James is THE reason a lot of people…

The primary professional responsibility of Lebron James and other NBA players is to make an entertaining product to maximize the profits for their teams and the league. I love the naivety of arguing that sports are about winning. Winning is great, and I’d love to see my teams do more of it, but if the league doesn’t…

It’s a pretty bizarre point to claim that anybody who wants to see Lebron live can just go to any other game when he comes to town. Lots of folks can’t afford to go to any NBA game they feel like going to. There were definitely people at last night’s game that had to tighten their belt straps to see what they hoped…

If you can’t afford to have your fresh, organic produce delivered to you (which, I’d imagine, describes 99% of us ;)) then I would recommend picking up some of those ziploc veggie bags (or any other brand that puts out special vegetable storage bags). I’ve been really impressed with how much longer my veggies last in…

I’ve never played any of the Mass Effect games. Is this one something that a newbie can dive into without missing a beat, or am I going to feel lost and confused for the first 10 hours or so?

If you loosen your grip and let go of the bar it just drops. The straps have to be held in place- they’re not hooked on to the bar or anything. Are you saying that they allow you to lift so much weight that you couldn’t control the descent? Cause that doesn’t make any sense. The muscles controlling the eccentric…

Exactly. And if you listened to their politics podcast you would have heard him saying over and over again that Trump had a very real chance of winning. People heard that “everyone” was predicting a Clinton win, and Silver is the most famous of the prognosticators, so when Trump won everyone just assumes that Silver…

Sounds an awful lot more like “are YOU trying to trade me?” than “I want to be traded”

Hahaha, I don’t know how I missed that reference. It says something about this country that I thought you were making a Trump reference, which confused the hell out of me since he doesn’t decide DC snow policy. I was like “wait, Trump hates Italians too?!?!” My bad :)

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