That was the dumbest thing I’ve ever read.

Fuck. Be strong Craig. A lot of people love you.

If one has not nearly drunkenly pissed on a homeless man... Has one truly lived?

Yeah I don’t think there is an athlete in the world today who does passive-aggresive social media shit better than LeBron. He (and his team) would have to know the message this sends.

I was staggering home hammered through a residential neighborhood (still pretty far from my place) when I saw a little alleyway behind a gas station that looked promising.

Oh that’s fascinating. What was it a request for exactly? People’s guesses? Some sort of psychic intervention? Seems like a question about the rules might require you to reference... you know... the rules.

Learn to read.

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Yeah despite what Redford and many commenters seem to believe I don’t think there’s a specific rule against it. The refs can tell you not to do it, but it’s not specifically banned anywhere in the rules.

Deadspin’s comment section cracks me up.

Maybe I’ll use all that bench time to read. It’s fun, you should learn how.

Exactly, which was why I was kind of curious whether it was technically against the rules.

Yeah that’s kind of why I was curious about it being a rule. Do you really need to have a ban in place for EVERYTHING Dwight Howard is stupid enough to do?

Exactly, which was why I was kind of curious whether it was technically against the rules. It would be like having a rule in golf that you can’t hit the ball with your dick.

True. But if that’s the case the NBA doesn’t really have any grounds to punish Howard.

Thanks for the 5 grey commenters who went “yeah, duh”. No I’m not responding to or starring any of you.

Is it even against the rules? You can powder your hands...

I live in California an hour from the Mexican border.

True. But even in the affable kid scenario it’s weird. A lot of professional athletes are disgusting rich guys in their early 20's. If you want to tell your buddy about the two co-eds you gave a Dirty Sanchez to last night and LaRoche senior has a problem, you can give him the finger and tell him you’ll stop when he…

I agree it’s hard to know the scope of the problem, but I don’t think it’s unreasonable for the players to expect management to handle stuff like this. The players get paid well to be good at baseball and win games - managers and executives get paid well to (among other things) enforce the rules and deal with dissent…