This is just a metaphor, right?

My son, as of today, is one week old.

There absolutely were. 

They made the right choice in getting rid of him, too. So did the Bulls. Jimmy Butler is a toxic asshole and he found the only good fit for him with “Heat culture” (ie, everyone’s allowed to be a huge prick here). 

The ears.

NBA 2Night was fucking GREAT

Durant has no chance. Missing 2/3rds of the 14-15 season alone probably killed his chance of passing Kareem, much less missing all of 19-20 and half of 20-21.

He probably does really believe that, and maybe he’s right. Kyrie is an extraordinary offensive talent and one of the most efficient players in the league. Simmons obviously has his flaws, but he’s one of the few true game-changing defenders in the league and is a triple-double threat every time he steps on the court.…

I know it’s borderline cliched at this point, but I truly believe Simmons shoots with the wrong hand. He finishes with his right hand around the rim *so* much more often than his left, and looks so much more natural doing so. That’s rare as hell for an actual lefty.

I realize that nuts-and-bolts basketball analysis isn’t really the point here, but I’d argue that Wiggins is about as close to as good as he could/should be and the entire 2014 draft was pretty, pretty overhyped. He never had, and never was going to have, the most important skill for a perimeter superstar: the…

You win when you get the paycheck. If you don’t know going into this that you’re getting yourself in a freak show and you’re there for anything other than the payday, I don’t know what to tell you.

Yes, we do, from her own description as to when the problem started, and from how she started the Olympics. If she was able to deal with it as well as she did the first few days, she’d most likely have been able to keep dealing with it. As far as I can gather, the “twisties” is not something that gradually creeps in…

I’m just glad that no one called me out for including Ben Simmons in a group partially described as “can shoot”

“the worst of the 2014 draft”

Oh hey, one of my old trolls is back. Thanks for the offer of shutting the fuck up, RSNRobot or whatever your stupid name is, but I’d like to suggest a counteroffer of you fisting yourself with a glove made entirely of broken glass.

(Nobody tell him about the even more low-percentage play that set up said field goal)

Absolutely. And my initial post was more, like I said, “old man yells at cloud” at an entire generation’s worth of people who Tik Tok and Instagram every mundane thing they do and thought they think. In the case of Biles in particular, it’s even more sinister because as you said, there’s the element of circling…

Gymnastics and figure skating, in particular, seem to ask that of their participants at an obscenely young age, and abuse them exponentially more than most “mainstream” sports. Football players deal with brain trauma and other huge injuries for what usually ends up being relatively little financial gain, but a lot of…

Wasn’t my intention to rail against it, even though I can see how it came off that way...I just don’t get it. I just wish I had a better understanding of how she feels she’s benefitting from showing the world something that pretty clearly seems like it’s better left private.

The only players who are even close to being good enough to justify it make so much money that they’d be an albatross on your salary cap if they’re playing (at most) half the games.

In fact, the only player who’d even kind of justify it doesn’t actually exist currently: an already-legit superstar still on their rookie…