It’ll be fine. Just get a grip.

I - and analytics - would agree that Harden’s defense became noticeably less awful this year. However, the idea that an offensive superstar needs to “expend less energy” on defense (read: do the horrible things that James Harden has done on defense) in order to theoretically get an ephemeral performance increase on…

Of course the avacados are unsettling. The color saturation doesn’t match.

It’s not completely subjective. The oft-conflicting schools of “basketball wisdom” and “analytics” both agree that defense is very important. If Harden is genuinely useless at defense, then he’s not as much of a stud as he would otherwise be. If he just doesn’t try on defense, then that’s an objective, not a…

It’s not satire, it’s just another case of cognitive bias winning out over rational thought. I am not really in the camp of those who believe that the Koch brothers’ money filters far enough down to pay people to troll comment boards with anti-AGW disinformation, so I assume that at this level, these people genuinely…

I don’t have to provide you causal evidence. You are like a Sandy Hook conspiracy theorist. “YEAH? YOU THINK ALL THOSE PEOPLE DIED AT SANDY HOOK? PROVE IT.”

Fifth-year sophomores maybe.

“It worked because, tonight, the NBA draft lottery gave the 76ers the third selection in the 2015 NBA draft. And when general manager Sam Hinkie trades whoever he picks in that spot, 18 months into that player’s career, for two 2019 Knicks second-rounders, and packages those second-rounders with Robert Covington and…

No

Yes, my assertions have base. It’s called the entire base of scientific evidence.

“People who go into climate science do so largely based on a notion that they are going to help the environment. If there was strictly a scientific motivation they would likely go into another field”

If you can find a liberal “writer” who is firmly in the camp of shills who deny the scientific reality of climate change, then get them hired by ESPN, we can test that theory.

I’ll buy you a drink for that.

Sure. It’s still noteworthy now, however, for all of the reasons listed above, particularly juxtaposed against their treatment of other longer-standing employees.

Why is it intellectually dishonest?

As a product of the 90s, I say ‘like’ at least that much. It is an annoying verbal tic baked into my language during my adolescence and I dislike it. However, as someone who got a 1200 on the 1600 point scale SAT - in seventh grade - I would like to kindly tell you to go eat a rhinoceros’s cock.

Bro

Your science degree didn’t do you much good, judging by your cockamamie comment.

Miss!

You should apply basic thinking to your comments. If you had, you would have noticed how dumb it looks.