Now we know why Iman Shumpert apparently didn’t have enough time to practice shooting basketballs for the NBA playoffs.

It’s really patently absurd to expect the rich and famous to be role models. You can make the argument that they should make the effort because their livelihood is entirely based off the public’s desire to pay attention to them as an athlete performing something exciting, but really, they’re the same human beings.

Being a Cleveland sports fan is the best, therefore, raising your kids to be Cleveland sports fans is the best.

But for what it’s worth, what Solo did is worse than at least 2/3 of what you listed there, and assaulting your family members - drunk or not - is terrible. And if she is a bad drunk, then she needs to stop drinking. And if she can’t handle drinking and won’t stop drinking, then she’s an alcoholic in denial, which is…

All the hand-wringing reaction journalism likes to say “Should (s)he play? Think of the children!” while ignoring the actual intelligent questions: “should this really matter?” “how can parents teach their kids to separate the accomplishments of an athlete from the fact that they may be a Bad Person and teach them not…

I would drink myself to death. If they don’t re-sign a guy like Kevin Love because of the emergence of a slightly undersized volume rebounding power forward with no offensive skill set, my head will detonate.

Honestly I’ve never really been a huge fanatic of the offensive rebound. Yes, offensive rebounds often put a team in a position for an easy bucket, but then again, so do good defensive rebounds into transition, and many other factors. A lot of offensive rebounds, particularly in the paint, end up with one of your…

That’s true, but the Cavs have two people named LeBron James and JR Smith who are just as likely to have a good shooting night. LeBron has 123 points in the series but has not yet had a high shooting percentage. JR on the other hand may randomly decide to go off for 30 on like 16 shots and bury the Warriors.

I think your credentials are invalid. You didn’t call him a jabroni, jamoke, or sucker even once.

He’s the Matthew Dellavedova of combo forward/centers. Which will be mesmerizing.

You could always go Jon Oliver’s route and write a scathing expose on Tropicana so they send you a free case of their product and politely insinuate you should stick it up your ass.

Yeah. He singlehandedly buried the Atlanta Hawks in game 1 of that series.

Even scarier: if JR Smith has a single hot night, this series is basically over.

Yeah, I don’t really see it. Klay Thompson is long and athletic but he’s no defensive super stud. He’s definitely a quality defender on a good defensive team.

Curry also elbow whipped LeBron in the mouth there. I would have whistled LeBron too, but teched Curry.

...probably because he was completely fucking flabbergasted that it was actually happening.

If the opponent just inbounded to you at a critical juncture of the game you’d be so fucking floored that you would miss a wide open 3 too.

Equally instructive: when LeBron left the Cavs after 2010, that team went from 66 and 60 win seasons to NINETEEN. When Jordan left the Bulls, they won 55 and 54 games the next 2 seasons.

This gets the most hyperbole +1s ever.

“I confess I’m not a huge basketball fan, which is obvious from this list I am about to post of the number of championships and MVPs various players won.”