As someone who also found out they have congenital lumbar spinal stenosis, and whose life has been completely affected negatively by it and the cascade of injuries and maladies suffered as a result of it over the past few years years, I feel awful for him. Clearly I’m no pro athlete, but even for a regular guy who…

I’m a dude that likes yoga and thinks concepts like being present and mindful are legit and beneficial (I suck at it, but that’s another story), but you’re 1000% right about how absurd it is the way happiness has become a status symbol and how that has been commercialized.

He knows it’s derogatory. He said so:

Just the fact that there are no stories of him being flipped like a baseball bat in Japan proves that he does know that “Chinito” is offensive as is the gesture that he made with his eyes.

An Embiid Eclipse occurs when shade is thrown on the Whiteside of the moon

Serena isn’t trying to sell stuff in every single social media moment. That’s the difference. Sharapova is more brand than person, that’s the point. Which you missed.

There is no chance in hell that contract is anywhere remotely in the neighborhood of badness that contains Joakim Noah’s contract.

God, the Lakers would be insane and beyond hope if they traded the second overall pick for a guy who’ll be a free agent next summer, and wants to play for them.