I was talking to my friend this morning and I said a Biden vs. Trump general election would be “allowing republicans and people who are essentially republicans but don’t like how Trump acts to decide the election by watching the two candidates turn a big dial that says ‘racism’ and telling them when to stop with their…

Lol, yeah, I noticed he didn’t exactly go out of his way to dispute the time portion of that initial calculation.

Due the Panthers’ season going from “promising! can we steal the division from the Saints?” to “wow, we should tank!” across a 7-game losing streak and a Cam shoulder injury, we entered week 17 with a chance at a Top 10 draft pick. That’s the exact type of treat that can help propel a team with talent that had some…

I get it, I hate the Lakers as much as anyone else, but if somebody gives you a signed Kareem jersey, you gotta hang that one up. I’m assuming the worst case situation is somebody sees it in your house and is like “oh, are you a Lakers fan?” and you simply say “No, I actually do not like them at all. This was a gift…

Well, this whole saga has proven that Tim Anderson fucking rules and is cool as hell. Who says the MLB can’t market its players?

There’s no doubt about that. Kyle was a useful rotation player who’s good defensively and can do some interesting stuff in the half-court, but is limited by being slower than a stump and having no jump shot to speak of. Derrick White is already an above average starter (and has been since he got healthy) and is going…

hey man, it’s 2019. Even a coherent and intelligent critique of an NBA player makes you a hater. That’s just the rules. 

It’s crazy. This is the third straight American kid (Kyle Anderson, Dejounte Murray and now White) that they’ve taken deep in the draft and developed into a good player through the G-League. The Spurs have just invested so much in that area. A big part of it is the communication and coordination between the front…

These are not the Dwight Howard comparisons I’d like to see for Joel Embiid. 

Ricky Rubio is one of the very best defensive guards in the NBA, and probably should have found his way onto an All-Defense team already. That Harden is just toying with him so ridiculously really just underscores how incredible of an offensive player Harden is. I don’t think it’s crazy to say that he could go down as…

Yeah, I know there’s going to be a lot of chuds who absolutely LOVE the fact that a 33 year-old may have given a serious concussion to a 19 year-old in a fucking fist fight. It’s a critical failing in the NHL for letting that culture exist and continue to exist unchecked. It needs to go. 

Drummond is listed at 7'0" 280lbs and Giannis routinely made him look like he was a small, tiny little baby. I don’t think I’ve seen a player who can not only shrink the court, but make players who have 40lbs on him look like they’re his children.

I really don’t think I need to go on record saying that this story is deeply sad, as was the Declan Sullivan incident.  

yeah, but I was on a time crunch to get this joke off ASAP. Writing under a deadline to make the first “brian kelly killed a kid” joke is stressful lol 

BRIAN KELLY: Geez Cierre! Killing a kid? How could you! What would make you do such a thing? 
CIERRE WOOD: [through tears] I LEARNED IT FROM WATCHING YOU! 

Haha, thanks pal! I really appreciate the kind words. In the past I USED to dabble with journalism, but for now it’s mostly Just A Hobby. Sports takes are an itch I gotta scratch, and Kinja does alright for that.

Yeah, uh, NBA title teams have good players. Heck, the Dallas team wasn’t even just “one guy” by your criteria, either. A couple of perennial DPOY candidates (Marion, Chandler), an aging but still very effective HOFer (Kidd), several incredible role-players who had excellent seasons (Peja, Barrea, Stevenson, JET).…

Yeah. I mean they DID get LeBron, but before that and even during the Summer of LeBron, they’ve been on an incredible cold streak in Free Agency.

I KNOW we keep saying “it’s the Lakers!!! They’ll get it together!!!” but that doesn’t change the fact that, practically since 2010, they’ve been a garbage fire that two trains have crashed into. They were good but fundamentally flawed in 2010 and 2011. But due to their aging roster and their inability to secure…

Listen, man, a lot of this is right and LeBron is NOT a great general manager. But leading with “traded Wiggins for Love” is REALLY undercutting your point. Wiggins is a fucking bum and Kevin Love was a critical part of a team that made 3 straight Finals and won a dang title. Cleveland would do that trade 10,000 times…