A boat’s a boat, but a mystery box could be anything. It could even be a boat!

Came here to say roughly this. The 10-15 or so game changing talents that are actively harmed by max contracts and salary caps also typically have robust off the court endorsement and business deals, so much of the financial “loss” they take is evened out by other ventures. The salary cap help’s artifically inflate…

Deadspin editorial standards require all Simmons related articles to take at least one shot at The Sports Guy. Since the article was pretty news based, gotta take that shot somewhere.

Almost guaranteed Top 3 pick, with a marketable game and name, he would of got somewhere in the neighborhood of 1 to 2 million a year from Nike/Adidas/UnderArmour for about 5 years. That’s the current rate for a top NBA draft pick.

The difference in first contract salary between the first and second pick is about 3.5 million dollars. Lonzo already is out anywhere from 7-10 million from his dad refusing to let him sign with any of the major shoe brands. Let’s say Lonzo has a amazing workout with the Celtics, so much so that they decide he will be…

Team that plays in city recently dealt a devastating blow by terrorists win tournament that lets city, even for a few moments, take their minds off the death of dozens of young adults and children =/= are assholes?

Someone needs to write the definitive story on how inept the Mets training staff is. They screw up their players health all the time, so much that the Players Association should file a claim against them.

“Hey man, I just work here.” - Dwayne Wade

Came here to yell that Spike Ball should be on the list. Then I saw #2.

I can’t prove this, but I know for sure that he has some sort of cane in his right hand.

1. There is a great chance that this was a misguided “joke” or attempt to signal boost Jonah’s article.

Trust The (Healing) Process

Weird that the guy channeling George Micheal on the sidelines has some unresolved issues with homophobia. Thinking face emoji.

But is Curry a good fit for the Triangle?

One thing that hasn’t really been remarked upon is the Celtics are going to be one of the leading teams to sign Gordon Hayward this offseason. Maybe, and this is a huge maybe, Ainge’s plan is to sign Hayward to pair with IT and Horford as poor man’s Big 3 and pair them with either Lonzo Ball and Markell Fultz AND…

I would bet their podcast network makes money. They have pretty high subscriber bases for most of their feeds. But then again, podcast financials are such a murky world. Some one needs to write a piece on what these companies are paying for these podcast plugs.

Someone needs to get Phil, Doc, some peyote and game tape of Melo in 2009 in the same room together so they can hash out a Blake for Melo trade that everyone wants.

At one point, Cousins can be heard shouting, “Hey, the nigga was trying to choke Matt, I hit the shit out this nigga!”

Reports are Darrelle Revis has been frantically asking teammates to break his leg tonight vs the Colts