As I mentioned, this is a player-driven league. This isn’t a video game. The Celtics can’t just trade for him and he grumbles and then plays hard for them. Not only would they have to deal with a pissed off player, they also risk their reputation and standing within the league, which hurts their ability to attract…

Another factor often not considered: Jimmy Butler could have simply told the Celtics he refuses to play for them, for whatever reason. This is a player-run league, and this stuff happens more often than we hear about.

My dog is 20 lbs and wants to be the alpha dog. He is literally incapable of hurting anything, but if he encounters an aggressive dog, he tends to push their buttons and gets attacked.

Just replied to another comment about this, but they are most definitely not going to make more money by changing their team name. If they did, they would have done it already. The Washington Redskins brand is the eighth most valuable sports team in the world. It would take several generations for the “Red Tails”…

As I’ve rallied on here before, rebranding one of the most valuable sports franchises in the world is incredibly costly and risky, which is precisely why Snyder won’t do that. Changing the name would alienate a large portion of their fanbase, and they would lose a tremendous amount of brand equity and overall…

This whole article felt kind of lazy IMO. Seems there’s a lot to this story that wasn’t researched.

I’m not sure I think he’s a slimeball so much as a thin skinned narcissist who can’t handle when anyone is doing anything besides heaping praise on him.

If the 1993 Phoenix Suns not only had Barkley, Johnson, and Majerle, but then also had Karl Malone and Clyde Drexler on their team, I’m don’t think Jordan could “will his team” to a championship. He didn’t need a superteam because they didn’t exist elsewhere.

“It’d be like if you had a company and the CEO gets caught up in some scandal and has to resign and then the COO who steps in to fill his shoes only speaks Portuguese and has a degree in Computer Science. While those things might be useful if you have a Brazilian video game company, it doesn’t do you a damn bit of…

...or does it simply show that the candidate has no problem making empty gestures in order to get ahead in their career? Do you want a fake employee in your culture, who’s more concerned about manipulating office politics and sucking up to the boss than they are about actually doing their job?

Now to me, a job candidate sending a thank you card in the mail comes across as hollow. Like, do you actually appreciate my time and felt compelled to properly thank me, or do you just want me to hire you?

Counterpoint : I went out of my way to do someone a big favor, and she wrote me a very heartfelt thank you letter and told me how great of a friend I was. I now have that note tacked on the board next to my computer to give me a little pick me up now and then. Emails and texts don’t do that.

Orlando, Sacramento, LA Lakers, Atlanta, Brooklyn, Detroit, Dallas, Denver, Charlotte, Miami, Phoenix, Philadelphia = kind of a lot of teams.

Said this on another thread, but I think a big difference with the NBA now is there aren’t very many middle class teams. The NBA of the 90s had a lot of superstars spread out, so even if the Bulls won every year, at least the secondary games were fun to watch. Nowadays, at least a third of the league (maybe half) is…

I hate him even more precisely because it’s so obviously fake.

You have to take into account the massive ego that gets built up after having a national show for 18 years. Quite a slap in the face for your equal partner for so long suddenly gets a big promotion and you get cast aside as an afterthought.

As someone who has listened to them more than I care to admit over the past 16 years, I’d agree with this. I never felt they actually liked each other. With Greenie leaving, I’m sure Golic is both jealous and resentful.

I was genuinely excited about Datome when he joined the Pistons.

I’d say it’s both. Too little talent in the league, and not distributed enough. The 90s saw a dominance of one team, but there was a strong middle class of teams that kept fan sign across the country engaged.

An area ESPN fails in that is rarely talked about is their approach to digital content. If Russell Westbrook has an amazing dunk, I can see it through 400 places on Twitter. If I try to see it through ESPN, I’m guaranteed to have to sit through a 30-second ad for a 10-second highlight. The highlight will be hidden…