There’s one critical fact you overlooked. How was Iguodala, mere seconds after taking a solid junk-shot, able to aggressively confront his attacker?

We’ve kind of already had the conversation about Steph’s D thanks to Westbrook’s response last series. It’s pretty well established that curry is an average-at-best defender who benefits tremendously from having one of the best defensive guards in the league as his sidekick, while he gets to stay on guys like JR or…

So why does Draymond keep kicking balls if he actually DOES have something to offer?

So wait, based on that assessment, Draymond Green is also a YMCA hack as he twice tried to pop Adams’ balls and once tried to separate Adams’ shoulder.

Just wait til the Dubs drop a game and we’ll be having this same conversation about Steph’s D.

See this is why we need government. Wait, no this is private company that does this. Odd

It’s not about taking away his best skill, it’s about what else you can provide when your shot fades. This happens with anybody who’s played basketball, sometimes your shot’s just not hitting, so you have to be able to do other things. The thing about Curry is that all the other aspects of his game are predicated on…

Detroit was pretty bottom-of-the-barrel as far as playoff teams go, but that’s a pretty damn good Hawks team that Cleveland just steamrolled. They finished second in the league in defense, and had the point differential of a 51-win team. No, obviously they’re not as good as OKC or Golden State, but if the Cavs fall in…

You conveniently left out Allen Iverson, Shaq, Vince Carter, Tim Duncan, Yao, Kevin Garnett....what’s your point?

No need to be embarrassed, tons of people have bad opinions.

Looked to me like he got knocked off balance by the foul and went with his momentum instead of trying to stop on a dime, which can be an easy way to suffer a lower body injury.

Hottakes are the BEST takes!

“It’s a certain way of being a professional,” the Hawks’ Paul Millsap said to cleveland.com. “I’m not mad about it, but just being professionals man. If that’s how you want to approach it, that’s how you approach it. I think our team and our organization has class and I don’t think we would have continued to do that,…

When you say things like “free shit” re: Bernie you’re basically saying “i have absolutely no idea what i’m talking about”

Eh, that’s overthinking. The Cavs are better with three All-Stars than with one (and Matthew Dellavedova).

People forget how close the Cavs were (aka Lebron was) to winning that series. Game 1 went into OT and the Cavs won games 2 and 3. Obviously you can’t simply say “if the Cavs won game 1 they would have had a 3-0 series lead” but for the first three games, they were better. If I recall, the Cavs also kept it really…

one of the simplest joys of deadspin is heading down into the comments and reading a genuine, insightful sports take by people with handles like Fartsmello Anthony.

Can we discuss Charles Barkley self-destructing in the post-game analysis?

I recently had a lot of coffee after having abstained from caffeine for a while, and boy was I FUCKED. UP. My whole body was shaking, I couldn’t stop talking, my anxiety went into overdrive, I got over-emotional about some stuff, I raced around, my appetite was gone, and after I went home I had a small meltdown, it…