the Knicks were actively trying to get rid of him because he was too old and wasn’t talented enough to make the rotation.

NBA playoffs don’t reseed, so Celtics are getting Bucks regardless of what happens to Philly (assuming Bos and Mil both advance)

I’m really stuck trying to figure out if there’s any Serbian in history that has done more damage to Kings than Vlade Divac.

They should lose their 1st round draft pick for disrespecting the game.

Mass transit is evil socialism but giving billions and billions to private sector leeches who will do nothing with it to actually help the problem is fine.

It’s fucking amazing to me that spending at least $11 billion to improve commute times is more politically viable that just adding real mass transit to an area desperately in need of it. 

The takeaway here is that Drew may once again be blogging from his mother’s basement.

What? For a championship team, that ‘94 squad was decidly not loaded, outside of Hakeem. It seems pretty comparable to Dirk’s supporting cast.

Wow I’m loving this revisionist history of the “loaded” 94 Rockets team. I’m sure in 20 years we will be saying the same of Dirks loaded Mavs team with Chandler, Terry, etc

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).…

The 94 team was definitely not loaded. You can romanticize some of the players like Horry or Cassell, but Dream was the only offensive option on that team and was also defensive MVP.  He did it on both ends of the court which is why he’s better than Dirk. 

Otis Thorpe was a one-time All-Star. He and Horry were the only other rotation players other than Olajuwon with a positive BPM that season. He averaged 2X as many shots and points as the next player (Thorpe). They had other solid starting players, but nobody who else who would even sniff HOF consideration.

You say this now but just wait and watch the Rangers draft Marvin Bagley III.

Other than Olajuwon, the rest of those guys were fine. Are any of them in the HOF? Cassell was a rookie. And I don’t care about Drexler, hence “first Rockets title”.

I think you also, if you’re going back 30 years, would put the first Rockets title of the 90s next to this one based on the “only one guy” criteria. 

“...and is secure in his legacy as the greatest-ever player from outside the United States...”

This is the correct take, yet Deadspin for some reason feels compelled to run with this narrative that it is all the Pelicans’ fault. It’s myopic and has been thoroughly debunked. If people want to criticize the Pelicans for not building a good enough roster around Davis, reasonable minds can disagree about that. But…

I think the staff is trolling us at this point. I hope the staff is trolling us at this point. 

“But if Gentry is looking for anyone to blame for creating a toxic environment in the organization, he should look at the executives above him, who first refused to honor Davis’s trade request.”

All of this information is obvious, and I don’t know why this article clearly ignores all of it just to stand by Deadspin’s pro-labor (as long as that labor is millionaire athletes) agenda.