“he gave his life for the game he loved”

Sure, the league changed a rule on hitting with the crown of the helmet in the wake of Shazier’s injury

The Knights are why I think the Caps finally beat the Penguins this year. Our destiny is to finally get past the 2nd round, and then the conference finals, just so we can lose in the finals to a first year expansion team that was put together by our former GM.

“2 wrongs make a right.” should be the NBA’s motto

If I worked for the NBA, I would use these 2-minute reports to identify tendencies of individual refs or even crews to look for opportunities for training. Does a particular crew miss specific types of fouls? Does a particular ref tend to swallow their whistle on prime time or nationally broadcasted games? Are refs…

There was also this bit. Kind of a wash, right?

Transparency? Owning up to their mistakes? Trying to get better?

It’s really hard to get 10 assists for a triple double when no one on your team can hit a fucking wide open shot.

To the other 11 Cavs:

Good lord is the rest of that lineup hot garbage. At the end it was Calderon, Love, Korver, Smith and LeBron.

See, your mistake is in having Fox and think together. Think is excluded from all Fox equations. (-∞, think)U(think, ∞)

Randy Moss: fun character, considered one of the best players of all time at his position, however did little to make others on his teams better, often criticized for not playing 100%, not doing the ‘small things,’ never won a title.

Bryce Harper? Kind of simplistic, but both dudes who have had incredible careers, and have been on talented teams that consistently manage to underachieve in the playoffs.

Of course. Of course this was inevitable. The Caps were never going to just bow out in a normal way, a first round exit for an unheralded team against a bland opponent. Of course they had to come storming back from an 0-2 series hole to take 4 straight. Of course they had to look downright dominant in the clinching…

The Pens should have had their brooms out from the beginning though. If the Flyers could take 2, a team with an actual goaltender could be a real threat to them.

Heh. I probably should’ve mentioned this in the blog: the interviewer is Dallas Braden, who pitched the last no-hitter for the Athletics, back in 2010.

That’s understandable, and I would sympathize with that. However, when he calls himself one of the best centers in the NBA, goes out and puts up 5 and 2 against another true center and then blames other people afterwards, my sympathy goes away.

Eric Bledsoe doesn’t seem to be familiar with Terry Rozier.

Unsurprisingly, Bledsoe elected to make an idiotic decision instead of passing.

Boston fans don’t know who Bledsoe is, either, but that’s because all basketball players look alike.