True and an underrated part of the argument. Some people point to baseball as a sport with no salary cap and no single dominant team, but a lot of that is because the most impactful players on a baseball team (by far on a per game basis) only get to play one out of every five games.

If you look at this list, it shows that the NBA has been this way since its inception in 1950. Lakers won four of the first five titles. The Celtics played in 12 finals and won 11 titles in the 15 seasons from ‘55 to ‘69. The Lakers played in 8 finals during that same time span. In the ten years of the 70s, four teams…

All I have to say is that basketball has always been this. It’s a flaw of the sport, not particular circumstances. You only have five players. It only takes one wunderkind to turn a team from mediocre to completely dominant. It’s why the NBA has such a problem with tanking at the end of a season.

I read it, just acknowledging that essentially whatever team Lebron plays for will send the conference into his “wood chipper”

The problem with these playoffs besides the blowouts is that we all preeeeeeetty much know who the final teams standing are going to be and they are so easily demolishing everything in their path that all of these other games make it like we’re watching the NIT tournament

I don’t remember this part of chemistry class.

Sorry man. I don’t see it. I also don’t think the screen was that dirty either.

Your comment sounds like a Chinese women trying to describe sex.

Not to mention the blatant racism. There is zero doubt that racists watch sports in the US, but none of them--not in the deepest south, not in the southiest of Boston--would any of them dare shout slurs or throw bananas or sing racist songs in the stands, and if they did, they’d leave the stadium in an ambulance. Not…

He’s a rookie, but he’s been a real leader in the locker room so far.

You mean like literally beat the shit out of the Suns leading by 20+ points for the majority of the game?

Yea, like win the game

“A gimmick? Please, call me after you do it for a whole season.”

Both teams made smart and prudent moves, though the praise for Houston is blunted by the fact that they signed Osweiler to begin with.

The Texans don’t get any laurels: they just get to go back to when they didn’t give Osweiler that stupid contract. So basically, it’s a wash for them.

OK, I’ve come to accept that maybe the Browns did something so crazy it’s kinda brilliant, but where are the laurels for Houston, which rather ingeniously freed up a big chunk of cap money AND doesn’t have the worry of ever having to play Brock Osweiler again, all for the cost of a couple crapshoot draft picks?

That was an entirely different front office that grabbed Manziel in the first.

It’s an NBA-style move that’s drawing comparisons to what Sam Hinkie did with The Process in Philadelphia.

John Ross like chris Johnson is a good productive football player who was likely to be a first round pick regardless. The rest of those guys are just track guys.

I don't know. I think maybe the world's saddest Nets fan is the one taking the picture.