How’s your NBA team? Weird that such a big market and the “greatest sports city in the country hand down” doesn’t have a team in one of the two most popular leagues. Wonder why?

Having a healthy MKG would make all the difference in the world. He’s like a long Tony Allen. He opens up all kinds of different lineups, and it takes a lot of pressure off Batum—asking him to be a go-to scorer and the best facilitator on one end, and the best perimeter defender on the other end, is a lot.

Oh, that’s easy! The difference is, you think your team has a chance of winning the conference (plausible last year, unlikely but not ludicrous this year, crazy but not full-blown delusional during the Iso Joe/Josh Smith era). So, yeah, if that’s the goal, it doesn’t matter when you play the Cavs.

As a Hornets fan, I enjoyed this too. Heat win that game we get Hawks in the first round, Cavs in the 2nd. Now it’s Bosh-less Heat in the 1st, Raptors/Pacers in the 2nd. Thanks, Celtics!

Thanks for mentioning this... had no idea Barkley had said that, but I just looked up the quote. As a North Carolina, Hornets fan, and basketball nerd who was super excited about going to this game... I agree 100% that it should be moved (unless we punt McCrory in November and Roy Cooper quickly repeals HB2), and I…

Did the ball go in though? Looks like it had a chance. I mean, I get that play was stopped for the foul, and if it hadn’t been it still would have been stopped for the offside. And it was already 4-1. So, I get that it doesn’t matter, like, objectively. But it matters to me, man.

Nah, I’ll save them for the guy who’s calling other people stupid because he misread a post. OP said:

I use profanities everywhere. Kind of my default setting.

I don’t disagree with you. I just said that the perceptions I’ve encountered personally (I have a sister with Asperger’s) have generally been quite negative. My observation about Hinkie was presented (I thought clearly) as neither positive nor negative. It was just an observation. I’m not claiming he climbed the NBA…

The fuck is wrong with you? It’s a sports blog, dude. There are things in the world worth getting pissed about... this ain’t one of them.

Why? The Process was incredibly stupid, but as a human being Hinkie has been wildly successfully. I mean, he was the GM of an NBA team for several years (and a messianic figure for a lot of crazy Sixers fans). The general attitude towards autism I’ve encountered is that it’s a debilitating “disorder” (your word) that…

I get that. All he really did was take a conventional strategy (tanking) to the radical extreme. But, because he shrouded that approach in techbro buzzwords, I do think he successfully convinced Sixers execs, fans, and many people around the league that he was doing something much more sophisticated, and garnered a…

I think there’s more luck involved than you’re assuming. Virtually every pick in the top 20 or so comes in +/- 3 spots from the consensus mock drafts. You don’t deserve heaps of praise for picking a future superstar at #2 when 29 other teams would have done the exact same thing. Nor do you deserve heaps of blame for…

As someone who often gripes about the stale, “play it safe” conventional wisdom most NBA front offices employ, this really sucks. Because this Hinkie jamoke has basically ruined the NBA for “outside the box” GMs for the next two decades at least. Seriously, every time a team considers hiring someone to their front…

I have a Sixers fan friend who is a firm Process believer, and is furious today. As best as I can tell, the logic rests on the following assumptions:

One vet with no rings, no all-star appearances, and maybe a handful playoff games in a decade plus in the league? Totally a valid comparison to the Wolves bringing in KG and Tayshaun to mentor their youth movement. Nothing says winning culture and savvy vet presence like Carl Landry, Sacramento Refugee.

So between your comment about his social skills and Burneko calling him a savant... I mean, let’s just stop beating around the bush here. We’ve read the letter. Hinkie is autistic. Not that there’s anything wrong with that. But as someone with autistic family members, it was clear as day reading that letter. He’s…

I’m not taking sides here, but do you honestly think the dialogue between Clinton and Sanders, or their respective supporters, has been even close to as hostile as it was between Obama and Clinton 8 years ago? Because it’s not even close.

I don’t support the negative tactics (from either camp), but I think the piece a lot of people are missing is that a large number of Bernie supporters aren’t Democrats. He’s brought them under the tent, but they have no loyalty to the brand so the concept of voting -D no matter what doesn’t compute.

Also, while some draft picks would shine no matter where you stuck them (e.g., LBJ on those god awful Cavs teams), a lot of guys develop into stars precisely because they come into a great situation that lets them flourish. Butler, Green, Kawhi Leonard, hell, even Tim Duncan coming up under the Admiral... those guys…