Thank you for sharing this.

They don’t have any competition because the owners are greedy bastards who only care about making money. You can’t hold that against any team. But they have actually had strong competition or did you miss the WCF last year? I guess you’ve only been watching the East which functionally has had one basketball team for…

As a lifelong Warriors fan who doesn’t live in the Bay anymore, I think I can explain it. Draymond’s a heel the way Rodman was, but not enough for a lot of people to hate them. Durant’s decision to go there is a big part of it, and has made the last few years far less enjoyable for me personally than the pre-KD…

Longtime Warriors fan here, checking in. My take is that, for decades, GSW were an afterthought. You could reliably pencil in wins against them for literally 30 years. Then, they drafted well and had an owner (Joe Lacob) who is as insufferable as any Silicon Valley shithead who thinks that he’s “disrupting the…

Alright! Here’s a good example of someone definitely worse, thank you

Look at any of the historically great teams/franchises.  The Bulls, The Patriots, the Yankees, etc.  People love to hate these teams as often as fairweather fans like to pick up gear for the best player at any given time.

Let’s not forget that they got luckier than maybe any team in NBA history. In 2011-12, Steph Curry’s ankle turned to mush and he played only 26 games. In October 2012, he signed a 4/$44m contract extension, which made him something like the 4th highest paid player on his own team. He was good in 2012-13 and then has…

That’s a great question! Let me answer it in the spirit to which it was proffered!

From a life-long Warriors fan, this is *still* all so bizarre. This organization was the worst kind of goat rodeo for a better part of 20+ years - a complete laughing stock, an example of how not to run an organization, and a place that our players ran from - and that free agents dare not join. Think about that. It’s…

I didn’t “put it like that” because I feel like I can have a discussion about LeBron without having to constantly talk about how great he is. People are so worried about whether anyone’s being hated on or not. I’m just trying to talk about basketball. The only player I’ve ever hated retired a couple of years ago (and…

Burneko demoted me last year for using a GIF.

There are two kinds of people. Those who find Bill’s self-important schtick while sporting a tie-die Dead t-shirt endearing, and those who turn the channel lest he cause them to claw their own eyes out to distract from the agony that is listening to him. I am in the latter camp.

This is true. Also, why are you grey?

Kyrie’s PER, VORP, and WS/48 all dropped the first year LeBron came to Cleveland. They did bounce most of the way back the next year, but only to his pre-LeBron levels. They took a major leap in his first season away from LeBron and appear to be doing the same again this year.

I don’t think his growth had much to do…

He was seen as a promising point guard who was putting up empty stats on very bad Cavs teams. Each postseason with LBJ his numbers improved. Whether or not that’s attributable to LeBron, who knows, but you can’t say “there’s not much evidence young players get better with him,” then when given an example of someone…

This is the level of petty I need from deadspin.

Maybe Coach Walton just can’t relate to what it was like for Lonzo to grow up with a dad constantly spouting nonsense for public consumption.

now those are some guys i’m surprised anyone remembers.

Not denying that bandwagoners are kinda annoying, but if you’re gonna be shitting on people’s True Fan cred, you should probably spell Erick Dampier’s name correctly.

Sounds reasonable enough.