Yes, like 15 year old kids in pickup games never took ill-advised low percentage shots before or anything...

Jesus, you are so craven. This article has NOTHING to do with HRC. Yet, there’s a sinister plot lurking under everything, right??

I have a colleague with BRF, and its a serious condition for her (only sort of joking here). Everyone always thinks she’s pissed and scowling at them in disapproval during work meetings, when in reality that’s just what her “i’m making no facial expression and have no particular emotion right now” face looks like.…

For what its worth, those teams played a beautiful game last night. Amazing sequence of Isaiah Thomas drives leading to overtime. Very thrilling.

Natasha Vargas Cooper. I think she works this here blog!

Right, but my point is that there are many 6 footers with comparatively incredible basketball skills, who still can’t make it because they’re too short. For every mediocre non-super star 6'10" guy in the NBA, there are probably 20 5'10" dudes the same age who are more talented at basketball than him - in terms of…

Yes, I’ve read something similar. Its crazy. The odds of making the NBA as a moderately physically coordinated 7' male with no serious physical ailments who is interested in playing basketball are startling high. Meanwhile 5'9" is nearly the median height for males in the US. So Isaiah Thomas’s odds are like…

What’s crazy to think about is that as you get shorter and shorter, you have to be that much more skilled as a basketball player to cut it in this league. 7'3" guys who can barely catch and have never made a jump shot in their entire life play and make millions in the NBA just because they’re 7'+ guys and there are…

Wow. Learn a new thing every day. Turns out the “sack of rome” refers to a series of sacks, not just one big sack: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sack_of_R…

Great joke, but a good 500 years or so late there on your historical reference

Given that he frequently benches promising young players who are playing well in favor of old veterans who can barely run or shitty unpromising young players who went to BC or Syracuse, it actually would have fit with the pattern to bench him, even without the antics.

oh reality tv producers... they amp things up by making grylls jump out of a helicopter into a snowy glacier field, then rappel down a cliff face to meet obama, as if he’s meeting him out in the absolute middle of nowhere wilderness. but then obama is shown walking right up to him on a wide, paved path, of the sort…

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I don’t even watch the Bucks and don’t live anywhere near Wisconsin. Its just shitty writing. He’s trying to exaggerate to have a punchy lead for his story, but anyone who pays attention to basketball stats will read that first paragraph and be like “hey there exaggerator...” hurts his credibility with the rest of the…

To be fair to those who care about basketball, “is scoring just 10.4 points per game on a brutal 42.7 percent shooting”

This often means there were one or two people holding out and everyone else wanted to go the other way. Doesn’t necessarily indicate the prosecutions case was weak at all.

Yes. There may be interesting, mysterious, complex aspects of his case for Serial, but one thing that is not mysterious or complex is that he definitely did the thing he’s alleged to have done. He deserted. That’s he being punished for desertion is a completely unsurprising development.

The weirdest thing is that in like 90%+ of Muslim societies, a turban like thing is not a common form of headwear. Its kind of weird that it even became a stereotypical piece of headwear associated with Muslims to begin with. Like Saudi guys in Lawrence of Arabia riding around in the desert and traders crossing the…

In fact, the movie “The Big Short” that I saw like 9 ads for while watching the NBA this weekend is about people using analytics to make exactly the kind of decision you’re talking about. If the whole crowd is going left (in that case, investing in the housing market), it can be very profitable to be the one person…

Exactly. Its all about beating teams by playing out of the equilibrium everyone else has settled into. The Warriors are doing it by going even further in the pace and space direction than anyone has gone before (and having crazy talent; god-like shooters like Curry and the ultimate utility man in Draymond), and the…