Meanwhile, Simmons is thriving. Deadspin is just butt hurt and jealous. He’s a sports commentator. No shit he has hot takes. Deadspin has hot takes all the time. Way more people watch/listen/read Simmons than Deadspin. Just need to get over themselves and stop wasting time with these vanity jealousy posts.

Deadspin is so fucking jealous of Bill Simmons. It ooozes through all their coverage of him.

Did you see the first two games of the OKC series and see what Aldridge did? Leonard doesn’t have be THE star. Aldridge is a top-5 offensive big in the league and he’s already there.

Sports comments threads: where everybody vehemently disagrees about everything, no matter how minute or insignificant.

But it is nitpicking to nitpick about rankings of incomparable players across incomparable eras, rules, levels of competition, etc, that are inherently and fundamentally subjective and thus always subject to debate!

Well, we sure have a big group of nitpickers gathered here today don’t we?

A. What’s the deal with the parentheses

I agree, but at least there’s an argument about mistmatch of skills/size/era to have there. With Bogut, Bogut is a 1990s center - in size, speed, skillset, etc - walking around in the 2016 NBA. He’s literally the one player on the current Warriors who you could pick up, plop back in time on a 1990s playoff team, and…

Whoa there dude. You’re having an argument with yourself. You said Bogut was smaller/weaker and I was commenting on that. Didn’t mean for this become a big thing!

They are literally the same dimensions as each other (Ewing as of his playing days of course). 7 Ft, 255/260 lbs. If anything, Bogut’s a little bigger. Would Patrick Ewing have been better head to head? Yes. But he was an all time great, a top 5 player in the league. Nobody was arguing that and nobody is claiming…

Cavs are quietly firing on all cylinders right now too. Will be a much better finals than last year - and likely much closer - if everyone stays healthy on both sides.

“smaller and faster dudes?” Bogut is pretty fucking enormous and would have been a pretty fucking enormous banger in 1994 too.

Hahaha. This is a joke right? You just said “one of the best artists” yourself. That’s exactly my entire point. We can say someone is great without saying they’re the “Greatest Of All Time” (GOAT), which is a mutually exclusive designation that we can only give to one person.

I’m not trying to have a specific argument about whether Prince was better than musician X (which is completely subjective to begin with). I’m just pointing out that clearly there were many other great musicians who a lot of these same exact people would also call the “GOAT” upon their death, rendering it a stupid…

Can the expression “the GOAT” please die?

I love that his best highlight involves double dribbling

But Green clearly fouled Durant on the catch by pulling his arm away — thats the only reason Spurs stole the ball to begin with — and on it goes. The fan pinning down Steven Adams, and so on.

Right. The conferences were actually way less imbalanced this year than they have been for years. The Top 2 teams in the West are off the charts, but otherwise the middle of the road East teams are better than the middle of the road West teams.

They were way less imbalanced this year though. Top 2 teams in the West are off the charts, but otherwise the 4 or 5 through 8 seeded teams in the East were actually better than 4 or 5-8 teams in the West for the first time in years this year. Are the Celtics and Hawks amazing teams? No, of course not. But they are…

Dude, you’re exaggerating. In the 2015 finals the Cavs won 2 games, lost a 3rd in OT that was basically a draw and could have broken 50-50 either way (Game 1), and were within 5 points in the 4th quarter of Game 5, in which if a few late game possessions broke differently they could also have easily have won. They…