It’s not quite clear how you link one team’s coaching staff to the leagues management? There are very good coaching staffs in the league also. Ipso facto doesn’t really apply in this case.

I guess we just disagree about what constitutes a ‘tantrum’. AI going off about PRACTICE, now that was a tantrum. A few remarks about practice attire being too casual withour raising ones voice or using any sort of profanity is not a tantrum. Yes, seeing a professional baseball player warming up without his socks on…

When I play in co-ed softball games, I always try to hit it to the girl! 

Very true, but it doesn’t fit the Deadspin party line, and that is that Bill Simmons is horrible and worse than Hitler because he wears plaid shirts and doesn’t work for Deadspin.

Yes because what you do as a child and an adult are the same fucking thing you dolt.

Unless Lonzo finally comes out against his ignoramus father, Lakers need to trade this clown in the offseason while they can still get maximum return and build around Kuzma, George, LeBron....anyone they can get. Just cut your losses and consider yourself lucky.

Isn’t one year of G league, currently an option for players leaving HS?

I think the G League is the real answer - you play against NBA-caliber talent and get to see if a player is ready to make the jump without flooding the NBA with 19-year-old busts like Lonzo Ball. If he played in the G League for 2 years, he would have already improved or busted and not at rookie deal prices.

Is the “You can’t go back” rule (YCGB) really that stupid?

They were facing 10 years, China was going to treat them the same way they treat all thieves. They weren’t planning to go extra hard nor soft, just the way they would normally treat someone.

I wouldn’t be surprised if the “Who?” was actually in reference to LiAngelo.

Aannnd. If his kid would have been thrown in a Chinese jail, he would of pushed his way to the front of the Trump dick sucking line to get him back home.

Do you think it could be that he’s getting too inside his own head? Like - he knows people are talking/writing about him ad nauseum so he knows any action he takes on the court is gonna be a big deal.

Smart. The Lakers obviously don’t want to lose out on his almost 9-7-7 per game.

How did you deal with these situations when you were in the league?

Worthless reply.

What’s “racist” about the word “taxpayers”?

Black people pay taxes (I just downloaded my biweekly pay stub..BOY DO I PAY TAXES and yes, I’m Black) - Latinos, Asians and American Indians pay taxes too.

Poor people definitely pay taxes - the lower your wages are, the relatively higher your taxes are.

It’s rich people that…

No, but all those guys played with fire, which sets a tone that is a very effective form of non-verbal leadership. Kerr has said that sometimes in the locker room, he could just tell by Jordan’s demeanor that he was going to have a killer night.

Holy shit. Now see, this is an actual example of PC’ness gone wild. Asking for non-gendered bathrooms? That’s called courtesy. Telling a guy he can’t do a broadcast because his name is similar to that of an infamous historical figure? Totally oblivious and embarrassing.

“ESPN is not Liberal”