That’s medium heat at best. You’ve got to go way bigger. Like “The NBA should ban free agency in response to Durant.” Then find a way to make it really obvious you think black people should be slaves without actually saying it. You’re not going to summit Mount Take without adding some dog-whistle racist shit.

No. He’s just not allowed to choose to sign with a team that’s too good(because then he’s a coward). Or too bad(Doesn’t care about winning!). Or in too big a market(SOLD OUT TO NIKE!). Or too small(CAN’T TAKE PRESSURE?!?!?)

This is Durant showing that he has completely bought into the gotta-have-a-ring mentality that dominates the current culture in sports, completely buying into the notion that if you don’t win a championship, you are nothing.

I enjoyed all the reports during the FA signing period saying that Austin Rivers was “meeting with team officials” which is really just code for having dinner with his dad.

His first draft: “We are fucked. Fucker fucked us. After Westbrook fucks us we are more fucked. No good player will fucking replace them because who the fuck wants to live in fucking Oklafuckinghoma?”

I hope they go undefeated and score 1,000 points per game. I hope they melt the arenas in which they play because they make the ball move so beautifully, and so quickly, that the air becomes super-heated with the vigorous masturbation of the assembled angelic hosts of heaven. I hope Kevin Durant, Steph Curry, Klay…

Huh, I guess it’s possible to behave like an adult in these kinds of situations after all. Well done, Presti.

Joe Lacob had a team of Silicon Valley programmers create a secret algorithm that determined “Adding Kevin Durant is good.” Will the disruption ever end?

Let’s not forget that the NBA draft is inherently bullshit. Players have no say in where they play or how much they get played. It’s just an attempt to level the playing field for billionaires that are incapable of hiring competent people and staying out of their way.
I cheer each and every player that leaves a city…

You can be upset if you’re a fan, but acting like an athlete’s decision about where he wants to play has some sort of deep moral ramifications is stupid.

You’re right; my mistake. The person who taped TRAITOR to his former favorite player’s jersey and is protesting the fact that the player agreed to a contract somewhere else by holding up a sign outside the team’s headquarters is acting in a perfectly reasonable way.

I just don’t know that the Oklahoma City Sonics get to pull this card.

How dare he betray the city who drafted him.

I too have a feminist cat.

Well, I’m not going to fight 2 billion soccer fans about whether it’s a sport or not. You do it, I’ll wait here.

Zaza should be ashamed of himself
Tried to get in Neuer’s head and he failed, then couldn’t even get it on target.

All the worse in that he was specifically on to take a penalty.

Yeah. Where’s the bath salt-fueled face-eating cannibalism?

No one in this story got shot, eaten by an alligator, or busted for methamphetamine distribution, so I fail to see how this is the quintessential Florida story.

I like how the guy named Osama comes off as one of the best people in the story.

Currently reading China Miéville’s Embassytown, which is typically wonderful.