Last 10 years: Eastern conference teams got the top pick 6 times, western conference teams 4 times.

This comment is decidedly not dumb. Its a work of art.

Can you imagine lucking into a situation where you get to ride LeBron James to a championship, then being out of work for a year because everyone knows you’re not that great of a coach and you rode LeBron James to a championship, and then, because the front office of a team trying to ride LeBron James to a…

I’m shocked to read that Kareem Abdul-Jabbar wanted to be traded to the Bullets ahead of the Lakers.  Not sure what sort of time-travel was involved, but clearly Ernie Grunfeld is the one who fucked that up.  

I have this ass master and Ben Simmons on my NBA Live 19 crew and now I realize why my fucking gym keeps getting stolen by everyone on the server.

He really only pushed the envelope once he literally had one NFL game left to broadcast, just as he neared retirement age. It’s admirable, yes, and I acknowledged his integrity by quoting Lipsyte. But let’s not pretend he actually risked his career here.

I did in the piece, with the reference to my own cognitive dissonance, but at least acknowledging the differing degrees of hypocrisy would be nice.

“the league’s asset-rich flagship franchise”

Are we really still pretending that Kyle Kuzma, Brandon Ingram, and Lonzo Ball count as “assets”?

He signed a fucking contract. If you sign someone to a contract to redo your kitchen and they decide halfway through that they’d rather do someone else’s kitchen, does that mean they can stop? Especially if you are paying them tens of millions of dollars?

Fact is, Rich Paul messed up. He didn’t understand his adversary or how the Pelicans think, tried forcing the issue through the media, and landed his client in the worst position possible. Davis could have played out the year and be seen as the good guy, like Kevin Garnett, who left town only after the Pels repeatedly…

This site has an extremely weird fetish for AD going to the Lakers and there have been schizophrenic pieces since the trade request both acknowledging how bad the Lakers are and pillorying the Pelicans for not jumping at the chance to take the same junko players which make the Lakers so bad. It’s very, very strange…

Yeah, I don’t really get the Deadspin hot takes when it comes to the Pels... they played the Lakers like a... anything other than a fiddle, or bagpipes... so I refuse to cast them as the bad guys. The Lakers have nothing to offer but hot garbage, if anything I admire the Pels restraint.

Don’t bother dude. Deadspin’s too far down this hole, it would be embarrassing for them to turn back.

But the Pelicans are employing him out of spite!  How dare they not nibble on the Lakers offer of fresh shit kibble?

Deeply embarrassed? The biggest impediment to NOLA is injuries. If Cousins don’t tear his Achilles and potentially resigns with NOLA, all of sudden Pelicans might have a shot. But like the case with Jrue, AD, Cousins, Pondexter, Ryan Anderson, Eric Gordon, Asik, etc, etc. Bad injuries has doomed us. It’s not a perfect…