I mean I don’t know if pointing out that a guy who is a bad shooter has bad shooting numbers while also mentioning that “he has largely willed his way to being a credible 6-foot-10 point guard in a three-crazed NBA despite a total unwillingness to shoot from outside, and that’s amazing and wonderfully preposterous”…

On the plus side, they were juuuuust smart enough not to elevate Todd Haley.

fuckin’ lol, sure as shit didn’t stop them from trying to make that one stick with all the “Violent Leftist” talk

This is beautiful, and an example of the kind writing that keeps me coming back to The Root. I mean, also the insightful commentary, of course, but mostly this.

For the longest time I just assumed they were saying “melting,” as though the food were still hot, so naturally the cheese was melting, and I was okay with that.

Hey, Dwayne Casey did a remarkable job with the Raptors last year, LeBron is gone, Blake and Andre have had a training camp to acclimate to each other...

You joke, but there are already those kinds of takes going around re: Soros.

If we’re talking personality, sure, but in terms of play the guy is breathtaking to watch.

I personally am excited for the one that comes if the Dems win the House, wherein we’re told “actually, Dems winning the House isn’t good!!”

Fucking THANK YOU. I want to frame this comment. I’m a Lakers fan and hated those Celtics teams, but it’s like everyone plum forgot that “actually, the Cs have a Big Four” was a legitimate argument. Hell, remember when he dislocated his elbow against the Heat in the playoffs in 2011 and played the 4th with one arm?

She should be thrown in jail for this alone.

It really is a shame. I still remember when he was a legit MVP candidate that year that Chris Paul was hurt for an extended period (well... lol at “that one year,” but you know what I mean). Guy was running the offense well, serving as primary ball-handler, still had his hops... for a while there “Blake Griffin or…

Hey, ol’ Tom DeLay! He was the subject of David Brooks-style “no true Republican” scolding before the current era:

It served as a boogeyman for other cities for so long that the NFL seemed to forget that the boogeyman doesn’t exist. The only reasonable, good faith attempt at Los Angeles would’ve been moving the Raiders back, since the Raiders are the only team that had a hope in hell of getting significant support in LA, and…

The move was *always* the Raiders.

Austin Rivers is in Washington now, so the Clippers don’t even have that.

It holds up incredibly well. Spike’s best. That blackface montage at the end is just devastating. I still remember critics at the time bitching about the “lack of subtlety.”

On the plus side, they’ll fit right in with all the other washed up entertainers.

Seriously. Lyle Lovett gets all the shit from that cursed union, but everything I’ve heard since indicates that Julia Roberts is awful and Lyle Lovett is actually a pretty cool guy.

THANK YOU. Honestly, nothing gets my eyes rolling faster than listening to people enumerate the gourmet qualities of their favorite solid, middle of the road food, whether it be a burger, or a donut, etc. Just let it be what it is, for chrissakes! There’s absolutely a ceiling for these things, and that’s fine!