To each their own, I guess. For my 7 year old, every buzzer beater( particularly in the playoffs) is like the greatest thing in the world. Perhaps his enthusiasm rubbed off on me, but I found it quite enjoyable, even if I can’t stand the Rockets.

Nope, totally serious. I’m not a Rockets fan, but I am a huge fan of basketball. I still have the ticket stub from the Knicks game where Larry Johnson hit the 4 point play. My friends and I speak for hours about every great Knicks buzzer beater from the last 40 years. Hell, we still can’t say the name Charles Smith…

Or Allan Houston’s game winner or Larry Johnson’s miraculous 4 point play. I’ll happily take those memories to the grave.

Don’t you have the draft pick regardless? I get that theres the hope of perhaps getting the #1 pick, but if you play the odds then it’s the difference between the 13th pick overall as opposed to the 15th or 16th pick.

“har-ens offense doesnt offset his poor defense”

I get so tired of hearing from people that being an 8th seed is meaningless in the NBA. Ask any Rockets fan if they’d rather be at home to see their team’s ping pong ball get picked during the lottery process or if they’d rather see their team compete in the playoffs.

Perhaps. He might have been trapped in an era that didn’t know how to properly use his talents efficiently. I do disagree that he was anything other than a below average one on one defender in his best day. That could potentially be negated by rule changes that allows team defense, although I think that advantage…

He’s not terrible. His players seemed to respond well to him and he does know how to find and exploit his opponent’s weaknesses. He just doesn’t run a very clean offense where he can plug in any player and they’ll succeed. His offense has more in common with Phil Jackson than Gregg Popovich and therein lies a major…

Not sure about football and life expectancy, I know for certain that most football players spend the rest of their lives in extreme pain after retirement. Add to that fact the findings of what multiple concussions can do to a person and I can see your point. However, these players were paid very well for their time in…

Outside of maybe working on camera in porn, no line of work takes more off of a human being’s life expectancy than being a professional wrestler.

Good points. There is one aspect about Miller that I’d argue would be a detriment to him being as successful in today’s NBA. He was 6-7, but only weighed 185 (I’d say he was closer to 175, but whatever). He could jump, but wasn’t exactly a high flyer. Defensively any SG could back him down. He had good hands, and like…

I’d say Miller, if he were on the right team, would be like a in his prime JJ Reddick minus the slick passing. A 15-16 ppg scorer who spaces the floor for a Blake Griffin.

You could elevate the drink, like say by adding vanilla bean to the vodka for a few days to infuse the vodka with vanilla bean goodness.

“Yes. Joe Flacco is elite.”

You know, a friend of mine and I argued over where Steph Curry would have been drafted had he come out the same year as his dad (86). His argument was that talent is talent and he’d easily had been a lottery pick. My own thoughts are that scouting wasn’t nearly a science in 86, and even a player at a major ACC school…

I keep thinking the same thing, and then I see a Donald Trump rally and I’m not so sure. I live in NY, and we have our own brand of idiots here, people whom I have no idea how they even got an IDEA to run for office because they’re too dumb to come up with ideas, yet they’re running my state or worse, representing my…

Salient points all around. I disagree with some of them, but they make sense irregardless of what I believe.

Here’s something you should think about though: Schilling getting fired from ESPN only inches him closer to running for office somewhere.

Yeah, he has all that money he made from making video games anyway.

Holy shit, Shonda Schilling really went herself go after 38Studios stopped getting government handouts.