Hmm, so an essay titled “I don’t know what to do with good white people” that, in large part, focuses on the concept of “good white people,” is not, in fact, about good white people? Interesting.

Of course, when an essay is written about you, that would be a time when it was about you.

Russians are saviors of us in Syria. Gives a good excuse to get the fuck out of there.

Goddamn. This is at least the 10th year in a row when I decide to root for someone else, but then I end up cheering for the Spurs.

This was a silly post.

Sure, anything’s possible. Recall that the 2008 Celtics were 27-2 on Christmas day, though, and they didn’t sniff it.

Sure. They have the best shot.

It’s unlikely because it’s only been done once in the history of the game. It takes a confluence of factors beyond just being the best team in basketball. There’s a best team every year. There are dominant squads multiple times a decade. Only one has ever made it to 70, and they combined the best player in the history…

There have been teams who started out hot before - the Mavs a few years ago, one of the KG Celtics teams...I remember Kerr repeatedly saying, “wait until a team gets to 41-3, then we can talk.”

Exactly. They still have to go 17-2 to get to where the ‘96 Bulls were (41-3). Even with a person with a competitive disorder, Jordan, leading the way, they still rested and coasted a bit towards the end.

They’ve played zero games against San Antonio and Cleveland. Even if they split those games, the effort will wear them down.

Because most athletes are either really, really dumb or moved through our sports-worshipping culture in such a way that they never learned anything about the world (or both, of course).

This was a good find.

Please point out that after Oklahoma City we did begin controlling bomb-the type of fertilizer necessary to create that type of weapon is heavily regulated and tracked and a permit is needed.

The irony is that “bomb control” is one of the great bits of evidence that lets us know gun control on some level could work.

Can’t listen to audio right now. Is Hiddleston actually singing? Actors playing musicians and singing their songs - always fucking poorly - is a pet peeve.

Yeah, we need the Deadspin staff to tell black people to lighten up and get over centuries of persecution! Shoot, they probably don’t even such a scholastic reference, right? I mean, they’d have to be suuuuuuuper articulate.

There is no one with a hint of political power on the left who is remotely attempting to “ban all guns.” This is fabricated hysteria.

There’s a strategy brewing in San Antonio, as well. They - along with Miami who had the advantage of LeBron - made small ball championship viable. This year their pace is slow and their defense is picking up. I think we’re in the early stages of Pop thinking he has an advantage somewhere. He uses the regular season to…

I think you answered your own question. Because it’s legal, the only way for teams with a free-throw albatross to combat the strategy is via a shaming campaign.