This is an intense and well-written story, the exact type of stuff that nobody but Deadspin is doing.

I realistically can’t think of ONE thing that LeBron wouldn’t be able to afford if he lost ALL income from China overnight. And I’m counting a mansion with 4 Aventadors as one thing.
Dude has earned over a BILLION. But he’s worried that not ignoring people who don’t want to be sent to slave camps if they anger their…

LeBron:“I want to be so much more than just a basketball player. I want to be a global icon whose impact is felt far beyond the court.”

Everyone in the NBA involved with this has shown their ass multiple times. Fuck LeBron, fuck Silver, fuck Morey, fuck Tsai, fuck Harden, fuck ‘em all.

Yeah, I really don't expect your average (or goat) basketball player to be able to say anything intelligent about China. But it is pretty fucking obvious the NBA is ignoring human rights violations because they have dollar signs in their eyes. Pretty fucking simple. 

Dispensary clerk. Every customer is excited!

I love this team so much. I can’t enjoy my own successes, but I get all sensitive and emotional when I see anyone do the thing. And to watch it happening with the team I most love is doing all kinds off shit to me. I’ve never been a big believer in the clubhouse chemistry thing, but these guys have something special…

Just your daily reminder: Fuck PENN State and Fuck the NCAA.

So they draw the line on tee shirts but not rampant child abuse? 

on the one hand: awful, late-capitalist hellscape.

There are three plausible explanations for how he ingested fentanyl. He could have been using pharmaceutical fentanyl diverted from someone else, although this seems very unlikely. Two, he could have used street “heroin”. And three, he took counterfeit pills.

Ok this is long but i think its a reasonable take: So do you really think that Kay, Dir. of Communications was the “bad influence” in Skaggs, a young rich mlb pitcher’s life? Im not being a smartass i am honestly asking. I have commented on tyler before under a different username where i mentioned my history with…

Further perpetuation of the drug war is just silly. Criminalization of suppliers will do nothing more that pack prisons with people who need medical help, not punishment.

Pretty sure Master P and the No Limit Soldiers vs The Kiss Demon and The Misfits is just waiting for the call. 

There are dozens of us.

I 100% thought he said shitty until you said this. I think the other guys on set did too, you can see A-Rod looking around the set in mild panic.

My favorite thing about this is that when Ortiz says “They might think it’s cheating” it very much sounds like he’s saying “They might think it’s shitty.”

Glasnow picked the worst possible time to adopt glasnost.

My parents gave me a map, pointed to Japan and China, and said “these are different countries”. I've never forgotten that lesson.

Did his dad abandon them in October? That would explain a lot.