Lemme help you here, big chief:

My question is: would this risk any beat writers’ access?

I’ll disagree 100% on Nic Cage who has been amazing in dramas, comedies, action movies and everything else you want to put him in. Even his over-the-top bad movies are amazing because of his performance. (Honestly, watch Bad Lieutenant - Port of Call: New Orleans. It is a performance beyond imagination).

While it would be easy to caveat their success by pointing out Kane’s lack of form due to being rushed ahead of schedule from his injury, their success this season points to this not being an one-off.

The three m’s in Berthiaummme are a dead giveaway.

Things this was also not:

And honestly, I get it from his point-of-view. He didn’t offer himself 350,000 pounds a week. The club did. He’s cashing that check no matter what happens. He has a strong fanbase that will support him regardless of his shortcomings. He has a strong online brand presence he wants to keep alive. London is a great city…

Ozil and his agent have made it clear that he has no intention of going anywhere given that A) he’s under contract and B) he loves life in London. This means that Arsenal not only have to eat the bulk of his wages and likely give him away, but do so to a team that resides in London and that he’d be willing to go.

You mean to tell me that the Knicks couldn’t find someone else to offer up something bigger/better with those 7 days? That’s a long ass time to call another team and go “Look, we’re shopping KP and we have this offer from Dallas. Can you guys beat it?”

I was waiting for someone to honk at him or yell “Chris, STFU man!”

Don’t forget the circular firing squad that is the Lakers’ front office woes.

“I told you so!” - Paul Pierce

Not surprised. Saddened, but not surprised.

You’d think a man who is already the face of an ownership group would have been OK with being the face of a front office.

Oh no, this all sounds so much like a competent, intelligent, championship-caliber front office. Everyone should be raring to move to the Lakers!

Damn, Ray. You are more excited than a kid on Christmas morning because this might be the first of many Christmas mornings! The Lakers may be the gift that gives all year long!

Ray, come on now, man. You clearly missed the Deadspin memo that stated that all takes on the Pelicans must be hot, must be fiery and must state that they do not deserve to exist, let alone have anything of value like Anthony Davis or the rights to Zion Williamson.

Hey, the Pelicans won the Lotto. I wonder if Deadspin is salty AF.

Remember how, at the height of the AD Saga this January, every one was bemoaning the shitshow that was the Pelicans’ front office? How they seemed to be run as an afterthought in a Mom and Pop operation by NFL people who’d let Dell Demps do what he wanted for years? How the Pelicans were the amateurs and the shitty…

50 miles away from Atlanta, huh?