How do you know you don’t need health insurance?

Unlike a couple of other ESPN NBA analysis guys who weren’t laid off but have kept fairly quiet in the past week, Lowe has been cranking out columns and pods on the regular, so I’m hopeful his position isn’t in question.

Probably not good career development for reporters, especially in the Strauss/Verrier age bracket, to be left twisting unable to generate content for however long their contracts run.

Amin Elhassan used to joke about Woj shushing him in a media room once and hasn’t tweeted in a week. Was he sent to a reeducation camp?

Reallocating a much bigger percentage of public bathrooms as unisex would require some rethinking, definitely. Maybe unisex wouldn’t have urinals at all.

First, the headline makes it seem as though the Oilers converted ALL their women’s bathrooms to men’s, so my outrage meter had dipped significantly by the time I finished the article.

I was going to say something about how did I miss David West being this good of a passer before this season, but I guess the article indicates everyone else missed it too. So let me be the crotchety old man and wag my finger at most of the league and say “You’re not doing it the right way!”

ELITE INTERIOR PASSERS make me start hyperventilating. Basketball’s just so much more beautiful when everybody’s in motion and the ball is whipping around.

Bigotry would do, “state-based bigotry” if you want to be specific is unwieldy, but that’s what I’ve got for you. I don’t consider myself a bigot in this regard, I’m just reading charts and reaching what seems to me like a reasonable conclusion, but if you wanted to accuse me, I guess bigotry, or perhaps chauvinism,…

A few weeks ago I posted a comment here where I broked down AI’s MVP season vs. Isaiah Thomas’ year. I won’t rehash all the details, but basically:

“ethnocentric (is that the right term?)” 

I think we’ve got the chicken/egg, though. Do Bostonians freak out to deny local racism because they’re always singled out for it, or are the always singled out for it because they freak out to deny it?

I didn’t CALL you names, I IMPLIED that you didn’t know what the hell you were talking about.

As someone from the Boston area who’s now lived in Chicago longer than I have anywhere else, I am WELL aware of Boston’s history of racism, including (but obviously not most importantly) as directed towards local sports heroes. Including stuff that happened during the 90s, in my childhood, when someone in my family…

The only multi-syllabic word I believe you understand in this comment is “Jimmy,” and that includes “sorry”.

I care too much about the citizens of Mississippi to want their health care/insurance system to be entirely in the hands of the government they selected for themselves.

I doubt I could push a sled loaded with 1,395 pounds, so yeah, I’m a little impressed.

I really wish basketball-reference had player rebound %s for the 60s, and I’m actually not sure why they don’t. Offensive/defensive boards weren’t distinguished, but they still have total numbers. I’d love to see exactly how the 60s era numbers compare to Moses Malone or Dennis Rodman, scaled to the number of actual…

Various NBA stats people have been saying that this year is basically bonkers from a statistical perspective, comparing it to the ‘61-’62 season. The early ‘60s-era was statistically nuts from out perspective, but ‘62's rep is that it was particularly wacky for whatever reason.

That’s a very good point. But if I were going to complicate it: