It was the most ideally balanced “Big 3" of assembled veteran all-stars we’ve seen this century (as opposed to GSW, which grew through the draft and then suddenly added KD). Chris Bosh and Kevin Love both have had to be less than what they’re capable of offensively to make it work with LeBron and Wade/Irving, but…

I think the comparison for Shaq is Wilt. Incomparable physical gifts, slightly curious resumes; both played for an unusual number of teams relative to their era and their greatness. You could argue that both somewhat underachieved relative to their potential ceiling, and yet what they achieved put them in the…

I think this one is a little more representative.

pre-draft without shoes, James measured a whopping 1.75 inches shorter than Howard.

Well, as you acknowledge with Hakeem, you can’t 100% trust the heights teams list. I can find that at pre-draft camp, Howard without shoes measured at 6'9" and James at 6'7.25, and everybody swears James has grown a bunch since coming into the league; I haven’t heard the same about Howard. I have a strong sense of…

Howard isn’t as big as you think he is. (Which is part of his problem - as the injuries sap his athleticism, he doesn’t have the bulk of a Shaq to fall back on. He’s barely taller than LeBron, with massive shoulders and arms, but he gives up several inches to Duncan, Shaq, the Gasol brothers, etc.)

That’s a fantastic commitment to over-interpreting what I said.

I think Ruben Patterson talked about it!

Celtics fan, actually. Though the Warriors have been my favorite team to watch the past few years.

LeBron isn’t the MVP because articles like this haven’t been true of him in the regular season for a couple of years.

Hey everyone, turns out Lifehacker already has “what to do in a car accident” and “basic first aid” articles in its archives, so your comments to that effect weren’t actually necessary.

Not really, but my comment was sort of sloppily written.

From what I read it wasn’t a GOOD movie, though. (Never saw it, never read the book.)

Assuming most suicides aim for the head (but not all do) and there’s nothing you can do for them, you could say they don’t really apply to the informative content of this article ... but accidents should certainly count.

Because when we compare the welfare of our citizens to the countries we think of as peer nations, we look to Venezuela and Swaziland?

I see your pedantry, and I raise you: it’s called “football” because it’s played on foot, to distinguish it from equestrian goal-scoring sports like polo.

Pretty sure if Oubre’s punishment seems outsized, it’ll have something to do with him getting into the ref’s space to lay Olynyk out. The ref sees Oubre coming before Olynyk does, and is putting his arm out to get between them when Oubre just goes over the top of his head to shove Olynyk.

You can’t say the Doom is a great story, because we don’t actually know what the story is.

I think it’ll take a mass visitation from Jesus to tell the good people:

(1) I think Aegon’s Conquest would be hard to do well because the show has had a really hard time dealing with the idea that there might be something problematic with Dany’s goals. Aegon’s out here basically saying “hmmm, I want to take all this land, and I’ll burn fifty thousand people alive to do it if I have to.…