Looks like 23 is the cutoff; Gruden will have to move into the “open” category next year. The “masters” category, for old people, starts at 40.

Yes, there are rules in the CBA which prevent teams from providing players financial compensation aside from their salary as a player, because this would allow them to circumvent the salary cap. It’s why we haven’t had a player-coach since, I think, Dave Cowens.

The league’s accountants need time to actually calculate what the income from the previous year was and, as a result, what the cap for the coming year will be.

Also: everything he said about Mexican immigrants.

I don’t know that Trump is personally of the opinion that white people are better than black people. But:

The White House visit is a feel good photo op where both parties help each other get over with the public. If it doesn’t serve your needs to do so, don’t do it.

Reminds me of when Bomani got into it with some ... college football writer? ... who snapped back that apparently Bomani didn’t have anything better to do than tweet, and Bomani replied “I’m sitting here watching college football, what are you doing, flying a kite?”

Here’s one very small part of the thing: Middle America isn’t a small town in downstate Illinois, it’s suburban Chicago. The New York Times in particular has anxiety about being in the bubble of moneyed Manhattan and sends unqualified journalists to do pop-anthropology in North Dakota but doesn’t send anybody to tell…

Muggsy did not skip leg day!

You’re suspect.

Vikings didn’t actually wear helmets with horns.

Sort of, but to be super-clear, since “with either hand off either foot” apparently confused some folks: finishing with the same hand as the foot you jumped off of was the primary thing I meant, and then being able to do any of the four combinations on either side of the basket secondarily.

I didn’t say anything about Curry in this thread. Stevie Wells said “can you imagine Magic trying to guard KD?” Then I said he probably wouldn’t be. Then I quoted Simmons. Why? Because I’m not old enough to remember Magic in his prime ... the ‘91 Finals is the first basketball I can remember watching, and I don’t have…

Did I say Simmons said they played zone? I didn’t take him to be saying they wandered the floor randomly in violation of defensive rules, but that they were looking for opportunities to jump a lazy pass. In Game 1 (or was it Game 2?) of the Finals this year when Draymond left his man to intercept the post-entry pass…

I was born in ‘82, and I was taught to finish right-handed off my left foot on the right side of the basket, and left-handed off my right foot on the left side of the basket. Curry and Irving and guys like that can finish right handed from the right foot, and left handed from the left foot, on either side of the…

They’d put him on Pachulia or Iguodala. Isn’t that basically what they did in the ‘80s anyway? I recall Simmons writing something like “Magic and Bird were both described as playing ‘free safety’ on defense, which was a nice way of saying they got hid on the other team’s weakest threat which left them free to hunt for…

The ‘83 Pistons’ leader in minutes per game was Kelly Tripucka, so you KNOW they’re gonna give these Warriors the business.

When I was a kid, being able to finish a layup with either hand off of either foot was some sort of weird amazing circus trick that happened by accident. Nobody practiced it. Nobody in the NBA even did it except, again, as a desperation accident.

It’s important to carefully curate your roster of affiliated thinkfluencers.

The Dream Team, because most of the problems with the Warriors are answered by having multiple top-50 all time talents on deck. Like “the Warriors can run your big man off the floor!” Sure, but not if that big man is 1992 David Robinson they can’t. “The Warriors have superior ball movement” - not vs. a team with Magic…