Great write-up - thank you! 

In Martellus Bennett’s defense, every end of the pool is shallow after Jason Whitlock does a cannonball.

And then I’m gonna go up to my fourth-floor apartment and continue to do whatever the hell it is I want to do.

I’m gonna say the slightly obvious here, but Greg Howard did Deadspin and the world a great service by exposing this goddamn malicious phony for what he is.

Measured, reasoned and informative. All the things Whitlock is not.

They have a chance if Draymond Green is suspended for Game 5, and Curry is playing with a bruised MCL, and Harrison Barnes shoots 0-14 from 3 point range, and Bogut blows out his knee in Game 5.

“Do nothing at both ends of the floor” was also an interesting mindset for Tristan Thompson to have, but hey, I’m just a fan.

I think Kareem is most definitely in the GOAT conversation. I hate to invoke Bill Simmons, but he wrote half an article (then probably devolved into incoherent rambling) basically saying if you were drafting someone’s career, you would take Abdul Jabbar first no brainer.

I think Jordan eclipsed him generationally, basically, and more people were literally able to see his 80s work than his 70s work. I would guess most people with a sense of the game’s history would have him in the top 5 at least. I put KAJ, Russell, Jordan, and LBJ in the very top tier by themselves. (Not entertaining…

...and then they added Durant.

Unrelated question, since the finals aren’t actually that interesting after a 7-week layoff: why is Kareem (12 championships on 3 different levels, all time leading scorer) not in the GOAT conversation?

How soon folks forget. That’s just what people were saying this time last year.

At this point, I’m just invested in the idea of the warriors going fo fo fo fo

Cleveland’s strategy of “Let KD dunk all over us” may have been ill advised.

he said that Parks “was just bluffing, he was trying to scare you.”

When the father is living his dreams out vicariously through his children and making an absolute ass of himself, while using them as his “foot in the door”, then yes, absolutely. For the good of this country I wish for this man to be thrown into the fire, out of the spotlight. It would appear that the only way for…

That makes zero sense. None at all. You want a KID to fail because you simply don’t like their father? Check yourself, fam.

Ashley would’ve posted the screenshots!

this looks like if someone put a mixtape up of me trying to play basketball at age 15

I’ve always felt this image summarizes the whole family dynamic perfectly.