As Tom Ziller pointed out today, the new rule likely doesn’t go far enough. After all, plenty of teams don’t wait until the final two minutes of each quarter to start hacking.

You misspelled donger. Otherwise, I see no flaws in your argument.

I’m a straight dude, but Pegg’s reasoning makes more sense to me, in the sense that I think Takei took a slight leap in assuming that the audience would presume that this meant Sulu was closeted this whole time. I’m sure the new film won’t portray its Sulu as closeted - almost surely, he won’t come out in this movie,…

This is all fair. I suppose there’s also a difference between being mad at Durant for making the choice (lack of loyalty, front-running, taking the easy route to a championship, etc.) and just being generally mad that the league’s most interesting in-conference rivalry is dead now. I tend to sympathize more with the…

Yeah, that’s true, having a ring already does tend to deflect this criticism, even if you later make moves to get MORE rings.

I know it may sound like splitting hairs but I guess there’s a difference in some folks’ minds between helping to recruit and therefore helping to make your team better, and being the one who physically jumps ship from one team to another.

So, question: What everybody’s mad at Durant for, and what everybody was mad at LeBron for, was opting to join up with their biggest rivals for a better shot at a title, right? For opting to join ‘em, rather than beat ‘em... right?

Will they go full LOTR? Have the series end with Sam, sitting beneath the gyroscopes, writing the definitive book on the events of the series, titled A Game of Thrones (or A Song of Ice and Fire, if they want to wink at the books)? I can’t decide how I’d feel about that, but it seems plausible.

Oh god.

Oh totally, I’m 100 percent happy for all the dudes who got paid. I’d be after every penny I could get. Nobody’s putting a gun to Jim Buss’ head.

Dwight was my absolute nightmare scenario. I don’t know how the Knicks will go about ruining Porzingis, but bringing in DWIGHT FUCKING HOWARD as his would-be mentor would be a fairly direct route to go.

Never forget

It’s going to be fascinating to look back at some of these deals in a few years. The figures are eye-popping, but this is essentially an unprecedented free agency period, given the massive cap jump this year.

FTFY: I still won’t believe there’s an Aquaman movie until it is actually in theaters.

I also like that Sansa is fully on board with Jon now - seems like the series is setting them up to be together in the end as King and Queen of the North... The look that Sansa gave Littlefinger at the end of the episode screamed “you’re next”. Can’t wait to see how that plays out next season.

I’ve posted to this effect before, but the fact remains: The Knicks are the only team of which I’ve ever been a fan that is so bad at developing talent and building a competitive roster that I actually feel happy for young players who GTFO before they’re completely broken. Shump was stuck here just a little bit too…

1. This is great.

2. Serious question: Why aren’t we shipping them?

Think about Dany’s marriages/relationships with men. Khal Drogo promised her an army to retake Westeros, to be the warlord she needed in order to conquer. But, nerp, he died by getting poisoned during a macho brofight. Xaro Xhoan Daxos (dude who…

They haven’t even hinted at the horns yet, so I doubt those will come into play for the show, at least not this season. I kinda hope not ever; as a non-reader, those are one of the few book things I hear about that seems out of place and a little bit lazy, from a writing perspective.

I mean, the budget is the budget tho, right? Reports have indicated that the battle in this week’s episode is the biggest in the show’s history. This show will go down as the most expensive TV series ever, but even it doesn’t have unlimited money. Seeing her fly in and land would have been nice, but it wouldn’t have…

Definitely a regional thing. I moved from New York to Florida when I was young and vividly recall being confused as hell by my teachers telling me to “put [thing] up” when I first got down there.