So the fact that the defending-champion Cavs had three superstars in LeBron, Kyrie and Love and no serious competition in the East was fine with you, in terms of rooting for them, but the addition of 35-year-old Kyle Korver as a three-point specialist is too much?

Ah, sorry, my ad blocker must have stopped them for me.

Two issues with this I can think of: The NBA draft is very top heavy and 2nd rounders rarely become anything useful, so teams don’t really value them at all. Nobody would give up a bunch of 1st rounders, even in the distant future, for 2nd round picks now. Also, you’re not allowed to trade away 1st round picks in…

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Yep. That’d be the Stepien rule, named after the man responsible for a much darker era of Cleveland Cavaliers basketball.

You know what’s truly awful, and obnoxious? Telling someone that you know better than them why they feel about something the way they do. Disagree with my opinion all you want, but don’t presume to tell me I don’t actually believe it myself. You don’t know me and you’re not a mind-reader.

Thank you. Bale was GARBAGE in that movie and it pulled me out of the damn thing every fucking time he was on screen. Actually, you know what, so was Brad Pitt, who is basically coasting at this point.

In fairness to the Sentinel, they did allow the publication of a detailed rebuttal.

So, the crazy thing is, the David Whitley column you quoted might not even be his worst one this year. Allow me to nominate a true doozy entitled, shit you not, Let’s put a Kap on sports protests, which our humble columnist may as well have titled “Don’t take a knee on my white privilege.”

How much does this guy have to be suspended and how many times does he have to apologise before people stop piling on the kid?

I’m not sure how common this is (though I see there’s already another comment to similar effect) but I’m a Jets fan who is totally OK with the Giants winning. I’m not a fan of the Giants, but I also don’t consider them a rival.

I’m against public funding of stadiums as much as anyone,but until that’s not the game the leagues all play, it’s absurd to blame one owner for doing the same thing everyone else would do.

I’m too lazy to dig through his garbage, so yeah I’m gonna go ahead and rely on his public behavior.

In this instance, I don’t think the dead ball/game action distinction matters.

Right? What a jerk.

Though I’m not convinced it was deliberate, I won’t argue the taunting call. I think taunting is called too often, but NFL refs throw that flag for less and it’s incumbent on players to act with that in mind. But none of that changes the fact that there also should have been a personal foul on the hit.

As a Knicks fan, my process for consuming this information was to click over to Aldridge’s article, do a search for the terms “amnesty” and “Joakim Noah rule” and then sink into a deep depression after finding neither.

I’m not sure there’s anything that could happen in sports that I would find more unsettling than the Browns being a consistently good team. It would be like if every compass on Earth suddenly began to point southwest. I’m not normally supportive of the narrative that being a loyal fan of Bad Team X demonstrates…

Nah, the subtext here is that leaders - even talented, intelligent and competent leaders who have been hugely successful in the past - can and usually will become ineffective if they refuse to evolve and change with the times.

Both in terms of talent and cap space, there might not be a team in the league worse off than the Jets right now. Fellow cellar dwellers Cleveland, San Francisco and Jacksonville are at the top of the league in cap space, while the Jets are dead last. Cleveland also has a bounty of draft picks and, along with the…