I don’t really do these anymore - both from lack of being asked and from the general grossness of the experience - but it’s also easy for me because I don’t have a book to sell like Mr. O&D. I’ve never done and would never do Tucker Carlson’s show; there’s a difference between being a talking head and walking into an…

I have also appeared on several of these types of shows, without being paid, and can confirm all of this. It’s a bizarre experience.

“Hey [star free agent], you should come play for the Knicks! Sure, we exist permanently in the purgatory between tanking and the No. 6 seed and, sure, the roster is a bizarre mix of very young and VERY old players, mostly the latter. But this is your chance to be a New York basketball legend! You too could one day…

So we’re supposed to, collectively, resolve not to criticize people who were willing to vote against their interests for a dangerously unqualified and unstable presidential candidate purely out of spite for some vaguely defined class of elites, in the hopes that, if we’re nicer to these people, they’ll realize the…

The Pierce/Garnett situation is similar in some ways, given the age of the stars involved and the fact that Garnett (IIRC) also had a no-trade clause, but I’d argue that what Boston stumbled upon in Brooklyn was not just a normal bad or dumb team, but a once-in-a-generation perfect storm for trade victimization: It…

That is a good theory. Especially because most reports I’ve seen on the subject suggest Jackson has been even more removed from the Knicks’ players than most other GMs or team presidents. Not to mention that he’s turned over the roster a LOT, so it’s hard to imagine many people in the locker room feel like they have a…

I was trying to set the bar extra high for “all-time-great” in order to give Phil some benefit of the doubt, but you’re right, it’s at least five. His time with Payton and Malone was limited enough that I’m cool with omitting them from Jackson’s ledger, though they are also all-timers.

As a relatively young Knicks fan, this has been my first extended experience with Phil Jackson, Organizational Leader, and I gotta ask - was the whole Zen Master thing always bullshit? I’d genuinely like to know. Assigning all of his past success to the the fact that he has coached three all-time-great players feels…

The ex-Gawker sites have done and continue to do plenty of good journalism. See, for an example, their coverage of the Baylor scandal, and in particular pretty much anything Diana Moskovitz writes on this here site. While, like every outlet, its managers sometimes made bad editorial decisions over the years, Gawker…

If that’s what Schefter was thinking, it’s pretty short-sighted.

This is true and right.

Not only have I written many articles I wasn’t paid to write, it’s fair to say I owe my career to unpaid internships. But I still believe they’re wrong, discriminatory and should be purged from the media industry.

More Rovell: “Sprinkle your box of work with white powder. Employers will think box contains donuts. Nobody throws away donuts.”

Fair enough on the joke, watching too much Sean Spicer may have permanently killed my sense of humor.

The idea that Jeff Bezos is ordering WaPo reporters to tweet nice things about Sean Spicer’s press conference in exchange for favorable drone regulations is barely a step removed from a tinfoil hat conspiracy theory.

Nah, reddit is full of shit: http://gizmodo.com/4chan-idiots-claim-they-invented-the-trump-piss-report-1791067589?utm_campaign=socialflow_gizmodo_twitter&utm_source=gizmodo_twitter&utm_medium=socialflow

Nah, pretty sure I got your point: You think the Cavs were underdogs before this trade and are not anymore. Here’s mine: That’s incorrect. I believe Korver does not materially change the Cavs’ position in the NBA hierarchy relative to the Warriors, and therefore his acquisition is a strange reason to change your…

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…