The real reason to be pissed is that they should have called him up last season after 20 or so days, and there is a very real possibility they keep him down this Entire Season and call him up in May 2020. Logically, that’s what “no firm timeline” means. The GM is not saying “a few weeks into the season.”

There are a lot of Musk fans who empty their bank accounts to buy Teslas they can’t afford and don’t need. (though i guess that’s always been true of all the status brands)

That OfficialNBARefs tweet is the Referee version of Highlight Truthering.

Doesn’t have to be life-threatening, just career ending. Of course establishing that an injury means you can’t play basketball at all versus can’t play above replacement level is difficult. The players are going to keep trying with the hopes that they can recover the old magic. Especially true after seeing Derrick…

it sure would’ve been better to watch him play them for a team that deserves him.

I don’t know if this is the Lakers blowing it in this trade. The Pelicans might just think Ingram and Ball are trash. (Which speaks to the Lakers blowing it more generally for not developing enough talent out of 3 straight #2 picks and a 7 the year before). Though if the Pelicans said they wanted Ball, Ingram, Zubac…

The article makes fun of the kiss-ass sporswriters analyzing these trades as brilliant. In basketball terms these trades did nothing to improve the teams. They are literally congratulating Billionaires like Mickey Arinson for making $8M. That is like sending out a tweet congratulating me for actually using those CVS…

That redefinition of socialism happened a long time ago (basically using social democracy and democratic socialism as synonyms). Communism became the term for common ownership, regardless of how that common ownership is arranged (government, political party, communes, labor, etc.). Socialism has always been a broad…

USA! chants make “Aussie, Aussie, Aussie, Oi! Oi! Oi!” sound humble, subtle, lyrical and profound in comparison. As an American, even ironic USA! chants make me cringe because they remind me that the chant is a real thing that happens.

Unless Canada demanded Stock or assets in return, that Loan was a generous god-damned gift. Canada gave GM that money and later GM gave it back. GM couldn’t get that loan from any bank. The world was on the brink of another Greater Depression. There was no guarantee that money would ever be repaid.

Someone needs to explain to the Lakers that they can’t sign Anthony Davis to a Free Agent deal until the 20-21 Season, and sitting on Cap space for TWO of the final years of LeBron’s prime is not acceptable. The don’t trade for Paul George plan made sense. This does not. If next season’s Lakers trot out LeBron, Ball,…

The Patriots literally won the game by hitting a defenseless receiver before he had a chance to protect himself (or become a runner). That Goff throw to the back of the endzone was boroken up by the Pats’ DB hitting the WR while he was stretched out.

Owners are using the Luxury Tax Threshold as a code-word to engage in Collusion. They can’t privately say “If you don’t spend above $X I won’t either.” And they certainly can’t negotiate what that amount would be. That’s illegal collusion. But they can publicly say they won’t go above the threshold, and in explaining…

I don’t see how unless Klay Thompson, Kevin Durant or Steph Curry beg to be traded to New Orleans immediately and promise to sign with them long term. Otherwise I don’t think the Jordan Bell/Jacob Evans/30th pick/Iguodala/Livingston package will interest the Pelicans.

The Amnesty provisions in 2005/2011 (the Allan Houston and Gilbert Arenas rules) actually helped player movement and salaries while protecting dumbass GMs from themselves. Of course this is the exception that proves the rule, in that ownership fought tooth and nail to create rules in the CBAs to prevent expensive contr…

They are all for contracts and enlightened economic self interest, but when the labor force asks for some involvement with that, we are told to trust in the goodness of our benevolent overlord job creators. What they do is only for the greater good.

Even if the boss is super humane, just, and nice and never ever turns his back on his beliefs, that nice boss can die; the business can have financial problems; investors, share holders, debt holders, family members, can stage a takeover. Then the asshole who replaces this angel of a boss can screw everyone sideways.…

still have to resort to medieval methods of re-warming metal train tracks.

The show itself may not have been a failure, but it sure the hell was an embarassment. Having a hyped “LIVE” show not be Live is pretty humiliating. Especially since there is an easy, well established fix for a problem so predictable it is practically cliche. It’s not like there was a gas leak in the theater.

With Lonzo’s shot-form it is amazing he has shot as well as he has throughout his basketball life. To shoot at all with that form shows he has elite hand-eye skills. He needs a coach who can convince him to tear it down and build it from scratch. It worked for Steph Curry. Of course Curry did it in his early teens when…