I’m surprised the U.S. players haven’t responded to the criticism by just saying the same thing louder and slower.

I always talk to my kids about their successes, too.

I like this story because in a way it’s uniquely American. It’s about sporting excellence, pride in your accomplishments and not even pretending to understand the concept of moderation.

You have to call that, this is a round-robin game that will help determine who goes to the knockout stage, am I wrong? 

Nouveau-riche

Him and most of Alabama with the exception of Saban.

Drake: I’m going to be the most dislikable courtside presence ever!

It’s time like this when Donald Sterling misses being a minority owner.

No contusion!

Even though he’s 7’3, that’s no excuse to film in Portrait Mode 

This news truly shocks the conscience.

this is amazing. It’s amazing.

Rather by definition, standing still and not playing basketball, instead of playing basketball, actually is not part of the game of playing basketball.

I remember my middle school coach telling us to do this if we magically took the lead against a team a lot better than us.  I just remember thinking that we must suck so much ass for him to want us to do this.

I’m truly happy for him. Now if you’ll excuse me, I’m gonna go argue for a 3% raise in a performance review that my boss forgot to conduct last year.

I’m expecting Irving and Durant to stand at center court at MSG, announce it’s a new era in Knicks basketball, and the scoreboard crashes down on top them.

My brother recently claimed, with a straight face, that Irving was

a) the best point guard in the NBA
b) markedly better than Steph Curry, who my brother described as “a pretty good guard who is overrated because his team is so good.”

I will be e-mailing him this post every hour on the hour for the next week, and…

Sorry if I missed it above, but the Cavs (who traded him) and the Celtics (due to injury) both did not need him to make the Eastern Conference Finals last year. I don’t think this fact gets enough attention.

The Knicks will be flying high when they sign him and Durant, and then three days into training camp the leaks will start about how much they hate each other, and the team will win 11 games.

This team really is committed to illegally getting stuff released from their balls.