Exactly. The entire league, including the players, have incentive to get Lebron to the Finals every year. Four years of Raptors-Jazz in the finals would leave everybody broke. This is why the Raptors nobly step aside each season.

Welp, yet another shining proof of me not knowing what the hell i’m talking about.

This is the best Deadspin post ever, and I say that as a long-time Deadspin fanboy.

Coincidentally, Jeremy Lin’s nickname in China is Gary

WARNING NERD ALERT:

“They never call it the hazing either, they always say ‘the event’ or ‘what happened in the summer’

Interesting story. Though, I almost doubt how authentic it is given that Kansas students wouldn’t give this kind of interview to the Kansas State campus newspaper. The KU paper would have covered it in depth long before.

Game 7, Pacers @ Cavs

I might also add Team America, which gets most of its laughs from teasing action-movie formula.

The exchange about Topper reading Great Expectations, but “it’s not what I hoped for” is so subtle I didn’t pick up on it until maybe the 10th time I saw it.

The game of basketball was lost in the late 90s. This version of basketball isn’t really sport, but basic entertainment for the dude on the street that has no idea what to do with his life. He watches basketball for a few years, drinks craft beer, and eventually dies.

I know that nothing gets me more excited for a finals than seeing the same teams play out over and over again. It makes it nice, safe, and consistent, which is something sports thrive on.

Things casual fans don’t want ranked:

A win for Harden is a loss for the game of basketball.

Played pro baseball: Check

Does anyone else just not want to see the Cavs in the finals?

Not sure what you’d consider recent, but Walk Hard is a fantastic spoof of musical biopics. It works both as a spoof and as a film in its own right.

I can’t believe all the fargin’ iceholes on this thread forgot about Johnny Dangerously.

I maintain that the turn of the Millennium represented the nadir in modern cultural history. In TV we saw the unholy rise of the ‘reality show’ and, its close relative, the ‘talent’ show, fashion was dominated by the size zero/anorexic Rachel Zoe look, the musical charts were being topped by boy bands and Lolita-like…

Yet I was greyed from Deadspin for questioning whether a police report from 22 years ago that didn’t result in any charges is really newsworthy, and is worthy of a blog post from the person considered the most accomplished writer for Deadspin. I was taking the unpopular side, but shouldn’t that be allowed a voice?