I disagree with the conclusion, but this is a very cogent argument.

Getting under the luxury tax resets the clock on the repeater tax, too.

A generous offer would be Bridges and a top-10 protected pick. Also, this deal would have to go down in the summer. Lonzo has some upside, but the Suns should want the option of drafting Ja Morant. 

Can I star the first sentence of the article?

People forget that Steph was injured coming into the playoffs last year and never really healthy for the whole run. The Rockets series was great and all, but a healthy Warriors team firing on all cylinders is easily the best team in basketball history.

As a Warriors fan who remembers the Cohan years well, I have to temper my Lacob-hate. That being said, his story can be summarized as: he lucked into one of the greatest players in NBA history magically showing up on the new team he bought to stroke his ego.

Marcus Thompson comes across as a fawning psuedo-journalist, but his access has broken some big stories. My favorite was the one about how Mark Jackson “healed” Steph at his church, then made Steph dance around on a surgically-repaired ankle as proof. 

If anyone was in on it, the Red Star goalie was. Damn, he just stands on one side of the net and let’s Neymar have that last one.

Sexual assault is wrong, even when it’s being done to a pedophile. 

Someone named their kid after the bad guys’ firm in The Fugitive.

Thanks for the Baseball Reference link. I did not know that Pujols is the all-time leader in GIDP.

Signing Boogie didn’t help the Warriors title odds as much as Houston and Cleveland taking a step back, and LeBron signing up to play with a bunch of college-age children. Who is going to beat the W’s, even if KD or Curry go down in the playoffs?

One problem with the cheap-o one-year contract is that the team that signs him can only offer him 120% of his current salary on the next contract. He is purely a one-year player for the Warriors. By declining to sign him now and letting him play that year for the Warriors, the Lakers keep open the possibility that he…

One comment on the story: you say “even the other super-teams forming now...” but I don’t think there are any other super teams right now, formed or forming.

Re: exploitation, I think you are talking about liberal arts PhDs, and similar fields where the only thing the PhD qualifies you for is being a university professor or instructor. In most sciences, math, stat, and business/economics, a PhD is a path to a good job that more than pays back the investment.

Completely agree with lesser-KD comparison. An under appreciated aspect of AD’s development is how much he’s focused on wing skills (shooting 3's, transition, insisting on playing power forward), and neglected to develop a killer big man skill set (roll man, post-up game, interior positioning, anchoring the middle of…

No, you can’t ever have a different cap based on city characteristics. And, a hard cap would impact a ton of other dimensions of team building; in other words, any changes in the overall cap that solve rookie draft-related issues would be a side benefit of a bigger change.

I had this injury. It’s a badly herniated disc pinching the nerve that runs down the leg. I recognized it as soon as I saw him land, and hearing that his leg was numb seals it. I would rate it worse than a ACL, since there is not really a good treatment.

I saw Dave Chappelle perform a few months after Mitch Hedberg died. This was right after Chappelle ditched Season 3 to go to South Africa. He stayed on stage for 3 hours, taking audience questions for the last hour and a half. The audience would shout questions, and I almost got kicked out for asking about Mitch…

No, they were busy protecting other rapists and sex offenders.