Serious question: what do you make of those internal polls Trump threw a fit about that said Biden would kick his ass up and down the entire country?

I don’t totally buy it, but I believe the argument would be he’s put up two MVP-caliber seasons in a row and even without Chris Paul was his team’s historically shitty shooting night away from going to the Finals last year, where they also would have throttled the Cavs. 

That question was answered just 11 13 minutes into the game thanks to Carli Lloyd in her return to the starting lineup.

If Steph had made that three I’d be dead after my heart exploded out of my chest. 

Michael Jordan won a title in only 40% of the seasons he played.

Optimistic of you to believe we’ll still be alive and electing presidents in 25 years. 

You’re right. And as someone else pointed out in the comments, Steve Kerr and the other two players on the floor were also screaming for a timeout to get the tech, too. But it’s nice to pretend. 

Counterpoint: I actually think this may have increased his chance of leaving. He did what he was brought there to do, has nothing more to prove, can fuck off to LA and enjoy the weather. 

Draymond Green Chris Webbering the three-peat away was definitely the most enjoyable part of that game. 

Indeed! The group chat amongst my friends who watch the NBA and I was quite lively. 

They didn’t blow it.

Jeff Van Gundy has a remarkable ability to have the worst take about any given basketball play. 

Shitty basketball commentators ranked by my ability to tolerate them

Yeah, the 40+ things that my adblocker stops on any given GMG page are so more obnoxious to me than 99% of anything the Ringer writes. 

It’s really a no win proposition at this point in time with digital ads. If ads continue to be intrusive and malicious more people opt into ad blockers or stop visiting a site, and the site loses money. I’ve unfortunately had to do this on these sites (through no fault of any of the writers here, I should be clear),…

Option 2 is the charitable reading, which is really saying something. It’s almost certainly Option 1, though.

And conversely, if you outscore a team by 36 from three and only win by one, you might be in some shit in the series. 

Then you trade Lowry ASAP. I think Lowry is a very good player, but Kawhi is one of the top 5 in the league at this point. That’s not even a question.

You have no idea how many times I texted “Kyle Lowry sucks” to my friends with increasing urgency and more capitalization as the game went on last night.

If I’m ever half as good at anything as you are at writing Ray, it’ll be a miracle. Another damn fine piece from you.