Oh, I think they’ll happily offer him the max-iest max they can give next offseason. This was about them taking a long shot to lock him up now.

This is unfair. Andrew Wiggins is *excellent* at making $30 million a year.

He’d need to die to get less than 15 million a year...

I don’t know if “will the Orioles become good?” is high on the list of things the Yankees are thinking about here.

The tax was never meant to be a factor for half the teams in the league (according to Spotrac’s numbers, I count 13 teams that are within $6.5 million of the tax line). It was never meant to make middling playoff teams like the Thunder, Blazers and Nuggets insanely expensive. It was meant to control costs for owners…

Brazil was so fraudulent that a Belgium loss to France should retroactively brand Belgium — and by the transitive property, also France — as frauds for feasting upon fraudulent competition.

The other thing is, with Heyward back, Kyrie (presumably) finishing the season and Rozier in the rotation, how many backcourt/wing minutes does this team have to go around? Smart is a nice piece, but I feel like you can find tough defenders who shoot 36 percent and make some plays for a lot less than $15 million.

And like I said, if Javy’s baserunning decisions were costing them anything approaching an entire win over the course of the season, I’d be all for reigning it in. As it stands, he’s been caught stealing once this season and 10 times in his entire career.

Love to watch sports to see if they conform to the run expectancy spreadsheets.

You don’t even need to hit the floor — if you don’t, you just get charged for it and the money you didn’t spend gets split up among your existing roster.

This is true, but it’s been true for a while. I think ACGV’s broader point is that it’s unfair to pin the market for Cousins on the cap spike rather than on the owners’ drunken spending.

It’s not the cap at all — it’s the individual max. The cap works fine-ish to prevent, say, the Lakers from spending $300 million a year on superstars. The individual max artificially limits how much the very best players have to sacrifice in order to play together. Right now, you can fit two top stars under the cap…

They were up 3-2 AND up double digits in both games 6 and 7! If Paul doesn’t get hurt, Houston wins the series and this is Deadspin’s summer of (deservedly) clowning on the Warriors for going one-and-done with Durant. For that matter, if Durant’s charge doesn’t get reversed in Game 1 and/or JR Smith remembers the…

This, this, this. Stuff like this:

This is neither here nor there, but as a Wolves fan, I’m genuinely glad that some team -- any team! -- has personal beef with us.

The problem with going west (and I don’t hate this move; I think it’s way more interesting than running back the broken-ass Cavs again) is that it isn’t just the conference finals. You might have to play Anthony Davis in the first round and the Rockets in the semis just to get to the Warriors.

The time-keeping doesn’t have to be all that precise to get a number that’s going to differentiate, though, and as long as goal differential is ahead of minutes with a lead as a tiebreaker, I don’t think it changes any incentives.

Someone elsewhere suggested time in the lead, which seems fine to me (relatively correlated to dominance and the objectives of the game). But once you’re down to the 4th tiebreaker, you’re getting kinda weird no matter what. For ties that determine seeding between two teams that are both advancing, I’d let it ride.

Oh, I don’t think FIFA’s preferred tiebreaker has anything to do with fewer bribes...

If you do, they’ll only make an under-the-table deal with Joe Smith that costs the franchise four first-round picks and later attach a first-rounder to turn Sam Cassell into Marko Jaric.