If Deadspin dies today this would be a fitting last post.

It’s fine

Notice: I will boycott Splinter News dot com until they agree to my demand that “I of the Tiger” returns as a regular feature.

Imagine being days away from the end of a 10 year suspended sentence and throwing it all away to truck some kid at a fair. A true patriot.

The Athletic comment section is entirely made up of people going “Great article! This is why I pay for the Athletic!”

When you’re a 35 year old former first option, you have to make the choice between being an Iverson or a Vince Carter. 

Who cares

Yeah fair enough. But he’s really only risking one year for the chance at the super max. 

You only get 1 year option. 1+1, 2+1, 3+1. I think there used to be more flexibility but it’s stricter now.

He’s eligible for a bigger max after 10 years in the league. He’s currently at 8. There’s no way he was signing anything other than a 2+1 no matter what team he signed with. 

OK I’m officially ready to stake out a “Zion isn’t going to be that good” position. Come join the bandwagon now before he’s on his 3rd team by the time he’s 25!

Woj has two types of reports:

Oh hey, Burneko’s indicting a team’s style of play after a single loss? Time to go put $100 on the Bucks in game 5. 

Deadspin’s entire theory of NBA analysis basically boils down to “whatever just happened is definitely going to happen again”.

Wait but I was told by this very website that the Warriors had broken basketball and were going to cakewalk to a three-peat. Now they’ve dropped (at least) 4 games in the first two rounds. I’m so confused!

The overwhelming success of the MCU in general and Endgame in particular is the definitive sign that Smarm™ has won the cultural battle over Snark.

Pascal Siakam is right over there, man.

DEADSPIN HIRE MICHAEL TELEK 

NBA.com lets you scroll through a game’s play-by-play and click on a play to get a video clip (https://stats.nba.com/game/0021800744/playbyplay/). I’m assuming this makes the average basketblogger’s life a lot easier.

The aces had the same suits as Zhu’s kings, so Zhu had no chance of winning with a flush. The other guy did.