I think the Official Deadspin Response would probably be more along the line that the Heat should be able to pay Wade whatever they want without being restricted by an artificial salary cap. With no salary cap, the guaranteed third year (that Wade in all probability wouldn’t merit with those knees) wouldn’t be a…

Noah better return to form as a facilitator at the top of the key for this lineup to reach any semblance of “usable.” I’m still not sure that Rose and Melo can happily co-exist.

I’d buy THAT for a dollar!

See, “contributing factor” I’ll buy.

2nd Gear: Unless the UK traditionally sells most of its cars during the last week of each month, I have a hard time believing that the Brexit vote is the sole cause of the drop in YOY sales.

I was in Ohio Amish country two weekends ago, and from what I heard, the amount and level of technology available to the Amish there is somewhat dependent on the leaders of the individual communities. For example, certain communities allowed landlines, but the phone couldn’t be in the house.

While I love the term ‘clamshit crazy,’ now I have to ask what makes it different than ‘batshit crazy.’

Counterpoint: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1…

Since cars can come with headlights that automatically turn on in darkness (tunnels, etc.), why not just do the reverse for dash lights and dim them in areas of darkness? That would require the driver to turn the headlights on at night in order to see the instruments again.

While most of these arguments are at least defensible, are you going to argue with respect to #2 that the East in the 80's was the laughingstock that most people consider the East of today to be?

I don’t know; I’ve always thought that the “conference champion” merch is really the worst. Why even buy it? If your team loses in the final(s), now you’ve just got a sad reminder of how the season ended. If your team wins, now you have a pile of clothing that got trumped in less than a month.

Because you can?

Come on, you should have gone with “Son of a beech” or “Son of a beech tree!” It was right there.

For some of us, that was our introduction to him. Not all that weird. There’s a clip floating around the ether somewhere of him being a not-terrible basketball player while at ESPN.

Yeah, there’s no way the weather in the first third of April can be “unseasonably” anything. Sure, calling the day “unseasonably cold” sets the mood, but unless the actual temperature was below zero Fahrenheit it was probably entirely seasonable that night.

Can we replace Gene Hackman with Morgan Freeman in Pigman’s thesis from PCU? I figure with all the cable channels now, Morgan Freeman is probably acting in or doing voice-over work on something at least 23 hours of the day, right?

Why? Did a lawyer write it?

Zach Lowe mentioned in his most recent article about the Finals that Lebron has been having a hard time against the Warriors because he can’t find that little bit of space he needs to start his freight-train rumble to the basket. Yeah, there probably weren’t too many forwards in the 90's that could have guarded James…

The worst part about automatic sliding doors is the inability to close them by slamming on the brakes and letting inertia do the rest. (Not that we ever did that in high school...)

Shaq got away with a ton of moves where he’d obliterate his defender in the post with a well-placed shoulder to the sternum and then casually finish with a layup or soft hook. I imagine 90's Lebron having more of a low-post game than he does now and using the same sort of moves.