On another level, they can’t really be reshuffled. Carmelo’s probably going to exercise his $27m player option, which means they’d have to give up some good assets just to get rid of him. Paul George is an unrestricted free agent, otherwise you’ve got $70m+ tied up in Westbrook and Adams. They’re kind of stuck with…

Frances McDormand words: Two

I don’t understand what angle they’re playing with this move, but the Russians need to stop interfering with our elections

I think you’re more likely to upset Laura Dern fans than Star Wars fans with this one

Oooh he ball hit good

Classic half-hearted defense from Kanter

Being naked... is part of being human... and moisture... is the essence of wetness... and wetness... is the essence of beauty...

Is there some negotiating edge by pretending the consensus number one pick won’t go number one? It feels like this happens a lot, but they end up getting the full maximum pay scale anyway

Isn’t this more of a question of “who would clear him”? Maybe it’s a commentary on the expendability of hockey players that team staff clear them after things like this, instead of why basketball players don’t play injured

Any mass killer 

You don’t think Hillary might have had a hand in her own loss? Maybe some nationalism in our country? Or was it primarily Jill Stein and Susan Sarandon? I don’t recall Susan Sarandon advising Hillary to not campaign in key battleground states.

He’s clearly right. Would this play be different on a fourth down if it was a snap to the QB who immediately dropped back to the end zone? You just snap further to the punter, which is why you pick that as the play. What if you snap to the punter then he attempts a forward pass? Possession of the ball just offers…

Really, there are three cases: pretending it’s a grudge match doesn’t matter, pretending it’s a grudge match works and it helps but you don’t do it all the time, and pretending it’s a grudge match works and you do it all the time. Cases one and three, you never notice, case two you do.

Sports teams invest money in trying to lure in women as fans, and then a woman criticizes their techniques as tone deaf pandering. Why this upsets your or even involves you, I haven’t the slightest

Magary with the good hair

Can I have an obamaphone

But... they are different. It’s not really revolutionary to say that different communities have different problems. White lower-class communities in Los Angeles have different concerns than those in San Francisco, and Detroit, etc. It’s still a Venn diagram, not overlapping circles.

Yeah, it’s probably just a recency bias

Kobe is very good, and incredibly important to the franchise, whether people are willing to admit that or not. One of the most prolific scorers in league history, key component of five championships, and 20 years with one team. He’s done a lot, believe it or not.