Even if those parents give all appearances of being happy and get along 90%+ of the time? I mean, the wife herself didn’t know the marriage had major issues still. I doubt very seriously that their kid thinks his parents are living a loveless existence for his sake.

You’re taking one phrase out of a longer explanation that was clearly shortened for time and acting like it’s the entire crux of her reasoning. Not really fair.

That’s not actually true. We like to think that we can separate people into good and bad, but studies have shown that a lot of people will behave badly under a specific set of circumstances but not a different set. Just because she cheated when events came together in a particular way once, that doesn’t mean she’ll do…

I think wanting to know whether a person making an off-color joke is an actual racist, sexist, homophobe, or what have you before laughing with them is a pretty reasonable thing. There’s also the question of punching up versus punching down. A rape joke at the expense of the hypothetical rapist of the comedian telling…

Roy Williams the cornerback and Roy Williams the wide receiver are nowhere close to as famous as Isiah Thomas. Roy Williams the coach is much closer, but still not there.

I’m far from an expert, but I feel like tan works well for a more casual suit or as a sport coat with darker pants. Wear it as a formally-tailored suit and you look like an older southern lawyer or like you screwed up your Miami Vice cosplay.

Minor correction: We didn’t trade for him. We drafted him. Which would be well and good, but the Celtics allegedly offered a package of three first-round picks for the draft spot because they wanted Winslow. No one has said for sure, but it’s likely that one of those picks was this year’s Nets pick. *fart noise*

I hear you. I’m a Hornets fan. It’s not like we have much to hang our hats on either. We went all-in on at least making the playoffs this year, got our first all-star appearance in seven years, and still can’t manage to sneak into the 8th seed and lose humiliatingly to the Cavs. Add that we turned down a probable…

It’s hard to argue with you on that. The chance that you’ll get the right combination of injuries on other teams to bring you a title right now while Thomas and Horford and Cousins/Butler/George are still useful players is at least as good as the chances that you’ll find a superstar in the draft and still have the…

You are a very optimistic man. You could end up being right about Embiid’s ceiling, but I doubt very seriously that he’ll reach that ceiling in two years. Who knows though? I think we all want to see him healthy. Glad we could agree on most stuff.

You’re right. I was thinking they could end up with five or six, not eight. But the worst they could get is #4 if the Nets hold onto the worst record, which is a near certainty. Still, there could be a huge drop-off in talent between three and four. Scouts are projecting a deep draft, but there’s still a lot of…

Yes, I meant Rookie of the Year. Not sure how I screwed that up. Thanks for translating for me.

Embiid certainly projects to be better than KAT as a pro based on the limited minutes we’ve seen him in, but that’s based on the limited minutes we’ve seen him in. He won’t be better than anyone if he can’t stay on the…

There’s as much or probably more luck as skill involved in drafting players though. That’s the one part of The Process I somewhat agree with Hinkie on. You’re going to screw up draft picks no matter what so you might as well give yourself a bunch of them and hope you can strike it rich with at least one or two.

As a Hornets fan, I will never get over this. They’ve got to be the worst drafting team in the league since they first came back as the Bobcats, right?

I get what you’re saying and I’m not totally on board with Burneko, but I’m not sure that the math is in your favor. You have maybe a top-3 pick this year. You could have a considerably lower pick if the ping-pong balls don’t bounce right. That’s the thing about a lottery. You’ve still got to get lucky, even if you…

I’m with you. I hate it when sportswriters act like any team that isn’t in contention for a championship every year is an abject failure. Should a championship be the goal? Absolutely. But there’s plenty of upside for fans, the people paying the bills, to have an entertaining team that makes the playoffs as opposed to…

Paul George and Jimmy Butler don’t play defense? That’s news to me. They’ve both made all-defense teams in the past.

I’m not saying they’ll be terrible, but I think the Timberwolves and Bucks are pretty good comps. Granted, Giannis was more of a project as a rookie than Simmons will likely be and both teams have suffered major injuries this year, but even with Giannis playing at an all-star level and Towns the reigning MVP both…

I really don’t see how we can expect this team to be “seriously winning” in the next two or three years.

I don’t know, man. I know plenty of plenty liberal who enjoy Burr and Silverman, myself included. Norton I can see people having more issues with and I’ve never watched a full stand-up set of his, but I don’t dislike him. As someone above pointed out, these comics are all coming up in very liberal communities and…