Still terrible. Paul’s 3,000 years old and several knee surgeries into his career. As an LA guy, we’ve wondered whether he has three years left, two years left, or maybe only one. And we were talking “able to play” years, not “best PG in the game” years. Decent players and a draft pick isn’t a terrible hall for…

“Hopefully this will reveal to her the deep-seated bigotry and hatred that underlies the vast majority of religions.” 

Yeah, this isn’t a “bad teams in the NBA” problem. It’s a “bad teams in the NBA East” problem. The top 6 NBA teams are probably the Cavs and the top 5 in the West. That’s the NBA’s only real problem.

Fuck those guys. How bad to feel for Chapo’s widow and his kids? That’s how bad I feel here.

Hot take: it’s not “super teams,” it’s that East sucks donkey balls. And it has for about 20 years. The NBA would be just fine if Utah and San Antonio were in the East. You’d have Golden State, Houston, and the Clippers atop the West, all teams that can put on a challenge. You’d have Cleveland, San Antonio, an…

Right?

I’ve seen kids ejected from high school games for hard screens, let alone this sort of crap.

Why would California need Texas’s help?

It is absolutely they’re fault. Fuck those guys.

I know you Bostonians love the hell out of tall, white basketball players, but does “Skill” up there mean something like “lacks any apparent ability to play basketball?” Or does “Skill” mean “ an uncanny ability to injure other players?”

Iverson, then Iverson with one hand, then Iverson in flipflops, then Thomas.

“And the response to Ellie from Yonkers was absolutely explicitly questioning his loyally to America versus Israel.”

Wasn’t it Eli who explicitly said he wouldn’t be loyal to the US? I mean, how else do you read, “If it comes to a choice between Israel and the US, I choose Israel?” I mean, it’s not literally treason, but it certainly implies treason is on the table for Eli...

(Truly curious, not trying to pick a fight here)

So you’re saying there’s literally no chance that something bad happens and instead of going up at a nice angle, he ends up tumbling onto the freeway?

You seem confused about how property works. Just like anything else you own, you only have certain rights to real property, restricted by what the rest of the world thinks property owners can do with it. These restrictions can go from “None, run a hog-rendering plant if you want” to “Absolute, you can’t do anything…

Life imprisonment does mean you’re in prison until you die. Lots of people die in prison.

Yes, how could California survive on its own? All it’s got is technology, infrastructure, population, wealth, natural resources, and the good will of the entire effing world if it secedes.

“How could Uber drivers possibly be employees if they are using their own cars and working their own hours? (Have you ever actually studied the definition of what distinguishes contractors from employees, which is set by IRS publications, not by handwritten protest placards?”

And not get injured.