If I have children one day, I’d like to tell them I acted on principle and turned away from a sport so detrimental to the people who break their bodies across brief and brutal careers that mostly serve to enrich their billionaire employers

I’m in line with Deadspin ideologically on just about everything, but Hinkie is a major exception. I really do think that, in spite of how painful it was, he had the right idea for maximizing the team’s chance at an eventual championship. Obviously a #1 pick is never guaranteed, but most of the real impact players go…

I just don’t get it. Especially not after we just saw a championship won by the team that won the lottery three times in four years and led by....the guy they drafted #1 overall.