It’s something special when someone like me, with a vertical jump so small you couldn’t slide a credit card under my feet when I jump, got to laugh at a top-echelon millionaire athlete miss a dunk.

I was saying to my wife last night—OK, I was shouting it to whomever was in the room, which was her and one of our two cats—that the difference between elite NBA coaching and just “pretty good” NBA coaching is a vast gulf. Toronto’s complete failure to do things like “switch so Redick has to defend Kawhi every single…

i’m guessing you DESERVE at least one of those bans

My brain is a not-particularly-fresh kidney bean, rattling around audibly in my skull.

You make a really good argument. On the other hand, schadenfreude. 

Hey Deadspin staff, you guys really need to ungray some of us soccer commentators. Almost every article it looks like no one cares based off of comment count but then you look in the grays and the same 10-15 of us are having rich convos.

And as usual, our big fat so-called president, when faced by a human tragedy that he doesn’t give a fuck about, reacts by sending WARM WISHES. Why can't he even fake it right? Christ in a bucket.

“We are not a racist community.”

I haven’t ever been so excited just to watch a basketball player jump. Not shoot or dunk or anything. Just jump.

Yeah, technically the Mormon Trail started Nauvoo, IL just across the river from Iowa and Missouri. They were driven out of Independence, MO and Kirtland, OH previously.

But I wanted to highlight Missouri because, y’know, Cardinals fans.

and Illinois.  and somewhere before then, even?  [I don’t have an opinion on the Mormons either way, just stating history]

Didn’t these guys get forced out of Missouri because they were such assholes?

When the guy from Boston is dunking on you for being racist, you know you have a problem.

New Zealander here and long time Gawker reader.This is an absolute gut-punch. The TV is saying up to 27 people shot. This stuff just doesn’t happen here. The whole country is in shock, the prime minister just spoke, she looked like a ghost. I hope this doesn’t end our innocence as a society. I hope those in a position…

DON’T WATCH THE VIDEO. The shooter livestreamed the attack and apparently people are sharing it on social media. Please do not watch it. There is nothing to be gained from watching the murder of real people. You do not want those memories.

As awful as this, at least New Zealanders can take comfort in the fact that tens of millions of their citizens and half their government aren’t going to say in the immediate aftermath that the lives lost are less important than some archaic 200 year old amendment that the gun lobby uses to rake in profits under the…

The thing I loved about this story, is Keisel couldn’t help but tell on himself. People (dipshits in particular) seem to forget that professional athletes play at an incredibly elite level, with the most insane shit talkers on earth. These shit talkers are all programmed to spend every minute of the game trying to get…

the home crowd isn’t providing enough energy

So, a bunch of people whom I assume are long-time readers of yours welcomed you, and after a few columns, I’m enjoying your style. However this: