My only take on this is if Aru should hold back to allow Froome to come back after a mechanical, then Froome should have waited for Dan Martin to rejoin after getting caught up in the Porte crash (since Martin was just unlucky to be knocked over by Porte).

The Triangle is this century’s West Coast Offense. Nobody seems to have more than a cursory understanding of it, it isn’t as new as everyone seems to think, everyone sneers at it, yet almost every single team in the league does things that are recognizably influenced by it.

“Masterpieces like Moonlight are basically ignored.”?

It’s like charring your steak to a crisp and then drowning it in ketchup.

I like the new Deadspin - All Dodgers, all the time.

They seem to, but a few years later they disappear in a ponzi scheme.

There are laws governing investigations of this type. One conducted by an outside law firm has to have a high degree of independence in order to be protective. I use the terms outside and independent interchangeably because they’re used interchangeably in my practice and also because in the case of an investigation…

Carlos Hernandez knocked Floyd down in 2001. And Zab Judah [unofficially] knocked him down with a counter hook that staggered Floyd and saw him touch the canvas with his glove (referee didn’t call it a knockdown).

The notion that Connor has any shot is highly dubious. There is this idea going around that he has a puncher’s chance like he could one shot KO Mayweather but that is absurd. Mayweather has been in with much much more powerful boxers (before you point to weight disparities- these guys certainly hit harder...they have…

but I think this is a real question that needs answering beforehand if they intend to codify this

Tax evasion is a Spanish tradition, just like having 2.7 great football teams that shell out hundreds of millions of dollars a year to win the Champions League.

“You’re telling me!”

Other than the double-dribble, which caused LeBron to give up on defending the dribble like he should have done, that entire sequence was amazing.

On the same play, LeBron is clearly shown grabbing Steph’s arm (before the double-dribble occurs) which was also not called, so I’m going to call this one even.

A foul is a foul. I thought the McGee foul should have been called flagrant, but are you suggesting that a reach-in shouldn’t be called just because they called McGee’s earlier foul common instead of flagrant?

When the guy is LITERALLY being tackled by Javale McGee and he still muscles up an And-1, I don’t see how that’s a foul equivalent to lightly brushing Steph’s arm.

Because Kareem’s best years were in the early 70s and most people who talk about shit like who was the GOAT weren’t watching ball or even alive back then.

I think Kareem is most definitely in the GOAT conversation. I hate to invoke Bill Simmons, but he wrote half an article (then probably devolved into incoherent rambling) basically saying if you were drafting someone’s career, you would take Abdul Jabbar first no brainer.

Unrelated question, since the finals aren’t actually that interesting after a 7-week layoff: why is Kareem (12 championships on 3 different levels, all time leading scorer) not in the GOAT conversation?