The “full written argument” consisted in its entirety of four words (six if you grant that “tbf” is actually three words masquerading as an acronym because Kyle Wagner is lazy.)

Then don’t apologize.

It was exactly like that. She’s sorry that people were mad at her. She’s only telling you how sorry she is so that maybe people will be less mad at her.

In retrospect, football was sort of a thing he fell ass-backwards into for a while despite being an irredeemable turd. The most interesting aspect of this case isn’t that a football player was just convicted of murder, but that a murderer actually managed to have a short pro football career.

Strong take.

If you’re Deadspin’s Favorite Team you can do anything, sir. Run down the entire court bobbling the ball from hand to hand? No problem, you’ve clearly “lost possession”. Just as long as you make the game exciting at the end! Unless you’re the Knicks, for whom close games are an indication of the inferiority of Eastern…

With that sort of attitude, I guess we're off to a great start.

Right, because NBA teams win 29 out of their last 36 games by winging it.

Rob Deer came close in '87.

He's just Al Jefferson, according to some dude in the comments.

CRISWELL PREDICTS.

Exactly. Mozgov's good enough, moves pretty well, has some intelligence in his game and doesn't ask for the ball but is good at getting into position. The difference between Mozgov and Valanciunas in the Cavs system is essentially negligible except that they can afford one and not the other. (Mozgov is possibly the…

I actually agree with you. I think you can understand the need for such contextualization and even applaud someone willing to "translate," like Mr. Hansen, in the hopes that little steps toward enlightenment all add up to big ones as a society, and that we shouldn't denigrate someone for making the effort. While at…

I don't see any castigating of the sportscaster here. terriblehuman seems to be bemoaning the cultural realities that make this sort of contextualization necessary for many people. We wouldn't be having this conversation if Hardy had murdered a guy. We would just say "Yeah, I really don't like this murderer on my…

A couple from Northeast Ohio well worth seeking out:

I don't think anyone disagrees with you is the thing. I think you're mostly just having an argument against yourself here. How many players in the league don't require "the right supporting cast" and system? LeBron? There's one. Even he needed Wade and Bosh and a real coach.

So your argument is they should have obtained a far inferior player for less just because teams should settle and hold onto all five of their first rounders or however many they had?

He went 21 and 14 two nights earlier. Did anyone really think he was going to average 26 points on a team with LeBron and Kyrie? He's underperforming, yes — he really should be at around 20ppg — and he's not playing very much on the interior with Mozgov and Thompson eating up boards there, but otherwise he's really…

Yeah, you're right. Guys with lifetime PERs of 21+ are giant question marks.

Anybody else remember earlier this year when the Cavs were still stinking up the joint and trying to figure out how to play together and a parade of "smart guys" started popping up on comment threads all over the net claiming the real problem was Kyrie wasn't that good?