First, a cap history: http://www.basketball-reference.com/contracts/sala…

No, nothing I wrote was wrong, but without context. In fact, YOU were wrong because he signed $33 million contracts in 1996 and 1997; both were one year deals. And MJ’s lifetime earnings on contracts was $93M, whereas the lowest 5-year re-sign max (for 0-6 years experience) in 2015 would have a value of $94M. Don’t be…

Now, today, if LeBron is your choice for GOAT, I don’t know if you’re right or wrong, but also, I don’t care.

Not only was there a cap, but the cap was so low, Jordan never cracked 10 figures until the 1996 season; his highest yearly salary before that was $4,000,000. His lifetime earnings (on the court) are much lower than what a standard max deal would be.

Maybe we can extend the same sort of sympathetic, but not excusing, understanding for child predators who weren’t so musically talented?

I don’t know how one team figures out “make the Warriors miss open looks,” but if it helps you sleep at night. The Warriors looked much too lackadaisical in big moments. Steph Curry put on an embarrassing show for an MVP. Anderson Varejao had no business on that court. Harrison Barnes did his damnedest to lower his…

Yoda, you are not. Another site if you don’t like the editorial bent of this one, you can read.

At some point during this game, the broadcast announcers mentioned how the Cardinals spent money the right way, instead of paying all that money to Jason Heyward, “and you understand why with the kind of year he’s having.” The sanctimony was so heavy, I really didn’t want to continue watching, but I soldiered on.

Nope

Free agency was “around,” but it wasn’t as widespread as it had been before the 1993 CBA, the one that introduced the franchise tag. Before then, there were more restrictions on player movement, specifically, incumbent teams had the right of first refusal for over half of the roster. When I said “for the first time,”…

I know Allen Iverson (Sixers fan, plus my cousin is his daughter’s godfather. FACTCHECK MY NAMEDROP BRO I DARE YOU), Steph Curry is NO Allen Iverson.

But is it a “misconception” though? I get that the misconception is that he is not physically small, but if it manifests in the same style of play that smaller players use to their advantage, what’s the real difference? Some guys play “bigger” than they actually are, some play “smaller.”

Following myself up:

I agree; again, I don’t know the exact scaling of such numbers, or the point at which x pounds > becomes significant. but in some cases (Lawson, Thomas, Lowry), they clearly don’t belong in the comp box. If anything, the similarity in weight and not in play style is fuel for the notion that Curry doesn’t use his size…

Ever since the Thunder series, the Warriors have been almost the definition of “bringing that weak shit.” The Thunder were capitalizing because they were playing very aggressively and with length and tenacity that really challenged the Warriors’ finesse. They hustled after loose balls much harder (notwithstanding the…

You’re confusing height for size. Of all the players you mentioned, a few are smaller AND lighter than him (which I am not an expert at correlating height/weight across dimensions, so will concede those as fine comparisons). Of the remaining, they are either smaller and the same weight or larger or equal height and…

1) The Franchise Tag was negotiated during the CBA session that implemented free agency for the first time. Just an assumption, but guessing that the players were simply happy to have free agency and overlooked the long-term ramifications of franchise tagging (notwithstanding the relative lack of overall strength of…

How dare some people use this tragic event to push their agenda of gun control, when we can should be using it to push our agenda of fighting an unwinnable “war” against the general concept of “terrorism”?

Occam’s razor at work.

Could have gone with Roethlisberger