Similar to the Sixers stumbling in Game 1 to Brooklyn, minus the years of game mileage, plus the demands of fitting a lot of new pieces and struggling with no depth, and inequal comparison that Brooklyn is effective in a specific and fundamental way that the Sixers have had trouble with for years — defending penetratin…

I know what I’m able to do. I know my capabilities…I know what I can and can’t do.

Russell Westbrook has announced a moratorium against answering questions from Rusell Westbrook, asserts commitment to self-improvement despite what Russell Westbrook might say about Russell Westbrook.

Strange Planet is fantastic.

Dat ego, tho’

He did have the advantage that his head was already halfway down the first base line before he even got off the plate. (And that was before the PEDs.)

He might be too good to be a bench player, but if he’s starting for you, your team probably has some issues.

I’m very, very wary of mistaking exuberance for corniness, and I hope the next generation learns the dangers and limitations of ironic detachment.

Follow up — youse a bad muthafucka:

I was at a bar, since i’m lucky enough to have no tv and a drinking problem, and for to watch both games simultaneously. It was sport nirvana. 

“When God (or whatever you decide is the name of the invisible being you keep nagging for favors for your favorite sports team)“

I was watching, and in retrospect, I still find it hard to believe the Nets even scored more than two points in the first quarter.

Totally agreed. That’s why two parts were to say that access to players helps their revenue grow, but also understanding if they only wanted to play the game. But, that’s just not how the economics of the league works, for better or worse.

For fucks sake, humanity has really outlived its possible utility.

Eh, I’m not afraid. All you have to do is jump over them, and the earth bottoms out beneath them. Or, just jump on their heads 3 or 4 time, and it’s a wrap.

Yeahhh, I generally like Luis’ work, but this passage is also true for literally every team:

This is the best supercut ever supercutted.

Kids, kids, you’re both right.

He and McCollum should call themselves the Sploosh Brothers from now on.

There's always a Cheryl!