We should make a Kickstarter to bribe the Celtics to take Ball. If the Lakers take him life will be insufferable.

We’ve now come full circle. We’ve gone from old players complaining about how today’s game is “soft” and they used to play hard and weren’t sissies and “you wouldn’t get away with that in my day!” We now have a retired player basically saying, “Back in my day we played tough, but we sure as hell weren’t dirty!”…

I always love reading an article with “Person X isn’t a great person and their views are a little terrible, but Person X belongs to my race and is from Place Y, which has far too many people of Race Z in it now. Therefore this is good.” As an argument. What a load of shit.

You guys are trying really hard on this one.

Part of me believes Popovich is smart enough to realize people would bring up Bowen, and as such, call him on his hypocrisy. Thereby removing some of the good will from the Spurs, and believing the series to be over, give some back to the villain and his long time groomed successor to emperor of the free sports…

Womp womp.

I see your point, but I think you said it yourself. If the Cavs dropped meaningless games because the East is structured how it is, would they have done the same if their record this year meant they were the 5th seed and had to play the Warriors early? I think it would instead make teams play to their potential in the…

The point being that the 2nd and 3rd best teams in the entire NBA don’t meet in the 2nd round simply because the top 3 teams in the league all came from the same conference.

Sooo.... NOW can we get rid of the Conferences?

Here’s how I think the conversation in that ref replay when Durant got the T and flagrant went... “ok so here’s the replay... so right here is where Gobert elbows Durant in the back... but we didn’t initially call that so disregard that happening.. now let’s see.. Durant reacts back to getting elbowed in the neck...…

Quin Snyder looks like an Italian soccer manager who is always one loss or two draws away from getting sacked (by definition of job title).

Only room for one Onederteen here!

Shoulda been you Jay Harris.

Green: “Who are the five best rappers of all time? Draymond....DRAYmond....D...”

Chicago countered by vowing to combat the Brewers every single game with their own player who came pretty much completely out of nowhere and is definitely not juicing, Jake Arrieta

I am tickled by the “Vice President” patch. Like either he needs to be reminded what he is, or we are really living inside of a six year old’s imagination, because when I think of what a six year old thinks a VP looks like, they are always wearing a name tag that says “Vice President”.

It will definitely be an interesting press conference/ESPN tv extravaganza when he accepts the MVP award while no longer being in the playoffs.

Came here for a Draymond Green cross take - noticed the article was neither written by Redford nor Petchesky. Expectations changed.

My team is the Warriors, so I don’t have much room to speak, but I was at the game Joe Lacob got booed. He sat there and took it, and then did what it took to bring Oakland its first NBA title in 40 years. He’s annoying sometimes and says dumb shit, but he *typically* behaves himself during games. Ballmer would annoy…

I have a countdown widget for the end of the word “wonderteen” in Deadspin stories about Pulisic. It’s 522 days in case anyone was wondering.