As difficult as it is to defend reddit, it was very clear there that the tone was jocular. The only actual anger and vitriol I saw was in the comments section here, where it dominated the conversation.

I suspect I’m one of the few Sixers fans who still considers Dre my favourite player. Stoked to see him getting all this spotlight for his work.

As luck would have it, since writing that a new top story has popped up on the same newspaper website:

I’m not who you were asking, but I am from New Zealand.

Yeah, I always find myself interested when pop stars can’t really dance but make it part of their act anyway. Katy Perry’s whole wiggle-wiggle-point-my-decorated-boobs thing is annoying. Taylor Swift’s thing where she just has a handful of not-really-dance-moves that she does on repeat is sort of entertaining but a…

The frosted tips, though? His hair looks like a 12 year old in the late 90s.

Hacking is usually done repeatedly and ends up slowing the game down far more than walking one guy. Also it takes everyone out of the game - if you hack DeAndre Jordan then you prevent every Clipper from playing offense - whereas intentional walking just moves one guy. There are probably a bunch of other reasons…

I don’t think it can be a senator - 6 year terms mean no candidates were running in 2007 and 2015.

I don’t know why, but this is the first ever video that has me ready for a version with a vuvuzela over the top. Maybe just because you said ‘air horn’, I don’t know, but I’m ready.

Yup. His Bulls teams only twice ranked in the top half of the league for regular season 3 attempts. His championship Laker teams ranked 17th, 9th, 7th, 15th, 10th. The two years his teams finished highest in 3 attempts were 2005-06 and 2006-07 where Kobe was just gunning and they were losing in the first round. Hell,…

“...to play for 3pt shot is an error. Penetration, first principal of offense.”

Pretty sure it’s just an example of a deal so hilariously dumb that it’s something the Knicks would do. Nobody’s actually talking about it or expecting it, it’s just the result of having pessimism regularly beat into you over a 15+ year period.

My big takeaways are that it emphasizes (1) how great the Spurs have been for so long (and how hilariously timely that TD draft losing season was) and (2) that the way we do things in American sports - where we define a franchise by ownership and not location+name - is sort of crazy. I mean, there’s a decent argument…

Two of my favourites:

“There’s nothing in the rulebook that says you can’t use your head” followed by silence followed by the ref announcement is just perfect. Partly because the ref calls him “the Chicago person” but also because lol commentators.

This was the 16th most likely outcome, out of 2184. 0.981% chance.

Names-drop. Like Attorneys-General or courts-martial.

Agreed, but hell, even if I wasn’t famous (spoiler alert: I’m not). I’ve made up things about my background before just for the fun of it.

I absolutely believe the story, but you lose me at “it’s time she came clean”. Who cares? Why is she obliged to tell you her real back story if she thinks there’s a funnier/more interesting one? This isn’t a politician or Brian Williams lying about stories or anything, it’s just fluff filler information that doesn’t…

GOOD LUCK MAKING A TRIANGLE WITHOUT 3 POINTS, AMIRITE?