I don't know what's more insufferable—Sam Hinkie's or the Stockholm Syndrome of Sixers fans in this comment thread.

Sam Hinkie is basically the basketball management equivalent of a fedora-wearing transhumanism enthusiast.

Actually I'm surprised no one in Brooklyn has come up with a hipster Chuck E Cheese with artisinal pizzas and, I don't know, expensive wooden toys from Germany.

Also I'm wondering if this was what they played?

Or you could always go to Freddy's. The animatronics show is to die for.

"KEEP SENDING THOSE EMAILS!!1!"

whooooosh

Even the season where they missed the playoffs they went 11 and freaking 5.

I love the girl who starts beaming halfway through the catch. She knows what's up.

I mean, Jesus, at least run a play action with Lynch. Hell yes they would have bit on that.

I feel the hot take earthquake off the coast of New England—tsunami should be hitting all major metro areas of the U.S. by tomorrow morning.

There was an AMA on Reddit recently with someone who got $9000 for a one-month sleep study. He found it on Craigslist. I think in university towns there is some utility left to it.

OMG this would be like the Krakatoa of hot-takery.

Oh god, you are the symbol of desperate, loserly entitlement that Drew was writing about. And...you have no idea. None.

As a layperson, I think the best work of narrative I've seen on those wars was the "duckling" episode of Louie.

"So many bricks."

The thing that's most depressing about Deflateghazi is that the two options in this battle royale are the fucking Patriots and the collective cesspool of American sportswriting. God damn it, all that a Takenami does is embolden all the Massholes on my Facebook feed. They...love...this...shit. "The Patriots ah the…

Also, exchange rates are fickle BUT the dollar is looking stronger and the European economy is going to be sluggish for awhile. Surely that is another factor in the next 5 years. Players CAN get more bang for their buck playing in the States.

"Basically, the writer thinks something nefarious happened, but has no proof, no inkling and no idea what he's talking about."

I hear you, but that's exactly what torpedoed NASL. That and too-rapid overexpansion—and the MLS already has THAT box checked.