Damn, there is something so compelling about watching the slow-mo facial reactions to nut shots. That half-second of amused recognition right before the agony begins.

It’s a really good read. A totally disastrous move, but one that made some sense at the time. One thing the article points out is that the Pierce deal was not the killer. It was the Garnett move that cost them multiple first rounders because of the contract shedding they had to do with it. And I don’t think anyone…

One of the smaller, pettier joys of this year’s finals was watching Deron Williams completely shit the bed.

Why in the hell would Indiana agree to trade PG for Kevin Love, an older, inferior player who has just had his flaws displayed for the entire world to see? Given PG’s impending free agency, Indiana may not get a superstar’s ransom, but surely they can do better than Kevin Love.

Even though Kershaw is a Dodger, which should make him a very bad man (see: Garvey, Steve), he is in fact, mostly very good. So confusing for Giants fans.

I think the best evidence this isn’t likely to be much of a contest is the fact that Mayweather is doing it in the first place. I won’t buy it, but I’d watch it if I got the chance. It’s hard for me to have much interest in anything Mayweather does these days, but as you write, the spectacle will be something.

Based on all I heard and saw, I would have voted guilty if I was a juror. Seemed like plenty of evidence. I think the DA is doing the right thing in re-charging, assuming Constand is OK with going again. She has been very brave.

Yeah, the national team is where Lebron, Wade and Bosh supposedly got the idea to form a definitely not a super team.

Actually, considering Lebron’s thin skin and how notoriously serious he takes himself, it seems far more likely Draymond is in HIS head than vice versa. I mean, isn’t that why Lebron is running around trying to pretend he didn’t start a superteam in Miami (or in his return to Cleveland)? Sour grapes, and self-soothing…

I generally, support juveniles being tried as juveniles, but I think homicide cases involving 17 year olds should involve some stiff ass prison sentences.

Manslaughter is frequently used as a charge without the offender directly, physically harming the victim. The White Snake show in Rhode Island. The club management charged, and convicted (I believe) of manslaughter. Same will likely happen soon with the Ghost Ship Fire in Oakland. The two public health officials in…

His Dad was a nice player, too. He had a nice all around game. He’d probably be more appreciated these days.

Darren Baker was probably a bit too young to be a bat boy, but man, was he cute. After the incident, MLB raised the minimum age to like 14. I remember the Dusty Baker Giants always had young kids in the dugout and around the team back in those days. It was charming. I really have a lot of fond memories of Dusty Baker.…

Oh, I don’t know. He said he didn’t want to rent his properties to black and brown people. That should rank pretty goddamn high considering the damage of housing discrimination.

I was going to say... Wasn’t Lithuania the fun, joyous, Grateful Dead jersey wearing, rock and roll, basketball boys? Now they’re the no more than 2 blacks on the team, racist boys?

Yeah, I have to nitpick with them calling the antelope David to the giraffe’s Goliath. The antelope has horns, and is used to ramming shit. What the hell does a giraffe do in a fight?

Oof, that’s a tough question. Big time sports, in general, just seems to lead to some insane corruption.

The only thing more tone deaf than this column is the idea politicians have been expressing in the last 24 hours, that, “What the country really wants/needs is to see politicians being nicer to each other in public,” when so much of the current anger is about just how much unity there is between them in private.

I don’t know. It was pretty special here in the Bay Area!

Draymond definitely had the proper response to Lebron’s corny, self-serving bullshit about never having been on a super team. Lebron can never fail. He can only be failed. Lame ass.