Generally, the best games have the perfect ratio of skill and luck. We want the most skilled to win most of the time, but there needs to be just enough luck that upsets have a decent chance of happening.

D’Angelo Russell scored 26 points, not 28. Also, he scored 26 points on 25 shot attempts, and finished with a +/- of -10. He did not “torch” the Sixers.

He publicly announced he was quitting BEFORE talking to Jeanie. Who does that? He’s supposed to be ‘family’ to Jeanie (although family doesn’t seem to go far in the Buss family), but he can’t even give her a heads up?

Is he though? I’ve seen zero evidence to suggest he’s a smart guy, in any sense.

WTF?! Nobody is going to jail or being charged or getting a felony over a $20 stolen shirt. This isn’t North Korea.

This gives the Lakers WAY too much credit. Yes, they were 20-14 on Christmas Day. They also barely had a positive point differential. If you go to 538 NBA predictions for Dec. 24

Kyrie Irving and Kevin Durant would make the PERFECT teammates. And the Knicks would be the perfect home for them. I desperately want this to happen. The finger-pointing. The passive aggressive squawking at the ‘media’. The disappointment of squeaking the Knicks into the playoffs in the shitty east. It will be GLORIOUS…

Tell him to e-mail me. He can probably get a job at the company I work at. We’re hiring web developers like crazy. Also in Irvine, about 5 minutes from Blizzard. jaybee37@yahoo.com. My burner e-mail.

QA could maybe be considered DevOps. But for a gaming company, QA and support are definitely not DevOps.

This is a dumb take.

I’m starting a new job and had a background check run through Checkr as a prerequisite for employment. I had a copy of the report sent to me as well.

I’d like to take this opportunity to point out how much Wiggins fucking sucks. He was 4-18 in the game, and he waved everyone else off to go one-on-one and take a shitty long 2-pointer. The only saving grace is that he missed the shot SO BADLY that Towns was able to corral the rebound and make the game-winning shot.

Anyone who watches today’s NBA regularly should’ve known that was Hardaway’s fuck up. Of course there was supposed to be a switch. Hardaway’s just so shitty, he didn’t realize his fuck up even after Gordon got a wide open shot.

Booker flopped. Dieng’s elbow didn’t touch him. Maybe it should be called a foul anyways, but Booker still flopped.

Come on. Can we decide that something is annoying, without it becoming a prejudiced comment about someone’s gender? Man or woman, that screech is downright annoying, and she’s doing it for half of the entire game.

Except the sheer existence of Fallout 76 was to be an exploitative cash grab. Their goal was to create an always-online ecosystem that urged players to spend real-money for shit. They just sucked at it.

Serves me right for trusting Deadspin stats. Hernandez is 3-32 this postseason. 13 strikeouts in those 32 at bats.

I have been thoroughly unimpressed with Dave Roberts managing so far this series.

So....can we just accept, as a nation, that Jimmy Butler is an insufferable douchebag? A couple years ago, he and Wade made Rondo the good guy. Rondo.

The first night at home from the hospital was, for my wife and I, the worst night of our lives. Our son cried non-stop all night, and being new sleep-deprived parents, we thought something was wrong. What we didn’t know, is that’s what he would do literally every single night for the next four months.