Years ago, a sportswriting economist found that playoff teams see their top 6 players go from 70% of available minutes (regular season) to 85% in the playoffs. The Warriors are a special case in that they blow out playoff opponents so badly that they don’t need to ride their 6-man rotation hard in the early rounds,…

I’ve heard this floor-spacing retard-talk for years about the Knicks: “Who cares if Bargnani is getting paid $11M to shoot a .510 TS% at volume. He spaces the floor!”

Sorry, what the fuck is PPG supposed to tell us, aside from the fact that Thompson shoots 27% of his team’s shots when he’s on the floor at 40th percentile shooting efficiency (.530 TS%)?

Klay Thompson, BPM rank on Warriors by year:

MSU fans: “Why penalize the athletes when you could sodomize instead?”

The only thing is that Chris Paul is a top-3 PG of all-time who had a 7.1 BPM at age 32, and John Wall has shot better than league-average TS% exactly zero times in his entire career.

I wouldn’t be surprised if Zion put up a .600 TS% in his rookie year. He’s a combination of superhuman athleticism, Shaq-like size (in a 6'6" frame) and incredible instincts around the basket. He is one of those rare players, like Charles Barkley, who is so reactive and fast-twitch that he’s already above the rim when…

White person here. That was racist as fuck.

It’s milquetoast dream pop for people who like music to be background music, not the main attraction.

You just demonstrated that you’re among the smarter writers on Deadspin, so great job!

$1 for a microphone implanted in my home so Amazon can listen to what I talk about with my wife and sell the information to marketers? Sign me up!

$1 for a microphone implanted in my home so Amazon can listen to what I talk about with my wife and sell the…

Do you really think that a guy who shoots .539 TS% (which is where the 27th-ranked Grizzlies were last year) and who’s coming off a major knee injury is a lock for a max contract? If so, you are blinded by the hype. You cannot win with a below-average volume scorer in today’s NBA when there are literally dozens of…

And that’s why the Knicks will never win a damn thing.

Knicks fan here. Pozingis shot .539 TS% last year, which was as good as the 27th-ranked Grizzlies. If you’re implying that Porzingis is good at scoring the basketball, you’re objectively wrong. He’s good at throwing it toward the basket, though, much like his malcontented-supermaxed-no-trade-claused predecessor.

That is one of the dumbest excuses to pay a shitty player $150M that I’ve ever heard.

An ankle sprain means a partial tear of ligaments and other connective tissue. When I “only” had a calf sprain earlier this year, it took me 2 months before I could even jog again. The first week I was complete immobile.

Anyone else forget that he and his friends somehow got into the apartment of a woman who had, that night, been so intoxicated that she tried to pick up a piece of hot charcoal, and then group-fucked her, which she alleges was rape?

Anyone else forget that he and his friends somehow got into the apartment of a woman who had, that night, been so intoxicated that she tried to pick up a piece of hot charcoal, and then group-fucked her, which she alleges was rape?

Jameson is what I drink when the bartender serves it to me free. Jack is what I pour on the ground no matter when or how it’s served. Not even good as a mixer.

NBA Champion Tyson Chandler was the best player on the Knicks each and every year he played there. Arguing otherwise is totally fucking retarded.