This team really is committed to illegally getting stuff released from their balls.

I think you may be grossly misreading the room here if you think that Deadspin is siding with Harden and Paul on this one.

Except as someone who hates the Lakers, these were perfectly fine calls. Only one was borderline. The issue is Harden isn’t used to getting called for clear offensive fouls, and always sulks when he does.

A stance against what? Calling fouls? This “it’s personal” crap is garbage. 

I have zero sympathy for Harden who, as rightly noted in the article, gets his numbers by abusing the fringes of the rule book and basically demanding refs to slow down games by calling him for obvious fouls.

When Harden and Curry and other top stars refuse to take the court for certain refs the NBA may finally take notice.

SOMEONE please explain this bizarre expectation wherein NBA players think they’re entitled to have a fucking comprehensive dialogue with a referee after they’ve committed a foul. This isn’t fucking debate club. You got the whistle, deal with it, grumble to your teammate and move on.

Notorious beneficiaries of ticky-tack calls are upset about ticky-tack calls going against them for first time in months

Makes sense, I always felt like it was all part of the grift.

Literally every dog has at least a “tiny trace of wolf origin.”

He seems like he knows what he's talking about and is confident. You think being smart is arrogant?

I’ve been reading about the Dutch. Culturally they just don’t put up with much bullshit. They can be considered “abrupt" by people not used to their ways. 

Eh, I’ll give Bregman a pass for the sheer joy of seeing Tucker Carlson losing his shit.

Ignorance my ass.  They know what they did.

Simmons a few months ago: The NBA was built on superteams, dynasties are great for the league!

Everyone wants it both ways, as did NYC.

Amazon shot itself in the foot. But they’re a fucking monster and have hundreds of feet so some people don’t think it's a big deal. But it was a foot that was going to stomp on parts of the city. The corporate bootlicking is insane. 

The merits of the deal can be debated.

As someone else pointed out to me, though, why bring in Amazon and hasten the decline? Especially in a city like NYC, that constantly is having issues with, for example, housing costs?

People can move anywhere in the world and some countries (like Russia) actively court them with lower taxes. Yet all the wealthy haven’t moved there. That would seem to imply there is a greater value living in the United States and other western democracies. Like any valuable real estate, they should have to pay more…

You may be right that NYC has set itself up for decline, but bringing in Amazon and giving them $3 billion in tax breaks is hardly likely to reverse that trend.