That’s unfair. A team at the bottom would stay there.

I expect this will be met with the same swift action that the 2012 Republican autopsy report received.

While I don’t disagree with your larger point, it doesn’t make sense to say Westeros has no desire to return a Targaryen to the throne right before you say Jon Snow as Aegon Targaryen is the People’s King.

...what? If Paul George is on the Lakers instead of the Thunder, the Lakers win more games and the Thunder win fewer. Basketball-Reference thinks PG contributed 11.9 win shares; if they are correct, PG being on a team other than the Thunder potentially means that OKC wins 12 fewer games (i.e. out of the playoffs),…

If you feel compelled to say something about the shot that put you in the trash can, just say, “In that situation, forcing the opponent into taking a contested 37-footer is pretty much the best outcome a defense can hope for.  He made an extremely difficult shot.  You win some, you lose some.”

Yes, I do believe that LeBron + PG would have done significantly better than just LeBron.

People already complain about meaningless regular seasons, and the NHL takes it to an entirely new level.  Higher-seeded teams lose so frequently in the NHL that you might as well have playoff seeding determined by lottery.

Because the Lakers didn't have Paul George, and the Thunder did.

Sony has generally been the best company when it comes to backward compatibility, PS4->PS3 being the glaring exception. PS2 had full hardware backward compatibility with PS1 (including controllers and memory cards), and even limited forward compatibility (using PS2 controllers on PS1). At launch, PS3 had full…

Ah, so we’ve had it wrong this whole time! It’s not just that the Lakers were an attractive landing spot for free agent players; it’s also that the Lakers were SO attractive that competing teams would undermine themselves to send players there for nothing! And your cited proof of this theory is... a trade from a…

So a decade ago, because the Lakers were a premium destination at which players wanted to sign, the... New Orleans Pelicans would have been compelled to trade Anthony Davis there? How does that work?

Lackadaisical? That was a full-on shot-by-sniper performance!

So I guess “these days” doesn’t even extend to the trade deadline a month ago, much less the start of last offseason?

Somehow, I doubt the Lakers’ perspective is, “We will never contend with LeBron on the team.”

Yeah, I think ultimately “Nebraska won’t elect any people of color statewide” and “People of color don’t want to join the Nebraska GOP” are two sides of the same coin.

The reason why the Nebraska GOP has no viable candidates of color is almost certainly linked to the kind of racism that would turn said candidates away from that party, so that’s not exactly a strong retort.

It’s like asking why there weren’t any popular black leaders among the Dixiecrats.

The entire tech industry is incredibly hostile to unions. I’ve worked in tech (IT) for over 20 years and the only unions I’ve ever seen or heard of are in the public sector.

I like the advantage idea. You could actually stack advantage by having the second advantage result in shots + possession, which should be enough to discourage double intentionals.

This gives a significant officiating advantage to offenses, as KC can immediately snap the ball to avoid the booth ref calling OPI on that pick play, while NO can stand around for 38 seconds as the booth ref looks at replay after replay of the DPI.

I’ve literally never seen anyone prominently wear Hall of Fame rings before. (I didn’t even know they existed!)