“I’ve historically not been a fan of the NHL Awards being held after the season, rather than before the playoffs.” - kind of tough to get, you know, many of the players and coaches to show up if they were held before the playoffs.  

Nice synopsis.

You mean Elvin Hayes?

A guy who has the 11th highest salary in the NBA and who is over the age of 30 and plays PG (his replacement will be drafted tomorrow), traded for a #1 this year and a future potential late lottery #1? Plus, Conley only has two years left on his enormous deal, and Memphis won’t be competing either of those years,…

Seems like an exercise in circuitous logic to paint Jerry West as a bad guy because he was Jerry West. 

As a Nets fan (yes, we exist), the fact that the Celtics probably won’t win a championship as a result of the awful trade my franchise of choice made with them just makes me feel happier than Bill Simmons recapping “Teen Wolf” frame-by-frame.

Lorenzo Music was of course “Carlton, Your Doorman”, so the face had best not be seen, ever.

What part of NY is in New England? Like a teeny bit of a peninsula on Lake Champlain?

Actually, I was in a position to know, as someone who worked for the NBA, and later Sportschannel NY. I’m guessing Laura Wagner has never sat on press row, once. Would you like me to tell you funny stories about Fred Kerber or Dan Garcia? 

Correct. When I used to work Nets games, we could pick out maybe one of the famed “Secaucus Seven” (Cohen), but any of the other six could have walked past us and we’d have no clue who he was. 

So, more than most Deadspin writers.

I prefer him with his Jazz/Rock fusion combo. Solo Steph doesn’t truly get to explore the space of the room, or really flesh out the songs.

None of you have ever hung out with beat writers from NBA teams; trust me, they have little idea or concern over who the guy with the 3rd biggest stake in the team is.

He couldn’t name three people who have never been in his kitchen?

12 people? Damn, they should have retired your number for that feat.

All your theories are wrong. The real reason is that in the early to mid-1990's, Darrell Garretson, everyone’s least favorite ref, started to review how his fellow refs were calling games. He would break their games down in video the way coaches would, and tell them why they were standing in the wrong place, why their…

I’m actually going on Sunday. Bringing 6 other people! Reinsdorf better put my name on the scoreboard for that.

This must have upset the 14 people at the game.

It does make sense, because that would take effort. The team gets guaranteed revenue sharing dollars, and they don’t want to jeopardize that flow of cash. Not only that, they’ve also signed a new TV deal which will bring them a lot more money (even though their attendance is lousy, their local tv ratings, in a very…

Or, double the crowd at last night’s White Sox game.