I know nothing about basketball, but Tyler went to middle school with me, so I readily believe this statement.

Counterpoint: Hinke always thinks he is the smartest person in the room and makes sure everyone knows it.

Just finishing skimming this. Oof. On the one hand, his reliance on reference and quotation and business-speaky just-so stories is a tic I’m primed to find obnoxious. I also think you can plausibly figure he wrote it under the assumption (or intention) that it would be made public, and therefore did so with the intent…

After reading this letter, I’m brave enough to give Hinkie some credit here. It can really suck to be a fan of teams like the Pacers, Hawks, or Grizzlies. Those teams win enough and get people invested, but fans know - deep down - that they aren’t actually going to win an NBA Championship.

Only the dankest. Humboldt County cados.

Well, we now know that he prefers to stand and swipe after attempting to drop a Brown.

I'm from the south so I know how devastating it is getting the clap from cousins.

Woke up / got out of bed

Okay no eagles fan but the head coach can do whatever the fuck he wants. But I do love the whining by a Gawker/Deadspin hack about this. Head Coach overrules scout, Yeah that happens every fucking day in every fucking sport. You fucking idiot.

Technically Kelly was the rebound from Andy Reid. Kelly’s tenure was experimental, short, and intense but mostly a mistake. Then you go back to the relationship that feels comfortable like Pedersen.

you left out be the best player in the world

When I think about Yao Ming and Bill Walton and every other 7 foot freak who fell apart because they were too big for human biology to actually work, it reminds me that Shaq played for 19 years in the NBA, another three in college, and he was overweight for the last 15 of those years, and he never had major foot…

Not that I disagree with what you and Patrick have both said about the state of the program, but is it really necessary to have two pieces published on the same day detailing how far back the MNT is?

What 19 year old ANYBODY does this? Is this just a thing now? Friends uploading their friends confessing to some not-great shit in hopes that it will do...what, exactly?

He’s born in 1996. Kids life revolves around social media and fame.

You think this is a defense?!

This seems fairly silly; if “scoreboard” is the ultimate comeback, the Royals will literally be getting their World Series rings minutes before they have the opportunity to, I don’t know, throw a ball at a random Met or whatever.

We didn’t say they were the best, YOU said they were the WORST.

The 2015 Royals are one of the worst teams to win a world series ever.

Somehow scoring runs later in the game makes you worse than scoring them early? Got it, great logic