So your position here is that an article that suggests an ongoing argument about Harden versus Westbrook is actually about the soul of basketball is just a harmless comparison of two players?

C’mon, Buffalo, how about letting some other city get some sports good fortune every now and then?

Now he’s gonna have some mental hangup about only being able to shoot after a spin move. The nearest defender will be 10 feet away and he’ll spin move into a shot.

Semantic Fultziation.

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It reminds me of this:

Word. Woooord. Werd. Werd. Wurd. Wwwwuuuuuurd.

When you woke up this morning, did you think of yourself as someone who would call the teenaged survivor of a mass shooting a liar on the internet, or are you surprised to learn that about yourself?

That was my first thought. I’m five years into living in NYC* and I swear it’s a cosmic certainty that the train I’m on WILL delay if I have to poop.

Boss makes a dollar while I make a dime, that’s why I poop on company time.

Plus presumably you’ve outlasted the cleaning crew by that point, and it’s a fresh toilet for you. I don’t get it either.

Does someone shouting WAZZZZUUPPPPPPP?!?!?!?!?! still make you want to punch them in the face? About that long.

Being in the NBA makes you the best in the world. Playing high level D-1, also the best in the world. 2% of college players play in the NBA.

Yea, he looks like he’s lost fine motor control over his shot. What was an orchestra of well coordinated motions to get the ball out of his hand is now a high school cover band three motion shot put. What’s worse is he is reinforcing these motions with all of these repetitions.

No, he’s just emulating how I shot the ball in seventh grade. Given that I’m a deadspin commentor, and he’s an NBA player, it’s a sensible choice.

I mean, this is essentially Kyle Anderson’s jumper, but then again, his nickname is SloMo.

Man, people really get worked up about not saying goodbye around here.

Trading up to draft a guy who then develops the yips would be next level PROCESS.

I don’t think it’s yips. More like the most bizarre shooting motion of any NBA player in history and he’s doing it on purpose.

Yips would be if his shot looked fine, but it suddenly veered off to the left at the last moment.

Either that, or he’s the first #1 Draft Pick to completely forget how to play basketball shortly after being drafted.