1. No way Green gets hit with tampering. If he did every NBA player who hangs out with any other NBA player during the season or offseason would be guilty of this. Also, by the language it seems that it’s directed toward front-office ownership types.

Let’s also not forget that this wasn’t the team that drafted him. He was drafted by the Seattle Supersonics. No one in OKC can complain about anyone “leaving” them for another two decades.

Nonsense. LeBron coming back to Cleveland is the ultimate outlier when looking at team management. It is indicative and instructive of nothing. Getting the best player in the world to come back to his home town due to extreme personal regret and obligation isn’t “assembled through free agency.”

Can we just get rid of the draft already? There’s a salary cap— that alone insures competitiveness assuming competence. If a team cares enough about a rookie, let them clear space and offer him more money. Maybe, at best, offer bottom 1/3 teams some kind of small cap exemption. Stop rewarding teams for being total…

Again, all fair. I particularly enjoy the bullshit articles by “economists” during the NCAA tournament saying American businesses lose $X billion in productivity, when it’s actually just someone watching a basketball game during lunch with colleagues instead of checking Gawker on their work desktop.

Again, you’re missing the point, which was a cheeky question about how can any country continue to function when that percentage of people are gone at once. It clearly wasn’t meant in a how-does-everyone-have-that-much-time-off kind of way. You’re not wrong, you’re just injecting something into the conversation that…

Still, not sure I agree with “shameful.” It’s only shameful in the way that the taxes extracted from payment for this article (assuming Gawker still has cashflow to pay its bills!) is funding the Pentagon’s drone program. I don’t she should feel shame for that either: it’s great that she wrote this article.

You missed the point. Based on the stadium attendance and the shots of the simulcast, it appears that every Icelandic resident is taking vacation at the same time. It’s not a question of how much time people have off.

The best part was that everyone on England kept passing him the ball, hoping he would do something to save them. The ball constantly gravitating to him in the final 5 minutes says a great deal about who the English team think has talent.

Here’s three obvious ones for you:

Were you old enough to watch the USA play in the ‘92 Olympics? The relative level of skill differences then made last night’s USA vs Argentina match look like the Giants vs. Patriots Super Bowl in terms of competitiveness.

I agree with you when it comes to rugby, but not at all when it comes to soccer. If JJ Watt, Cam Newton, Eddie Lacy and Dont’a Hightower were on the US Rugby side, we’d be much better off.

If only there were some available technology to alert the referee to stop play in the case a goal had been scored...

Why exactly? Because Zusi is even capable of getting onto the pitch for a 1. Bundesliga side?

I think it’s an even more traumatic experience for the families. Imagine being Ayesha in that moment, watching your husband and kids’ father get totally railroaded, while a frenzied mob of 20,000 people go ballistic at him, enjoy his misfortune and chant him off the court.

The other thing is that international soccer requires a totally different mindset than U.S. fans are accustomed to. We will never just breeze to victory and even if we are great that means jack shit when it comes to actually winning.

True, but they are developing better players and increasingly playing a more sophisticated style.

It’s because first touch and composure have a lot to do with skill level relative to competition. It’s sort of like how Matthew Dellavedova looks mostly goofy when trying to cover Steph Curry and if he’s being checked by Iggy, but if you transported him to Duke next season he’d be scoring 25 PPG and leading the ACC in…

Why are you focusing on Anderson in this headline rather than Steph, Klay, Draymond, Shaun or Iggy?

I believe that traditionally the team votes on this, no?