I bet the Thunder are down by more than 15 points in the 4th quarter more than the Spurs, Rockets or Warriors, too. Does Westbrook not play the first three quarters? I mean, Russ is a tremendous talent, but surely he plays a role in the fact that his team is losing and needs to be brought back in the first place.

So what I come away from this wanting to know, is what does “Protest food” look like? Is it, like, extra-spicy-to-the-point-of-being-inedible things that the president likes?

The desire to turn every single game franchise into a mostly tedious open-world action game with lite RPG elements is one of the main reasons I’ve barely touched this generation’s consoles. It gets so repetitive after a while.

Yeah, although to be fair, didn’t Stroman grow up in the US and it was just that his mom was from Puerto Rico? I don’t know that competitiveness/perceived worthiness had much to do with it.

“Eau Claire, Wisc., Bismarck, N.D., and Allentown, Penn.”

This is how most unions operate. They say they’re for all the workers, but they disproportionately benefit the people with seniority/service time. I spent a decade, for example, paying a couple thousand a year toward a pension that I’m never going to see when I retire. I’m sure my former colleagues are enjoying their…

Aw, man, and my joke about his career being in babyshambles didn’t even make it out of the grays.

“A bunch of people” haven’t read newspaper copy before it goes to print in at least five years, more at most places. I know people who work at my local paper, which is one of a minority that haven’t outsourced copy editing/design, and most stuff gets two sets of eyeballs, tops — three on the rare occasions the work’s…

I think you wildly overestimate the degree to which most newspaper copy is edited in this day and age, but you’re right. His editor probably signed off on it.

You could say Pete Dougherty’s career is in babyshambles after this column.

San Francisco, Wisconsin, Southern California

Right? How could the fact that Westbrook and KD are going to be suiting up in the same uniform for the first time since Durant left be at all newsworthy? It’s the reporters’ jobs to ask these questions, and they’d be terrible at their jobs if they didn’t ask. It would be stupid if they were asking Westbrook every…

Ray Lewis will win an Oscar for this portrayal of a former NFL star suffering from the early stages of CTE.

I clicked on the headline thinking this was going to be about camgirls.

When you or I read this, we see an off-kilter, edgy mascot story. When Grayson Allen reads this, it’s like looking into a crystal ball.

Same here. Like, my wife literally, without my knowledge, has to pay a group of militiamen to mock-abduct me, throw a burlap sack over my head, then drive me around for nine hours before sticking me in a creepy, windowless Unabomber shack without outside contact for two weeks. Then she has a dwarf wearing a gimp mask…

Aw, that’s rich. Have an Appel.

Hinkie, dude, they fired you. You don’t have to care anymore.

In the Alternative Facts version of events, the Packers will be playing in the Super Bowl in two weeks. That’s good enough for me. #MNFLGA

Leaving aside the merits of this particular pardon, anyone else find it fascinating that the only photo the military has made available of Chelsea as Chelsea is about the most Warhol-looking thing you can imagine?