That’s not what I said. You can argue with a sock puppet if you want to, though.

Then you may want to articulate that and maybe even provide an actual example. Then I might say “hey good point” instead of “this is fucking stupid.”

I don’t remember Durant winning Finals MVP. I didn’t watch after game 2. I guess he did since you told me. I’ll probably forget again by next week.

I’ve been in plenty of situations where people got pissed about someone quitting or how they went about it.

His championship means as much as one of Robert Horry’s. I mean, if it’s just getting a ring that is fine. No one is ever going to look back at how Durant won this title without considering the circumstances.

That’s what LaDainian Tomlinson would have said? Interesting. Or maybe you want to infantilize him to signal your own virtue.

You’ve lost 11+ games 10 of the last 14 years. In that stretch, the Lions haven’t even been Raiders bad. If you go back to before 1985, the Raiders are one of the best teams in the NFL. The only time you were truly, really mediocre was between 86-2000.

*Oh, stab.

The NFL is only due for contraction if the new goal is to make less money.

1. You’re off-topic.

1. we were talking about the First Amendment, that is not the First Amendment.

My god you’re dumb. Do you think with the 100s of respected liberal Constitutional scholars/writers out there, if you had a shred of a case, you might here from them? Use the google machine asswipe.

I’ll expand a little. The President and administration have every right to suggest a company should take a course of action. They aren’t compelling them through any kind of coercion or force. They aren’t ordering the IRS to audit ESPN, etc. They are still at the talking shit part. Talking shit is ok. Obama…

Nope. Zero chance.

No, it would not. At least not based on anything that has been made public. The president can say a company should fire someone. The government can take away contracts from companies that say things they disagree with.

It absolutely is not. The President and his administration can comment on private matters as much as they want. They shouldn’t, but it is in no way a First Amendment issue. Now if they sent the national guard to Bristol, then sure. You shouldn’t make up shit about the First Amendment just because Trump sucks.

It’s both the players and owners, though the owners might be persuaded as long as the total they’re spending remains the same.  If you don’t understand that the union will never agree to give rookies more money you are just a child in this discussion.

Baseball does something like this with foreign players. It is actually a reasonable alternative to the draft, but does little to give players their true value (in my view that will not happen in the perceptible future - might require a competitor to the NBA).

There is nothing abstract about reality. I am literally saying that how the NBA works is why your idea has not and will not be adopted.

How often do you ban people for being offensive?