I think deadspin should make more excuses for Russell Westbrook shooting 1-11 in the fourth quarter. “But he was tired”, “but his team isn’t good”, “but Kanter can’t defend”. Russell Westbrook has played hero ball in the fourth quarter all year which is the primary reason why their record is right at the bottom of the…

Look at the laughably predictable recenter and shift in the comments. As a PR person, this is textbook self-soothing. When something isn’t about you or isn’t comfortable to you, you never address the *real* issue, but instead you ask yourself another question and answer that one. This discussion is in no way about…

what’s more is this sort of language ownership creates a relative scale that one day could render the horror of the holocaust less. what happens when another population is exterminated in the future (north koreans, say), or if/when we redefine horrors not by temporal efficiency or methods of murder or specific…

I actually agree with this point. Having lost family members to the Holocaust—of one branch of the extended family, only two individuals survived the camps—I know that there is no rational conversation on this topic. The horror and the grief and the rage are so immense (and should be) that it seems obscene to impose…

“He’s a crybaby” -the guy who threw a national tantrum when split up from his brother at the age of 26.

So let me get this straight: The guy that literally cried his way off the Phoenix Suns is calling somebody else a crybaby?

It’s about ethics in sports journalism.

He is sippin some fancy ass millionaire tea because Phil gave him all the money and all the leverage and is now making a spectacle of himself in public because of it. The “Zen Master” was critically out-maneuvered by Carmelo during contract negotiations. You don’t ask for a no-trade clause unless you think, “well,…

Ironically you’re overthinking a meme about overthinking. It originated as a meme about an idiot over complicating a simple word. It starts with the person saying “who” and ends up with them saying “whomst’d”. The joke is that the person using “whomst’d” is a moron, but thinks they’re being clever.

um no. Voting for Kawhi is saying winning and playing incredible defense matter a lot. It’s saying you know Russell contested the 3rd least amount of 3's in the league behind Gobert and Whiteside b/c he was only concerned with stat padding his rebounds.

People who vote for Westbrook over Harden are like people who voted for Trump because he’s a good business man, they’re just wrong. If you just want the guy with the raw stats Harden is unquestionably better than Westbrook. His efficiency and assists are way more valuable than the few extra rebounds Westbrook gives…

Are the Colts more embarrassed that they traded a first rounder for Trent Richardson or that it was Mike Lombardi who pantsed them?

Wrong song, friend.

That is not the song he is talking about, at all. That’s the Alessia Cara song currently on the radio. This is *James Blunt*’s hit song called Beautiful from the early aughts.

It was a joke about how Barnwell blocks anyone on Twitter who remotely critisizes him.

No no, it was definitely Fern Gully!

All these years later and I’m still so offended by “unobtainium”. What a stupid term. Really? Unobtainium? Ugh.

At the same time, Jez is an apologist for Bill Clinton (also settled with Paula Jones for $850,000) and routinely slags all the women who made accusations against him. So they pick and choose their targets in an almost irrational way. None of us know what actually happened with Affleck and these women, just as we…

I would say that it doesn’t mean that he is guilty either. The interesting thing in this instance is that one of the women had worked with Affleck for years and not had issues with him until this movie, where the line between real and fake were blurred and where the whole point of the whole movie was to be fucking…

The difference is one show is about a group of people trying to bring to the attention of another group of people the effects of systemic institutional racism and privilege, and the hypothetical show you describe would be about one group of people enjoying the benefits of that institutional racism and privilege to the…