I agree with you (and Scocca) and I think it’s important to continue hammering the point that the NBA absolutely can and should pull out of China. But I also think it’s instructive to understand why it likely won’t: Because Silver, for all that he poses himself as the benign neoliberal CEO of the league, is actually…

Completely apart from the moral principles of the situation, I really think Silver needs to double down and tell the Chinese to go fuck themselves. The NBA is obviously the best professional basketball league in the world, and by an enormous margin. Silver has real leverage because he has a monopoly on the product…

We have seen how basketball can be an important form of people-to-people exchange that deepens ties between the United States and China.

Since this is obviously a made up story, in order to make it easier for everyone else to separate fact from fiction here, I’ve taken the liberty of going through the entire article and highlighting the things that are obviously make believe so readers coming after me can focus on the aspects of the article that may be…

DJ at Tampa strip club at 4:50pm on a Tuesday: [fires up Def Leppard, “Rocket”]

China: [fires Rockets]

At first I really enjoyed that Baldinger video. Then I felt uncomfortable.

“This is exactly how you win a game, just run every play. Keep ‘em guessing because they’re gonna expect you to throw it eventually, but they’ll be wrong.”

One of the things that’s super troubling about this is Maven basically saying, “the entrepreneurs get to post on Maven digital platforms” which is really fancy for “you’ll get exposure.” But, the whole myth of “exposure” is you do it long enough to catch the eye of a top level company in your industry LIKE Sports…

Daryl Morey’s real ignorance shows that he could have apologized right away. However, he doubled down on his stance and referred to himself as ‘The Dalai Lama of NBA General Managers.’

Shocking that the owner of a sports team in 2019 with a racial slur for a nickname would do something shitty. To a white guy, I mean.

5am? My Lord that’s early. I can just picture Snyder there in his office, across from a barely awake Gruden, stirring his coffee with a sleeve of gatorade cups.

3rd person blogs are never a good sign.

You ok bud?

After weeks on the road, you enter the tavern - the smells of grilling beef and frying potato drift through the air, the sounds of carbonated water force injecting with sugar syrup fill your ears.

Not Paul Lukas!

I feel bad for those employees, but this is tremendous content.

I loved Maverick growing up, but the twist of (SPOILER) James Garner being Mel Gibson’s dad is maybe the most unearned twist in movie history. There is not a single hint throughout the film, and I am convinced they wrote it in at the absolute last second and then filmed the final scene.

Stabbed in the Butt cereal is just knockoff Colon Blow.

I had a teammate in college who would fit the meathead stereotype very well. Not great in class, terrible with remembering names, dates, scheduled things, the list goes on. BUT he can tell you exactly what plates to put on the barbell for a specific weight in seconds. Kind of like how Kevin from the office is a math…