- Hi, I’m Rob Lowe, and I have DirectTV.

Absolutely this. So many fans get zero championships, ever, while they’re alive. I’m nothing but thankful for the time we had with him (and wade, who is my all time favorite for homer reasons)

I mean, there’s thirty teams in the NBA. If you got two championships out of LeBron’s stay, you have to count it a net win if the team recovers within the next *60* years.

As a lifelong fan of one of those teams, while Lebron was in his prime, yes. It was worth it. We will be mired in mediocrity for about the next decade, but I’m telling you my dude, the four straight finals and two titles were like the prime of my fandom life. It was awesome, and I’ll happily sit at an 8-10 seed for…

“This would be almost every bit as much fun if it happened to the Knicks or Heat or Celtics or Warriors”

You left out the biggest player of all in this Kobe. He is still revered like a god to a huge part of the fan base. Ownership too. Pelinka is basically his plant. Meanwhile the media, ESPN in particular has rehabilitated his image into this elder all knowing elder statesman.

All I ask is that the Deadspin staff to refer to him as “Rob Lowe cosplayer Rob Pelinka” from now on.

Windhorst, Woj, etc. have all said that the Lakers are run like a family business in the ‘80s and it shows. They apparently have little to no modern scouting or analytics employees and completely overvalue the allure of a big market in 2019 when it doesn’t really matter anymore [Giannis and Westbrook are stars; half…

First off, Magic had no business being put in charge of basketball operations to begin with. And the Lakers vision the past few years seems to be the same as the Knicks, forget about how poorly we’ve been run and come here because we play in a great market with crazed(demented) fans. What has kind of surprised me in…

In the game of thrones, you win or you get a national television platform on which to shit talk your nemeses. 

ray almost made it all the way without mentioning a bay area team. so close. but you know what they say, those last three paragraphs are the hardest.

Please make Lavar Ball President of Operations . . . please make Lavar Ball President of Operations . . . please make Lavar Ball President of Operations.

I love the idea that Magic was gonna spend three seasons grooming somebody for a job that Magic would have only ever had for three seasons at that point. 

If being “harder to guard” doesn’t equate to being a “better team”, then it’s very, very close. If you switch this to the other side of the court, it’s like saying that they’re “harder to score on” but not a “better defensive team”. Semantics.

Last thing Magic needed was more aids working against him. 

You have no idea what you’re talking about, Barry!

The guy has not even started playing for the Knicks yet, let’s hold off on any and all “worst nightmare” talk.

I hope Seth doesn’t look at this at Steph being responsible for one third of the GW total points, but rather Seth being responsible for one twentieth of the Blazers points. Doesn’t that sound like a much nicer comparison?

That’s why LeBron isn’t the GOAT.

Because MJ would have gutted Smith and feasted on his heart for all to see if it was his team.