Thoughts and prayers for your phone/marriage once the Mom’s call your wife to have the “Do you know what phrase you husband taught my kid?” calls.

“I did not speak to Kevin Durant directly, but I heard this from multiple sources. MULTIPLE. I mean twitter users DevinKurant, KDisAmazing35, NotKevinDurant, TheServantWasAGoodNickname and even WestbrookWasntThatGoodAndI-IMeanKevinDurantCarriedTheThunder.”

I think Warriors-era Durant is definitely the latter, but Oklahoma City-era Durant could definitely be the former.

“New team, who dis?”

Remakes always suck, especially ones that make it appear that they weren’t actually cousins...

It was the world that was wrong.

On a macro level, Excel Sports has the formula for success.

 what does my ex wife have to do with this? (???)

The Celtics, currently desperate for big men, could do a lot worse

Macabei Tel Aviv is looking for a big man, Tel Aviv is essentially Kosher Los Angeles so why not ?

Generally, people don’t want their cousins. Unless they are watching Les Cousins Dangereux...

I’m curious about eSports and sportmanship. In many sports you can get ejected or penalized for “unsportsmanslike conduct.” I seem to see a lot of things I would call “unsportsmanslike conduct” in many esports stories.

Where my curiosity lies is where would players learn this? I remember playing basketball and baseball…

announcers at a fighting game tournament are the most ridiculous sounding people on earth. “Buffalo this, buffalo that.” lol.

I think a major contributor to the problem is the tendency for the community to write off serious toxic and aggressive or hateful behavior as being a “heel,” as if this were all a scripted wrestling match and the competitors were characters rather than real people. We’ve seen this at every level of competition.…

Things that I don’t personally like: sore losers and poor winners. People that don’t shake hands and congratulate the opponent - unless there is good reason for that.

That big doofus wouldn’t know what to do with himself if he got popped in the mouth for real.

If we’re gonna “real” fight at a fighting game tournament, let’s just make it official.

I posit that participating in a fighting game tournament and “behaving in an adult manner” [sic] are pretty mutually exclusive.

“You can’t fight in here! This is the [fighting tournament] room!”