I think Kyrie is a very good player. I don’t think he’s a superstar, and the Ellis comparison is an effort to highlight how we let factors that aren’t necessarily within a player’s control affect how we evaluate pretty similar production.

The reality is that at this point last year Kyrie’s production was remarkably…

I’m not upset at all. Kyrie is a very good player. He’s just not a superstar. The comparison is only a means of highlighting how draft status and pre-draft evaluation of a player affects how we see the player, the opportunities the player is afforded, and the player’s standing in the league.

Look at the scouting reports coming out of high school. As a privileged black kid who grew up with black kids who weren’t, I read two scouting reports that describe very similar players with the only difference being the opportunities one had over the other by virtue of an accident of birth.

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Hill is who most folks guessed when I posed this last year to friends. Alas, he is old, and he’s never performed quite this well.

See my reply to myself for the answer. 

Haha I fell asleep.

Player A is Monta Ellis over his final 6 seasons in Golden State (including his rookie year where he only played 18 mins a game, he went 20 4 4 on 46% shooting).

(This is as of June 2018):

The joke is that they got rid of a good kicker (Gould). Gave a bunch of guaranteed money to a good to average kicker (Parkey). And then ate the all that guaranteed money because of a blocked kick and are wandering around in the wilderness.  

The value of a professional cheerleader in a sport that makes its revenues primarily from areas the professional cheerleaders have no impact on = whatever the professional cheerleaders can negotiate for themselves.

The ladies certainly work hard to be professional cheerleaders, and they should be paid at least minimum…

Jones is tall, white, and comes from the “right background.”

Haskins is a black quarterback in a league where there is still lingering bias about the “between the ears” game of black players not named Russell Wilson. 

It wasn’t a bad shot. He’d hit one from that area earlier in the game, and it was pretty clear that he had sized it up as a good spot for him. He was something like 8/12 from beyond 30 feet during the series.

Any shot you’re hitting 60% of the time on 10 or more attempts in a 5 game series is a good shot. 

Uh huh. 

lol you’re cute.

I haven’t vigorously shit on anyone. I haven’t even lethargically shit on anyone. The reality is that calls for WNBA players to make more money need to be supported by something more compelling than “they are the best women’s basketball players.” There’s no logical basis for your assertion that WNBA…

OK, fuck the WNBA. I’m sure the NBA would love to allocate the funds it’s using to prop that league up elsewhere.

I don’t understand why this is so hard for y’all. NBA players are getting a percentage of the significant revenues their league generates. The WNBA isn’t generating revenues at anywhere near that level.…

No one on this planet has to play basketball to make a living. No one. 

Not at all concerning to me. If they want to get a better paying job that is less taxing on their bodies, many of them have the ability to do that.

But the WNBA doesn’t generate revenues in the same stratosphere as any major men’s professional league, so why should we be using those leagues as barometers of what WNBA…

It’s not fucked up at all. Her league doesn’t generate the revenue that the NBA or even your employer does (apparently). She’s a star athlete playing in a league the doesn’t get much attention. She doesn’t “deserve” more money because she’s a star athlete.

“Said WNBA vet Lindsey Harding back in 2017, ‘You look at the NBA, they play 82 games. We may play that amount of games, but we don’t get time off. If you’re lucky, you get a week off after playing overseas to start in the WNBA and maybe a week off to go back overseas.’”

They’ve gotta stop with this shit. You play…