“Mama said knock you out (then pay you off shortly before I receive a financial windfall that will change the circumstances of our interaction)!

Hey, Robin Ventura once had an 0-41 streak his rookie year.

Yeah, I’d blame Steve Alford too.

I just feel sad hearing this.

my response to the title

I think its both. remember when Cutty was like “the game done changed” and Slim Charles replied that it had only gotten more fierce. Phil’s ego is gigantic, it always has been and there is likely some desire to compete with Riley here. However, this is not the 90s. The same tricks he used to manage his players then…

Thames sure can M*A*S*H the ball.

Counter Hot Take:

Doc Rivers should frankly get way more shit than he does as a GM and a coach. The Clippers have had an astonishing lack of accomplishment for a team built around a top 5 all-time point guard and two elite big men. It’s completely insane.

The Todd Heap one is absolutely brutal. I cannot imagine how a parent recovers from that.

Some scumbag always has to crack a lame joke

It’s almost as if people die all the time every year...

Good point. He’s too far from the team now to understand the way it’s working (and not working). Making decisions from the front office is showing how out-of-touch he is these days.

I implore everyone to go watch a 90s basketball game on YouTube, just a few minutes. Hell, watch Jordan go destroy a team. Then watch a few minutes of any current game.

Phil was reaaaaaallllllyyyy good at 2 things:

Those rings belong to the all-time greats, including the GOAT, who made the shots. Zen master my ass. What kind of a boss publicly humiliates their employees? I really wish Melo would go from passive aggressive tweets to a quoted “Fuck you Phil.” Sorry NYK fans.

Hot take, but it falls apart a bit when you remember that Jackson is the one who extended Melo’s Knicks contract in the first place.

He was never the one to acquire the talent, but come coach it over the hump (Bulls in ‘89 already had Jordan, Pippen, Grant; Lakers in ‘99 already had Shaq & Kobe).

Even more shocking: Deadspin actually has editors!

“I was looking for that.” - Joe Jackson.