I really don’t think I’d attribute the draft success of teams like the Bucks or Raptors or Warriors to luck. Was luck involved? Sure but so was smarts and good development work and coaching and so on.

There’s lots of alternatives to a reverse order draft. There’s a playoff, there’s the idea that the best odds go to the team who wins the most games after they’re mathematically eliminated from the playoffs, there’s giving all non-playoff teams equal odds in a lottery or even just all teams...and so on.

Well, I’m really glad it happened. Not just because Toronto sports has just been a stink-filled orgy of painful losses the last decade or how much a miss would have mirrored Vince’s miss against the Sixers 20 years ago.

This is Deadspin, if anyone ever loses it’s always because they’re PURE GARBAGE, never because someone else did something better. Toronto’s D in the last 5mins was ferocious, God forbid that the article would credit that.

I don’t give two shits about basketball but 1) that’s cool as shit and 2) someone in my timeline posted this and it’s a Top 10 all-time sports photo:

“The Sixers absolutely crapped themselves down the stretch and ended multiple clutch possessions without even getting a shot up.”

Boston gets curb-stomped and Philly goes out crying?

ETA: I read other comments suggesting that in his extended apology he admitted that it was intentional. The timeline is rather hard to track so it doesn’t really read like that to me but then again, I also didn’t think that his inappropriate message could ever be taken literally (the “on the face”/screen part)—which I…

He clearly sent it to the wrong person after having a cordial exchange with her. This HL makes it seem like an entirely different story. This isn’t a workplace situation where it doesn’t really matter as harassment guidelines would kick in. She’s entitled to whatever response to unsolicited content like that she sees…

So I like that you highlighted this, because I think that pointing to an admission helps to clear away the grey areas that might exist. As someone who tries not to assume malice when incompetence is just as likely, however, I’m not sure that this is the clear admission that would accomplish that.

Are you sure it’s not like the spinach on your teeth rule? I would hate to be walking around all day with so much cum on my face and no one told me.

When the journalist asked him who they were intended for, he responded “I would rather not say.”

it’s crazy how the response to a little bit of horny texting is destroying someone’s marriage and career. i mean, if he wasn’t a journalist working for the seattle times, you would just maybe yell at him a little and block him, no? maybe threaten him a little, chastise him for being a fucking idiot and giving you the…

He could have been harassing her, but I could also see it meant for someone else. IF it was meant for someone else, he might have to show the conversation he was having with that person to prove it.

Yeah- or talking to a cam girl or something. He very well could have messaged the wrong person (especially if he was drunk) but it was highly unprofessional. It’s exactly why Twitter DMs are not a professional way to contribute. If you’d be switching between this and horny stuff late at night it’s not a safe way to…

You have the same clip posted twice.  Where is Boban clip?!

Nobody over 6-3 in the nba 

Spinning the news is one thing.

I know my first thought whenever I see Fox News shoot themselves in the dick by horrendously botching a story to spread disinformation is that it’s ok because BOTH SIDES, AMIRITE?!?!?

To be fair he was in a Mantis-induced near-sleep at that point, though.