It’s almost like Tyronn Lue is as confused as he usually looks.

I wouldn’t get too excited about soccer and concussions. They might be the only sport more in denial than football.

We’ll have to agree to disagree on that.

I’m not sure BPM picks this up right, honestly. Westbrook takes so many more possessions than the average star that he’s actively harming other players’ basic stats. We already know that a lot of Westbrook’s rebounds would go to big men on almost every other team (this is actually revolutionary and good), so they’re…

The argument about the Thunder being complete garbage w/o Westbrook needs to stop. Kanter is actually really good, definitely as good as Capela. Adams is also more than capable. Roberson, Oladipo, and Grant are all plus NBA players. They got the better end of their midseason trade with the Bulls.

LOL, just one offensive rebound and 17 turnovers too.

False equivalency. Westbrook can be the MVP and Brogdon ROY.

Disagree, Saric is currently butt, but he’s 22 and a rookie playing for the Sixers. Gordon is borderline butt, but 21, and playing for the Magic. Maybe waiting couple of years would be prudent?

When I walked through Colonial Williamsburg last summer, the only inspiration I had was that someone should really come up with a way to pick up horse shit. You know, because it was 2016, not the 1700's. If I can pay 1000% markup for ice cream in air conditioning, we can pretend poop gets taken care of.

Coming from an old, sometimes it just clicks. I watched him talking to Gilbert pre-match, dealing with the on-court bee with the ballboy, and watching the actual play, and it was what everyone wants to see. I’m legitimately excited for the match tonight.

My strategy: I refuse to look and basically trash talk the phlebotomist. I tell them I’m going to do this in advance. For whatever reason, this works for me. I assume it’s the same concept as people yelling angrily before doing idiotic stuff on camera.

It’s been a while since I followed tennis super-close, but Thiem seems to be a Ferrer/Bautista Agut-like tournament grinder (not necessarily style of play), who will always be ranked better than guys more talented because he just shows up everywhere.

I teach high school and I call all my students sir and ma’am when they correctly follow directions or do something respectful, like, hold the door (thank you, sir!). We have lots of doors! These are 13-18 year olds that are mostly otherwise pigs.

Paul, Jordan, and to a lesser extent, Griffin, are fine. If they can keep that core healthy, which is a maybe, they’ll stay highly competitive. Jordan has been great this year and Paul has missed 20+ games. Griffin too. The problem is they have nothing behind that.

According to NPR this morning, Huckabee was the Republicans’ current leading choice for Florida governor. Apparently, he lives in the panhandle now.

My two bits of advice on sleep:

OK, Washington (current East 3-seed) beat Atlanta (current East 5-seed, though apparently a team with no one of consequence) by 4. No starter played more than 35:15. That seems OK! You’re closer to the 1-seed than the 5-seed!

If you have a free moment, check out Gottlieb’s college shooting numbers. Forget the credit card thing, this is what people should taunt him with.

As someone originally from the mid-Atlantic, buying a snowblower would immediately generate a new weather pattern that would only dump freezing rain and sleet for the next five years.

I teach some high school students who earn their cosmetology license in tandem. They deal with a lot of chemicals that you absolutely do not want them dealing with if they don’t know what they’re doing.