Except for the fact that there will be 14 other games on a night that no-one will give a shit about.

Nope. The NBA should do three things:

Hard Cap + no max contract = no problems. 

There is no way he was offered a max contract. none.

“Handling the ball involves a deliberate act of a player making contact with the ball with his hand or arm.” 

Click bait... waiting for bankruptcy #3...

Adds to the drama. I was ok with that. The bullshit was the fact that he called like zero fouls or cards the entire game and then wondered why the best player on the pitch left injured.

It was fun to watch for sure. But, how the fuck do they have such weak officials in world cup games???

They have to figure something out about the fouls. The ref basically called none. Including an obvious, in-the-box missed call. But the players were diving so fucking much it was almost appropriate. It’s similar to playoff NBA where the officiating is so different than the regular season that its hard to make sense of…

correct. Joshua looks like an all-timer.

Did you watch the game last night? Neither GS nor Houston is going to have that many missed 3s. Cleveland is going to have huge problems chasing Curry and Thompson around. In guess Bron covers Durant.

Why was Rozier in during the 4th quarter? They guy has been great all year, but apparently didn’t realize throwing up off-balance 3s with 20 seconds left on the shot clock was not a good idea

Lebron plays point. The only reason they call him a forward is because he is giant. Dude brings the ball up 85% of the time and plays from the top of the key.

This seems like a perfectly rational response. You fuck me, I fuck you back worse. I suspect there will be zero impact on ticket sales from this guy getting black-balled. Nice message to the rest of the press! :)

The coaches should be charged. My kid plays high school football on an elite team in Georgia. If this shit went on with his team the offensive line coach would probably murder that fucker who was hulking over him punching... I guarantee the coaches new the “boys were breaking em in”

What if one or two of the teams in the Final 4 refused to play. Or better yet, the top five or six players, who will all be lottery picks, refuse. It would pretty much shine the spot light on the whole thing. All these suits care about is the money.

Gumble is a clown too though. A much better question would have been, “why did you trade all of your best players away?”

The 76s example is pretty weak. what is the objective?? To be shitty and lose money for 5-6 years just to improve the probability of not quite winning the championship for 5-6 years? What a weird objective

Baseball tanking isn’t about stockpiling draft picks. Its about stockpiling money. You are right about football. Basketball should just get rid of the draft. I have no idea why they keep it, really... Good teams couldn’t afford the best prospects if they had to pay market rates...

That isn’t the reason at all. The NBA is run as if it were a single company. Euro soccer is run by the teams. There is no “draft”