That’s a different rule and his ejection was warranted, particularly given his history (16 personal foul penalties last year alone!)

I mean, same for me, but I appreciate your incredibly condescending attitude throughout.

A real life, mid-level lawyer

This is actually probably true, because guys who are suspended don’t count against the 53 man roster and aren’t paid, so they would have no motivation to cut him right now (as opposed to later).

And yet the other teams (Eagles/Vikings/Rams/Saints/Packers/Falcons) are all better, as might be several other teams. 

Polar seltzers are easily the best of the broadly available, so lol’ing that those weren’t included here.

There’s obviously a limit to the dinner. It’s not absurdly low but it is fairly low (likely $25 to $30, which includes all tax, tip, mark-ups for Seamless, etc.). YOu won’t be getting anything particularly nice.

I don’t know, speak for yourself. I think you’re exaggerating the scamming of perks that goes on. I work for a mega law firm and they are incredibly strict about reimbursements for meals and cars. Accounting rejected my best friend’s cab receipt because it was time stamped at 7:56 p.m. (the earliest you could cab was…

Unless it’s a client dinner, yeah it’s probably going to be around that. Their budget will be $25-30 or so. Maybe slightly higher. Mine was $35 at a law firm in NY.

This doesn’t make any sense. The team isn’t under any obligation to play him. If they really wanted to do that, they could just say he had an injury and couldn’t practice/play. 

Uh huh. “Actually, you see, we were doing him a favor by refusing to sign him to a big deal”

I mean, she knew her sister died as a result, so I don’t think the fact that there were lethal ingredients in there in small doses was much of a surprise

Seems like she asked for the meeting and was given a buyout shortly thereafter. I’m sure after all of the recent events she was itching to leave too — why would she want to stick around that place after what she’s been through?

I couldn’t figure out what was going on here from this summary, but the original article makes it much clearer — the payments were made to the Penn head coach so that the head coach would lie and claim that the kid was a recruited basketball player to strengthen his application for admission.

Nobody else can now come close to offering him a better deal because nobody has cap space. It sucks for Capela, but the Rockets simply shouldn’t be negotiating against themselves if they think he’ll accept a non-max deal. Capela is fine and good but you don’t win titles by lavishing mega deals on role players. Ask CLE…

Why did you pick one of the worst hotels in NY to make some sort of point?

This is it, I think. Peak Deadspin faux-outrage because the author is the one currently on call and needs to meet his/her quota.

Ah, but don’t forget they also added Michael Carter-Williams

Luke was drafted 32nd in the same draft where LeBron went #1

Your numbers on the Houston luxury tax implications are off. It’s actually prohibitively expensive for them to have signed Ariza (assuming they sign Capela).