One feeling I get watching Durant through the years is that while the talent is there, he doesn’t have the desire at times to lead, and he tends to prefer defer quite often to someone else who is a more assertive personalty

I wouldn’t trust the media either, and the Knicks situation (to say nothing of the Pelicans) is exactly why. The whole affair is an invention of sportswriters looking for rumors to base endless takes and scoops on. Which, okay, is what sportswriters do, I guess you can’t really be mad at them for that, any more than…

It’s the same shit as everything else. You get into it when you’re young and broke, and then eventually you get older, have some dough, and can afford to pay aftermarket prices. So you do, and it becomes a commodity for speculation. And then, like all speculative commodities, people start getting into it just for the…

Beanie Babies, POGs, Marvel Cards, Furbies, certain McDonalds Happy Meal toys.

I’ve been able to get two pairs of Air Jordan 1's off of Nike’s SNKRS app, and I WEAR THEM. Because they’re good looking shoes and shouldn’t live on a fucking shelf. I hate that people buy them just to store away.

Fair enough, but what about when you consider the artificial scarcity of a mass produced product primarily marketed to and consumed by those who can least afford it?

This was very well done, reminds me of the comic book “boom” in the 90's, when everyone thought they were going to get rich buying up dozens of copies of Death of Superman and were instead left with attics full of worthless books. The (mostly young) people who were fans were left out in the cold as the collectors and…

Exactly. It’s that false narrative that is by far the most annoying. Most of the experts had them winning at Kansas City and last night because of the relative inexperience at the quarterback position respectively. Only against San Diego were there doubts based on the quarterback and overall roster (which may be the…

I don’t understand the narrative that people doubted this team could win. I don’t think anyone doubted that. I think far more people were resigned to that fact, disgusted by the inevitability, but no one doubted it.

How can St Louis be upset when it should have been the LA Rams winning the Super Bowl in 2000?

and fuck all the terrible people right off the side of the Earth.

Everyone seems to be missing an even greater issue with the Patriots winning last night; the Rams losing brought the people of St. Louis immense joy. Unforgivable 

This article has, ironically, the same problem that hall of fame voters do (given that both are sportswriters, perhaps that’s not surprising). There were no halcyon days of HoFdom, just as there were none of baseball, or perhaps there were, but exist only in the mind of adults exasperated by the venality and…

Half Time, Half Outkast

As a Deadspinner, I am fine with folks liking whatever they want, I just thought it was weird how often articles showed up within Deadspin. I think it was a mistake to try and wedge it in there, I, and I assume many others, had absolutely no idea what many of the articles were about. I’d watch a clip to try and get it…

Can we PLEASE.......STOP. CALLING. PLAYING. VIDEO. GAMES........ “Sports”

1. You have shitty friends

Actually, bagging on Landon Donovan makes him good.

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