It get’s better. The Loughlin kid just used the spot at USC to pimp Amazon products:

Yeah, I may be seeing Steph as slow when it’s just the ball isn’t moving around.

Can we draw a parallel here to the ridiculous way that former athletes are put in senior roles in other professions? Jeter with the Marlins. The Players’ Club on TNT. GMs. There are trained professionals who make a living doing these jobs for a reason. They take skills and some experience helps. Take sports reporting. …

Really appreciate your views. They are right on.

You nailed it. Draymond’s comments about defense the last week are directed right at Durant. I bet there’s a huge divide in that locker room between those two and it’s not going away until one of them leaves. The Warriors management chose Durant after that dustup and they never really recovered.

So true. And Westbrook immediately knew Nurcic was gone, even before the announcers, so chalk that up to OKC’s savvy, too. They are a really good defensive team. Legit shot at making the finals this year.

To quote one of my favorite bloggers, stop enabling Barstool’s shit.

Cousins is only around top 20 among active players in blocks per game, and rarely cracks the top 20 in offensive rebounds. Those seem to be two big indicators of a lack of effort around the rim and on defense.

After a long, stupid, painful process in free agency

Me @ 9a: The Giants better sign Bryce or they are blowing it.

Whut? If they are committed to $330M then there is no reason on earth they would want to pay it over a shorter time period. Why give up three years of control for nothing? They are paying the full $330M either way and can spread it out and reduce the actual cost to the bottom line this way.

I think that’s a great point from a moral perspective. What a butt series of decisions.

Maybe it just says Boras/Harper were so fixed on beating $325MM that they had to sacrifice? It’s also reported Dusty Baker heard from Harper he only wanted to be a free agent once so that would lead him to just lock in one team and go all in.

I think the rest of that sentence is “... it seems that Philly’s offer oh god I am so tired of this story please put me out of my misery and why are you still reading this fucking paragraph?”

I think this angle is really interesting. Yeah, chicken is a two-player game but I think you said it right that the owners are the ones who started this game. The players weren’t playing chicken, they were waiting to get paid what the market could bear and it was pretty darn close to what Boras and others predicted.

1) Good coaches routinely get more credit than they deserve. See Phil Jackson, Pat Riley, and Steve Kerr. Not a knock on them, but give good coaches that kind of talent and they will put great teams on the floor. Just look at Ty Lue’s career.

The best jokes are funny because they are true. Nice call there.

God, tanking is the stupidest idea in sports. The chances are 14%. They go down to 12.5% apparently if you drop to 4th worst. So it is a ~85% chance you do not get Zion. Add to that 85% of a failed outcome:

Given the gif in the article, I assume the 6 assists were on Spurs baskets. Solid stat line for a tanking team.

If the dunking gorilla isn’t available I’ll take Irish kids step-dancing please.