Between load management, old man rest time, and injuries all three will get plenty of run.

Two of three MVP finalists leave small markets to play together in LA, two more first-teamers to NYC, Boston reloads, Phily wins, best big Man to LA. There are two 8 seeds (NJ, LAC) in there improving, but this is brutal for regional balance.

It’s just amazing no one will roll the dice on Cousins. He could be a starting center if he rebounds physically and drops a few pounds. For what, less than Javale M— ok, as I write just announced Lakers signed him.

McEnroe is a massive hypocrite. He’s not wrong, but he has no credibility.

I feel I’m growing as a person because I find professional tennis extremely pompous. Nadal is so up tight. Krygios is a dick to people but he is dealing with some grade A assholes.

The body type required for the NBA has changed dramatically. Cousins needs to make the kind of transformation Draymond Green and Kevin Looney did and lose 20 pounds. That and more rehab will add enough quickness to make him a valuable player. It’s baffling to me he didn’t do this while he was rehabbing.

Snorting is for dorks.

Coupled with the loose use of “multiple sources” who presumably heard this from the same source who may or may not be credible.

I think there is a real bias against guys who don’t conform to the NBA’s corporate image. This goes back decades obviously but Cousins is one of those guys and I think it is part of him being unsigned.

The only devastating thing about that tea sipping was how bent out of shape England got over it. It would have been a non-issue and is not that savage until someone on the other side makes it so.

This made me laugh out loud - hence the reason I did not use the LOL shorthand to indicate it symbolically made me laugh out loud. The clamor in today’s world to jump on some moral high ground and stroke your pearls is just too much.

‘Tis now, old chap.

Oh my God, do we need to add trigger alerts to USWMNT celebration jokes now?

The English former player who made the comment was clearly dumb as a rock and while criticizing the tea drinking gesture said repeatedly they can celebrate however they want. She also made a point of explaining to the audience that tea drinking is associated with the English which I’m sure was a bombshell for everyone…

Agree 100%. Definitely sounded like a “you’re no fun at parties” thing to me. Not a big thing but between that and the tea cup gesture being labeled as smoking a joint, combined with the usual twitter comment brain-eating fungus we’re spiraling further downward in our communication.

While it is true that the Diamondbacks have found a way to avoid the home run, the strategy is still in beta.

Durant makes really poor decisions. I think the fans in Golden State would have embraced him as an absolute legend if he had stayed. There is this enormous shift from thinking he is overrated and maybe not needed to seeing him crippled in a game. The year off would have further proved his value, and his return, even…

Thank you for reading the words, thought I was the only one!

Betraying? It’s called free agency and is a good thing. If anything is betrayal it’s trading someone who played hurt and sacrificed individual glory for the team. Which is what the Warriors did exactly the same day to Iguodala. But neither is betrayal or abandonment, just the rules of the biz.

It seemed like free agency couldn’t get worse.... then they managed to add this guy. I guess Grayson Allen was unavailable.