Eh, for what it’s worth, I’m not comfortable at all with how easily this analysis lets Rob Pelinka off the hook. He’s the frickin’ GM! Read more

I’m not sure this is the lesson, my man! Read more

This is good. Read more

By god you’re not gonna get away with this Read more

C’mon, this is way better and more fun than tanking. They’re playing meaningful basketball in the spring! You get to root for them in at least one playoff series! This is great. Read more

How often do you do it? Read more

Uh, did Timofey Mozgov bring guns to the locker room during the term of his contract and ask his own teammate which of them he’d like to be shot with? Read more

I didn’t have it pre-written. I’d long since given up on the idea that we’d ever need it. Read more

They could have drafted Kemba or Klay Thompson or Kawhi Leonard instead of Vesely, and they could have drafted Harris or Nikola Mirotic or Bojan Bogdanovic instead of Singleton. They could have drafted anyone instead of those two. Read more

Fuck, this is good Read more

I was already 20 when Ichiro joined MLB and I think I’d thought I was years past the part of my life where a professional athlete could ever be the kind of immortal, larger-than-life figure that, say, Michael Jordan or Lawrence Taylor or Martina Navratilova had seemed to be when I was a kid. But Ichiro was—and in lots… Read more

He intentionally orchestrated it so that when something like half Grantland’s remaining editors resigned, all at once, to take jobs with The Ringer, they did so without having given any advance notice to either their bosses (who cares) or the writers who worked under them—which, by design, effectively killed what was… Read more

If you haven’t, please check out his recent baseblog from Scocca’s site. Read more

He’s at motherfuckin’ Mother Jones, babby!!!! Read more

I agree! Read more

Okay. Please show me literally anything other than rumor that establishes that he had a role. Read more

Ah yes, as everybody knows, when you bark at a guy after a play, it’s to show scorn for his inadequate commitment to good fundamentals. Read more

This is exactly right. Read more

Young Patrick Ewing is a good one! Another one that former Deadspinner Kyle Wagner just suggested that also fits pretty well is Dominique Wilkins. Another loper who could palm the ball through traffic and then muscle it up to the rim, and another guy whose size and ability defied positions. Read more

I have a hobby of trying to imagine the basketball heredity of NBA players. So I’ll, like, think of an old-time player and try to figure out which player today is an evolutionary version of him, or look at a modern player and try to figure out who his evolutionary antecedent is. It’s fun. Anyway, I think Giannis’s… Read more