I remember thinking JJ Stokes was The Truth and being like “oh, that Owens guy is okay.” Read more

For the sake of The Ethics, I would like to clarify that I also believe that Ronaldo can dunk.

“We all need a lesson in sensitivity,” Kings president Chris Granger said. “In an effort to celebrate Chinese New Year, we had some concerns about the T-shirt giveaway, so we pulled them all before the doors opened. Certainly we don’t want to offend anybody, and we acted as soon as we heard the concern.” Read more

Actually, Porzingis has a marginally higher true shooting percentage when Carmelo is OFF the court than when he is ON it (52% vs. 51.9%), and scores at a more efficient rate (1.07 vs. 1.04 PPP) when Carmelo is OFF the court. Keep telling yourself that Porzingis’s offensive success is only because of Carmelo, though. Read more

Why would they be splitting time? Last season Nerlens Noel played as a center, and as recently as a couple of weeks ago Brett Brown said he still thinks he’s a center. By the time of the draft, it was basically known that Joel Embiid would miss most of the season. Porzingis would’ve been slotted in as the starting… Read more

Beef’s gonna be way more heated when Kevin Durant is a Warrior next season. ;) Read more

See, the irony here is that Sam Hinkie himself would be the first one to tell you that comparing players using basic counting stats is next to useless. Read more

Why are the daily fantasy operators spending so much time and effort on the New York case? It’s just one market, and a state decision in New York isn’t binding in any other states. It seems to me that they’d be better off spending their time energy working on a federal solution/bill to end the mess in one fell swoop. Read more

My first thought was Rob Bironas, but he died two months before this. Read more

Please go find me a licensable photo of Owen Hanson. Thanks. Read more

Historically, the NFL (and every other professional sports league) has been reticent to let a team move to Las Vegas because the city allows gambling, but that position seems to be weakening. The NFL, NBA, and soon MLB have regular season games in London, where sports betting is everywhere. The NHL is reportedly… Read more

Shot:

This is correct, though it isn’t certain that one team had 93 possessions and another had 92. NBA Stats actually calculates 92.52 possessions for each team, and it’s entirely possible both teams had 92 possessions, or 93 possessions, or one had 94 and another had 93. Read more

No, it’s because nobody actually (publicly) tracks the exact number of possessions, so it’s reconstituted using box score statistics. You can see Basketball-Reference’s formula here. Read more

I can only write the same article over and over and over again before it becomes too tedious. Read more

It’s sort of an aside by Osorio, but at some point if/when MLS is a lot higher quality, the schedule is going to still be a big hindrance. Players get more worn down from flying everywhere, they have too many months off, they play important rounds of the CONCACAF Champions League during the preseason, they don’t… Read more

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Why does everything we post have to be “substantial?” In fact, probably 1/2 the stuff we post isn’t substantial! That being said, a Senate candidate lying is a very important story no matter who runs it, or what the lie is. There were obviously problems with the story, which Tommy talked about, but “it’s not a story”… Read more

I don’t even hate Macklemore, but Thrift Shop is a terrible song. Read more