I don't really follow recruiting closely enough to know who's clean, but seeing which schools rise once they're able to pay athletes and which sink would be a fun side pool if this ever happened. Read more

You've argued yourself into like five different circles there. Someone else can sweep up, but Kevin Love is not "cheap" and a player of his (at the time widely presumed) caliber isn't just some cheap rim protector and pieces; Carmelo is not the sort of "shooter" you seem to be talking about; I've watched plenty of… Read more

True! By the measure of championship teams, that's an entirely fair thing to bring up. But if you've followed our institutional opinions about tanking in general this year, the prevailing opinion is that we're more interested in watching good basketball games than in heaping marginal actuarial gains at the chance to… Read more

Right, there's a lot of room for Towns to be a so-so pro. These are just insane grounds on which to raise those concerns, and reflective of other, similar sentiments from Phil over the last few months. Read more

This comment is fundamentally insane. First, "trade Towns for a cheap rim-protecting big and some other pieces." Nah. Second, Monroe plus a rim-protecting big is, uh, the Pistons. Third, the triangle puts three players (and you're right, mostly non-screening players) on the strong side and relies on movement and… Read more

This isn’t even good smarm. It’s a bad deal for sports fans who like seeing Kevin Durant play basketball with Russell Westbrook, preferably in cool playoff series. Read more

Deliberate motion is fine, as above. It's the standing around for the first 10 seconds of the shot clock for no reason, or running clueless motion, or running deliberate motion incompetently that is bad. You can get rid of one of those without really affecting smart, competent teams. Read more

It's possible to both play quickly and well. Read more

they'd have fun and do cool things with local kids at games? Read more

Because it would look awesome? Read more

I was more thinking a lightning storm and bolts crashing everywhere. Read more

Get a haircut, Noctis. Read more

Juuuust saying that there is a problem of scale here. That the Judgement Bolt here is awful tiny for such a big giant Ramuh. If your character cast his strongest spell and it just sort of made a three-foot-wide fire pit on the ground, you'd shrug and be like, eh, guess this fella's not so good at this and invest some… Read more

I'd have agreed with this until last week, when she began making actual decisions about the union's state going into the lockout. This isn't the on-the-ground stuff you're talking about—in fact, it's antithetical to it, since taking the smoothing deal would have put extra money in every member's pocket right before… Read more

Griffith is a mostly harmless candidate. He's nowhere near Upshaw on that issue, but has talked enough about how it was a better era of nflpa and how Upshaw was an admirable mentor that the contrast between what he apparently stands for and the era to which he is harkening toward is, I thought, worth mentioning. Read more

Learned something new. Read more

Because our promotion tool is not the best. Read more

I have no earthly idea. Read more

Because it's a appeal to nuance that doesn't exist. Of course the game isn't entirely meaningless—it's just devoid of the pressures, pageantry, and idiocies of playoff games, for better or worse. It's a game that does not meaningfully impact anything outside of itself in a way allows externalities and contrivances to… Read more

OK, sure. Kawhi is now a choke artist and his legacy is ruined. Hope you're happy. Read more