It's telling that to try to justify this, you cite the Miami Heat, a team that was named in intentional violation of American English convention, for Brand Impact purposes. Read more

Or a lamb, if you're feeling flush. Read more

Yeah, I was thinking Harbin would make more sense. Everyone could visit the tiger zoo. Read more

I lived there. It doesn't. Even a dusting is rare. Here's a graph of monthly average precipitation there. Sochi may be too warm for snow, but it's at its wettest in the fall and winter; Beijing is frigid and bone dry. Read more

Beijing's bid might be complicated by the fact that it doesn't snow there at all. The municipal Weather Modification Office will do what it can, but between the parched climate and the ambient pollution overseeding the clouds, there's not much to work with. Read more

I now realize that what made this error possible is the fact that I never once saw a Clippers home game on TV growing up. The Bucks were in the MECCA and the Sixers were in the Spectrum and the Mavs were in Reunion Arena, and of course the Lakers were in the Forum, but NBC never filled the blank space in my brain… Read more

CORRECTION (to the Gawker post sharing this item): I originally wrote that the Clippers shared their arena with the Lakers during Magic Johnson's career, which was wrong. The two franchises share the Staples Center now, but the Clippers did not share the Forum, where Johnson's Lakers played. As an old person, I regret… Read more

I do like the ruthless truncate-at-140 function though. Read more

@timmarchman Do you like the part where you have to go to Twitter and start typing somebody's Twitter name so that it autofills so you can copy-paste it into the Twitter box here, which does not look up and autofill Twitter names? Read more

This is my second attempt to obey our orders to use the new feature where you can use Kinja commenting to send a Tweet to people outside Kinja, because to my great surprise my first attempt to use the new Kinja feature failed, owing to a defect in the way the feature works. Read more

Isn't the question really what sort of spectacular doom the Wizards are on their way to constructing for themselves? Read more

Worst comments on the best dunks of the year, ranked: Read more

Did all you Dunk Truthers decide to have a contest to see who could put the stupidest comment in this thread? If you insist on being complete ninnies about what kind of shot it technically was—which, in your haste to be smug, you failed to notice that Ley never specified—it was a "lay-in." Read more

I mean, look, this is what was going into my lungs each day. I should worry about the cooking oil?

The guy I relied on for fried scorpions used only the finest of oils. He was very particular about ingredients. Read more

Fuck you, though, "fondly remembered by no one." Read more

Yeah, there was a funny current of disingenuousness in Phil Jackson's spiel about the triangle as the embodiment of egoless teamwork, because it really depended on having a couple of superduperstars who forced the whole defense in on them, creating wide-open high-value shots for the others. When Larry Brown's Pistons… Read more

Walker and Pierce were the ones who first broke open the unexploited efficiency. Right after Pitino got fired, they started bombing away as no one ever had, and certainly no one with a shot as ugly as Walker's. The funny part was that at the time, this was seen as evidence of Antoine's knuckleheadeness—when in fact he… Read more

Sorry—monthly uniques. Right here (for editorial targets; ad side uses a different tracking company): https://www.quantcast.com/gawker.com Read more

This particular combination of would-be jadedness and wrongness comes up often enough that every once in a while it's worth addressing it. Gawker Media does not use page views as its principal performance metric. (Why in the world would Marchman lie about this?) The fact that you're hooting at Marchman for saying it… Read more