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Shh, don't spoil my anti-anti conspiracy theory psyops.

I don't see other centers getting similar stats playing inferior competition, of which, there's plenty in the league. While it's obviously a high variance performance (i.e., in the tail of the distribution), it's something few other centers in the league have approached this year, and it...

I'd be interested in whether there's a shred of objectively credible evidence about the diverse NBA conspiracy theories floating around out there. Conspiracies do exist, but not under every rock and in every cranny as conspiracy theorists would have us believe. Just because things happen we...

God, I hate all this tanking talk. Let's tank the *&^#@ out of the rest of this season, get a good draft pick, and get back to trying to win next year. I've a limited time left on this planet, and I'd like to spend it being excited about watching basketball.

You were in the wrong part of town. The central business district around Farragut, McPherson Square, Foggy Bottom, Logan Circle (my old office), L'Enfant Plaze, etc. are indeed dead in the PM. But the areas around Dupont Circle, Gallery Place/Chinatown, Adams Morgan, and others are hopping in...

It's so prolific for a coach to blame a lack of urgency or not playing hard when a team loses that it comes across at times as a catch-all cliche. Similar as the common cliche, "the team that wants it more wins." So obviously false, yet it doesn't stop its repetitive use. Some games a team just...

This game was a God-awful manifestation of stinking putrefaction. I could only stand watching the first half. It's hard to remember seeing this level of ineptitude where it comes to taking care of the ball. I'm not sure what the record is for most turnovers in a half, but they seemed intent on...

I wonder the same thing. I've read/heard countless times that Mitchell was going to leave. But, then we also heard ad naseum that he would likely leave Cleveland, and how'd that turn out? The NBA media ecosystem thrives on rumors and repeating (often uncritically) conventional wisdom. I think...

Well, to be fair, he's likely made a lot of grade trades/signings...almost.

I keep hearing over and over from podcasters, talking heads, NBA insiders, etc. that "the worst" thing is to be "stuck on the treadmill of mediocracy." No, the worst thing is to be stuck on the treadmill of sucking. I'm guessing Detroit Pistons fans would have loved to be stuck on the...

In the NBA context, DEI is signing more white guys, a form of DEI that I suspect many of the most rabid DEI critics would find acceptable. But, I suppose in the current political climate where DEI is the bogeyman responsible for all social ills and government/corporate f-ups, sure, why not?

Defense Entirely Ignored.

You may be right. I hope you're right. I'd only add that "at least somewhat competitive" would likely be considered an unsuccessful tank by most tanking adherents and not worth the 5 or so seasons of shiity losing basketball. We were "at least somewhat competitive" before we blew up the team and...

I imagine there's some threshold of viewership decline that crosses the line from expected to worrisome. If 44% doesn't cross the threshold, then it's probably close to it. Significantly declining viewership also decreases a team's leverage when it comes to negotiating TV rights deals. I don't...

Lakers tears taste like sweet ambrosia.

I'd take the under on that bet.

I suspect this is accurate. People want to be entertained. Winning is entertaining, losing isn't. Most fans just want to watch a good, competitive, entertaining product, and they'll return once we're back to providing it. It's only a relatively small subset of fans who pin everything on winning...

Jordan Poole was correct, Draymond is a backpack for #30. He's the quintessential system player. He luckily found himself playing in the one system where he could thrive and playing with the one person who could carry him to the the heights he reached. Without #30, Draymond would have been an OK...

Perkins is the worst kind of takester: the guy who says purposively dumb, provocative crap just to provoke a reaction. He can't possibly believe all the shiite he says, or can he? He's no better than some run-of-the-mill troll on any random social media site, except that he gets paid millions to...

Which makes the NBA's insistence of fielding TV commentators who constantly trash the current NBA product puzzling. Is there any other sport in which prominent TV commentators routinely trash the on-field/court/ice/etc. product?