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Emphasis on 82-game schedule won’t solve NBA’s biggest problemIn case the NBA has not made itself clear over the last few months, the league office is fed up with load management. There are 82 games on the schedule, and players are expected to play in every single game unless they are actually injured. The NBA is going so far now as to claim it has data that t...

Lakers' front office competence helped turn slow start into Western Conference Finals appearanceRemember that Baxter Holmes’ ESPN report about the Los Angeles Lakers from four years ago? News of it has been floating around for months before its publication. Holmes made an appearance on Zach Lowe’s podcast in the aftermath of the world reading what he uncovered about Magic Johnson, the Rambis a...

Naming Pat McAfee Sports Media Person of the Year is an indictment of us allThis is not (totally) a hit piece on Pat McAfee. It’s more about how we should categorize what McAfee does, because The Athletic — you know that sports site owned by The New York Times — named him its Sports Media Person of the Year, and that implies that he’s a journalist....

Ebenezer Scrooge would defend the Grinch

There comes a point when public figures are no longer defensible. Donald Sterling and Robert Sarver were scumbags way before we had evidence that they were. So when the audio of Sterling leaked, or the Baxter Holmes piece hit the internet, there was zero reason to go to bat for them. Let the investi...

Like Donald Sterling — Robert Sarver is going to profit off losing his team

Robert Sarver is about to do something that wealthy white men do better than anyone else — fail up....

Three years later and nothing has changed, the Lakers are still a mess

Looking back at the Russell Westbrook trade, it makes sense what they were trying to do. The Los Angeles Lakers’ 2020-21 season was cut at the kneecaps by injury. It was the second time that had happened in three seasons. They needed a third star so that if they lost LeBron James or Anthony Davis or...

Hey, look over here, the Suns look like title contenders again

Chris Paul is like that overachieving student who never gets enough credit for doing more than the assignment required. Yes, Chris, your diorama features impeccable detail, but I don’t have a grade higher than an A+ to give you, and you already have enough extra credit that you could not show up for...

Clearly the accusations against Robert Sarver are abhorrent, but what he <em>actually</em> admits to is pretty damn awful — and he needs to go

ESPN’s report on Phoenix Suns owner Robert Sarver is as damning as the Suns hinted it was going to be in their initial denial about everything that was going to be in it....