Critics have been protesting for years. They mostly worried about style: Do we really want to watch teams chuck 80 combined 3s in a fast-paced pickup game? What would happen to the midrange game and post-ups? Even league officials fretted. David Stern, the former commissioner, joked in 2013 that, "When our teams are hot, it's a thing of beauty. And when...
Zach Lowe on the NBA scoring explosion
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...e'll always come to Minnesota. My daughter is there. We love Minnesota. I'll go to every baseball game, (Vikings) football game, anything else. But I will not ever be in that stadium or that complex. And they're building a new complex. We had a lot to do with that. I won't ever see it. But I wish them all the luck in the world. I hope the decision that Mark made was right. I do hope the program continues to do well. I just wish people would be straightforward."
Kill furious over Claeys firing, says he's done with Gophers - StarTribune.com
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...nception that Duke has a monopoly on white stars: There have been 17 white consensus first- or second-team All-Americans in the past 10 years, and only Jon Scheyer and Mason Plumlee have been Dukies. I didn’t see any widespread hatred for Frank Kaminsky or Doug McDermott or Jimmer Fredette or Nik Stauskas or Kelly Olynyk — but a white dude on Duke? It gets our blood boiling.
We Won’t Be Able to Hate Grayson Allen Forever
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The rote nature of the strategy, though, belies the individual brilliance that makes it work. By NBA standards, Harden is not especially athletic—his body is doughy instead of sculpted, and his speed and leaping ability rate as average—but he brings to the game an uncanny awareness of space and tempo. He predicts where and when defenders will move. He slips passes through the tiniest slivers. He is a masterful dribbler, the ball moving around and between his legs like a needle through cloth, his e...
The New Aesthetic of Houston Rockets Guard James Harden - The Atlantic
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Call me old-fashioned, but I trusted Nancy Reagan when she urged me to Just Say No. I listened when McGruff the Crime Dog insisted that “users are losers.” And when my younger sister arrived home one night back in high school smelling of the devil’s lettuce, I did what any self-respecting graduate of the DARE program would do: I told my mom.
How hard is it to get pot now that it’s legal? - The Boston Globe
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...rue. It’s not for me to say whether Kanye West is “crazy.” He is, however, a fool who just so happens to behave dramatically, and who may or may not be experiencing a mix of grief and mental illness. What Kanye offers in the way of unique musical brilliance and, for the most part, good taste, he consistently undermines with feats of egomaniacal spectacle and post-racial betrayals based on class transcendence.
Kanye, Trump, and the Politics of Self-Obsession
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