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I wasn't a fan of these when they came out initially, and I'm still not a fan of all of the crazy alts that they have (including the navy alt), but I've warmed up to them now and they've become one of my favorite looks in the entire NBA. Granted, the rest of the NBA is in a horrid state when it comes to uniforms, but this one is a shining light of doing something right when it comes to the uniforms. I think this is a deal where winning changes everything. They switched to their current set right after LeBron left, and it kind of felt like the post-James Cavs both acted and looked like a JV team. Simple can mean basic, but it can also mean classic, which I think this set has evolved to in large part because of the successes of last and this season.

I thought you were on top of this! Deadspin has been on the Kevin Johnson-is-a- :censored:head beat for some time now, starting initially with the Kings sale, then his general politics, and now digging up allegations of sexual abuse against him while he was a player for the Suns. I can't watch the video, but police interview of an alleged victim was posted today (with her permission): http://deadspin.com/police-video-shows-teen-girl-graphically-accusing-kevin-1735279363 EDIT: I don't like to comment on rape allegations in process. My inclination is to believe the woman in all cases, but the Duke lacrosse story was tragic for everyone involved and a good reminder to not jump to conclusions. However, every time a woman comes forward with allegations of rape (especially against someone famous and/or beloved), there's rampant evidence that way too many people (generally men on the Internet) are terrible and think and say terrible things.

Admiral - where are you on the Kevin Johnson stuff?

Tough streets of Brooklyn in 2015 (profanity warning) (Once you hear it you'll know it's worth watching)

Derek Carr is awesome and Amari Cooper might be really good. Plus the rest of the division is on the way down. Now is the time to jump on the Raiders. I like Seattle teams because I live here, especially the Sounders. Rooting for the Seahawks has been fun for the last few years. I like the Bills and Sabres because I'm from western New York. Ditto Syracuse athletics. I like the NBA a whole lot, but I don't have a team. If I had to pick one it'd be the Lakers, but Jesus who does that? I've been all-in on the Spurs during the playoffs over the last few years.

Maybe he did as a member of the Green Lantern Corps:

If you don't take pride in your work you shouldn't do it.

Sometimes people wonder why rape victims don't come forward. Other people think sexual assault statistics are overblown. People are terrible, sports fans are a special kind of terrible, and we should all be embarrassed and saddened by this. How awful.

MRAs wear trench coats (often with sneakers) while the pickup artists wear bedazzled jeans. Just in case you were wondering.

You must not read jezebel.com. Also, I get the point you're making, but I'd question if it's one you want to. The accused deserve due process, of course, but I don't know that they also deserve defense against internet white knights, whether they're real or imagined. EDIT - FWIW, I don't read jezebel.com. It's a whole lot of good intentions completely lost by pages and pages of strongly worded, tribal group think. You'd think that'd be up my alley but it's not.

Indeed. Vince has shown he can never leave well enough alone. The XFL had promise as an idea, but the WWFness of it all killed it before it ever had a chance. A McMahon-owned hockey team would have the same challenges.

I feel pretty confident in stating there will be no Seattle arena built or under construction in 2017.

Gary Bettman must have hired Vince McMahon as a consultant. They seem to have similar contempt for their core audiences and chase mainstream acceptance (that will never come) instead of focusing on making the existing product as good as it can be. I don't know why the NHL spends so much time fighting its natural audience. They're turning down existing money in favor of imaginary money in places that don't want them as much as they want to be wanted. It's embarrassing to watch.

Was the deadline today? I would have bet that Seattle would have submitted a bid after the Coyotes almost moved back there a couple of years ago. You know, for a city that was on the verge of two winter sports franchises just two years ago, Seattle sure f'ed things up in a hurry. Had the Coyotes moved to Key Arena, I'm sure there'd be more on-the-ground momentum to make the SODO arena happen, which would have likely moved the NBA process along too. Boy, that bumpkin ex-firefighter sure affected quite a bit with his "burning building" speech and subsequent vote. Sometimes representative democracy -- and especially so in exurbs -- just doesn't work.

Light rail is open to Tukwila now (though I don't know where the proposed arena would be sited in relation to the light rail stop), and it'll be open to Bellevue in 2023 or so. No mass transit is planned for Renton. Here's a map of Seattle area: For scale, with no traffic, you can drive from downtown Seattle to SeaTac in about 15 minutes. Probably 20-25 from Bellevue. The Seattle/Bellevue area is dense, but it's not a huge land mass. There are limited highways and options to go east/west and north/south, which creates major pinchpoints during commute times (like, say, right before a 7 p.m. game start). Mass transit hasn't quite gotten there yet, though the system will be pretty good within the next -- ugh -- eight years. So there's your Seattle geography lesson. Tukwila isn't the worst, and probably not as bad as Glendale. But it's a lesser Seattle suburb and probably not the best long-term option.

I can't believe I'm saying this, but Bellevue would be better.

Are you saying any of us would be surprised? Is Tukwila way out there or something? I'm pretty optimistic about Seattle as an NHL market, so I'm curious why everyone's discussing it as a bad idea. Tukwila is a suburb south of Seattle notable for being near the airport and that's about it. It's not Tacoma, and not Bellevue and certainly not Seattle. It's an area with strip malls, cheaper homes and apparently an NHL-loving sugar daddy. The bad thing about an NHL arena in Tukwila is it probably wouldn't past muster as an NBA arena. It's just too far away (15 miles? But you know how traffic is) to be considered part of the city. EDIT: And I should add that the NBA is the real prize in Seattle. That's nothing against the NHL; people would love it if it came here. But getting the NHL is mostly seen as a bridge to eventually return to the NBA.

I don't really follow hockey, but I read The Instigator anyway. This league just can't help killing itself. They act like the ABA, but much bigger dollars. I'd love to know what the NHL's 10-year plan is. Mostly so I can laugh at it.

We'll have a better idea if he changes his name to Chet.

There. FTFY. Olbermann summed up Ronda (Rhonda?) Pearson pretty well: Eh. You're missing out. On the topic, Seattle is more than happy to pick at the bones of any franchise that might come our way. No hard feelings from two years ago, I promise.

I lived in Louisville for two years and convinced myself I was a Reds fan. That didn't stick. I'm a Bills fan first, but the Seahawks are a close second. If I moved from the PNW though, that would probably change. I can't imagine rooting for a different MLS team.

Webber and Arenas only played about three years each with the Warriors. Both were rising stars during their time in Golden State, but only became mega-stars AFTER leaving the Bay (Webber in Sac and Arenas in DC.) Yeah, I know that. But it's not like seeing them in those uniforms is akin to the Rasheed in a Hawks uniform, or Piazza in Marlins jersey. Playing for the Warriors -- for however long -- is a critical part of their respective career narratives.

Chances are, most "fans" at Oracle last night couldn't tell you who he is. I'm a little surprised to have seen Webber, Davis and Arenas listed as Warriors in the wrong uniforms. They all had success elsewhere, but they each played very significant parts of their careers in Oakland.

What has LeBron James ever done off the field that makes you think that? You gotta have something better than your 18 year old drunk in Quincy Market story. What circus? Guy has been the Derek Jeter of the NBA when it comes to citizenship. If LeBron was forced to play a year or two in college there is no doubt in my mind he would of been a model student athlete until his time came. Nothing has ever gotten in the way between him and his craft. Ever. He would certainly have been a better student athlete than Jameis Winston, and Winston didn't "destroy" Florida State's athletics program by any means. Maurice Clarett and all his issues didn't destroy Ohio State. Shoot, even Penn State's football program is still standing, and what happened there was far worse than anything any single student athlete has done. Edit: I don't mean to trivialize what happened at Penn State. I'm making the point that "destroying" an athletic department seems like quite the hyperbole. Maybe "destroy" was too harsh a word, but the money was flowing before LeBron even graduated high school. You may remember the Hummer incident (which, as of 2011, he apparently still had), plus the absurd adidas marketing campaign targeted to one person (that failed). LeBron had high school games televised; no one has seen that since. He's clearly the heir to Michael Jordan merchandising wise, and all that started back when he was in high school. There was too much anticipation and too much money to be made for him to slum it a year in college. It's all conjecture, of course, but the rise of (and associated media and merchandising interest in) early LeBron was unprecedented.

I'm guessing that was from when he was in high school. 1) How the hell does one get a Randy Brown jersey? 2) Why the hell would anybody want a Randy Brown jersey? I'm assume it was a custom Mitchell and Ness jersey, and I imagine he shouldn't have had access to such perks back in his high school days. I visited a friend in Boston back in the summer of 2003, and the Cavs were in town for either summer league or a summer preseason game. Either way, LeBron was walking through Quincy Market drunk off his ass. He would have been 18 at the time. Point it, LeBron James has lived a charmed life with access to way more than most. Can you imagine if he had gone to college? He (and the circus that surrounds him) would have destroyed any athletic department he touched.