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Oof.

Oh fuck not Klay too.

They need to sign that man to a 10-day so he can go out right. It is insane how much of the offseason, and even the next five years of the NBA, is dependent on the results of Durant's MRI.

I don't know what you guys are talking about, the Avengers game looks great

Tony Parker is officially retiring. Also NBA TV is cancelling The Starters after the Finals end, which sucks.

NCAA is adopting the FIBA 3 point line next year, going from 20'9" to 22' 1 3/4"

Terrence Ferguson, currently playing in the Philippines, provides an object lesson in "Don't start no shit won't be no shit"

I cannot believe that this commercial actually exists and is not from a way-too-on-the-nose piece of satire.

I finally got around to seeing Endgame. I enjoyed it a lot, but I think you could really see the seams from Marvel's "Just shoot a bunch of stuff and figure out the plot in editing" approach. Probably could have cut about 20 minutes without losing anything crucial. It worked for me because after all the development he gets in Ragnarok he immediately gets his ass handed to him by Thanos, his brother and half the Asgardians get killed. So in IW he tries going back to what he knows (hitting things with a weapon) and, again, fails. Endgame is then the fallout of him losing both his old and new identities. At least that's how I saw it. The thing that bothered me is at the end when he tells Valkyrie she's a natural leader, which isn't really supported by anything we've seen.

Thanks, I never played it the first time around so maybe I'll give it a shot just to see what's up.

City of Heroes was shut down, there's some kind of a fan-run server that was kind of an open secret for a while and then Kotaku did a story on it and it kinda blew up. Guild Wars is somehow still going despite Guild Wars 2 also existing.

I mean, it's a Hideo Kojima game so will we ever really know what the fuck it's about?

Back in the pre-internet days my uncle had what I think was one of the all-time great ideas: 1-900-DEADGUY and 1-900-DEADGAL. The pitch was simple: you're at your local watering hole discussing the affairs of the world, as you do, when you reach a point of disagreement. Is John Major (or whatever public figure) alive or dead? No one knows for sure, but for just $2.50/minute you can call up 1-900-DEADGUY and get your answer. The genius part of the idea was that you have no overhead because you're not actually researching the answer. His reasoning was that people were more interested in getting a convincing answer from a definitive-seeming source than in actually knowing the truth. I used to think that last part was incredibly cynical, but it just turns out my uncle has known what the fuck was up since forever.

Does Houston have anything that people want? Tucker and Gordon both have value, but are also pretty much Houston's entire wing rotation. After the playoffs he had Capela is probably neutral value in weak market for centers. They'll have to pay to get off of CP3's money and trading Harden is a non-starter if they genuinely want to improve. Between this and the reported tension between ownership and Dantoni it could be a real interesting offseason for the Rockets. I guess this is why they tell you not to miss when you come at the king.