Time Travel vs. Upgrade: NBA comparisons across era

A topic that keeps rising among NBA fanatics, is comparing players from different decades/eras. I tend to look down on the common way of doing this, which is the “time travel” comparison: For instance, taking a 1980s NBA player and air-dropping him into the present. Or, vice versa. “Past NBA players wouldn’t do very well…

Conor v. Floyd : Why they unite America in perfect harmony

Why will Conor and Floyd unite America? Because they’re both vile dudes and you like vile people. “No, I don’t,” you might be thinking. “I don’t like Floyd, at least, because of his apparent misogyny and racism and such.” Yes, you do, ya liar. You like the bad guy. You grew to love Scarface and Ice Cube. You…

4 reasons the 2016 Warriors would lose to the 1996 Bulls (and 2 reasons they would win)

Once the 2015-16 Warriors lost to Cleveland in the NBA Finals, diehard fans were forced to unfog their glasses. That Golden State team was NOT the best in history.  They did not win the title. Even the qualifier “best regular season team” is not definitive, because of the difference in era gameplay. But most importantly, the…