Bill Simmons often remarks about how unique Kawhi's legacy is going to be. He's probably going to be remembered sort of like Bill Walton: maybe could have been the greatest ever at their position, but we'll never know.

@elvismercury linked to some old threads that you were on and it earned both of you some belated zaps from me.

Do you have any thoughts about how the rewards system would ideally handle this sort of thing?

It sounds like the team president made the decision to hold Kawhi out. Everything with Kawhi always seems to be weird.

Welcome

How do you feel about your Clippers?

Adopt bitcoin as your currency and then your currency will be worth something.

I'd feel better about the Magic.

That's right. We call those downturns "economic corrections" because they're inherently part of the economy undoing the distortions caused by state interventions.

I think they’re pretty thin on that front too. Since Kevin Love is their best rebounder that would actually mean putting their five best shooters out there.

I agree

This one’s tricky to me. I don’t think people have an obligation to allow a mob to surround their car, but I also don’t think being in a road should make you fair game.

I’d say you have a right to do what you need to do to get away.

I also think if you’re in a medical emergency, you have a right to do what you need to do to get past people intentionally blocking your way.

I don’t like these schools or these protesters and I have no desire to stop my enemies from hurting each other.

You don’t need to let yourself get dragged into it.

Why does that bother you so much that you want to kill people over it?

Israel is killing civilians and children and American taxpayers are paying for it. That seems like a perfectly legitimate thing to protest.

Most of this has been happening at private universities where the student body overwhelmingly supports the protesters and the administration has chosen to enable them.

Not your circus, not your monkeys.

You aren’t exactly coming off as someone who seems opposed to irrational violence.

Why shouldn’t Israel expect the same when they kill even more Palestinians?

Taking over a building is illegal if the owner objects.

For sure

I'd say "naive", rather than "innocent". If you join a group, you take on the responsibility of having joined it.

I'm in that first thread! Either SN forgot that I zapped a bunch of those comments or I forgot to zap them.

Fifteen years is basically no time at all for a revolutionary technology to take hold. For instance, the steam engine was invented in the early 1700's and it took almost a hundred years for it to be adopted at a transformative scale.

People are fairly comfortable, so it's not reasonable to expect them to upturn their apple carts.