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WHO ARE YOU PEOPLE Hello, friend. Here- take this blanket. You seem disoriented. Have you been wandering about in the cold night questioning the purpose and truth of all things which once were? I thought you might have been. There’s no need to be afraid anymore; there are others like you here. You must have Read more

Before we even discuss any future events, let’s just take a second to talk about what a cold-blooded assassin of righteousness and poetry Damian Lillard is. He is Mufasa in Lion King. He is Bruce Willis in Die Hard. He doesn’t use coasters. He is Neil Armstrong. He walks away from explosions without looking back. Read more

I wish it didn’t have to be like this, Bucks. I’d been following your surprising progress all season, and was happy that Milwaukee basketball finally had some type of hope. Tonight was supposed to mark a happy and festive meeting of two talented young teams at different points in their upward trajectory. But the world Read more

THEATER ON THE ICY SHORES OF STEVE BLAKE MICHIGAN I like a lot of things about the Blazers’ bench this year; the ascent of Allen Crabbe, Joel Freeland continuing to defiantly get minutes, general competence. But more than anything, I like that Steve Blake is kind of like the Scrappy Doo version of Chris Kaman. Read more

SONS OF DOCTORS On Saturday the Trail Blazers will play a basketball game in Los Angeles beneath a large mural depicting Matt Barnes which covers up some of the 16 championship banners belonging to the Clippers’ Staples Center cotenants. Chris Paul and Blake Griffin and Jamal Crawford also have their own, larger banners, but who Read more