That damned Steve Kerr is tanking! He just admitted it!
The absurdly successful Warriors coach spat at comparisons to the Chicago Bulls team on which he played, including the one that went 72-10 in 1996.
“Oh God, no. No!” the little coward blurted to reporters after Sunday’s overtime win over New Orleans. “We had this guy named Michael Jordan on that team. That year, I think we were 41-3. So if we can go 21-1 the next 22 games, come talk to me.”
In fact, that team actually went 87-13 if you include the postseason, but anyway:
“What I remember that year is there were about 10 games where Michael just decided, ‘We’re going to win,’” he said. “And every other team on Earth would have lost those 10 games. And Michael Jordan was . . . there’ll never be another one. Nobody has ever come close, and I don't think anybody ever will. He wanted to break that Lakers record of 69 wins, so he decided we would do it, so we did it. There's only one Michael.”
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Yes, and there’s only one Festus Ezeli, too. Point is, Kerr clearly has set himself up in case the Warriors go 40-4.
Hey, it’s well past time for real expectations, and the 1973 76ers are out of range.
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Okay, now say you’re sorry to Tony Romo. Come on, come on, you know this is one you have to eat. Besides, you now have Colin Kaepernick to kick about and you don’t even have to pretend that he’s a better quarterback because he answers questions.
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Jed York built a stadium and all that, but now we’ll find out what kind of owner he really is. One, can he make grass grow? And two, can he convince a fellow owner to give up draft choices for the coach he’s about to fire even though it’s clear he’s going to fire him and has no leverage?
In other words, now that he’s painted himself into all these corners, let’s see if he can levitate his way out of it.
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Sidney Crosby is the latest player (on five different teams) to contract the mumps, which leads me to think that more than a few coaches in the NHL are banning their players from visiting children’s hospitals, or visiting their own children. I mean, hockey is tough enough without having to deal with those vicious little germ factories.
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New Jersey governor Chris Christie watched Sunday night’s game with Dallas owner Jerry Jones, which is such a big deal that his chances of being president, which were zero, plummeted to zero.
But at least he didn’t go watch the Jets. Does that not count for something?
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Now, about the NFL in Los Angeles. No story on the topic has actually advanced the matter of who is going to play there and under what conditions, which can only mean one thing:
The bribes are still being assembled. Besides, knowing how poorly they will draw, the Rams, Raiders and Chargers should all go together, and play at the same time on Sundays, just to watch Andrew Siciliano and the NFL Red Zone people pull off their own heads.
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Everything in the world is Johnny Manziel’s fault, and he must be punished for all of it.
Sorry, just trying to advance the story.
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And finally, we leave you with this old favorite from The Talking Bicep: “It’s a foul and that’s why I called it.”
The next line in the song, of course, is, “And what? THAT team was going to catch up? Have you been paying attention at all?”
