Week in Review — 5/27 - 6/2
On Monday, we were left with no forms of professional basketball whatsoever, so I just returned to shouting into the void about inane things that no one particularly cares about. Yeah, I’m a fun follow.
On Tuesday, the Timberwolves staved off elimination by getting a much-needed moral victory against the Mavericks. Honestly, though, this feels like when my ex-wife and I reconciled, and all our friends and family just gave us that “Really? You’re going to make us do this again?” look. Depending on the family member, the looks actually ran the gamut of Luka’s seen here.
On Wednesday, the Lakers continued the search for their next head coach to be fired before completing his contract. JJ Redick is clearly the front-runner, and between his knowledge of the game and media polish, I’m sure he’ll do a perfectly adequate job of deflecting questions about LeBron’s oversized input on team decisions or why AD crashes to the ground more often than a Boeing 737 Max—if I’m dead by tomorrow, you know what happened.
On Thursday, Luka sent home the Timberwolves with a first-quarter performance so damn unkind and profanity-laden it might as well enter its name in the presidential race. It was a sad end to a great season for the Timberwolves. But no matter how roughly it finished, it was an amazing year for Minnesota, and for Anthony Edwards in particular, whose personality and style of play were so electric and engaging that it almost made us all forget how damn irritating Rudy Gobert is… almost.
On Friday, new Detroit Pistons team president Trajon Langdon mercifully ended the Troy Weaver era, which will go down as one of the worst four-year runs of leadership in recent… never mind.
On Saturday, the Indiana Fever and Caitlin Clark got a big win over Angel Reese and the Chicago Sky in a game in which Clark was fouled on a questionable play by Sky guard Chennedy Carter. The foul, while unnecessary, and clearly part of a greater effort by WNBA players to “introduce” themselves to the young rookie, set off a furor that continues the exhaustive over-coverage of Clark’s every little occurrence and its deeper meaning to how the league feels about her. My boy @stevenboydwallace put the growing frustration that I think many of us are feeling best. Honestly, if we covered Gaza, the deficit, political corruption, education reform, tax reform, healthcare reform, domestic abuse, immigration equity, sexuality miseducation, climate change, wealth disparity, toxic workplace dynamics, race stratification, infrastructure needs, body dysmorphia, the depression crisis, food inequities, poverty, or drug abuse the way we cover Caitlin getting fouled too hard, maybe we could get something accomplished. Thank you for coming to my TED Talk.
On Sunday, Hoochie Daddy Shorts had taken over our little part of the internet, and while there surely are far too many of you beautiful individuals out there looking fly in your thigh highs for me to share them all, my boy A-A-Ron done tried to mess up the whole internet with this fly ass pic below. Also, soon-to-be 42-year-old Diana Taurasi continued to make the rest of us quadragenarians feel like slackers by dropping 31 right on the heads of the young Los Angeles Sparks. Someone needs to contact Pedialyte, as Taurasi, who is playing against opponents that were often in diapers when she started her career, seems like the perfect person for a cross-generational promotion.
Laugh now, cry later. Cry now, laugh later. Whatever the order, just make sure you laugh.