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Another week with thoughts in my dumb brain. As I write this, Deshaun Watson is in a woman’s DM begging for a private massage. Here are 5 things I can’t stop thinking about this week:
1. Deshaun Watson shouldn’t play football
For some reason, the NFL has been radio silent in regard to Deshaun Watson. Every day there is a new story detailing just how much of a pervert that man is. This week, a 24th woman filed a lawsuit against Watson. Apparently, he jerked off and left without any explanation or apology. 24 masseuses were hired to give a star NFL QB a massage and all of those meetings ended with him taking his gross little wee wee out and spilling his own milk all over himself. Well, way more than 24 masseuses. According to a New York Times report, Watson met with 66 women in 17 months.
There is one particular excerpt from a deposition with one of the plaintiffs lawyers really tells you everything you need to know about what Deshaun Watson wanted from these women.
Q. Did you even ask her what her experience level was?
A. No, sir. That wasn’t a priority.
Q. Right. You didn’t care, did you?
A. That wasn’t a priority. I just wanted a massage.
Q. You didn’t care what her skill level was, correct?
A. That wasn’t a priority.
Q. You didn’t care whether she was properly trained?
A. That wasn’t my priority, sir.
This motherfucker reached out to any woman with two hands under the guise of being one of the best professional athletes in the world in need of rehabilitative massage therapy only to take his dick out without their consent and pressure them into reluctantly giving him handjobs that they did not sign up for. He didn’t even care if they were good at massages. All he wanted was to jizz on them.
Andddd he’s going to start Week 1 for the Cleveland Browns with the biggest contract in NFL history. Ok.
2. Rhyne Howard is a beast
If the season ended today, the Atlanta Dream would be a playoff team. Two years ago the team was owned by a Nazi. Last season, players were getting into brawls on the street and the new owner, Renee Montgomery was super weird about disciplining them while actively working on ESPN broadcasts ignoring the drama taking place in her own organization.
Then they drafted Rhyne Howard.
rookie of the year and mvp? 🤔 no. 1 pick rhyne howard (@howard_rhyne) has been on an absolute tear since her wnba debut pic.twitter.com/uzcqkA5fFd
— buckets (@buckets) June 10, 2022
Howard is averaging 15.8 points a game and shooting the lights out from deep. She’s already one of the better defenders in the game and the perfect example of how the acquisition of great talent can completely erase a team’s shitty reputation. More teams should try it.
3. Draymond Green isn’t good at basketball
Draymond Green has been the center of attention in this year’s NBA Finals. In Game 2, he bullied the Celtics. At one point, he literally bodyslammed Grant Williams to the ground. He clearly got in their heads and helped Golden State secure the W.
In Game 3, he scored 2 points and fouled out. Dope.
Green is still one of the best on-ball defenders in the NBA. Sure. He also happens to cripple the Warriors offense with his inability to shoot or score at all. You can highlight how valuable he is in transition, if you’d like. As a big man, he can lead the fastbreak and makes the correct decisions more often than not. Cool.
But in the playoffs, you don’t get as many of those fastbreak opportunities. Most of the scoring opportunities take place in the halfcourt where Boston can pretty much ignore Draymond entirely.
This has nothing to do with Draymond’s podcast made for people who love hearing mouth-breathing projected directly into their ear canals. If anything, his podcast motivates him. I don’t think he loves rushing to his microphone after losing a Finals game. We don’t have to reach for straws when Draymond has a bad game. He has no idea how to shoot a basketball. That’s the problem here. Not his hobbies.
4. Pay Aaron Judge everything
If you asked me before the season started if I believed Aaron Judge should be given a massive long-term contract I would’ve said ‘sure, just not on the Yankees because he’s already 30-years old and a contract with 10+ years on it would be a war crime’. He’s older than me and I’m old as shit.
Fast forward to mid-June and Aaron Judge is the favorite to win the MVP. He leads the American League in home runs, slugging and OPS. He’s batting .310 with 45 RBIs. He’s the best player in the sport.
The biggest problem with Judge’s game thus far in his career has been the frequency in which he finds himself on the injured list. This year, Judge has played in 55 of the Yankees 57 games. We are literally witnessing the greatest contract year in sports history.
5. Bring Carmelo home
This week, there are reports that the Knicks front office is considering bringing Carmelo Anthony back. I am 10000% into bringing back the best player the Knicks have had on their roster since Patrick Ewing. And this time, there would be no pressure for him to excel. I believe he’s at a point in his career where he could help guys like Julius Randle and RJ Barrett which wasn’t something Carmelo seemed interested in doing at all with Jeremy Lin or Kristaps Porzingis.
The real question is whether Carmelo would be down to return. Not saying he has a lot of options left. The Lakers aren’t bringing him back. The only potential playoff team that would be interested in his services is, well, the Knicks.
Last season, Melo scored 13.3 points in 26 minutes. He would’ve been the 4th highest scorer on last year’s Knicks. Veterans win championships. Carmelo and Derrick Rose off the bench would keep the team in games. Obviously, you still have to balance developing guys like Cam Reddish and Immanuel Quickley but I’d rather have Carmelo on the veteran minimum than whatever Kemba Walker, Alec Burks and Evan Fournier are making.
Also, fuck it. Bring back JR Smith too.
