More self-serving drivel. Everyone on this site knows who you are and who I am. Do you truly think that when the tone of your rebuttals are smug, condescending, patronizing, antagonistic, etc., that you can cop out and say “nothing personal, it’s just about positions and ideas?”

You don’t have to use the words “you are stupid” or you are lying” to call someone a stupid liar. For example, when you continually characterize someone as blindly defending the FO no matter what they do and not tolerant of criticism of them, despite ample evidence to the contrary, that’s a character attack no matter how you slice it. You do that kind of shit all the time and especially to me. So stop with the whiny “innocent victim” schtik and take a good look in the mirror.

You are an irreverent flame thrower who would hardly be accused of mincing words or caring about the feelings of posters you argue with.

The difference between you and me is that I talk about people’s positions and ideas. You talk about the people who write the ideas.

You can’t separate your identity from your posts. So when someone credibly attacks the misrepresentation of facts or lack of logic, you feel personally violated and come back with ad hominem garbage with the intent to incite. Like a troll.

And Jesus, dude, I’ve defended strat hundreds of times, to the point that I was literally asked to stop defending strat so much.

PS you and E being bff’s pretty much says it all.

As does you resorting to ad hominem attacks when someone logically bitchslaps another one of your stupid ideas.

Much worse gets said to/about strat (including by you) than I have ever said recently to you, but I never have seen you come to his defense. Which is ironic because, in my opinion, you and he are extremely similar, except that he has a much thicker skin.

You are an irreverent flame thrower who would hardly be accused of mincing words or caring about the feelings of posters you argue with. Your posting often comes across to me as smug, condescending, dismissive flip-flopping for the sake of being right no matter how things go down. That you have the audacity to call anyone a troll is priceless.

It will be my pleasure to ignore you and to leave to others pleasure of interacting with you. Kindly afford me the same courtesy.

Actually, you got called on it (someone else did first) and, as is typical, you keep repeating it as if it’s fact.(*)

Jalen Brunson was not “the best FA on the market.” (**) Period, full stop.

You also said in one of your missives, condescendingly, that “how Brunson compares to top FAs from other years is not really relevant.” As if it’s no different signing Kevin Durant or Jalen Brunson, just so long as you sign the “top FA in the class.”

So in summary: In order to “prove” a relatively meaningless piece of trivia about Leon “turning the Knicks into a preferred destination,” you resorted to two massive whoppers that are impossible to actually believe.

(*) A guy who signed a max offer sheet with another team “was never really on the market.” OK, then. I guess if the 11th pick in the draft isn’t a lottery pick, anything’s possible.

(**) He frankly wasn’t even close to that.

Correct.

*******************

Even this part isn’t really true — James Harden took way less than max to stay in Philly.

*********************

Actually, you got called on it (someone else did first) and, as is typical, you keep repeating it as if it’s fact.(*)

Jalen Brunson was not “the best FA on the market.” (**) Period, full stop.

You also said in one of your missives, condescendingly, that “how Brunson compares to top FAs from other years is not really relevant.” As if it’s no different signing Kevin Durant or Jalen Brunson, just so long as you sign the “top FA in the class.”

So in summary: In order to “prove” a relatively meaningless piece of trivia about Leon “turning the Knicks into a preferred destination,” you resorted to two massive whoppers that are impossible to actually believe.

(*) A guy who signed a max offer sheet with another team “was never really on the market.” OK, then. I guess if the 11th pick in the draft isn’t a lottery pick, anything’s possible.

(**) He frankly wasn’t even close to that.

But one of the three teams you listed was merely a competitive team that got lucky when Durant and Thompson both suffered crippling injuries.