This week: Beeso unplugged, slow news weeks, trying to get yourself fired and failing, the Thibs World Tour, playing an ignoramus on television, Ty & Kawhi, Dolan West, stripping the Rockets for parts, stanning Stan, shopping Daryl around the league, new home Chicago, executive stalker of the year, MDA’s Rox vs MDA’s Suns, luck is a skill, blowing 3-1 leads, butterfly effects, expensive tweets, not you Cleveland, AD after LBJ, letting people help you, public vs private metrics, cross-sport analytics revolutions, LOLingwood, the bad website, competitions in competition, the world’s biggest supergroup and crying over curdled milk. BALLS and tripping balls are available on their own RSS feeds, as well as being found together on Omny Studio, Spotify and Apple Podcasts (feel free to subscribe, rate and review) - and we welcome your reckons via Twitter, Facebook and email.