This week: periodic competence, a week on Harden’s knee, the Liz Truss of the NBA, apologies aimed at avoiding two weeks of HR seminars, arguing with spiralling children, tired takes about KD’s shoe size, the Spiderman meme school of firefighting, redrafting the draft, Charles Sturt cops strays, unseen hands of redistributive economics, success ballast, Russ saves the Lakers, googling how to delete someone else’s tweets, the dark side of the Spurs, the Berlin 1936 of World Cups, the end of Twitter, distinctly unserious T20 nations, Beeso still hates batsmen and farewell Aunty Fun. 

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