The Stephen A. Smith Hottest Take Award
Fire Jerry; Sugar is right; cut Dicky Fox; hypothetical threesome and divorce
In the discussion (5)
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- A spouse's hot take rejects Dorothy as implausibly obsessed with a loser; the morning-after declaration of love supplies the example.
- Reading the full mission statement on Crowe's site produces a hot take that Jerry deserved firing: it offers manic idealism but no practical solutions.
- A related hot take says Bob Sugar is right because sports agents work in a ruthless business, though the injured athlete's child complicates that defense.
- Cutting all Dicky Fox scenes is proposed, with objections that his unusual testimonial role is distinctively Crowe; a similar unused Moneyball device is recalled.
- A speculative hottest take imagines Jerry, Dorothy and Avery having a later threesome that ends the marriage, with seven years proposed as its duration; it is explicitly a hypothetical continuation.