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Modernization has washed away much of the art and mystery in today's NBA. But a last vestige of a bygone era remains, characterized by the same lawlessness and chicanery as decades past.
The Wild West of NBA Jump Balls, a special feature for
@ringer
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OK that dunk was awesome but Danny Green and JaVale McGee's handshake is better.
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Retweet if you grew up in Utah and never heard a word about Juneteenth at any level of school.
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Hey in case you're wondering what's up with Kyrie, he's posting on Insta in support of the dude who just got found guilty of perpetrating a hoax about a bunch of dead kids for profit.
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I have camped on this campus for football tickets on multiple occasions. One year we spent like 36 hours there.
Everyone got wasted. The whole south side of Rice-Eccles was full of trash and debris. I watched multiple drunk fights with my own eyes.
Funny, no cops showed up.
HAPPENING NOW: Pro-Palestinian demonstrators have been at the University of Utah for several hours.
Police say they support the right to protest, but camping on campus is illegal.
Our crew is standing by for any developments.
Details/updates:
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@bethanyshondark
You're literally just taking a statement that's obviously true (institutional discrimination impacts many parts of America), turning it into something absolutely no one ever said "this discrimination is at fault for *ALL* disparity" and using scare words like "mob" and "radical"
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Shouts to
@rudygobert27
for so many things.
For believing in himself and going from the G-League to 3x DPOY. For never asking out or saying a single bad word about Utah. For being awesome with media and treating small-time dudes like me as if we matter. There's way more.
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League sources: Continuing a theme from the Orlando bubble, the NBA will not test its players for marijuana for the upcoming 2020-21 season.
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Jordan Clarkson per-36-mins since being traded to Utah:
22.6 pts, 3.8 rebs, 2.3 asts, 58.4 TS%
Jazz 113.6 Ortg while he's on the court
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An average game report contains about 500-550 graded plays, per reporting I've done. I'll let folks use whichever adjectives they prefer to describe a gap of 9 errors from that sort of sample.
An interesting dynamic approaching Celtics-Sixers Game 7, per sources: NBA’s officiating game report shared with teams from Game 6 revealed a significant disparity: 13 officiating errors disadvantaging 76ers to four disadvantaging Boston. Those can include calls and non calls.
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@atrupar
It's not enough for Americans to be stupid. We have to be stupid AND brazenly impact others with our stupidity as often as possible. It's our national identity.
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Final NBA plus-minus leaderboard for the regular season:
1. Rudy Gobert +728
2. Mike Conley +548
3. Royce O'Neale +473
4. Joe Ingles +452
5. Kawhi Leonard +446
6. Paul George +432
7. Bojan Bogdanovic +419
8. Giannis Antetokounmpo +409
9. Joel Embiid 405
10. Nikola Jokic 405
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Just a reminder that Trump and the people around him are still tested constantly to keep him safe while he repeats this utter bullshit to the public.
"I personally think testing is overrated, even though I created the greatest testing machine in history. I’ve created the greatest testing machine in history. And I think testing is overrated."
Completely bonkers.
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Travels called on Giannis per 100 possessions last year: 0.43
Travels called on Giannis per 100 possessions this year: 0.82
They're calling double the frequency of travels on Giannis. Believe that qualifies as "changing the way they officiate" him.
It’s fascinating that the NBA is making a show of calling more travels/carries/etc and hasn’t changed the way it officiates Giannis at all.
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Some general thoughts on Donovan Mitchell the player, the person, the brand as he exits Utah (thread):
1. Donovan saved this franchise post-Hayward. Never seen anything like his rookie year here. He just TOOK the fanbase's heart. Open, accessible, genuine. It was unreal.
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@bethanyshondark
No one thinks institutional discrimination is responsible for EVERYTHING that's wrong in this country. You know that.
But by presenting it that way and using those scary words, you turn *any* reckoning with our history and active discrimination into a bad thing. Lol we see you.
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Snyder on his convo with Gobert at the scorers table about leaving Favors in: “I asked him what he wanted to do. He said let him go... It’s a credit to Rudy. I know he wanted to be in there. Your ability to put the team in front of yourself, he did that tonight.”
Awesome.
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"We shouldn't give medical care to our veterans because other people might also get medical care" is an actual form of reasoning these people use.
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Giannis just said "I want someone who's going to pass the ball" when asked why he wasn't picking James Harden
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Justin Bieber, willing to admit he's not an expert but still enjoys sports, wins the heart of every blogger ever trolled mercilessly.
I also don't know enough about sports to Really have valid opinion but I do enjoy sports!! And enjoy any high level sports game. Any team
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Jae Crowder to
@kristenkenney
: "I got back to having fun playing basketball with a great group of guys."
"I love playing within a system. It'll be fun."
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Dame's face like "lol I can't wait to text Haynes about this shit"
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Rudy Gobert to
@sportsiren
postgame
"I'm motivated every night. People like to take shots at me for no reason. It's funny because I never take shots at anyone...When you're the best in the world at something, people become insecure."
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At age 25, I decided to get my s**t together. I made two goals to accomplish before age 30:
1. Get a salaried job (no more damn restaurants) and hold it
2. Get completely out of debt
Can check both these off today, about a month ahead of the goal. Damn proud of it, too.
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Donovan Mitchell becomes the 2nd rookie in NBA history to score 27+ points in his first 2 playoff games. The other: Kareem Abdul-Jabbar.
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Rudy Gobert now has 10 blocks in crunch time (final 5 mins, score within 5) this season.
Here are all of them!
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Donovan Mitchell clowning Rudy and also egging him on to strut about his blocks on Draymond:
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Don’t worry, I’m sure BYU will just do an internal investigation and conclude that this Oregon game never happened.
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(Mike Conley of) The Utah Jazz win(s) the NBA (HORSE) Championship!!!!
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For fun, Grayson Allen's per-36-minute averages after 3 halves of summer league:
16.4 pts, 13.1 asts, 10.9 rebs, 3.3 steals
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The same people who lose their shit if you suggest giving police departments one less dime...
...want to defund the Department of Justice so it will stop looking into all their criming.
Marjorie Taylor Greene says that if Republicans take control of Congress, they should defund the DOJ and only giving them money for "prosecution of sex trafficking or human trafficking or drugs coming across our state lines"
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One of Andy's most poignant and important threads. Privileged white people deciding COVID is over because they aren't the ones who'll suffer for their actions is the enduring American image from this pandemic.
It is becoming clearer & clearer that we have a situation much more like the second scenario.
Young people feel immune & many are symptom free
White people have lower mortality
Well off people can isolate
But they can all easily spread COVID-19 to people at higher risk. 14/
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@MollyJongFast
It's not a reading issue though, it's a "knowing the definitions of words that appear many times in the text you claim to live your life by and base your politics on" issue
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Soooooo Woj and Shams are reporting two completely separate trades involving the same primary team, including some of the same players?
Hell yeah it's gonna be a NIGHT
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Doris Burke just now on ABC, previewing Jazz-Nuggets: "Quin Snyder is one hell of a coach."
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Donovan Mitchell becomes the first rookie to score 30 points in a playoff game since Brandon Jennings in 2010.
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Rookies who have put up better than 40-4-4 on 25 or fewer shots since 2000:
Steph Curry, Kevin Durant, Blake Griffin, Donovan Mitchell
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Donovan Mitchell in his first NBA playoff series:
28.5 PPG, 7.2 RPG, 2.7 APG, 2.7 TOV, 1.5 STLs, 46-36-92 splits
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Rudy Gobert in the last 24 hours: 43 points on 19-for-22 shooting, 29 rebounds, 4 blocks, 3 steals
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Dwyane Wade picks Donovan Mitchell as an All-Star starter, FWIW
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Donovan Mitchell finishes the series at 36.3 pts, 5.0 rebs, 4.9 assists on 53-52-95 splits. Absolute superstar series.
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New for
@FiveThirtyEight
:
Rudy Gobert is having one of the best defensive seasons in modern NBA history:
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Kyle Korver addresses the crowd before the game begins, starts by asking the crowd to give the Blazers love as they play in today's game away from their families.
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A year ago today, the Jazz were the 4-seed in the West.
They'd end up 5th. 4 of their 5 top minute-getters in the playoffs were Gordon Hayward, George Hill, Joe Johnson and Rodney Hood.
Today, none of those guys are on the team. The Jazz are still the 4-seed in the West.
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Dude you literally pay a sex trafficker to hook you up with teenagers,
@mattgaetz
Gaetz: "Why is it that the women with the least likelihood of getting pregnant are the ones most worried about having abortions? Nobody wants to impregnate you if you look like a thumb."
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Rudy Gobert is a +150 while on the court over his last 10 games.
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Found during unrelated research: Steph Curry is shooting 59.8% on step-back 3s since the start of the 16-17 season
Lmaoooooo that's legitimately silly
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Ever noticed how when making their own case for DPOY, other guys always compare themselves to...Rudy Gobert?
DPOY race: Rudy Gobert says bigs 'impact multiple players,' Marcus Smart says 'Rudy can't guard all 5 spots'
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NBA leaders in catch-and-shoot 3-point percentage this year, min 40 attempts:
1. Paul George 58.1%
2. Joe Harris 54.4%
3. Patty Mills 53.7%
4. Jordan Clarkson 51.2%
5. Donovan Mitchell 51.1%
6. Royce O'Neale 50.0%
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League sources: In addition to tournaments in Las Vegas and Utah, the NBA plans to introduce a 2018 Sacramento Summer League. The event is tentatively scheduled to include the Sacramento Kings, Golden State Warriors, Los Angeles Lakers and Miami Heat.
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Rudy Gobert on the ROY race: “Do you remember who was rookie of the year in my class?” Pause. “Exactly.”
“Does it matter? In five years, we won’t remember who was rookie of the year. I hope [Donovan]’s gonna win, but I think he’s got way higher expectations.”
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"We don't want to mandate citizen behavior," says the governor of a state that blocks liquor sales on a certain day of the week.
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It's totally conceivable that Rudy Gobert could win consecutive Defensive Player of the Year Awards without making the All-Star game in either season.
Says a lot about how the sides of the ball are evaluated, even by coaches.
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Bogdanovic: “This crowd is probably the best crowd in the league.”
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Per source: NBA leaders in shots contested *during crunch time* (final 5 mins, score within 5) since 18-19, with eFG% allowed in parentheses:
1. Rudy Gobert: 164 (36.6% eFG allowed)
2. Nikola Jokic: 158 (45.3%)
3. Jarrett Allen: 153 (44.4%)
4. Steven Adams: 144 (49.0%)
(cont)
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Welcome to an elevated point in your NBA life, Donovan Mitchell: The Cavs just switched LeBron James onto you.
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Lol Donovan Mitchell is averaging 27-5-5 on 51-50-90 splits during the Jazz's 8-game winning streak and I'm still seeing tweets about the slow start he's in.
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Man, Rudy could have scorched the damn earth with his answer here. Instead he takes no shots and respects everybody.
Rudy Gobert was asked why he thinks the Jazz traded him. He thinks this could be a "win-win situation" for both teams.
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Donovan Mitchell in 10 playoff games since the start of the Orlando bubble:
33.8 points on 50.8% from 2, 46.2% from 3, 93% FT (65.8 TS%), 4.7 assists, 4.1 rebounds, 38.3% usage rate, +58 in 354 minutes
That's a superstar.
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Rudy Gobert challenged 27 Rockets shot attempts over the 2 games in Utah.
Rockets makes: 10
Gobert blocks: 10
Rockets FG%: 37%
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Final Al Horford per-36-minute numbers for the series...
With Tristan Thompson ON COURT (173 mins): 8.7 pts, 7.1 reb, 3.1 asts, 33% FG, 22% 3P, Celtics -6.2 NetRtg
With Tristan Thompson OFF COURT (76 mins): 25.1 pts, 9.0 rebs, 3.8 asts, 67% FG, 44% 3P, Celtics +23.8 NetRtg
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Jazz fans: We want a championship
Also Jazz fans: We want every player who doesn't directly insult our city to be re-signed until the day he retires and then have their jersey retired
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Donovan Mitchell's averages through 2 playoff games, just for fun:
43.5 points, 7.5 assists, 5 rebounds, 4 turnovers, 61.7% FG, 54.5% 3P
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Jesus man, this is disgusting. I know a few people don't represent everyone but the collective needs to be better.
To Russell Westbrook’s defense, here is even further proof of his previous interactions with Utah Jazz fans. In this video,
@russwest44
is called a “boy” by a Jazz fan ahead of Game 4 of OKC’s first-round playoff series against Utah on April 23, 2018 at Vivint Arena.
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Donovan Mitchell since the All-Star break:
29.8 points, 6.0 assists, 4.4 rebounds, 1.3 steals, 47.9% FG, 42.6% 3P, 89% FT
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Know what I find shitty, beyond the Jazz fans/whoever else posting racist stuff in Donovan Mitchell's IG?
The Jazz fans whose first thought after seeing that is "ugh now he's definitely leaving my basketball team" and not "it's horrible this is happening to him"
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Malcolm Brogdon still has only missed 1 free throw all year long. He's near 99%, on pace for the NBA record.
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I think Quin Snyder deserves real credit for the way he allowed the Jazz's offense to run through Bojan Bogdanovic at the end of today's game. It was important. And an area we talk about lot with Quin.
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Last year's Jazz team never had an effort level this high in a single game.
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Who knows what happens long-term, but for the time being, the state of Utah has lost a lot with
@Joeingles7
and
@RenaeIngles
elsewhere. Enormous local presences in several areas, especially autism awareness and similar themes.
A major loss, both on the court and off it.
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Just finished Jazz-Nets. In awe of that fourth quarter from Donovan Mitchell. Dude is different.
Joe Ingles had one of the best games of his career. It's so easy for him right now.
All-Star isn't the only award we should be talking about Rudy Gobert for.
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Per advanced tracking data from a league source,
@rudygobert27
has been switched onto a guard in isolation 26 times this season.
He has allowed 19 points on those possessions, or 0.731 points per chance.
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“It’s exactly what Karl Marx has been pushing”
Bro I’m dead
tell me you haven't read Marx and might even think he's still alive without telling me you haven't read Marx and might even think he's still alive
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Just did a 5K in 29:20 with no pauses. This may not seem like much to many of you but it’s sorta a major life event over here.
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Donovan is candid in here about the "draining" effect of all the off-court bullshit he had to deal with as a Black man in Utah. Digs into specifics, too.
I hope Utahns reading it will listen instead of acting all fake offended. Donovan is right to feel this way.
Donovan Mitchell will face his old
#Jazz
squad for the first time tonight in Cleveland. With
@andscape
, the new
#Cavaliers
star looks back at the memorable, the forgettable and his legacy from his five seasons in Utah and why major changes were made.
#nba
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The defense Bogdanovic played on Kawhi was really impressive tonight.
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Gobert: "I try to do what DeAndre does. It'd be nice if we were allowed to do the same things."
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Quin Snyder unprompted to begin his postgame media: “Derrick Favors - beyond outstanding effort tonight.”
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Shame on the outlet and all involved in that story circulating with direct implications that Rudy Gobert, and only Rudy Gobert, was the cause of a child on the East Coast contracting COVID-19. Panic and anger for clicks. I refuse to link to this trash.
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So to recap, the Jazz had a first-place winner tonight (Gobert, DPOY) as well as three second-place finishes (Mitchell ROY, Snyder COY, Lindsey EOY). Quite the evening for the franchise.
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Nikola Jokic putting up basically the most perfect game possible from a modern big man and getting no pub whatsoever while we focus on the quantities of saliva coming from a guy’s mouth encapsulates NBA Twitter so perfectly.
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Rudy Gobert asks Donovan Mitchell what his favorite football team is in the state of Utah. He says Louisville.
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The Jazz had won seven games in a row when Shaq said his bullshit to Donovan Mitchell.
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Don't make Donovan Mitchell angry. You won't like him when he's angry.
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Jazz fans needing a fix: I compiled some clips of Dante Exum from the last couple Rico Hines UCLA run videos we've seen posted:
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Donovan Mitchell is currently averaging 23.5 points, 4.1 assists and 4.0 rebounds per game.
Other NBA players to post 23-4-4 or better in their 1st or 2nd season since 83-84:
Michael Jordan
Allen Iverson
Dwyane Wade
LeBron James
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Donovan Mitchell averaged 28.5 points and 5.8 assists *in under 30 minutes a game* against Memphis, with 45-40-90 shooting splits and nearly 8 free-throws attempted per game - playing his first basketball in about 6 weeks.
The "bubble fluke" crowd is eerily quiet.
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Best single-game 3-point shooting performances relative to expectation in the 2023 NBA playoffs, per Second Spectrum:
1. Miami
2. Miami
3. Miami
4. Miami
5. Milwaukee
6. GSW
7. Miami (tonight)
8. Philadelphia
9. Phoenix
10. Miami
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Lol remember like 4 days ago when the line was "the inquiry is the only way for us to get the facts!!"
Boebert is now talking about skipping an inquiry and just doing "an up and down vote on the House floor" to impeach Biden
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Today I confirmed my first-ever *paid* travel to cover the NBA. May not seem like much but it's pretty cool that someone wants to pay me to go somewhere and cover the sport. I'm really excited
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Donovan Mitchell's last 4 games:
25.8 points, 4.5 assists, 3.8 rebounds, 1.3 steals, 3.0 turnovers, 47% FG, 54% from 3, 83% from the line
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Man
@SHAQ
must be furious right now seeing Donovan Mitchell with 27-11-9 in a road win. Just a painful day for a hater.
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Opponent field goal attempts contested this season:
1. Rudy Gobert: 608 (18.4 per game)
76. Ben Simmons: 316 (11.3 per game)
Weird how the "more versatile" defender is involved in way fewer of his team's important defensive events, huh?
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