LeBron is a smart dude (and one of the most thoughtful athletes we have) - this is a bullshit tweet and feels more than a little racist. You’re a constant embarrassment.
Great job by the NFL creating the Tua Rule — if a player gets concussed in a game, starting this week, that will now mean that he suffered a concussion.
You can’t call the late hit on Mahomes after you ignored the late hit on Burrow a few mins earlier. Those refs were horrible. They weren’t even fishy-bad more completely-incompetent-bad. Great work
@NFL
.
A quick recap: Jeter bought the Marlins using mostly other people’s money, completely gutted them, pushed out a bunch of longtime employees, and traded their once-in-a-Generation player to the Yankees.
The Memphis Grizzlies have informed pending free agent Dillon Brooks that he will not be brought back under any circumstances, league sources say.
Full story and details at
@TheAthletic
:
This is a legendary Zach Wilson performance. I don’t know if it’s possible to have a worse fan experience at a home NFL game unless the Jets were also shooting dog shit into the stands with a T-shirt cannon.
But seriously… fun All-Star Game! Steph hit 16 threes, LeBron made a tough game-winner, Embiid and Giannis gave a shit, Ja did some stuff, the target score thing worked, the NBA75 halftime was great, and Luka jogged around in honor of James Harden. Two thumbs up.
Shameless stat-padding by Jokic for his 10th assist tonight — look at him grab a board, push the pace and find a wide-open Porter for the dagger 3, can’t believe he gets away with this shit.
Miami scored 46 third quarter points and the Celts never called a timeout.
The Celts went on a 7-0 run to start the 4Q and Spo called a timeout 94 seconds in.
If Greg Olsen isn’t the no. 1 color guy for one of the networks with NFL next year, I’m fighting everybody. He’s great. Let’s try not to fuck this up everybody.
Our
@POTUS
is intentionally putting American media members in actual DANGER to deflect attention from his own wrongdoings.
He has power and sway, he knows it, and he’s using that influence recklessly to threaten the free press.
This is a real thing that’s happening in 2018.
Kawhi: won 2 Finals MVPs in 2 cities, beat LeBron in 2 Finals, submitted one of the most memorable postseasons ever, best perimeter defender since Pippen.
AD: played in 13 playoff games total, won 5.
I watched this live — this was such a great job by
@SHAQ
. The NBA’s stealth advantage is how the stars from different generations intertwine, and how the new guys respect/revere the old guys + draw inspiration from them. It’s been the case since the 1980s.
Hey remember the Finals game when denver was about to win in then Butler kicked Aaron Gordon in the balls on a 3 and the refs reviewed it and said it was a foul on Gordon?
Gronk
3-Time champ
Top-5 Patriot ever
Best tight end I’ve ever seen
Incredible big game guy
One of the most lovable Boston athletes ever
First ballot Hall of Famer
Can’t believe he did all of it in less than a decade.
Good luck
@RobGronkowski
Very sad that the FBI missed all of the many signals sent out by the Florida school shooter. This is not acceptable. They are spending too much time trying to prove Russian collusion with the Trump campaign - there is no collusion. Get back to the basics and make us all proud!
We are like 5 days away from the first unsubstantiated “LeBron loves what he’s seeing from the young Cavaliers and might want to finish his career there” story and I honestly can’t wait.
Devastating news: We lost our friend Jonathan Tjarks to cancer last night. He was a fantastic basketball writer and thinker, and an even better family man and friend. He elevated everything we did.
His wife Melissa wrote about him here:
This morning we announced that
@spotify
is acquiring The Ringer. Couldn’t be more excited to work with
@eldsjal
and his phenomenal team.
More details to come down the road... but
@ringer
will remain
@ringer
in every respect. They appreciate what we do and they want us to be us.
The 11th man on a team losing by 17 in garbage time isn’t supposed to do shit like this to the league’s MVP. It’s a cheap shot that led to a second cheap shot. ⬇️⬇️⬇️
David Stern was the most important non-player/non-coach who ever passed through the NBA and it’s not really close. Out of everyone he probably loved the league the most. It’s a sad day. RiP.
Congrats to the Warriors and their fans — they came on like a freight train that series, had a 2014 Finals feel. Peaked at the perfect time. I’m gonna record a pod and then walk into traffic.
This LeBron/GSW “rumor” is such an obvious plant by LeBron’s camp to (a) pressure the Cavs to trade that Nets pick/players for help, (b) unsettle GSW’s chemistry, and (c) pressure the Lakers to create cap space for him/others. I can’t believe anyone took it seriously. Come on.
I went to that game - what a special LeBron performance that was. Cooking Brooks for the clincher at the end was perfect. Memorable night. I can’t believe he’s still doing it at this level.
I’ve been following sports my whole life and one thing never changed — the aging near-the-end superstar improbably thriving one more time is still the greatest thing to watch.
Dear Detroit,
Sorry about taking Kennard over Mitchell, overpaying Reggie Jackson, taking Stanley Johnson over getting four 1sts from Boston, ruining your salary cap with the Blake trade, and leaving you without a 2018 1st. I’m gonna go do TV, I’ll see you later.
—Thanks, SVG
1. Toronto won 13 of the 16 quarters this series. None of this is a fluke. They’ve been better the whole time save for Game 2 third quarter.
2. Kawhi is 31-10-4 for the Finals and 31-9-4 / 50-38-89% for the whole playoffs. Also - he doesn’t exactly suck on D. What a run.
Weirdest NBA stories of the season, updated.
1. Magic Quits press conference
2. Draymond-KD Spat
3. AD throws away a year of his prime
4. Carmelo doesn’t make it to 2019
5. Butler vs. Minnesota
6. Bulls create a Leadership Committee
7. Anything James Dolan did
Hanging that loss on Grant Williams is ridiculous. The “he woke Jimmy up” people need to get the F out of here. Jimmy has done that all playoffs. And the Celts have blown that exact game like 15-16 times this season. They get out-thought and out-executed in 4Q by any smart team.
Golden State 2019-24
Lost Finals
Went 15-50
Lost 2 play-in games
Won Finals
Lost Round 2
Lost play-in
If there’s been a weirder 6-year NBA stretch I can’t find it.
Free advice for
@YouTube
TV for Sunday Ticket — create a channel that allows 4 games in 4 boxes that take up the entire screen. Give subscribers the ability to customize the 4 games and manage the audio accordingly. Even if they do just THAT it’s a huge win for 2023.