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"Headliners with Rachel Nichols" on Showtime and Paramount+, Undisputed on FS1, "Hometown with Rachel Nichols" on Monumental. Catch me if you can 😎
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Great conversations with Luka Doncic and Kyrie Irving on this week's episode of 'Headliners with Rachel Nichols.' Streaming now on Showtime/Paramount +
@shobasketball
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Just did a really cool interview with Kawhi and Kyle Lowry, about how they got here and everything this title means, and here’s what happened before we even started rolling. Special.
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Damian Lillard told me he was walking into church when he saw the news about Kobe on his phone. He said even after it was confirmed the helicopter went down, he spent all day waiting to hear that Kobe had somehow jumped out safely. “That’s what kind of superhero he was.”
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LeBron James sporting a
@BetoORourke
hat in San Antonio tonight. Beto is running for the Senate seat in Texas that Ted Cruz holds right now.
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Very impressed by players jumping In to help pay arena workers. But the players aren't the billionaires. Nearly half of NBA team owners are. Some - Mark Cuban, Tony Ressler & Dan Gilbert among them - will stilll be paying workers in some way. How about make it 30 for 30?
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Doc Rivers with raw emotion and a thunderbolt cry for justice: "All you hear is Donald Trump & all of them talking about fear. We're the ones getting killed. We're the ones getting shot...It's amazing, we keep loving this country, and this country does not love us back."
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This is no small thing from
@SacramentoKings
owner Vivek Randivé after the team's game was disrupted by those protesting local police killing an unarmed man in his own grandmother's backyard.
Listen to what he says, and compare that to what we've heard from owners in other sports
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Jack Nicholson back courtside for the Lakers - first time since last season’s opening night.
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After Donald Trump calls NBA players kneeling during the anthem "disgraceful,' and says it makes him turn off games, LeBron James answers: "The game will go on without his eyes on it. I can sit here and speak for all of us that love the game of basketball - we could care less."
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Damar Hamlin has arrived at a Cincinnati hospital after medical officials administered CPR on the field.
🎥:
@Jatara_
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Just surreal at Staples Center - Kobe’s face on every screen as hundreds of people seem to just want to be somewhere they can cry together. Also: The Grammys are here tonight so there is the odd person wandering around in a tuxedo.
None of this feels real.
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The real story of
@KingJames
&
@DwyaneWade
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What was it like to step onto the court against Kobe for very the first time? I spent weeks asking dozens of NBA players that question and wow, the stories that came out from Steph, LeBron, KD, Melo, John Wall, Kyrie, James Harden, Kyle Lowry, Draymond, Paul George & so many more
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Just spoke to Shaq - he said "I challenged him to get 50 and the mother****er got 60"
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Aaron Gordon says the dunk contest scoring should be more cumulative: “I did 5 straight 50s. That should be a wrap, it’s over. Who’s running the show?”
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LeBron was told to "shut up and dribble." Instead he opened a school.
And he tells me he has no regrets about critizing Donald Trump: "For someone to try to divide us by using our platform of sport? Sport has given me everything I could ever ask for - I couldn't let that happen"
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Seth & Steph Curry will be the first brothers to ever play each other in an NBA conference finals. Sonya & Dell Curry told me their plan is to literally flip a coin to split which kid to root for/which parent wears which team’s gear.
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MJ: "Whenever they speak Michael Jordan, they should speak Scottie Pippen"
Damn straight.
#TheLastDance
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I remember the first time Kobe introduced me to his daughter Gigi, and the way he talks about her in this clip is exactly how he sounded then: so damn proud, full of so much possibility.
And she was her father's daughter, too. Already such a gamer.
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Today is a good day to double-check if you are registered to vote in the elections later this year.
And fix it if you’re not.
Today is a good day to remember that you have some power to change how this country works.
And then
When the time comes
Do it.
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Doc Rivers: “My dad was a cop. I believe in good cops. We’re not trying to defund them and take all their money away. We’re trying to get them to protect us, just like they protect everybody else.”
Doc Rivers with raw emotion and a thunderbolt cry for justice: "All you hear is Donald Trump & all of them talking about fear. We're the ones getting killed. We're the ones getting shot...It's amazing, we keep loving this country, and this country does not love us back."
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Got to create a whole show and spend five years hanging out with some of my favorite people ❤️ talking about one my favorite things 🏀 An eternal thank you to our amazing producers & crew - The Jump was never built to last forever but it sure was fun. 😎
More to come…
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Everything we do moving forward in this sport is going to have a hole in it. Just doesn’t seem possible.
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Why wasn't Ruth Bader Ginsburg honored by the NBA this weekend? In a league that absolutely holds equality as a core value, the icons of that equality can’t only include those who helped the men we see on TV, but those who paved the way for the women who work right alongside them
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Just gonna leave this video right here...
LeBron was told to "shut up and dribble." Instead he opened a school.
And he tells me he has no regrets about critizing Donald Trump: "For someone to try to divide us by using our platform of sport? Sport has given me everything I could ever ask for - I couldn't let that happen"
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Pure. Joy.
Anthony Davis’s daughter and Markieff Morris’s daughter making confetti angels as their dads celebrate in the locker room.
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Aaron Gordon meets the media, smiling, says: "What are we doing, man? Who set the dunk contest up, who set this up?"
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Soooo Giannis dunks hard on Ben Simmons, calls him a “baby,” then 10 seconds later Ben comes up with the put-back slam right over Giannis’ head. Sixers win and I’ll take a seven-game playoff series between these two teams please.
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Was later revealed that MJ paid for Gus Lett's medical expenses.
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I'm someone who'd rather fling myself into a pack of angry bees than have a LeBron/MJ debate, but I do find it notable when Steve Kerr of all people says of the Cavs: "They have a guy who's playing basketball at a level I'm not sure anyone has ever seen before."
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Bam Adebayo goes for a walk every night here in the Bubble - tonight he’s gotta pass the Lakers victory party. “Motivating,” he told me. Couldn’t be more impressed by this Heat team through these entire playoffs, and am absolutely sure they will be back competing for a title.
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Warriors GM Bob Myers in tears explaining that Kevin Durant has an Achilles injury and will get an MRI tomorrow. I showed Steph Curry this video in the locker room - he began tearing up as well, went to find Bob, then hugged him.
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Stop whatever you're doing and watch this. No, really.
Kindness to others has no expiration date.
@DwyaneWade
#OneLastDance
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Oh man, the generosity...
The NCAA provides free wi-fi to student-athletes at all of the team hotels during the DI men's basketball championship.
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A year ago, I sat down with Kobe & Tracy McGrady to talk about the old days. At the time, it was one of the most fun interviews I've done; now it's one of the most poignant. But boy, it's nice to go back and hear Kobe laugh. He loved TMac, and I love their friendship.
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Love this.
Real life doesn’t have final chapters - time goes on, and people’s stories do too.
👏🏼
@kobebryant
@DwightHoward
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Caitlin Clark dropped by SNL's Weekend Update desk, and it was fabulous...
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Okay this
@Cavs
video of President Obama telling Ty Lue that JR Smith needs to put his shirt back on is AMAZING.
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Oh my god Alex Ovechkin was doing keg stands out of the Stanley Cup in the middle of Georgetown after throwing out the first pitch at a Nationals game and then ended up swimming half-naked in a fountain and I never thought i’d say this but this was all worth the 44-year wait 😂
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I asked Dame what it felt like to be the visitor on a night like tonight. Did he feel bad trying to win on a night the Lakers had dedicated to Kobe?
“Nobody is going to win tonight,” he said. “Kobe is gone, his family isn’t going to get him back, and this is just basketball.”
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Kawhi Leonard and Kyle Lowry sit down to talk about their shiny new trophy, how what they've both been through made this so much sweeter, and whether Kyle is gonna try to convince Kawhi to stay in Toronto.
Kawhi: "He don't want me no more."
Kyle: "That's some bullsh*t."
😂😂😂
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Eli on the Manningcast, wondering what Jets Offensive Coordinator Nathaniel Hackett said to Zach Wilson during halftime.
Peyton: “I think [Hackett] spent most of that time vomiting.”
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Dirk Nowitzki praises and thanks Steve Nash and Jason Kidd, who are on stage with him, then turns to the audience and says “I would really like to have played with those two guys in their primes, but unfortunately I had to work with what they gave me.”
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Kawhi on what he learned from the last two years: “A lot of people thought I was faking the injury or didn’t want to play for my team & that was disappointing to me. So just going through that, I knew I just had to trust myself. It doesn’t matter what anyone had to say about me.”
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Daenerys of the House Targaryen, the First of Her Name, Breaker of Chains, Mother of Dragons, watcher of NBA games.
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The Jacob Blake shooting happened in Wisconsin.
Bucks guard Sterling Brown was himself a victim of police brutality two years ago.
This is personal.
The Milwaukee Bucks have decided to boycott Game 5, source tells ESPN.
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Dwight Howard jumping out of his pants pregame; LeBron is amused 😎
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From
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LeBron on his advice to his younger teammates through this run: “Stay off TV & stay off social media.….And when you watch the other playoff games, watch them on mute and play music in the background. That’s what I do.”
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Vanessa Bryant with her first public comments, on IG: "My girls and I want to thank the millions of people who’ve shown support and love during this horrific time. Thank you for all the prayers. We definitely need them. We are completely devastated by the sudden loss...
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Absolutely LOVE the NBA deciding to add Dirk Nowitzki and Dwyane Wade as "special roster additions" to this year's All-Star game, "In honor of their extraordinary contributions as iconic NBA champions & beloved ambassadors & in recognition of their All-Star careers."
👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
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Kyrie wants the NBA logo to change from Jerry West to Kobe Bryant. We’ve had Jerry on The Jump and asked him about the logo; he said he’s perfectly happy to cede it to someone else...
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Beyond impressed with
@malika_andrews
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The Lakers haven’t beaten Toronto in six years, Raps have won 11 straight.
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There should never be another cent of public money given to sports team owners for arenas or stadiums.
In any city. In any league.
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LeBron James has never lost a playoff series when he’s been up 3-1. (Won one when he was down 3-1 though)
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I have no idea how we got to a place where grown adults feel it’s okay to attack kids who simply don’t want to be murdered in their own school. It’s...astounding.
But here’s what I do know: the kids aren’t going anywhere.
#Parkland
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Warriors agree to sign 4x All-Star Boogie Cousins, to play beside:
2x MVP, 5x All-Star Steph Curry
MVP, 9x All-Star Kevin Durant
4x All-Star Klay Thompson
3x All-Star Draymond Green
LeBron checking to see if he can go back to the East 😂
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“God knew they couldn't be on this earth without each other. He had to bring them home to have them together. Babe, you take care of our Gigi. And I got Nati, Bibi and Coco. We're still the best team."
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LeBron James sits down and opens up on the craziest season of his career, the months when he worried the Cavs wouldn't even make the playoffs (much less the Finals), why he didn't want Cleveland to trade Kyrie - plus his relationship with Owner Dan Gilbert.
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Instagram post from Rudy Gobert, the player whose positive coronavirus test sparked the NBA to suspend the season:
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🗣If it was easy, everyone would be doing it.
Russell Westbrook has:
- 20 triple-doubles in his last 30 games
- 18 triple-doubles in his last 25
- 16 triple-doubles in his last 20
- 13 triple-doubles in his last 15
- 9 triple-doubles in his last 10
Oscar Robertson never had any spans of this kind in his career.
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Kevin Durant posts on IG, confirms he ruptured his Achilles and has already had surgery, says he is determined for the road back and in the meantime will be cheering on the Warriors.
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We were just talking about him.
With Kobe Bryant, that sentence was always true. You could not tell the story of the NBA without him. You could not tell the story of LA without him. He was a part of the fabric of American life, always there. Until now.
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Paul Pierce speaks for the first time about Kobe Bryant: "There would be no Paul Pierce the Truth without Kobe." Stay for the end, just so moving.
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Honestly not sure how Vanessa Bryant gets through any day...but especially today 💔
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Mark Jackson says he's "embarrassed" for Laker fans who sent Danny Green and his fiancé death threats over Green's missed shot, noting "we're better than that as a people. It's just basketball."
Jeff Van Gundy: "I'm not sure we are better than that."
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Michael Jordan watching Gary Payton talking about how tough he played MJ is my new favorite thing ever.
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Ernie: "are you not entertained?"
Charles Barkley: "I was not. That was awful basketball"
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Really nice postgame moment with Steph and his mom, Sonya. Had Steph’s Warriors gone to a Game 7, with Seth Curry’s Blazers already playing a Game 7 themselves, Sonya & Dell told me they were gonna have to split up, “AAU style” on Sunday. 😂
Now both parents can be in Denver.
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This is one of the pieces of video the Rockets are sending the league office as the NBA investigates last night's fight at Staples Center and determines discipline.
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It’s a shame there was no way to know how good Doncic is at basketball except of course for all the tape of him being very good at basketball
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Michael Jordan referencing the MJ crying meme is tremendous.
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Vince is 44 years old, in dress clothes, and was completely cold with no warm up. And he still did this so casually I almost missed it. LEGEND.
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Mavericks owner Mark Cuban just told us on
@GetUpESPN
that his expectation is that the NBA season will not be canceled - just postponed - and that he could could see NBA games going as late as August this year.
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Michael Jordan on Isiah Thomas: "You can show me anything you want. There's no way you're not going to convince me he wasn't an asshole."
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Gonna put this quote from Erik Spoelstra on a calendar with a kitten or something: “Everyone overestimates what you can do in a day and underestimates what you can do over the course of months or a year.”
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KD was the previous record-holder for points in a Game 7 with 48. Now, it’s Steph Curry.
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I am trying very hard to remember
@PedroGomezESPN
the wonderful way he was, instead of the horrible black hole left by his death. It's hard. We already miss him so much.
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Russ had that extension deal sitting in front of him for MONTHS.
He finally signed it...on KD's birthday.
Seriously I love the NBA so much.
Sources: Oklahoma City's Russell Westbrook has signed the richest deal in NBA history. Story:
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Steve Kerr is asked how he got the Warriors to be a defensive-minded team. Says: "I didn't, Mark Jackson did."
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“He’s still the best player in the world.” - Giannis on KD
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Thrilled to be partnering with
@Showtime
and getting back to celebrating what we love most about sports.
We're gonna have so. much. fun.
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LeBron after the game the Lakers had dedicated to Kobe Bryant : "When I looked up and saw we were up 24-8, I was like, okay, he's here in the building. It’s a beautiful, beautiful night for our franchise and something we will always remember - this moment.”
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Remember last month when LeBron was talking about going bald like MJ?
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So I asked
@WindhorstESPN
if the Pels ever intended to seriously engage with LA on Anthony Davis, or if all the talks & leaks were instead designed to sabotage the young Lakers as revenge for what N.O. sees as tampering, & he said "it's not just possible, it's what happened." 👀
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