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Source: Blazers star Damian Lillard to request trade in the days to come.
If this is a surprise, you haven't been paying attention.
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Final minute of Game 7. One point game. Two of the savviest players in history, Chris Paul and James Harden, both bet on the same move: the flop.
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Basketball Twitter you are entirely over the top, hyperbolic and possibly drunk. And I thank you for it from the bottom of my heart.
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Gregg Popovich: “McConnell has destroyed and degraded our judicial system. He has tried to destroy heath care. He’s destroyed the environment. He’s the master and Trump’s the stooge and what’s funny is that Trump doesn’t even know it.”
"it’s more than just Trump. The system has to change. I’ll do whatever I can do to help because that’s what leaders do. But Trump can’t do anything to put us on a positive path because he’s not a leader." - Coach Pop
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"Do I get to speak now? It's been like ten minutes."
Working with Bill Simmons.
“Do I get to speak now? It’s been like ten minutes.”
Bill Simmons is an only child.
www.truehoop.com
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@KDTrey5
This all looks like innocent internet fun until I see how many people appear to believe
@Chris_Broussard
manufactured the entire tale!
I worked with Chris, we disagree on plenty. But no way do I believe he just made this up.
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"This is why mother's don't sleep."
Vanessa Bryant's nightmare.
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NY, LA, Chicago, Houston, Phoenix, Philadelphia ... you are being outdanced by Nebraskans.
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Steve Kerr: "It's like, 'You've got to be kidding me.' It just has to stop. ... I don't know if it's related to five straight seasons of playing 100-plus games and all the wear and tear, but it's, it's devastating."
The science says the schedule is a problem. The cost is absurd.
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Stephen Curry can run the Warriors to perfection by himself. X times a year. Doesn't need Kevin Durant--in any one game.
But it's too much to ask Steph to be this 82 times a year plus playoffs. That's where KD matters. Steph is in killer mode today thanks to the games KD owned.
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"Kevin takes a lot of hits sometimes, but he just wants to play basketball, and right now he can't. Basketball has gotten him through his life."--Bob Myers
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"According to the NBA’s Last Two Minute Reports, Jokic has been on the wrong end of a bad call a league-leading 14 times this season. Twice as many as the second-most player."
Really recommend this whole story and everything from
@owenlhjphillips
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Rob Pelinka tells a story about Kobe Bryant seeing "The Dark Knight," later picking Heath Ledger's brain over dinner.
@baxter
: "The Dark Knight" was released six months after Ledger died. A source with direct knowledge said ... no dinner ever took place.
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@Dame_Lillard
For sure. Appreciate that, and you. But realize: I work in a profession where my reputation is as important to my livelihood as health is to an NBA player. Please be very careful about calling me a liar. I take my job very seriously, and do not lie.
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Jalen Williams and Chet Holmgren, both new Thunder players barring trades, share an agent and have been working out together in Santa Barbara for months.
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@bosnianbeast27
He has come awfully close to saying it himself. Has he told you different?
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Come with me on the craziest reporting journey of my life. It's real, it matters, it really involves the CIA, the NBA, and Jeffrey Epstein. The world is far crazier than I once thought.
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FBI's plan for corrupt referee Tim Donaghy: "they were going to wire up Donaghy so he could get other allegedly corrupted NBA referees to incriminate themselves." But it never happened, for intriguing reasons.
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Fred VanVleet paid $30,000 to tell us about a referee.
Remember when Rasheed Wallace got in trouble like that, and the referee turned out to be corrupt Tim Donaghy?
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Who's that crazy guy who ranked Stephen Curry third all-time? THAT'S ME, and I'd do it again! 🤓
Here's why:
Also, on BRING IT IN shortly:
@jshector
reveals his top five. Free sub in my bio.
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Who names their site TrueHoop? My whole career is about the truth. Of course I have never published a made-up story, and never will. If you think somebody is lying about this
@Dame_Lillard
situation, look elsewhere.
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Spent much of yesterday on the phone, learning about the inner workings of the Lakers. This free TrueHoop post makes the case that to get ahead, the Lakers will have to get past the outdated idea the franchise is magical.
#NBA
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A few years ago in the Finals I left my credential in the hotel. I was wearing a suit, I'm a white guy. Nobody ever stopped me. I walked through security, onto the floor, locker room, press conferences. Security is tighter now post-game on the floor, but still...
Oakland cop: Masai Ujiri didn't produce a credential and struck our officer
Masai Ujiri: Quite literally holding his credential during videotaped incident in question and seconds later on the court
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Kyle Lowry is not as tall as Jimmy Fallon. He has short arms, middling athleticism, and when he started his NBA career he scored as many fouls as buckets.
And he effects his team about as much as LeBron.
FREE FOR ALL
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Adam Silver says more than the reported seven players have tested positive for coronavirus, but "for privacy reasons we are not reporting any other tests."
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All year people have been asking why I write about billionaires so much. The answer is because what’s happening with them matters immensely to all of us. I am shocked and disappointed that most sportswriters give them all a pass.
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How much do you know about the family history of Tilman Fertitta, governor of the Houston Rockets?
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Exceptional, ruthless: David Stern doesn't fit tidy eulogies
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The NBA is 100 miles from perfect.
But it's in a class with MLB and the NFL, and they grade on a curve, so they get an A every time.
Eight more players and two coaches with the Miami Marlins have tested positive for COVID-19, as an outbreak has spread throughout their clubhouse and brought the total of cases in recent days to at least 14, sources familiar with the situation tell me and
@JesseRogersESPN
.
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After a bad COVID infection, shoulder surgery, and various other disappointments ... Pascal Siakam is playing the best offense of his career right now.
@coachthorpe
watched a ton of video and says the best is yet to come.
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ANAND: Should billionaires exist?
DJAFFAR: In a well-regulated, well-managed, and thriving economy without monopolies, they wouldn’t. Wealth is like manure: spread it, and it makes everything grow; pile it up, and it stinks.
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Don’t break up the Warriors! They’re making coaching and front office competence cool. Once 30 teams have that down, there’s nothing left to fix when it comes to competitive balance.
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Plugged in NBA source: "Kyrie was right--the earth IS flat. The Rockets are about to prove it by falling off the edge."
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Wenyen Gabriel plays his ass off, got excited LeBron gave him his first bloody nose, could probably get work as a model, and, we now know, gave $2500 to his elderly uber driver.
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In case you don’t have League Pass, what you missed is Gary Trent, Jr. is now on a path to be MVP, commissioner, and president.
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Quick show of hands: If I drag
@SherwoodStrauss
to happy hour somewhere in Oakland tomorrow, and invite the public, will you attend?
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"The Pacers run a drill they call 'Ringing the Bell.' ... If you hit 20-of-25, you ring the bell. Prosper hit 23, I’m told. A Pacers rep told me only Buddy Hield had done that this season."
@coachthorpe
on Olivier-Maxence Prosper
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NBA: 56% of the Canadian population (20.5 million viewers) watched all or part of the 2019 NBA Finals.
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Obviously I don’t love flopping. But this is hardly proof the game is terrible. Neither flop worked! The refs saw right through it, which means the floppers hurt their teams. That’s the system working.
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Chris Webber’s explanation of the block/charge: “It’s whoever got the foot down first.”
IIRC the NBA officials who have spent hours tutoring us media on this rule have never said anything like that.
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Are the 76ers missing better players, or a way to get players to believe in what they're doing? The fine art of getting the most out of people.
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Michael Jordan pioneered a weird and secret way to train your brain for basketball. From
@tomhaberstroh
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Utah Jazz GM Dennis Lindsey tells a crazy sad story about his mom's death...And the winding road from that event to the Jazz banning a fan for making a racist comment to Russell Westbrook. "I'll take the blowback ... I'm actually looking forward to that."
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He was the banker who took Microsoft public. He was in the CIA. He was arrested with a 9mm at the airport. And now he's a key figure in investigating ties between Jeffrey Epstein and Apollo Global--the NBA's most important source of cash.
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"Sources say Damian Lillard is willing to forgo paychecks to get to a title team, if it comes to that."
Did you know Lillard has earned almost $300 million already? A lot of new insight for TrueHoop subscribers:
Free preview:
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I asked a veteran of the game, and she laughed, asked if I really didn’t know. Did they get better sponsors, sell more tickets I wondered? She felt sorry for me, being so dumb. Then announced: “It’s money laundering.”
Ask yourself why Russia has so much more money for these players.
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How useful are NBA billionaires likely to be in ending racism?
Following the money takes us to some pretty weird places, and not as far as you might like from the NYPD, Steve Bannon, and whatever dystopian vision Vladimir Putin has for America.
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Lawrence Frank did a hell of a job getting Kawhi.
But the Paul George trade was the trade of the year ... for the Thunder.
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Epidemiologist on baseball: "Jesus Christ. I mean ... Jesus Christ."
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Telling the truth is difficult, painstaking, often thankless work. Not everyone has the stomach for it.
I think ESPN faces tough choices about whether it wants to nurture evidence-based reporting:
Or tear it down:
Ladies and gentlemen, The GOAT
@stephenasmith
went OFF today about Earvin Magic Johnson and the Lakers 🚨 NEW HEAT 🚨
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"Seriously. How did I end up with this in year 15? I gotta fucking do this shit all over again with Stan. Oh man." Full maniacal giggle from Redick.
Media day is different, realer, this year.
So I asked
@jj_redick
what the expectations should be on the defensive side of the floor under SVG. He gave a great answer 😂😂😂
(thanks to
@FletcherWDSU
for grabbing the clip)
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Why NBA players and coaches revere Brad Stevens, by Jackie MacMullan.
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Jackie MacMullan, from April, on why players respect the hell out of Celtics coach Brad Stevens
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Tonight we learn if the 2020 Warriors roster can hang in the 2019 Finals.
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Russell Westbrook declined a partial academic scholarship to Stanford, and much more from
@royceyoung
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A source close to the Rockets tells TrueHoop "they might end up as the worst team in the league."
A timeline of missteps that have led to a combustible situation.
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Adam Silver just had a conversation, on stage at the Tech Summit, with a convincing, talking, full-sized hologram of James Naismith.
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This thread is like a crystal ball.
On January 6, armed Trumpist militias will be rallying in DC, at Trump's orders. It's highly likely that they'll try to storm the Capitol after it certifies Joe Biden's win. I don't think this has sunk in yet.
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Today, based on one low scoring game, a lot of Twitter sees the flaws of
@BenSimmons25
. He's a 21-year-old 6-10 rookie point guard with Superman vision, a calm demeanor and elite athleticism. His continued hard work, and time, will surely make this hand-wringing look silly.
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Fresh off the combine, and having talked to a good list of insiders, I believe Jabari Smith is the first pick and anything else is smoke.
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Unintended consequence of Elon buying Twitter:
@SubstackInc
is spicing up! Fired up for
@AshaRangappa_
@petestrzok
and several players to be named later …
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“When we say this is like a real brotherhood, a team, people have no clue what goes into that and how we feel about each other.”
—Andre Iguodala
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Handle's Messiah.
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TrueHoop source on the Jazz flight to Memphis says the 757's engine failed after hitting a flock of birds quickly after takeoff. The damage, especially to the engine, is obvious. They are still planning to go to Memphis later today. Team rattled.
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Many sources believe the NBA is on rails to adding 31st and 32nd teams in Vegas and Seattle–and that it will bring the biggest windfall in NBA history, perhaps as much as $10 billion.
But Tim Leiweke is beyond careful to make clear he has no promises from the league.
Why? 2/3
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By halftime it was clear to most of us
@rudygobert27
would cause USA's 1st tournament loss since 2006. To
@coachthorpe
it was clear 4 years ago, and that’s why he's on Team TrueHoop.
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UBI for billionaires!
#BREAKING
: The
@NBA
will give $30 million in cash to each of its 30 teams this month to help protect their finances ahead of the 2020-21 season (
@sbjlombardo
).
Free to read:
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Not long ago NBA players basically never missed a game for the birth of a child. Now Giannis is missing a game for the best reason ever and it appears just about 100 percent of people are supportive.
What was everyone scared of all those years?
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If Grant Wahl’s death proves to be foul play, remember that bribes win the right to host the World Cup. Is there a downside to sports corruption? Yes: scary people win dirty contests. FIFA officials got the money, Grant Wahl got to report on the dangerous place they picked.
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3⃣steps to get James Wiseman's rookie season back on track. Years of
@coachthorpe
's wisdom in minutes, free for all:
How to salvage James Wiseman’s season
Three simple steps for an overwhelmed big man
www.truehoop.com
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NBA: this is fine
Live sports accounted for 94 of the top 100 most watched U.S. TV broadcasts of 2021, per
@Sportico
.
NFL: 75
Olympics: 10
College football: 7
College basketball: 2
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Incredible reporting and storytelling by
@kevinarnovitz
with the untold tale of gay NBA referee Bill Kennedy
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So I guess one really good floor seat just opened up for Game 4.
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Profoundly admire the dude who has no regard for his career, ignores his Fox bosses, and calls state after state for Biden.
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When the Lillard/Blazers drama began two years ago, an agent told me that he saw it as a test of Aaron Goodwin.
A question young stars have, when picking between, say, Aaron or Klutch, is: who can bully the league into getting me to the team of my choice?
Not that Woj needs confirming, but I can confirm, through a league source, that other teams have been discouraged by Lillard camp from making trade offers for Lillard. Some teams have called Lillard camp to inquire. Message the same: Lillard remains absolutely insistent on Heat.
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There’s a team kinda like the Warriors where they entrust one ball-handling wizard of a shooter to solve every defense. And exhaustion consumes the Rockets every year.
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What about re-opening the NBA ... outside?
You're going to say "but the breeze will affect shooting" and I'm going to say "well ... death, though."
As I've been saying for weeks and weeks now: It's pretty safe outside.
(Obviously, you don't want someone coughing in your face at point-blank range, but the overall risk of covid transmission outdoors in summertime appears to be *extremely* low.)
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@JaneMayerNYer
@politico
Steele dossier cited a source close to Trump and Manafort saying GOP campaign team was "happy to have Russia as media bogeyman to mask more extensive corrupt business ties to China..."
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Two episodes in, American Psyop is really something.
Only two episodes in and we're already charting. Buckle up, things only get crazier from here.
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Another good call from
@coachthorpe
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I love
@Highway_30
but disagree. Sure, Carmelo can do skill things Jared Dudley can't. But teams play better with Dudley on the floor. Tough D, spreading the floor, making simple passes, inspiring teammate--crazy valuable, especially on a team that already has ball-hungry stars.
😳😳😳 "LeBron is walking around here like he's the face and voice of the players. How is he letting his Banana Boat brother hang out there in the wings and they go sign Jared Dudley and not Carmelo." -
@Highway_30
Full explosive interview:
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David Stern died. I am terribly sad--in part, because I am convinced the forces of horsecrap will over-sanitize his story into meaninglessness. His genius was not what you think it was. The small man with giant influence: on TrueHoop tomorrow.
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"Occam’s razor melts and warps once it crosses the Russian border."
"I am not normally a false flag kind of girl, but Russia is a false flag kind of place and Putin is a false flag kind of guy."
--
@juliaioffe
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I know squat about the issue, but need some convincing to cheer men tackling a woman who’s politically inconvenient for a billionaire.
watch the second row, the security guard was putting in detective work
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I am as excited as anyone for NBA play. But rather than Tilman Fertitta and Donald Trump, would love to hear a panel of actual scientists on the likelihood of this approach actually resulting in safety.
New story: Jared Dudley says players will be free to go in and out of “the bubble” when the NBA resumes, but the Lakers, with championship aspirations, will keep LeBron and AD inside. “Not letting them go anywhere,” he says.
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Tatum would have every reason to be especially tired now. He leads every NBA player in a lot of playoff statistics, including minutes. With a game or two left, he has already logged the 30th most playoff minutes of all time.
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Feisty, elite team D, mediocre hero ball O. The 2015 Cavs have become the 2001 76ers, with
@KingJames
as a supersized
@alleniverson
.
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Now that a multimillion-dollar NBA investigation has confirmed the incredible work of
@baxter
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In that story, I noted the players who had played the most in the bubble, who'd have little time to recover for this season.
1. Jimmy Butler
2. Anthony Davis
3. LeBron James
4. Jamal Murray.
All missed huge chunks of this season. Murray out indefinitely.
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"People don't understand fatigue" and the state of LeBron
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