Kyrie's character arc the most fascinating thing I've ever seen.
In 6 years dude went from an All-Star NBA PG who has yacht parties with all white women & no black women in sight to a vegan, muslim, native american, flat earth anti-vaxer & antisemitic black hebrew israelite.
The NBA badly needs to adopt the NFL rule of requiring teams to keep the same uniform for atleast 5 years. There's no brand identity anymore, good uniforms are gone after one year and Nike has seemingly run out of ideas. It's honestly laughable how bad some of these jerseys are.
Dame would just have to find happiness outside of work like most Americans. Being happy at work is a privilege most people don't have. If star NBA players don't have to honor their contracts then the league is broken. Teams have to call his bluff on this.
Damian Lillard's agent Aaron Goodwin has been calling prospective trade partners and "warning against" trading for Dame, per
@wojespn
Goodwin has been "telling organizations outside of Miami that trading for Lillard is trading for an unhappy player"
To Charlamagne's credit, Beanie Sigel is one of the scariest individuals I've ever met.
I was in the studio and this man came out talking about he smells some food then proceeded to takes my Malaysian Banana Leaf wrapped chicken wings and told me to order some more.
I'm a Cowboys fan but I was on the Eagles today ML/spread. The Eagles are a much better team. It took the Cowboys recovering 3 fumbles, converting a 3rd and 30 and a Lane Johnson injury to win this game & the Eagles still had a shot in the end with bad clock managment.
This dismissal of Adrian Griffin feels very reminiscent of David Blatt's firing with the Cavs in 2016. We all know it's the right move despite the team's success which came in spite of him. The Cavs won the chip, have to wonder if this move catapults the Bucks in the same way.
I actually don't know who beats Wayne in a Verzuz either. When Vibe Magazine published the 77 best Lil Wayne Songs of 2007, I thought it was the most absurd thing I've ever seen published. Prime Wayne had a 2pac/Master P like work ethic except there was actual quality control.
I don't think people realize how crazy prime Beanie Sigel was.
I used to DJ at Marathon Grill (Marbar) on 40th street back when I was at Upenn.
Management had to ban Beanie Sigel from the venue because he snuck into the kitchen & made himself a CHEESE SANDWICH during a party.
For as much as Kyrie was talking a whole bunch of nothing on his IG live, the comments were even crazier, like this actually happened.
"You bringing the vaccinated and unvaccinated together. That's a different power. No one never seen it before." - Stephon Marbury.
Jokic was solid defense on Embiid to prevent the tie and then the score to put the Nuggets up 4. Just feels like Jokic always gets it done when it matters.
Funniest thing about this discourse is that the only reason the Packers made the playoffs is bc in their WK3 game against the Saints, GB went for 2 down 8 & won the game 18-17 on a Doubs TD with 2:56 to go. They LITERALLY won the tie breaker w/ NOLA in that game by going for TWO
Michael Wilbon, known for being anti "analytics" in the past, once again goes into it while discussing the Bucs-Lions game on PTI.
"Do the analytics say go for it no matter who's going for it? So if you and I were on the field, 'the analytics say go for it?'"
"It's the…
This statement is everything that's wrong with how the NBA is marketed. You have media feeding into the notion that only big markets matter.
Haliburton is one of the league's breakout stars & the Bucks have two of the best players in the league in Giannis & Dame. Why not watch?
The NBA has got to be absolutely praying the Lakers and Knicks win tonight. Who is going to watch, let alone pay to see, the Pacers and Bucks play at 2 PT on a Thursday afternoon in Vegas?
If Joel Embiid is going to continue to get a pre-February 2024 whistle while the rest of the league is getting officiated like they're in an episode of OZ..............Lookout!
You’re incredible man. You don’t have to validate your career to me. I say it all the time, the scariest night of my life was having 25k on the Bucks in Game 7, sitting court side & you hit that shot with your toe on the line. Still, Steph presence had you playing on Rookie mode
This 76ers loss was so disturbing I started looking at Astrology Charts for Embiid & Harden. Both of them are pretty much totally deficient in the fire element in their natal charts & you can see it on the court in their lack of will, passion & assertiveness when things get tough
As ludicrous as this statement is about blowing a 3-1 lead to the Nuggets, the most egregious thing is the amount of b*tching and complaining NBA players have done about playing in the NBA bubble during the pandemic which was dark period of extreme uncertainty & loss for so many…
“We started to hear the rumblings that nobody is going to respect this chip so we kind of just took our foot off the gas”
- Lou Williams on the Clippers losing in the bubble
(h/t
@Jacobtheclipper
)
If you're a Jets fan, you just gotta go do something else with your life. Spend more time with your spouse or something because spending your life rooting for this team can't be it.
The list of QBs the Eagles have faced this year:
Kenny Pickett
Davis Mills
Taylor Heinicke
Carson Wentz
Matt Ryan
Malik Willis
Daniel Jones (2x)
Justin Fields
Cooper Rush
Andy Dalton
Brock Purdy
Josh Johnson
Davis Webb
Dak
Patrick Mahomes
Only So Long Fake Thugs Can Pretend
So this is my first time at Citizen’s Bank Park. The only other baseball game I’ve been to was at the Vet in 1996. My little league coach took me. I haven’t been to a baseball game since so this is exciting for me.
-There’s 3 games at once in the sports complex so I left my car…
It was brutal what he did to that kid. My favorite moment of the fight was when Canelo swung and missed so badly that he hit the rope & Floyd bent down to look at the rope as if the rope was badly hurt by Canelo's punch. Downright hilarious trolling from Floyd.
I've accepted that the NFL is sports entertainment. The refs see everything but they call whatever they want to call for better or for worse. If you're betting on this sport, you just gotta hope you're on the right side of it.
@JonesOnTheNBA
I want to add.....teams are literally winning championships in jerseys and never wearing them again nor can fans actually buy the jersey after that year.
The Warriors had their iconic game 4 comeback in these and now they're gone forever. How does that make sense?
The NFL has completely removed the "uncatchable" aspect from pass interference calls. That is not pass interference. Carr literally threw he ball out of the bounds at least 20 yards away from where the receiver was. What the hell?? This is preposterous.
I have seen DeAndre Hopkins put up Pro-Bowl numbers with TJ Yates, Brandon Weeden, Brock Osweiler, Tom Savage, Matt Schaub, Case Keenum, Ryan Fitzpatrick & Ryan Mallet. He's been the most QB proof WR ever.
Trace McSorley is literally incapable of getting him the ball.
Zach Edey being one of the best players in college basketball perfectly encapsulates my disdain for this sport. I just want peak James Harden to put him in the infinite PNR and sit him down next to Enes Kanter.
Kyle Shanahan will never win anything.
He will always make a crucial mistake……..how do you elect to receive the rock first in overtime under these new rules???
This is what I have to deal with betting sports. I try to bet $3300 on a game, they reject my action and move the line. I can’t take how shady this sports betting industry is….
Lawrence Taylor was smoking crack while playing football so yeah I think Micah Parsons can spend his free time doing sports media without it impacting his football career.
The 2019 Raptors went 17-5 without Kawhi & the Warriors were 33-1 without KD. The Grizzlies going 15-2 without Ja isn’t an indictment on Ja at all. I think basketball discourse is hurt by people measuring a player’s impact by what happens when a player isn’t on the court.
I will say again that I truly do not care. Ja Morant has been the most spectacular player in the NBA this season. It is not a detriment to Ja’s performance that his team is good without him. It’s what he does *when he plays* that should matter.
@DragonflyJonez
I’ll never forgive anyone for allowing this man to refer to himself as “Playoff P” only to go out there and get repeatedly sonned by Joseph Ingles.
Everyone is producing sports betting content these days but I wish there was more content on the psyche of being a bettor. The mental challenges and hurdles you deal with when you're living at the mercy of variance. How to deal with the swings, how to find balance, etc.
There was this other time where I was supposed to do scratches on a song for Beanie Sigel and I couldn't get it right because I didn't have a decent sounding acapella.
He yelled out "I'm gonna f**k this little n***a up"
He was just messing with me but I was still shook ROFL
I swear to god if someone charted Tatum fadeaways with less than 4 minutes to go in the 4th quarter, he’s gotta be like 3 for 250. It’s simultaneously the most predictable and worst shot in basketball.
Embiid is embarassing a lot of people who voted him as MVP.........and Harden who I've said all year is their most important player seems like he'd rather be hanging out with Meek Mill and Lil Baby right now.
My favorite thing about Nuggets games is how consistently opposing teams mount these faux-comebacks where they take the lead during the non-Jokic minutes & then the best player in the world comes back in & immediately shuts things down & promptly ends the game.
Pusha T's "It’s Almost Dry" was so much better than that weedplate Kendrick put out but of course K-Dot wins based on the interscope machine and all those artistic & creative records he made that no one ever really wants to hear again.
@highkin
@JonesOnTheNBA
It's gone way too far. You have teams wearing colors that aren't associated with their franchise.
The NBA needs a rule similar to the NFL where you have to keep a jersey for a minimum of 5 seasons. There's no brand identity. You get used to a jersey & then its gone next year.
Can the collective basketball community just admit that Kevin Durant is no longer the best player on his own team and that Devin Booker is better than him? Like how much evidence do we need to see that KD is not that guy.
JJ Reddick says that Kevin Durant the most underappreciated player in recent memory.
I'd argue that he's the most overrated athlete over the past 30 years and if it weren't for Steph Curry being so selfless, he'd be seen as a rich man's Carmelo Anthony.
Ty Lue is really the most underrated coach in the league and he run circles around the Mike Buds and Quinn Snyders of the world because they just stick with whatever it is that got them there. Meanwhile Lue will find an adjustment and spam it until you adjust.
Hundreds Podcast goes 5-0 tonight!!!!!
New York Knicks ML +184✅
Memphis Grizzlies 1H -1.5 (-130) ✅
Memphis Grizzlies/Los Angeles Lakers Under 222 ✅
Milwaukee Bucks/Miami Heat Over 219.5 ✅
Golden State Warriors -1.5 ✅
To give you some perceptive of how wild Philly is, the guy giving Westbrook the middle finger is a Urologist by the name of Dr. Richard Harkaway. Has degrees from John Hopkins & UPenn. A friend of mine met him at a 76ers game and he told my homie that he does penis transplants.
For all the talk about Khris Middleton not being a good co-star, honestly if you put him on the Philadelphia 76ers over Tobias Harris, the 76ers are in the NBA Finals. Middleton is everything Elton Brand paid Harris to be and he's not it.
I know the media has a love affair with Boston but Jayson Tatum is basically just Paul George to me. He doesn't have a great first step or handle, not very explosive, so he settles for his jumper. He's not dominant in the post. He has a shot selection like Kobe but he's not Kobe.
The NBA and their media partners (ESPN/ABC/TNT) can blame themselves for this. They put the Knicks & Lakers on Christmas Day (even when they suck) over up and coming stars like Giannis & Jokic. They essentially treat the NBA like a 8 team league where only bigger markets matter.
DK holding nearly 17% and FD holding nearly 7% is incredible. Yall are getting destroyed on SGPs. What kind of bookmaking is MGM doing to have a negative 44% hold? lol
Thursday Night Football should have been canceled 3 seasons ago. It's incredible how often one team shows up totally unprepared......to the point where it feels like this would be a totally different game if they just played it on Sunday.
Much of NBA media talks about Kyrie Irving like he's Dave Chapelle after he left Comedy Central for Africa. He was really good last year. There needs to be more discussion on whether Luka can change his game to be more team friendly as opposed to being the European James Harden.
Jarrett Allen plays 7 mins & leaves the game with an illness & now we have people claiming sportsbooks should void the tickets. It's pretty incredible that this is what sports betting has come to. It's not even their fault either, they've been socialized to have this expectation.
I’m getting surgery today so pray for your boy.
Nothing serious but I’ll be out of commission for much of today.
Unrelated, I still love this scene and it was the first thing I thought of this morning.
I want my corners 😉
@KDTrey5
Because it's not black and white. Just because you played on a stacked team didn't mean you didn't shine & you're not great.
No one is completely invalidating your career, just pointing out the obvious benefit of playing on team that won 73 games the year before you came.
Adam Silver is not a wartime consigliere. David Stern cleaned up a league that was infested by drug addicts and alcoholics and took it to heavenly heights . A lot of the nonsense and goofiness we see with players resting home openers, star player empowerment leading to guys like…
The NBA's biggest problem is that everyone is convinced that the only thing that matters is championships. The attitude is basically f*ck the regular season, all star game, dunk contest, the fans & the money they spend or the time they spend caring. It's all championship or bust.
I told yall weeks ago, Ja is the new Iverson, for better or for worse. Love both to death but the parallels between the two are uncanny. I've seen this movie before.
We're a few inevitable Grizzlies playoff flame outs before the media completely turns on him.
Associates of Ja Morant verbally accosted Pacers personnel and someone trained a red laser on them from a nearby SUV postgame on Jan. 29.
“We felt we were in grave danger," a person who was present said.
The NBA investigated the incident.
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@bkravitz
and
@sam_amick
:
@bronerp4p
I definitely think they should trade him…….just not for pennies on the dollar to Miami. Trade him to the team with the best offer even if it isn’t Miami and he’s unhappy.
There needs to be sweeping changes with replay review in basketball. In addition to how lengthy these reviews are, there's absolutely no reason you should be able to reverse an out of bounds call but not call the foul which caused it.
Sometimes I look back at my life in amazement. I was telling someone the other day about how the Denver Nuggets hosted a party I DJ'd at my club residency the night before their game against the 76ers. I got drunk with them & went home & put everything I made DJing on the 76ers.
Honestly, if the
@NBA
is going to keep the Play-in Tournament, they need to look into allowing top seeds to pick their opponents.
Milwaukee and Memphis got the worst possible playoff matchups as 1 and 2 seeds.
C**ca is showing +4.5 on the Chiefs.
If there's one thing I've learned from ACTUAL EXPERIENCE is that you have to be very careful with a side if they're giving you a better price on a team that you can't get anywhere else in the world.
You aren't getting a bargain.
I'm totally prepared for the Lakers to be down 1 with 10 seconds to go in 4th quarter with Lebron sitting at 35 points and Russell Westbrook deciding to launch a 30 foot prayer instead of passing the rock to Lebron to break the record.
We've all dated women like Kyrie, you're constantly walking on eggshells because they can't exist in any relationship without chaos. As soon as it's going too well..........BOOM! Here comes something.
This is the DeMar Derozan we saw throughout all those Raptors playoff runs and everyone blamed Kyle Lowry. This is who he had to carry only for people to believe that Derozan was their best player because he scored more points.
That last Kyrie possession was dreadful and Nash is not doing any coaching whatsoever. The way Kyrie was lost with that hard double, most competent coaches are calling a timeout to draw something up.
Gus Johnson would be calling a Hawks-Celtics playoff game where the Hawks go on a 15-2 run to tie it with 2 minutes to go. It's like dude's presence singlehandedly induces comebacks and meltdowns.
Vegas is the one place where I will meet nice young lady, have a dope conversation and think it would be great to take her on a date and see where it goes.........and then realize she's just "working". 😩😩😩😩😂😂😂😂
The Toronto Raptors are finalizing a trade to send OG Anunoby to the New York Knicks for a package including RJ Barrett, Immanuel Quickley and draft considerations, sources tell ESPN.
First solo Thanksgiving of my life…..something I don’t intend to make a habit of but I’m in the process of facilitating this move to Vegas & couldn’t make it back to Philly.
GOAT decision replacing Turkey for Duck.
Imagine watching Tyrese Haliburton put up 26 points, 13 assists & 10 rebounds in a comeback win against the Celtics and then saying it doesn't matter because it's not the Lakers or the Knicks.
Yall don't like basketball, yall like drama & gossip.
#Lame
Harden can not beat bigs on the switch anymore. He has no burst, quickness or ability to finish at the rim anymore. At this point he’s feast or famine depending on if his step back 3 is falling. Dude is
#LarryHolmesStatus
. I really don’t even think the 76ers can resign him
98 might be my fav year in the history of rap. We got 2 DMX albums, Outkast Aquemini, Big Pun Capital Punishment, Jay-Z Vol 2, Streets is Watching, Black Star, Moment of Truth, Miseducation of Lauryn Hill, LOX, Meth, Red, No Limit was still hot & Cash money was on the come up
Only Brock Purdy could bounce an interception off the defender's face mask to complete a 51 yard pass Aiyuk. WTF do I have to do to be as blessed and lucky as Purdy? Am I not one of God's favorites?
Panthers ML is one of the most heartbreaking beats ever. Imagine the excitement you feel after the Dj Moore catch and the Mariota interception and then to lose that bet on two missed FGs.
I met and hung out with
@BillKrackman
earlier today at
@CircaLasVegas
and he taught me the proper way of folding $10,000 so that it takes up the least amount of space in the most efficient way ever. Great guy & full of so much wisdom.