Michael Wilbon
@RealMikeWilbon
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Co-Host of Pardon the Interruption/@PTI, @ABC/@ESPNNBA analyst and Columnist.
Joined April 2011
Happy to stand w my friend and colleague Jemele Hill any time and anywhere. especially now. .
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Drew Brees’ granddaddies came back home, perhaps to a local parade. My uncles and dad came back home to people saying, “Get on the back of the bus.” And they all sacrificed to serve this nation! Brees still doesn’t get that.
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Me on the Amtrak train from DC to NYC: only person in the car with my baked chicken and rice Christmas Eve dinner! Gotta eat and rest up for 15-hour broadcast day w NBA Countdown crew!!! Merry Christmas 🎄 to all and to all a Good Night!!
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To the many people in our lives who have reached out, my brother Don and I appreciate every expression of love and kindness prompted by my dear, sweet mother's passing last night in Chicago after 93 glorious years. We are grieving but grateful for her life and every facet of it.
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Nice job by SportsCenter; my dear producers put Cubs walk off Grand Slam at No. 9 of Top Ten plays. If same ending had involved Yanks or Sawx Bristol would have commissioned a 30-for-30 on it in time for Get Up. .
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Twelve years ago this week I had a heart attack. After sending me flowers, Kobe Bryant gave me a lecture I’ll never forget
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I don’t know that I've ever seen more awe in my son's face than when Kobe Bryant, before his last game in Washington, walked over and said, "Are you Matthew?" What happened next will always stay with me.
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Best SB halftime show ever. by far. and I'm a Prince fanatic. but this is unequalled. Lordy. .
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If all Mike Pereira is going to do in the Fox booth is make excuses for b.s. officiating calls then get him out and put somebody in less interested in covering zebra behinds. That tripping call against Dallas was garbage. .
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What is the greatest gift I could give Kobe Bryant on his birthday?. More time.
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Roughing the passer! Don’t dare touch Tommy! We don’t allow touching poor old Tommy…the NFL should be embarrassed to have that $@?@!$.
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My apologies to Isiah Thomas. multiple sources reached out to tell me I'm dead wrong to say 9 members of the Dream Team objected to Isiah being on the '92 Olympic team. Nowhere near that number objected. My apologies to Isiah for getting it wrong. .
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Embarrassing for an official as veteran as Scott Foster to make a call as bad as the 6th on Jason Tatum….
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This just in: Nationals deliver the most exciting half-inning in team history and obsessed Nats fan Anthony Kornheiser didn't see it. fell asleep 45 mins earlier. I'll pound him without mercy for the full Wednesday episode of PTI. .
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So people voting in this greatest college basketball player poll on ESPN select Zion Williamson, who didn't get to the Final Four, over Danny Manning, who led his Kansas team to a title? People know NOTHING unless they saw it this morning on SportsCenter. #sad.
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If you have any more doubts about Steph Curry then shut up, go to your room, no food or water, go straight to bed.
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Giannis, on his own merit, is likely the best player in the world now…but the notion that he should just be allowed to bowl people over without offensive fouls being called is preposterous!.
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What a ride these first 19 years have been & looking forward to entering our 20th season. Honored to work with @espn, our amazing & talented staff @ Rydholm Projects and especially my dude, TK! A special shout out to all you Knuckleheads for your loyal viewership all these years!.
#OTD in 2001, a couple of Washington Post sports writers starting making television history on ESPN. Congrats to Tony Kornheiser @RealMikeWilbon and team (@ErikRydholm @kellihem @BonnieBerko etc) as @PTI begins its 20th year today.
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So slinging Mahomes to the ground is okay, just not Brady?.
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One of the truly great performances in NBA Finals history: Steph Curry….
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The only times I've been called the N-word to my face in public have been in Boston Garden. I'm shocked at this admission by the Red Sox
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Been covering the NBA Finals since (if memory serves me) 1986. and this is the most passionate scene I can recall in all those years. Oh Canada!
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I was fortunate to have countless opportunities to talk with, interview, interact with Kobe Bryant. This was the final time on-camera, and it was so reflective of his curiosity, intellect and passion. I'm grateful to have had a front-row seat to an amazing life.
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Love to hear my man Booger call it like it is, and rip the refs, in real time with no stuttering and stammering. The officiating has been embarrassing all season, and again tonight. .
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We’re supposed to get excited about NFL games today after THIS?!?!?.
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A 6-foot-5 QB ducks his head? What the hell is the defender supposed to do?!?!.
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Throwing OSU's Wade out of this game is preposterous!.
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The Clay Matthews penalty for simply tackling the quarterback, which extended Packers v. Vikings, ought to be an embarrassment. .
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Really really really really dumb and stupid and lazy and unfair to eject Porzingis for THAT. just hideously wrong and lazy on every level.
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I hope many more players take a knee when the NFL resumes.
“Colin Kaepernick looks pretty good right now because he got it right.”. @realmikewilbon believes protests after George Floyd's killing prove Kaepernick's point
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A giant middle finger to all of the college football establishment from Coach Prime and those of us crusading with him!.
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So NFL officials simply are too afraid to call pass interference in the final seconds of games anymore? It’s rather gutless, isn’t it ?.
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Phantom Call Hands Packers a win. how long before the NFL issues its apology?.
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Just became the biggest Joe Musgrove fan after that whinny ass performance from the Mets dugout….
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LeBron James just made his case for MVP. He’s atop my ballot after this weekend.
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I'm angry about the Bears signing Andy Dalton. This guy Ryan Pace should be fired if this is all he can do. He and Matt Nagy have led the Chicago Bears to ruin.
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Hold on. from listening to every analyst in America I was assured the Cleveland Browns got a bye straight into the Super Bowl!!! What happened?!?!?!.
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Now Tiger has officially joined Ali and Jordan. The Comeback. its all that was missing. no longer!.
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If LeBron should be MVP every year then Pop should be coach-of-the-year every year. Duncan gone. Parker gone. Leonard gone. And up 30. .
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Was having a nice quiet night at home until 500 people sent the Cavaliers Instagram video of @KingJames giving his wristbands to my son Matthew and his friend after Wiz-Cavs tonight. Thanks, LBJ, from his old man. he's wearing it to bed now. probably won't sleep a wink.
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So, I presume the NFL will issue the Bears and apology for a completely blown call on an obvious pass interference? That after handing Miami every cheesy call all afternoon?.
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You pull Snell with the way he was pitching, you get what you get. the new way of managing a baseball game is often loathsome. These managers would have pulled Gibson and Koufax.
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Didn't know until the end of today's @PTI that today is our 16th anniversary! 3500+ shows and counting. champagne is on Uncle Tony's tab!!!
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The smug smirk alone on Grayson Allen’s face immediately after the act should be considered evidence toward suspending him indefinitely after injuring Caruso…the NBA should do what college basketball never really did about his thuggish behavior….
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Happy anniversary. to Us. Can't believe it's been 17 years that PTI has been on the air. Tony and I and the entire staff here owe thanks to so many people at @espn, starting with Mark Shapiro, who for some bizarre reason thought this would work. Cheers!.
Today is our anniversary! Here's a look back at our Preview Special, which aired on this day 17 years ago.
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The only thing dumber than that call is the explanation by the official working the broadcast in the booth. .
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I apologize for doubting the Warriors without Durant! They're champs. Been champs before the great Kevin Durant and maybe after him. Lordy. .
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Bubble or not, one of the great playoff games in NBA history considering what was at stake. perhaps not long on artistry but so much grit and so incredibly contested. a series that demands a Game 7.
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I'm sure Laura Ingraham, if she knew who we were, would tell @MarcJSpearsESPN and me to shut up. Like LeBron, we won't. And like LeBron we find her comments as ignorant as they are insulting. And so thankfully we have @TheUndefeated on which to respond.
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Can I nominate this for the worst coached playoff game ever?.
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I am never ever ever happy to see the Chicago Bears lose a football game. but any result that will get Pace and Nagy out of town ASAP is worth rooting for.
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My 10 favorite Bears of all time #MNF . 10. Devin Hester.9. Peanut Tillman.8. Jim McMahon.7. Mike Singletary.6. Brian Urlacher .5. Richard Dent.4. Mike Ditka.3. Dick Butkus.2. Gale Sayers.1. Walter Payton
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OT in Lambeau because a linebacker dared to wrap his arms around the quarterback and tackle him, which is now a penalty.
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My interview with Michael Jordan that is being revisited and producing a clip or two is nearly 10 years old. It's from the morning of his Hall of Fame induction in September of 2009. MJ on how he feels about this Greatest of All Time business: (he doesn't say he is).
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I’m honored to receive the Curt Gowdy Media Award for Print Journalism from @Hoophall. I had just gotten off the set when I got the call.
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There are some who say you should never meet your idols. I'm forever grateful that I got to meet Gale Sayers
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My 10 year old son was barely alive the last time Tiger Woods was THIS good. so much fun to watch Tiger with him now that he plays a little himself and can appreciate the theater of Tiger in red on a Sunday!.
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Damn proud of Omar Jimenez of CNN and the professionalism he and his crew displayed under absurd and unnecessary pressure in Minnesota this morning. Feels increasingly and frighteningly like the 1960s in the Jim Crow south. Are water hoses, dogs and rope next?.
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Thrilled to tears for my man D. Rose, to score 50, to attack and deliver like it was 2011. drives, 3s, a hook, a deflection at the end. all the way back would be such a great story!.
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Its clearly important that the Redskins go w a QB who knows the system instead of giving Kaepernick a look. because Kap certainly couldn't do any better than 31-0 could he?.
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Quite possible today's NFL officiating is the absolute worst seen on any given Sunday the last several years. Embarrassing.
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The penalty called.on thr Bears' Patterson is today's early Exhibit A as to why the NFL has to investigate the damn officiating. .
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Matthew turned 12 this week and couldn't wait to give me his Top 5 NBA Players of All Time. What do you think of his list?. 1. Michael Jordan.2. Bill Russell.3. Kareem Abdul-Jabbar.4. LeBron James.5. Magic Johnson
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The officiating crew should be suspended rest of season for flagging the reaction and not the hit to Cam's head. Disgraceful. .
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I guess Robbie is one (former) Bear Aaron Rodgers doesn’t own!!! Oh wait, I guess the Niners OWN Rodgers now at 4-0 in the playoffs!.
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For my money the greatest single playoff run the last 40 years, maybe longer by LeBron James.
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The number of calls blown or just plain missed in the final three minutes of this game is absurdly high…should be embarrassing….
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Officiating in the NFL too often is downright incompetent. bad calls, phantom calls, just b.s. game after game sunday after sunday. Garbage. The tripping penalty negating a first-down pass is sheer incompetence. .
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I dont want to hear one word of criticism of Dak Prescott all week. not a word. .
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What a gutless call, to throw Schroeder out of the game when Draymond puts a ball in HIS face! Gutless officiating the NBA needs to get rid of. It ought to embarrass the league.
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Definition of gutless! Draymond barks directly in their faces on EVERY call and there’s NO technical…yet they hit Schroeder with a second tech there? No league should allow officiating with that kind of cowardice.
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Tell me why, again, the Bears just have to keep a coach, who is supposed to be an offensive guru, whose offense is totally incompetent against the Packers and Saints in consecutive weeks? 0-for-8 on 3rd downs in a playoff game!?!?.
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So the NFL doesn't have a monopoly on awful calls and terrible excuse making. 3 steps w a football secured is a football move. .
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Happy 16th Birthday to my precious son Matthew…you can beat me at just about everything now…but your Dad clearly had the better 16-year-old hair!!!
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LeBron basket.LeBron forces Celtics turnover.LeBron fires pass out of double team to KLove for open 3. Nothing at all has changed.
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This is what Nagy cooked up after an off week while preparing for your blood enemy? He ought to be fired now, tomorrow. how many consecutive awful performances on national TV does he get to preside over?.
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With any little bit of help LeBron can beat anybody in today's NBA. For him to get THIS team to the Finals is a basketball miracle. .
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Let me go further…it’s okay to sling Mahomes to the ground but not Brady and not Derek Carr? I’m just asking…but pretty soon it ain’t gonna stop with a question.
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Happy anniversary to @pti. I love to go to work every day. It’s fun, it’s great. We're happy to be on, and that somebody cares to watch us, for 19 years.
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I think we are all, even now, underestimating the enormity of Kobe’s death on an international level. He was truly a global citizen.
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You can have Ben Simmons if you'd like; I'll take Brice Johnson 100 times out of 100 on my NBA team. .
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Congratulations to the 2016 Chicago Cubs. once in a lifetime. or two lifetimes.
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9 points scored with 5 minutes left!?!?.I might as well be watching a Bears game!!!.
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I want a piece of Kornheiser right now. at 11:32 ET I want a piece of his ass. .
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At halftime, and I swear this is true, Anthony Kornheiser called me, pronounced the Eagles would win, said he was taking his dog for a walk and going to bed. Because the Eagles were going to win. For the second straight year he has no idea. None.
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Thanks to everybody sending congrats on PTIs Sports Emmy award tonight. honored and proud of nearly 18 years of doing something we love as much now as we ever have!.
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The only thing sweeter than eliminating the Cardinals from the baseball postseason (2015 Cubs) is winning a game that takes the division title AND at the same time eliminates the Packers from playoff contention. Merry Christmas Cheeseheads!.
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Never thought I would see the day. especially not after this drama. probably the only way a Game 7 btw these 2 franchises could go!.
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An embarrassing moment for MLB in its signature event for all to see. The league could have gotten this right and chose not to. There should be hell to pay. .
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Yannis is a wonderful player and maybe the rightful regular season MVP. but dont dare forget that Kawhi Leonard is a champion, a Finals MVP and the best player in this series until further notice. .
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So apparently defense ain't dead yet in the NFL! A triumphant night for the handful of us who who dont care for 100-point games. .
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Is it safe to say the Patriots aren't going 19-0 this season? Is there enough crow to go around for the idiots who predicted that nonsense?.
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So now we HAVE to wonder whether that changed charge/block call involving Durant and LeBron took Game 1 from the Cavaliers?.
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