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Dunks hurt like hell.
Basketball’s greatest feat is something that fans obssess over, teenagers dream about, veterans dread, and retired players long to do again. This is the agony, the adrenaline, and the maturity that dunks cause:
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there are thousands of Taco Bell hot sauce packets cheering for the Jazz tonight
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that one community episode becomes less fictional every passing year
Caitlin Clark hugs Jake from State Farm after getting draft lol
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Popovich: "We still have no clue what being born white means."
here's the full quote
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imagine being more upset about someone kneeling for a song than about someone kneeling on a man's neck for eight minutes and 46 seconds to murder him
I am so ready to be be in on this year's
#Mavericks
home stretch: so much promise, so much personality. But the minute one player kneels during the anthem, I am OUT. Surely
@mcuban
can lead the way for
#Mavs
,
#NBA
to do whatever gesture they wish without insulting the nation.
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Mark Cuban decided before the season the Mavericks would no longer play the national anthem, and it hasn't been before any of the team's 13 home games.
It's the first instance we know of a pro sports team striking the U.S. anthem from the pre-game.
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JACKSON: this just isn’t right, to me. in my era, when a player died, he stayed dead.
VAN GUNDY: i once died in a chili’s parking lot. came to three days later, but no one’s calling me the messiah.
BREEN: timeout from kerr
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google search results are so broken. can’t even figure out the real score of a goddamn nba game anymore.
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there were literally hundreds of mavs and arena employees lined up to welcome Dirk to tonight’s game
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why is trump attacking our nation’s president
Lebron James was just interviewed by the dumbest man on television, Don Lemon. He made Lebron look smart, which isn’t easy to do. I like Mike!
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someone dm'd me this trade idea and honestly i can't see why not
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“i miss mid-range jumpers we have to bring them back”
the ones you’re talking about never went away. if you miss the old mid-range what you’re saying is you miss brandon bass taking baseline 17-footers
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mac miller made cheesy fun music when i was a dumb high schooler, used rap to share how he was getting older when i was in college, and just last month released a truly beautiful, mature album. it felt like his music matured right along with me.
fuck this hurts
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the suns can still win this game if they spend halftime building a time machine that goes back to 2018 so they can draft luka doncic
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the anthony edwards story going around twitter today? y'all, that's not even this reddit dude's best work
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Luka has his second career triple-double. here's the list of teenagers who have recorded multiple triple-doubles:
- Luka Doncic
-
that's the list
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Doc Rivers just walked to the scorer's table, took a microphone, and stopped the game with 9 seconds left so Staples Center could give Dirk a standing ovation.
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Gerald Green, asked to describe how he’s feeling: “heartbroken.”
a reporter weirdly asks if he could answer in more than one word.
Green: “heart. broken.”
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it's sure interesting to me that any mavericks fan who cares enough to be mad about this sure didn't care enough to notice it wasn't there for 13 games
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joel embiid playing pickup in the bahamas against these random old vacationers is an extremely big mood right now (via camillefishel/IG)
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Dwight Powell says the new Dirk logo on the Mavericks court probably moves at the same speed as Dirk did last year.
Dirk, laughing: “that hurts. you can’t recover from that one. can’t wait until you get cut in two years.”
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Dennis Smith Jr. already has his tooth back in place.
Smith explains: “I knew there would be cameras, and when there’s cameras, it’s going to social media, and when there’s social media, there’s ladies looking, and when there’s ladies looking, I’ve got to be looking nice.”
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rick carlisle just pouring gasoline all over the mavericks and tossing a lit “hire jason kidd” match over his shoulder as he walks off
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only six times in nba history has a player under 21 scored at least 38 points while recording a triple-double
Luka Doncic - 5
LeBron James - 1
that's the whole list
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Boban gets interviewed on the court after the mavs win: "this is amazing. first time on tv. hi mom, hi dad, i'm in dallas."
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Luka Doncic's 12th game: 22 points, 6 rebounds, 8 assists, 9-15 shooting in 31 minutes
but three teams passed on him because ...
[checks notes]
the european vets he kept dominating weren't american teenagers?
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Rick Carlisle on the Mavs: "We're a shit team, but we're an underrated shit team. That's about as accurately as I can put it."
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let's not fuck around: based on everything we know about this virus, it's absolutely possible that covid-19 has been silently spreading around the nba for days now
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a righteous, all-time coaching rant from Rick Carlisle reacting to the TNT broadcast's criticism of Porzingis includes him calling KP's offense "pretty fucking cool to me"
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Tristan Thompson and Larry Nance Jr. stop by the Mavs visiting locker room to thank Dirk for his career and get signed Nowitzki jerseys.
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you're locked in a gym with kevin durant. you can't leave until you stop him defensively one time. you must abide by normal nba rules.
do you die in there?
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dirk got his minivan stuck in the mud so he called deron williams to bail him out
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Bob Voulgaris has been the most influential voice in the Mavs’ front office since being hired: initiating transactions, dictating rotations, and even frustrating Luka. There are internal fears how it could affect Luka's future.
with
@sam_amick
:
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players who got exactly one all-star vote that was definitely them voting for themselves:
- Nerlens Noel
- Gerald Green
- Kentavious Caldwell-Pope
- Mario Hezonja
- Kosta Koufas
- Cam Payne
- Langston Galloway
- Luke Kennard
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i apologize for thinking society had moved past the need for the onion. this is their shining moment
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Dennis Smith changed his mind and decided to participate in the dunk contest because his grandma wanted him to.
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the rockets training staff wanted chris paul to stay in houston but there was no way he was passing up 48 straight minutes of uninterrupted yelling at refs
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what if KD and LeBron were just rapping their verses from that unreleased song at each other
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luka doncic sprinted over to his phone to play shakira’s “hips don’t lie” over the practice facility speakers when he saw the media get let in and is now shimmying
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here’s Dirk impersonating DeAndre’s free throw
an amused DeAndre says: “yo, fuck you Dirk.”
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drake's still mad about kendrick's "control" verse, just beefing with any and all kendricks now
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Boban Marjanovic might be the nicest, hardest-working person alive. he hates flying, loves emojis and thinks he's a point guard. he's the nba's best teammate.
i talked to ~30 people about him. "anything for Bobi," they all told me. here's the story:
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they won’t let us shoot mid-range jumpers anymore… because of woke…
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imagine having a pick in the 2018 nba draft, seeing luka doncic available, and saying 'nah'
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purposefully missing a free throw so well that it boomerangs right back into your hands for the win is the coldest thing i've ever seen
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interesting week
Rick Carlisle -- who led Dallas to the 2011 NBA championship -- informed Mavericks owner Mark Cuban today that he won't be returning as coach next season, Carlisle told ESPN. Carlisle had two years left on his contract. He spent 13 seasons as Mavericks coach.
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just two of the 10 Mavericks who have played in this game were acquired after January 2019: Boban Marjanovic and Josh Richardson. Dallas hasn't meaningfully improved the roster around Luka Doncic in 2.5 years.
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Mavericks are undefeated and win by an average of 26 points when a retired Dirk Nowitzki attends a game.
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i was detained for four hours with 673 other protesters monday night. dpd fired on us without provocation as we knelt with our hands up. they gassed us and lied to say they didn't.
this is what the militarization of police looks like first-hand:
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theo pinson just ran to the locker room yelling "suns in four". and tim hardaway jr remarked, "a lot of reporters said suns in six or seven, too."
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danny ainge: you never have to cash in on your assets if you keep trading your assets for assets
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Draymond actually didn't initiate this one! here's Beal with a good hit right to his face
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i'm reading the nba rule book and enjoying this sentence: "assessment of a technical foul shall be avoided whenever and wherever possible"
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luka doncic says his favorite celebrity he met this weekend was cardi b
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Nerlens Noel on his halftime trip to grab a hot dog from the media room: “I needed some energy for the second half.” he was the only Maverick with a DNP.
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Luka went from having a mediocre game to 41 points in like two minutes
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the Mavericks rotation is really just Luka, Kristaps, and what seems like an infinite number of really good 7th men, and somehow Rick Carlisle makes it work just about every night
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DJ has been grabbing boards from his ball handlers all year and I can't blame Luka for his annoyed look at the bench
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UMBC should win the national championship for their twitter account alone
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the nets have eight dudes who would be the third best player on the mavericks
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george w bush's sitting courtside on the side brooklyn's shooting at this half, which means there's a non-zero chance kyrie irving hits a 3 and yells at him for starting the iraq war
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Vince Carter BUILT A ROOM for rookie Deyonta Davis to come hang out whenever he got tired of his apartment, Fizdale says here.
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i find it so touching and mature that luka wrote the names of all nine victims, all nine lives lost.
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REPORTER: What's your favorite car?
OBAMA: What kind of question is tha-
[biden grabs podium]
BIDEN: CORVETTE
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Dirk just dunked during a 3-on-3 game with Luka Doncic half heartedly trying to block him, and yelled out: “Give me this young burger.”
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move aside, historic offense. the tacko fall mavericks are about to score 300 points per game.
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mark cuban on whether he thought luka would be this good, this soon: "fuck no"
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Kristaps Porzingis is the only player in NBA history with multiple games of 35+ points, 5+ made threes, and 5+ blocks.
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imagine if they were teammates
Dallas Mavericks guard Luka Dončić and New York Knicks guard Jalen Brunson have been named the Kia NBA Western and Eastern Conference Players of the Month, respectively, for games played in March.
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luka doncic’s 33rd career game
- 21 points
- 9 rebounds
- 10 assists
- 1 turnover
- 11/12 on free throws
- go-ahead free throws
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Dwyane Wade on Luka: "quote me right where I say this – it’s LeBron James-like from the standpoint of how he’s able to rope that pass to shooters in corners, getting blitzed. There’s not many guys who can do that and put it right there. He does an amazing job of it."
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this is the most miserable, exhausting stretch of nba basketball i’ve ever experienced
Dallas Mavericks say newly-signed Isaiah Thomas has entered health and safety protocols.
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