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Credentialed media member covering the OKC Thunder| Let's Talk Thunder on YouTube| past gigs: Sellout Crowd and @oklahomansports | OU Journalism 2022 | more ⬇️

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Michael Martin
28 days
🚨 WE HIT 1000 🚨 Thanks everyone for the crazy support on this. If you want to enter to win, just like this post and be following me. I’m going to give everyone a couple days to see this post and get a chance to enter and I’ll pick a winner before this weekend! Good luck!
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29 days
I’m doing a giveaway! Yesterday I got a few Aaron Wiggins saved basketball memes printed as posters and autographed. I wanted to celebrate the Thunder getting back to the playoffs and getting back to the top of the West. I’m doing a drawing when I hit 1000 followers. Tap in!
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Rare air for Shai Gilgeous-Alexander through 50 regular season games this season.
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Was Lu Dort the MVP of this series for the Thunder?
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The average NBA fan is about to learn who Aaron Wiggins is.
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Brandon Ingram’s view anytime he’s on the floor for this entire Thunder vs Pelicans series.
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Fun fact: 71% of the earth’s surface is covered by water. The other 29% is covered by Lu Dort on defense.
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Thunder fans and Rockets fans coming together today to enjoy Russell Westbrook and James Harden kill the Mavs in the first half of game 1.
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Congrats to Cason Wallace for his first appearance on Shaqtin' a Fool last night on Inside the NBA.
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One of my favorite Mark Daigneault quotes I have heard. “The cause of some of that success are seeds planted well before this season and are now blooming. If you get addicted to the bloom you stop planting seeds and at a future point in time you pay the price for that.”
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Thunder starters announced ahead of Game 3 vs the Pelicans. All the starters were only named by number and position. No colleges or names when they were announced.
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4 months
Paolo Banchero’s reaction to Jalen Williams cashing this mid court 3 has me in tears 😭
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Aaron Wiggins is legitimately good and deserves more love from the general NBA love
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29 days
I’m doing a giveaway! Yesterday I got a few Aaron Wiggins saved basketball memes printed as posters and autographed. I wanted to celebrate the Thunder getting back to the playoffs and getting back to the top of the West. I’m doing a drawing when I hit 1000 followers. Tap in!
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“I haven’t proved sh*t. I’ve only played 30 games. Still got a long way to go.” “What do think have you proven so far?” Question by: @espn_macmahon Chet Holmgren on what he has proven so far in the NBA
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Shai on the idea that the Thunder are too young to compete in the playoffs. “It’s not gonna change, we’re probably gonna still be young for another 4-5 years.”
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“Chet is obviously a lob threat now. JWill thinks he’s a lob threat, but he’s not really.” Josh Giddey on the difficulty of lob passes, the timing that goes into it on both sides and not having a lob threat his first couple of seasons for the Thunder.
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“I’m glad I don’t have to play against him.” “How he hasn’t made an All NBA team defense, I don’t know. I don’t have a vote, but he is some of the best defensive I’ve seen in my life.” Shai Gilgeous-Alexander with some extremely glowing praise for his teammate and friend Lu…
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5 months
By far the funniest shirt you are going to see tonight at the Thunder game 😂 Shai and Chet x Stepbrothers
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18 days
Please enjoy this interaction pregame where Mark Daigneualt switched things up and asked @AndrewKSchlecht about his injury before Andrew could ask a question. “Contact sport, gardening.” -Mark Daigneault
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6 months
Rookie Thunder reporter Chet Holmgren made his debut tonight Chet asked Shai Gilgeous-Alexander, “How does it feel to know nobody can guard you?” Shai:”Next question.” Tough first question experience for the rook
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9 months
The Thunder in 2023-2024 after adding Chet Holmgren:
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@JLEdwardsIII James after watching Naz Reid hit a jelly layup in person 🤣
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6 months
So you are telling me that Chet Holmgren survived playing a game against Joel Embiid? Not just that, he thrived with 33 points, 6 rebounds, 2 assists and 3 blocks on 13/21 shooting and 5/11 Not bad for a guy who is “too skinny” to play center in the NBA
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“I mean we could just bark at them. That’s how we play into it apparently.” I asked Mark Daigneault if there is anything the Thunder can do tactically to capitalize on home court advantage. Mark also wanted to make it clear that he is not the one director he players to bark.
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Sam Presti and Steven Adams caught up pregame
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“He started becoming a coach the year I my roll changed as a player and to see his growth from that beginning to now has been amazing. I’ve never really had a like a relationship on a professional level with a coach like I have with him. It just makes it easy to play. I think I…
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11 months
Congrats to Vasilije Micic on a rare feat of instantly becoming the oldest player on the Thunder while also technically an NBA rookie.
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Jabari Smith Jr. getting to play with Josh Giddey for All Star weekend and then getting sent back to Houston to stand in the corner for KPJ and Jalen Green isos is just evil.
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13 days
Mark Daigneault ended his Game 4 press conference by praising the Pelicans for having a great season, how hard they competed, his appreciation for Willie Green as a coach and the tough spot New Orleans was put in after Zion Williamson’s injury in the play-in.
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Isaiah Joe on John Calipari’s move to Arkansas, where he was when he heard the news and what he thinks Coach Cal can bring to Razorback’s basketball.
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“One of the things I think is most misunderstood about coaching is that everybody’s job is different, every team is different, every organization is different. It’s often looked as an apples to apples thing and it’s not an apples to apples job.” -Mark Daigneault Mark was asked…
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GAME 3 🧵 of the Thunder thanking the fans for making it out to NOLA. “The barking is insane. It’s been a really cool interaction with the fanbase ever since I’ve been here. Something you don’t take for granted. We talk about it in the locker room all the time it’s really…
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Shai Gilgeous-Alexander and JDub are the last two players to leave the floor today for the Thunder. Putting in some extra time working on chemistry.
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@DragonflyJonez Getting up at 7 am on a Saturday just to look over to the sideline while Snoop Dogg and Lebron celebrate while you are down 20+ at half
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4 months
After the Thunder’s new franchise record 62 point win tonight, I asked Mark Daigneault if there was any thought to chase the 73 point NBA record for margin of victory that the Grizzlies had over OKC a couple of seasons ago. Mark’s answer: “That’s our record.”
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JDub on why he gives love to the old Thunder teams on social media, the comparison between this years team and the young OKC squads and how excited he is to play in-front a home Thunder playoff crowd.
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“I got chill bumps.” JWill on what it was like going into his first playoff game and the home Thunder environment.
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1 year
“Jalen Williams with an L” was used as a way to distinct between Jalen Williams and Jaylin Williams by the Jazz broadcast
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Mark Daigneault on his reaction to Chris Finch’s injury last night. “It sucks. He’s a really good guy. He’s a hell of a coach obviously, but he’s a really good guy. It’s such a vulnerable position now that he’s hurt. You never want to be a distraction as a coach of the team. He…
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I gave Shai Gilgeous-Alexander's game-winner vs the Nuggets the Father Stretch My Hands treatment. (volume on)
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3 years
@BillSimmons If Giddey was on the Celtics we would have had 3 emergency pods by now
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1 year
JDUB THROWING IT DOWN
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Jaylin Williams with a career-high 8 assists already in the first half.
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3 months
JDub apparently used my Aaron Wiggins meme on his latest IG photo dump post today 😂
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I asked Shai Gilgeous-Alexander about the common notion “that won’t work in the playoffs” and “the playoffs are a different game” almost like a boogie man. Shai explained what his vets in his first two seasons told him before his first time playing in the playoffs.
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6 months
I’m confused. I was told for all of the last two off seasons that guys like Deandre Ayton would just post up Chet and pulverize him into dust down low.
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2 months
“He puts his face on the line.” “He gets his nose in every play.” Shai Gilgeous-Alexander on why he thinks Chet Holmgren gets hit in the face so much. Also told JDub to stop laughing so he could answer the question.
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1 year
Open shot? Fate of the universe on the line or the martians have the death beam pointed at earth? You better hit it? I want ISAIAH JOE
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1 year
Shai Gilgeous-Alexander reacting to being selected as an All Star
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Last man on the floor from the Thunder’s practice today is Ousmane Dieng. Getting some work in and lessons with the shooting master in Chip Engelland.
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BREAKING NEWS: According to my sources 15 year NBA vet Michael Cage is coming out of retirement and seeking a 10 day contract. The 87-88 rebounding champ has been training in his local church league and lifting samsonite luggage recently in preparation to help a contender.
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5 months
JWill’s Christmas plans: No team secret Santa but he said that Aaron Wiggins told him he is going to get him a few gifts including a pet goldfish. Mark Daigneault is going to give each player a book. JWill also said he and JDub are exchanging gifts at a $20 max spending cap.
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2 months
Jalen Williams says he got his signature move of a push dribble going left into a middy from watching Aaron Wiggins’ college highlights.
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Michael Martin
29 days
Did the Thunder reflect today and celebrate getting the 1 seed? Chet Holmgren flashed the divisional championship shirt he had under his jacket and mentioned they took a team photo in the shirts too.
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@TermineRadio Termine going from trashing the Thunder as the “black eye of the NBA” for 2 years to now praising OKC?
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“The energy in the arena feels amazing when it’s game 13 of the season, so I can only imagine what it will be like in the playoffs.” I asked Shai Gilgeous-Alexander about the added excitement of this being his first home Thunder playoff game in-front of fans in his career.
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1 year
The Thunder will play the Heat on January 10th on TNT. NATIONAL TV THUNDER LETS GO
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3 months
I think this fan half court shot pretty much sums up the Hornets first half so far.
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@ryenarussillo The list of GMs to attempt to trade 4 first round picks for Justise Winslow. 1. Ainge
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“He’s at his absolute best when the games get big and the pressure is on he plays with unbelievable physicality and confidence.” Mark Daigneault talked about Lu Dort’s ability to rise to the occasion in elimination games and what makes him special in playoff type atmospheres.
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4 months
Giddey ➡️ Shai ➡️ JDub ➡️ SLAM DUNK 🔨
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“Those weren’t jokes, I was getting drug tested.” I asked JDub post game about how the added muscle to his frame that he put on during the offseason has helped him this year and through the physicality of the playoffs.
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A lot of O-K-C chants pouring in as both teams exit the court. The Thunder win 106-85 and take a commanding 3-0 lead with a chance to sweep the Pelicans on Monday.
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Michael Martin
1 year
I need a “this day in Cage history” fact on every Thunder broadcast It doesn’t even have to be about basketball it could be something like “On this day in 1995 Michael Cage attended the opening night premiere of Toy Story.”
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Michael Martin
21 days
AARON WIGGINS AND 1
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11 months
We all laughed at Rob Pelinka for saying KCP was a gift from the heavens for the Lakers in 2017 6 years later and KCP has won 2 rings That’s more than Lebron, Giannis and Jokic have won each in that timeframe Want a ring? Get KCP. It’s a full proof plan
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What’s Aaron Wiggins best skill? EVERYTHING 16 points on 3 makes from deep and a +18 for the game. Did he save the Thunder tonight?
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HANG THE BANNER
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Only 15 days until we get to see Chet on the floor for OKC in preseason basketball action 👀 Thunder fans reply with a meme or gif with how excited you are to finally see 7 on the court!
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10 months
JDub is playing in this game like when you don’t have enough guys for pick up in middle school gym class and the teacher steps in to play and destroys everyone.
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1 year
Josh Giddey bullying Patrick Beverly in the post gives me life
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16 days
“I used to hate it.” Josh Giddey spoke again about being guarded by the opposing team’s centers/bigs. Josh mentioned his growth and different mindset on how to attack those situations.
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If only we could get an updated pic of him post 2020 for this graphic 😂
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Mark Daigneault on receiving the Coach of the Year award from the NBA coaches association and what it means to be recognized by his peers.
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“Shai could play defense in college? I had him in his rookie year and I didn’t see any of that. I have a beef to pick with Shai now.” Doc Rivers jokingly talked about SGA’s improvement as a defender and then went into some depth praising Shai’s improvement as a defender.
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2 months
Unique Thunder jersey sighting 👀 The Mike Muscala bubble “Peace” jersey. I can’t imagine too many people have this one at their disposal 🔥
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Michael Martin
1 year
What Thunder opinion/take gets you as heated as Mark last night Thunder fans?
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Thunder players tonight as soon as Jonas Valanciunas is switched onto them.
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10 months
Year 1 JDub vs Year 2 JDub
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@Shotbyjojo__ this prolly edited too 😂
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Mark Daigneault’s visceral facial reaction to seeing @joe_mussatto back in the Thunder media room tonight.
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Tonight I asked Shai Gilgeous-Alexander about Josh Giddey’s recent play and what Josh provides to the Thunder when he is playing well. “Josh is an elite passer. When he is aggressive he is a really good basketball player. He went through a little bit of a slump and got better.”
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5 months
Let this be a lesson to all of the NBA NOBODY and I mean NOBODY scores more than 30 unanswered points on the Thunder.
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“He was right. He should have been the gm.” Jason Kidd talked about the Boston globe letter to editor from a 16 year old Sam Presti that recently resurfaced. Kidd praised Presti’s mind for the game and what he has been able to build here in OKC with this team and the teams…
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Michael Martin
28 days
Playoff t-shirts you say? WE ARE SO BACK
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Clemente Almanza
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Thunder PR: The Thunder will begin each home game of the 2024 NBA Playoffs with Thunder UP in the Park. This pregame event is a at Scissortail Park starting with Game 1 It’ll begin 3 hours prior to every playoff home game and concludes 30 minutes before tipoff Full details —
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3 months
Gordon Hayward looks to be moving well. His first time on the floor in OKC Thunder threads on a basketball court since the deadline trade.
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Michael Martin
1 year
Current mood
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Chet Holmgren getting some shots up after Thunder practice this afternoon.
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I asked Chet Holmgren tonight if he had any prior relationship with Joel Embiid and if he ever reached out about their shared experience of missing their rookie seasons with injury. Chet said it’s all respect between the two.
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Cason Wallace is who people wanted Davion Mitchell to be.
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Chet Holmgren shared a story from his college days that helped him prepare to make those big 3 free throws tonight to send the game into OT. I asked Chet about the challenge of having a timeout/challenge period to think about the free throws instead of going straight into them.
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Jalen Williams reflected tonight on his last 2 seasons in the NBA and reaching last year’s win total with over 20+ games still to go. (Question by ⁦⁦ @DParkOK ⁩)
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“There’s no one I would rather have on our team than him.” Mark Daigneault gave his case for Shai Gilgeous-Alexander as this years NBA MVP.
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I asked Shai Gilgeous-Alexander about how cool it has been to see the growth of his teammate and friend Lu Dort over the past few years. Going from an underaged two-way player who was dared to shoot in Game 7 in the bubble to now being an All NBA Defense level player and 40% 3…
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Gordon Hayward says that most of his conversations with his new Thunder teammates have been about defense and coverages. Gordon also mentioned they haven’t gotten to discuss his favorite spots on the floor, where he likes to catch the ball and more of the detailed stuff.
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Chet Holmgren tonight in a road win vs Nikola Jokic and the reigning NBA champion Denver Nuggets: 24 points 6 rebounds 2 blocks 3 assists 9/14 shooting 4/4 shooting from 3
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Shaq takes issue with Chet Holmgren being called ‘phenomenal’ "Y’all can’t just be giving these people things who ain’t put in no work"
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Life update: Last week I accepted a position to join @selloutcrowd_ I'm extremely excited about this opportunity to work with a ton of talented people & provide great content to all of you! Thank you to anyone who listened to a pod, liked a tweet or read an article of mine 💙🧡
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Mark Daigneault on Josh Giddey’s big game tonight.
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JDub on the fan made Jalen, Jaylin and Kenrich Williams jersey he was given. He mentioned how fun it is to play here, the connection the team has with the fans and he really appreciated that the jersey fits him.
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