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Part-time golfer, full-time sportswriter, lifetime dad. Find me at . Still searching for the perfect story to tell. Author of Souled Out.

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Shaun Powell
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I always ask locker room attendants in every NBA city to reveal who the best players are with their tips and their time. And three names are always mentioned: Steph Curry, Draymond Green ... and Russell Westbrook.
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Shaun Powell
3 years
You wanna make Suns' fans really, really angry? Tell them: No Anthony Davis, no Jamal Murray, no Kawhi.
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Shaun Powell
2 years
Steph Curry this year has the Kobe Award, the Magic Award, and now shooting for the Russell Award. That would be a decent 2022 collection.
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Shaun Powell
5 years
This is why you never ever question an athlete's injury, as many did Kawhi Leonard and now Kevin Durant. You think KD wanted to sit out the Finals? Props for him for trying. Took guts.
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Shaun Powell
1 year
No thanks to the media?
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Kevin Durant
1 year
Thanks to all the @nba fans who voted me in as a starter, thanks to my peers around the league as well….13 of them thangs, shit doesn’t get old.
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Shaun Powell
5 years
This is good on so many levels.
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Kings on NBCS
5 years
. @GrantNapearshow and @TheDougChristie 's full reaction to the game-winner 😂
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Shaun Powell
3 years
If the Clippers are tired after playing every other night for almost a month, it's because they fell 0-2 twice in the first two rounds and didn't take care of their biz.
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Shaun Powell
5 years
If you think the Warriors retiring Durant's number after three years is too generous, wait until the Raptors retire Kawhi's number after one year.
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Shaun Powell
3 years
We can choose what we have to remember 20 years ago, or what we want to remember. Thanks to Michael Jordan and everyone who made it easier for my family.
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Shaun Powell
2 years
Serious question: Would you rather your team win the title or the draft lottery this season?
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Kevin O'Connor
2 years
Victor Wembanyama keeps doing absurd stuff on the court
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Shaun Powell
8 years
Makes you appreciate what the 1971-72 Lakers did even more.
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Shaun Powell
5 years
You wanna knock Jamal Crawford's defense at age 39, fine. But if Melo had scored 51 in the final game last season and was still at home, NBA twitter would burn.
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Shaun Powell
5 years
Conley, on reports that he only wanted the East: "I don't know where that came from."
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Shaun Powell
3 years
This is a block that even @RexChapman will acknowledge. RIP, Mark Eaton.
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Shaun Powell
6 years
Serena was beat fair and square by Osaka. Everything else was secondary.
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Shaun Powell
10 years
It's funny because some of these ex-athletes-turned-pundits treated women horribly when they played. Horribly.
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Shaun Powell
5 years
While they wait on Kawhi, Lakers and Clippers watching other free agents get snapped up, and the landscape is getting dry.
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Shaun Powell
11 years
Stephen Curry must lead the league in straight swishes. Ball don't hit iron.
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Shaun Powell
7 years
Last year in summer league, Malcolm Brogdon shot 34 percent, averaged 10 points, didn't stand out and won Rookie of the Year.
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Shaun Powell
7 years
Kevin Durant before Spurs game. Looks anxious but next checkup is a week away.
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Shaun Powell
1 year
Kevin Durant chose Kyrie Irving over Steph Curry. LOL
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Shaun Powell
3 years
Lakers out here trying to win the NBAARP title.
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Shaun Powell
8 years
For years Tim Duncan took less money so the Spurs could keep winning. You'll never see another like him again.
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Shaun Powell
8 years
Everyone taking LeBron to task for stepping over Draymond probably worshipped AI for doing same to Lue.
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Shaun Powell
8 years
Jeff Van Gundy once said about coaching security: "If they don't get you on your record, they'll get you on relationships."
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Shaun Powell
7 years
For the 145th straight year, all is expected to be quiet on trade deadline day in San Antonio, home of the model franchise.
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Shaun Powell
8 years
I've heard many NBA players cite Kobe as the best of their generation. That's OK, Tim Duncan. We know the truth.
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Shaun Powell
2 years
A Warriors sweep would come at a steep cost: It would mean the end of @NBAonTNT
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Shaun Powell
8 years
Texas Longhorns more popular in Oklahoma than Draymond.
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Shaun Powell
5 years
Cannot stress this enough: Sean Marks has done amazing work in Brooklyn. My only issue is how he spells his first name.
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Shaun Powell
9 years
Warriors fans cheered Dave Chappelle but he's from Ohio and here for the Cavs.
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Shaun Powell
3 years
This is quite the clap back.
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Milwaukee Bucks
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Knuck If You Buck.
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Shaun Powell
7 years
If nothing else, the OKC locker room suddenly becomes a better place for the media with PG13 and Melo around.
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Shaun Powell
9 years
I laugh when people say Cavs-Warriors is a great series. It's not even better than Spurs-Clippers in 1st round.
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Shaun Powell
3 years
Remember, all decisions regarding length of the NBA schedule and when it began and ended were made in collaboration between the league and the union, just fyi.
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Shaun Powell
10 years
Athletes who were rightfully quick to condemn Donald Sterling are silent on Ray Rice.
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Shaun Powell
10 years
The $ given to Jodie Meeks and Avery Bradley doesn't bode well for the Heat trying to get help on the cheap.
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Shaun Powell
11 years
Nobody gets to the rim better than Tony Parker. One of the all-time best.
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Shaun Powell
6 years
If someone gives a concussion from helmet to helmet contact, he should sit out the game as long as the concussed player. Seems fair.
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Shaun Powell
10 years
Any athlete who defends Ray Rice is a coward, too. That includes his teammates and buddies.
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Shaun Powell
10 years
Pacers are targeting Xavier Henry in free agency to replace Evan Turner.
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Shaun Powell
8 years
ABC should have Mark Jackson sitting next to David Blatt instead of Van Gundy. Would make for lively chatter..
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Shaun Powell
6 years
Boise State over Oklahoma in the Fiesta Bowl still the best college football game I've ever seen.
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Shaun Powell
6 years
Keep this in mind regarding NBA free agency: Those who know don't tell, and those who tell don't know.
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Shaun Powell
9 years
I don't know Britt McHenry, but I saw the video and the "apology." She's sorry she got busted.
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Shaun Powell
10 years
Attention, pro athletes who spoke out (deservingly) against Donald Sterling: What say you about Ray Rice?
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Shaun Powell
8 years
Called it.
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8 years
Just as cold as GS is, at some point they will be just as hot.
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Shaun Powell
11 years
Kobe said this is worst ankle sprain since 2000 and will be out indefinitely.
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Shaun Powell
4 years
Even more serious question: Why do college and NFL players require someone to squirt the water bottle for them?
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Rich Eisen
4 years
Serious question: why do college coaches require a state trooper escort to the midfield handshake?
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Shaun Powell
8 years
Kevin Durant thinks all media say and act alike. When someone says that about a group of people, it's called stereotyping.
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Shaun Powell
10 years
Mario Chalmers: DNP-LeBron's decision.
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Shaun Powell
2 years
Not sure if the Mavericks are the proper measuring stick, but yeah, the Warriors look like the best team still standing.
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Shaun Powell
5 years
I love how athletes think "the media" is one big group-think. By the way, when's the next mass meeting?
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Shaun Powell
7 years
This wise guy on my train in San Francisco after Durant won.
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Shaun Powell
11 years
Tim Duncan, still smooth off the glass.
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Shaun Powell
7 years
Did Blake Griffin, pending free agent, just play his final game as a Clipper?
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Shaun Powell
9 years
If Bulls or Cavs had Hawks record, folks would be making them a lock for NBA Finals.
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Shaun Powell
8 years
Kawhi Leonard is proof that you can grow by leaps and bounds and yet stay the same height.
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Shaun Powell
9 years
Cavs should be more worried about JR Smith's shooting than Delly's. Smith is supposed to be a scorer, not Delly.
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Shaun Powell
4 years
I'm not saying the Nets must be transparent when making a coaching change, but there's more to the firing of Kenny Atkinson than they're willing to tell.
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James Herbert
4 years
Sean Marks: “This was a time where the team needs another voice.”
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Shaun Powell
10 years
Ray Rice and any man who hits a woman is a coward. Any man.
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Shaun Powell
6 years
People please: Nobody's giving up assets for a one year Kawhi rental. He will decide where he goes. Basically a no trade clause.
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Shaun Powell
5 years
This all started when Jerry West arrived and said Blake Griffin had to go.
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Shaun Powell
5 years
Big question for Warriors medical staff: How did they clear Durant to play?
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Shaun Powell
3 years
January was a tragic month for Kobe Bryant and also Pete Maravich, who despite his greatness was a victim of poor timing in life and especially death.
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Shaun Powell
9 years
I had no issue with the Rams' hands-up protest. I wish players would also protest when one of their own smacks a woman.
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Shaun Powell
6 years
Air Canada Centre so quiet you can hear a No. 1 seed drop.
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Shaun Powell
9 years
Everyone blaming cameraman for sitting where he's supposed to sit.
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Shaun Powell
6 years
In 1981 Moses Malone carried Old Rudy T, Old Calvin Murphy, Billy Paultz, Robert Reid, Tom Henderson. Beat Magic and Kareem 1st round. Took two from Bird in the Finals. But this was before social media so who cares.
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Shaun Powell
2 years
@Dwightdagreat That's why the stadium should've never been built there. Better solution was keep the original Hayward, put "Nike Stadium" in an easier to reach place to grow the sport.
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Shaun Powell
10 years
Hearing the Cavs are trying to get Kevin Love without giving up Kyrie or No. 1 pick.
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Shaun Powell
3 years
The NBA playoffs have a way of revealing who you really are -- as a coach, as a player, as a star.
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Shaun Powell
7 years
He mispronounced Anthony Davis.
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Sam Amick
7 years
LeBron James, in the wake of Draymond Green saying the same recently, calls DeMarcus Cousins "the best big man in our game."
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Shaun Powell
4 years
Also, Jaren Jackson Sr was on that 1997-98 team that started the streak, and 20 years later Jaren Jackson Jr is on a team that helped end the streak.
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Jordan Howenstine
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164 players suited up for the Spurs since the 1997-98 season and contributed to San Antonio's Playoff streak. From Tim Duncan, who played 56,736 minutes, to Alex Scales, who played 9 seconds.
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Shaun Powell
10 years
Tim Duncan negotiated 4 contracts and never demanded to be league's highest paid player.
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Shaun Powell
5 years
Getting blocked twice in the final minute and swept by the Knicks basically sums up LeBron's first year with the Lakers.
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Shaun Powell
10 years
Doc Rivers and Chris Paul are smart men, so I don't buy their ignorance on Donald Sterling's past.
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Shaun Powell
9 years
Kobe is wondering why D'Angelo Russell hasn't passed him the ball yet.
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Shaun Powell
7 years
The Warriors are sitting and eating popcorn while watching this movie about Cleveland.
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Shaun Powell
10 years
LeBron James can sell a return to Cleveland as going home and folks will understand. Can't sell LA, Chicago, NY.
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Shaun Powell
8 years
Nontroversy: Create an issue that "people" are talking about, add fake outrage, rinse and repeat. Fill air time, get clicks.
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Shaun Powell
4 years
David Stern also prioritized diversity away from the court. People of color and women found work in all facets of basketball. NBA was light years ahead of other pro leagues.
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Shaun Powell
7 years
Give DeShaun Watson the Heisman he should've won now.
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Shaun Powell
1 year
Too many folks confuse NBA All-Star with All-NBA. One is mainly about popularity. The other is mainly about legitimacy.
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Shaun Powell
8 years
Super Bowl week is when the media, showing a lack of creativity, beats a nontroversy to death. This year: Cam's dance.
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Shaun Powell
4 years
This is probably not the right time to mention Ty Lue turned down the Lakers job over money.
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Shaun Powell
10 years
Pretty much all advertising is gone from the Clippers. They'll look like the Masters during Martha Burke.
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Shaun Powell
9 years
Fave Anthony Mason memory: He and Xavier McDaniel fight at Knicks practice. Players try to break it up. Pat Riley: "Leave em alone." RIP
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Shaun Powell
3 years
If Kevin Durant wore size 17 shoe instead of 18, this outcome is different.
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Shaun Powell
7 years
For an undefeated team, UCONN playing some dumb basketball.
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Shaun Powell
6 years
The NFL and NBA drafts always get the instant verdict. Like folks have a crystal ball. Reality is this: We have no idea how these players will pan out and neither do the teams that took them. But go ahead and draw your conclusions anyway.
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Shaun Powell
4 years
He left me his guitar. I can't play as well as my brother did, but I'll give it a try, especially on this day, in his memory. #neverforget
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Shaun Powell
10 years
Roy Hibbert has a triple-single going: no points, no rebounds, no hope.
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Shaun Powell
10 years
The same players bashing Donald Sterling for racism have no problem hawking sneakers made in sweatshops.
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Shaun Powell
11 years
Those two shots rank in the top-five in JR Smith's career.
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Shaun Powell
5 years
OK, I laughed. Loud.
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Doc Rivers on his way to practice
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Shaun Powell
8 years
I think the unanimous MVP showed up. Unanimously.
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Shaun Powell
2 years
Regarding Al Horford: Never underestimate the heart of a wanna-be first-time champion.
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Shaun Powell
10 years
@ReggieBush @mauricegreene Easy on the role model title.
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Shaun Powell
8 years
Terry Stotts can coach my team anytime.
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