Tyrese Maxey could feel the nightmares if the 76ers' season ended this way — with him missing free throws and turning the ball over. So he did the only thing you can do to end a nightmare: He woke up.
At
@YahooSports
: On Maxey, savior, forcing a Game 6:
It's been hours and I still can't shake it: a seagull straight up stole my burger today at the aquarium. Just swooped in as I was walking to the table, dipped over my shoulder, snatched my shit off the tray, and absconded to the skies. Never felt more powerless. My kids saw, man.
Matt Barnes: “I think James [Harden] has to be careful because the NBA doesn’t need him.”
Kevin Garnett: “When you wiggle your way out, you only got one or two wiggles. You ain’t got infinite wiggles.” 👀
(via
@shobasketball
)
Markelle Fultz coming back from all that to be a functional NBA player with the occasional helping of legitimate sauce remains one of the cooler stories in the league in recent years
Giannis is now averaging 31-14.5-4 on 63.6% shooting through two Finals games, and his team is +4 in his 75 minutes and -27 in the 21 minutes he's sat, and his knee folded the wrong way nine days ago
Saw a dad in an nWo T-shirt at summer camp dropoff last week, put up the too sweet as I passed by, and didn't get one in return. We used to build shit in this country.
Man ... the huddle video of Doc saying "Fight for this! Come on, guys! Fight for this!" followed by Hubie just saying, "Yeah, unfortunately, you're not getting the reaction."
I have no idea how I never watched "Detroiters" until this year, but I'm not sure anything I encountered in 2023 made me laugh harder than Roman Candle Baseball.
Our
@JVittalTV
on Thursday questioned Kentucky Senator Rand Paul about his objection to an attempt to quickly pass a bill ensuring the 9/11 Victim Compensation Fund never runs out of money. Here is video of their exchange.
I have a real soft spot for Michael Beasley just drifting away as he absentmindedly rubs Anthony Tolliver's knee, not realizing that it is not his own knee.
Dwight Howard said on “The Jump” yesterday, “Half of the reason I wear No. 12 is because I wanted to be the reverse of Tim Duncan,” and I’ve been staring ahead, just quietly blinking and pondering, ever since
Can't wait until Nikola Jokic fires back in this epic war of words, right after someone reminds him that the Lakers were the guys in yellow he played a few games in a row that time
Safe to say LeBron and AD are motivated to face the Nuggets after all their trash talk 😈
“It was just a lot of talking. We get it, y’all won, but me and Bron had some conversations... we can’t wait [to play them].”
This morning, while driving our daughter to the doctor, my wife asked me what I was thinking about, and I answered, completely honestly, "That in Spanish, John Goodman would be Juan Bienhombre," and she just took a deep breath and patted my hand
"Weezer covers 'Everybody Wants to Rule the World' and 'Take on Me'" is some extremely "mislabeled songs you found on Kazaa and Soulseek in a dorm room in 2000" shit
Michael Porter Jr.'s favorite memory from the bubble? "Definitely the piña coladas at the pool. We would go to the pool every single day — me, Bol Bol, Torrey Craig. We would just go to the pool and drink piña coladas all day."
"can we get League Pass working better and without local market blackouts"
"... I think I heard 'can we make the Hawks game look more like Batman,' and the answer is yes!"
Maybe Harden's like the Postal Service. Sure, he travels, and nobody really loves him, but when you take a step back and look at just how much shit he accomplishes all the goddamn time, it's staggering.
Eli Manning won two Super Bowls, made a quarter of a billion dollars, looked real funny for most of it, didn't hunt anyone for sport*, and was pretty good in that "SNL" sketch where he was on the witness stand. One of the best Giants careers of my lifetime.
* that I'm aware of
Kurt Rambis rolled up a 32-132 record in Minnesota, went 9-19 as an interim coach in New York, floated the "maybe Kristaps is a small forward?" test balloon, liked a porn tweet, deleted his account mid-denial that he liked the porn tweet ... and *has grown more powerful.*
Klay Thompson missing a year of his prime because of bad luck suffered while giving everything he had in Game 6, getting *this close* to a full-strength return for another run, and then being sidelined for *another year* is just mindblowingly gutting. Unconscionably brutal.
My solemn promise to everyone who follows me: I will *never* forget John Collins trying to dunk over a large model plane in a leather cap, goggles, and scarf, and destroying the plane in the process. I will forget family members' names before I forget this.
As Pascal Siakam steps to the free-throw line to go for his 40th point, the god Jack Armstrong on the Raptors broadcast says, "I used to enjoy a 40 once in a while, back in the day. In a brown paper bag. Remember those?"
Matt Devlin did not confirm if he remembered those.
@IanKarmel
"I set my plan in motion 10 years ago, when I began appearing in Minnesota youth basketball tournaments wearing a variety of prostheses under the pseudonym 'Chet Holmgren.'"
My 7-year-old just came out of her bedroom, saw me on the couch, and said, "So, Daddy, how is your 'work' going?" She even made air quotes with her fingers. Tough start to the new season over here.
Caris LeVert has built himself into a legitimate top option this season -- a leader, a two-way game-changer, a player who was making the league stand up and take notice. Suffering a significant injury right as it was all coming together for him is downright cruel.
Trading Gary Harris for Aaron Gordon to guard big wings, then watching your whole guard rotation get hurt and drawing Dame/CJ/Norm in Round 1, is some real "made a wish on an accursed monkey's paw" type of shit.
If you're just checking in on the NBA season: Yes, the Bucks *are* this good. Best record in the league, No. 3 offense, No. 2 defense, best point differential, likely MVP of the league, another All-Star, maybe three All-Defensive Teamers. They've been there, in public, all along.
Nine years after my first freelance post, and 6.5 years after going full-time, today's my last day at
@YahooSportsNBA
.
I'm excited to announce that on Oct. 10, I join
@ringer
as a staff writer on the NBA.
That's the news. There's a lot more, though:
All right, here goes:
Some personal news!
Today's my last day at
@ringer
.
I'll be somewhere else soon; we'll talk about that then. For today, I just wanted to say thank you—specifically to the people who don't get thanked all that much. I did that here:
Just saw on ESPN that Zion woke up at 5AM for shooting drills when he was 9 years old. That’s probably it. That’s probably what made the difference between me and him.
Kelly Oubre said he's spent his first week learning the Warriors system: "It fits me. Fast-paced basketball. Lucid basketball. We can all play positionless."
I'll be interested to listen, because my first-blush answer is "he went from silent small school prospect to global celebrity on the back of *rebounding and defense* while unapologetically toying with gender roles, bedding celebrities, and clearly battling demons along the way."
Anthony Edwards says it's on the players, not the coach, for the Timberwolves to start playing defense:
"Coach can't come on the floor. He can't do shit but tell us what to do... Shit, he just saying words. We gotta go out there and do the shit. Defense is effort."
I think Jimmy Butler’s wearing a T-shirt from a 22-year-old wrestling pay per view where pre-“Stone Cold” Steve Austin battled Savio Vega in a Caribbean Strap Match?
So, the "we'll talk about that then" part? I can talk about it now.
Four years ago today, I left
@YahooSports
. Today, I'm going back—this time, as a senior NBA writer.
All right, here goes:
Some personal news!
Today's my last day at
@ringer
.
I'll be somewhere else soon; we'll talk about that then. For today, I just wanted to say thank you—specifically to the people who don't get thanked all that much. I did that here:
I'd really hoped we'd make it through the rest of the season without another one of these stomach-churning injuries. Jusuf Nurkic was playing the best basketball of his career, a critical component of a team fighting for home-court in Round 1, and now this. Devastating and awful.
I have never lobbied to be on a podcast before. I have never asked the bosses to fly me to L.A. before. I mostly just write a bunch of blog posts, and do so gladly.
Please make a Hot Rod Rewatchables and put me on it,
@ringer
.
I’ve had a great Saturday watching the NBA playoff games! The Nets shocked the Sixers and the Magic did the same to the Raptors. Golden State played like champs today.
Just talked to my wife briefly about how walking a pitbull half-drunk listening to Cam'ron made me feel like a minor god. Her main takeaway was that I was probably more than half-drunk.
Please join me in insisting that
@KevinOConnorNBA
make an episode of his hit video series The Void about pulling up from 40 with Halle Berry using only Aaron Gordon's Second Spectrum tracking data.
DAUGHTER: "I learned this cool thing at school today, it's like this cool way to make an S"
ME: "oh, you mean The Cool S, with the six lines and then you connect them?"
DAUGHTER: "... how could you POSSIBLY know that"
Eustace Marvello, the stage magician who attempted to tamper with Fulton County voting machines at the behest of Rudy Giuliani, has surrendered to the authorities.