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This is one of those times when pictures and video fail spectacularly in capturing the experience of something. These volcanic lakes off the coast of Portugal are absolutely remarkable.

@RealCWill24 @nateVsmith @whateverbs99 x.com/whateverbs99/s…

@AtlienGunner @nateVsmith @whateverbs99 That’s fine I’m not saying KG was better than Tim I’m saying I would take him on my team for the style that I would like to play & some say I wouldn’t win as much & I say it depends on the supporting cast if I don’t it won’t be because of KG!🤷🏾‍♂️

Tim Duncan led the San Antonio Spurs to 5 NBA Championships in 3 different decades. In 2002-03 he carried without a doubt his worst supporting cast to a title, that 03 team had zero business getting past the 2nd round. KG wasn’t doing that level of carrying to a title Tim Duncan has 2 MVP’s to KG’s 1 MVP. Duncan was selected to 15x All-Defensive teams during his career, an NBA record and was ROBBED of DPOY in 2007. Duncan & KG are in two different stratosphere on all-time scale. Stop this nonsense, you just think KG is more aesthetically pleasing to watch

While Tim Duncan was doing this, KG was getting bounced out of the 1st round like it was second nature

Shai Gilgeous-Alexander’s last two games: 16/42 FG 🧊 1/13 3PT 🧊 22/28 FT 🔥 One of the worst two-game shooting stretches we have EVER seen down the stretch for an MVP hopeful He’s lucky he keeps getting phantom calls or it would look even worse 👀

@SubThoughtz @sammorril 🏳️‍🌈

@AtlienGunner @sammorril

SGA- no other all time great was this unwatchable.

@KnicksNation He would be an average player without these fouls

even Reggie Miller is laughing. This man has to have some dirt on the NBA

@RealSuperNola @Checkmatee27

@Checkmatee27 Now do Muhammad Ali cuz I’m trying to see something 🤔

The difference between LeBron and MJ always gets me 😭 LeBron when he loses: ‘it’s just basketball’ when he wins: ‘that one made me the GOAT’ MJ went 6/6 in the Finals, no excuses, just dominance… I know who the 🐂 is

@anishmoonka Rian Johnson killed all this.

Pepsi paid $2 billion for the rights to market the Star Wars prequels. They went all-in on this first film. The toys ended up making more money than the tickets. All of it was built on a poster with no actors, no plot, and not even the movie's full name. On November 10, 1998, an ad agency called New Wave Creative, working with two Lucasfilm employees, Ellen Lee and Jim Ward, put this image into theaters. It just said "Star Wars Episode I" at the bottom. No subtitle. A kid walking in the desert casting Darth Vader's shadow. Star Wars hadn't released a new film since Return of the Jedi in 1983. This one image had to sell the comeback. Pepsi's deal covered everything. Pepsi cans, Frito-Lay chips, Pizza Hut, Taco Bell, and KFC. They printed 8 billion cans featuring Star Wars characters. Guinness World Records listed it as the largest brand partnership deal in history. Lucasfilm's own ad budget was just $20 million. When the teaser trailer dropped a few days later, it only played in a handful of U.S. theaters. Fans bought full-price tickets to a 3-hour Brad Pitt movie called Meet Joe Black, watched the 2-minute Star Wars trailer, and walked out before the film started. Some theaters started replaying the trailer after Meet Joe Black ended so people would actually stay in their seats. That trailer got 35 million downloads online, which in 1998 meant waiting an hour on a screeching dial-up modem to watch a pixelated rectangle on your monitor. The Phantom Menace opened May 19, 1999. A workplace consulting firm, Challenger, Gray & Christmas, estimated that 2.2 million Americans skipped work that day, costing employers about $293 million in lost productivity. In one day. The movie made over $1 billion at the box office. The merchandise made roughly $2 billion, nearly double the ticket sales. Lego's Star Wars toy line blew past its own sales forecast. I looked up what happened to the people behind this poster. Ellen Lee went to Pixar. Jim Ward became president of LucasArts (Lucasfilm's video game company), ran for Congress in Arizona, and then became CEO of the Phoenix Symphony. New Wave Creative went on to design the posters for Borat and Shaun of the Dead. And Drew Struzan, who painted the theatrical Star Wars posters (the colorful painted ones you probably picture when you think "Star Wars poster," not this minimalist teaser), died last October at 78 from Alzheimer's. The Star Wars franchise has generated an estimated $46.7 billion in total revenue. Pepsi bet $2 billion on a franchise that announced its comeback with nothing but a boy and a shadow on a wall.

@RealCWill24 @nateVsmith @whateverbs99 Duncan was more of a 4.5, while KG was more of a wiry 3.5. Duncan had more gravity because he operated closer to the basket, while KG played further out and was reluctant to ever have a high usage.

@AtlienGunner @nateVsmith @whateverbs99 I’m not saying Duncan wasn’t a super star of course he was but they still had to build it around him with coaches & players & they did that Duncan didn’t teach Manu & Parker how to play the org did that & had D Rob from the jump!

@RealCWill24 @nateVsmith @whateverbs99 Isn’t it interesting the way organizational excellence seems to be associated with generational talents? No floor slapping, just calm, competitive winning. A 7 foot 260 lb Jeter.

@nateVsmith @AtlienGunner @whateverbs99 No the organization made them winning players & he had 2 versions he also won with a HOF big with him Garnett never had anything close to that in Minn + Tim had Pop.. but Garnett showed what he was about when he did get it on the back end in Boston!

these arguments are always using current era metrics to compare players who played in an era where teams did not evaluate or optimize players based on those metrics always been silly to me

@nateVsmith @RealCWill24 @whateverbs99 Tim Duncan wins a title with Marbury and Sprewell, full stop.

@RealCWill24 @AtlienGunner @whateverbs99 I didn’t even mention Stephon Marbury who was averaging 20 with MIN before he got traded. Duncan didn’t have a 20 ppg teammate until Tony Parker did it in 2008-2009 lol

@b0y1da_ In the finals

It was vs the New Jersey nets

El ex entrenador de los New York Knicks, Jeff Van Gundy, dice que Jordan promediaría 40 puntos por partido en la NBA de hoy: “Yo lo viví. Y los fans, si miran de cerca, verán el poco espacio que tenía Jordan en la cancha. El tiro de tres puntos se usó menos y hubo menos disparos de tres puntos. Si observa cuán estrecho era el espacio en el triángulo y cuánto contacto físico se permitió, la gente se sorprenderá. Todos piensan que saben lo bueno que era Jordan, pero hasta que vuelvas y lo estudies, nunca entenderás lo gran, gran jugador que era. Disparó más del 50% muchas veces a través del contacto físico que tuvo que realizar si eso sucediera en el juego de hoy, estarías absolutamente viviendo en la línea de tiros libres. "Es por eso que no tengo ninguna duda, si lo dejaras en su mejor momento, en el juego de hoy, promediaría más de 40 puntos por juego. O estaría viviendo en la línea de tiros libres o su variedad de tiros sería demasiado fácil de lograr. Si los fanáticos miran las imágenes del juego de cerca, la cantidad de contacto que se permitió entonces versus ahora, te quedarás aún más asombrado por la eficiencia de Jordan desde la perspectiva de la puntuación ".

@RealCWill24 @whateverbs99 Duncan wins a championship in Minnesota and the Spurs win 1-2.

@AtlienGunner @whateverbs99 Well that depends on the supporting cast if KG came up in SA & Tim in Minn what would’ve happened?🤷🏾‍♂️

@MrGivan @whateverbs99

@whateverbs99 Guess the 2 guys who got finals mvp and David Robinson wasn’t there

@RealCWill24 @whateverbs99 Your team won’t win as many championships.

@whateverbs99 I would pick KG for my team because of the versatility of his game & fiery leadership style but Duncan had the better career sure!

@whateverbs99 🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽