Jake Bentley

Checking in on the NBA’s old timers… Durant’s flirting with 10 turnovers in his first playoff game as a Rocket. Steph’s at Coachella. Kawhi’s planting trees. LeBron is averaging 39 MPG & 24-8-10 to go up 2-0 without his team’s 2 leading scorers. 🐐🐐🐐

Most 25/5/5 playoff games: 80 — LeBron after turning 30 75 — LeBron before turning 30 73 — Michael Jordan

@GennySpenny Preach, brother. Always love when I agree with Spenny Genny

@JakeBentley23 I feel like I can’t eloquently explain why exactly in a tweet, but I agree! He’s just a great mix of what seems to be a great father, amazing player, hard worker, non-complacent, consistent, self aware, and thoughtful/well spoken.

I don't think it's a hot take, but definitely polarizing: as the father of sons who I hope will play sports one day, I believe there is no role model in the history of sports greater than LeBron James.

@amazon seriously?

This goes insanely hard.

My wife's name is Jessica so this is already what I do when my kids throw a tantrum

No lies told

@FTFonFS1 @DannyParkins Chargers don't have a single pass catcher that comes close to Tyreek Hill and I'd argue they don't have a pass catcher better than Waddle, and they dont have an athlete like Achane. Pump the brakes

“There’s no way this doesn’t work.” @DannyParkins thinks Jim Harbaugh and Mike McDaniel make the perfect team in LA:

My man 😤🇫🇷

Haven't seen Project Hail Mary yet but I feel confident in saying Start: Arrival Bench: Project Hail Mary Cut: Interstellar

@PaulPabst Coming from someone who has lived what I would consider a significant amount of time in mountain, central, and eastern time zones and watches an inordinate amount of sports, it is unequivocally mountain time and it isn't even close

Debating the best time zone for sports fans. I said Mountain...by far. Lots of blowback on that. Seems obvi.

“How are you able to just sit on your couch 12 hours a day for 4 straight days watching college basketball?” Me:

19 years ago, a high school basketball coach put his team manager into a game for the final four minutes. The kid had never played a single minute of competitive basketball in his life. He scored 20 points. Jason McElwain was diagnosed with severe autism at age two. He didn’t speak until he was five. He couldn’t chew solid food until he was six. He wore a nappy for most of his early childhood. As a baby, he was rigid, wouldn’t make eye contact, and hid in corners away from other children. He tried out for his school basketball team every year and got cut every time. Too small. Too slight. Barely 5’6 and about 54 kilograms. But he loved the game so much that his mum called the school and asked if there was any way he could be involved. The coach created a team manager role for him. For three years, McElwain showed up to every practice and every game. He wore a shirt and tie on match days. He ran drills, handed out water, kept stats, and cheered every basket like he’d scored it himself. On 15 February 2006, the last home game of his final school year, the coach let him suit up in a proper jersey and sit on the bench. With four minutes left and a comfortable lead, the coach sent him in. His first shot missed. His second missed. Then something shifted. He hit a three-pointer. Then another. Then another. His teammates stopped shooting entirely and just kept passing him the ball. He hit six three-pointers and a two-pointer. 20 points in four minutes. The highest scorer in the game. When the final buzzer went, the entire crowd rushed the court and lifted him onto their shoulders. His mum tapped the coach on the shoulder, in tears. “This is the nicest gift you could have ever given my son.” McElwain won the ESPY Award for Best Moment in Sports that year, beating out some of the biggest names in professional sport. He’s 36 now. He works at a local supermarket, coaches basketball, has run 17 marathons including five Boston Marathons, and travels the country speaking about never giving up. When asked about that night, his coach still gets emotional. “For him to come in and seize the moment like he did was certainly more than I ever expected. I was an emotional wreck.”

Heading back from Tokyo now. Just want to say: GOAT stuff notwithstanding, a historical fact: No one has given more to the game than @KingJames. Oldest guy in the league. Most minutes in NBA history. Full send for a loose ball in Game 67 of Year 23.

@sciencegirl So what does it mean if my 1 year old is repeatedly trying to fall down the stairs

Babies stop crawling on a glass floor, revealing early depth perception and fear of heights.

@CJVogel_OTF I stream a lot of games online and so I get their hometown commentary crews. OKC is consistently one of the worst.

This is hilarious. OKC announcer: “Are you kidding me… He didn’t even get hit in the face! Take a look at this folks, I gotta show it to ya.” **replay shows Dort elbowing Jokic in the face** — silence —

@MorbidKnowledge King James IV of Scotland? Brother is this not Johnny Depp?

King James IV of Scotland, in the 15th century, conducted a bizarre experiment by isolating a mute woman and two infants on a deserted island to try to discover what the ‘natural human language’ might be.

@JoshReynolds24 If I was number 12 nobody would ever be able to tell me anything. Absolute menace

Never, I repeat, NEVER in my life have I seen something quite like this… What an absolutely insane ending in this Iowa state girls basketball tournament… What in the world did we just see lol

Protect this man at all costs. His LeBron over MJ GOAT case is 🔥🐐👑