@Carsobi @dripseasonthree Well he was never hurt, played forever, was an efficient scorer, and was always a 1/2 option on his team. Wins be damned. You’re acting like he’s Rudy Gay.
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@dripseasonthree I was pretty obviously joking - it’s not actually “disturbing” at all, it’s just super weird because he has never been a very impactful player but he’s gonna go down as a Top 10 career scorer ever
Believe it or not, my goal was not to hurt DeMar’s feelings when I tweeted that
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I think it's weird that your teams have been better with you off the court for your entire career and you are probably going to end up with more career points than Shaq
That's what it means
DeMar DeRozan@DeMar_DeRozan
@Carsobi Disturbing!? Fuck that mean? Who the hell is you to have an opinion on somebody career. Clown!
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@HPbasketball Because they are like the Duncan Spurs. Methodical, inevitable, not flashy. They clamp you down and paper cut you 1,000 times till you’re dead. You have a few bad turnovers or misses and they are up 15 and zap your soul each possession making you work just to keep up from there.
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I'm really interested by the idea that the Thunder are, objectively, an All-Time team. Wins. Point Differential. Defense. Defense with Offensive Capability. Led by MVP. Depth. Coaching. Culture. Execution.
But they do not feel like the all-time great teams *to me* and I do not know why. (Thunder fans, I get they fell like that to you and that people SHOULD view them that way. Read the first part again.)
If you're not a Thunder fan, does OKC feel like an all-time great team on par with Warriors 2016, 2017, or say, Heat 2012 (who were objectively much worse than OKC), OKC 2014, 01 Lakers, etc? If not, why not?
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@awfulannouncing @bykevinclark Yes those sweet sweet ratings and the money for the top 1-10% athletes meanwhile the 90% who SHOULD be getting educated for the rest of their lives are at their 3rd school in 3 years, don’t play, and don’t have a long term plan. This won’t ever be a problem!
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Kevin Clark believes college football doesn’t need fixing awfulannouncing.com/podcasts/kevin…
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@EB21122 @kmahabir1982 @righttimebomani Number of players with Giannis stat profile, shooting, and physical game who continued to produce and aged well in their 30s:
That’s the list! 🤣
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We NEED to see Giannis on the Spurs 👀
“Imagine if they do the San Antonio Twin Towers, David Robinson and Tim Duncan 2.0 with Giannis and Wemby.”
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Over the last two years (playoffs included), OKC has a 99.2 DRTG in 819 mins with Alex Caruso & Chet Holmgren on the court
That DRTG is 15.8 pts better than league average
OKC's defensive lineups with both Caruso + Chet are probably the very best in NBA history
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@shiestynba @SteveThunderfan Yes two weeks from the end of the season I think most teams imagine their currently healthy team staying healthy.
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@JamJamGuy_ @SteveThunderfan Luck? You expected the lakers to stay healthy come playoffs when they play bron luka reaves 40 mins a game and they haven’t gave them rest in recent weeks so they could push for a Luka mvp… maybe manage ur players and don’t complain about injuries when ur relying on bron & luka
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@Obitoasty @Maroon_22E @LukaDoncicStanD You don’t even need just FG%. Rookie guards with a eFG% of 55 (Dylans’s eFG) or higher who scored more than 10 a game:
Tyrese Haliburton
Dylan Harper
And he doesn’t even make 3s…
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@Maroon_22E @LukaDoncicStanD Part of basketball is scoring efficiently at the rim and inside the arc. Dylan Harper is doing so with efficiency only seen 6 other times for a 1st year player at his position. It's a historically efficient season in said context. Do not move anymore goalposts lol
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Have we ever seen a more efficient rookie?? Dude plays like hes a veteran
Hoop Central@TheHoopCentral
Dylan Harper tonight: 17 Points 4 Assists 3 Rebounds 7/11 FGM 3/3 3PM 28 Minutes Efficiency. 🔥
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@BretWeinstein @Sargon_of_Akkad He assassinated an Iranian leader his first term as well and performed more drone strikes than Obama…yall are just idiots
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@Sargon_of_Akkad Yes. It's a profound betrayal. Avoiding being dragged into a war with Iran was top of mind for many of us.
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Trump, who I advocated for in 2024, has gone full "mad king." In considering my responsibility, I'd ask you to remember:
The case I made rested on the fact that Biden/Harris were figureheads, shielding a cabal that couldn't be held to account, whereas Trump could.
And we must.
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@Rallmoneyyyyyy @NBA__Courtside No he isn’t right lmfao, Tim Duncan played less than 65 games TWICE in his entire career. He was 38 and played 77 games!
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@NBA__Courtside lol I mean he right. But also it’s common sense pop did it with the older Tim manu and Tony Parker
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Kendrick Perkins says Gregg Popovich is at fault for the 65 game rule:
“I love Gregg Popovich. He is one of the greatest coaches to ever coach the game of basketball, but he’s at fault here. He started the whole load management. That’s how we got to this point. Then everybody else followed. I don’t care if this rule affects the awards. This rule was put in for the fans”
(Via @FirstTake)
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@jmac21090 @danclayt0n Yea but the Jazz would do it, get their guy, and start winning. I don’t think we’d care as much if it wasn’t the same teams always doing it. Cycling would help. I think it’d work especially if you limit 10 day contracts so Joe Blow isn’t playing every single game for the Wiz.
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@JamJamGuy_ @danclayt0n Nah that would make the tanking game absolutely hideous. Teams would be going 3-79 to guarantee a number 1 pick
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Very thoughtful article.
Also, imagine seeing this graph & concluding that the smart thing is to make it /harder/ for the teams below that line to get talent. The NBA is proposing reforms that will only widen that gulf.
(It will be a fun little metaphor for the global economy)
Tom Haberstroh@tomhaberstroh
🌞🌚 NEW @YahooSports: A new phenomenon has taken over the NBA: the league has split off into two leagues like never before — one trying to win and one trying to lose. On NBA Stratification, tanking and whether the A-League/B-League is here to stay: sports.yahoo.com/nba/article/th…
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@Reasonable68 @ch1nh0ng @BrettSiegelNBA If/When the Spurs lose it won’t be because Wemby didn’t meet the moment. Just like the Thunder didn’t lose to the Mavs because SGA didn’t meet the moment. That’s all.
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@JamJamGuy_ @ch1nh0ng @BrettSiegelNBA He played 29 minutes. And his team lost by 11. Didn't take one of the greatest moments of Curry's career, the US was always going to win that game. Just like they will win in 2028, and again in 2032
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@BrettSiegelNBA @Reasonable68 Come on man lol he had no pressure because he was the heavy underdog. And ffs he played in an arena where EVERYBODY was rooting for him. And most importantly he lost lmao it’s not like he overcame the “pressure” and won.
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@danclayt0n @jmac21090 There should actually be no lottery at all. The Jazz/Wizards would have already cycled out of tanking with just a reverse order draft. Instead they continue to get jumped and can’t land top talent and have to tank again.
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@jmac21090 Sure, but this is a zero-sum league. There are 1,280 wins to go around, so as long as there are 50-60 win teams there will by definition be 15-25 win teams. Any changes that make it impossible for bad teams to improve will hurt the health of the league in the long run.
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@GenevaInvestor @cryptopunk7213 Ummmm yes. You know how much money Apple has raked in from Google to be the default search on your phone? They sit back and cash checks on the most used consumer tech item of all time.
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@cryptopunk7213 I don't understand these takes. As a shareholder, do you really prefer a Tech company to do absolutely nothing? No innovation, just buybacks and paying a dividend? Just sitting out the next big thing in favor of quarterly returns?
Then you may be better off with tobacco stocks.
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Apple really nailed AI by doing fucking nothing lol.
$135 billion in the bank. stole google’s model for a measly $ 1B, now forcing competitors to plug their models into siri if they want access to 2.5B apple users
patience (or laziness) paid off massively
Ejaaz@cryptopunk7213
i find it fucking hilarious how Apple "failing" at AI is now the exact reason they're about to win it: - watched everyone else burn $1.4T+ building models... then picked the winner (gemini) to use for... $1B - while everyone fights to grow users, apple flips a switch and 2.5 billion devices get AI siri tmrw. - $150B to splurge on the device / app layer. zero competition (because everyones spent their cash). - while openAI charges $200/mo subscriptions, Apple lets you run models on-device (cheaper, faster, private, personal) - while openAI struggles to build an AI device, Apple just dropped 5 powered by the best AI chips for hand-held devices. they "lost" the model race because they didn't need to win it in the first place greatest to (accidentally) ever do it.
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@WorldWideWob Rob I’m sorry you had Chet as DPOY for 40% of the season but it’s ok for someone to tweet a 5 second clip on bot dominated twitter about a Wemby “nevermind”. I promise your Chet pandering did more institutional harm to the brand of basketball than this clip.
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What’s sad is this was probably tweeted by some young kid who is just trying to do their job, but those last six words are the problem.
When entry level social media coordinators are instructed to highlight certain players, they have some level of discretion on the context and captions.
The default mindset is always to compliment, so the author is not responsible for the brand criticizing its own assets/gets in trouble with their boss.
But excessive caution leads to obvious pandering, which can turn an audience against the subject as quickly as slander.
The potential of something like this tweet below happening — a play that happens hundreds of times per game — and is not even close to qualifying as one of Wemby’s “nevermind”s. Now you are insulting your customers’ intelligence.
The NBA has an obligation to document its current events and package them into an easily-consumable product. It is the entertainment business after-all.
However, the continuous examples of something like this happening from their main channels suggests a reassessment of their internal storytelling methods may be necessary. This type of content does more damage to their brand than I think they realize.
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A classic "NEVERMIND" forced by Wemby! Defensive impact is just nuts.
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the sheer animosity and vitriol towards well thought out and reasonable stat based arguments is honestly very strange and disappointing
David Lee@dlee4three
In my heart I’m not much of a Tim Duncan “hater” but I couldn’t pass up an opportunity to spread the gospel Here’s a snippet of my argument for Kevin Garnett’s case as the best power forward in NBA history
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@haralabob Well your voice of reason pushed Trump in ‘24 so maybe get off your high horse and stop thinking your funny Bobby
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I was genuinely worried about the future of America and the West with how this war is unfolding. Then, at the Commander in Chief’s behest, I tuned into "Life, Liberty & Levin" with Mark Levin. Nothing steadies the nerves like a calm, measured, totally not whiny or weaselly voice of reason.
Chris Menahan 🇺🇸@infolibnews
Mark Levin makes the case for putting troops on the ground in Iran: "Why would we need troops on the ground? …We've got to get the uranium… [Iran] can make dirty bombs… You need to get to the uranium." (Trump urged his followers to watch this show hours ago on Truth Social.)
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