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Houston Rockets, Steven Adams, shares a terrific journaling technique he uses to develop mental strength and emotional agility. Step 1: Write down your raw emotion Step 2: Read it back Step 3: Respond in a different color Step 4: Treat your raw and emotional voice like a younger version of yourself Step 5: Answer with the wisdom of your adult self A lot of mental strength comes down to this: Can you create space between what you feel and how you respond? Most people are kinder, wiser, and more patient with others than they are with themselves. His technique creates just enough separation and distance to access that same compassion internally. 🎥 : Between Two Beers Podcast

Why is this SO ACCURATE 😂🤣

2024 Mavericks still the last team to beat OKC in a series. The last non-OKC team to beat Timberwolves in a series. Both healthy.

in order to become a better person, you must first realize how horrible you really are. not in the dramatic sense, but in the quiet ways you sabotage yourself, repeat unhealthy patterns, hurt people who care about you, or tolerate what wounds you. you cannot grow if you keep pretending you're innocent in the story you created.

I do not care how cool players look. When are yal gonna realize that a Post safety from the opposite hash would NEVER EVER be fast or athletic enough to break on a go ball down the opposite sideline to grab a INT?! When EA decides to actually make the game better instead of distracting us with cool graphics and online shit that doesn’t matter is when real changes and progression will be made. Until then, it’s a rinse and repeat just like 2k, Madden, and MLB the Show

Damian Lillard & Emiliano Vargas was training with David Benavidez in Las Vegas teaching them different ways to throw the jab😳 The jab is the shot you should practice the most- 🎥: Benavidez Family #Boxing #BenavidezZurdo

LeBron James addresses his 4-6 record in the NBA Finals, which is held against him by fans who point to Michael Jordan's 6-0 mark in the championship round: "When I was younger, I used to have the notion of like, people were getting on me for losing in the Finals, and when I was younger, I used to listen to it," James said. "Like, people will really rather you not make the playoffs or lose in the first round than to lose in the Finals, which is crazy to me. And I almost feel like, is it because it's me? Everybody has to say something about my career: 'Oh, well, he made eight straight Finals, but he was only able to win three.' 'He's the leading scorer in NBA history, but he's played 23 years.' "Yeah, but I am also fastest to 1,000 [points]. Fastest to 2,000. Fastest to 5,000. Fastest to 10,000. So when I started realizing it was just a knock on me, I started to appreciate it a little bit more. Like, I am pissed off that I didn't have a better winning percentage individually in the Finals, but for people to try to turn it into a negative, it doesn't bother me like it did when I was younger."

Josh Richardson on Erik Spoelstra making him shoot 100 3s in practice: “I came in the league — I could not shoot, I was straight athlete/defender. I go in the gym on an off day and there’s literally no one in there…so I’m shooting 3s…I look over and I see Spo walk in…he’s like ‘here keep going, get in the corner 100 3s’ and I’m like ‘damn coach I was already done’…I make 60/100 which is awful wide open…Spo’s like ‘do it again, you gotta make 70 before you get out of here’…I’m like ‘coach I’m finna pass out’…I was 69/99 and clanked the last one…I’m saying every world you can think of…I finally made 70 and Spo’s like ‘this is how you gotta approach it…’ (via @theOGsShow)

Cooper Flagg’s ROY video narrated by Kyrie 🔥

Rookie of the year!!! Congrats @Cooper_Flagg

Ye flipping Michael Jackson’s “P.Y.T. (1982)” on “Good Life” (2007) is still crazy to this day 🔥🔥 He once played the record for Michael, who asked, “Who’s that singing right there? I like that voice.” Ye later said Michael put the battery in his back to sing on “808s & Heartbreak”, which he would often play for his daughter, Paris Jackson. “Michael Jackson told me I could sing, fuck all y’all!” 🤣🤣🤣

Most PPG without free throws in the playoffs since 2020: 24.8 - Luka Doncic 24.0 - Donovan Mitchell 23.4 - Giannis Antetokounmpo 23.2 - Steph Curry 22.9 - Nikola Jokic 22.5 - Kevin Durant 22.2 - Kawhi Leonard 21.8 - Anthony Edwards 21.8 - Devin Booker 21.7 - Paolo Banchero

Mark Cuban sold Broadcast dot com to Yahoo for $5.7 billion in 1999. He spotted the internet wealth transfer before most people had email. This time he quietly called the next one. “33 million companies in this country. No AI budgets. No AI experts.” Read that twice. He’s not talking about startups. He’s talking about the dentist with three locations. The freight broker in Memphis. The family manufacturer running on spreadsheets from 2011. They’ve heard of ChatGPT. That’s where it ends. For twenty years, software worked like a landlord. One product, millions of tenants, everyone pays rent and nobody gets to move the walls. AI flips the lease. The product can finally shape itself around the business instead of the other way around. Which opens a door nobody is talking about. Someone has to walk into these 33 million companies and do the work. Sit across from a 62-year-old owner, understand how his invoices move, hand him back a system that saves him 15 hours a week. That person is not going to come from OpenAI. Every smart 22-year-old right now is sprinting toward the same five labs. Cuban is pointing at the empty chairs in every other room. Here’s the arbitrage: you don’t need to train a model. You need to know one industry cold and speak fluent AI. The last time this setup existed was 1999. Every small business needed a website and almost nobody local knew how to build one. The operators who figured out dentists, restaurants, and contractors built agencies that printed money for a decade. This time the ceiling is ten times higher. 33 million companies. A handful of people who can help them. The math does the rest. Cuban saw the gap first. Whoever moves next owns the decade.

LeBron at 19 LeBron at 41 🤝

He literally explained how to get unstuck in 30 seconds

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. 🐐🐐🐐

Rashad McCants says even if Kevin Durant comes back the Lakers will still win the series: “Ime definitely getting out coached definitely not seeing the difference between the regular season games that they pounced on Houston with and used the zone, use the lanes making them shoot threes, making them adjust. I didn’t see to much zone in this previous game but you can see they got they number defensively. Figuring out how to make them guys take terrible shots. Şengün to be honest has high as everybody was on him, like he’s shown that he’s tradable. I’m not rolling with none of the antics even how he’s getting to the basket things he been doing, he’s not conducive to the team chemistry that you see them out there trying to figure out where they going to get a bucket from and you got no KD. And to swag’s point Houston was at number 2 without Jalen Green and Dillon Brooks and I think those two pieces change the dynamic of that team and the fact that KD not there and they look this bad Luke Kennard come in there and skywalker all over their a** it’s different and you got LeBron don’t have to do nothing but be a magnet and to be that stupid as a team that seen these guys whether his age or ability as gravitating you guys to come on and make easy life for Rui, Marcus Smart, Ayton getting busy out there. Like, they don’t have to exert energy to do what they was doing. They just living around LeBron. So, I think they cooked regardless even if KD come back.” (Via @GilsArenaShow)

Amazon just got caught running a secret price manipulation operation with Levi's, Home Depot, Walmart, and many more. Every time you "comparison shopped" online, you were looking at prices that were already rigged. Here's what happened: Amazon would monitor prices on Walmart, Target, Best Buy, Home Depot, and Chewy in real time. The second a competitor listed a product cheaper than Amazon, they'd contact the brand directly and tell them to "fix it." And the exact emails are now PUBLIC. Amazon sent Levi's links to two Walmart listings with the subject line "styles of concern." They basically said the prices on Walmart are too low and we have a problem. The next day, Levi's responded: "I talked to Walmart and they have partnered with us to take Easy Khaki Classic fit back up to ladder SPP price, $29.99 immediately." Levi's literally called Walmart and told them to raise the price. Because Amazon told Levi's to make the call. Walmart complied. Then Amazon matched the HIGHER price. Both retailers ended up charging more. The customer paid extra. Nobody competed. Same playbook with Hanes: Amazon sent them links showing Target and Walmart prices were lower. Hanes confirmed they "reached out to Target and Walmart to have the prices increased." Target increased the prices. Walmart increased the prices. Amazon kept their margins. But it gets even worse... Amazon told Allergan (the company that makes eye drops) that their product was "suppressed" on Amazon because it was cheaper on another site. Allergan responded: "Walmart got their price back up to $16.99." Amazon then unsuppressed the listing. They did this with pet treats on Chewy. Furniture on Home Depot. Products across dozens of categories spanning YEARS. The mechanism is simple but terrifying: If you're a brand and you sell cheaper on Walmart than on Amazon, Amazon suppresses your product, removes you from the Buy Box, buries you in search results, and effectively makes you invisible to 300 million customers. Brands can't afford that. So they call Walmart and Target and say "raise your prices or we'll lose our Amazon listings." Walmart and Target comply because they need the brand's products. Amazon captures 40 cents of every dollar spent online in America. That gives them the leverage to set prices across THE ENTIRE internet. Not just their own platform. So turns out, you were never comparison shopping. You were looking at a coordinated price floor set by Amazon through backroom phone calls between brands and their competitors. "Amazon is working to make your life more unaffordable." 3 separate antitrust trials are now scheduled for 2027. The FTC has its own case. 18 states plus the DOJ are piling on. This is literally happening during the WORST affordability crisis in a generation. Groceries up 25% since 2020. Housing unaffordable. Wages flat. And the largest ecommerce company on Earth has been secretly coordinating with brands to make sure you can't find a cheaper price ANYWHERE. "Competition" in retail is just a fantasy.

David f*cking Goggins, what a line… “When your entire day is fucked up, make sure that you achieve something positive before lights out. You’ll probably have to stay up a bit later to read, study, get a workout in, or clean the house. Whatever it takes to go to bed in the black, get it done.“

“I’m attracted to the dark side of greatness. The gap between a hero and a villain is very similar to the gap between winning and losing and good to great. The gap is so much closer than people think. It’s the very small fundamental details that separate you,” Joe Mazzulla The immeasurable value of fundamentals.