Nick Semenas

This will never not be funny with sound on. @americasfunnies

@WhatsWrightShow @getnickwright @TheVolumeSports Cuz he's wrong. In this time period, by his own logic... Nick Wright is saying Steve Nash was a better player than Kobe. Every player and every gm consistently voted Kobe as best player in the league during this time period. Especially the 06 to 08 time period.

"People get so mad at this take... Kobe's the 8th greatest player and he was never the best player in the world." @getnickwright breaks down the best player in the world during every season of Kobe's career... and why it was never him

@jc5BazIn @ShakeZoula @NBA__Courtside Hard cap to start.

@ShakeZoula @NBA__Courtside Different sport. 1 guy in basketball can change the game. In football, harder go do.

Zach Lowe shares a tanking solution idea that came up in the GMs meeting that intrigued a few General Managers: A proposal to not get rid of the draft entirely, but get rid of the draft order. Every team gets 100 draft credits let’s say. You bid your draft credits on every individual slot in the draft. You can also trade your draft credits like a veteran player for 40 draft credits if you want to go in a rebuilding direction. As teams advance in the playoffs, they lose draft credits so the best teams would have less to bid on individual picks. So you can take all your credits and bid on the number 1 pick in the draft if you want. Or if you think next years draft is better, you roll your credits over. (Via Zach Lowe Show)

@Ash_Howe_ @haralabob The hard cap is the kind of fix to that problem. Players will make decisions partially based on money. I'm more curious on unintended consequences of this solution: Like you may make more money by staying in college for a few of the players. I could be wrong about that.

@haralabob You don’t think that’s a likely outcome of abolishing the draft?

In 2019 they modified the lottery rules and that was an abject failure as well, it clearly made tanking worse. The bottom line is the draft and lottery are flawed at the root. If you were serious, you’d scrap the draft entirely, make every rookie a free agent, remove max salaries, and enforce a true hard cap. But they'll likely never do that, nor will they go with the wheel so instead they are fixated on how they can make sure teams don't tank their way out of the play-in to get a better chance at a top 3 pick which tells you all you need to know about the product and the people who run and own these teams. Think about how crazy it is that people would actually thinking about losing games on purpose to avoid playing in the playoffs. The league has had two major innovations of late - one of them was "The In Season Tournament" and the other is a Playin that is so revolutionary that people are convinced teams will tank their way out of it if it means they'll have a better than 2% chance to draft a star rookie. The league is cooked. Lets say they solve tanking at the very bottom, whats next? Apathy. What incentive will a middle of the road team have to compete every night over 82 games? They won't be in the playoff hunt they'll be guaranteed some lotto % so what incentives will they have to actually compete? I'm not sure anyone in the league office or even ownership has thought about that, but they should.

@tmwarning @HPbasketball Give me 2006 Kobe

@HPbasketball Peak Wade was better than peak Kobe. But Kobe had the greatest career. I am pretty comfortable with those two conclusions I came to a few years back.

I'm writing on Harden's place on the all-time shooting guards list so of course I was looking at Wade vs. Kobe, I don't need your thoughts on it, everyone's got their own opinion and tend to think any other opinion is dumb. I DO however think this is an interesting question: which player's MVP-level season was better? Here's Wade 2009 where he only lost because LeBron was a WORLDBREAKER vs. Kobe's 2008. For the record, I have surprisingly decided Bryant has to be second on the all-time list because of total career accomplishiments despite how partial I am to Wade.

@HPbasketball Peak Wade is great. He just didn't do it for near long enough to be a real threat to Kobe.

“The Republicans will fix it this time” “The Democrats will fix it this time”

@JoshEberley This is a false stat...lol

Game score aside, Pau Gasol was the 1B on those teams and we all know why his contributions are played down.

@rBillSimmonsPod Kudos

@NigelWatts13 AI? This is 25 years of reading and listening to Simmons, buddy

@YouTube Fix your site

which cooking creator would you want to make dinner with?

This, on paper, should work. It’s been suggested by many sharp people who can justify an open market for rookies and elimination of restricted free agency. This, realistically, will not work. You think cap circumvention is a problem now? Just wait until shoe brands start financially incentivizing their rookie clients to sign with preferred franchises/big city markets. More than half of the Board of Governors are going to approve even more negotiating leverage for the prom kings & queens? Hard to believe, despite the sound logic.

The bottom is in. I stake absolutely nothing on it but a stern commitment to financial suicide with you if wrong. An honor to join you in front of the firing squad dear comrade.

@RaoulGMI Looks like it is bottoming and going to bounce even more.

Zoom out and you can barely see the recent gold outperformance over BTC... Remember this is a LOG chart so the moves look less dramatic (I know X loves drama however). From the 2022 peak gold is down -47% vs BTC and from the 2019 peak, gold is down -85% versus BTC.

The end of Kobe's 81-point game press conference❤️ "My daughter wants a bath tonight. She wants to go swimming. OK, you ready to go? Let's go, mamma!" (via @JasmineLWatkins)

@hooparj huge L

don’t think anybody really misses them. the game is covered much better now. all good things come to an end, and they should’ve let inside the nba end with the tnt contract.

24 years ago today 🐍 FROBE BRYANT wrote '34' on his Adidas shoes in honor of Shaq (suspended 3 GMS for throwing a punch at Brad Miller) & then did this to the Grizzlies in 3 quarters: 56 PTS 21/34 FG 4 AST 3 3PT LAL 120 - MEM 81 📼 @oldskoolbballx

On one hand it’s annoying how much Kobe fans love the eye test And then you watch Kobe highlights yourself and understand why they do

“The only thing an old man can tell a young man is that it goes fast, real fast, and if you’re not careful it’s too late. Of course, the young man will never understand this truth.” — Norm Macdonald

@HaterReport_ Great great coaches have been allowing their best players to help write up plays for decades... If you think MJ never wrote up a play or set for Phil, you're just naive.

Giannis knows Doc Rivers doesn’t know what he doing. Bro drew up the play for the game winner himself 😂😂😂

@DaigMuse Shai getting shut down by Castle was a problem. Gotta find different match ups.

I promise you Fox and Castle aren’t doing this in a playoff game. I want the Spurs in the post season so bad.