Brian Staple

@Charlottean28 @Halbridious That’s not bad.

Minnesota beating Houston settles it. No more scenarios. The Pistons will own the 21st pick in this year’s draft. Minnesota will get pick 28.

@Charlottean28 While talking up the Hornets. I heard them loud and and clears

@Charlottean28 Two weeks of the Ringer passive aggressively doing Detroit w

“How much of this is Detroit sending a playoff message to the Hornets?” I dunno guy, the Hornets are going to have to win two play-in games just to make it to the Pistons, so how about you worry about that first

@BillSimmons Preemptive strike!

Detroit was awesome tonight. Kicked the crap out of Charlotte. Really impressive.

@HPbasketball This year it’s likely the offensive dependence upon SGA. I think it’s simple. They’re led by their defense, I t’s same reason Detroit and San Antonio’s entrants to the All-Time Team debates are ignored, no sexy offense.

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?

@ApexJones22 I like Matt Barnes, he’s solid.

Matt Barnes tells Stephen A Smith that the old Stephen who NBA players had love for would slap the shit outta the new Stephen A who has sold his soul for riches and advancement. He also flames on Zesty Pat Bev and that clown, Acho

@JT000017117 @kaizen000000000 Laugh

Alex is parroting the argument, just because he has a mob of followers doesn’t make him an authority, his argument is empty, the only explanation for macro evolution and the genesis of life is God. Unfairness, pain, struggle, misfortune is the result Adam and Eve’s fall in the garden, the world was once Good, now it is filled with wickedness, blinding, inescapable, but there is a solution… God demonstrated himself his power through the beginning stories in the Bible, showing his power and who He is by bringing His chosen people out of the evils that had captivated mankind, in Egypt, giving the law, basic instructions to live life righteously, more like the way He intended us to thrive. And He tested and iterated the people and added instructions through His prophets. The Israelites tried and failed, begged God for help, God forgave restored, and they tried and failed again, more miserably each time. His people are so miserably pathetic that they cannot listen to basic instructions, kill them all, simple; they couldn’t do it. And then that’s when God’s solution came in, understand it like this: If you disobey me and eat of the tree of knowledge of good and evil you will surely die (something that cannot happen to God)(but that’s not explicitly pointed out)(what is pointed out is that God will fix the punishment of death, pain etc; but it will take a long time, 42 generations to be exact.) Oh and then there’s Historical Jesus… the Son of man who fulfilled prophecy… Who returned from Death; something only God can do. Understand righteousness.

Note to Charlie Kirk worshippers: this is what a debate looks like.

@WellsJorda89710 No one but you is reporting this. Care to source it out?

🚨 BREAKING: Detroit Pistons star Jaden Ivey is retiring from the NBA at age 24 to answer God's call and become a pastor. "I felt the Lord speaking to my heart," Ivey said. "Basketball was my dream, but God has called me to leave the game and serve Him fully as a servant of the Lord." More to come as this story develops. Prayers up for Jaden on this bold faith journey. 🙏🏾 What a powerful testimony — the NBA's loss is the Kingdom's gain.

@NBA get rid of the lottery. If you have 14 spots that can get the #1 pick, you have 14 spots someone can talk themselves into ranking for a shot. If you have to be the worst for the #1 pick, how many teams viably can attempt to be the worst in one season? Get rid of it.

@Halbridious Get rid of the lottery. If only the worst team can have the #1 pick, how many teams can viably nerf themselves to make a run at it? 3? 5? I know the Bulls wouldn’t have tried a late tank while skirting .500 when they did, would have been pointless. But currently? Why not?

It's hard to overstate this: Adam Silver might be the stupidest person alive.

@Steigerworld2 All of Division 1 pays, $10M is 1/2 as expensive as the top paid school, maybe relax ✌️

Michigan paid its basketball team $10 million this season. Alumni are bursting with pride for old alma mater. What a joke.

@BlueCoProject @SeanyDooWop @BillSimmons I’ve never seen a Reinsdorf bootlicker before. Thanks ✌️

@SeanyDooWop @BillSimmons I wasnt aware teams had to spend into the Luxury Tax.

Another classic moment from today’s Bulls press conference. Since Sterling sold, no NBA franchise has cared less about doing right by their fans with the possible exception of New Orleans - and they’re actually just incompetent. For Chicago this has been a $$$ strategy.

@men_are_human Is this a TV show?

Classic entitlement.... meets based judge.

@crypticcolorado @men_are_human Laugh. How would you even know with those sweet, sweet writing skills of yours. You’res? Laugh.

@men_are_human Why are their so many black women judges that cant even soeak English properly? Dei is literally destroying our once great country. This is like ghetto court. Learn to speak English like a respectable professional.

@BillSimmons Bill drops a dickhead on a guy and not even 24 hours later the president has to drop an F bomb to one up him. You’re not being a very good example for the president Bill. Laugh. ✌️

Hey dickhead — LeBron finished 2016 winning the last 3 final games and the title. You should worry about your own career, this will be the highlight of yours that i responded to you. There’s a reason you are where you are.

@Halbridious @themangler313 Which is what should start happening, but it’s not going to is it?

@TheBrianStaple @themangler313 Used to be you'd have 1-2 guys making 30% maxs and a couple of dudes makign 15% and an MLE guy etc. and now it's either dudes making 40+m or 12 and the idea that anyone might get 28 is anathema.

OK but please don't actually max him we cannot afford that

@Halbridious @themangler313 Just for the sake of one guy getting a dumb % of the cap all to himself. It makes sense for the 30 guys who are the best on their team, and maybe 10-12 second bananas to vote for that, but for everyone else, they legislated themselves a pay cut.

@themangler313 @TheBrianStaple Blame the PA. They've let guys who earn max contracts do all the negotiation and failed to ask for structures that would create a healthy middle class in the NBA.

@Matt_Reynoldson So those recruits at Duke went there for the love of the game and aren’t making any money? Bunch of future priests and pastors playing ball until it’s time to serve?

Sad state of affairs: the team about to win the national championship is just the best batch of transfers money can buy. Not much integrity in that.

@Matt_Reynoldson Laugh. It’s always something.

@Halbridious What if he could catch the ball and make an action without traveling? I can’t recall a guy getting called for steps more often than Stanley was.

What if Stanley Johnson was a better vertical athlete? (I still believe in Stanley Johnson)