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Make it your ambition to live a quiet life, to mind your own business and to work with your own hands.

“I wish I never sent them to school” — Oyo farmer laments as four children, daughter-in-law and infant grandchild are abd¥cted in school att@ck

Feels like the right time to bring this back. Here’s Alex Caruso talking about guarding Wemby a few months ago: “Offensively, he’s still really raw. If he gets within five feet of the basket, he can just dunk it, or grab it and put it in, so just working early. Against any person who is a big and good in the league you try and do your work early and get them away from the basket. And then, his length is an issue, but he’s not as strong as Giannis or Jokic, or Sengun or KD, even, who can get to a spot and still be in balance” Via: @BasketballGuruD

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Embiid is the answer until he misses another 60 games.

Victor Wembanyama dribbled a basketball up a dangerous mountain route in 4.5 hours (takes a normal person 7-8 hours to walk up it) while training with the monks, per @ramonashelburne “One day he told Wembanyama to dribble a basketball up another dangerous mountain route to Sanhuangzhai, a monastery deep in the Song Mountains. The hike traversed cliffside plank paths, suspension bridges and ancient forests, and was five times as long as the one to Bodhidharma Cave. The trail forces you to climb roughly 2,500 feet in elevation across uneven ridges and stone.” (espn.com/nba/story/_/id…)

Hon. Desmond Elliot has officially withdrawn from the Lagos House Assembly APC primaries for Surulere 1.

Wemby is fully dialed in after a physical 2OT win in Game 1 💪😤 (via @spurs)

Shai Gilgeous-Alexander has a -35.6 net on-off rating in this year's playoffs. That is the lowest mark of any qualified player still remaining in the postseason.

Chet Holmgren says the streets never prepared him for Wemby “I grew up on oxtails, greens, cornbread, nobody said nothing about baguettes.”

A doctorate at 25. Thank you God.❤️🎉

Jeff Bezos said the bottom half of Americans should pay zero federal income tax. He cited a nurse in Queens making ~$75K and paying ~$12K in taxes saying “we shouldn’t be asking this nurse in Queens to send money to Washington.”

Thank you Arsenal Fc 🎉

People were kidnapped at Ibadan this morning along Idi-Ayunre, no media is talking about it yet

The NBA Playoffs are delivering their highest viewership through the Conference Semifinals in 29 years, with an average of 4.5 million viewers per game across ABC, ESPN, NBC/Peacock and Amazon Prime Video. Following last night’s double-overtime thriller to open the Western Conference Finals, Game 1 of the Eastern Conference Finals tips off tonight with the New York Knicks hosting the Cleveland Cavaliers at 8 p.m. ET on ESPN.

JUST IN: Desmond Elliot withdrawn from the Lagos House Assembly APC primaries for Surulere 1.

The Dallas Mavericks have reportedly reached out to Doc Rivers about a return to coaching, per @SharmsCharania

Harden has 5 fouls. Knicks have to be very careful to make sure he doesn’t foul out

The Minnesota Timberwolves have fear of Anthony Edwards requesting a trade, per @DWolfsonKSTP "But it's about satisfying Ant. The fear is, Judd, that at some point, does Ant through his representation, Bill Duffy and others, signal a desire to be elsewhere? We are nowhere near that point, but the fear is there.” (hoopshype.com/story/sports/n…)

James Harden says the Cavs need to do a better job as a team defending Jalen Brunson

This poor boy was running away from someone who stabbed him & stole his phone, but the police in the UK attacked him instead of his murderer!