Abby Carpio-Salazar

Doris Burke and Richard Jefferson being on this Finals announcing crew instead of Mark Jackson and Jeff Van Gundy is the worst thing to ever happen to this league.

Everybody moved on but I’m still here 77 😢

Another stellar night for Otter 🦦 #StanleyCup

GAME WON! STARS WIN! @ATT | #TexasHockey

Nico Harrison and Jason Kidd should be next.

“I just want to remind you guys that whenever & if ever you begin to feel an iota of sadness for Blake Lively, I want you to remember all the things she did to Justin Baldoni.” ~ @RealCandaceO

Day 33 of me thinking…this didn’t have to happen.

I feel concussed. Am I remembering all of this right? On May 30th, Luka and Kai each dropped 36 points to wrap up the WCF in 5 games and advance to the NBA Finals. That was just 280 days ago. Not even a year ago. Holy motherballs, things have changed quickly. Luka was 25. The NBA scoring champ. A perennial MVP candidate. Luke Skywalker. Neo. The Chosen One. The trick shot god. The magic chef. The dude who only got better as the stakes were raised. The cold-blooded killer who stole Devin Booker’s super cocky basketball soul and then quickly checked to see if he was ok during some free throws. The dude who dropped 73/10/7 on the Hawks. The Man who sunk a game-winning stepback 3 directly in the eyeball of the 2023-2024 defensive player of the year to complete an 18-point comeback in Game 2 of the WCF, then yelled — “You can’t f***ing guard me!!!” Our young king had just averaged 33.9 points, 9.2 rebounds and 9.8 assists per game. PER GAME. Then covered in more ace bandages than a mummy, had just carried his team through the Western Conference playoff bracket like a Louis Vuitton backpack. The Jordan brand phenom, with fans all over the world, effortlessly spinning the entire globe on his finger like Meadowlark Lemon. The sweet kid from Slovenia with a flare for delivering unfiltered excitement and magical moments while playing to the crowd with a devilish grin. No moment too big. No obstacle too tall. He was ours. Hard to believe he won’t have a statue next to The Big German’s. But hey, this is our new reality. I’m personally having a hard time adjusting to it. Look, it’s been a difficult thing to process. For all of us. And obviously this unprecedented slew of injuries — this absolute plague — hasn’t helped. Last night during the game, the Mavs bench looked like an empty row of front row seats. I find myself feeling sad about it all, almost every day. It’s admittedly a bit ridiculous. Because, ya know… it’s only sports. There are way bigger problems in the world to focus on, I’m told. All of this sudden change serves as a reminder that tomorrow is not promised. That we need to enjoy the good times as much as possible while they’re happening. When the Rangers went to back-to-back World Series in 2009 and 2010, I definitely took it for granted and thought it was going to be an every year type thing for the foreseeable future. Not so much. When the Cowboys were dominating in the 90s, I kind of assumed that we’d be stacking Super Bowls for the rest of my life. We all know how that’s going. Times are tough around here, no doubt. Watching Kai sink those free throws with tears running down his face is something I’ll never forget. The amount of love and respect I have for that man, both on and off the court, is something I never would have imagined when he arrived. Whatever my perceptions were of him from afar, they were not anywhere near accurate. Every time he takes the court, he writes a beautiful love letter to the game of basketball with the way he plays. When he speaks, it’s from a place of love, thoughtfulness and compassion. He’s quickly become one of my favorite athletes of all time. And damn, I’m hurting for him. Hurting for all of us. Wondering how on Earth we all got here in such a short time. But hey, in time… like everything else, this too shall pass. It might pass like bowling ball sized kidney stone that takes a decade to pass, but it will pass. Eventually. Until then… Godspeed, sweet friends. Praying for speedy recoveries.

Jason Gallagher on Nico Harrison:

“love is blind but marriage isn’t” dave dpmo… then WHYYYY would you go on a show where marriage is the end goal !? #LoveIsBlind #LoveIsBlind8

HERMANOS. 🤞❤️ @luka7doncic x @KyrieIrving

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If I'm running the Mavs, my official policy would be to just let these players on the current roster play basketball. This group is so easy to like. They’re your best PR.

The only way that’s happening if Nico is gone

Censoring Luka in that video like this lmaoooo

Dirk will always support Luka 🫂 (via @wfaa)

"It's graduated from hate to anger to – it's the cycle of emotions. The hate. The anger. The grieving. And then the passion." Kyrie and Klay addressed the emotional reaction from Mavs fans and the ejections at the past two games. #MFFL STORY: wfaa.com/article/sports…

@mavsmarie 💯💯💯 we just needed that venting session

We welcome them. They don’t deserve the bullshit. All our anger is for ownership and Nico Harrison. They’re just making more people mad by getting upset that we are protesting. Let us voice our frustrations so we can move forward with supporting the TEAM. Not the franchise.

Luka Doncic fans after Anthony Davis goes down in his very first game with the Mavs