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@WarRoomArchives There should be an international agreement to ban the use of drones as anti-person flying mines.

Ukrainian drone dives to strike a Russian soldier, but on approach it finds he has already taken his own life. War is neither as entertaining as in video games nor as romantic as in movies.

@thatstarwarsgrl Nothing worse than a prison out in the open. This is worse than putting them behind bars.

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@jasonwhitlock It affects his legacy one way or another. If the opposite happens and the Lakers win then he would reap the benefits.

Whether the Lakers blow this 3-0 lead or not, this does not affect LeBron’s legacy in my view. When 38-year-old Muhammad Ali got the brakes beaten off him by Larry Holmes, it didn’t affect his legacy, and what LeBron does at 41 shouldn’t affect his either.

@MeltzersStammer @FadeAwayMedia The Sol snatcher would be a cool move for a tag team where one person kicks the receiver while the other is running to the corner.

@FadeAwayMedia Like Sol Snatcher, it's another retarded finisher that makes the person taking it look like a retard. Sol Snatcher - Charge and dive into it ⚡ Struck - Hold leg to assist jump

NEW NXT signee Lizzy Rain shows off the training behind her finishing move “THUNDERSTRUCK” ⚡️ THIS MOVE IS ABSOLUTELY BEAUTIFUL. (Hustle Wrestling Training)

@BleacherReport @NewYorker And he seems to be also be a liar after this statement.

Steve Kerr calls Draymond the "best defensive player ever" ... over Scottie Pippen and Dennis Rodman 👀🔥 (via @NewYorker)

@jasonwhitlock Somebody is laundering a ton of money through this app.

Can a society recover from this kind of transfer of wealth and subsequent power/influence? Your daughters and sons will be ruled by Only Fans models. We will long for the days when mafia dons ruled and influenced. Those will be the good old days. Proverbs 5.

@MarioNawfal To call those apps future markets is misleading. Is just gambling.

🇫🇷 Some guy pointed a hairdryer at a weather sensor, bet on the temperature spike on Polymarket, and walked away with $34,000. Twice. Météo France filed a complaint, Polymarket switched sensors, and the man is probably on a beach somewhere. Source: PA News

@ESPNNBA @BobbyMarks42 Shameless gatekeeping here. It’s disgusting and is ruining the enjoyment of the game.

"[The Thunder] know how to draw fouls, and they're the best at it." —@BobbyMarks42 on the Suns' frustration with the officiating ✍️

@jasonwhitlock @SkapAttack I do not get why a Christian would gamble. We do not put our faith on luck. Our faith is on Jesus Christ.

I am the worst gambler ever. @SkapAttack let me out of our Lakers bet that they would make it out of the first round after Luka and Austin Reaves’ injuries. Here they are now up 2-0 on the Rockets with another exciting white, Luke Kennard, emerging.

@RooshWilliams You know what else the NFL and MLB do not have? Superstar treatment.

Flopping, more than tanking or anything else, is destroying the entertainment value of the NBA. NFL and MLB don’t have this issue. And that’s because the NBA intentionally incentivizes flopping by rewarding it. It’s ruining the sport — and the players clearly agree.

@VicLombardi An offensive foul.

What do you call here?

@big_business_ Think about it. A referee can dynamically control a basketball game with the whistle. You do not have to “fix” the game but you can create the conditions to favor a team or control the flow of a game through fouls, travels and technicals.

Whoa.... Devin Booker just WENT OFF on the NBA refs right now in the post game press conference: "It's definitely something that has to be looked at. I heard (Alex) Caruso tell them to call the tech and he ended up doing it. In my 11 years, I haven't called a ref out by name, but James (Williams) was terrible tonight, through and through. It's bad for the sport, bad for the integrity of the sport. People are going to start viewing this as the WWE if they're not held responsible." "I know I haven't won a championship in this league but I have been in it for 11 years now, so to get to this point to be treated like that, for me to even be saying something out loud, it's bad. It's my first time in 11 years but it's needed. Whatever, I get fined for it, everybody can pull the clips and see where the frustration comes from."

@_SVPod @notthefakeSVP Basketball is the only sport with “Superstar treatment” and everyone just accepts it. Just like pro wrestling.

"Watching him hit the deck in game to game and get foul calls is not a ton of fun... it's just automatic. Auto whistle." @notthefakeSVP on his issues with the way SGA is officiated ⬇️

@WrestlingNewsCo This the Matt Hardy spot.

I hate that this spot even happened. So unnecessary. I hope Sol is okay.

@heelvsbabyface So John where you at? I’m at the Black Rooster.

Who eats here?

@WrestlingNewsCo I love Rob but he still watches the NBA which basically has become the WWE with a basketball.

"I can't understand how grown men are still into wrestling," Rob Parker said on his Fox Sports show. "We all went to the zoo. We all went to the circus as kids, right? And at some point, Kelvin, you grow out of it. I just cannot get over how these older guys who are sports fans live and die for that stuff, but they have this soft spot for wrestling, and they're walking around with the belts, and they're going to a watch party at a sports bar. I need somebody to explain it to me, because I don't understand it."

@ESPNNBA @TheJetOnTNT The NBA is going to face dark times ahead. Not because of the players, not because of the game itself. The current leadership has put in place a system that has ruined the game. They are the real culprits in this. Players adapt to the rules. The leadership set the rules.

.@TheJetOnTNT had an idea to curb tanking 👀 Chuck was not having it 🤣

@ImJustKyle_ Maybe if they would have traded their best player to the Lakers then they would have gotten the first pick like the Pelicans and Dallas. The draft is fixed.

Maybe teams like Wizards/Jazz/Kings/Pelicans/Bulls/Nets wouldn’t have to “tank” to try to get good drafts picks if San Antonio wasn’t awarded 3 top 4 picks 3 years in a row, or if the play in Hawks wasn’t awarded the number 1 overall pick, or Dallas getting the first pick

@BillSimmons The best way to get a first draft pick is to trade your best player to the Lakers.

I apologize to the Kings for thinking they fouled Curry as a nefarious tanking strategy. I should’ve remembered that Doug Christie is an inept coach, so him inexplicably fouling a good FT shooter to set up a TO play was in play as either a f-up or a willfully dumb idea. My bad.

@KevinOConnor Everybody knows that the best way to get a number one pick is not by tanking. Just trade your best player to the Lakers.

During the NBA GM meeting this week, one person suggested make the bottom three teams ineligible for the top picks entirely. The league, per multiple sources, found this to be way too extreme. But then another person on the call offered a softer version of the same concept: What if the bottom three teams just had slightly lower odds than the teams ranked four through 10? Not zero. Just a little less. Sources on the call say Adam Silver responded enthusiastically to this idea. Which speaks to the state of lottery reform. The 18 team/8% odds for the top 10 concept is simply still just the concept. The specifics of it will change by the time the league votes on it in late May. And adjustments — like this one — are still in heavy consideration. I think it’s brilliant. Under that structure, with the bottom three teams having slightly worse odds, there is no longer a single point in the standings where losing helps you. Tanking all the way to the bottom hurts you a bit. It’s not quite relegation that you’d see in the Premier League, but it’s the NBA’s own form that would punish being the worst in the league. And much like Premier League teams have entertaining games to prevent relegation, NBA teams would too. Picture two bad teams in late March, both within a game of the bottom three, both desperate to win. That's a win for the fans. Picture the front office of the Wizards doing the calculus on whether to shut down Trae Young and Anthony Davis and realizing that, actually, no, the vets need to go play, because falling in the standings is a real cost now, not a reward. That's a win for the sport. Picture Sacramento intentionally fouling Seth Curry late in a game, and the conversation around it shifting from "nefarious tanking" to "bad coaching." That's a win for the league. More on @YahooSports: