Michael Valera
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I could make a compelling argument that Kobe was never the best player in the league in any season never mind for a decade straight. And nobody at the time thought he was, at least outside LA.
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Best player in the nba (2000-2025)
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@mvalera @PaulHeadleyNBA did you even heard darko in 2010 besides milicic
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@mvalera @PaulHeadleyNBA no way im seeing an old ass dude using "darko" 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
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@HQNewsNow There could not be two dumber or less informed people making comments on geopolitics in the entire world.
Unless you have Hegseth and Trump that is.
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Jake Paul: That's a really good point. Trump should be on the front lines
Theo Von: Or Barron
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@BestMovieMom So maybe the reason he slapped Chris Rock was CTE?
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To ensure technical realism in Ali (2001), Michael Mann insisted that the actors actually hit each other. Will Smith suffered a real neurological "flash" after a punch from Michael Bentt.
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Hegseth: You see, shot down on a Friday. Good Friday. Hidden in a cave, all of Saturday. And rescued on Sunday, Easter Sunday. A pilot reborn
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Are Trump supporters ignorant, stupid or is it just a cult?
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@neeratanden Not to mention the leagues of maga fem bots that follow me and like every one of my posts now. Never used to happed on twitter. Makes me wonder at the people on this app now that follow them back, cause that gots lots.
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Elon Musk's X is lower in quality in every way than Twitter was pre Musk takeover. You could get reliable breaking news on this site, learning about situations all around the world. Now misinformation and information are indistinguishable. It's a Musk failure.
Peter Savodnik@petersavodnik
This is the same story you find at every institution that has had its own right-wing insurrection: in response to “progressive” censorship, the new guard blows up the guardrails, leading to an influx of unserious but dangerous people who transform the institution into a joke.
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Kobe had Shaq and went down 3-1 (or worse) on 4 separate occasions, 2x swept, 1 time in the finals gOoFy
I love kobe, my 2nd favorite player all time, but god damn kobe fans are beyond stupid
KobeBetter@NBACARTALK
Nigga if Kobe had Kyrie who averaged 30 ppg he would never be down 3-1 GOOFY
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@mvalera @hoopshype lol it’s always some wacky ass new stat. You mean Cooper had a worse pass rate when dribbling left handed after rebounding a long 3 miss from the opposing team with 2 guys on the court who were over 31 years and 16 days old? Damn. Kon must be the GOAT!🐐
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@PaulHeadleyNBA Added in LeBron and Shaq even more obvious he was never close to being the best player.
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@TxSportsRBest @WolstatSun @hoopshype Darko DPM is not a simple +/- stat. “It's a projection system that estimates a player's true future level by using all his past performances, weighted intelligently by recency, and updated every single day through a Bayesian model and a Kalman filter.” hoopshype.com/story/sports/n…
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@mvalera @WolstatSun @hoopshype Any +/- stat is almost worthless without team comparison…If a player has a +/- of +10 and the team wins by 20 that’s worse than a player who has a +/- of -2 for a team that lost by 20. Considering that- man this graph makes Coop look good.
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I still think overall, Knueppel has had the way better season. Flagg will likely be a better player long-term, but I’d have a hard time voting him for ROY over Knueppel’s historic year which includes reviving the hapless Hornets.
HoopsHype@hoopshype
Cooper Flagg on his 96-point weekend: "I think it's definitely some sort of a statement. I'm confident in myself and I know what I'm capable of and I'll just let the rest of the stuff figure itself out." Rookie of the Year or not?
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@hoopshype Kobe was never the best player in any year he played. Not even close.
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@mvalera @WolstatSun @hoopshype People like this arguing stats they don’t understand make the Internet tough to travel sometimes. You might as well point out Plus minus as well with zero context 😂 this level of delusion is probably hard to live with
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@MarkHemry466 @BurnerBuddha @WolstatSun @hoopshype You literally just explained the reason advanced stats exist. They take that stuff into account.
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@mvalera @BurnerBuddha @WolstatSun @hoopshype You fucking stat nerds don’t realize that Flagg has played with the worse roster and in a bad situation. Thats the problem with you nerds. Yall can’t out basketball in context and just show graphs and numbers.
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@PabloRiveraNc @ESPNBET @ESPNNBA Tell me that you don’t understand advanced metrics in one sentence.
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@BurnerBuddha @WolstatSun @hoopshype You are not a serious person if you make that statement on Darko DPM metrics. It’s not PPG, or FG% I’m quoting.
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@mvalera @WolstatSun @hoopshype Third scorer on a playoff team vs. the main offensive and defensive option on a team with a bunch of dudes from a Home Depot parking lot. You're not a serious person.
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