@jeff_on_sports Back to back silly season games, but sure...
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Michael Backus
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Michael Backus
@MikeJBackus
https://t.co/h8JIpL9cfp
Albuquerque, NM Присоединился Eylül 2011
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lmao people were saying cooper flagg wouldn’t go top 3 in 2026 and the kid is the same age as boozer, DP, and AJ rn putting up 45 and 51 in back to back NBA games
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@LukaDoncicStanD Look who he's lost to in the last three or four years and tell me he deserves it over Jokic twice, Embiid (scoring more than a point a minute that season) or Shai last year.
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Anyone else would have had 1 MVP at LEAST by now. Luka is one of the most disrespected athletes ever
HoodiDavis@HoodiDavis
Please don’t disrespect Luka Doncic ever again 😭
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"I was saying years ago, I would love to see a white American superstar in the NBA…Cooper Flagg is a great white American player, and he is going to be a superstar. That's great to see, I think it's just good for the league" – Chris Broussard
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@MavsMuse Dude hasn't played a game that matters in all of 2026; I like his game, but you're giving way too much credit to big games in silly season where one third of the entire league is tanking, including Dallas.
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One of the reason I love Cooper Flagg is he’s one of those players that turns it up to a whole different level when it’s necessary.
The MOMENT the roty straw poll came out saying Kon was running away with it, Coop dropped 96 points in 48 hours and broke all kinds of records.
That’s the kind of thing you only see from the Kobes and Jordans and LeBrons. He has that fire and drive, but also the skill to make it happen. We’re watching the future of basketball in a 19 year old kid right now.
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@PerSources Tell yourself that boyo, I'm sure it will help your deluded sense of self importance.
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Every NBA media member that doesn't vote Nikola Jokić for MVP doesnt know anything about basketball.
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@mikevwvo @hutchinson So because you have a blue mark and say the most idiotic bullshit possible we should take your ravings seriously. Go fuck yourself.
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@hutchinson Remember, when looking at comments, who does or doesn't have a checkmark.
It's not perfect, but most of the trolls and weirdos don't have a checkmark and are best ignored as being TDS/Elon haters/unserious/ignorant/ foreign or bots.
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Seriously what the fuck happened with Gen X why are they so Trumpy??
Polling USA@USA_Polling
Generic Ballot Polling Among Gen-X: 🔴 GOP: 45% 🔵 DEM: 41% Morning Consult / March 29, 2026
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@HeatNationCom @BleacherReport smdh, give me a break.
Any trade with Miami starts with either Bam or Herro.
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Trade idea from @BleacherReport...
HEAT GET: Giannis Antetokounmpo
BUCKS GET: Andrew Wiggins, Nikola Jovic, Jaime Jaquez Jr., Kasparas Jakucionis, 2030 1st-round pick, 2032 1st-round pick (top 3 protected)
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@LegendOfWinning Agree. Teams can usually fashion together a great defense even with weak links. Esp easier to hide small men on D. So for me, Jokic's defense is a much bigger problem than Shai's (and Shai is a totally functional defender on a great defensive team) bec we need 5s to rim protect.
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I hate this argument so much…
Not making an All-Defensive team does not mean that defense isn’t considered when determining how valuable a player is.
It’s just that most players defense isn’t good enough to make up the offensive gap but Wemby, just like Giannis, is the exception
Onyx@OnyxOdds
"DeFeNsE MaTtErS FoR MVP"
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@zakfilm I guess but one film is terrible (Magnolia) and one is at best perplexing so... I agree, at one time, he was regularly cast in roles that require some acting. But that is long gone, he's basically a wind up action toy now.
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People are too quick to forget that Tom Cruise is actually a great actor. In 1999, Magnolia and Eyes Wide Shut came out which displayed his tremendous range and vulnerability to the craft. Even his audacity with such unusual detail on the absurd.
Both performances are some of the finest acting seen among PTA and Kubrick films. He made these roles his own.
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@LegendOfWinning Well, the last Bontemps straw poll says it's not that close, 80 first place votes for Kon, 20 for Flagg. These are the same group who votes on the award, so I see no way Flagg ends up winning.
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Kon has been consistent and available. His floor is so high that he is already a legit elite offensive weapon.
But Cooper’s ceiling is far greater and shows flashes of already being a top 20 player, like last nights 51 points
I’m still leaning towards Kon but this has been a great ROTY race
Kalshi Hoops@KalshiHoops
Rookie of the Year remains a VERY close race on Kalshi: 70% — Kon Knueppel 29% — Cooper Flagg What’s the greatest rookie season of the past decade?
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@Betsycashmoney In a sane world, LaVine would not opt in on the $49 million and the Kings would sign him to a more tradeable contract, say 3 years, 105 mil, with a team option on the 3rd year. Not sure ZL would take that, but it's a very tradeable contract.
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@MikeJBackus Sure, but that's not terribly common.
Typically (although not ALWAYS) the buy out is equal to the amount of his new deal-- and the new contract is usually in the ~$2-6M range
It usually depends how badly the player wants out
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For his sake, I genuinely hope they buy him out so we can at least see him play on ONE NON-TERRIBLE TEAM before he's old 😭😭😭
NBA Base@TheNBABase
Zach LaVine will reportedly OPT IN to his $49 million player option with the Sacramento Kings this summer, per @BrettSiegelNBA
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@MavsMuse Just wanted to add, I read BR's Kon page wrong, his TS is a truly amazing .644 (not .595 as I said), that's crazy for a rookie.
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@MavsMuse Kon is shooting 43 percent from 3, Flagg 29. Kon's TS is .595, Flagg's is .550, well below league average. These numbers are not close. The award is not who would you rather have going forward, it's who had the better season. No way to figure that as anyone but Kon.
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@townbrad Kon's BPM is 3.3, Flagg's is 1.3, his TS is almost 100 points better than Flagg and Flagg has on the whole been a disappointment as a defender, no surprise for a 19 year old rookie, but we're comparing seasons.
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Notice that 7 of your 9 Knueppel bullet points are about 3-pointers. Yes, we know he’s a hell of a 3-point shooter, the best rookie deep threat since Curry and maybe the best ever. And?
rip mavs@martysmavs
Just not even close to correct and so many of coopers achievements being in the caveat of “teenager” is humorous like yea duh because not all great rookies happen to be “teenagers” like that’s not a thing to use for accolades.
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@THEEJoeMess @thenba_vault @PlayoffSports_ Bigs simply can affect a defense in a way guards can not, especially in today's game where it's relatively easy to switch off an elite defender. Rim protectors are more important today than they've ever been because of the space.
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@thenba_vault @PlayoffSports_ We do 5 greatest defenders and its all bigs. Guards get no love
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@Betsycashmoney Looked it up, there are a lot of buyouts in the 16 to 30 million range over history..
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@Betsycashmoney @NaGOAToroszn2 @leviteight @bqspeaks Pretty much what I said, though I dropped him to a solid #3 on a good team. I guess you have a Lavine thing; I'm not against it, I'd like to see him on a good team that could hide him on defense (can he be a good defender? He's athletic enough, so is it an effor thing?)
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@MikeJBackus @NaGOAToroszn2 @leviteight @bqspeaks But WHY ON EARTH would any sane person expect him to be a #1 option on a championship team? 😂😂😂
You are literally proving my point:
He's played in such terrible constructs, people have no clue what he's even good at!
On a good & functional team, he'd be playing a lot offball
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@Jacobtheclipper @J20s1 @BrickCenter_ Maybe time to move on then and quit commenting on a sport you seem to hate. Disgusting? If you really believe this, why would you bother to watch, much less spend time to comment?
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@J20s1 @BrickCenter_ read the first part of my tweet again bro
why is one of the best players in the league sitting every game?? disgusting product
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Giannis is not playing because his team is tanking…
Tatum is wide open but he passes the ball because he is stat padding to get a triple double.
What happened to the game I love? 🤦🏻♂️
(@BrickCenter_)
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@Betsycashmoney @NaGOAToroszn2 @leviteight @bqspeaks I do agree with this. If you expect him to be #1 or even 2 on a championship level team, he's not that. But he's a guy who can get tough baskets and create, which is important in the playoffs, and you could see him winning a couple of games on his own on a title run.
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@NaGOAToroszn2 @leviteight @bqspeaks What's your question?
There's not enough characters to refute all of his claim, but the hate Zach gets from casual fans is absurd.
On a more palatable contract, his elite shooting/efficient scoring would be incredibly valuable for a good team.
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