The Big Guard

With Shai Gilgeous-Alexander playing in his first all star game in just a few days, it’s time to look back on how Sam Presti turned a 2009 second round pick into the future of OKC in the 2020’s (a thread):

@BenchwarmerBran So if being first in both categories means you’re MVP, then Westbrook on the Wizards should’ve gotten AT LEAST all nba first team for being 1st in APG (11.7, second had 9.4) and 6th in RPG (11.7), right??? His R+A was only 0.2 lower that year than current Jokic…

The guy that led the league in assists AND rebounds probably isn’t going to win MVP and I think it’s high time the entire voting process gets reevaluated Because honestly, truly, what the fuck are we even doing

Bill Simmons is calling out Amazon for their NBA broadcast audio being out of sync all season long: “The other thing with Amazon, the entire year the audio has been a split second ahead of the video. A three-pointer is halfway to the basket, it's like, ‘BANG! It’s good!’ and the ball hasn't even gone in yet. How have you not figured this out? You guys have eight kajillion dollars” (Via podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/two…)

When Amazon buys rights to your favorite conference’s games, just remember that they paid $20B for NBA broadcast rights and this is what they aired in the final minute of a single possession overtime postseason game.

Hello? @PrimeVideo

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That shit say a full day of playoff games not on tv. Come on son

@NixToWaddle They had offensive lineman out there and Dubs fans wanna get on here and complain about Curry’s whistle

every highlight of these warriors teams got illegal ass screens

@TaySixO I think you need a couple more 💯 emojis to make your point

As a person who’s watched basically every okc and lakers game this season ,these numbers don’t really represent what people tryna say about luka fouls vs SGA’s who’s the face of Fouls ……SGA gets a lot of fouls where he initiates the contact and the other person gets called for the foul ,or he literally gets a foul of the slightest of contact which is why people call him a foul merchant ….luka on the other hand because of his shiftyness and his slow but quick speed he plays at he often gets fouled because guys are getting shook out there’s socks or can’t decide where Luka’s going and they end up in a bad defensive position which causes them to foul 💯 I’ve had my gripes with luka and I actually love SGA especially betting wise ,but when luka gets fouled and they show the replay 9/10 he’s getting fouled and there’s real contact …can’t say the same for SGA💯

@MaGoated Single handedly carried your team to wins in every round on here but “MaGoated” on Twitter said your +rTS% isn’t high enough so ur ring doesn’t count

This is genuinely insane for a player type Shai is. If he doesn’t have a consensus positive postseason run coming up. I’m calling him a Lamar and Embiid type player even with a championship in his hands

@HPbasketball As a Thunder fan - I think part of it is that all the all time great teams have 2 all time greats (Kobe/Shaq, MJ/Pip, Curry/KD, Magic/Kareem, etc) where as of now, Shai is the only one on OKC Also part of it is because we are in the present, people may feel differently in 2 yrs

I'm really interested by the idea that the Thunder are, objectively, an All-Time team. Wins. Point Differential. Defense. Defense with Offensive Capability. Led by MVP. Depth. Coaching. Culture. Execution. But they do not feel like the all-time great teams *to me* and I do not know why. (Thunder fans, I get they fell like that to you and that people SHOULD view them that way. Read the first part again.) If you're not a Thunder fan, does OKC feel like an all-time great team on par with Warriors 2016, 2017, or say, Heat 2012 (who were objectively much worse than OKC), OKC 2014, 01 Lakers, etc? If not, why not?

@SpursCulture Me when my basketball team goes 66-16 but we didn’t break the all time wins record

They went from 74-8 convos, to taking 80 games to clinch the No. 1 seed in the Western Conference

As of the time of this posting, the tweet below has 1.4M views. The two sets of free throws shown were the result of: 1) Christie wanting to stop play so he could call his use-it-or-lose-it timeout before time dropped below 3 mins. 2) Cardwell fouling Seth during a live rebound, and the Warriors being in the bonus. McDermott, the same guy who gave the foul after being instructed, made a 3 the very next possession from a set play Christie drew up.

i’m throwing something on the grill

@MrSantiZap Santi I typically just watch the hot takes videos and never respond to the actual tweet However this was the worst episode of Smackdown that I have ever seen Idk how a show can feel this pointless 15 days away from WrestleMania - no screen time for women’s US title scene ??

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@BoomtownHoops Would have 20k likes on this app if Dort did it but since it was the other way around I haven’t even seen it tweeted yet lol

Unreal no call as LaRavia pulls Dort down on what could have actually been a very dangerous play. Dort to the locker room. Guess it’s not a dirty play since Dort has muscles and plays hard or something. Idk.

🚨Sam Altman sued by his own sister for sexual abuse and rape Annie Altman has filed a lawsuit accusing Sam Altman of sexually abusing and raping her between 1997 and 2006. She says the abuse started when she was 3 years old and he was 12

This is literally insane So many people showed up to oppose a $6 billion dollar data center in Missouri they had to use bleachers The whole crowd yells and chants they don’t want the data center Festus City Council voted to approve the data center anyway right in their faces

@realtalkejlt @LegendOfWinning

Luka hurt, don’t count

@LakersEmpire @LongboiShai

It’s gonna get real ugly for OKC.