@NBA__Courtside How many games did they win when Victor was out?
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Mark Schoonmaker
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Brian Scalebrine says Wemby is his MVP this year:
"Ever since I watched Wemby live, he is the most impactful player I have ever seen... Historically the MVP has always been the greatest on/off. When it was Jokic he won MVP, last year it was SGA. When he's on the floor one of the best in the NBA and when he is off the Spurs are like a lottery team. Wemby leads the league in on/off. Also, he is 4-1 against SGA"
NBA Courtside@NBA__Courtside
Evan Turner has Luka as his MVP: "I believe what he has been doing this year and the past few has been unbelievable... He has them in top 3 right now and Luka leads in PPG"
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@_Investinq People accept these statements, believing that “using AI” is using the LLM’s web interface as a search engine. I see constant requests for Grok to verify the latest news on X. It’s an LLM. Not a L knowledge M.
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The CEO of the world’s most valuable chip company just told every worker on the planet something they need to hear.
Jensen Huang, “If I were to hire a new college graduate today, and I have a choice between two, one that has no clue what AI is, and one that is an expert in using AI, I would hire the one who’s an expert in using AI.”
He specifically named accountants, lawyers, salespeople, supply chain managers, farmers, pharmacists, electricians, and carpenters, every profession, every level, no exceptions.
His logic is straightforward and hard to argue with.
The person who uses AI well will do more work, move faster, and deliver more value than the person who doesn’t, and that gap is only going to widen the longer someone waits to engage with it.
Then he drew a distinction that is worth sitting with.
He said that if your job essentially is the task meaning the task is the whole value you bring , then disruption is highly likely.
But if your job has a larger purpose and you use AI to automate the routine parts of it, you stop being just an executor and start becoming the innovator in your own industry.
Huang’s best point was also his most disarming.
If you don’t know how to use AI, you can literally ask AI how to use AI, and it will walk you through the whole thing from the beginning.
The barrier to starting has never been lower, which means the only real obstacle left is deciding to begin.
Every generation has had a moment where the rules of work shifted and most people didn’t recognize it until they were already behind.
This one is happening in plain sight, and the cost of waiting is going up every single day.
StockMarket.News@_Investinq
Most professionals are about to be blindsided by the biggest shift in the history of work. Jensen Huang just told you exactly how to survive it. He said the single most important thing any student or professional can do right now is learn how to interact with AI, not just use it, but master it. ChatGPT, Gemini Pro, Claude, these are not optional tools anymore, they are the new baseline competency for every field on Earth. He named law, medicine, chemistry, and biology specifically, because the message applies to every profession without exception. Prompting AI is not just typing a question into a box and hoping for an answer. Huang described it as an artistry, the skill of asking the right question in the right way to unlock genuinely useful output. Most people are terrible at asking questions, which means most people are already falling behind. Goldman Sachs estimates 300 million jobs globally are exposed to AI automation, and that exposure is accelerating faster than most institutions are prepared to handle. 89% of senior HR leaders surveyed by CNBC already believe AI will fundamentally reshape roles at their companies within the next 12 months. Huang made the competitive threat explicit, you will not necessarily lose your job to AI but you will lose it to a person who uses AI better than you do. The divide forming right now is not between the educated and uneducated , it is between those who can wield AI as a force multiplier and those who treat it as a novelty. The professionals who build this skill in 2026 will have a compounding advantage that grows every single year as AI models get more powerful. Those who wait will not just be behind, they will be structurally locked out of the opportunities that define the next decade. The blueprint is in front of you, the only variable is whether you act on it.
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@EricSal_7 I don’t know. In 12 and 13, multiple times I went to bed, because the Spurs were down 12 with 1:45 left. The next morning I found out they won. That seemed to happen a lot.
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I’ve watched this team since 1989.
I’ve seen 5 title teams.
I’ve never been this confident in a team when down double digits.
This may be the most talented Spurs team I’ve ever seen.
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41 and still doing this. Most of these never played anything waterboys probably saying it’s fake hustle and the only thing jump on is hot dogs and fast food. 🙏🏿
LakeShowYo@LakeShowYo
JJ Redick: “I said to LeBron, in 23 years of watching him play in the NBA and 3 years playing high school, I NEVER saw you make a full-out extension dive like that… and he said, ‘You're right. I've never done that.’”
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@hymnduncan Needs to deploy that 500 IQ on ATO plays and inbounds plays in pressure situations. I worry about coaching playoff inexperience more than player inexperience. Wemby will still be 7’5” on D. Inex doesn’t change that.
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500-IQ intentional loss by Coach Mitch Johnson tonight 🧠
-Blew a big lead so teams underestimate us in the playoffs
-Rested Wemby: more experience for role players and more insight into different lineups
-Less load on Wemby, more on Jokic
-Nuggets will have zero recent film on the Jokic/Wemby matchup
Let’s recognize the value of what our Maestro has orchestrated tonight
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@NBA I live 159 miles north of San Antonio, have Fubo, Amazon League Pass and I’m blacked out of the Spurs/Nuggets game?
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@BS_2112 @hell_line0 One of the causes of this is men outsourcing the parenting of their daughters to their wives. The girls need both.
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Let me guess. When he led, you criticized him and insisted it be done your way. When he initiated intimacy you were never in the mood. When he shared his thoughts that you are trying to do too much, you got mad. So he stopped trying and went along to get along. You refused to realize it was you all along.
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For 12 years, I was married to a conventionally “nice guy.”
He never hit me. Never cheated (or at least I didn’t know and we never had infidelity issues), he never even argued much.
He was calm. Quiet. Agreeable.
In the beginning I thought that meant I was safe, and I felt lucky to have him.
Because other women had worse right?
But this is exactly why the marriage eventually failed…
His “good guy” image meant he never led.
He never decided.
He never carried weight.
So I did. I had to step in and keep the boat rowing and afloat.
Financially. Emotionally. Strategically.
And eventually I was left tired, exhausted and resentful.
Because “nice” without initiative is passivity.
And passivity turns a wife into infrastructure.
I wasn’t married to a monster.
I was married to a passenger.
And I had to step off that car that was leading me to oblivion.
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@YaronWeitzman The best players play 35-38 minutes. With 8 timeouts and a half time break. On off days they rarely practice. If you give them more time off, with less games, you’ll have the same set of injuries.
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I've done a bunch of reporting on this recently, speaking with agents, team and league execs, players, etc. No one disagrees with Steve Kerr’s premise; it's clear that fewer games would likely lead to better basketball and healthier players. But it’s also more complicated than “everyone just needs to stop being greedy.”
For one, there are other parties involved in this equation. “The leases and contracts signed for arenas typically require a minimum number of games,” @mcuban told me. In his view, shortening the season would be “impossible.” Or, as one prominent agent put it: “It would require a complete reset of the system all the way down to the guy working security or the snack stand 41 nights a week in Memphis.”
Even if those hurdles were solved, the league would still need to make up the revenue it'd be losing by slicing off games. Yes, the NBA now makes most of its money from national TV deals, but it still generates huge revenue from ticket sales and everything fans buy in arenas (more than I realized; the NBA is not just a content/media business. At least not yet). My read is that if someone presented a model where both sides could realistically make up that lost revenue, people would be open to it. Or at least to discussing the possibility. But as far as I can tell, no one has come up with any solutions to this problem.
One other thing worth noting: Multiple people told me they don’t think shaving 10 games would matter much anyway. These people believe you'd still have medical teams pushing forms of load management and that you'd still have players more than willing to sit out games. Also, they said, a 72-game season would still feel long. You’d only get NFL-style scarcity at something like 50 games—which most people view as far too radical.
TLDR version: The season is probably too long. But don’t expect that to change anytime soon. If the league wants to address player health and participation, it will need to find another way.
Oh No He Didn't@ohnohedidnt24
Steve Kerr: "We need to play fewer games. We need to take 10 games off the schedule. The modern game with the pace and the space I think it would be a more competitive and healthier league if we played fewer games"
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@EricSal_7 It’ll be interesting to see how both the Spurs and OKC handle their rosters going forward. Can’t pay everybody. If Victor makes a Brady move this could last a long time.
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This is where I can’t agree.
Most of NBA Twitter at the time, when Spurs Drafted Wemby, were calling for them to dump their assets for Dame and then Trae.
Then it was Lauri.
Spurs refused. Kept all their picks the next two years AFTER Vic was drafted.
They could have easily made this situation a short window mess trading for 1 way, high cost, high volume scorers with cool names like many suggested.
They instead kept all premium draft capital and cashed in a low cost deal for a two way perimeter talent like Fox.
They could have also traded Castle & Harper for Giannis recently like many suggested and Spurs still refused.
They could have also dumped Vassell, 14th pick/Carter Bryant for KD — they weren’t interested.
They should get all the credit for how they’ve built this thing.
ᵂᴵᴸᴸ@BiasedHouston
None of this matters if the Spurs don’t get Wemby. Which fairs, good on the Spurs for that. But when people say the league built the Spurs, I promise they’re not talking about Keldon Johnson. They’re talking about the 10 FT tall demon who shoots 3’s and blocks shots.
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@Jumpshot8 Jokic is the exact opposite of the evolution argument.
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Not true in all instances. The mobile phone has made communication between two people faster but not better. People struggle communicating without texting and people today like plays run with options instead of jacking 50 3’s and watching 6’4 players guard 280 lb centers. 🤷🏾
NBA Base@TheNBABase
Nikola Jokic on why comparing NBA eras doesn’t make sense: “It would be stupid to think that basketball isn’t better today than it was 30 years ago. That would be like saying phones were better 30 years ago. Technology evolves, everything modernizes, and basketball evolves too.” (Via @XOsChat )
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So just to recap: a prison guard who lied to the authorities about checking on Epstein also coincidentally made a series of deposits in the weeks leading up to his death that were so suspicious that the bank independently reported them to the police. That same prison guard was searching for news about Epstein in the moments before his death. And that same guard was independently named by inmates who claimed that she was involved in covering up the killing. Also, two cameras in front of Epstein's cell malfunctioned while all of this was happening. That's a whole lot of coincidences stacking up on top of each other. I don't know. Seems strange to me. But I'm no detective.
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@TommyBeer With one huge exception. Today’s scorers are more skilled. And I think, they’re the ones who get injured. Dame, Tatum, Durant, Klay, Kyrie. Just off the top of my head.
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Focus on how little energy each player needs to exert in each possession, esp the off-ball defenders.
Contrast that with the speed and constant movement/cutting in today’s space-and/pace NBA.
Sports Season@SportsSeason_
Cinematic quality first 3 minutes of the 1998 Game 6 NBA Finals. Look at all the amazing ball movement and sets. Basketball used to be such art 🔥
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@TommyBeer I’ve been watching for this very thing. Most of the offenses today have one or two guys standing in a corner. The number of uncontested 3’s is pretty high. Transition offense is between 1 and 3. Outside of 3’s not sure it’s that different.
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@Ian9571 @CurtisScoon I don’t know very many people that spend much time really thinking about this, but if you could only choose 1 tool to destabilize society, breaking up the family is the one you’d choose.
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Assessing the destructive impact of ‘Stalinist feminism’
Source: Mercator share.google/GpKLsqOPrjkAlo…
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@SpursCentral Presti will trade some of his young players for picks and/or look for quality mid level vets to fold in. Would not shock me to see one of his big 3 moved in a year or two. Likely case is Wallace for a few 1’s. Wemby = more flexibility
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After Oklahoma City Thunder won the championship last season. They said "We need someone to rescue us from the Thunder, let's stop their "Dynasty" before it starts"
What people failed to do, is Remind yall Wemby is only 22. Castle 21. Bryant 20. Harper 20.
They are Cheap still. Younger than okc. And are built to sustain success beyond just this year. What OKC failed at.
Shai is 70m next season.
Chet is 42m next season.
JDubb is 42m next season.
154m just to 3 players.
Spurs highest player (Fox)
(Only Max so far)
51m next season
Cap wise and Talent wise. The next dynasty is in San Antonio. Not Oklahoma City.
Just keep that in mind
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@MichaelVandiRS “Act like a McKinsey senior partner who turns raw numbers into boardroom decisions. “
I did this one in 2 seconds:
“Outsource everything overseas”. @matthewstoller
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4. Data Storytelling
"Act like a McKinsey senior partner who turns raw numbers into boardroom decisions. I have this data: [paste your data]. Transform it into a compelling narrative for my presentation. Tell me which numbers to highlight, what story they prove, what visuals to use, and the exact sentence to say when each stat appears on screen."
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🚨BREAKING: GOODBYE POWERPOINT forever.
Claude just collapsed 5 hours of presentation building into 100 seconds completely free.
10 prompts to go from completely unprepared to completely untouchable in every meeting:
(Save this before it goes viral):
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@EricSal_7 And it’s a much younger league in total. Tony was 30 in 2012 and the youngest of the big 3. I’m not worried about the players’ inexperience in the playoffs. I’m a little concerned about the coaching staff inexperience in-game.
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@EricRWeinstein Sometimes the AI discussion reminds me of a bad guitar player, with a great guitar, who plays a bad solo on a good song and thinks it’s great. Then he hears,say Pat Metheny, solo on the same song and thinks he sounds just as good as Pat.
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Also let me issue a challenge:
Who is changing the world with AI?
Here is the paper that changed the world:
I can’t name a single person on this from memory. Not one.
Because their names are erased. By us.
Because we developed an addiction to Billionaire thought porn.
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I love Peter both as a mind and as a friend. But this is dangerously wrong.
I am both a word person and a math person. And I am watching our business people become our designated public thinkers. By default.
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