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i know people usually do this in a coy way but i can’t since it’s counterintuitive to the subject and something i’ve wanted since i was a kid: i’m writing a book!
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imagine a child you knew when they were a baby, years later, making eye contact with you as you took a deep breath at the free throw line then shredded your soul with the screech of an eagle
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fred buying out a billboard of himself in rockford illinois: in case you’ve recovered and would like to get back to your new natural state of never-ending tears of joy
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jokic with the realest quote of media day when asked how he’s going to celebrate his birthday, “i want the day to go fast, i get sad getting older”
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wasn’t looking to have my heart broken off the bat to start the preseason but cest la vie
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we gotta stop putting player stats at the end of articles about the violent assaults they've committed
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there is something so inherently dismissive to women, to women’s lives and pain and safety, and how deep and pronounced the layers of that dismissal go, in feeling the need to first: share this, and second: follow up with a lazy postscript that still relies on dismissal as logic
Brandon Miller just had one of the best performances of the college season amid the controversy: 41 points with the game-tying shot at the end of regulation and the game-winning layup in overtime.
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gary payton finding a broomstick to come after udonis haslem is the halloween content i crave
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even if this was a tee'd up question, and silver's answer is canned, it still puts it in front of a big, big audience who might otherwise not give IPV a second thought. it frames the issue as something not off-limits for broadcast & not removed from "primetime basketball"
Charles Barkley confronts NBA commissioner Adam Silver after numerous offseason incidents of domestic violence among NBA athletes:
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oh yeah, that team with a 6’11 horse girl, a sweet fashion cowboy, the only cool person from kitchener ontario, a vegan surfer addicted to giant hats, the most gleeful dunker of his day, etc, what a snooze fest
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25 games for ja morant, 10 for miles bridges — silver's quote on the concerning potential of young people emulating morant's behaviour might be bare minimum, but i wish words like it ever accompanied the league's apathetic releases on intimate partner violence and sexual assault
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wrote about the danger and damage of interpreting violence against women through men basketballfeelings.substack.…
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“serge has been a light to my life”, terence davis on ibaka’s role as a mentor and the moment my heart shattered for good!
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to get yourself emotionally prepped for the raptors to meet kyle lowry on the floor tomorrow, you might want to pick up a @TorontoStar today
i wrote about @blessedmom07 and her enduring role in the raptors online community
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my favourite thing about this answer is it acknowledges continuity. points it out for the reporter (first abruptly, “you asked me last year”, then with grace, “i didn’t mean to make it personal”), in the team, for giannis. it rejects the idea sports and progress are linear
Giannis didn't like @eric_nehm's question about whether the season was a failure and went long in his answer
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gasol was in that lakers spaces at 7am in spain, probably having a nice cafe con leche and a little laugh to start the day, god i love it
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remember when nba athletes were going to escalate their labour action and vote to leave the bubble and obama called them to say they were protesting wrong?
President @BarackObama on the violence in Gaza.
Full interview out Tuesday.
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seems like a good time to announce i’m the @raptors monthly writer for february!
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i wrote about @lonniewalker_4, whose star power and energy is igniting the spurs, and popovich’s fashion sense uproxx.com/dimemag/lonnie-wa…
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wnba stays punk as hell
Dream and Mercury players are wearing “Vote Warnock” shirts to their game today.
Raphael Warnock is running against Kelly Loeffler for Senate. Loeffler is a co-owner of the Dream and said she opposes the Black Lives Matter movement.
(via @sportsiren)
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it isn’t a huge leap from death threats against aliyah boston, angel reese, and diamond deshields, or the stalking of paige bueckers, to femicide of rebecca cheptegei. this isn’t some cultural disparity or distant menace. this is the culture of misogyny, pervasive and universal
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stop what you’re doing and read the best on the best — @louisahthomas on the way jokic’s talent and athletic beauty breaks people’s brains (bonus: making bill walton shout spontaneous poetry in the din of a media room) newyorker.com/magazine/2024/…
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the raptors surprised pascal siakam in his return to toronto this week by coordinating an entire section (628 fans) to wear all different eras of his jersey
i spoke with the people behind the grand gesture to find out how they pulled it off uproxx.com/dimemag/pascal-si…
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may we all have the determination of jimmy butler working out while a mural of jimmy butler looks on
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crying
Toronto, thank you for everything. This one’s for you. ❤️ @PlayersTribune
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very proud and happy to finally let it out of the bag that i wrote the story for this cover, on the rise of canadian players in the nba and an interview with @shaiglalex, for the inaugural issue of @slam_canada!
Canada, this SLAM issue is yours. Shai Gilgeous-Alexander, Kia Nurse and Steve Nash cover SLAM Canada Issue 1. Link in bio to cop on Friday. 1/3 🧵
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the thing about framing success this way always makes me think: who gets to be successful? who gets to sacrifice their families? who gets to approach discipline like a monastic state, with everything that might interrupt it removed?
If you want to be great, you need discipline.
In Episode 1, @kingjames and @jj_redick discuss the makings of a great basketball player: piped.video/q2XVtWfancQ
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the tribute i wrote for jerry west was just read by mark jones to open summer league — ironically, i have no words
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mayor of atlanta, every superstar likely to get voted in, scientists: the all-star game is irresponsible and we don't want it
nba: get ready for the tiktok 40 second socially distanced dunk contest brought to you by taco bell & pfizer stand for the zoom anthem by fergie in a kia
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it’s funny (depressing) that sensory and setting details are framed as “romantic” and therefore egregious, because they’re unfamiliar in sports writing, and make people uncomfortable because they’re unfamiliar — to me this was the best part
Holy f—- this is a romance novel.
I told you the spin would be bad.
But Florida would ban this if it were in a book…
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doris called lowry the master and i slipped off the couch onto the floor like my bones turned to cool refreshing water
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sabrina ionescu has never been so relatable to me as when she puked in a bucket just now
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asked if he remembers the last time the raptors played at scotia, og anunoby says "yeah, we played the hornets, we lost"
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i'm livid for becky hammon, who after being patronized and flown as a false flag by olshey, likely all along, doesn't even have the luxury to stay angry if she wants to keep interviewing for head coaching jobs
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“She is overqualified,” says Aces guard Kelsey Plum, “to be an NBA coach.”
this is great
"If I walk in the room and I have the biggest set of balls in the room, it’s not going to work." On eve of #WNBA season, @BeckyHammon is not holding back. time.com/6279558/becky-hammo…
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nba has no back to back world champ coach becky hammon and absolutely no one puking in-game in-bucket on live tv, destitute league
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happy valentine's! i interviewed jimmy butler uproxx.com/dimemag/jimmy-but…
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dejan milojevic was such a person's coach. genuine care and understanding for his athletes — toughness, tenderness, pushing them to be critical thinkers, and just so funny. he called me up v late once after running around all day, tired, and still gave me as much time as i needed
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“I'm from Toronto, so I see the development that they make with all the guys... They get guys going."
profiled the rangy, bright, and very fun, dalano banton ca.sports.yahoo.com/news/nba…
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well, shoot
there’s a substack called BASKETBALL FEELINGS and the subtitle is “reconciling real life with basketball, or else the other way around” and i think that is a wonderful title and subtitle and i am now very interested in reading it basketballfeelings.substack.…
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i like that the raptors have so many mascots goin at once that the suns reporter had to specify which one devin booker was mad at
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i wrote about the weird little beating heart of nba all-star weekend, the dunk contest, for @nytimes nytimes.com/2023/02/15/magaz…
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still thinking about how much this resonates, “when you appreciate something and it means something, this is how you react”
pure normalization of showing big feelings in sport. obviously central to much of my work, and crucial to life
Incredibly raw stuff from Vince Carter last night when @wtevs asked him how he's staying in the moment, which turned into a tearful answer on how much it meant for the Raptors to immortalize him on a jersey even if they'd never retired his number.
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i interviewed and profiled the indefatigable @realStanVG uproxx.com/dimemag/stan-van-…
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not sure you can call the lakers season a failure when it freed russ up to be at the met gala/all is right with the universe
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wrote about terence davis and i really would like to stop basketballfeelings.substack.…
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wrote about kyle kuzma's quiet (if sometimes awkward) growth this season, and if the lakers don't recognize it, a lot of other teams will uproxx.com/dimemag/kyle-kuzm…
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lots of thoughts about this, none of which i really want to talk about here or maybe at all, but referring to mychelle johnson solely as “mother of his children” is reductive, strange, and lazy as hell
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taking center stage with the @SacramentoKings, being away from a family happiest at home, an nba draft night photo mix up, and learning how to play in slow motion — hung out in sacramento with @keegan3murray for @DimeUPROXX’s latest cover uproxx.com/dimemag/keegan-mu…
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teams will now only be considering deals that reunite best friends and past teammates who didn’t get the runway they deserved, sources tell me
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i honestly don’t mind espn reheating my leftovers if it brings more attention to the rash of soft tissue injuries this season, and the larger problem of an increase in injuries year over year the league is facing, but a collegial nod is always nice
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wrote about the all encompassing gravity of kyle lowry, which toronto was lucky to be held in the power of for so long uproxx.com/dimemag/kyle-lowr…
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the realest coach in the league, going to miss him talking about how terrible his team was, never out to get sympathy just someone telling you you’re standing in a garbage dump when you are in fact standing in a garbage dump
ESPN Sources: Steve Clifford is stepping down as the Charlotte Hornets’ coach at the end of the season and working to finalize a front office role with the franchise. Clifford informed his assistants and players on Wednesday morning.
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sorry there is something so cozy and nice about all these guys gathered in a hotel ballroom with their pool slides and socks on to get this news
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