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Sports distilled. We don’t tell you what happened last night. We tell you why you’re still thinking about it years later.

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The Spurs called the nuns. The Knicks brought the accordion. #Wemby #KnicksInFour #Knicks #Spurs #NBA #Basketball https://t.co/prTaf0laPQ

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Wemby's Too-Fresh Prince is the future. DJ Jazzy Jalen's Knicks have won 14 straight playoff games. LISTEN to the NBA Finals rap battle track we just dropped: "🥖 Tag It and Baguette." #Wemby #KnicksInFour #Knicks #Spurs #NBA #Basketball https://t.co/09NN9WQBNT

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2-0 #Knicks #KnicksInFive #Spurs #Wemby

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The Spurs have to solve the Knicks. The Knicks have to solve Victor Wembanyama. There are not the same. Read our take on Game 1: https://t.co/gN31nXKDri

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@bogwitchbooks I have written my Mustang Opus about this majestic hellspawn donkey:

https://t.co/qd5GWQBpEd

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I have written a song in honor of this majestic hellspawn.

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Bobby Cox got ejected 162 times.
A full season of telling umpires to go directly to hell.

Our tribute to one of the last great baseball men.

Long Form Piece: https://t.co/YZrETspZy9

#MLB @Braves

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Cooper Flagg has the trophy. Scottie Pippen has six rings and a lifetime membership in the “nobody handed me a damn thing” club. Two wings. Two roads. One question: what makes a man when the game finally asks for proof? https://t.co/naza9eUlgI #NBA @dallasmavs

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In eight days Doc Rivers was welcomed into the Hall of Fame and told he was no longer welcome in Milwaukee. We graded him against the rest of the Fall of Fame.
Long-form piece: https://t.co/AdXqz3OBWK
#NBA #Basketball #DocRivers #Celtics #Sixers #Bucks

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Mike D’Antoni is finally headed to Springfield, which feels right for the man who made the NBA spend twenty years chasing Phoenix’s fast break. This is our long-form story on the Seven Seconds Suns: speed, trust, joy, heartbreak, and the revolution that got there early. https://t.co/BdgmPC5Iz6 #NBA #PhoenixSuns @hoophall

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Russell Westbrook is what happens when you give a linebacker a basketball. This is a career retrospective about force, durability, volatility, and the burden of being the guy who never learned how to coast. https://t.co/WG7Ao1bNQz #NBA @russwest

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From Pat Riley to Jerry Jones, the hardest decision in sports isn't building a winner - its knowing when to step aside.

Long Form Piece: https://t.co/RFyVk0Iv0j

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Hope is undefeated on draft night. Reality has a full season to respond. Check out Torsten's take on who won and who lost in this years NFL Draft.

Long Form Piece: https://t.co/eV0mmhxMH6

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In eight days Doc Rivers was welcomed into the Hall of Fame and told he was no longer welcome in Milwaukee. We graded him against the rest of the Fall of Fame.
Long-form piece: https://t.co/AdXqz3OBWK
#NBA #Basketball #DocRivers #Celtics #Sixers #Bucks

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A courtroom drama about the modern NBA—where the charges include murder of momentum, meaning, and a few things nobody wants to say out loud. What happens when the NBA is forced to defend the experience instead of the numbers? The defense has...its hands full. Our Cousin Torsten tries to keep up. Join the jury: https://t.co/Z4dbAnOCgs
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LeBron. Wade. Melo. Kidd. Bosh. Dwight. A room full of leaders, one gold-medal mission, and a single player willing to set the standard before dawn. Read We Got This: Kobe Bryant & The Redeem Team at 120 Proof Ball.

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In eight days Doc Rivers was welcomed into the Hall of Fame and told he was no longer welcome in Milwaukee. We graded him against the rest of the Fall of Fame.
Long-form piece: https://t.co/AdXqz3OBWK
#NBA #Basketball #DocRivers #Celtics #Sixers #Bucks

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We’re not just analyzing VAR in this article. We’re putting it on trial for murdering emotion. We traded chaos for confusion. VAR didn’t just become a tool; it became a ritual. We mechanized justice and somehow made it feel less fair. By the time the bunker gets it right, the naked eye has already forgotten what it was mad about.

Get the full breakdown: The Zapruder film, forensic geometry, and the 60-second shot clock. https://t.co/KKwWgP0C88

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@BleacherReport @ShamsCharania Welcomed to the Hall of Fame and no longer welcome in Milwaukee in 8 days: https://t.co/AdXqz3P9Mi

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@TheDunkCentral We wrote about how accountability only flows downhill for Doc: https://t.co/AdXqz3P9Mi