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Lover of Bron and bucket getting

[✰ @3zzzlost]

Define “legendary”

[♕𝕕𝕒𝕧𝕠𓅓 @shpillo_]

it’s sad that Enes Kanter was clearly there to ragebait & it actually worked. like let’s be real… you’re a biological woman crashing out while you’re in the middle of a game cuz this dude is wearing a pro woman shirt. we living in some crazy times lol

[Enes Kanter FREEDOM @EnesFreedom]

It’s always women hating on other women.

[Hernán Chinaski @_realkiko]

Es muy difícil encontrar la belleza y complejidad que hay en cada movimiento si nunca practicaste un deporte de este tipo, es increíble lo que hace este tipo

[Jacob Moreno @jacob_moreno_]

Oh my word, there is footage:

(📸: ChrisJohnsonHoops / IG)

[²³𝙻𝚎𝙱𝚛𝚘𝚗𝚌𝚑𝚒𝚝𝚒𝚜🏀☄️🌎💞 @BronGotGame]

Wallahi I just shed a full tear 😭 Can’t believe this is OUR life

[🕊️ @MagicalXavi]

Rodri - Welcome to FC Barcelona 💙❤️

[Fabrizio Romano @FabrizioRomano]

🚨🔵🔴 EXCLUSIVE: RODRI TO BARCELONA, HERE WE GO! 💥

Deal agreed for Spanish midfielder to join Barça from Man City, all done for the former Ballon d’Or.

Green light from Man City to last Barcelona bid.

More follows. 💣

[George Jarjour @GeorgeOnTap]

The Seahawks just made Devon Witherspoon the highest-paid cornerback in NFL history: four years, $132 million, over $101 million guaranteed. Five months ago they made JSN the highest-paid receiver in football. Both of those players were drafted by Seattle, showing the draft evaluation is absolutely elite.

Since winning the Super Bowl. We locked up some of our key guys. Smith-Njigba, their 2023 first-round pick, got a four-year, $168.6 million extension. Charles Cross, their 2022 first-rounder, got paid. And now Witherspoon, the fifth overall pick in 2023, resets the entire cornerback market at 25 years old.

That No. 5 overall pick they used on Witherspoon wasn't even theirs. It belonged to the Broncos, and Seattle got it in the Russell Wilson trade. The pick landed at No. 5 because Denver went 5-12 in Wilson's first year, so the worse Wilson played in Denver, the higher the pick Seattle received. They turned the fallout from trading their franchise quarterback into the fifth pick in the draft, and turned that pick into the best cornerback in football.

A lot of people were surprised Seattle took a corner that high. Corners rarely go in the top five, and Witherspoon wasn't the consensus best player on the board. Three seasons later he has three Pro Bowls, a Super Bowl, and the richest contract any cornerback has ever signed. The pick that got second-guessed is now the centerpiece of the defense, and the same Wilson trade also handed Seattle Charles Cross at No. 9 the year before. Two of the three players they just paid came out of the deal that was supposed to set the franchise back.

Every one of those players came through the Seattle draft. They weren't trade or free agents away. Seattle drafted them, developed them, and paid them before anyone else could.

The reason it works is timing. A drafted player is under team control for years, which means you can extend him before he ever reaches the open market. You're negotiating against the player's agent, not against thirty other franchises in a bidding war. Witherspoon still had his fully guaranteed fifth-year option for 2027 on the books when Seattle extended him. They didn't have to do this now. They did it now because paying a great 25-year-old today is cheaper than paying that same player in two years, after another All-Pro season, with free agency looming and every cornerback-needy team ready to blow past whatever number Seattle offers.

Compare that to the corner market Seattle just leapt over. Denzel Ward reset the position at $31.1 million a month ago. Trent McDuffie got $31 million after the Rams traded for him. Those deals happen because a team either waited too long with its own player or had to overpay to import someone else's. Seattle saw where the market was heading and got in front of it, paying Witherspoon $33 million a year before the next wave of corner deals pushed that number even higher. In two years, $33 million for a shutdown corner in his prime may look like a bargain.

This is the same lesson playing out across the league with running backs right now. The teams paying Bijan Robinson and Jahmyr Gibbs early are the ones who understood that the cheapest version of a superstar is the one you already drafted, signed before the market forces your hand. Seattle has turned that idea into an entire team-building philosophy. Draft well, identify your keepers fast, and pay them before anyone else gets the chance to.

The catch is that this only works if you draft well enough to have players worth keeping, and Seattle's front office has hit on first-round picks at a rate most teams can't touch. Smith-Njigba, Witherspoon, and Cross were all high picks who became stars, which is the hard part nobody can copy just by wanting to. But given a young core that good, Seattle is doing the one thing that actually keeps a championship team together: paying its own before the rest of the league can make an offer.

The Seahawks won a Super Bowl and then handed record contracts to three players they drafted themselves. Everyone else is still shopping in free agency, paying full price for other teams' stars. Seattle already owns theirs.

[Adam Schefter @AdamSchefter]

ESPN sources: three-time Pro-Bowl CB Devon Witherspoon and the Seahawks reached agreement on a four-year, $132 million extension and includes over $101 million guaranteed that now makes him the highest-paid cornerback in NFL history.

[ᴅᴏxx ⚡️ @new_era72]

#INNOCENT

[bac @JALENMILROESZN]

Let’s work

[XDcomps @XDcomps]

Good bye and fuck you

[Luke C-Walker @SuaveBry]

LeBron left the LA Jews to be with the Philly Muslims💯

[²³𝙻𝚎𝙱𝚛𝚘𝚗𝚌𝚑𝚒𝚝𝚒𝚜🏀☄️🌎💞 @BronGotGame]

Holy fuckkk thank GOD we got up outta there 😭😭😭😭😭

[Jon Gruden @BarstoolGruden]

Jaxon Smith-Njigba is one of if not the best route runner in the league and the numbers he put up last year are a result of that!

[Warriors comeback szn @WcsforSC30]

Man these some good Demar Derozan highlights

[Ben Fowlkes @benfowlkesMMA]

You know what’s really crazy? Some of us realized this without even having to go to the rallies.

[Ned(⁠◕⁠દ⁠◕⁠) @ned_fcb11]

I genuinely get goosebumps whenever a 24/25 edit pops up. Unreal season man, still feels unreal. Glad I didn't miss a single minute of Barca ball that season.

[🕊️ @neycentral]

I’d genuinely pay to watch prime Neymar train 😭

[LeBron James @KingJames]

🙏🏾🫡👑