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[colt @AllEyezOnColt]

Yeah ight 😂😂😂😂

[NBACentral @TheDunkCentral]

Jaylen Brown’s trade value isn’t that high around the league, per @BobbyMarks42

“I had an analytics guy tell me, ‘We view [Jaylen Brown] as the seventh-best player on a TEAM.’”😳

(Via @SiriusXMNBA )

[colt @AllEyezOnColt]

🖤

[bomani @bomani_jones]

yo, this is a GREAT take. i can’t say enough how objectively excellent he is in this minute.

[The Sage @TheBBallSage]

#SageWasRight

[colt @AllEyezOnColt]

Why does this look so crazy 😭😭😭

[JT @futureofhoops4]

Bron Kobe n jkidd were so broken man the chemistry was so seamless

[colt @AllEyezOnColt]

BS take. From 08-2012 bean was the best player in the nba. Miss me with that

[NBA Courtside @NBA__Courtside]

Nick Wright says he’s got Kobe Bryant as the 8th greatest player ever, and he was never the best player in the world:

“I know people get mad at that take, but here’s the problem and the reason Kobe was never the best player in the world. Because once Kobe got great, call it 99, he wasn’t great yet, but I’ll give him 99 once you started seeing flashes. From 99 until 2002, Shaquille O’Neal was the best player in the world. And then from 2003 until 2007, Tim Duncan was the best player in the world. You know how I know Tim Duncan was the best player in the world at that time? Because he won three championships in five years. He won two MVPs. He was the best player. He was the best player until that 48 special by LeBron in 2007. LeBron was the best player in the world from that moment until 2018. So it was Shaq, it was Duncan, it was then Bron. At no point was Kobe the best player in the world.”

(Via @WhatsWrightShow)

[Daily Pop @dailypop__]

La routine la plus difficile dans la préparation du film ‘MICHAEL’ pour Jaafar Jackson :

« Je dirais probablement Billie Jean du Motown 25, parce que je voulais m’en approcher le plus possible, plan par plan. Et celle-là était difficile, car il fallait rester fidèle à cette structure plan par plan, sans tomber dans la simple imitation tout en restant crédible et en incarnant la performance. Atteindre chaque moment, chaque temps fort mais aussi garder l’énergie et le showmanship derrière les mouvements, c’était un vrai défi. »

[colt @AllEyezOnColt]

My guy!

[Scott Eisberg @SEisbergWCIV]

The transfer portal is a wild place.

@CitadelHoops surely just pulled one of their most unique transfers.

He'll be a 30-year-old junior.
A father.
A navy veteran.
He never played HS hoops. Went from military teams, to JUCO, to Green Bay to here.

Meet Mel Bethea.

[Zoom Afrika @zoomafrika1]

FACTS YOU DON'T KNOW ABOUT MICHAEL JACKSON

Akon said all the ñegative stories people spread about Michael Jackson were lies. He was never into little kids and never bleached his skin, and people should stop seeing him as a Pedophile

“Michael Jackson was truly my friend. We would sit and talk like any two regular friends. He was a normal person like everyone else. He didn’t like thick women his type was more like runway models. And the rumors about him liking kids were lies. People were always watching him, hoping he’d slip up. When they found nothing, they made up stories because he often spent time with children.

Also, let me clear something up Michael never bleached his skin. He had a condition called Vitiligo, which causes the skin to lose its color in certain areas. This illness can happen to anyone, including me or you. But at that time, most people didn’t really know about it. So they spread the false story that he was ashamed of being black, just to turn the black community against him.

I’m saying all this because we need to protect Michael Jackson’s name and legacy. When he spoke in that soft, childlike voice, it wasn’t fake. He did it because children loved him, and he wanted to connect with them and inspire them to reach their full potential. We all share the responsibility to keep his legacy alive, because the world will never have another Michael Jackson." ~ Akon

[BIG HYCE @thehyce]

don’t get so caught up in your current struggles that you lose sight of all the ways God has already carried you through the past.

[BR°kēñ🥷 @Angle__wix]

The only difference between Jaffar Jackson and Micheal Jackson from the movie was the camera 🔥🍿

[Tampa Bay Buccaneers @Buccaneers]

"I'm the best in the country." - @ruebenbainjr 🗣️

📺: #NFLDraft on NFLN/ESPN/ABC

[The Players’ Tribune @PlayersTribune]

Keldon Johnson on embracing his role as the sixth man: “I remember a couple years ago, I had a hard conversation with Pop. One morning, we were getting ready to play Dallas, and he pulled me to the side and told me that he thought it would be best for the team if I started coming off the bench. I said, ‘Yeah, of course. Whatever’s best for the team, I’ll do it.’ And I truly meant that, too.

But I’m also just human, man. And I was like 24 years old. If I said that I fully bought into this role from the jump, I’d be lying. I had averaged 22 points in the NBA. I’d won a gold medal with Team USA at the Olympics. So I just didn’t understand. I couldn’t wrap my head around it. And ultimately, I didn’t take it well. I sulked. I let the outside noise affect my play. I didn’t present the best version of myself as I was coming off the bench for the rest of that season. And I knew that I was much better than that.

I’ve been reflecting on that part of my journey a lot lately, with the position we’re in right now.

To backtrack a little bit…. When I was drafted in 2019, that was probably one of the most stressful nights of my life. I’d had a great year at Kentucky, and I thought I was going 9 or 10. In my mind, my floor was 15 to Detroit. The crazy thing is, I didn’t even work out for San Antonio. We talked a little bit on FaceTime, but I honestly didn’t think I’d still be on the board at 19 when the Spurs picked. Definitely not at 29, where I ended up going. I don’t know why I slipped so much, but thank God I did, because I landed at a proven organization with vets who could mold me.

That situation could have gone one of two ways. Thankfully, it went the good way.

Dejounte was young, too, but he knew the ropes better than me, and he made sure that I did everything the right way. I can’t thank him enough to this day for how much he’s helped my career. Same thing with DeMar DeRozan. Those guys really embraced me and took me under their wing as a young guy, and showed me how it was done. I feel like I had such a great group of vets, whether it was LaMarcus Aldridge, Patty Mills, Rudy Gay — all those guys went out their way to make sure I was solid. I feel like they knew how good I could be before I even knew how good I could be. They didn’t let me skip any steps, which was huge for my career early on.

And yeah, fast-forward to summer 2024, and I got to thinking back on my first couple years here in San Antonio, and how I could get that spark back, get back to being me. That’s when I started to see the bigger picture. We had picks. There were all these signs that we were building something that was gonna be special, all these bright green flags.

But there was this one red flag.

Me.

In that moment, I had to take a hard look in the mirror. And man, I just got embarrassed. I hated that feeling — the feeling that I had let my vets down, and especially let my younger teammates down.

This organization believed in me since day one, when Pop and our GM at the time R.C. Buford took a leap of faith on a player who was sliding in the draft and didn’t even have a workout at their facility. They had a plan, and I was a big piece of that plan. I just needed to get out of my own way. Period.

I knew that I could either be the person who tries to fight the change, who makes it about them and their ego, and tries to do everything their way (which never really works). Or, I could trust the process. And the Spurs never gave me a reason not to trust it. So I bought into my role, and I put my best foot forward each and every night. Whatever I had to do to be the best version of myself, I did it. And I feel like this season has been a testament to that.

I’m just really at home here. I think that’s probably obvious, right? The cowboy hat isn’t a gimmick. San Antonio is all me. Being a country boy, that’s just a part of who I am. From Huntington Prep to Oak Hill Academy to Kentucky, I feel like I just carried that country boy vibe with me everywhere I went.” https://t.co/WnVP4cXPll