Issiah Colston

I’m hungry for success.. A tiger runs the fastest when he is hungry 🐅

[Aakash Gupta @aakashgupta]

LeBron will make $4M a year from the Sixers. Living in Manhattan and helicoptering to Philadelphia could cost him over $1M of it. He'd be spending a quarter of his salary to avoid living in the city he plays for.

Run the numbers. Shams says the flight is 45 minutes from Manhattan. Twin-engine charter rates run $3,000 to $5,000 an hour, so call it $8,000 a round trip. With 41 home games plus practices, that's 100+ commuting days. $800K a season, minimum.

Then taxes. A New York City resident pays up to 14.8% combined state and city income tax. Pennsylvania is a 3.07% flat tax. On a $4M salary, choosing Manhattan over Philly adds $300K+ a year, and New York taxes residents on everything they earn everywhere.

So why does a man who just took a $48M pay cut spend seven figures on a commute? Because the paycheck stopped mattering years ago. LeBron earns roughly $80M a year off the court. His entire Sixers salary equals about 18 days of being LeBron.

The vet minimum was a gift of cap room to the front office so Embiid, Maxey, and Jaylen Brown get surrounded with actual depth. And when your day job pays 5% of your income, you arrange the day job around your life. His family, his media company, and his business all run better out of the biggest market in America.

Kobe ran this exact math two decades ago, flying from Newport Beach to Staples every day. What he was actually purchasing was hours with his daughters. LeBron at 41, on possibly his last contract, is buying the same thing.

[kordell @lledrok]

nigga turned into yoshi for a second LMFAOO

[Issiah Colston @ColstonIssiah]

Nahh facts 😭😂 https://t.co/VGCqHYRW8q

[Happy Punch @HappyPunch]

UFC just dropped raw audio from Ilia Topuria vs Justin Gaethje at the White House 👀

“Tell the doctor he can’t see… Ilia, no more fighting. It’s over. We finished the fight.”

(via @foxnation)

[Isaac Bassey @0xBassey]

Rich Paul says he wanted off LeBron James’ payroll as soon as possible to build his own career

“LeBron wasn’t obligated to do anything for me or anybody else.”

“The only person he was obligated to do something for was Gloria James.”

“When I got my first check, I didn’t even know how to read it.”

“I called and asked what my job was.”

“He said, ‘I actually don’t have a position for you at all.’”

“I had two choices.”

“I’m definitely not a yes man.”

“So I created value.”

“I was everything from a party promoter to a stylist to a jeweler.”

“That eventually led to a job at Nike.”

“That’s where I learned the legal side, the footwear business, and marketing.”

[Herd w/Colin Cowherd @TheHerd]

"If LeBron's tenure with the Lakers was a failure then Joker's tenure with the Nuggets, Giannis' tenure with the Bucks, and Shai's tenure with the Thunder is a failure."

@colincowherd and @getnickwright on LeBron's legacy with the Lakers

[Eazy @SpeakEZsports_]

Terrion’s lawyer has got the judge frying the prosecution now 😂

[MLFootball @MLFootball]

🚨🚨TRENDING🚨🚨

#Lions star cornerback Terrion Arnold’s attorney Harvey Steinberg has gone viral on social media today for being one hell of a lawyer.

Arnold was just granted a bond of $1 million.

Fans are extremely impressed with Steinberg.

🤯🤯🤯

[Ari Meirov @MySportsUpdate]

The full Terrion Arnold story, according to Tampa Police, is stunning:

Police say this all started after Terrion Arnold and several others had property stolen from an Airbnb Arnold rented in Largo in early February. Investigators say Arnold believed some of the eventual victims were responsible, even though police later determined they were not involved in that theft.

On February 3, police say Arnold and Boakai Hilton — who investigators say helped coordinate the alleged setup — directed Arianna Del Valle and Jasmine Randazzo to contact one of the victims and lure him to an apartment in Tampa.

Around midnight on February 4, investigators say the victims arrived at the apartment. Once they entered a bedroom, police say Christion Williams and Lyndell Hudson — who had been hiding in a closet — jumped out, grabbed the victims, held them at gunpoint, and attacked them.

Investigators say the incident was streamed to Arnold, Hilton, and Freddie Hughes while they were traveling to the apartment. Police also say there was a group chat involving the defendants, and that Arnold and Hilton gave directions through that chat while the attack was happening.

About an hour later, police say Arnold arrived at the apartment with Hilton, Hughes, and another person, and that he directed them to go inside while the robbery was still going on. Investigators say property was stolen from the victims during the attack.

At around 1:40 a.m., police say the victims were escorted out of the apartment by armed suspects and forced into their vehicle before leaving the scene. Police say Del Valle, Williams, and another individual then got into a vehicle driven by Arnold and left the area.

The victims later reported the incident to Tampa Police and identified the suspects. After search warrants were executed and the investigation continued, detectives arrested multiple people in the case over the following weeks.

Police say Arnold was the primary conspirator in the alleged robbery/kidnapping plot. He turned himself in Wednesday night and is now facing 4 counts of kidnapping and 4 counts of armed robbery.

[Rexha 🐸 @RexhaRexhaRexha]

Dana White reveals that after he got blackout drunk, he thought he had only lost $80,000 gambling, but he had actually lost $3,000,000

"I was drinking having a blast and ended up losing like 80 grand."

"I'm at work the next day and the host from the casino calls me and says, hey Dana do you still need the room at the hotel? I said, no I don't need the room, but don't get to comfortable with my 80 grand, I'm coming back for it."

"Dead silence on the other end of the phone..."

"He's like, Dana... you lost $3 million last night.."

"I said, What the fuck are you talking about? I only have a $1.5 million credit line. He says, yeah you made us call the GM of the hotel and started calling him a f*cking p*ssy."

[Championship Rounds @ChampRDS]

🚨 Ian Garry says Islam Makhachev turned down an official offer to fight him in May at UFC 328

He also says the UFC informed him that they were trying to make Islam Makhachev vs Ilia Topuria at the White House, but Islam also turned that down

“They told me that they needed to do their due diligence and put on one of the biggest fights they possible could, which was Ilia vs Islam at the White House. Islam turned it down, to my knowledge.”

(via @arielhelwani)

[Home of Fight @Home_of_Fight]

🚨🤯Dana White reveals he and President Donald Trump are currently planning a UFC event for the U.S. Army:

“[Trump] wanted to do it this year but I said, ‘Sorry I need to recover financially from the White House.’”

(via @ufc)

[Home of Fight @Home_of_Fight]

🎉 Ilia Topuria held a big celebration last night with guests, including Oleksandr Usyk

He also did this before his fight with Charles Oliveira last year 👀

[ACD MMA @acdmma_]

this is WITHOUT A DOUBT going to be the most unhinged press conference in UFC history

[Championship Rounds @ChampRDS]

Sean Strickland went OFF on the Houston crowd for booing him 😭😭

"Listen here you mother f**kers. You might want your local Mexican to win... but there's only one motherf**ker who stands and bangs.

Your f***ing guy wrestles, I fight more like a Mexican than that motherf**ker. F*** YOU!"

[Championship Rounds @ChampRDS]

Paddy Pimblett says he wants a rematch against Justin Gaethje in the future because of some things in the fight that 'pissed him off'

"The only thing that's wrong with me is my eyeballs, from fingernails scratching my eyeballs.

Hopefully we can run it back because there's a couple things in that fight that pissed me off."

(via @PaddyTheBaddy)

[Barstool Sports @barstoolsports]

Ben Johnson on 4th down from his own 32

[SportsCenter @SportsCenter]

BEARS COMPLETE THE COMEBACK 🔥

From down 21-3 at half, to beating the Packers and advancing to the NFC divisional round.

[Dov Kleiman @NFL_DovKleiman]

Heartbreaking: Bengals superstar QB Joe Burrow revealed that he’s dealing with personal issues and is going through a lot on the field.

“There are just a lot of things going on right now. A lot of things are going on.”

This does not sound good at all...