He was so right about the bar for being smartest in the room is low af in the league because for weeks we’ve heard nba players tell us how hundreds of millions of dollars isn’t enough money… meanwhile I’ve never once heard any of them mention any of this shit lol.
PG: Mikel Brown Jr.
SG: Egor Demin
SF: Michael Porter Jr.
PF: Julius Randle
C: Day'Ron Sharpe
HC: Jordi Fernandez
THERES SOMETHING MAGICAL BREWING IN BROOKLYN.
It's honestly amazing how much attention Adam Silver has generated for "tanking" and how much attention he's diverted from gambling, prop bet fixing, prediction markets, cap circumvention, flopping, traveling/carrying, the replay system, etc.
Years ago, an NBA scout asked me a question that changed the way I evaluate prospects:
"If he doesn't succeed in the NBA, what will be the reason?"
Since then, I've tried to challenge every evaluation from the perspective of a skeptical GM or Governor.
This article is the result.
https://t.co/1VR5eadS6P
USA. A Mexican restaurant. We had not yet ordered anything, and the food was already arriving.
Chips. Salsa. Unrequested. Free.
I stopped the waiter. "We have not earned these."
"They just come with the table, man."
They come with the TABLE. In my land, hospitality is a debt. Every gift creates an obligation, weighed carefully, returned in the proper season with interest of feeling. Here, the gift arrives before you have even proven you can pay for dinner.
This is not an appetizer. This is a declaration: we trust you. Eat.
I ate with the gravity the moment deserved. And then — I must report this calmly — the basket emptied, and a new one appeared.
"Did we…?"
"Refill," the waiter said. "It's bottomless."
Bottomless. They have wells of salsa. The supply lines of this nation are beyond anything my ancestors imagined.
My friend warned me. "Don't fill up on chips, dude."
Too late. I had accepted three baskets. Honor demanded each one be finished — an unfinished gift is an insult. By the time my actual food arrived, I was a ruined man.
I was not hungry. I was not comfortable. I had been defeated by a courtesy.
Generosity that arrives before the request cannot be repaid. It can only be survived.
I know the rule now. I have made my peace with the basket. One basket. Two at the most.
Who am I deceiving. There is no number of baskets I would refuse. The trust of a nation is in that salsa, and I intend to honor all of it.
The way Tottenham fans stepped up in the run in should never ever be forgotten, stood by the team in the darkest moments despite being shafted by our tinpot owners
Mayor Zohran Mamdani mocks Ronald Reagan’s infamous quote.
“I can think of nine words more terrifying than ‘I’m from the government and I’m here to help…’”
“I worked all day and can’t feed my family.”