May 5, 1994: "Let's get ready to Mutombo!"
Denver Broncos quarterback John Elway pumps up the McNichols Sports Arena crowd prior to Game 4 of the Nuggets' first round series with the top-seeded Seattle SuperSonics.
Denver won in OT, 94-85, and forced a series-deciding Game 5.
Rudy Gobert is definitely a top-50 all time NBA player by the way. Pretty likely he is the best defender of the 21st century. Either him or Draymond.
Pretty easy to make the case he is the most disrespected player of all time. Unbelievably elite impact.
Bam Adebayo was asked to rank Nikola Jokic, Victor Wembanyama, Joel Embiid, and himself from best to worst🍿
1. Nikola Jokic
2. Bam Adebayo
3. Joel Embiid
4. Victor Wembanyama
Director: “Bam, why didn’t you rank yourself 1st?”
Bam: “I’m a humble guy”
(via @firstwefeast)
NBA history set tonight by these gladiators:
1) First game to have 3 triple-doubles recorded.
2) First game to have multiple triple-doubles by bench players.
3) Lowest +/- ever recorded by someone who posts a triple-double (Jahmai Mashack, -46, beating previous record of -30)
I'd say that if you're actually worried about anti-semitism, it's probably a bad idea to announce to Americans that you now have developed AI tech to monitor Americans' speech about Israel and Jews, and you have a mega-network of 50,000 lawyers ready to sue them for free.