Zaza Ca🅿️alot

Rebound Bosh, back out to Allen, his three-pointer...BANG!

[Justin @JustinMLB]

Breslow has lost the Devers trade like 6 different ways now lmao

[Matthew Leb @Leb_Zeppelins]

Red Sox fans: “FSG is worth $14 billion. Can we please have a competitive roster?”

FSG:

[Zaza Ca🅿️alot @GetPatrazzad]

Red Sox traded Blaze for 35 year old Steven Matz who played 3 months with the team, is now playing for the Rays where he just lost his starting role due to a 5.89 ERA

[MLB @MLB]

From 500-foot homers at 13 years old to his first Major League homer 😮

Blaze Jordan has arrived 🔥

[Polymarket Hoops @PolymarketHoops]

Brian Windhorst says Boston’s front office keeps business 'lowkey'

"Boston doesn’t deal with player agents. Boston does deals with teams. Boston keeps all of their business quiet… Boston’s business doesn’t get out there. Whatever Boston is doing, I promise you, we don’t know."

(via @WindhorstESPN)

[Justin @JustinMLB]

Found footage of the Red Sox hitting staff working with the offense this year

[Justin @JustinMLB]

Yesterday i learned from multiple reliable source that the Red Sox offensive staff, both in the majors and minors, take a “one size fits all” approach with a large majority of the hitters they deal with, instead of working individually with the players.. and that seems wrong

[ArtButMakeItSports @ArtButSports]

Hercules and Nessus, by Giambologna, 1599

[Zaza Ca🅿️alot @GetPatrazzad]

If you are trying to buy the practice jersey of a cbb player who averaged 7.8 ppg as a 5th year senior guard you highkey deserve to get scammed

[Josiah Brewster @JosiahBrewster]

NCAA Basketball player Frankie Collins used his NIL to SCAM us for AT LEAST $2000

and there's more...

[Zaza Ca🅿️alot @GetPatrazzad]

Bring back character limits on tweets we got accounts tweeting entire articles

[The Players’ Tribune @PlayersTribune]

Keldon Johnson on his role with the @spurs: “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

[Evan Turner @thekidet]

Make the mid range great again 🙏🏾

[Ben Detrick @bdetrick]

the windmill pickup can't be normalized in pickup ball with the existing american health care system

[Brendan Campbell @brendan_camp]

A second Marcelo Mayer CarShield commercial has hit the airwaves.

[Andy Bailey @AndrewDBailey]

Charles Barkley in his four seasons as a Houston Rocket: 16.5 points, 12.2 rebounds, 3.9 assists, 4.0 box plus/minus

Draymond Green’s last four seasons: 8.6 points, 6.5 rebounds, 6.0 assists, 0.5 box plus/minus

[Zaza Ca🅿️alot @GetPatrazzad]

Joe’s new favorite gaslight word must be duality he’s used it in 3 recent interviews. Zero accountability. Just because you won with a stacked roster in ‘24 doesn’t mean you don’t have flaws as a 37 yr old coach who was in the 2nd row the year before you got promoted.

[Legion Hoops @LegionHoops]

Joe Mazzulla:

“Too many times it’s all about winning... You have to surrender to the idea that when you’re going after that, you’re going to fail. We failed by not winning, but we stick to the process of being able to do that. That’s just the duality of how things work. It’s not an either-or thing. It’s both and, you feel both of those things.”

(h/t @SMHighlights1)

[jordan from cwnp and also the dj @tornadojally]

take me there tonight, Shabazz Muhammad practice jersey

[Sly 🔎 @ykslyy]

The current NBA is missing this energy.

[Sox Scoop @Sox_Scoop]

DeRo is spot on here

[Zaza Ca🅿️alot @GetPatrazzad]

Tatum so back!!!!

[Anthony Nash @_anthonynash]

Remember when they said they were going to take this out of the game and you'd get a tech for doing it