Jaylen Brown on ignoring Jayson Tatum at tip off:
“I’m just focused on coming out and doing what’s best for my team… To be honest, I wasn’t paying attention. But credit to Jayson, he played well tonight.“
(via @krisrhim1)
@BRoc5000@DJRTistic Bring the Pain was him at his best. That stand up birthed vernacular that is now common place. “Friend zone” “Grand opening, Grand closing”. It was literally Black Twitter 20 years before Black Twitter.
Ive seen folks sayin “he was never funny”. Please. Stop.
This is why I called Luka “soft” to his face, bro is ducking the Pistons and sitting due to his “back soreness” today
He’s the NBA's leading scorer (40.1 PPG) of course he doesn’t want to play a top defense, he doesn’t want his average to drop 🤦🏻♂️
For context here, Steph was tiny, and size was a big focus in the NBA. It was hard to know if what he was doing in college was going to translate, and taking him in the Top 10 esp with the Warriors prior draft history was a huge gamble. Prove me wrong but that’s how I recall it.
Doc Rivers tells Bill Simmons it was so hard for him to coach Giannis Antetokounmpo during his tenure with the Milwaukee Bucks:
“He’s not easy. He plays at this crazy downhill pace. He’s really a difficult guy. He has this great passing ability, but he doesn’t have a super-high IQ at the same time. He really has only one way of playing. Every play, he wants to force it. I wish he’d learned how to execute better.
“The thing he still needs to learn is the value of execution how important it is, when you’re in practice and at shoot around, to lock in on execution. Now he has a coach who’s as good as there is at execution.”
@IkeMoses She inherited post-pandemic LA, had to navigate one of the largest disasters in LA history, had to combat ICE, it’s hard to come out of that without folks being critical. I think Nithya became an opportunist when she saw Bass was vulnerable. She talks a good game, tho. We’ll see.
From the astounding ignorance, to the hook, the beat, the green screen video to that dumb little dance they were doing, and the fact it came from someone we would call a Hip Hop legend makes it worse. I can’t put it into words how terrible that song is. Not revisionist, either.
I’ve seen many people post Busta’s Arab Money jokingly to El-Sayed winning. That aside, I can make a pretty good argument for that being the single worst song ever recorded.
@KaisMinutiae Yeah I completely agree. It’s just hard to talk about how that could’ve been handled differently in the moment or even after. I think Nithya could sense she had some low polls and that she could sway voters.
@KaisMinutiae I think local issues get a lot of action on threads (which I like) but Nithya v Bass was/is super polarizing. Anything you said about them got traction.
@KaisMinutiae I thought someone summed it up well: Nithya would run for any city she would’ve moved to. Karen Bass would only run for Mayor of LA. I think that matters.
@KaisMinutiae A side bar and this is just imo but it feels like some of progressive movements in LA unintentionally or intentionally omit and/or fail to involve Black voices and/or communities. But that’s convo for another day.