76ers fans haven’t said once yet “he’ll never be iverson” they’re just happy to get a great player in their franchise to help them win. Laker fans are the softest whiniest crybaby fanbase in all of sports 😂
John Calipari during Arkansas’ practice:
“If you’re not a dog on this team, you won’t play. I feel bad for you; no one got promised anything. I’m playing the dogs, because if I put a bunch of dogs out there, we’re not losing.”
(🎥 @RazorbackMBB) | #WPS
J.R. Smith says he regrets wasting $60,000 in strip clubs when he could've helped his community
“I got Paul George sitting right here. I got DeMar DeRozan right here. I got Russell Westbrook sitting right here. I'm literally sitting next to all of these dudes who are LA guys”
“I'm like, ‘Bro, I'm not counting your chips, but everybody else is. You make $200 million, you make $200 million, you make $175 million, you make $150 million, you make $180 million. Why don't y'all have your own gym? Why we got to go to UCLA to work out in LA every time?”
“Y'all come from the exact same community. You want to inspire kids that look like you. All it takes is five of us. What bank gonna turn us down. We 'bout to build this whole thing out for our community. We're gonna build gyms, rec centers, start leagues and all that. Who's gonna stop us. We got the money. We don't have the mindset”
“Our mindset, we'd rather go throw $60,000 in the club, in the strip club, than go feed 2,500 people in the hood. Think about it. I've done it. I can't sit here and be like, ‘Oh man, I'm a hypocrite.’ I've done this myself. I've thrown money in the club, literally blindly, aimlessly, drunk. And now I sit back, ‘I'm a stupid ass.’ I could have fed my whole community 10 times over with the money I was just late on the bus”
“Because I'm so wrapped into me. I got that Eurocentric mindset. I need this designer jacket. I need these jeans. I need this book bag. I need to be looking like this because the vets got this thing, I'm pushing this car, I'm doing... Why? Who am I impressing. I'm not even fulfilled with me”
The NBA's $76 billion TV deal is currently on hold because one 41-year-old won't say where he wants to work.
Adam Silver, the commissioner, admitted it today: the league cannot finish the 2026-27 schedule until LeBron James picks a team. Teams are calling. Networks are calling. The answer to all of them is "we're waiting on LeBron."
The story gets wilder when you know the context. LeBron is the oldest player in the NBA, entering season 24. He's also still one of its best: he just dragged the Lakers to the playoffs, then announced he was leaving. Three franchises are reportedly in the running.
Here's why one player freezes a $76 billion machine. The NBA is one season into an 11-year deal with Disney, NBC, and Amazon. Those partners split a fixed pool of premium inventory: opening night, Christmas Day, the big national windows. LeBron has played on Christmas a record 20 times, the last 19 seasons straight. Wherever he signs instantly becomes a Christmas team, an opening week team, and a 25-game national TV team. Until he signs, none of those slots can be assigned. The whole calendar is downstream of one man's group chat.
Run the math on what's waiting. $76 billion over 11 years is roughly $7 billion a year in media money, and the schedule that deal was priced on can't be built. So the commissioner of a $7-billion-a-year league is doing interviews politely asking an employee of one of his 30 teams to please make up his mind.
No other league works this way. The NFL schedules around teams. The NBA schedules around a person.
Demarcus Cousins on the Lebron James Free Agency decision:
"If Bron goes to Philly or Minnesota it'll get interesting. But honestly, I don't like how he was treated in LA. We're in the Era now where you can't speak up on his behalf. They'll say we're glazing or paid by Klutch. We're kind of getting to a point where our Legends aren't going out gracefully like they should. From Carmelo, to how CP3 was handled. Watching how the Lakers acted like Lebron isn't Lebron. Even Kevin Durant. So I just want him to go somewhere where he's appreciated and gets the flowers he deserves.
- @boogiecousins
Strong words from Boogie
During the MLB All-Star Game, they recreated the iconic Fourth of July scene from The Sandlot.
Ray Charles’ “America the Beautiful” played, kids rode bikes onto the field, fireworks went off, one of the coolest things baseball has done in a long time.