honestly one of the most humiliating decisions in professional sports history and proof that there are no adults left in the room trying to advocate for the League, just a bunch of billionaires trying to shake every last quarter out of their piggy banks
Victor Wembanyama’s agent, Jeremy Medjana, says he was turning down marketing deals in the millions from beverage companies before he even made it to the NBA:
“We’re not gonna mix his image with sodas like Coca-Cola. They all want him, but Victor will never sell soda. Because he doesn’t want to kill the kids.”
That’s my responsible GOAT 🥹
#GoSpursGo #PorVida
@WashWizards I liked seeing will dawkins rehearse his press conference- I appreciate the authenticity and how even the business guys are in the gym for their parts of their craft (public speaking). And ish Smith of course
This level of racism and cruelty is completely sociopathic and we have to live with this well funded regime of hate everyday and it solicits almost no media coverage and certainly not any sustained moral outrage or “Islamophobia crisis” narrative we are told we need to address.
I need my Wizards taking mandatory pottery classes together this off season. I want to see Kyshawn and Trae Young get into Magic the Gathering Cube drafts. I need the whole Capital City Go Go riding a giant multi seat tandem bicycle along the Potomac. Make it happen @WashWizards
Pacino in The Insider yelling at Bari Weiss “ARE YOU A BUSINESSWOMAN OR A NEWSWOMAN?!” but she doesn’t really get the question so she just asks him if trans women should be allowed to compete in women’s sports
Note the sources who oppose it
"numerous lawmakers and aides"
"one senior House Democrat"
"Dem leadership"
"second senior House Democrat"
"another House Democrat"
"a fourth House Democrat"
ALL anonymous.
Everyone FOR it put their name on their quotes. What does this tell you?
Adam Hamawy describes what he wishes people could understand from his time treating patients in Gaza:
"Much worse" than what we see online.
"The smells, the full senses…crying children, the families…to see this every single day…you just can't even describe it well enough."
We hereby offer Mr. Wembanyama tickets to our Sunday, June 7 screening of Bernardo Bertolucci's stunning five-and-a-half hour epic 1900 when he is in the city later this week on a work-related trip...