Joel Francisco

Basketball Scout 30+ years/ESPN 2006-2016/USA Water Polo NT Staff/Teacher @ El Rancho/Love wife/3 Boys/CSULB H20 Polo alum. Christ Follower

[Joel Francisco @JoelFranHoops]

At the Orleans with the Grassroots Legend @FrankieBur ...#TarkClassic

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By the way there has been a ton of hand-checking throughout these playoffs--just say'n #NBAFinals

[Joel Francisco @JoelFranHoops]

@HawkEmDownChris 💯

[Lucas Sanders 👊🏽🔥🇺🇸 @LucasSa56947288]

RETWEET if you support Scott Pelley after CBS News has just fired him.

[Bill Madden @maddenifico]

By firing Scott Pelley, editor-in-chief of CBS News Bari Weiss has single-handedly destroyed the most brilliant investigative newsmagazine in network history, 60 Minutes. Weiss exemplifies everything MAGA is about: ego, incompetence, and blithering idiocy.

[Republicans against Trump @RpsAgainstTrump]

New statement from Scott Pelley:

“Last month, 60 Minutes lost its DNA when our entire senior leadership and two of our best on-air correspondents were cruelly fired without cause. Good people were silenced because they stood up for our audience. They stood for fairness against the forces of political bias; they stood for professionalism against chaos.

For my part, new management has instructed me to inject falsehoods and bias into a politically sensitive story. I’ve been told to include assertions that are unverified. To date, in every case, I have managed to ignore these instructions or refuse them. Recently, politicians have been invited to choose correspondents for interviews on the broadcast. Giving politicians control over 60 Minutes interviews is not how this is done. Finally, incompetence and unprofessionalism in the new management have wreaked havoc. In a case involving one of my stories, the entire program came within 19 minutes of not getting on the air at all.

At 60 Minutes, we have fought harder than anyone knows to save the program that became an American icon. We owed that to our millions of viewers. I am deeply moved by the thousands of wishes we have received to “keep up the good fight.” Most of the men and women of CBS News are still in that fight. But now the collapse of values at the top has become untenable. The leadership of 60 Minutes is no longer recognizable. The principles I hold dear are gone, and so I must leave as well.”

[Ronnie Flores @RonMFlores]

Elite point guard play set the tone through the first two days at the 2026 The Pangos All-American Camp (@PangosAACamp).

We break down the five with the skill and leadership ability to turn heads among national media and NBA scouts.

🔗 https://t.co/5ns2w13rZs

[Joel Francisco @JoelFranHoops]

@Deezy1994 💯

[Joel Francisco @JoelFranHoops]

@SamQuinnCBS Kobe on this list w/Shaq is absurd

[Joel Francisco @JoelFranHoops]

@MGRADS Rich Paul needs to be drug tested.

[Joel Francisco @JoelFranHoops]

@ronniezeidel @TheDunkCentral I agree with Cam Boozer and Mikel Brown Jr's comp--the rest are comical.

[Joel Francisco @JoelFranHoops]

@DogeRomeo Lamar, Pao, Artest, Ariza, and most importantly, Phil.

[NBACentral @TheDunkCentral]

ESPN’s Player Comparisons for the Top 12 Prospects in the Draft:

AJ Dybantsa — Supercharged Jaylen Brown

Darryn Peterson — Damian Lillard with better tools

Cameron Boozer — Kevin Love with more ball skills

Caleb Wilson — Bouncier Pascal Siakam

Keaton Wagler — Slower-paced Tyrese Haliburton

Darius Acuff Jr. — Jalen Brunson

Kingston Flemings — De'Aaron Fox

Aday Mara — Brook Lopez with more passing

Mikel Brown Jr. — Smaller LaMelo Ball

Nate Ament — Bigger Harrison Barnes

Brayden Burries — Less athletic Derrick White

Yaxel Lendeborg — Jalen Johnson

[Josh Eberley 🇨🇦 @JoshEberley]

Best in the World at some point, even your critics can’t deny it:

Bill Russell
Wilt Chamberlain
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
Michael Jordan
Shaquille O’Neal
LeBron James

Maybe-Probably, but some context stops us from a near consensus:

Pettit
Dr. J
Bird
Magic
Duncan
Kobe
KD
Curry
Jokic

[Joel Francisco @JoelFranHoops]

@HawkEmDownChris Lonzo Ball

[Thrilla the Gorilla @ThrillaRilla369]

We’re obsessed with the idea that poor people might take more than they need, but we never question why the super rich are never satisfied with what they already have.

[Joel Francisco @JoelFranHoops]

@sixfivelando Not a good response, but he was 26/no father--many of us have said ignorant, stupid stuff in our 20s. The important part is that he grew up from it.

[Joel Francisco @JoelFranHoops]

@JTTheBrick yep...contrived, but entertaining

[Ford News @FordJohnathan5]

Literally everything in Trumps post is a fucking lie.

[Spiro’s Ghost @AntiToxicPeople]

1976 bicentennial performers (live and TV):

Elvis Presley, Peter Frampton, Aerosmith, Bob Hope, Paul Anka, Walter Cronkite, Santana, The Who, The Beach Boys, The Who, The Miracles, Tavares, Lionel Hampton, Ringo Starr, The Moody Blues, Three Dog Night, America, The O'Jays, Hank Williams Jr., La Toya Jackson, The Mississippi Delta Blues Band, the United States Marine Band, the US Army, Navy and Air Force Bands, the all-city marching bands.

2026 250th anniv. performers:

Donald J. Trump

Vanilla Ice

[Joel Francisco @JoelFranHoops]

@haiti4eva Yeah, I misread it. Over time, I would take Pippen, though.