kagiso.

chelsea | rockets.

[kagiso. @K46150]

don’t hesitate.

[Lewis Hamilton @LewisHamilton]

Madiba, there is not a day that goes by that I don’t miss you. Your legacy still shines so bright. You inspire me everyday and I’m forever honoured to have shared this moment with you. Happy Birthday Madiba🖤 We continue to fight for you ✊🏾
#NelsonMandela

[Lesilo Rula @kay_mahapa]

South Africa we have done it!!!! 😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭🇿🇦🇿🇦🇿🇦🇿🇦🇿🇦🇿🇦🇿🇦🇿🇦🇿🇦🇿🇦🇿🇦🇿🇦

[LBW @losblancoswrld]

Kylian Mbappe when he is asked absolutely anything:

[Nathan ✰ @Just1Nathann_]

Nah. 27-33 aren't your humbling years. They're your awakening years.

So many people misunderstand this phase of life.

That's when you start seeing things clearly. Everything suddenly dawns on you. You realize what you want, what doesn't matter, and how much time you've wasted.

Some people mistake that clarity for failure because they wish they had figured it out earlier.

But if you're determined, you can build more in those few years than you did in your entire early twenties.

[𝐌𝐀𝐋𝐈𝐊 @TheMahleek]

LeBron James has a different handshake style with everyone in the NBA 😭😭

[ol’ stocky ⛳️ @oldstocky]

I can understand why Italians saw this and decided to invent unemployment

[History ZAR @HistorySAZAR]

South African Poet and political activist Professor Keorapetse Kgositsile (1938-2018) with his son Thebe Neruda Kgositsile (Earl Sweatshirt). Source: Genius

[Danny @DjokovicFan_]

When John McEnroe left the commentary booth to play tennis with Novak Djokovic.

He actually hit a serve and volley. 😂

[Blake Burge @blakeaburge]

Major cheat code for life: Be fully where your feet are. When you're at work, work. When you're with family, be with family. When you're resting, rest. Most people are physically present and mentally everywhere else.

[Simon Sarris @simonsarris]

you must cross the river by feeling the stones

[Reads with Ravi @readswithravi]

This sentences by Van Gogh hits hard:

“If I am worth anything later, I am worth something now. For wheat is wheat, even if people think it is a grass in the beginning.”

[IT’S BEEN AWFUL OUT NOW @dailyzayy]

i was today years old when I found out Billie Eilish’s Bad Guy was inspired by Isaiah Rashad

[Aakash Gupta @aakashgupta]

LeBron James says he isn't a billionaire. Forbes has him at $1.4 billion. He's right.

He went on Complex this week, held up a $405,040 Richard Mille, and said the watch was free. He said his bank account holds a couple thousand. He said his kids have all the money now.

Every line is accurate.

The Lakers paid him $48.7 million this season. His off-court income runs around $80 million annually from Nike, PepsiCo, Beats, and a dozen other brands. None of that sits in a checking account at age 41. It moves into investment vehicles the same week it clears.

The Richard Mille is the RM 65-01 LeBron edition, limited to 150 pieces globally. He didn't buy it. He co-designed it. Richard Mille gave him 001/150 because every paparazzi photo of his wrist sells the next 20 to oil magnates and tech founders. The watch is technically free in the same way the MacBook Tim Cook holds at a keynote is technically free. The brand pays the principal to wear the product.

The 2011 Fenway Sports Group deal is the textbook version of the trade. LeBron got Liverpool FC equity for marketing services, zero cash out of pocket. Liverpool was valued around $300 million at the time. The club sits above $5 billion today. He converted that stake into a broader FSG position in 2021, which now also includes the Red Sox and Pittsburgh Penguins. FSG itself runs north of $12 billion. He paid nothing for any of it.

SpringHill is the bigger one. RedBird Capital led a 2021 round at a $725 million valuation, with Nike and FSG also putting capital in. LeBron remained the largest single shareholder. The company just merged with Fulwell 73, which extends the slate without diluting his control. None of that equity is liquid. It compounds inside a holding structure that does not show up on a bank statement.

Now the kids. "They got all the money now. They take care of dad." Read that as an estate plan said out loud. Move appreciating assets into trusts in your heirs' names while the assets are still small. Pay gift tax on the original valuation. The S&P doubles, the trust doubles, the IRS already saw its slice. The Walton family ran this on Walmart in the 1980s. The Mars family ran it on candy.

The Complex headline is "LeBron reveals he's not a billionaire."

$1.4 billion is the entity. Couple thousand is the man.

[ᴛʀɪʟʟ❦ @trilogyhurst]

this isn’t a group project.

[𝔍𝔞𝔪𝔢𝔰 𝔖𝔭𝔞𝔡𝔢𝔯 🇵🇸 @vuyoxhamfu_]

At no point has Cass made better music than Supermega.

[Tshepo @tshepo_m03]

I imagine this is how it went down

[Trev @Tokyo_Trev]

Bongi Dube really did not want to go around, shaking hands with her enemies

[Hlovo @hlovo_]

That Ponzi scheme money was moving crazy

[𝕯eon @chiplichipli2k]

how it feels to be self-aware and still repeat self-destructive patterns