This is ridiculous! Tanking is losing behavior done by losers. Purposely losing is something nobody should want to be associated with. Embarrassing for the league and for the organizations. And the talk about this as a “strategy” is ridiculous.
If you are a bad team, you get a good pick. That makes sense. But purposely shutting down players and purposely losing games is a disgrace and impacts the integrity of whole league.
This is much worse than any prop bet scandal. This is throwing games strategically. Horrible for fans that pay to watch and cheer on their team. And horrible for all the real teams that are competing for playoff spots.
Awful behavior that Adam Silver and the NBA will need to stop with massive changes, and I have complete confidence that with his leadership, he will fix it. Those of us in a position of influence need to speak out… the only “strategy” is doing right by fans, players, and the NBA community.
This is genuinely one of the most disgusting statements I have ever seen issued by an American official.
It should not stop shocking us that the Republican Party openly embraces this. Fine should be censured & stripped of committees. To ignore this is to accept and normalize it.
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Five years in Congress.
✔️One bill passed - about birds
✔️No defending her people against this Administration
✔️Quite the opinion on the halftime show
This is what failure looks like, @RepMariaSalazar.
BREAKING: Multiple Epstein victims tell NBC News that Pam Bondi intentionally un-redacted their names and other victims' names as a way to threaten them into silence!
“I think we all realize now that [the DOJ] really wanted to silence us, and [they] thought that [they] could scare us by putting our names out there.”
“It had a list of victims, and one was redacted. That makes no sense. This is a list of victims. That is INTENTIONAL!”
This is an impeachable offense. Pam Bondi needs to be impeached immediately!
Dad jokes aside — we’re not playing around.
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BREAKING: A video has leaked from an immigration detention center believed to be at 31 Hopkins Plaza, in Baltimore Maryland where legal immigrants are not even allowed to bath for over 10 days.
The person speaking Spanish is saying the following:
"Look at how they have us here. Look at how immigration is treating us. There are people here who are legal, there are people who are not legal, there are people who are losing their families. They are kidnapping us. They have us in a warehouse here in Baltimore. They beat us, they beat an older man. We can’t take it anymore. They have kept us here for more than 10 days without bathing and enduring hunger.”
Tonight marks Devin Booker's 8th-career game-winner in the final 5 seconds of a game...
That ties Jayson Tatum for 2nd-most since Booker entered the league, only behind Kawhi Leonard (9) 🤩
Re-live all of Booker's game-winners ⤵️
California Derangement Syndrome has blinded people’s ability to see that California is a donor state — giving more money to the federal government than it receives.
Rand Paul: "We said, 'Ok, well we killed all your boat mates, but you can go back to' -- it wasn't even Venezuela -- 'you can go back to Colombia and Ecuador.' So this is an insane policy. It's inconsistent. It's not war. And it's not the way we've ever done this. If we can blow up a boat in the ocean, what about when they get to Miami and they put it in a truck? Can you shoot a grenade launcher at the truck? No! We arrest people because sometimes we're wrong."
Bob Costas on Trump: "He is by far the most disgraceful figure in modern presidential history.
You have to be in a toxic cult to believe that Trump has ever been emotionally, psychologically, intellectually, or ethically fit to be POTUS." * (2024)
Gavin Newsom just said the quiet part out loud:
“All this anti-woke stuff is just anti-Black. Period. Full stop.”
And he’s right. “Anti-woke” was never about ideas, it was a marketing campaign to sanitize racism, roll back progress, and make bigotry sound intellectual.