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[Stephen A Smith @stephenasmith]

I'm not backing down from this one.

You can support people's rights AND believe biological men shouldn't compete in women's sports. Those two things are not mutually exclusive.

My issue isn't hate. It's protecting women, protecting girls, and asking why a WNBA coach chose to inject herself into a controversy that could hurt the very league she's supposed to represent.

Common sense still matters. That's where I stand.

My full remarks are on YouTube.

[Patrick Webb @Patrickwebb]

turns out the conspiracy theorists may have been right

[Pacers Playoffs🏆 @PlayoffsPacers]

The first time First Take has said something sensible

[Lima @limalemonnn]

@Polymarket Elon said money won’t matter in 2036.

Wall Street is apparently ten years ahead of schedule.

https://t.co/b5lYwtV9K4

[Master of Da Grind @PokerFean]

@SportingBaddiez

[BIG DADDY @RealAlex_west]

🚨🔥 TRUMP JUST REPOSTED JFK’S MOST TERRIFYING SPEECH — AND THE DEEP STATE IS PANICKING

JFK saw it coming. In 1961. And now, Trump has just made sure 300 million Americans see it, too.

The speech everyone’s talking about: Kennedy’s address to the American Newspaper Publishers Association, April 27, 1961. The CIA had just botched the Bay of Pigs. Kennedy was livid. He’d been lied to by his own intelligence apparatus. And he walked onto that stage and said something no president has dared say since.

“We are opposed around the world by a monolithic and ruthless conspiracy that relies primarily on covert means for expanding its sphere of influence — on infiltration instead of invasion, on subversion instead of elections, on intimidation instead of free choice.”

Read that again. Monolithic. Ruthless. Conspiracy.

This wasn’t some fringe radio host. This was the sitting President of the United States, on live television, telling the American people that a shadow network of power — operating through intelligence agencies, media complicity, and institutional capture — was working against the republic itself.

And then he said the quiet part out loud:

“Its preparations are concealed, not published. Its mistakes are buried, not headlined. Its dissenters are silenced, not praised. No expenditure is questioned, no rumor is printed, no secret is revealed.”

Sound familiar?

Sixty-five years later, Trump drops this video on Truth Social. No commentary needed. The speech does all the work. And within hours, the same media outlets that spent four years calling Trump a conspiracy theorist are suddenly very quiet.

Here’s what they don’t want you to connect:

- Kennedy was assassinated 2.5 years after this speech

- The Warren Commission was a joke — even the House Select Committee on Assassinations in 1979 concluded Kennedy was “probably assassinated as a result of a conspiracy”

- The files are STILL classified

- Trump has been pushing to release them, but the permanent national security state refuses, instead slow-walking the order

The timing isn’t random. This isn’t just history. JFK described a permanent national security state that has only grown more entrenched — one that operates beyond elections, beyond accountability, beyond the reach of voters.

Kennedy called it “a system which has conscripted vast human and material resources into the building of a tightly knit, highly efficient machine that combines military, diplomatic, intelligence, economic, scientific, and political operations.”

That machine didn’t disappear when he died. It got even stronger.

Trump reposting this isn’t nostalgia. It’s a signal. The same forces JFK warned about are the same forces that tried to destroy Trump — Russiagate, two impeachments, lawfare, media blackout, assassination attempts. The playbook hasn’t changed. Only the names.

And now the sitting president just reminded the country who the real enemy has always been.

The speech that scared them then is the speech they’re terrified you’ll watch now.

Sharing this because they’re counting on you not to watch it. Don’t let them win. 💥🔥🔥

[Josh Chambers @JoshChambers]

Mike Brown has been to seven NBA Finals with four different organizations.

He’s coached LeBron James, Kobe Bryant, Steph Curry, Tim Duncan, Kevin Durant, and Jalen Brunson.

When asked what all championship teams have in common, his answer had nothing to do with those nuclear talents.

“The commonality they all had is they all sacrificed for one another.

They were all connected.

They all had a competitive spirit.

And there was a high level of belief... Not just in the process, but in each other.”

He was able to boil down years of success in different places to 4 common traits:

🩸 Sacrifice
🎮 Connectivity
⚠️ Ownership
✝️ Belief

Championship teams don't win solely because they have the best player.

They create a championship environment from ownership starting with the best player all the way to the last player on the bench.

The entire organization is willing to surrender something for something bigger than themselves.

You need good players, yes...

But talent only determines your ceiling.

Sacrifice determines your capacity to reach it.

[♣️Jokic & MJ♦️GOATs fan @PONTA6565]

Reggie Miller made a valid point.🔥

“People often get hung up in the GOAT debate, but among the three, I think the best player is MJ. Kobe is a clone and a better version — he’s MJ on steroids. He’s also a better jump shooter, and he perfected the fundamentals to master them like the original.”

"If we're going stack-for-stack player – to me: MJ, Kobe, and then LeBron."

—Source: （The Dan Patrick Show）

All of us NBA fans 100% agree with Reggie Miller's opinion. 🙏

Most athletes and sensible people don’t truly rank LeBron in the top 10 all-time, but they’re afraid to say it publicly.

That’s why we respect straight shooters like Reggie Miller — MJ’s old rivals who aren’t scared to tell the truth.

[NBA Courtside @NBA__Courtside]

Charles Barkley thinks all these different streaming services to watch NBA games is disrespectful to NBA fans:

“I think Adam Silver has to get a hold of this thing. I think the games are too disjointed right now. NBC, Peacock, Amazon, I think we have disrespected the fans. They don’t know when the games are on. I just think that’s really unfair to the fans.”

(Via @SInow)

[Jon Beck @CoachJonBeck]

Our youth system is beyond broken. We’ve devalued real coaches. Kids aren’t developed, they are overtrained, burned out, forced to specialize early & pressured to win at all costs. Structural change is needed. We don’t teach the game anymore! We promote the game & it’s killing us

[DVM @PettyRiley2]

I see someone made the call from Vegas on Ausar Thompson....

[NBA Shane @Shane00]

No lies told

[Swish Cultures @swishcultures_]

Aj Dybantsa shares why he passed on several networks to declare for the NBA Draft at his elementary school in Boston where he first wrote that he wanted to be a basketball player 🥺🔥 @AJ_Dybantsa with @JordanRichardSC

[AirJordans23 @AirJordans2323]

Soft flopping overrated @KingJames is the confirmed biggest fraud in sports history.

No athlete has ever been more protected with a favorable whistle while physically assaulting opponents and referees alike.

Nobody has destroyed basketball more than this absolute disgrace.

[NBACentral @TheDunkCentral]

Steph had no idea his clutch 3 went in last night 😳🔥

(h/t @Fullcourtpass )

[Tony East @TonyREast]

"It's really important that we maintain the spirit that we've developed here over the last five years," Rick Carlisle says of his hopes for the final three games.

[Dr. Jalen Anthony Rose @JalenRose]

📍We all made it to Indy!

Watch the Fab Five Altcast TONIGHT during Michigan vs Arizona following Game 1 on truTV & HBO Max! #mfinalfour

[SleeperPacers @SleeperPacers]

The Pacers have been told to seek new local television rights deals for the 2026-27 season

Main Street Sports Group, parent company of FanDuel regional sports networks, is reportedly shutting down

There will be a new home for Pacers basketball next season 👀

Via @SBJ

[Shams Charania @ShamsCharania]

Amar'e Stoudemire, Candace Parker, Elena Delle Donne and Doc Rivers are among the members inducted into the Naismith Basketball Hall of Fame Class of 2026, sources tell ESPN.