Shaun Powell

Part-time golfer, full-time sportswriter, lifetime dad. Find me at Still searching for the perfect story to tell. Author of Souled Out.

[Shaun Powell @Powell2daPeople]

Welcome to your generation which doesn’t read anything longer than 150 words and ignores context and nuance

[CJ McCollum @CJMcCollum]

The question was centered around how I spent my first Million so that’s where the breakdown came from but no one bothers to watch the interview. https://t.co/p6QdhOfUvs

[Televisão Argentina @tvargentina_]

A BEIRA DO INFARTO: Pablo Giralt, da Telefe, enlouquecendo narrando o gol da virada da Argentina em cima da Inglaterra!

[Shaun Powell @Powell2daPeople]

Actually, we will see another LeBron before we see another Muggsy Bogues

[Eddie A Johnson @Jumpshot8]

This is why I say. We will never see another like LBJ. People giving levels to expectations still at 41, possibly playing with players 10 to 20 years younger.

[Aaron J. Fentress @AaronJFentress]

No current player on the Blazers roster will ever become better than Jaylen Brown.

Damian Lillard, during his prime, was as good as or better than Brown (better offensively, but weaker defensively.  After Lillard, we must go back to Drexler to find a better player than Brown who wore the black and red.

The Blazers' last five first-round picks (Sharpe, Scoot, Murray, Clingan and Hansen) don’t add up to Brown.

Yet, heaven forbid the Blazers trade future picks to acquire a star in his prime to pair with Lillard (something the GM essentially promised to do 10 times).

Gotta keep that draft capital, right? But why should anyone believe that those future picks will net a player better than Brown? The past five didn’t and they included a No. 3 and two No. 7s.

Also, adding Brown’s $60 million salary would not have been a big deal, given that over the next two seasons, Deni and Dame will make a combined $26 million.

It’s like striking in the NFL when the franchise QB is on a rookie contract. Instead, the Blazers are destined to waste Deni’s years with his “amazing contract.”

Instead of going all in on Brown, the Blazers rolled the dice on a redundant, injury-prone and problematic player in Morant, who makes $43 million and doesn’t fit next to Dame.

The Blazers will scramble the next two years to reach the postseason and get rocked, then have to pay Deni $40 mill and another $40 mill to extend Morant should he right himself.  And if he doesn’t, what was the point in bringing him in next to Dame rather than go after Brown?

[Carmichael Dave @CarmichaelDave]

BREAKING:

The NBA has now traded Paul George for:

Shai Gilgeous-Alexander
Jaylen Brown
Domantas Sabonis
Victor Oladipo
Danilo Gallinari

And

7 1st round picks plus 4 pick swaps

Paul George is the Most Valuable Player in NBA history.

[Shaun Powell @Powell2daPeople]

When I first joined this crew I knew I had to raise my game considerably!

[gregcote @gregcote]

Memories, @HeraldSports, circa late '80s. The great @davehydesports & myself are seated bottom left and center next to the legendary John Wolin. Top L-R: Shaun Powell, Larry Dorman & Gary Shelton. (I don't recall ever having that much hair. Also, the shades may be a bit much?)

[Shaun Powell @Powell2daPeople]

@RangerBlake Met the woman who became my wife at a function in that hotel.

[Steve Popper @StevePopper]

As someone who covered the 1994 NBA Finals, it's a big assignment with a lot of work to do on deadline so I'd like to ask celebrities not to get in any slow car chases with police traliing a white bronco tonight.

[Shaun Powell @Powell2daPeople]

Partly because last year they beat Denver in the conference finals with Aaron Gordon on one leg and then Haliburton gets hurt in the Finals, both in Game 7s.

[Clemente Almanza @CAlmanza1007]

Mark Daigneault on Jalen Williams and Ajay Mitchell being out: “We have not been an excuse team ever and we’re not going to start now.”

[Shaun Powell @Powell2daPeople]

There's a fair argument that OKC was just missing J-Dub. Fine. But the elephant in the room was Chet and how much he was overmatched. That must be addressed and explained by OKC going forward.

[Shaun Powell @Powell2daPeople]

The pipe dream/probable scenario about OKC putting a package together for Giannis is the urgency. The Thunder have no time to ponder if they're interested in fetching the antidote to Wemby. It's either get Giannis this summer - or never and deal with Wemby for the next decade.

[Shaun Powell @Powell2daPeople]

For all of Oklahoma City's dominance the last few years, the Thunder have had to play three Game 7s. And maybe a fourth in a few weeks, if they're fortunate.

[Shaun Powell @Powell2daPeople]

John Wooden once said whenever he saw a coach constantly yelling, gesturing, leaving his seat and sending instructions during a game, that team was unprepared.

[Ben Axelrod @BenAxelrod]

I like how Kenny Atkinson observes the game the same way I do — sitting with my arms crossed. The only difference is he’s getting paid millions of dollars to coach the team.

[LeslieAnne Wade @LeslieAnneWade]

My claim to fame? I asked Luther Vandross to sing One Shining Moment for CBS. In return, he asked for two tickets to Hairspray on Broadway. It was recorded in one take at the Hit Factory in NYC. #Fact

[Steve Aschburner @AschNBA]

NBA Board of Governors green-lights Seattle and Las Vegas destinations, so we now know where.
Think we know the why’s too…
To be determined: When (inaugural season), who (ownership) and what (the two new teams are going to look like upon arrival).

[Shaun Powell @Powell2daPeople]

Sad to see my man @scottostler choose retirement over making us laugh and think with his always entertaining and thoughtful opinion pieces for the SF Chronicle. And he was a hooper, too. Ask him about the time he played against Kareem in college. And against me in pickup games.

[Shaun Powell @Powell2daPeople]

Thanks to Victor Wembanyama, whose intentions were good initially, we have two new entries on the annoying sports cliche list: "ethical" and "unethical."

[Shaun Powell @Powell2daPeople]

“Media” and “journalism” are two different things these days Chuck.

[Chuck D @MrChuckD]

Giannis trade talk will go down as the largest waste of journalistic space in sports history. It played out like a 5 week Seinfeld episode. Totally expensive Hot AirTime over what IF

[Shaun Powell @Powell2daPeople]

@CandaceDBuckner Candace, you know how I feel about you and your work. But in case you forgot: Fabulous. A girl from St. Louis always showed 'em.

[Shaun Powell @Powell2daPeople]

@BenGolliver @washingtonpost @PostSports My guy ... one of the best in the biz. Hoping you bounce back very quickly.