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[Rico @Rico_Mck]

@Jackie_babeee “She reminds me of home. She reminds me of my sister my mother”. Fair to say it would’ve been said at the fire pit had it not turned into a shit show

[Shams Charania @ShamsCharania]

BREAKING: The Los Angeles Clippers are nearing deal sending Kawhi Leonard to the Toronto Raptors for Brandon Ingram, Gradey Dick, 2 first-round picks, 1 pick swap and 2 second-rounders, sources tell ESPN. A return to Canada for the Raptors champion and two-time Finals MVP.

[LeBron James @KingJames]

No, THANK YOU! Truly a honor to wear the 💜💛 while trying to continuing the greatness & legacies that came before me! Hope I made a few proud during my stint. 🙏🏾🫡👑

[Rico @Rico_Mck]

@TheLastJimzy @gorditosexyluis @LukaDoncicStanD Please do watch this and tell me exactly where there was any questionable calls? But yeah your document is gospel. https://t.co/CkZ9KF7v0E

[The HEAT Realm @WadexFlash]

Dwyane Wade on when he knew he was leaving his prime:

“I would say probably after my 3rd knee surgery — it was in 2012. So after we beat OKC in the Finals — that summer I got my 3rd knee surgery. After that I felt like I never got back my explosion, maybe I came back a little too quick…I was there for training camp…I really didn’t give myself a full time to heal…when I was driving to the bucket I could see that I couldn’t take off like I used to…I had to start adjusting my game…so I would say 2012 was my last year as prime and after that I was good enough to be good enough.”

(via @wynetwork)

[Rico @Rico_Mck]

@TheLastJimzy @gorditosexyluis @LukaDoncicStanD I already agreed that refs favor home teams. The paper is just trying to prove that it’s a league/ref thing to coax winners and losers. Not bringing up the actual game. Where adjustments are made, rotation changes, the actual game. So no I understand but it’s not fact

[Rico @Rico_Mck]

@TheLastJimzy @gorditosexyluis @LukaDoncicStanD You’re pushing people to just spend that dollar on a paper. Please. It’s not about internalization. The paper isn’t analyzing teams tendencies, regular season success in things, nothing. It’s a piece to say the refs want long series. It’s a dead clock being right twice a day

[Rico @Rico_Mck]

@TheLastJimzy @gorditosexyluis @LukaDoncicStanD Just skimming the pdf it reveals nothing. Refs favor home teams. Thats not ground breaking. It’s hard to say they favor losing teams. None of this is some smoking gun saying the league wanted the cavs to win. It’s just a guy with a paper saying refs are bad. Duh

[Rico @Rico_Mck]

@TheLastJimzy @gorditosexyluis @LukaDoncicStanD They did not. And your spreadsheet won’t show that. The Cavs team drove the basketball more, which has correlated to more fouls. Data points and watching the game are different. Was game five badly reffed? Possibly but that changes nothing. ✌🏾

[Rico @Rico_Mck]

@TheLastJimzy @gorditosexyluis @LukaDoncicStanD I’m not discounting the idea that the league wants longer series. I’m denouncing the note of it being an advantage to the Cavs. We may be arguing two different things.

[Rico @Rico_Mck]

@TheLastJimzy @gorditosexyluis @LukaDoncicStanD I won’t be going down a rabbit hole of series being extended. Game five being a badly reffed game doesn’t refute 6/7. The refs had nothing to do with Draymond going nuclear in 7. Or Lebron and Kyrie. You’re assuming they wanted the Cavs to win

[Rico @Rico_Mck]

@TheLastJimzy @gorditosexyluis @LukaDoncicStanD One bad Lou ref games doesn’t create a conspiracy though. The refs allowed a lot of contact that game yes. But that negates nothing from 6/7. Seven especially.

[Rico @Rico_Mck]

@TheLastJimzy @gorditosexyluis @LukaDoncicStanD I agree star players get a longer leash on stuff like that. But Draymond built a reputation that year and the league obviously wasn’t having it. Had it been a straight up suspension and not all the backstory before, yeah you could say something was fishy.

[Rico @Rico_Mck]

@TheLastJimzy @gorditosexyluis @LukaDoncicStanD He wasn’t suspended for the tech. The league reviewed it and gave him a flagrant. Which was correct. Saying the reffing was biased is an opinionated response. He got suspended, the Cavs got rolling

[Rico @Rico_Mck]

@X_ThA_KiNG @CanonEvent_ @olympicbean So it’s clutch when Curry hits a shot that’s not a buzzer beater to win the game but rather a shot in the last few minutes of a game, but it’s not clutch when LeBron does the same? There’s no baseline here

[Barack Obama @BarackObama]

It was great joining Njideka Akunyili Crosby — a gifted Nigerian-born, Los Angeles-based artist — to unveil our first portrait together. This piece reflects so many chapters of Michelle and my story, and we’re thrilled that it will be on display in the Hope and Change lobby at the Obama Presidential Center starting this Juneteenth.

[Rico @Rico_Mck]

@vedantvedantved @hunnidtabss @DameDeadAF “I realized he kicked somebody in the nuts the last series and he got a flagrant. But how does he get a flagrant for punching somebody else in the nuts”. Yal wouldn’t care if it were someone other than LeBron and the Cavs

[Rico @Rico_Mck]

@vedantvedantved @hunnidtabss @DameDeadAF Yal only argument being lebron should’ve got a tech. Ok?? Regardless you can’t hit a man in the nuts. Yal cry about wanting physicality but when you see two guy getting tangled up and it’s LeBron yal brains shut off. He stepped over him and he hit him in the nuts. Flagrant 🤷🏾‍♂️

[Rico @Rico_Mck]

@vedantvedantved @hunnidtabss @DameDeadAF And yet you’re wrong. Hitting a man between the legs is a flagrant

[Rico @Rico_Mck]

@hunnidtabss @vedantvedantved @DameDeadAF And you woudlve been assessed a flagrant. Been out the next game, came back and lost a 3-1 lead. The argument isn’t if lebron deserved a tech. It’s the fact that the author is being obtuse about why he got a flagrant