SVG was one of the pioneers of the stretch 4, playing Rashard Lewis as a starting 4 and going “four out” around a center. That format is what cracked a very good Cavs team in 2009. You doubled Dwight and they’d obliterate you from 3. You played D12 straight up and he’d go crazy.
This the quintessential story of how sports reflects the state of the world. Thousands of fans have waited for Game 3 their whole lives and now they’re priced out of entering the game and can’t even celebrate outside because one billionaire gets to attend the game for free.
If Rick Chow was found not guilty after chasing that boy down and murdering him because he “feared for his and his son’s life” then Karmelo Anthony needs to be found not guilty for fearing for his too and I don’t wanna hear shit differently coming out that court room…
It's actually so wiłd that people don't see that “raising the minimum wage to a true living wage would cause businesses to close” is an indictment of capitalism.
A grown man takes you at your word because he respects the words. The fact that you find that annoying is information about you that you should sit with privately. You should be actually embarrassed by your thought process
Whoever the next Democratic president is, they better not start talking about forgiveness and pardons to unify the country. This country will unify behind prosecutions and prison sentences. We're still fighting because the Confederacy was never properly punished. End the cycle.
🚨 DAMN.
Ruby Bridges said the moment she finally understood what was happening during school integration was when a little white boy told her:
“My mom said I can’t play with you because you’re a nigger.”
She was SIX.
And she said hearing that felt like “a huge weight lifted,” because suddenly everything made sense.
Why the classrooms were empty.
Why adults were screaming.
Why U.S. Marshals had to escort her to school.
Not because of anything she did.
Just because of the color of her skin.
A six-year-old child realizing an entire country was angry at her for existing.