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[CN @Starboy4134]

@BoongV2 @jfeltonnn Yes! The nuance of her drives is what’s intriguing. And the power of Cheryl to get her to play consistent defense. Never thought she couldn’t. Great explanation. Ty

[CN @Starboy4134]

@jfeltonnn Went back and listened to you and @BoongV2 draft board and your YT on Liv. And wondering how this big of a breakout was missed.

[Adam Ryan 🤝 @AdamRy_n]

Aldon Smith passed away this weekend. Most people are talking about his incredible ability, potential, and performance as a football player.

Even though that is all true. He was so much more than that. He was a great friend and his kindness changed my life forever.

I met Aldon our freshman year at Mizzou. He was redshirted and relatively unknown as an athlete. His giveaway was the biggest hands you'll ever see and his ability to dunk at 250lbs, but his size in many ways didn't match his personality. He was relatively quiet and in most scenarios would try to shrink into the room vs stand out in it.

Over the course of the next year, we became close. We were very different people, from different places, but we both connected on the feeling of being a bit lost in the beginnings of adulthood. That year, I never really thought about him as a football player. He was just this gentle giant who loved to play video games and talk about life.

His sophmore year he broke the single season sack record at Mizzou, became an All American, and his life changed forever.

He became a celebrity on campus. He became a household name in Missouri. He became a top NFL draft prospect.

I remember how crazy his life became, and how quickly. ESPN doing interviews. Fancy cars being "loaned" to him. And people everywhere inserting themselves into his life.

Despite the craziness, my friend was always a text away.

My junior of college, I decided to take my first stab at entrepreneurship. I wanted to launch a chapter of Camp Kesem.

Kesem is a summer camp for children whose parents have been affected by cancer. The camp would be totally free and be a chance for a kid to experience the magic of being a kid again. As a son of a breast cancer survivor the idea of being able to create this camp in Missouri meant the world to me.

The Livestrong Foundation was hosting a nation wide contest to win $10,000 as seed capital to get started. To win, you had to have the most votes.

I tried really freaking hard to win that competition. I was going up against some really influential people at huge schools. As a somewhat awkward kid in Columbia, MO I had no chance.

So I asked my friend Aldon for a favor. I asked him if he would help me out and promote the link to vote.

He did more than just posting about Kesem on Facebook, skyrocketing us into the top place in the country. He kept supporting me the next 3 years while I was working on building Kesem.

He showed up to have fun with the kids. He helped me fundraise. He helped me get Kesem to become an official organization sponsored by the NFLPA so he could publicly endorse us as as a player.

Since then Torry Holt, Larry Fitzegerald, and many others have supported Kesem. But Aldon was the first.

Kesem led me to move to Austin to work for the Livestrong Foundation. Kesem is how I met my wife. Kesem gave me the confidence to start Workweek and continue the path of building something from scratch.

But in reality, Aldon enabled all those things.

Throughout the years we had many amazing memories together. Having my wife and I vacation to his house in San Jose. Going to New Orleans for the Super Bowl and seeing his entire family make the trip. Meeting his son and watching him be a dad. The hilarious night we met Derek Jeter. Having the most intellectual conversations about life while playing Call of Duty.

I also saw him struggle. There's no doubt he was a complicated person. Truthfully, I don't know if he ever really figured out who he wanted to be. I know just because your'e 6'4, 250lbs, and get 5.5 sacks in a single NFL game doesn't necessarily mean you want to be a football player. No matter the reasons, he made many bad decisions in his life. Some of those mistakes made it hard for me to stay as close as we'd once been.

One day, not too long ago, I just decided to text him. It had been years since we really chatted. I just wanted to say thank you for all that he had done for me and that I was sorry I wasn't there for him more through his struggles. We FaceTimed after that, and it was like the old days all over again.

Aldon was more than the headlines, the mistakes. He was a generous, gentle soul, a kid at heart, someone who was endlessly curious about life... all in the body of a world class NFL player, bearing the weight of professional pressure and personal circumstances that most of us can't even imagine.

People are complex. People who make bad decisions can also do great things. A person can be hated by almost everyone and, yet, there are people in that person's life who still love them deeply.

I learned many of these lesson due to Aldon, and I'll carry them with me forever.

Rest in peace, Aldon. You won't be forgotten.

[Shabazz 💫 @ShowCaseShabazz]

Whats her problem bro 😭

[Steve Jones @stevejones20]

also who are you to doubt the importance of the NBA Cup *app crashes*

[Nekias (Nuh-KAI-us) Duncan @NekiasNBA]

OLIVIA MILES VS A'JA x2

LYNX LEAD AFTER THE AND-ONE

[CN @Starboy4134]

@NekiasNBA I know the question was about guards just curious about her mvp case lol

[CN @Starboy4134]

@NekiasNBA Would you say flash does as well?

[Shabazz 💫 @ShowCaseShabazz]

SYDNEY TAYLOR CANNOT MISS

[CN @Starboy4134]

L2M is funny. But not funny ha ha

[Tomer Azarly @TomerAzarly]

The L2M Report states that Stephon Castle was incorrectly called out of bounds.

The NBA's wording, however, makes it sound like Josh Hart fouled him.

"Hart impedes Castle on his drive as Castle is incorrectly called for committing an OOB violation."

https://t.co/kxhqleGv51

[ski @kantguardcoach]

OG ain’t no damn role player

[Nekias (Nuh-KAI-us) Duncan @NekiasNBA]

what if the knicks simply read this piece before the series

[Caitlin Cooper @C2_Cooper]

Fox had 44 touches in the second half, the most of any Spur. Only 5 touched the paint. San Antonio scored 0.387 points per chance out of his touches. He shot 2-of-6 w/ 2 turnovers when defended by OG.

No one for the Spurs attempted more than six shots against any match-up.

[Caitlin Cooper @C2_Cooper]

the ref analysis is too much

[BoongV2 @BoongV2]

Liv Arike Paige Jess all on one team would be hilarious hoops icl 😂😂😂

[Lucas Kaplan @LucasKaplan_]

NYL tenth in rim frequency% this season -- I think Sabrina's absence shows up here.

she excels making these PnR manipulation reads for layups, reads that I do think have been available for NYL's guards:

[Adam Schefter @AdamSchefter]

Record deal: The Chiefs are adding two years to Patrick Mahomes’ contract, tying him to Kansas City through the 2033 season at a value of $504.75 million, making it the first NFL deal valued at over a half-billion dollars, per @RapSheet and me.

Equity Sports CEO Chris Cabott, and Chiefs GM Brett Veach and his staff, put the finishing touches on the landmark agreement today.

[BoongV2 @BoongV2]

She doesn’t recognize the score board for stretches & then will snap out of it. It was very obvious in the 2q & 3q she was tryna lead a comeback.

Arike is “aggressive” and doesn’t understand game state. Chelsea gray isn’t “aggressive” but understands game state.

[BoongV2 @BoongV2]

Paige’s biggest issue is that she doesn’t understand game state

You could drop her in a game up 20, down 20, tied, in the 1q, or 4q and she’d play the exact same way

She treats every possession the game the same way

[Andrew Dukowitz @adukeMN]

Natasha Howard on going 7/9 in the paint against the wings

“It feels good playing a team that doesn’t really protect the paint(Olivia Miles laughs) it is though. I give credit to our guards to give me those easy looks and stuff, I wouldn’t be able to score the way I am without them. So I give them the credit not just me”