Stephon Castle admits he actively avoided other teams in the 2024 NBA Draft so he could team up with Victor Wembanyama in San Antonio
“I was just looking on the defensive side of things (in San Antonio), where being able to pair with Victor was definitely a plus in my eyes.I just thought it would have been a perfect fit, and I feel like it was.”
“I think being (in San Antonio) was always number one on my list. Internally, I always felt like I was the best player in that draft. (But) I didn’t know what could happen. My agent always told me, like, anything can happen in a draft. Like, you could not work out for a team, not have talked to a team, and they can still take you. So, I mean, I wasn’t really planning on playing in Houston. I didn’t really know how any of that worked. I was kind of hoping I could slide my way to San Antonio. It kind of worked out for me.”
(Via @sam_amick)
Baby Keem shares that his 5-year absence after ‘The Melodic Blue’ was due to health issues:
“I’ll never be super public about what it was because I don't want that to be the narrative…Going through that was the hardest setback for me. You have all these [moments] where you’re like, ‘Damn, I really won’t make music ever again.’ I turned off my Twitter. I didn’t need to see people telling me to release when I physically could not make music for a year. I had to learn how to do it again. It really fckd me up to where I didn’t want to go outside at all.”
Via Sam Hockley-Smith for High Snobiety
19/ A man with a real grievance who finds a charismatic answer will follow it past the point where it stops serving him, because the alternative is going back to the IKEA catalogue. The cult is preferable to the cubicle, even when the cult ends in terrorism, because the cult lets him feel real.
If you want to get rid of flopping the solution is incredibly simple.
$10k fine for your first offense
$25k fine for your second offense
$50k fine for a third offense
$100k fine for your fourth offense
3 game suspension for fifth offense
Make the NBA watchable again
"The way basketball works, usually the more physical team and the team that imposes their will more just wins."
— SGA on being the more physical team against the Lakers.
George Clinton speaks on Kendrick Lamar via the New York Times:
"I’ll put it like this: He, along with Motown, Sly Stone, the Beatles — that kind of institution is going to last. There are a lot of slick writers out here nowadays with lyrics and things, but he writes with soul. He’s a young kid, but when I met him, he sounded my age. He’s like a psychiatrist on record — he talks about [expletive] that most people are afraid to talk about. He’s at that point where he can move the conversation. Nobody will talk about these topics, and he talks about them so matter-of-factly that you don’t even think, You can’t say that.
Making it commercial is another thing. It’s one thing to be hard-core gangster rapping so you can say things. But when you’re talking about life in general and make it sound so hard, so cool — then watch the kids say, No, he ain’t all that, then turn around the next year and change their minds? Kids today, they want their new artist; they don’t want their older brother or sister’s artist or their mother and father’s. Kids don’t like you after a few years. When you can go past that and have the next generation after that still talking about you, you’re doing something.
That whole “To Pimp a Butterfly” album, it was like one song to me. It was like Marvin Gaye’s “What’s Going On.” And he’s starting all over each time he puts an album out — he’s like a brand-new kid."
Pat Riley: "When you get in bed with gambling sites as a league, and they advertise on your network, it seems like everything's okay. And it seems like to me that's a contradiction of what we're trying to do from a purity standpoint."