He had a tibial plateau fracture which can be season-ending. He came back absolutely zooted on pain killers and broke the Bears’ hearts.
Thanks for reminding me. It was awesome.
Tim Tebow:
-jacked
-wife is 2017 Miss Universe
-benched 225lbs 32 times as a Freshman
-hates condoms
-Heisman Trophy winner
-2 National Championships
-spends his free time hunting child predators
-given 10,000 special needs kids the best day of their life
-great at being serious but you can tell he’s a blast to drink beer with at a wedding
-greatest College Football player of all-time
Superman has a poster of Tim Tebow in his bedroom.
If you’re not a fan of Tim Tebow you’re not a fan of life.
Russell Westbrook retired today with the most triple-doubles in NBA history. The name written on his wrist for all 18 seasons belongs to the kid UCLA actually wanted. That kid died at 16, and Westbrook spent two decades playing for both of them.
Westbrook was a 5'8", 140-pound freshman that no college recruited. The call UCLA's head coach made to his high school in 2004 was about Khelcey Barrs III, Westbrook's best friend from across the street in Hawthorne. A 6'6" phenom pulling scholarship offers as a sophomore. The two had a pact to play at UCLA together, then the NBA.
In May 2004, during a pickup game at LA Southwest College, Barrs collapsed on the court. An undiagnosed enlarged heart.
Westbrook walked across the street every morning after that to do his friend's chores at his grandmother's house. Then he grew 7 inches, averaged 25 a game as a junior, and took the UCLA offer they were supposed to accept together. From that point on he played like a man carrying two careers.
The numbers he put up look like typos.
209 triple-doubles is the most in NBA history, and it took breaking Oscar Robertson's record that stood for 47 years. In 2017 he averaged a triple-double across an entire season, something no human had done since 1962, then did it three more times. 27,176 points, 14th all time. 10,351 assists, 5th all time, behind only Stockton, CP3, Kidd, and LeBron. He did all of it at 6'3" in a league of giants, and outlasted the franchise that drafted him. Seattle picked him 4th in 2008 and stopped existing before he played a game.
And in every one of his 1,301 games, he wore two wristbands. One said KB3. The other said "Why not?"
People spent 18 years asking why he played every possession like the building was on fire. He was playing for two.
Kobe Stans wouldn’t be Kobe Stans if Kobe wasn’t who Kobe was!!!
Only people who hate on Kobe:
- “Analysts” searching for engagement.
- Fans who watched Kobe s***t on their
favorite team.
- Fans who never actually watched Kobe.
🐍💜💛
HBD Austin Rivers, who was ranked as high as No. 1 (above Anthony Davis) in the Class of 2011 by some recruiting sites!
"When I played HS, you only got a mixtape if you were a top-tier guy. It was an honor to have a Ballislife or HoopMixtape."
Stephen A. Smith publicly APOLOGIZES to Kyrie Irving after calling him "selfish" for refusing the COVID jab.
"Hindsight-wise, it didn’t make him stubborn or selfish. It made him BRAVE."
"I watched Dr. Fauci on Capitol Hill yesterday, and the person I thought about most was Kyrie Irving."
“Kyrie Irving stood out in my mind because of the heat that he was taking... He refused the vaccine. New York City's mandate made him ineligible for home games, and he linked his stance to people losing jobs over vaccine mandates."
“In my opinion, particularly hindsight-wise, it didn't make him stubborn or selfish. It made him brave. His willingness to stand up and say, ‘Nah, I'm not doing that.’
“It's just a time for reflection — to look at things differently.”
Kyrie gave up $11,400,000 in game checks during the 21-22 NBA season and a $100,000,000 extension with the Nets to be unvaccinated.
That cements his holdout as the largest financial sacrifice any athlete has ever made over an issue in history.
SMITH: "There's several people that we all owe apologies to... but none more so than the apology that I owe to Kyrie Irving."
“This is not about him, the basketball player. This is about him, the man."
The reality is Kyrie Irving, no matter what we think, may have been MORE RIGHT than we have given him credit for and unquestionably was more vilified than he deserved."
“It turns out that, no matter what the truth is behind all of this, Kyrie Irving did nobody wrong. We did him wrong."
“I did him wrong. And for that, I’m sincerely sorry.”
I'm a big fan of the "GPS Theory" when you miss a turn, your GPS doesn't judge you, it recalculates. No matter how many detours you take, it finds another way forward. Life works like that too. You'll make mistakes, but your destination doesn't vanish. The route just changes.