Jacquez🎱

Univ. of Central Arkansas'17🎓🏈#StayFocused🙏🏽 M.R.M.💞

[Jacquez🎱 @ThatGuy__JMAC]

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[Tim S. Grover @ATTACKATHLETICS]

You don't have to love the hard work. You just have to crave the end result so much that the work becomes irrelevant. #relentless

[Mesh🇧🇧 @rahsh33m]

Me at the beach at my grown age 😂

[Slime🐍 @ItsKingSlime]

Cam Newton left Yung Miami SPEECHLESS after giving her a brutal reality check about how much harder a man’s life is compared to a woman’s, explaining that everyone expects a man to protect & provide and no one feels bad for a broke man 😮👀

“Society doesn’t feel sorry for the man. Society can feel sorry for a woman… I got 9 kids, you think they care about if I feel good or not?… we gotta compartmentalize naturally because nobody cares.”

[LakeShowYo @LakeShowYo]

“I think that’s a good no-call. These refs have done a really good job”

DORIS BURKE IS SMOKING D*CK 😭😭😭

[Underdog NBA @UnderdogNBA]

LeBron James in win vs. Warriors:

26 PTS
11 AST
8 REB
11-17 FG
3-5 3PT

Top-five in games with 25+ PTS, 10+ AST, 5+ REB this season.

[👑🐐 @LukaToBron]

Lakers offense for the rest of the regular season

[Jason Kelce @JasonKelce]

The guy squirting water into Zach Ertz’s mouth is Joe O’Pella. He’s an athletic trainer that’s been with the team for over 15 years at this point.

NFL teams don’t really have water boys, athletic trainers are usually the ones responsible for having water on the practice field and during games, but this post is absolutely hilarious.

A guy who rehabbed my ACL tear in my second year, has a masters degree from Pitt, and has years of experience keeping Eagles players healthy and on the field being called a “Waterboy” is crazy, and I’m already giving him shit for it, but good lord this post is so wildly misleading.

Either way, thought I’d clear the air, that the people with Water Bottles during games actually serve much bigger roles on NFL Teams.

[Hater Report @HaterReport]

LeBron James trying to get DeAndre Ayton, Bronny, and Jake LaRavia out of the 1st round of the Playoffs

[Game 7 @game7__]

This is what happens when the NBA lets every other team in the league abuse Lakers players daily.

Pathetic. But hopefully we can all agree on this:

Luka Doncic deserves the NBA MVP this year. And the league shouldn’t let a technicality take it from him.

He played 64 games. The rule says 65. He went down with a hamstring injury Thursday night in OKC, and he’s done for the regular season.

One game short.

Here’s what those 64 games looked like.

He opened the season with 43 points, 12 rebounds, and 9 assists. Then 49 points the next game. Then 44 the game after that. Three straight 40-point games to start a season. The only other player in NBA history to do that was Wilt Chamberlain.

He scored 60 in Miami on March 19. Put up 39 of those 60 in the second half. First Laker to score 60 since Kobe did it in his final game in 2016.

He averaged 40 points per game during a nine-game winning streak. Scored at least 30 in every single one. First player to average 40 over a six-game road stretch since Michael Jordan in 1986.

For the season: 33.8 points, 7.7 rebounds, 8.3 assists. Leading the entire league in scoring. Shooting 47.6% from the field, 36.6% from three.

The Lakers are 50-27 and the third seed in the West. Their winning percentage with Doncic in the lineup is above .650. Without him, they hover around .500. He took a team that traded away Anthony Davis and turned them into contenders.

And he did all of this while going through a public separation from his fiancee, a custody battle for his two daughters, and months of not seeing his kids since December.

After dropping 51 on Chicago two days after confirming the split, someone asked him how he keeps performing through all of it.

“Basketball is giving me some kind of peace when I play a game.”

The full breakdown of his MVP case, and why the 65-game rule shouldn’t stop it, is here:

https://t.co/OTSxzlqTHU

Now. The other candidates.

Victor Wembanyama is having a great year. 24.7 points, 11.5 rebounds, 3.1 blocks, anchoring a top-three defense on a 58-18 Spurs team. But he plays 29.2 minutes per game. No MVP in history has won it playing under 30 minutes a night. He’s 19th in the league in scoring. The Spurs are so deep they win big even when Wemby has a quiet game. His individual value, as spectacular as his defense is, doesn’t match what Doncic means to the Lakers.

Shai Gilgeous-Alexander is averaging 31.6 points on the best team in basketball. He won MVP last year. He’s been great again. But he missed nine straight games with an abdominal strain and only just crossed the 65-game threshold himself. If SGA gets the benefit of the doubt at 65 games after missing significant time to injury, the same grace should apply at 64.

Jokic is averaging a triple-double because that’s what Jokic does. But he missed a month with an injury and the Nuggets are weak this year. His case has faded.

The 65-game rule was created to stop load management. To stop healthy stars from resting on national TV nights. Luka Doncic didn’t load manage. He missed two games for the birth of his daughter in Slovenia and was back on the court that Sunday with 31 points, 15 rebounds, and 11 assists. He missed one game for a suspension. He missed the rest because his body gave out, not because he chose to sit.

Take Doncic off the Lakers and they’re a play-in team. Take Wembanyama off the Spurs and they still have a loaded roster. Take SGA off the Thunder and they still have the deepest team in the league.

That’s what the word “valuable” means.

The rule says 65. He played 64. But what he did in those 64 games was the most dominant individual season in the NBA this year, and he did it through a trade, through a new city, through personal pain most people can’t imagine, and through a body that kept breaking down on him.

If the NBA lets a one-game technicality override all of that, the league will have punished the exact kind of player this rule was never meant to touch.

Give him the exemption.

[O’Shea Jackson Jr @OsheaJacksonJr]

Spurs without wemby. 10-5
OKC without SGA 8-4
Celtics without Jaylen Brown 7-1

Lakers without Luka 6-6.
Smfh.

[Lethal Shooter @LethalShooter__]

BECOME ADDICTED TO IMPROVING YOURSELF✅

[Underdog NBA @UnderdogNBA]

LeBron James in Lakers’ back-to-back set:

19 PTS
15 REB
10 AST
8-12 FG

30 PTS
5 REB
13-14 FG
2-2 3PT

[Legion Hoops @LegionHoops]

OK, this is nuts: 15 years ago today, LeBron finished the first half on 100% shooting from the field, the same as he did tonight…

The only time he’s ever had a perfect half just happened on the same day, 15 years later.

🤯🤯🤯 (via @DanWoikeSports)

[Jacquez🎱 @ThatGuy__JMAC]

Nahhh man where the ICC jersey lol #JucoProduct

[Darius Slay @bigplay24slay]

BigPlay✌🏾

[Darius Slay @bigplay24slay]

BigPlay✌🏾

[NBA Base @TheNBABase]

Fun Fact: Bam Adebayo (83 PTS) and A’ja Wilson (53 PTS) are the only couple in history to both hold the active single-game scoring records for the NBA and WNBA.

[𝙏𝙧𝙤𝙣⁶𓅓 @Bronfeinnnn]

Lebron man😭🐐

[Legion Hoops @LegionHoops]

Carmelo Anthony on LeBron James:

“He’s living long enough to be the villain… Still holding this league down. This league don’t move without Bron. I don’t give a f**k what nobody say. It don’t move without Bron. Until he’s gone. His position in this game is bigger than wins and losses throughout the season.”

(via @7PMinBrooklyn, h/t @NBA__Courtside)

[🇺🇸🏅 @olympicbron]

Imagine if 2 of them had to team up to take down 1 of them

Oh wait nevermind that actually did happen because Bron was so fucking good😂

[MLFootball @MLFootball]

WOW: #NFL legend Randy Moss says that the writers no longer deserve a chance to vote for the Hall of Fame after snubbing Bill Belichick and Robert Kraft.

“If you didn't play it, if you didn't coach it, you shouldn't have a vote.”

The media is biased.