Tom Lee

[NBACentral @TheDunkCentral]

Melo still got it 🔥

[Josh Chambers @JoshChambers]

Lamar Jackson says he watched friends chase fast money while he was playing the long game and counting how many years it would take him to reach the NFL

“I’m seeing my friends who I was growing up with who I was playing football with… Just throw their life away for fast money and stuff like that. They used to tell me ‘Oh, you talk too much’. Because I used to always speak about football and positivity stuff. They didn’t want to hear that.”

“Now it’s like… They’d rather hear it now because I’m Lamar Jackson. But I’ve been speaking about it. Everybody just wasn’t listening. I was already seeing what was going on. I wish we could go back in time and y’all could see what I was seeing. Because I always looked at life like, I counted years.”

“Like I would think… ‘How many years does it take to get to the league?’ They’re saying… ‘You do three years in college.’ I said… ‘I’m doing three years.’ I’m not doing four. I’m not trying to go fifth year. I’m doing three years because I’m going to make sure my family is good.”

“If you’re coming from a place like where I come from, don’t try to be like the guys around you. Don’t look up to the stuff that looks like it’s fun… Because sometimes it gets you in trouble.”

“It’s sacrificing. ‘Man, I can’t have fun right now. I’ve got to get my family right. I can’t do this right now. I can’t mess up.’ Forget the fast money. I’ve got to think about longevity.”

“You can get locked up and do five years for $1,000. That money gone. It’s gone. You’re like… ‘Man, I just did that for $1,000…’ And I could have waited five years and I would’ve had $10 million.”

“That’s why I’m where I’m at right now. That’s how I used to think. My mom working… She’s busting her behind. It’s me, my brother and my two sisters at home. I’m the oldest…”

“So I’ve got to make sure everybody right. And it’s like… Man, I can’t wait, but I’ve got to wait. That’s the sacrifice. I’ve got to be patient. People don’t look at it like that. It’s like… ‘Man, I need that money right now.’ But you don’t need that money right now. Just wait.”

[Legion Hoops @LegionHoops]

Steph Curry is locked in for Year 18 🔥

[Jake @charakez]

BREAKING: The Atlanta Hawks and Los Angeles Lakers have agreed on a trade that would send star forward Jonathan Kuminga to LA for Jaden Hardy and a 2nd round pick, sources tell me.

Kuminga will then sign a 3 year $30M contract with LA.

[Los Angeles Lakers @Lakers]

Roll the tape — fellas are hoopin’ in Slovenia 🎥

[dank @cptdankkk]

Jamal Murray says he sleeps on an air mattress when he goes back home to stay humble despite signing $378,000,000 in NBA contracts

“I don’t really look at money like that. I’m a pretty humble guy. When I go home, I actually sleep on an air mattress to keep my mental, to know where I’m coming from”

“I got a little brother that’s watching me as well. I don’t want him to see that you can get whatever you want, but you don’t take it because of why”

“There’s certain things you have to learn and go through, and I’m trying to teach him at the same time, teach myself, that money isn’t everything. If I didn’t have any of it, I’d still be the same person I am today”

[That Hurts @That_Hurts]

Something about Native Americans and how stoic they sound is immediately gravitating.

Natural born leader and can’t help but root for the kid ❤️

[Barstool Sports @barstoolsports]

Cowboys need to guarantee Shiyazh Pete a roster spot just for how great this speech is

[Josh Chambers @JoshChambers]

Jamal Crawford says Michael Jordan once lost a summer pickup game at nearly 40 years old and sat alone in the corner like he had just lost Game 7

“The first time we actually played against each other, different teams, I think our team won. I saw how mad he was. He was pissed off.”

“He went and sat in a corner. He just sat there. He reacted as if he had lost a Game 7. This is a summer pickup. Dude almost 40 years old. It’s Michael Jordan.”

“The next day, this run starts at 2 o’clock. Grover’s blowing up my phone: ‘Yo, where you at? MJ’s waiting on you. We ain’t starting until you get here.’ I’m like, ‘What?’”

“He waited until I got there. From that moment on, we played together and we never lost. We played against everybody. Penny Hardaway. Mike Finley. Tim Hardaway. Antoine Walker. Paul Pierce.”

“Everybody came through Chicago. It got to a point through the summer, you got Jay-Z and Beyoncé sitting courtside at a pickup run.”

[Josh Chambers @JoshChambers]

Novak Djokovic says Kobe Bryant taught him to stop avoiding the painful tape and to deliberately rewatch the moments that made him uncomfortable because that’s where you learn

“I had a three-year period where I didn’t win a Slam. I was winning some big tournaments, but I couldn’t win a Slam. These two guys were beating me in every big match, Federer and Nadal.”

“I changed rackets, team members. I did everything I could to find the right formula. I was struggling physically as well. I was very thorough in my analysis of the matches afterwards, even though I don’t necessarily like to watch matches that I lost.”

“Kobe Bryant used to talk about this a lot. When I was talking to him personally about that, he said, even if it’s just specific intervals of the match that you lost, you definitely look at that. You need to analyze that.”

“You need to go through that cramping feeling because that’s where you learn from those mistakes. That’s where you have an opportunity to rectify that the next tournament or next match. That helped a lot.”

[Underdog WNBA @UnderdogWNBA]

Caitlin Clark wasn't feeling the foul-to-give from Paige Bueckers.

[Shams Charania @ShamsCharania]

BREAKING: Klay Thompson is expected to sign with the Miami Heat after he clears waivers upon a contract buyout with the Dallas Mavericks, sources tell ESPN.

[Jamal Cristopher @JamCristopher]

Austin rivers with another great take. Doing what your team needs you to do and being good at that is how u have a long career.

Here is AR talking about a player in Kris Dunn who does exactly what he’s alluding to and has made a career out of it.

[Josh Chambers @JoshChambers]

Mike Singletary says at 12 years old, before he was even allowed to play football, he wrote down a vision for his life that included the NFL, becoming an All-Pro, reaching the Super Bowl and buying his mom a house

“I was the smallest of the 10 and the least talented. We were a Pentecostal family. My father was a Pentecostal pastor, and so we could not play sports. My father and my mom divorced when I was 12.”

“My brother Grady moved back home when I was 12 years old, and he was killed in an automobile accident six months after my dad left. My mom challenged me a couple weeks after my brother’s funeral. She says, ‘Son, I want you to know that there’s greatness in you.’”

“She said, ‘I’m going to ask you something that’s unfair, but I need to know if you can do this. I need to know if you can be the man of the house.’ I was like, ‘Me? You want me to be the man of the house? I still suck my thumb.’ But I said, ‘Okay. I can do that.’”

“I walked in my room. I got out a sheet of paper and I began to write out what I knew — what I didn’t know then, but I know now, was my vision statement. Find a way to get a scholarship to go to college.”

“Get my degree, in which I’d be the first in my family to do so. Become an All-American. Get drafted and go to the NFL. Buy my mom a house and take care of her for the rest of her life. Become an All-Pro, go to the Super Bowl, and own my own business.”

“I wrote that out and I put it on the wall. I looked at that every day. Before I went to bed at night, I looked at it. Before I went to school in the morning, I looked at it. That was my driving force. I wasn’t even playing football at the time. I had to beg my mom to let me play.”

[Legion Hoops @LegionHoops]

The Hornets have released a behind-the-scenes look at the process of trading LaMelo Ball for Naz Reid.

“If we trade LaMelo, we're probably trading Miles.” 😳

(via @HornetsReddit)

[Underdog WNBA @UnderdogWNBA]

Kelsey Mitchell and Marina Mabrey get into it

Double techs

[SFGiants @SFGiants]

Left their mark on the Monster ✍️

[Deuce World🌃 @deuceworldx]

After all these years, Gilbert Arenas finally explained his beef with Kwame Brown and revealed the full story behind their ongoing feud.

[Josh Chambers @JoshChambers]

Fernando Mendoza reveals he almost went to Georgia and actually called Kirby Smart late at night to commit, when he didn't pick up Mendoza slept on it, and with the guidance of his mom he changed his mind to Indiana

“It was a late night decision, it was really coming down to between the two. At the end of the day, I basically took another night to rest on it. At the time I wanted to go to Georgia, but my mom said you gotta to go to Indiana… Mom knows best.”

“It was late. Eastern time. These are life changing decisions. Past my bedtime. Close to midnight… Kirby’s an awesome coach, Coach Cignetti is an awesome coach…”

“What it was, I was really between Indiana and Georgia. Two fantastic programs. Indiana would have been less of a competition at Quarterback. Georgia had Gunner Stockton, fantastic quarterback, great leader of men over there, he’s just fantastic.”

“It was a late night decision, at that point I was like ‘You know what? I’m gonna do it. I’m gonna go to Georgia. So I gave the phone 3 rings, and my mom was looking at me like ‘Ahhhhh’, and so I was like flip it. I hang up the phone. It wasn’t him not picking up. I was like, flip it. I took a sleep on it, and the next day, just prayed on it, and thank god.”

“Coach Sullivan gave us a book called the ‘Four Agreements’. One of the agreements was being a man of your word. So I would have taken it, I would have been blessed. I think it would have been two great situations. It’s like the universe, it’s a butterfly effect, who knows what would have happened.”

[Even Year Dynasty Show @EYDShow]

Bo Davidson is at it again! Absolutely crushed his 5th AAA HR off the batters eye in CF.

110.6 mph / 451 ft

#SFGiants