Jesse Phillips

Father, husband, dog dad, NBA Senior Performance Physical Therapist. Views and opinions are my own.

[Jesse Phillips @USCdpt]

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[Jesse Phillips @USCdpt]

Phenomenal.

[NOBUNAGA🇯🇵🏯_夏樹蒼依 @japan_nobunaga]

USA. A Mexican restaurant. We had not yet ordered anything, and the food was already arriving.

Chips. Salsa. Unrequested. Free.

I stopped the waiter. "We have not earned these."

"They just come with the table, man."

They come with the TABLE. In my land, hospitality is a debt. Every gift creates an obligation, weighed carefully, returned in the proper season with interest of feeling. Here, the gift arrives before you have even proven you can pay for dinner.

This is not an appetizer. This is a declaration: we trust you. Eat.

I ate with the gravity the moment deserved. And then — I must report this calmly — the basket emptied, and a new one appeared.

"Did we…?"

"Refill," the waiter said. "It's bottomless."

Bottomless. They have wells of salsa. The supply lines of this nation are beyond anything my ancestors imagined.

My friend warned me. "Don't fill up on chips, dude."

Too late. I had accepted three baskets. Honor demanded each one be finished — an unfinished gift is an insult. By the time my actual food arrived, I was a ruined man.

I was not hungry. I was not comfortable. I had been defeated by a courtesy.

Generosity that arrives before the request cannot be repaid. It can only be survived.

I know the rule now. I have made my peace with the basket. One basket. Two at the most.

Who am I deceiving. There is no number of baskets I would refuse. The trust of a nation is in that salsa, and I intend to honor all of it.

[Jesse Phillips @USCdpt]

@Hilbe Please tell me there isn’t a comma in that lease payment…

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@realTimTraveler One can dream…

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@carsly Yep!!

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@RivianTrackr Same!!

[Jesse Phillips @USCdpt]

LET’S GO!!!!!!!!!

[LA Clippers @LAClippers]

WE GOT THE 5TH OVERALL PICK
WE GOT THE 5TH OVERALL PICK
WE GOT THE 5TH OVERALL PICK
WE GOT THE 5TH OVERALL PICK
WE GOT THE 5TH OVERALL PICK

[LA Clippers @LAClippers]

WE GOT THE 5TH OVERALL PICK
WE GOT THE 5TH OVERALL PICK
WE GOT THE 5TH OVERALL PICK
WE GOT THE 5TH OVERALL PICK
WE GOT THE 5TH OVERALL PICK

[LA Clippers @LAClippers]

...and we've gone on a 35-17 run since.

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@unusual_whales

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@Hilbe Did Rivian confirm or deny that the R2 Premium will come with LIDAR this fall?

[James Clear @JamesClear]

Don’t feel qualified? Nobody does.

You can only be qualified to do that which you have already accomplished or trained for.

Anything new is accomplished by unqualified people.

[Ivica Zubac @ivicazubac]

@DimeDropperPod Love my clippers fam 🙏🏻❤️

[LA Clippers @LAClippers]

Thank you for the past 7 years, Ivica Zubac ❤️

[Hoop Central @TheHoopCentral]

“This is my city, this is still my house. I love y’all, and thank y’all for the night.”

— John Wall to the Wizards fans. 👏🙌

(via @NBA)

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@Hilbe 👎

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@shl Me!

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@gabriel1 Yes please

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@KamiahAdams It was an incredible evening, Kam! Congratulations!! We love you guys!

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@Hilbe 👎