Spencer Sloan

[kuz @kylekuzma]

After sitting here watching NBA free agency this year and overall NBA movement over the past 2 years somebody has to say it....

The new CBA was sold as parity, but the first and second apron are starting to function like a hard cap on player value, team continuity, and player movement.

Teams are no longer making purely basketball decisions. They’re making fear-based apron decisions. That means good players get squeezed, homegrown cores get broken up, fan-favorite teams lose their identity, and the overall product loses some of the nostalgia and continuity that made people fall in love with the NBA in the first place.

This isn’t about players not understanding business. It’s the opposite. We understand that the NBA is a business. That’s why the @TheNBPA has to operate with elite business acumen, elite negotiating strategy, and real foresight.

The owners and the league walk into these meetings with killers that continue to run circles around us time and time again with elite lawyers, economists, cap experts, media strategists, and long term business operators. Players deserve a PA that is just as sharp, just as prepared, and just as aggressive about protecting our upside.

Too often, it feels like players are informed after the fact instead of being truly educated and empowered before decisions are made. That cannot continue.

The next CBA is a do or die moment for us as players. It's only going to get worse for us. We need transparency, accountability, and a serious re evaluation of who is representing us and how they are representing us.

This is not anti parity. This is pro player, fan, and product. The league is strongest when players are valued properly, great teams can stay together, and the people representing us are operating at the same level as the people sitting across the table.

[Spencer Sloan @UnorthodoxJews]

@TheCousinSal @sammorril @ringer What podcast is this on?

[Spencer Sloan @UnorthodoxJews]

@TomShady300 Love the dude is called a whiz kid and he’s been caught 3 times.

[Spencer Sloan @UnorthodoxJews]

@TomShady300

[James Queally @JamesQueallyLAT]

David Bloom -- the twice convicted NYC con man dubbed the 'Wall Street Whiz Kid' -- pled no contest to fraud charges today after bringing his investment grift to L.A., targeting marks in the Frolic Room bar and a landmark Hollywood apartment building https://t.co/LrpodkEkQJ

[Spencer Sloan @UnorthodoxJews]

@juliaioffe Beyond terrifying

[Spencer Sloan @UnorthodoxJews]

@jaycaspiankang @HaterReport_ A+ take right here 👏 👏 👏

[Queer Latifah ✨ @TheAfrocentricI]

This is why journalism is a necessity. They were just getting away with price gouging people with no repercussions.

[Spencer Sloan @UnorthodoxJews]

All I see here is 8.6% of it does come true

[Nicholas Fabiano, MD @NTFabiano]

91.4% of worries experienced by people with anxiety never come true.

[Spencer Sloan @UnorthodoxJews]

@Lucas_Shaw As someone who grew up in LA this is shockingly true.

[Andrea Junker @Strandjunker]

Apparently, no one seems particularly bothered, but for the past few days, Trump has been talking repeatedly about being a dictator.

If Americans don’t want that, the window to stop him is closing quickly.

[Spencer Sloan @UnorthodoxJews]

It’s weird that people think this is the first time Coldplay broke a family apart.

[Spencer Sloan @UnorthodoxJews]

@FanDuelTV It’s hang it in the louvre

[Spencer Sloan @UnorthodoxJews]

Nice

[YouTube TV @YouTubeTV]

.@dallasmavs just won an epic game of capture the Flagg.

[Spencer Sloan @UnorthodoxJews]

.@TheCousinSal EMERGENCY POD need to hear your thoughts on this

[Adam Schefter @AdamSchefter]

More about the son of Atlanta Falcons defensive coordinator Jeff Ulbrich admitting to being the one behind a prank call to Shedeur Sanders during Day 2 of the NFL draft:

https://t.co/LkNrwVMepj

[Bill Ackman @BillAckman]

I just figured out why @howardlutnick is indifferent to the stock market and the economy crashing. He and Cantor are long bonds. He profits when our economy implodes.

It’s a bad idea to pick a Secretary of Commerce whose firm is levered long fixed income. It’s an irreconcilable conflict of interest.

[Spencer Sloan @UnorthodoxJews]

@BrendanOBrien77 😂

[YouTube TV @YouTubeTV]

Option 1: Cuddle winning mascot
Option 2: End zone griddy
Option 3: Midfield moment of zen

[Spencer Sloan @UnorthodoxJews]

@KeltchJason @YouTubeTV 1

[Spencer Sloan @UnorthodoxJews]

@MattBelloni @WarnerBailey Did you tag the right person in this?

[Spencer Sloan @UnorthodoxJews]

These types of headlines are cringe.

[The Wall Street Journal @WSJ]

At least two dozen celebrity-owned homes in Pacific Palisades and nearby Malibu—worth more than $155 million—have been destroyed in the Los Angeles area wildfires. 🔗 https://t.co/qy2vAAtEbz