Russell Westbrook was literally left without a team all summer.
He’s now leading the whole team in rebounds, assists, and three pointers, and is second in scoring on the Kings.
Respect.
This is the single most important book for understanding our current era. Ray Bradbury foresaw, in 1952, how we would voluntarily abandon literacy for mass entertainment and how that entertainment would be used to enslave us. Every single thing he envisioned has come to pass.
History lining up in Oklahoma City.
At 27 years and 190 days old:
Shai Gilgeous-Alexander and Russell Westbrook - 12,598 career points.
⚡Same total
⚡Same age checkpoint
⚡Same MVP ceiling
SGA:
🔸503 total games played (494 as a starter)
🔸Career PPG: 25.0 PPG
🔸Career PPG (as a starter): 25.4 PPG
Russ:
🔹587 games played (570 as a starter)
🔹Career PPG: 21.5 PPG
🔹Career PPG (as a starter): 21.7 PPG
Different styles, same gravitational pull on the game.
One era handed off to the next without the standard dropping.
OKC is continuing the greatness that once lived…
Now carried by SGA, echoing the path Russ carved before him.
❗️ Gerard Piqué to referee Gil Manzano some years ago:
"You’re, with a lot of difference, the referee that has f*cked up the most. You’re a f*cking disgrace. I sh*t on your mother."
Can we all agree that this is one of the most impressive anime endings of the last 25 years? Even people who don't like Frieren like that can't not see the greatness in this.
Christopher Nolan was so blown away by how completely Heath Ledger disappeared into the role in The Dark Knightthat he let Ledger direct the Joker’s homemade hostage video himself.
Nolan wanted that footage to reflect the character’s twisted, sadistic mind — and realized that only the actor fully living inside that darkness could capture it.