Bill Simmons describes hearing about the Jaylen Brown trade from his wife picking him up from a colonoscopy:
“I think I’m dead. The anesthesia killed me. Are there more first round picks?
When this trade happened I had a camera in my ass, and I had Paul George rammed up my ass”
Shai Gilgeous-Alexander's -28 plus-minus is tied with 2023 Joel Embiid for the lowest plus-minus by the NBA's MVP in a clinching opportunity in the play-by-play era (since 1997) 😳
What makes OKC especially infuriating is the wild disparity in how they’re called on both ends. You can’t lay a fingernail on SGA, but you have players like Lu Dort who can commit war crimes and not get whistled for it
Luka Doncic on when he knew it would be a special night:
"In the second quarter, I kind of felt it. Somebody started talking to me and it woke me up. Matas Buzelis. I was surprised ... It woke me up."
Dillon Brooks went OFF on DeMar DeRozan’s tenure with the Toronto Raptors 😳:
DB: “Raptors couldn’t get over the hump, right?”
A00: “What hump? They got over it!”
LOW: “Why couldn’t they?”
DB: “Why? They got DeRozan out of there.”
“I’ll be real for the city, bro. DeRozan was not holding his weight out there.”
“He couldn’t win. He made the playoffs every year. One time a 1 seed. One time a 5 seed. He run into LeBron, can’t do nothing.”
“You can choke, but you can’t go to media and say, like, ‘Can’t do nothing without LeBron.’”