Former Kentucky Wildcat, NCAA Champion, and former NBA player Michael Kidd-Gilchrist recently took part in his first live interview with Kontji Anthony on WREG’s Live at 9 to share his story and continue raising awareness for the stuttering community. 🏀💙
MKG has built an incredible legacy both on and off the court. Beyond being the No. 2 overall pick in the 2012 NBA Draft and winning a national title at Kentucky, he founded Change & Impact to help improve access to speech therapy and advocate for people who stutter.
His message: You are not alone. ❤️
From nationwide awareness tours to helping create legislative change and expanding healthcare access, MKG continues making an impact far beyond basketball. 👏💙 #BBN
As the camera slowly sweeps across these weathered cliffs and concrete remnants, we stand where history was written in blood and courage.
This is Omaha Beach. On the morning of June 6, 1944, American soldiers stepped off landing craft into hell. They faced entrenched German defenses, machine gun fire raking the beach, and obstacles designed to destroy them before they could even reach the sand. The odds were devastating. The casualties were horrific. Yet they kept coming. Wave after wave. Young men, many still teenagers, climbed these very bluffs under withering fire. They refused to be stopped.
Today, on this Memorial Day, we remember them.
We remember the boys who never made it off the beach. The ones who scaled these heights with nothing but rifles, grenades, and unbreakable resolve. The fathers, brothers, and sons who gave their last full measure of devotion so that tyranny would not triumph and so that Europe, and ultimately the world, might remain free.
Looking out over this now-peaceful sea and these quiet grassy slopes, it’s almost impossible to imagine the chaos, the roar of artillery, the cries of the wounded, and the incredible bravery that turned the tide of the war right here. But the bunkers still stand as silent witnesses. The monument behind us honors their sacrifice with dignity.
These men did not fight for glory. They fought for each other, for their country, and for an ideal: that free people, when called upon, would stand and fight for freedom itself.
On this Memorial Day, as we enjoy the peace and liberty they secured at such terrible cost, let us pause and truly remember. Not just with words, but with gratitude in our hearts.
To the heroes of Omaha Beach and all who have fallen in defense of our nation, your sacrifice will never be forgotten.
May God bless their souls, and may God continue to bless the United States of America.
🏀 En 1987, Michael Jordan a inscrit 3 000 points...
Près de 40 ans plus tard, aucun joueur n'a réussi à égaler ce total sur une saison.
Les joueurs s'en étant le plus approchés sont :
- Michael Jordan (1988) : 2 868 points
- Kobe Bryant (2006) : 2 832 points
- James Harden (2019) : 2 818 points
Pour battre le record de Jordan, un joueur devrait disputer les 82 matchs d'une saison et afficher une moyenne de 37,2 points par match 🤯
Lors de la saison 1987, Jordan a enregistré en moyenne : 37 points, 5 rebonds, 4 passes décisives, 3 interceptions et 1 contre par match.
Ernie “Highlight of my day was talking to him on phone. Mike Breen was kind enough to share his info…(voice cracks)…incredibly inspiring…
Chuck “He says I’m gonna handle this & his other sister passed away…After seeing that…I really hope Knicks win the championship”
Knicks fans Hannah & Mitch Widmeier’s story was on Inside the NBA last night:
When I was a college student, I once addressed a professor as “Mister” and he condescendingly tut-tutted me and said “Doctor.” Hey, listen, unless you can save someone’s life or you’re Julius Erving, you can settle the fuck down with that energy.
Basketball legend and Louisville native, Wes Unseld
-NBA ROTY
-NBA MVP
-NBA Champion
-NBA Finals MVP
-NBA leading rebounder (1975)
-#31 retired by Louisville Cardinals
-#41 retired by Washington Wizards
-1 of 2 players in NBA history to win ROTY & MVP in the same season
Kevin Hart explains why you can’t live in the past
“Real reality is, no matter how much emotion and feeling you may have or how much hurt you may have, life has to go on”
“Life doesn’t stop for anybody. So if you don’t process that and understand that, you’re stuck in whatever time period you got hurt forever”
“So grudges and anger and negativity, I don’t have time for it because I’m living to do so much positive things”
“I’ve got such a positive outlook on everything else that’s coming in the future. I can’t stand in the past and bathe in what was wrong”
Just wanted to highlight how ridiculous the 1st inning of Kerry Wood’s 20K masterpiece was:
- 100mph to the umps face to start the game
- What HoFer Craig Biggio called his most embarrassing swing of his career
- Strikes out NL batting leader Derek Bell on possibly the nastiest, definition of fall-off-the-table, curveball you’ve ever seen
- Strikes out HoFer and one of the greatest fastball hitters…on three fastballs.
-Just absolutely disgusting stuff
- Kerry Wood Forever
Dan Issel on why Kentucky basketball hasn't won a NCAA Title since 2012:
"With NIL, we can't cheat like we used to... we need Boogie to kick in more NIL money."
😂💰
@MichelleDBeadle | @ChandlerParsons | @TeamLou23
A throwback to one of Louisville’s most iconic basketball traditions 🏀🌹🐴🐎
The Kentucky Derby Festival Basketball Classic… one of the longest-running high school all-star games in the country, running from 1973 to 2017. Before the McDonald’s All-American Game became the national stage, this was the stage. Names like Moses Malone, Isiah Thomas, Dominique Wilkins, Penny Hardaway, and Donovan Mitchell all came through the Ville.
And for UofL fans, this clip hits different… this is where guys like Peyton Siva, T. Jennings and others helped spark the “Kissing the Cardinal” tradition… something that became part of Louisville basketball’s DNA.
With NIL and the way high school recruiting has evolved, an event like this is tough to recreate today. The top talent is spread across different circuits, and the landscape has shifted. The Derby Classic itself ended in 2018, signaling the end of an era.
This was bigger than basketball… it was a city-wide moment in a place that lives and breathes the game
Real ones know what this meant to the Ville ❤️🖤
No rehearsals, no warm-ups—74 and still sounding incredible. That’s pure talent at its peak. John Fogerty performing Have You Ever Seen the Rain feels like a time machine.
Music really is the closest thing we have to one ❤️