Shaq says he would draft LeBron over Kobe to start a franchise
“I’d probably go with [LeBron James] because Bron — and I know this is a Kobe [Bryant] comparison — Bron had it when he came in. It took Kobe two or three years to get it. Bron had it when he came in, so I’d probably go with Bron.”
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Nothing unfortunate about it
Hip Hop being what it is from 2018-Now is the reason I’ve gone back and fell in love with so many different genres and even more hip hop from the 90s that I didn’t pay enough attention to.
Debating MJ, LeBron and Kobe every day really is pathetic. It’s just so effing annoying seeing it on the timeline every single damn day. And that’s just a basketball truth.
@LuciusTheOracle AC Green used to carry around an "abstinence teddy bear."
Shaq once cut a hole in it and walked out of the locker room shower with it on (you can guess how). He told the story on Horry's Podcast
I have never seen an animal commit suicide.
I find it interesting that animals, especially apex predators, don't appear to conceptualize “hopelessness” the way humans do.
Even at the brink of death, they fight, bite, claw, and persist without turning their suffering into despair.
This is how you know someone doesn’t know hoops. Mitchell consistently gets his team to the playoffs, Lavine has never as “the man”. Yes, Mitchell disappoints eventually but at least he gets there.
Jared McCain carries a faded, torn-out page of the book “The Inner Game of Tennis” in his bag and reads it before every game, per @JoelXLorenzi
The text is a passage called “the rose analogy” about blocking out doubt and trusting your potential
(h/t @TheNBABase)
Exact correct sentiment here by @jemelehill. Fact: @ShamsCharania does not work for Amazon or the NBA. He did nothing wrong. His job is to scoop anyone he can on NBA News and that’s exactly what he did. What if he hadn’t done it and someone else did before the broadcast. Would anyone be in front of his honchos imploring them to give @ShamsCharania a pass because he got scooped? Leave that man alone. Shams did his job.
“LeBron James, to me, has proven over many, many years to be the most mentally fragile superstar I have ever closely observed. I mean, the poor man, as gifted as he is, was born without a clutch gene.
So he’s lucky to be in the top 10 because he’s a liability and always has been at the late-game free-throw line. You can just look it up. By superstar standards, he is a poor free-throw shooter for his career at 74%, and an even poorer three-point shooter at 35% for his career.
And you wanna talk about launching LeBricks? He’s launched a lot of LeBricks in his day.”
- Skip Bayless
(🎥 @FirstTake )
Former 49ers free-agent WR Jauan Jennings and the Minnesota Vikings reached agreement today on a one-year deal worth up to $13 million, per his agent Drew Rosenhaus.