Brian Childs

[Nike Basketball @nikebasketball]

Sleep well, NY.

[SuperiorUSMNT @EinSchwarzwelt]

So many good takeaways and points from this Poch quote on American soccer development.

[Alex @ajak1033]

The Spurs know how to TAKE the lead, they just don't know how to HOLD the lead. And that's really the most important part of the lead: the holding

[herculez gomez @herculezg]

Tyler Adams and Raul Jimenez star in one of the best football commercials you'll ever see. Reminiscent of iconic early 2000s ⚽ ads.

I’m dying with Channing Tatum as Erling Haaland’s stunt double. 💀

[Siddhartha Saxena @siddsax]

Anthropic onboarding day: Michael Scott introducing Karpathy like he just signed Wemby in free agency.

[The Kitchen Pickleball 👨🏻‍🍳 @TheKitchenPB]

The MLP season begins TOMORROW. Here’s how we stack up the 20 teams. 📈

a thread 🧵

[sophie @netcapgirl]

this is KD joining the warriors for people who know linear algebra

[Bill Simmons @BillSimmons]

Cannot for the life of me figure out why…

1. The NBA moved the lottery to a Sunday afternoon

2. They put it at 3 ET before the 2 playoff games on Mother’s Day no less.

It’s almost like they’re trying to sneak it by us.

Conspiracy Bill is on alert!!!!!!!!

[Rob Perez @WorldWideWob]

First 3 possessions of the game: French blocks.

[Dane Moore @DaneMooreNBA]

Asked Rudy Gobert what surprised him about Victor Wembanyama when they were teammates during the Olympics.

"A few weeks ago he asked me what kind of filter I had in my house for water. It just tells you how his mind is. I try to talk to the young guys here about the food they eat and stuff like that. But I don't get those type of questions."

Ant hasn't asked you about water filters?

"Never. Not yet. I pray for that day."

[Arjun (Raj) Manrai @arjunmanrai]

🧵1/ Our new study on AI and physician reasoning just came out in @ScienceMagazine. As co-senior author, I'm excited about our findings, and I do think AI will reshape medicine. But after seeing some of the discussions, I'm also worried about how our findings may be misinterpreted.

[Lev Akabas @LevAkabas]

The NBA's proposed lottery odds reform, visualized ⬇️

[David French @DavidAFrench]

One of the saddest and most disturbing realities of the second Trump administration is the gap between the administration’s Christian rhetoric and its corrupt and lawless actions.

The administration wants all the benefits of religion and none of the burdens. It wants to be seen as godly while acting godlessly.

I’m reminded of Jesus’ words in Matthew 15: “These people honor me with their lips, but their hearts are far from me.” https://t.co/Q6cPKjFEJO

[Kevin O'Connor @KevinOConnor]

During the NBA GM meeting this week, one person suggested make the bottom three teams ineligible for the top picks entirely. The league, per multiple sources, found this to be way too extreme. But then another person on the call offered a softer version of the same concept: What if the bottom three teams just had slightly lower odds than the teams ranked four through 10? Not zero. Just a little less.

Sources on the call say Adam Silver responded enthusiastically to this idea. Which speaks to the state of lottery reform. The 18 team/8% odds for the top 10 concept is simply still just the concept. The specifics of it will change by the time the league votes on it in late May. And adjustments — like this one — are still in heavy consideration.

I think it’s brilliant. Under that structure, with the bottom three teams having slightly worse odds, there is no longer a single point in the standings where losing helps you. Tanking all the way to the bottom hurts you a bit. It’s not quite relegation that you’d see in the Premier League, but it’s the NBA’s own form that would punish being the worst in the league. And much like Premier League teams have entertaining games to prevent relegation, NBA teams would too.

Picture two bad teams in late March, both within a game of the bottom three, both desperate to win. That's a win for the fans. Picture the front office of the Wizards doing the calculus on whether to shut down Trae Young and Anthony Davis and realizing that, actually, no, the vets need to go play, because falling in the standings is a real cost now, not a reward. That's a win for the sport. Picture Sacramento intentionally fouling Seth Curry late in a game, and the conversation around it shifting from "nefarious tanking" to "bad coaching." That's a win for the league.

More on @YahooSports:

[terminally onλine εngineer @tekbog]

AI companies with software engineers

[Awful Announcing @awfulannouncing]

Walt "Clyde" Frazier: "Mike, I was talking to my friends, man. And I was talking about eradicated, obliterated, devastated. They thought I was talking about Iran. But I was talking about the Bulls."

Mike Breen: "That's how you start a telecast?" #NBA

[Kylen Mills @KylenMills]

My laptop is cooked. 😂

[Kevin Sweeney @CBB_Central]

Duke’s peak in-game win probability in its last four losses:

2025 Final Four vs Houston: 97.5%
December 2025 vs. Texas Tech: 97.8%
February 2026 vs UNC: 95.1%

Today vs. UConn: 98.7%, per ESPN

🤯🤯🤯

[Lev Akabas @LevAkabas]

None of these plans disincentivize losing whatsoever and two of them still strongly incentivize it