Dwyane Wade and Kobe Bryant’s interview right after they won the gold medal in the 2008 Olympics.
Two of the greatest guards to ever play this sport, what a special time.
Victor Wembanyama reads a Harry Potter book at a park.
“He’s the most brilliant player since Albert Einstein.” -media
Jaylen Brown became the youngest person in American history to lecture at Harvard, collaborated with MIT on the Bridge Program, which focuses on getting Black youth in Boston into STEM, became the youngest elected vice president of the NBA Players Association, speaks fluent Spanish, has a nonprofit called Boston Xchange inspired by Black Wall Street, whose goal is to generate $5 billion in additional generational wealth for marginalized communities, all while becoming Finals MVP. Also, his mother has a Ph.D.
“It’s a disease that he’s so smart and he’s not marketable.” - media
Some mediocre, insecure white people seem to believe that if you’re not mixed with white, you can’t be brilliant. To cope with that belief, they dismiss exceptional Black people as “arrogant” or invent some other negative narrative like affirmative action and DEI to cope better.
Breaking: Minnesota is sending Julius Randle and the No. 28 pick in the NBA Draft to the Brooklyn Nets in a three-team trade that sends Nic Claxton to the Chicago Bulls, sources tell @ShamsCharania.
The Timberwolves will acquire Brooklyn’s No. 33 pick for Randle and No. 28.
Trae Young says he wishes he never played it safe when he injured his ankle against the Bucks in 2021 and says had they beaten them, they’d win the championship.
"If I knew what I know now, I would have played through my sprained ankle. My agents were telling me not to play… We were two games away from going to the finals. We had beaten the Suns twice that year. You never know when that opportunity is going to come again."
"That's one thing that breaks me. I wish I would have just triple-taped it, put the ankle brace on top, and played through that pain." 🥲
(via @thepivot)
29 YEARS AGO TODAY 🐐
Michael Jordan hit a game-winner over Bryon Russell in GM1 of the 97 Finals after MVP Karl Malone missed 2 FTS
Scottie Pippen told Malone "The mailman doesn't deliver on a Sunday" before the misses.
30 YEARS AGO TODAY 🐐
Michael Jordan won his 4th MVP award with 109 of 113 votes (Penny 2, Dream 1, Mailman 1)
MJ was also the All-Star MVP, Finals MVP, All-Defense 1st team, played 82 games and led the league in scoring that 72-10 Bulls season.
This was the time in the show where everything changed for me…Uncle Phil was literallly looking out for Will and doing his best to stop him from making the same mistakes he once made