Donnie Nelson was well ahead of the curve. He drafted Luka and Brunson in 2018, then traded for Kristaps, an elite stretch big. Something that has become a necessity for building a modern championship team.
The reality is that Mark Cuban wasn’t patient enough and never should have ended the Donnie and Carlisle era.
Jalen Brunson.
Won two natty’s in college and now has flipped the Knicks and led them to the NBA finals.
The best part of Brunson is that all he cares about is winning. Possesses every intangible.
June 1998: Mavericks land Dirk Nowitzki and Steve Nash on the same night.
June 2018: Mavericks land Luka Dončić and Jalen Brunson on the same night.
June 2038: Some team out there might want to have Donnie Nelson in their draft room.
If you have the chance to play more college basketball, you should always play more college basketball.
1 more bus ride.
1 more time in the training room getting ankles taped.
1 more layup line.
1 more time in the locker room with your teammates.
Choose more ball… always.
Vince Carter on Steve Kerr suggesting the NBA lowers the 82 game season:
"This game has been good to us. 80 plus games just comes with being in the NBA. When you work your butt off to get here, that's what comes with it. Why change the format that's been great for so many years?"
I get some people don't care about this. But CBS Sports — and frankly some of their journalists — should be pissed off about this. The guy who quit his job in a way that they couldn't do a search so he landed his son a prime SEC gig, then argued for his son's team in the NCAA Tourney, is still getting paid by the school and the jewel of CBS Sports' inventory (yes, NFL makes more money, but March Madness is theirs) should be above this.
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Officiating is slowly killing my once unquenchable thirst for the NFL. Zero consistency, zero transparency, zero accountability. The worst part is waiting to react to a huge play because we've been conditioned to anticipate a penalty.