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[Checkmate @Checkmatee27]

Not even LeBron’s own teammates believe he’s the GOAT 😭

AD, Wade, Ray Allen, Jared Dudley, Iman Shumpert, Quinn Cook, Mario Chalmers, JR Smith, Carmelo and Shaq all picked MJ.

When 10 guys who actually played with you still say Jordan, that debate is not as close as Bron fans want it to be

[Darkness @darkside0523]

@haiti4eva 😂🤣😂🤣

[Darkness @darkside0523]

@CarlosEd61472 @topvideos___ La única puta que veo es la que hace sonidos de chica

[Darkness @darkside0523]

@JasonBo75460877 @topvideos___ Did I say that? Reading comprehension hard huh stupid.

[Darkness @darkside0523]

@3_biggheatle @GeecheePrince @GZGZGZGZEE @Solobulll @olympicbean @ShannonSharpe Cook that stupid ass fraud

[Ancient History Hub @AncientHistorry]

Everyone's fighting about Achilles again.

Whatever side you're on, most of the takes are flattening him into a meme. Let me remind you who he actually was.

Achilles was raised by Chiron, the wisest of the centaurs, who taught him medicine, music, and philosophy alongside war. He could heal wounds and play the lyre. He was never just a killer.

His mother, the sea goddess Thetis, knew the prophecy. He could live a long, peaceful life at home in obscurity, or die young at Troy and be remembered forever.

He chose Troy. Knowing.

When his best friend Patroclus was killed wearing his armor, Achilles' grief broke him. He tore his face. He poured ashes on his head. He refused to eat. Homer gives him the most devastating mourning scene in Western literature, and then Thetis appears and confirms it: if you go back to kill Hector, you will die soon after.

He went back anyway.

But here's the scene people forget, the one classicists call the moral heart of the Iliad.

After killing Hector and dragging his body around the walls of Troy, Achilles is visited at midnight, alone in his tent, by Hector's elderly father, King Priam. Priam, the father of the man Achilles killed, kneels and kisses "the terrible, man-slaying hands that had killed so many of his sons."

And Achilles weeps. They weep together. He lifts the old king up, feeds him, gives him a bed for the night, and returns Hector's body for burial with full honors. He even pauses the war so the Trojans can mourn.

That's how the Iliad ends. Not a duel. Not a sack. An act of mercy between two grieving men.

This is why, six centuries later, Alexander the Great sailed to Troy, anointed himself with oil, ran a footrace around Achilles' tomb, and slept every night with a dagger and a copy of the Iliad under his pillow.

This is why the Greek word for hero, hērōs, was practically synonymous with his name.

He chose to die for his friend. He wept with his enemy's father. He's been a hero for 2,700 years for a reason.

[Homer Pavlos @HomerPavlos]

What we’re seeing on X these past few days is insane.

> They’re trying like maniacs to convince you that Achilles is not a hero or a role model, even though he was the greatest role model in the West for 3,000 years.

> They’re trying to convince you that he had a sexual relationship with his dear brotherly friend Patroclus, even though Homer says nothing of the sort. On the contrary, Homer mentions his relationships with women, states that Achilles has a son, Neoptolemus, and that at Patroclus’ funeral, Achilles and Briseis weep because he didn’t manage to marry them. That’s what Homer writes.

> They’re trying to convince you that he shouldn’t be a role model for men because he was weak and a “cry baby”.

This is being said by uneducated barbarians whose sources are the movie and secondary interpretations.

They want you weak and disillusioned with classical studies.

All these pseudo intellectuals have invaded the academic community of classical studies and archaeology and are trying to completely rewrite the facts in order to repel you.

They want to fully control classical studies the same way they control art.

Because if they control the Classics they will control the civilizational narrative.

Don’t fall victim to their Marxist anti-Greek and anti-Western propaganda.

Achilles was, is, and will always be the role model of a healthy man.

Never forget that Alexander the Great slept with a copy of the Iliad (from Aristotle) under his pillow, along with his dagger. His role model was Achilles, who was also his ancestor on his mother’s side.

Never forget that.

[Darkness @darkside0523]

@God_Cousin52 @Thechat101 This was him 🤣🤣

[Darkness @darkside0523]

This is what a stupid ass looks like.

[Randyn @RanWithThePlan]

I never understood the hype outside of impact. he wasn’t that good of a wrestler. He’s no different than Triple H

[Tomer Azarly @TomerAzarly]

Austin Rivers responds to Draymond Green for his, “disrespectful,” comments yesterday:

[BuBBliK @k1rallik]

> be Henry Cavill
> born on a tiny British island no one can find on a map
> bullied at boarding school. they call you "Fat Cavill"
> lose 21 lbs for your first film role at 17
> miss Batman. Christian Bale gets it
> miss Bond. Daniel Craig gets it
> miss Superman. Brandon Routh gets it
> they call you the unluckiest man in Hollywood
> Zack Snyder calls. you're playing World of Warcraft
> miss the call
> call back immediately. say you were "saving a life"
> become the first non-American Superman in history
> bench press the entire DC universe
> Netflix offers you The Witcher. you read all the books first
> they take both roles away anyway

Happy 43rd birthday to the most over-qualified man in Hollywood

[Jamal Cristopher @JamCristopher]

Austin rivers smoked it here. Said nothing but facts about draymond

[Darkness @darkside0523]

@aakashgupta Good the trilogy was trash and so was the storyline.

[TheTruth @TheTruth8240]

Austin Rivers Absolutely DESTROYS Draymond Green 😭😭😭

"You have the delusion, the irony of you saying im part of the biggest bailout in NBA history. Draymond you are the luckiest basketball player ive ever seen, you were drafted to a franchise with a hall of fame front office Bob Myers, hall of fame coach Steve Kerr, The Greatest Shooter of All Time and perhaps a Top 5 player of all time Steph Curry hall of famer, one of the greatest Top 5 Shooter of All Time Klay Thompson, Andre Iguodala another hall of famer, not to mention one of the most lethal scorers of All Time and Arguably a Top 10 player of All Time Kevin Durant. Youre the backpack jumpshooter youre the guy that everybody leaves open noone guards you, talking about Steve Kerr ended your career, Steve Kerr made your career, how dare you"

(h/t @BrickCenter_ )

[Darkness @darkside0523]

@WereChihuahua @DefiantLs 😂🤣😂🤣

[Hater Report @HaterReport]

Jaylen Brown CALLS OUT SGA for FLOPPING

“We commend players for playing the game the right way but we give the benefit to those who try to manipulate the game… I just don't think it’s basketball. All the foul baiting… it’s whatever for me.”

[Darkness @darkside0523]

@Courage69861986 @JinWooIQ 😂🤣😂🤣

[khrisody @khrisody]

Chris Finds Out :

Revised

The "Ballmer vs. NBA" saga is missing the most obvious angle: Steve Ballmer wasn't the mastermind—he was the mark.

The Kawhi/Aspiration deal looks like cap circumvention on paper, but the actual corporate timeline tells a much darker story of a fintech grift.

2/ Context is everything: In 2021, Kawhi signed a 4-year, $176M MAX extension with the Clippers aftertearing his ACL.
He was already making the legal limit. There was no "cap" to circumvent. The Aspiration deal didn't even happen until 2022. The math doesn't add up for a bribe.

3/ So why the $48M deal? Look at Aspiration. They were chasing a $2.3B SPAC merger and needed to look like a "Unicorn." To sell that story, you need a "Whale" investor.
Steve Ballmer was that whale. They needed him hooked to close the deal.

4/ Aspiration first tried to buy the Clippers’ arena naming rights. When that failed, they pivoted to Kawhi.
Signing the face of Ballmer's franchise wasn't about marketing—it was about credibility. It made the company look "vetted" by the world's richest owner.

5/ Why $20M in "worthless" stock? It was Equity Theater.
To close a multi-billion dollar merger, you need elite names on the cap table. It wasn't a "secret payment"; it was a prop to lure other investors. If it was simple cap cheating, Ballmer would've just sent cash.

6/ Here’s the real kicker: Aspiration likely prioritized Kawhi’s payments to hide the fact they were broke.
Joe Sanberg knew if he missed a payment to Kawhi, Ballmer would find out immediately. Kawhi was essentially a human shield to keep Ballmer’s millions flowing in.

7/ It’s also way more likely Sanberg told his own execs it was "cap circumvention" just to shut them up.
Admitting you're bribing a player to keep an investor from seeing you're insolvent is a bad look. Telling them it’s a "strategic favor for the Clippers" makes it sound like a power move.

8/ The NBA is investigating "intent," but the facts suggest a desperate startup used a superstar as bait to keep a billionaire on the hook.

9/
The termination clause also isn’t automatic proof of circumvention. If Aspiration wanted Kawhi specifically because of his Clippers connection—and because Ballmer was a major investor—the deal ending if he left the Clippers makes business sense.

10/
And if Kawhi wanted hidden salary, why agree to a contract heavy in stock that could also be terminated? That’s a pretty sloppy structure for a secret payment scheme.

11/
Honestly, it may have been easier for Joseph Sandberg to frame the Kawhi deal as “cap circumvention” than admit the real motive: keeping Kawhi tied to the company helped maintain credibility with Ballmer and kept the money flowing.

12/
Also worth noting: the lawsuit against Ballmer appears to rely heavily on reporting from Pablo Torre, while Torre has also used the lawsuit itself to push a narrative of guilt without much added context.

Closing/
As for Sandberg pleading the Fifth: that doesn’t automatically mean he was hiding a cap-circumvention scheme. If Joseph Sandberg openly admitted Aspiration misled or defrauded one of its biggest investors—Steve Ballmer—he’d be inviting another lawsuit or even criminal exposure. Any lawyer would tell him to say nothing.
Don’t lose sight of the bigger picture: Sandberg is currently facing up to 40 years for wire fraud, which matters when evaluating his credibility.
The Kawhi Leonard deal doesn’t look like a masterclass in cap circumvention. It looks more like a hail mary from a struggling CEO who used Kawhi’s name to maintain credibility and keep Ballmer’s reported $50M investment from evaporating.
The structure looks sloppy because it likely was a desperate business move—not a professional sports conspiracy.

Ballmer didn't cheat the league; he got taken for a ride by a company that needed his star player to stay relevant.