Normal Man

I read books and magazines.
I am concerned with personal hygiene.
I travel in boats and aeroplanes.

[Normal Man @duckshoe]

Lowry > Curry. Fight me.

[Bennett Herbert @bendog28]

In the 1999 NBA Finals, a veteran Knicks squad tried to stop an up-and-coming Spurs dynasty. History may not repeat itself, but it sure does like to rhyme. Here’s what I’m watching for in the 2026 NBA Finals: https://t.co/4RTNKHp74O

[Normal Man @duckshoe]

I'm very confident that when this is over we'll find that she has either been promised or already received American money to deliver Alberta separation

[Greg MacEachern @gmacofglebe]

Smith defends use of unvalidated signatures to pose separatist referendum question

https://t.co/DHIadIfiJF

[Rise Of Alberta @RiseOfAlberta]

Alberta Independence doesn’t mean losing your Canadian passport.

It means having two: Canadian & Albertan.

[Normal Man @duckshoe]

This is a different scenario than dual citizenship. Dual citizenship is already having citizenship and adding to it while separation can be viewed as a renunciation of citizenship.

[Martyupnorth®- Unacceptable Fact Checker @Martyupnorth]

You will not lose your Canadian passport in an independent Alberta.

That's just pure fear-mongering by the "stay" side because they have no other argument.

All they have is fear and nostalgia (for a Canada that basically no longer exists).

Canada has fully recognized dual citizenship since 1977. There is no requirement to renounce Canadian citizenship when acquiring another. A Canadian-born person does not lose their citizenship simply because their province leaves Confederation. Canadian law protects citizenship by birth on Canadian soil.

Most Albertans have deep family, cultural, and economic connections across Canada. None of those ties will be broken because of independence.

[bigmacadamia55 @bigmacadamia55]

Think about this a lot because at the time it was framed as praise for Chet’s instinct to scavenge offense from a game wherever he can find it, rather than a softly alarming structural issue for a franchise dude, and now a year later basically none of this has changed.

[Normal Man @duckshoe]

@Mark_Travis Not the point. If the defensive value just came from being tall then all the tall guys would provide that value. Why didn’t NBA teams figure this out and sign Tacko if all you need is tall

[Normal Man @duckshoe]

Is this was legit Bol Bol would also be a defensive star

[Mark Travis @Mark_Travis]

Praise like this bizarre. Yes, OKC players abandoned drives, because there is a lamppost in front of the basket. This is not an active thing he is doing to garner such commendations. It’s a passive deterrence completely attributable to his size, which he deserves no credit for.

[Normal Man @duckshoe]

Those "building through the draft doesn't even work" takes seem to have disappeared

[Ben Norton @BenjaminNorton]

The world's richest centi-billionaire oligarch used his power to change the rules, so he could dump his garbage company (which is cartoonishly overvalued, unprofitable, and incinerating cash) on retail investors, using trillions of dollars in retirement funds as exit liquidity, all in order to become the first trillionaire.

This is the perfect metaphor for the US economy as a whole, which is entirely based on bubbles and scams.

[Normal Man @duckshoe]

I really don’t see OKC going all in on washed vets when they were on the cusp of a 2nd ring despite missing key players and still have plenty of avenues for internal growth

[nick wright @getnickwright]

Chet being a part of a larger package for Giannis is going to be a big topic.

But I wonder if Chet for AD (with the Thunder not having to give up any picks) isn’t a more likely trade…

[Normal Man @duckshoe]

If this is your takeaway from this series you just don't like basketball

[Patrick W. Cutler @PatrickWCutler]

The Spurs have finally figured it out:

Play 100% dirty, literally try to injure the other team.

And the NBA will reward you with a trip to the Finals.

[Normal Man @duckshoe]

Halftime performance for this game is hilarious

Punishing the G7 crowd with off tempo out of key country music

[Normal Man @duckshoe]

I woke up, Hoffman's name in the TL and immediately knew the Jays blew a lead

[Normal Man @duckshoe]

Okay now tell us how much profit the police generate

[CTV News @CTVNews]

Canada Post logs $205M-loss before tax in first quarter https://t.co/KzNaC4vpT3

[Tęrräñøvå @TerranovaNoah]

SGA conference finals discourse

[Normal Man @duckshoe]

This just an arbitrary threshold in random years.

10 tears ago when it was 7 there were also three 49 loss teams.

13 years ago it was 9.

16 years ago it was 10.

26 years ago it was 9.

[Keith Black Trudeau @Charlottean28]

We had 10 different teams lose 50+ games this season. That’s 1/3 of the NBA.

10 years ago, it was 7.

20 years ago, it was 5.

Dont let anyone gaslight you into believing tanking wasn’t a problem.

[Normal Man @duckshoe]

The counterpoint to this is there's also no statistical evidence to contradict any of it. There is zero data on flopping and dirty play

OKC fans need to understand that their "we don't know what everyone else is talking about" routine is part of what fuels the discourse

[dav 🇵🇸 @davidroyourboat]

Thoughts on the current state of basketball discourse

[Normal Man @duckshoe]

It’s not real. It’s largely engagement farming followed by dogpiling and in 18 months everyone involved will either pretend it never happened or legitimately forget it did

[Velodus✨ @velodus]

SGA is one of the most interesting athletes ever to me in that he's going to retire one day with the stats and resume of the very, very greatest players of all time and yet people genuinely can't stand him. The disparity between his success and favorability is super abnormal.

[Normal Man @duckshoe]

@mathyu_junior @JamesLiebz No what you believe actually doesn't matter because what happened is what happened whether you want to accept it or not.

Flat earthers beliefs don't change the shape of a planet.

[Normal Man @duckshoe]

We've already done this before. The lottery odds were very flat in the early 90s, then the Magic won the lottery as a 41 win team after winning the Shaq lottery the year before and the league immediately recognized that this was a bad outcome and changed the weighting.

[Legion Hoops @LegionHoops]

There’s now a 71% chance the NBA’s No. 1 pick falls to a 6th place-12th place team. Only a 29% chance it falls to a bottom 5 team, per @ShamsCharania.

Wow, wow, wow.

[Normal Man @duckshoe]

@mathyu_junior @JamesLiebz It doesn't really matter what you believe this is what happened and the reason drafts exist. They didn't just randomly decide to do it, it was a response and designed for a specific purpose