Raymond King Jr

Former basketball player turned fitness professional. I have a passion for fitness and health. I'm all about helping people and positive change.

[Kyrie🤞🏾 @KyrieIrving]

Message to my black folk around the world:

STOP allowing our enemies divide us!

[Kyrie🤞🏾 @KyrieIrving]

What happens the day we ALL just

Stop Participating

and collectively liberate ourselves.

[Josh Chambers @JoshChambers]

Brian Shaw explains why Phil Jackson had to coach Kobe differently during the first three Lakers Championships:

"Phil had no problem cussing Shaq out or getting on Shaq, but he would never say anything to Kobe early on."

"So I have German Shepherds and they are protection trained.. And my dog trainer always said to me the first six to eight months that you had his puppy don't ever tell it no because what we want to do is we want this dog to be so confident that he feels like he could do everything."

"The discipline part can come later on, once his confidence is at a certain point."

"So he gonna chew up your house dig up your yard or whatever. You just got to deal with it let your dog do what it feels like, he's the dude, he's the man."

"When we had the team meeting and I remember asking Phil how come you don't never say nothing to Kobe, I mean you always say everything to Shaq, you don't say nothing to Kobe... and he said because for this team we always need Kobe to be in attack mode."

"And then that immediately made me think about what my dog trainer said about my German Shepherd needs to be in attack mode, and it was exactly what our team needed."

"Shaq came from a disciplinary his father was his stepfather was military. Yes sir, no sir, and whatever you asked him to do, told him to do. He was obedient."

"Kobe was that German Shepherd puppy that nobody ever said no to... He had sisters, he was the only boy, father played in the NBA, and he was the The Golden Child..."

"Phil nurtured that confidence in him, at the expense of the rest of us on the team, getting the brunt of him yelling and screaming and what have you. But not saying a whole lot to Kobe.."

"But we needed that, he was always in attack mode."

"You talk about Phil just knowing personalities and how to kind of Coach everybody differently... Phil Jackson was the only man for that job."

[I’M AN IDEA @IamANideaX]

Clark Fans: “Why don’t they play defense on Olivia Miles like they do Clark?”

I’ve hooped, coached and player development my whole life.

When we see a guard that can’t dribble we pressure them.

When there’s a guard with handles, you play off a bit and do other things to make them uncomfortable.

Clark is a turnover machine. She has weak handles and can’t handle pressure….

A defender’s dream.

Miles is an elite ball handler, thrives under pressure, and will make you pay if you double team her….

A defender’s nightmare

The person in the video has been with the W for 30 seasons. 🤯

She knows basketball!

I trust her opinions and critiques

[Tariq Nasheed 🇺🇸 @tariqnasheed]

An Argentina fan got into an altercation with a brotha in the Bay area….

and he got his passport stamped

[Reads with Ravi @readswithravi]

“You escape competition through authenticity.”

— Naval Ravikant

[Women’s Hoops Network @WomensHoops_USA]

OLIVIA MILES TONIGHT 🔥

• 32 POINTS
• 8 REBOUNDS
• 8 ASSISTS
• 13/24 FG

[Megatron @Megatron_ron]

JUST IN: 🇧🇷🇺🇸 Brazil President Lula:

“The US lied about Iran's nuclear weapons just like it lied about Iraq. It provoked this war. Now Trump says oil owners must pay him 20% for each ship he claims to unblock.

That used to be called piracy."

[dank @cptdankkk]

Jaylen Brown says players should be able to own equity in teams because they help increase the value of NBA franchises

“Players should be able to invest alongside ownership groups and business opportunities. I don't understand why that’s ever been a thing. It's like you’re an athlete and they make it seem like they can control how much wealth or growth that you could actually accumulate. I think that's wrong”

“I also think that any other major corporation, if you work for Apple, Nike or anywhere, if you're a CEO, if you're someone who has been on a board for a large amount of time, you get equity in a company at some point. You are part of it”

“I think athletes should be looked at in the same way. You played for the Celtics for 20 years, you should get a piece of equity because you helped accumulate the growth. That's the part that gets lost in translation. The sweat equity you put in. You get compensated for doing your job, but you don't get compensated for the growth. At major corporations and companies you do, or at least some of the big ones”

[dank @cptdankkk]

Jaylen Brown says he used the NBA Players Association instead of hiring an agent for the NBA Draft because they're paid to help players

“When I entered the draft, I didn't have an agent. I'm probably the highest picked selected ever that didn't enter with an agent. When I was evaluating, I went through the whole process and sat with a bunch of people, and what they was offering I ain't really need. It was kind of already slotted, so I leaned on the union a lot more”

“A lot of the agents came and was like, ‘Yeah, we'll move you to L.A. We'll get you a trainer, put some money in your pocket,’ and I was like, ‘For what? Do I gotta give the money back?’ They was like, ‘Nah, but standard agent fee is 4%.’ I'm starting to do the math, and a house, car, and all that, whatever he was offering, is a lot less than what 4% would have been”

“Long story short, the math wasn't mathing for me. I ended up being the third pick. I think because I came in like that, a lot of people, I think it was the agents, they tried to slander my name a little bit, put it in the media that he's too this, he's too that. Ended up backfiring. It all worked out in the end”

“With the union, we pay dues. All the players in the NBA pay dues. We all pay like $10,000 out of our salary that goes to hiring lawyers, hiring staff, CEO, everything that you need to lead a company that works for us. So all of that is our resources that we all pay for, that we agree to. Once I learned that, I just started using it”

“I'm talking about you can get private investigations done. They give referrals for financial advisors. All type of stuff. Foundation wise, health insurance, whatever you need. They have a liaison that's paid to make sure that you get it done. So I put it on their desk like, ‘I need you to get this done.’ And they do because that's their job”

[- @LMDiddy14]

Argentina robbing Egypt.

Uploading this again because FIFA removed the video.

[Michael Redd @MichaelRedd_]

Love Skylar. Diggins Hall of Famer. No debate.

But one of the hardest things for any hooper is getting older.

Not because you wake up one day and can't play. That's (almost) never how it happens. You just lose a little. Half a step. A little burst. A little vert.

Coming off the bench after being the No. 1 player your whole career? Man...that's hard.

Trust me, I know.

It was hard for me to admit I wasn't that guy anymore. That's part of why I retired. Every former go-to player I know has had to wrestle with that part of it.

And before y'all get mad at me, go look at the advanced numbers. Go look at the film. Skylar can still hoop. I think she can help a team win for another 3 or 4 years.

The other thing is...we're not in that locker room. We have no idea what the conversations between Skylar and the organization have been like, or whether she's been communicated with the right way. None of us know that.

I'm just talking about the basketball side of it, and how tough this stage of a career can be.

If this sounds like criticism, it isn't. It's respect. It comes from somebody who's lived it.

[George Galloway @georgegalloway]

He is SIX years old…

[sarah @sahouraxo]

Israel killed every single child in this photo in Lebanon.

Every. Single. One.

They were not combatants.

They were children.

[Daniel Mayakovski @DaniMayakovski]

Estas no son imágenes de Hiroshima del siglo pasado, es el sur del Líbano, donde el ejército genocida de "Israel" está haciendo desaparecer pueblos enteros, llenándolos de explosivos y volándolos por los aires.

No hay escándalo mediático en la prensa, "Israel" puede destruir pueblos enteros y ni siquiera lo hacen noticia.

[Ashok Kumar @comrade_kumar_]

Take notes kids this is how you answer cynical accusations of antisemitism

[A. Lukman @Islam435]

The most bombed countries in the last 50 years are all Muslim. But somehow Muslims are the terrorists?

[ZUBY: @ZubyMusic]

No matter how jacked up the world gets, you can still choose to live a good life.

You'll never be able to control the world or everybody else in it. But you can control yourself and influence those around you in a positive way.

[Jackson Hinkle 🇺🇸 @jacksonhinkle]

Candace Owens:

"Judaism is a faith, Israel is a state, what Netanyahu has done to the Palestinians since Oct 7 is a holocaust’

[Wise Michael Jordan @itsMichaelJ]

Kobe treated footwork like a language he had to become fluent in🥶