Jason RR

AI and on chain token wielder

[Jason RR @jasered]

@OCNiner49 Still overpriced

[Analistas @SomosAnalistas_]

¡TENEMOS GANADOR! 🇳🇴🪓

La foto oficial de Noruega para el Mundial.

[SpursRΞPORTΞR @SpursReporter]

So apparently that Wemby and the nuns concept campaign for @Nike comes from Asher (📸 Insta: @asherhyde), a 20-year-old design student from the a University of Southern California.

The budding artist shares snippets of his life and samples of his work with over 90K followers and he's got some killer NBA and Wemby ad concepts.

[Jason RR @jasered]

Time for @pablofindsout to investigate the two NBA media members voting Cade 1st in MVP ballots.

[Jason RR @jasered]

@DanWoikeSports Time for @pablofindsout to investigate the two media members voting Cade 1st.

[Jason RR @jasered]

Lakers should be looking to add people to the front office that have OKC or Spurs DNA.

[Dan Woike @DanWoikeSports]

NEW: The Lakers season is over. Now
decisions need to be made. Here’s where things stand with Luka Dončić, Austin Reaves and LeBron James as the Lakers enter a critical moment. With @sam_amick (Free link) https://t.co/DoT6M9BdYd

[Jason RR @jasered]

@_MatthewPeralta @Lakers After a great run in March and exceeding expectations of what was a gap year, we need a Mark Walters-inspired offseason to remember.

[Jason RR @jasered]

Adidas just dropped a masterclass in storytelling.

5-minute film.

Timothée Chalamet. Messi. Trinity Rodman. Jude Bellingham. Lamine Yamal. Bad Bunny and the GOAT.

Not selling cleats. Selling the feeling of playing in your backyard.

Where there's a pitch, there's a legend.

[adidas @adidas]

In this Backyard, it’s “win or go home,” and this crew hasn’t left since the 90's.

Where there’s a pitch, there’s a legend.

#YouGotThis

[Jason RR @jasered]

My daily mantra this month:

“You’ve reached your daily token limit”

[Jason RR @jasered]

@DanWoikeSports

[Jason RR @jasered]

Amazing if we could get to an admittedly highly unlikely Lakers v Wolves western Conference Finals.

We fans can dream…

[Trevor Lane @TrevorLane]

It's games like these that remind us how amazing NBA basketball is

[Jason RR @jasered]

@DanWoikeSports @LFRPod Let’s hope that trend carries over vs OKC

[Mark Cuban @mcuban]

When you flatten the odds, the number of trades will explode. It was impossible to know who would win the tankathon in the off season, and the leading tankers aren’t trading their picks at the deadline

BUT you can have a good idea who isn’t a top 8 team in your conference. And teams will do everything they can to trade for their firsts.

Get 2 non playoff firsts in a draft, and you have a good shot of having better odds than the bottom 3 this year.

And even 2 picks at 5.4 pct each, makes you the equal of a tankathon 4 or 5 team.

The question is what puts you in a position to trade for 1sts?

Cap room at the deadline.
Teams that were headed to the 2nd apron and needed saving. Give me that future first.

Willingness to trade good players.
Want my best player. We aren’t going anywhere this season. Give me that future first.

I think the games to stay out of the bottom 3 will be fun. I think the protection limits are smart. Don’t want teams in the playin making decisions on draft vs win.

But teams still have to figure out how to win and now, grabbing as many picks as possible, is the highest value approach

Once you know you have the little c next to your team … can’t make the bottom 3, if it’s before the deadline, you can get aggressive

If you don’t have a team you like, you make any trade that gets you a first.

Just imagine if you have a good young team. But just not good enough to win a ring. And you believe the best player ever is coming this draft , you literally could trade your future firsts , plus your really good young , valued players and when combined with your own pick, or picks you already had, get 5 firsts that give you, with some luck , a 40.5 pct chance of winning the lottery.

Still an almost 60 pct chance you won’t.
But it sure would be interesting as it plays out.

The good news for the nba, the bottom 3-2-1 is smart. The better news for Shams , the trade rumors are going to be off the charts as teams try to “aggregate up” to get the best odds they can

[NBACentral @TheDunkCentral]

Here’s how the new lottery odds will look:

(h/t @LevAkabas )

[Keerthika Uthayakumar @keerthikau]

NBA teams were 1713-1 when leading by 6 or more in the last 30 sec of regulation in the playoffs in the last 29 years.

They are now 1713-2. Rockets are the 2nd team in 29 years to blow a 6+ point lead in the final 30 seconds of regulation, joining the 2024 Knicks.

[Jason RR @jasered]

@DanWoikeSports Are these voted on by Kia car dealership salespeople?

[Aakash Gupta @aakashgupta]

There's a physicist at Stanford named Safi Bahcall who modeled this exact principle and the math is wild.

He calls it "phase transitions in human networks." When you're stationary, your probability of a lucky event is limited to your existing surface area: the people you already know, the places you already go, the ideas you've already been exposed to. Your opportunity window is fixed.

When you move, your collision rate with new nodes in a network increases nonlinearly. Double your movement (new conversations, new cities, new projects) and your probability of a serendipitous encounter doesn't double. It roughly quadruples. Because each new node connects you to their entire network, not just to them.

Richard Wiseman ran a 10-year study at the University of Hertfordshire tracking self-described "lucky" and "unlucky" people. The single biggest differentiator wasn't IQ, education, or family money. Lucky people scored significantly higher on one trait: openness to experience. They talked to strangers more, varied their routines more, and said yes to invitations at nearly twice the rate.

The "unlucky" group followed the same routes, ate at the same restaurants, and talked to the same 5 people. Their networks were closed loops. No new inputs, no new collisions.

Luck isn't random. Luck is surface area. And surface area is a function of movement.

The lobster emoji is doing more work than most people realize. Lobsters grow by shedding their shell when it gets too tight. The growth requires a period of total vulnerability. No protection, no armor, soft body exposed to the ocean.

That's the cost of movement nobody posts about. You have to be uncomfortable first. The new shell only hardens after you've already moved.

[Jason Timpf @_JasonLT]

Can’t remember a more wild turn of events for an NBA team over a 7 week span.

From “doomed to a first round exit”, to “are they contenders?”, to “somehow 41-year-old LeBron is the only guy who survived the season.”

Absolutely bizarre.

[BaseballHistoryNut @nut_history]

Major League Baseball is aired in the morning for Japan. So technically they eat breakfast with it being on television.

Here’s their #openingday commercial. No hyperbole, when I say this, it might be greater than any US MLB commercial I’ve seen. Well done and worth the watch for any baseball fan.