Adult Swim is celebrating its 25th anniversary on Wednesday, September 2 by recreating day one's lineup:
10:00p - Home Movies
10:30p - The Brak Show
11:00p - Harvey Birdman
11:15p - Sealab 2021
11:30p - Space Ghost Coast to Coast
12:00a - Robot Chicken Adult Swim special
Doomsday arrives December 18th.
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MY GIFT FROM ME TO YOU 🩸 FIRST PROJECT IN 4 YEARS LOTTA TRIALS AND TRIBULATIONS FACED IN THAT TIME BUT YOU ONLY LOSE WHEN YOU STOP TRYING, I COULD’VE LET MY CIRCUMSTANCES BREAK ME BUT I CHOSE TO DO THE OPPOSITE I USED IT ALL AS FUEL ALL THE FUCK SHIT, ALL THE FAKE SHIT, ALL THE LIVES LOST ALONG THE WAY, ALL THE ENEMIES THAT POSED AS FRIENDS, THE DOUBT, LEGAL TROUBLE, TAKING LOSSES, FAMILY ISSUES YOU NAME IT I WENT THROUGH IT ALL BUT ONE THING ABOUT LIFE IF YOU NEVER EXPERIENCED PAIN HOW COULD YOU CHERISH HAPPINESS, IF YOU NEVER EXPERIENCED SADNESS HOW COULD YOU APPRECIATE JOY, IF YOU NEVER EXPERIENCED FAKE HOW COULD YOU APPRECIATE SOMETHING GENUINE, IF IT WASN’T FOR RAINFALL YOU COULDN’T APPRECIATE THE SUNSHINE, I RESPECT EVERY ASPECT OF THE JOURNEY THE GOOD, THE BAD AND THE UGLY BECAUSE ITS ALL PART OF THE STORY AND SOMETIMES YOU GOTTA GO THROUGH SH*T TO GET TO SH*T, IF YOU HAVE AMBITIONS AND GOALS AND THINGS YOU ASPIRE TO DO AND YOU FEEL LIKE LIFE PUTTING YOU TO THE TEST UNDERSTAND THATS WHATS GOING TO LEAD YOU TO WHERE YOU TRYNA GO SO EMBRACE IT ALL AND WATCH HOW DIFFERENT LIFE START TO FEEL. NEVER LET THEM BURY YOUR PASSION WITH DOUBT AND NEVER BURY YOUR OWN WITH SELF-DOUBTS NOTHING CONFUSES PEOPLE MORE THAN A COMEBACK THEY DIDN’T SEE BEING BUILT ESPECIALLY WHEN THEY ALREADY HAD YOU COUNTED OUT
SHOW EM THAT THEY REALLY CANT COUNT
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Nets 18-2 record during the 2022-23 Nov-Jan stretch before Joe Tsai and Sean Marks killed the entire franchise
KD was an MVP candidate
Kyrie was on pace to win CPOTY
Claxton was a DPOY candidate
Nets had a T5 offense and T5 defense
CELEBRATING 60 SEASONS OF NETS HOOPS!
Every era, every moment, shaping who we are today — and where we’re going next.
Nets 60th presented by @Ticketmaster
"As for Nic Claxton, this was a formality. His time as a Brooklyn Net passed some time ago, and he's since lingered around like a disturbed soul, a Man Out of Time. I really loved watching him play in those first couple seasons, spindling around the court always in control of his long limbs except for frequent occasions when he was outmuscled. He was Brooklyn's most fun big man in years, evoking the unfulfilled promise of Chris McCullough every time his fingernails clipped the top of the square.
I started writing about the Nets early in his career, and by he was good. He was great, actually. Every nerdy blogger dreams of their special favorite player exceeding expectations, often forced to resort to hyperbole. Brooklyn pulled the plug and traded away their stars in '23, but I was blessed by Claxton's leap. He was a second-tier DPOY candidate who led the league in field-goal percentage. He endeared himself to more fans by hating Giannis, Embiid, and the Knicks for good measure.
You know the rest. A back injury zapped some of the explosiveness Claxton couldn't afford to lose. His finishing regressed. The NBA changed up on him. Never a great screener, increased physicality on the perimeter made it a more glaring issue. As a skinny defender, he couldn't fight off Gortat screeners and offensive rebounders. Clax could always guard on the perimeter, but as a center in 2026, that's more of a bonus than a prized skill.
He's still a useful player, and the Chicago Bulls will benefit from having a real center on the roster. But the contract quickly became negative-value, and Claxton often seemed miserable spending his mid-20s on a terrible, tanking team.
He saw it all, though. Ten days after Claxton was drafted, Adrian Wojnarowski announced the Nets had made a "Clean Sweep." The Caris LeVert explosions, The Bubble, the coaching carousel, both James Harden trades, Toe on the Line, a great team, a dysfunctional team, a bad team. Nic Claxton grew up in Brooklyn, even having a baby girl last summer.
In a parallel universe not too dissimilar to ours, one where he's born two years earlier or there's no pandemic, maybe Claxton goes down as an all-time Net. He earns that DPOY, he's the starting center on a championship team, he never hurts his back, etc. But that's life. That's basketball.
Enjoy it while you can, and don't forget that Nic Claxton threw down a game-winning alley-oop dunk over LeBron James on Christmas."
Sammy Sosa, Mark McGwire, Vlad Guerrero, Kenny Lofton, Chipper Jones, Jason Giambi, and Jeff Bagwell officially return to Backyard Baseball!
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