Jesse Brookins

[Kevin Durant @KDTrey5]

I remember asking assistant coach Mo Cheeks, what’s harder to do? Workout after practice or before?? I only asked cuz by time I would get to the gym, Russ was already done in the morning and I usually got mine in after practice. Mo like, “coming in before practice is probably harder”…since then, it’s been my routine….a lot of people looked at the emotions on the court and thought Russ was loud, nah to me, he was quiet and methodical. He lead by example and once the lights were bright, he let everything out and experienced pure freedom. It was inspiring as his teammate and everywhere I went, I seen it inspire people from all walks of life, crazy thing is, he didn’t say much, he just showed up. For 18 years. This basketball life is sacred to us as professionals, what we put into that court means everything. Some of us wish we could go back and do things with a little more intent and some can just wipe their hands and be satisfied with the time spent. Who u gonna be? We know what zero was on…keep inspiring in the next phase of life champ. I don’t care what happens, can’t erase what it was…The first YNs, finals run in our early 20s, all star games, seeing each other get injured and bounce back, the bus rides, plane rides, card games, jokes and arguments, the whole thing, memorable!! …to the whole Westbrook family, Nina, the kids, mama Westbrook, big Russ, Ray, Donnell, everybody from luezinger high and ucla and many more that I’m forgettin, much love and Congratulations on a iconic career.

[Aakash Gupta @aakashgupta]

Russell Westbrook retired today with the most triple-doubles in NBA history. The name written on his wrist for all 18 seasons belongs to the kid UCLA actually wanted. That kid died at 16, and Westbrook spent two decades playing for both of them.

Westbrook was a 5'8", 140-pound freshman that no college recruited. The call UCLA's head coach made to his high school in 2004 was about Khelcey Barrs III, Westbrook's best friend from across the street in Hawthorne. A 6'6" phenom pulling scholarship offers as a sophomore. The two had a pact to play at UCLA together, then the NBA.

In May 2004, during a pickup game at LA Southwest College, Barrs collapsed on the court. An undiagnosed enlarged heart.

Westbrook walked across the street every morning after that to do his friend's chores at his grandmother's house. Then he grew 7 inches, averaged 25 a game as a junior, and took the UCLA offer they were supposed to accept together. From that point on he played like a man carrying two careers.

The numbers he put up look like typos.

209 triple-doubles is the most in NBA history, and it took breaking Oscar Robertson's record that stood for 47 years. In 2017 he averaged a triple-double across an entire season, something no human had done since 1962, then did it three more times. 27,176 points, 14th all time. 10,351 assists, 5th all time, behind only Stockton, CP3, Kidd, and LeBron. He did all of it at 6'3" in a league of giants, and outlasted the franchise that drafted him. Seattle picked him 4th in 2008 and stopped existing before he played a game.

And in every one of his 1,301 games, he wore two wristbands. One said KB3. The other said "Why not?"

People spent 18 years asking why he played every possession like the building was on fire. He was playing for two.

[Russell Westbrook @russwest44]

Sometimes you don’t even know when you’ve already watched the end.

You had to be there. And now it’s over.

[Melech. @MelechThomas]

a 20/20/20 game intentionally in honor of Nipsey Hussle is probably one of the greatest feats in sports history. basically Babe Ruth pointing his bat to the stands, but for Crips.

[Hank Lockwood @hen_ease]

Mess with the Bush you get the thorns

[Max Kellerman @maxkellerman]

Still want Wemby suspended for Game 6

[Thunder Film Room @ThunderFilmRoom]

Successful hate watch 3/4.

29 POINT BLOWN LEAD

[Lil Sasquatch @lilsasquatch66]

Pretty crazy draft night. Didn’t see this coming, thank you.

[Jackson Doud @JacksonDoud]

Dude behind me at lunch ordered “The usual.”

Got hit back with a “and that would be?”

Has to be absolutely devastating. Can’t even imagine.

[JT’s Rock Hard Cock @rockhardjt]

don’t think i didn’t get to screen record it before it got taken down 🤣🤣🤣

[Shams Charania @ShamsCharania]

NBA's ALL-TIME record for points in a single game:

1. Wilt Chamberlain: 100 points
2. Bam Adebayo, 83 points
3. Kobe Bryant, 81 points

[Darren Trolls @DarrenTolls]

Congratulations to the ‘TANG
2022-2026 ALL-KSU ALMOST Team’:

G - Khalif Battle
G - Darryn Peterson
F - Julian Phillips
PF - AJ Dybantsa
C - Patrick Ngongba II

Honorable Mention:

Tarris Reed Jr.
Max Abmas
Joe Toussaint
Cam Ward

[Deuce @DeuceThomas]

I’m convinced y’all are not looking at this video fr.

[Pete Thamel @PeteThamel]

Per ESPN sources, Kansas State is firing Jerome Tang for cause. They’ve informed him of this formally tonight. The basis for the for cause firing is language in his contract that references any activity that brings “public disrepute, embarrassment, ridicule” to Kansas State.

[On3 @On3]

BREAKING: Kansas State has parted ways with head coach Jerome Tang, @PeteNakos & @JoeTipton report.

https://t.co/suI59RPX0u

[PFT Commenter @PFTCommenter]

THEY BROUGHT THE DAMN SUBSTATION IN TO THE STADIUM

[scottwildcat @scottwildcat]

losers find ways to lose. K-State Men's Basketball has a coaching staff full of losers, and regardless of what the players were before they arrived, they are infected when they get around this staff.

[Jacob Pullen @Jpullz0]

It’s hard to watch honestly