Kevin "KJ" Walker

Pro DB 🏈. M.S. in Sport Management.

[Shams Charania @ShamsCharania]

Free agent forward Georges Niang has agreed to a one-year, $3.9 million deal with the Golden State Warriors, Mark Bartelstein and Andy Shiffman of @PrioritySports tell ESPN. Niang -- a career 40% 3-point shooter -- enters his 11th NBA season after missing 2025-26 due to injury.

[Brandon Williams @TheeBWill]

RUN IT BACK TURBOOOO @DeAnthonyMelton 💛💙

[Shams Charania @ShamsCharania]

Free agent guard Brandon Williams has agreed to a one-year, $2.6 million deal to sign with the Golden State Warriors, agents Derek Lafayette and Curtis Lawrence tell ESPN. Williams averaged 13 points, 3.9 assists and 22.2 minutes per night across 66 games for Dallas last season.

[Ball Don't Stop @balldontstop]

The actual best basketball player ever.

[Legion Hoops @LegionHoops]

Steph Curry is locked in for Year 18 🔥

[Ballislife.com @Ballislife]

Kobe would have been 48 today. Happy Birthday Bean 💜💛

[Ahmed/The Ears/IG: BigBizTheGod 🇸🇴 @big_business_]

👤THE GAME👤
👤DRAKE👤

💿NO BRAKES💿

⬜️FULL SONG⬜️

🚨OFFICIAL SINGLE FOR THE DOCUMENTARY 3🚨

https://t.co/yATToKHmG5

[Long Live Nip 🏁 @HussleForever]

Nipsey just picked up 4 new @RIAA certifications 🏁
“Racks In The Middle” 4x Platinum
“Last Time That I Checc’d” 2x Platinum
“Million While You Young” Gold
“Loaded Bases” Gold
The Marathon Continues 🏁

[Kurrco @Kurrco]

J. Cole became emotional while performing “Love Yourz” in Cleveland after seeing the family of Collin Griffin holding up photos of him 💙🕊️

Cole met Collin in 2017 while he was battling Stage 4 cancer. When Collin told Cole that his music helped him through the difficult time, Cole responded, “No, you inspire me.”

Collin passed away the following year.

[Ibrahim H. @KingOfQueenz]

@WhatIBecame @CalebFromX Not sure how you got this story, but that’s exactly what happened. He saw his family in the crowd right before he started love yourz and saw his sister holding a Colin Strong sign and it hit him during that song.

[Austin Burklund @AB1132]

She was incredible in Remember the Titans. Not many kids can hang with Denzel and she did on screen. RIP

[the Sports ON Tap @thesportsontap]

Logan Ryan says he made close to $80 million in the NFL and never spent a dollar of his salary.

Not a car. Not a house. Not one paycheck.

He retired at 33 and lives entirely off what his investments pay him.

He posted the whole thing himself this week, and it's the best financial advice any athlete has given in years.

First, who he is.

Logan Ryan was not a superstar. He grew up in Berlin, New Jersey, played at Rutgers, and went in the THIRD round to New England in 2013. Eighty third overall.

He never made a Pro Bowl in eleven seasons.

What he did do was last. Patriots, Titans, Giants, Buccaneers, 49ers. 755 tackles, 19 interceptions, 15 forced fumbles, 13 sacks.

And two Super Bowl rings.

Here's the mindset, in his own words.

He points out that he was the 14th cornerback taken in his draft class, and says that chip never left him.

"It made me suspicious of any dollar that felt too easy to spend. So I never touched the paychecks."

So how does a man live for eleven years without spending his salary?

He built a portfolio and lived off what it produced. Commercial real estate. Private credit. And notably, he got into OpenAI early, while he was still lining up at corner on Sundays.

He also lives beneath his means on purpose. His words: he doesn't fly private, and he still doesn't wear the heavy jewelry.

And he says he asks his financial advisor more questions than any other client on the man's books.

Now the part that matters most, and it's the reason he wrote any of this.

"Most guys who hit that number are broke a few years after their last check. I've watched it happen up close."

That's not a hypothetical for him. He spent eleven years in locker rooms watching teammates get life changing money and lose all of it within a few years of their last game.

His actual thesis is one sentence, and it flips how most people think about a big contract.

"Chasing a big number was never the point. What actually bought my freedom was saving relentlessly, year after year, while everyone around me spent."

The number was never the win. The saving was.

And here's what freedom actually meant to him: "I retired at 33 and answered to no schedule but my kids'."

One more thing worth knowing, because this isn't a story about hoarding money.

In 2017, right after signing a three year, $30 million deal with Tennessee, Logan Ryan surprised his older brother.

His brother had gotten into Drexel, graduated with honors, and was working as an engineer, and was still buried in student loan debt.

Logan handed him a check for $82,000 and wiped it out.

His comment at the time was that the system is broken and makes no sense, and that he was fortunate enough to be able to take care of it.

He didn't spend his money on himself.

He spent it on being done working at 33 with his kids and his brother taken care of.

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[Genius @Genius]

happy birthday to the legend nipsey hussle 🕊️ today we're looking back at his 2013 mixtape 'crenshaw'

in 2013, nipsey challenged the music industry with the proud2pay campaign and offered 1,000 physical copies of 'crenshaw' for $100 each 💿🔥 the limited run sold out within 24 hours (even JAŸ-Z bought 100 of them)

XXL named 'crenshaw' the no. 2 best mixtape of 2013 and rolling stone ranked it on its '200 greatest hip-hop albums of all time' list 🕊️

[Klay 🏁 @PP1Trey]

If Nipsey music dont inspire you to get up and go get it then idk what to tell ya

[Long Live Nip 🏁 @HussleForever]

PROLIFIC🏁
#LLNH

[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.

[SportsCenter @SportsCenter]

Thank you for all the memories, Russ.

Congrats on a Hall of Fame career ❤️

[WHAT'S THE DIRT? @Whats_the_dirt]

Drake makes reference to my recent video regarding Roc Nation allegedly being behind the Stake Lawsuits

[SLAM @SLAMonline]

Even at the offseason runs, Yaxel Lendeborg’s still hooping in retros 🔥

[Dalton Johnson @DaltonJ_Johnson]

The margin for error is thin, but the idea of the healthiest Melton has been in years, a full season of Porzingis and watching Yaxel Lendeborg grow is exciting … as long as Steph can stay on the court