Eddie Lopez

UH Alum/// UB Alum /// Pensacola State College MBB Assistant Coach 🏀

[B☄️ @BanteredB_]

Adam Silver is trying his best to ruin this league

[Michael Scotto @MikeAScotto]

The Sacramento Kings signed Emanuel Sharp to a three-year, $6.35 million deal, which includes two fully guaranteed years, league sources told @hoopshype. Sharp was the 45th pick in the 2026 NBA Draft. Agent Alex Saratsis of Octagon finalized the deal.

[Hank Richards @BlueCollarHank]

Cancel everything @espn

[Jacob Rude @JacobRude]

Kendrick Perkins is genuinely one of the least enjoyable, least knowledgeable people employed in sports media.

[𝕱𝖊𝖗𝖗𝖊𝖙 𝖆𝖑𝖑𝖊𝖓 @ferretallen]

Woj:

“This dude went to this team”

Shams:

“This dude went to this team”

“Here’s me talking about it on tv”

“Here’s an article about the move”

“Oh yeah here’s a couple details I forgot to include”

“Here’s me on tv again”

[🏁 Jamal Crawford @JCrossover]

I miss the days where point guards took just as much pride in getting assist as shooting the ball. PG’s shooting almost every other time down, and THINKING score first, every time is NASTY hoop lol..

[COACH NELSON @BallCoachNelson]

JUCO just got a whole lot more interesting with the 5 years to play 5..

Leaving with 3 years of eligibility instead of 2 while having played 2 seasons makes the JUCO Product even more enticing

Extra year of eligibility and more experience!

[Dane Moore @DaneMooreNBA]

Here's Chris Finch when asked about Micah Nori's contract in Portland being for just one guaranteed season.

"The first thing I would like to say about that is I thought it was a shame that a lot of the story about Micah's great opportunity was overshadowed by the nature of the deal that he signed. That's a personal decision. That's a business decision. That's between him the team and the agent...."

"I just know this: There's 30 of these jobs. They're hard to get...."

"I also know that you gotta bet on yourself in this world. And especially when you're an outsider. We consider ourselves a little bit of outsiders. We weren't raised in the game. We didn't play at North Carolina or Duke. So sometimes your path is just different and you gotta take chances along the way."

[BODEGA PEPTIDES @bigsnugga]

they act like they have to buy mansions and chains, like it’s in their contract

[someswaggt @someswaggt]

The man that beat a woman so bad she lost her baby is the voice of reason to you niggas LMAO

[Kabb @Kabbamoy21]

Shit not even about basketball anymore, you deadass hating Wemby for visiting a children's hospital and making the kids happy? What a fucking loser

[First Take @FirstTake]

"Shaking hands is what you do when you're in the little leagues."

@RealJayWilliams doesn't see a problem with Wemby not shaking the Knicks' hands after the Finals 🚫 🤝

[KDSzn @Kd7_Szn]

His answers in French are just so much more mature than when he speaks in English which tells me that this “cockiness” that people talk about is just a 2nd language issue

[ɢᴀʙʀɪᴇʟ @JeeVee84]

Media at the start of season:
"Spurs are a play-in team"

All-Star break:
"They can maybe win a series"

End of season:
"Can't believe they won 62 games"

After losing the finals after a 7 yr playoff drought:
"Fire Mitch and trade Fox, you might never make it back to the Finals"

[Ty @balldontTy]

can’t believe I’m forced to defend a fkn Spur but the narratives around Wemby rn are just flat out stupid. the truth should matter.

first, the run he just took the Spurs on was awesome.

35pt debut (franchise record), a 40/24 game. 3.5 stocks/gm. +21.6 on/off differential (hilarious)

led one of youngest teams ever to the Finals.

took down the defending champs.

led for 75% of the Finals & blew it - meaning more than anything they controlled their own destiny & capped themselves.

this narrative that he’s now a permanently scarred failure who’s legacy is cooked is hilarious.

22 yrs old. He, along w Castle & Harper, will only get better. They’ll absolutely be back.

Second & imo most important - in no world is Wemby a ‘dirty’ or immoral player. he had bad moments & lost composure, yeah. but if you think some shoves or elbows somehow makes him this unethical rotten thug of a player - *you* are soft (& delusional)

Nothing done by Wemby was anything different than moments we’ve seen from Jokic or Giannis. not even sniffing the depths of Draymond’s greatest hits.

the man is an 8ft 150lbs slinky being thrown around by earth’s greatest athletes. a body thrown at him every moment to counter his length (if you’ve played even JV level ball you’d understand).

Freedom of movement restricted. a man in your jock every step down the floor. that constant contact builds, frustration simmers, you go to make a basic play like set a screen, you flail, frustration pops, elbows thrown. it happens man it’s the nature of the sport. almost every Wemby flagrant was some run of the mill elbow or shove, called or not called - & fans act like he’s out there drop kicking knee caps or hammer fisting groins (wut). it’s a contact sport man tighten up.

I’d actually love for someone to clip together some Wemby footage showing how defenses are guarding him, the amount of contact he deals w on avg plays, how frequent & constant he’s fighting for position. at least give some context to what he’s battling against every time down the floor.

and last, his quotes & off court behavior. He’s a bit arrogant, likes to wax poetic & give genuine answers vs canned responses. I personally don’t mind it. I’ll take that vs chatgpt script responses all day. most of the stuff ppl crying about is heavily misquoted or out of context anyway. but what is it ppl want? we ask for confident, “real” Superstars & when we get it we cry that it’s all performative. listen to the full answer, stop letting the one sentence posted out of context in the caption form reality.

i’m gonna go throw up now for spending this much effort defending a Spur. but it had to be done. anyway you want to argue it, Wemby has been great for the league. he’s everything these ‘bring back the 90s’ advocates could dream for & if no one wants to defend him, I’ll take a minute to. what he just did these playoffs was genuinely incredible & he deserves the fair credit.

[NBA Courtside @NBA__Courtside]

Doc Rivers says the Spurs future is bright, but there’s no guarantees:

“I always go back to when Miami beat Oklahoma City. I remember Mike Breen saying on the air, “Well, Oklahoma City will be here every year.” It took them 20 years to get back. You know, you just can’t, you can never take things for granted. With trades, free agency, injuries, and I always use the band theories, you know, why aren’t there great bands that last forever because somebody gets jealous, somebody wants to be the man, and things change.”

(Via @stephenasmith)

[Lonzo Ball @ZO2_]

If I’m the spurs my heart hurts but I still believe

[(redacted) @squish41]

That shit Alvarado just did is why Wemby has been throwing elbows and shoving people off of him 🤷‍♂️

[StatMuse @statmuse]

FTA in the first half:

23 — Knicks
6 — Spurs