Missy Brax

[Lane Johnson @LaneJohnson65]

🚨 Fan Love 🚨

RT for a chance to win my 2 tickets to the Rams game on Sunday! 🦅

#FlyEaglesFly #PaveTheLane

[Service Electric Network @SENetworkTV]

After more than 1,100 votes, Liberty's Jake Pukszyn has been named our Sports Scene Male Athlete of the Winter! 🏆🏀

[Eric Church @ericchurch]

Eric took the stage at UNC Chapel Hill to deliver a commencement speech to the next generation of Tar Heels, sharing a message for the graduates as they step into what comes next.

Watch the speech in its entirety here: https://t.co/DbqOdqiymt

[Jon Gruden @BarstoolGruden]

We got a box here from Bethlehem, Pennsylvania and it belongs to one half of the longest rivalry in college football!

It's the Lehigh Mountain Hawks! What a great school with rich tradition and history!

Thank you Coach Nagy and @LehighFootball keep pounding the rock!!

[Enes Kanter FREEDOM @EnesFreedom]

So I gave everything I had, not just because it was my job, but because it was a responsibility.

People talk about culture in sports as something that is created through discipline, habits, and accountability. Oklahoma taught me that culture runs deeper than that.

Culture is memory.

It is understanding what a community has been through and choosing to honor it, not with words, but with how you show up every day.

I came to Oklahoma City to play basketball, but before I played a single game, this state showed me something far more important than wins or losses.

It showed me what it means to carry the weight of a place with dignity.

It showed me that there are people in those arenas who have lived through the unthinkable and still choose to stand, to cheer, to believe.

And it taught me that when you step onto that court in Oklahoma, you are not just playing a game.

You are honoring 168 lives.

You are stepping into a story that did not begin with you and will not end with you.

I played 180 games for the Oklahoma City Thunder, and before every single one, I reminded myself of that responsibility.

Each night, I dedicated the game to one of the 168 people who lost their lives in that attack.

Every time I stepped onto the court, I carried a name with me.

A life.

A story that was taken too soon.

And over time, I realized something I will never forget.

For me, those were games.

For them, there were no second chances.

And if you truly understand that, then giving anything less than everything you have is not just a mistake.

It is a failure to honor who they are.

[Enes Kanter FREEDOM @EnesFreedom]

To my Oklahoma family;
this piece comes straight from the heart.

I hope you’ll take a moment to read it and feel what I felt.
Thank you for allowing me to be a small part of it.

I came to @okcthunder to play basketball. I left carrying 168 lives.

When I was traded to the Oklahoma City Thunder, I was thinking about basketball, nothing more.

I didn’t know that before I ever stepped on the court, this place would show me something that would stay with me far longer than any game.

Like any player, my mind was on the game. A new team, a new city, a new opportunity. I expected the usual routine when I landed in Oklahoma City. Physicals, practices, meetings, and a jersey waiting in a locker.

But before any of that, Sam Presti pulled me aside and told me there was somewhere we needed to go.

He didn’t explain much, and I didn’t think to ask. I was focused on the next step in my career.

What I didn’t understand was that, before I could represent the place I was about to play for, I needed to understand it.

So instead of heading to the facility, he took me to the Oklahoma City National Memorial & Museum.

I walked in without knowing what I was about to see, and within minutes, everything slowed down.

There are 168 chairs at the memorial, each one representing a life lost on April 19, 1995. They are arranged in quiet rows, each engraved with a name, each standing where a person once stood in that building. Then you notice something that is impossible to process the first time you see it. Some of the chairs are smaller.

They belong to children.

There is no speech that prepares you for that, no headline that captures it. You simply stand there, and the silence carries a kind of weight that is hard to describe but impossible to ignore.

As you walk through the memorial, you pass between two gates marked 9:01 and 9:03. At first, they seem like simple numbers, but then you understand what they hold. One marks the last minute before the attack. The other marks the first minute after. And in between those two gates is 9:02, the moment when everything changed.

That minute does not feel like history when you are standing there. It feels present.

The reflecting pool stretches across what used to be a city street, its surface calm and still. When you look into it, you do not just see water. You see yourself standing in a place where unimaginable loss occurred, and for a moment, everything else in your life becomes quieter.

Nearby stands the Survivor Tree, an American elm that was damaged in the blast but endured. It is not untouched. Its scars are part of what it represents. But it is still standing, and in that, it carries a kind of strength that does not need to be explained.

We did not speak much while we were inside. It did not feel like a place for conversation. Some places ask for words. This one asks for reflection.

When we stepped outside, Sam Presti looked me in the eye and said, “This is what this state has been through.”

Then he said something I will never forget.

“Every time you step on that court, you are not just playing in front of fans. You are playing for a state that carries this with it. Give them everything you have. They deserve that.”

In that moment, basketball felt different.

Not smaller, but clearer.

Because what I had just seen was not only about what was lost. It was about what remained. A state that had experienced unimaginable pain and still chose to come together, to rebuild, and to move forward without losing its humanity.

From that day on, every time I stepped on the court, I carried that with me.

On the nights when I was tired, when I was hurt, when I was dealing with challenges that felt heavy in the moment, I would think about those chairs, about that minute, about the people behind those names. And I was reminded that what I was going through did not compare to what this state had endured.
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[Liberty Hurricanes Boys Basketball @LHSCanesBBall]

2 time All EPC 1st Team Selection!

[Liberty Hurricanes Boys Basketball @LHSCanesBBall]

With his start tonight, @Jakepuks has become the 1st Liberty Boys Basketball player to start 100 career games!

[Missy Brax @missdish44]

@notthefakeSVP #ShowSVPTheTree

[Lehigh Football @LehighFootball]

Bethlehem talent staying in the Lehigh Valley!

Welcome to #TheNest @Jakepuks !

[Missy Brax @missdish44]

💙❤️

[Liberty Hurricanes Boys Basketball @LHSCanesBBall]

Cole Pukszyn hits a 3-pointer at the buzzer to give the Junior High team a 54-53 victory!!!

[C O U R T N E Y @icourtneycries]

i want to go back to the person i was on friday. she was so happy, so confident. so unbroken by philadelphia sports.

[Philadelphia Phillies @Phillies]

All for October.

#RedOctober

[Philadelphia Phillies @Phillies]

96 WINS

[Philadelphia Phillies @Phillies]

50 Schwarbombs, presented by Scott Franzke

@budweiserusa x #RingTheBell

[Keith Groller @KeithGroller]

CANES CONVERSATIONS

With many people eyeing the Hurricanes as a contender as the 2025 season begins Friday, we talked with @LIBERTYATHCLUB standouts @Jakepuks, JJ Pujals and @DartmouthFTBL commit @Schenkel_Nick77

Preview here:

https://t.co/MSxV78ZKkp

[Missy Brax @missdish44]

Proud of you @Jakepuks ❤️💙

[Jake Pukszyn @Jakepuks]

I am very blessed and honored to be able to say I was named First Team All Conference for Football and basketball and as a Junior! @LIBERTYATHCLUB

[L&L Running Rebels @LLRebelsPA]

CONGRATULATIONS to 2026 PG @Jakepuks on being voted 1st Team All-Conference by league coaches. What a great accomplishment! @HGSL_HoopGroup @PACoalitionAAU

[L&L Running Rebels @LLRebelsPA]

CONGRATULATIONS to our very own @Jakepuks on being named to the @lehighvalley All-Area Football team for the 2024 Season. The talented two-sport athlete and 3-year varsity basketball starter is currently leading @LHSCanesBBall to their best regular season record in over 5 years while also leading the team in scoring and assists at the PG position. Excellence on the court, gridiron and in the classroom. #STUDENTATHLETE 🏀🏈📚📈

[Liberty Hurricanes Boys Basketball @LHSCanesBBall]

VOTE VOTE VOTE...
for @Jakepuks to win the SI 𝑵𝑨𝑻𝑰𝑶𝑵𝑨𝑳 Boys Athlete of the Week!!!!!!

https://t.co/ci5mh0BbAo