Max Moacanin

[Max Moacanin @moacanin]

He forgot the "for 20 minutes" part.

[Kendrick Perkins @KendrickPerkins]

McConnell a mf gangsta

[Max Moacanin @moacanin]

LeBron James has played against a guy born before the Cuban Missile Crisis and a guy born after the Nintendo Wii came out.

[Max Moacanin @moacanin]

https://t.co/gqrBShNNpN

[Max Moacanin @moacanin]

Jaylen Brown and Kawhi Leonard put up similar numbers this season. So why do advanced metrics rate Kawhi so much higher?

I dug into this question back in April. Given the discourse this week, seemed worth resurfacing.

[Max Moacanin @moacanin]

In my analysis, I found that, relative to Kawhi, Jaylen is a less efficient scorer, but more than anything else, he's less efficient with respect to the "turnover economy" — i.e. creating turnovers on defense and preventing them on offense.

Full breakdown in comments.

[Max Moacanin @moacanin]

@LevAkabas Wow! Great visualization!

[Shams Charania @ShamsCharania]

Free agent center Luke Kornet has agreed to a four-year, $41 million deal with the San Antonio Spurs, sources tell ESPN. Key frontcourt addition for the Spurs, who negotiated a contract tonight with Kornet's agent Max Wiepking of Gersh Sports.

[Max Moacanin @moacanin]

Republicans, after Merrick Garland was blocked from the Supreme Court:

[Kendrick Perkins @KendrickPerkins]

McConnell a mf gangsta

[Max Moacanin @moacanin]

This might be the final forecast update of the 2024–25 NBA season 😢

OKC is just one win away from the title.

[Max Moacanin @moacanin]

OKC are clear favorites (86%).

But Indy still has a 1-in-7 shot, and there’s a 45% chance this goes 7!

[Max Moacanin @moacanin]

**MODEL UPDATES**

Game 5 tonight in OKC!

- OKC currently about 2-to-1 favs to win the series, per the model.
- If Pacers steal Game 5, the odds will flip & they'd become the 2-to-1 favorites.
- But if OKC takes Game 5, they’ll have about an 84% chance to win the title.

[Max Moacanin @moacanin]

Today's model update is a good one!

For the first time in months, OKC is *not* the model’s favorite to win the 2025 NBA Championship.

Instead, it's the Pacers, who have 54.3% chance to win the title.

Most likely individual outcome is "Thunder in 7."

[Max Moacanin @moacanin]

Today's NBA Finals forecast.

There’s a 10.7% chance we get the matchup everyone seems to want: Knicks vs. Wolves.

Would be a great way to determine who "won" the trade 😅

[Max Moacanin @moacanin]

Nuggets advance! 🥳

But my model says only a 1-in-5 shot of getting past the Thunder 😭

[Max Moacanin @moacanin]

Okay, so let me get this straight.

When a woman is publicly overweight, she’s “brave”, but when a man is publicly overweight, he ... “gets traded to the Lakers.”

[Max Moacanin @moacanin]

Batting second: Ohtani

Batting first: His favorite activity

[Max Moacanin @moacanin]

Twitter has officially been renamed X, or as the Romans call it: ten.

[Max Moacanin @moacanin]

Elon Musk Malcolm Little
🤝
African Americans who change
names to X

[Max Moacanin @moacanin]

This Oppenheimer biography is pretty funny.

[Max Moacanin @moacanin]

@Mike_Bramante 🔥