Master of Coin

I have a gift for rubbing two golden dragons together and breeding a third

[@Chicago1Ray 🇺🇸 @Chicago1Ray]

BOOM 💥

Bears great Brian Urlacher rips Pritzker

You look at the money given to Illegal immigrants, where it's like ($2.5-to $3B) they could've used that money to keep the Bears in town, not for people who's not supposed to be in our Country

Illegals first.. Chicagoans last

[Master of Coin @nicknulph]

@Rainmaker1973 This is me trying to pickup women at the bar in college!

[Reverend Jordan Wells @WellsJorda89710]

🚨 I’m a Black man, a proud conservative, and a follower of Jesus Christ.

When I see protesters outside the Collin County Courthouse chanting “FUCK WHITE LIVES!” after Karmelo Anthony’s sentencing for murdering Austin Metcalf, my soul grieves.
This isn’t justice. This isn’t “community.” This is demonic hatred — plain and simple. All lives are made in the image of God. Every single one. Black, White, Brown — doesn’t matter.

Celebrating the loss of any innocent life, or cheering on evil because of skin color, is straight from the pit of hell.
And here’s the truth they don’t want you to say out loud: When Black conservatives, Christians, or truth-tellers like me call this out, we get labeled “traitors,” “Uncle Toms,” or “betrayers of the community.”
Let them talk.

I’d rather be disliked by some in my own community than stand before a Holy God and be found guilty of excusing evil, hating my neighbor, or twisting justice for racial points.
My allegiance is to Christ first — not color, not tribe, not political pressure.

“Woe to those who call evil good and good evil…” (Isaiah 5:20)
I choose truth over tribe. Light over darkness. God over man.
Who else is tired of the hate? Drop a 🙏 if you stand for real justice — not skin color.
#AllLivesMatterToGod #FaithOverFear #TruthOverTribe

[Master of Coin @nicknulph]

Amen!

[Clemente Almanza @CAlmanza1007]

Probably the best moment from what Sam Presti said today. Went scorched earth on all of the SGA narratives that have been bubbling up over the years:

Of all the things that I've talked to Shai about, this is actually one I've never talked to him about. He's probably going to kill me for talking about this, truthfully.

First of all, let me just start with the opposing coaches for one second. The post-game press conference has turned into the bully pulpit to create competitive advantage. I mean, we know what that is. It used to be you'd get up there, you'd talk about your own team. Now everyone gets up there and they talk about the officials and they discredit the other team. Again, like they're great competitors, so we know why that's happening, and I don't fault them because I think they may think it works.

So the question is why are they continuing to do it? Because there's financial incentives not to do it. But everyone's competing. Let's also recognize that it's the bully pulpit for competitive advantage, and that's what it's kind of turned into, which is part of competing. We all get that.

Relative to Shai and the narrative on that, he's playing against six people. He's got five defenders, and the sixth defender is social media. That's a reality. He's not going to be the last player that the machine decides to target, but no one's going to handle it as gracefully because, when they turn it on somebody else, they're not going to step up there every night and not acknowledge it.

A couple things more just on the whole topic. We think all the time or we hear all the time about things that people don't like about the NBA, which are inaccurate, but they're narratives that exist on the alternate reality.

One, players don't play defense. Shai's a two-end player. Now, he plays with four or five All-NBA defensive players, so sometimes his defensive ability gets undersold, but he plays two ends.

Second, all NBA players do is complain, bitch and moan and try to intimidate the officials with bad behavior in the games to give foul calls. He's gotten three technical fouls this year. None for complaining. One for waving a towel in support of someone that hit a shot that doesn't play very often. Okay. So he's not doing that.

The other thing is load management. Nobody plays. They take all these games off. Shai plays every night. He missed a bunch of games this year for an oblique strain, and we might give him a night off two or three times a year, maybe. But he plays back-to-backs. He plays heavy minutes. He plays against good teams. He plays against teams that are bad teams. He plays every night. His consistency is well documented. So you can't get him on that.

The next one is all you do is shoot 3s. NBA players, all they do is shoot 3s. Okay. Well, he's brought the mid-range back to an art form. He's transcendent for any generation, any player. That's why like older players love his game.

It's also one of the reasons he gets fouled a lot. Because he plays in the mid-range because we don't call the landing space fouls in the mid-range the way we do at the 3-point line, right, because he's avoiding that oftentimes because there's too many bodies in there. With the 3-point shot, you can see it easily, and I think a lot of times he's trying to avoid that. So he's not a guy that's just launching 3s. So we can check that off the box.

The other one is like these guys are just totally inaccessible. They're in their own world. Well, the guy signs 400 autographs before every game. Before the Western Conference Finals Game 7, he's signing autographs.

So we've got a litany of things that generally the narrative is about NBA players that they do wrong. Well, based on those narratives, I don't agree with them, but he would be doing them right. And he doesn't really complain about any of it. So if we're just talking about trying to draw fouls, well, every other great player in the NBA, that's part of the game is drawing fouls.

He drew 415 fouls this year; 11 were challenged. 11. Four of those were overturned. So that's like 2 1/2 percent of the foul calls were actually challenged. Again, that's part of the bully pulpit part of this thing, which I get and it's part of competing.

As far as those fouls, I think in the fouls drawn -- I had this written down here -- he's tied with Embiid for 8 and 9 in terms of number of fouls drawn in the season. 6 and 7 are Jaylen Brown and Wembanyama. So that's kind of the group of players that he's in.

But I understand, if you listen to the narrative, you'd think he's 1, 2, 3, 4, and 5. He drew a lot more fouls before we got much better, and when we got better, obviously people pay much more attention to him.

We'll have to see where that goes, you know what I mean? We don't know. He'll never say anything about it. And the only thing I'm pointing out is I don't think he's being unfairly handled, I just think, instead of talking about something that we are looking to find as a negative, can we please also acknowledge that he also does a lot of positive things for the game, most of which are the things that people are very unhappy -- not unhappy, but they don't like on social media. And I know that a lot of us live on social media. I would think they would love him for that reason.

This is like the world we live in today. There's a lot of financial incentive to create these things, career ambitions, like I said before. The best thing we can do when those things happen is stay above it.

Now I'm pointing it out now at the end of the season, but we're going to have to stay above it because it's probably not going to change. But he does a lot of good things too.

[Football Crave @FootballCravee]

Jared Verse has reportedly reached out to Maxx Crosby to find out what caused the Ravens to back out of their deal.

[Master of Coin @nicknulph]

@osuzack This is why I watch all playoff games on mute.

[Master of Coin @nicknulph]

@onyiireal1 @LegionHoops @realapp @OldTakesExposed

[Master of Coin @nicknulph]

@kawhi_ring Ethical basketball

[Master of Coin @nicknulph]

Thunder fans have always known this.

[Beastbrook @Beastbr00k0]

Russell Westbrook is reportedly the "kindest teammate" behind the scenes:

- Left an $8k tip for housekeepers in the NBA Bubble

- Gave Capela a luxury bracelet right off his wrist because Capela liked it

- Took Alex Abrines out to dinner when he felt lonely in OKC

- Gave away both cars that he won as a two-time All-Star MVP to families in need

- Sends Jordans and tracksuits to EVERY team staffer every year

- On a minimum deal in Denver Russ paid for dinners, bought clothes for teammates and more

- Great private charity work off the court

Russ is one of the most misunderstood players ever.

[Master of Coin @nicknulph]

@ThunderHusky17 I’m a Thunder fan, good no call. Hold your position with strength.

[Master of Coin @nicknulph]

@BaronBoehm Perfect. He’s owned by Isreal, rather by blackmail or straight up cash, we’ll probably never know.

[Master of Coin @nicknulph]

@osuzack @_MamaD11 I watch all games on mute. The dog likes that too!

[Master of Coin @nicknulph]

@nicksortor Resign now and go do that you con artist! MAGA, MAHA, and America first my ass!

[Nicky Rudd @nickyruddx]

The boomer generation will stop at nothing until our country is fully raped and destroyed.

A steady diet of Fox News, Facebook memes, and megachurch sermons brought us here.

Truly a disgrace

[Master of Coin @nicknulph]

@rockyknowsbest This is aTm every year in every sport.

[Master of Coin @nicknulph]

@WyattCatarina Get that dude to Kill Tony, comedic atar in the making!

[Rello @Realrell_3]

#silversrealplan

[Baseball America @BaseballAmerica]

NEW NCAA TOP 25 RANKINGS 🚨🚨

https://t.co/4zBKndZXk2

[Master of Coin @nicknulph]

@ThaChiefDavis Opinions aside, this was a grade A post!

[Jack DeLongchamps @JDelongchamps]

Has there been a more clutch player in all of college baseball over the last 365 days in the sport?!

@kollin_ritchie delivers in every big moment dating back to the Athens regional last year!