The moment Kingston Flemings was drafted No. 8 overall by the Atlanta Hawks
Took time to embrace all his family in attendance as well as coach Kelvin Sampson and Chris Cenac Jr.
Joe finally blessed the Tiny Desk
The setlist:
▪️ Faded Pictures
▪️ More & More
▪️ The Love Scene
▪️ Good Girls
▪️ All the Things (Your Man Won't Do)
▪️ I Wanna Know
Dear Diary..
Two things I'm NOT doing.. Teaching no friend to be a friend.. & teaching a man to be a man. If it ain't in you by now, it never will be in you!
When the bond finally fades, you see them clearly: a deeply self-centered person with an ego too fragile for accountability, someone who avoids communication, hides from honesty, and always finds a way to become the victim instead of growing
Hating you would be easy. But honestly? I just pity you. Because your biggest punishment isn't me, It's you. It's having to carry the same unresolved patterns into every relationship you touch. The constant controlling. The manipulation. The shifting stories depending on who's listening. The inability to be honest when honesty would cost you something. You call it love whenever someone gives you attention. You call it connection whenever someone validates your ego.
But love without integrity is just attachment dressed up in prettier clothes. You expect loyalty while moving disloyally. You expect trust while being untrustworthy. You expect respect while giving very little of it and somehow, when things fall apart, there's always someone else to blame. Never the choices. Never the patterns. Never the person staring back at you in the mirror. That's the part that fascinates me the most. How every relationship has a different cast of characters.
Yet the same problems somehow keep appearing. The same conflicts. The same chaos. The same disappointments. The same broken trust. At some point, maturity requires asking a difficult question: "What if the problem isn't everyone else?" Because growth begins where blame ends and accountability begins when excuses run out. The truth is, karma isn't always some dramatic event waiting around the corner.
Sometimes karma is living the same painful cycle over and over because you're unwilling to confront the part you play in creating it. Sometimes karma is never finding peace because you keep bringing the same unresolved version of yourself everywhere you go and that sounds far more exhausting than anything I could ever wish on you.
I’d say he’s the best possible face of the program you could have carrying the flag forward, but Sampson & Houston have had several guys like this
That said, the ability to balance confidence and humility at such a young age is truly remarkable
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