Ruben

[BIG HYCE @thehyce]

Most of a guy’s losses came from him making sure somebody else was okay instead of himself.

[Resko★ @Bloke_Baz]

Can't believe it’s already June . Time flies when you work everyday of your fucking life

[BHENtel @TheBHentel]

Me watching my girl get on our waitress ass for fuckin my order up.

[Ruben @notreallyruben]

LeBron fucking James 😭😭😭😭😭

[Durag Hoops @DuragHoops]

Omfg man this is the proper use of ai 😭

[NBA Communications @NBAPR]

Victor Wembanyama is the first unanimous Kia NBA Defensive Player of the Year since the award’s inception in 1982-83.

The winner was selected by a global media panel of 100 voters.

Complete voting results ⬇️

[San Antonio Spurs @spurs]

UNANIMOUS 😤

Congratulations @wemby on winning @Kia NBA Defensive Player of the Year!

[Ruben @notreallyruben]

This spurs crowd is so beautiful 😭

[Ruben @notreallyruben]

This can’t be the mvp man

[Hoop Central @TheHoopCentral]

Shai Gilgeous-Alexander today:

25 Points
7 Assists
4 Rebounds
5/18 FGM
0/4 3PM
15/17 FTM
29 Minutes

[Don Harris @DonHarris4]

Finalists for 6th Man include KJ.

[San Antonio Spurs @spurs]

Playoffs Ready.

🩵🩷🧡

[The Real RC Buford (I swear) @SirRobertBuford]

Victor Wembanyama had a blood clot last season and was robbed of DPOY, btw. Don’t forget Luka also missed a game because he was suspended for bitching at the officials. Now that whiny ass bitch has his agent do the crying for him and he gets an exception. The NBA is a joke

[Kevin O'Connor @KevinOConnor]

With Victor Wembanyama on the floor, the Spurs generate far more layups for their point guard trio — a trio I spent all summer convinced wasn’t an ideal fit. De'Aaron Fox, Stephon Castle, and Dylan Harper are three downhill guards and none of them is a proven knockdown shooter. On paper the spacing math didn’t work. Mitch Johnson solved it by playing only one or two of them together at once. And Wemby handled the rest. Harper’s at-rim frequency jumps 15.5% with Wemby on the floor. Castle, 14.2%; Fox, 9.7%.

More shots at the rim is one piece. More shots going in at a higher rate is the other. Every rotation player sees a jump, not just the guards. Devin Vassell’s true shooting climbs from 55.2% to 60.8%. Harrison Barnes from 58% to 64.7%. Julian Champagnie from 58.4% to 63.3%. Fox is the exception — his true shooting stays the same.

Some of this increase is thanks to transition offense off stops. Most of it is Wemby’s gravity in the half-court.

Gravity comes in different flavors. The first is simple spacing: his shooting pulls a big out of the paint and the guards drive into an empty lane. The more interesting one is what happens when he rolls. When off-ball defenders decide to stay home on shooters, the big man still needs to prevent a lob to Wemby, which means Fox, Castle and Harper can go one-on-one with a full head of steam and walk into layups.

Of the nearly 400 handler/screener duos to log at least 100 pick-and-rolls this season, Fox/Wemby, Castle/Wemby and Harper/Wemby all rank in the 88th percentile or better in scoring efficiency.

None of this shows up on his line. Wemby finishes those possessions with zero points and zero assists and jogs back down the floor, and the box score insists nothing happened. Something happened.

[NBACentral @TheDunkCentral]

Anthony Davis’ MVP rankings 👀

1.Victor Wembanyama
2.Nikola Jokić
3.Jaylen Brown
4.Shai Gilgeous-Alexander
5.Luka Dončić

(🎥 @DraymondShow )

[NBA @NBA]

The final stretch of the Kia NBA MVP campaign is here!

Read Shaun Powell’s Kia Race to the MVP Ladder with less than 10 days to go in the tightly contested race on the NBA App.

[Who's Next @WhosNextShow]

My eyes so red

[👎🏾 @01Camron]

Rightoid Christian twitter genuinely wants you to believe this is just a young man preaching the word of the lord and not someone experiencing a horrific mental health crisis

[Ruben @notreallyruben]

Bros mad at the gays because he sucks

[FearBuck @FearedBuck]

Jaden Ivey questions NBA hypocrisy, saying Anthony Edwards’ 2023 use of “queer” as a slur resulted only in a fine because he was the best player on the Minnesota Timberwolves, while he was released by the Chicago Bulls for speaking the truth

“How is it that he said something detrimental and basically hypocritical judgment because he is not a Christian… He didn’t get kicked out of the league, he didn’t get waived. It’s because he is the best player on their team. The Timberwolves need him to be on the team because he’s the best player; he makes them money. I’m injured and I’m speaking the truth. It’s all money involved in that—that’s why he’s still playing. They’re not going to waive him; he’s making the Timberwolves money. Everyone goes to pay to watch Anthony Edwards. If they didn’t have Anthony Edwards, no one would watch the Timberwolves.”

(via Kerrigan Skelly on YouTube)

[AB @AB84]

Nigga averaging 8 points a game over here worried about what gay people do with their free time. He worried about the wrong balls