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[Mike Netter @nettermike]

Don’t Gloat

Jalen Brunson, the New York Knicks’ MVP who led his team on Saturday night to their first NBA title in 53 years, was widely discounted and dismissed when he first signed with the team back in 2022.

Critics and analysts said he was overpaid, undersized, and overrated.

After leading his team to a 16-3 playoff run that included multiple comebacks and a 45-point Game 5, how did he respond?

“I didn’t respond to them then,” Brunson said, “and I’m sure not going to respond to them now.”

A Christian, Jalen Brunson possesses a self-confidence – and a peace.

"I use what God had given me,” he says. “I don't wish for anything else.”

Jalen is married to Dr. Ali Marks Brunson, his high school sweetheart. She's a physical therapist, and they have a two-year-old daughter, Jordyn.

Rather than gloating, Jalen Brunson has chosen to give thanks.

[Archaeo - Histories @archeohistories]

Astrophysicist Neil DeGrasse Tyson in his wrestling days at Harvard College taken some time between 1976-1980...

Tyson attended Harvard from 1976 to 1980, earning a degree in physics. While there, he competed on the wrestling team, wrestling in the 177-pound weight class. He has often spoken about how wrestling taught him discipline, resilience, and the ability to perform under pressure, skills that later proved useful in both science and public speaking.

One of Tyson's favorite stories from those years involves his distinctive Afro hairstyle. Opponents would sometimes assume he was less serious or less technically skilled because of his appearance, only to be surprised once the match began. Tyson has said wrestling taught him an important lesson: people often make quick judgments based on appearances, and those judgments are frequently wrong.

After Harvard, he went on to earn a master's degree from The University of Texas at Austin and a Ph.D. from Columbia University. He later became director of the Hayden Planetarium and one of the most influential science communicators of the modern era.

Tyson was so passionate about astronomy as a teenager that at age 17 he visited Carl Sagan at Cornell University. Sagan personally spent time with him and even offered him a place to stay if bad weather caused him to miss his bus home, a gesture Tyson has credited as a major inspiration in his career.

© History Pictures

#archaeohistories

[PA @perfathletix]

Commodore’s newest gadget is a flip phone that blocks social media and browsers
https://t.co/louXpNJnmC

[JustFreshKicks @JustFreshKicks]

This pic goes hard.

[NBA @NBA]

How it started vs. how it’s going 🥹

The Brunsons are NBA Champions!

[jamaalwvetose @jamaalwvetose]

The Black intellectual man is the most misread person in his own community. Too Black for white spaces. Too articulate for street credibility. Too thoughtful for the masculine archetype. He exists in a gap that nobody built infrastructure for and navigates it mostly alone.

[Oh No He Didn't @ohnohedidnt24]

Charles Barkley: "When he signed with New York...we knew he was gonna be a good player. But come on man. None of us saw this"

Rick Brunson: "Not even me. I thought he'd be a good player"

Jalen: "I'd be lying to you guys saying I saw this as well but what he's instilled in me as a kid you never know what's gonna happen if you just continue to work hard...when you focus on just winning, you're not focusing on yourself, you're not focusing on the individual accolades that you can get. He kind of instilled that in me. I'm programmed to say that because I actually believe those things. I believe it's all about the team, it's all about our success. If we win, everyone eats. That's how I think of it. But it's how my mom and him raised me"

[サッカー好きのための拾い読み速報 @soccer_soku]

【ロナウジーニョ】
ナイキ広報担当者「スパイクを履いて、いくつかトリックをやってみてくれと頼んだ。そして彼が最初に見せてくれたのが、ゴールバーに連続で当てる例のシーンだった。我々はこう言うしかなかったよ。『ロニー。ありがとう。もうCM撮影は終わりだ』」

[Coach Kuoni @CoachKuoni90272]

Everybody wants to go D1 until it’s time to do “D1” things.

D1 isn’t what you think it is. It’s a lot of emotional stress that is unloaded on you on-top of very high expectations. You see the NIL money, the sponsorships, the uniforms, etc., but what you don’t see are the 5 am workouts at the facility. You don’t see the 2-3 hours of film you’re required to watch and take notes on, and we track it. You don’t see the 2-3 hour practices in the middle of the summer when it’s 91 degrees and 84% humidity. You don’t see the absurd amount of class work you are expected to complete and study for on your own (no more hand holding in college like in HS). You don’t see the sacrificing of social time because you have football, school, then football again all day every day. Weekends? You’re at the facility watching film for a few hours. You live, eat, and breathe football. The schools invested a lot into you, so they are going to require even more.

I don’t say this to scare you from dreaming big - but I say this to put things into reality for you because ESPN makes CFB look a lot more glamorous than it really is. There’s a reason those student athletes get the perks that they do, it’s because the work they put in well exceeds what they are given 100% of the time. Ask yourself, am I comfortable and willing to give up more than what I am getting in return? That’s the ultimate question.

[College Transfer Portal @CollegeFBPortal]

VIRAL: Kansas State recruit Joseph Graves’ mom went WILD during the photoshoot.

Crazy 😭

[Vision País Chile 📡 @visionpaischile]

La vuelta de Ayrton Senna en Mónaco 1990 en 4K. Considerada la mejor vuelta del circuito por su perfección; el auto tenía una caja manual, lo que lo obligaba a soltar 3.000 mil veces aproximadamente el volante durante toda la carrera, en un auto que parecía un potro sin domar.

[Dov Kleiman @NFL_DovKleiman]

Powerful: Titans veteran WR Tyler Lockett revealed that he was a VIRGIN until he was 30 years old.

Lockett is a devout Christian and said that he waited until marriage before having any relations with a woman.

A role model on and off the field ❤️🙏

[Dr. J-E @Harvarddoc32]

Black Academic Excellence cannot be contained anymore. Nia Thompson finished Stanford Law at 21.

[Mia Anderson @Mia_Anderson8]

An emotional final honor for a brave soul in his last moments. A powerful reminder of the sacrifices our soldiers make. 😭🇺🇸

[報道Japan🇯🇵 @twinewss]

何年も前、チェコの大富豪がアウトバーンでブガッティ を時速414km/hまでぶっ飛ばした！

朝4時台の空いた道で安全優先、1秒でサッカー場1つ分進む化け物スピード…伝説すぎる

[令和ちゃん🇯🇵 @reizisokk]

息子の寝つきが悪いことを心配した母親。
父親が原因を探るためにカメラを設置した結果、夜にとんでもない光景が映っていた...。

[PA @perfathletix]

Missed too many shots

[GNF SULTAN🥷⏳🤍 @GNFSULTAN]

The most beautiful family in the world😍❤️

[Amunet @freakoutsideofx]

Keisha of the r&b group, Total and Omar Epps have been happily married for 20 years.

[Yonan @yonann]

Ben Affleck says The Town’s coldest cop scene came from a real bank robber in prison

"for The Town, I went through all the prisons... Massachusetts federal prisons, state prisons, and sat down and talked to guys who robbed trucks and banks"

"after talking for two hours, I was like, is anything just fucking weird ever happened? and one guy said, we robbed this truck, we had the mask, we got the switch car"

"we pull up, we get out, fucking guns, the masks, whole thing... we look over and this cop's sitting there doing construction duty... he looked at us, we looked at him, he looked the other way... he didn't want to end up on the wall at the VFW"

"I was like, I'm putting that in the movie... that's straight from research"