This is just a terrible, embarrassing, pathetic trade by Celtics. Amateur hour. Awful. Horrible job by Boston. I can’t believe this is real.
Maxey and Brown together for Philly… wow.
Let me be clear about what just happened in the Karmelo Anthony verdict. Because the celebration is traveling and the discrepancies aren't.
FACT: Karmelo Anthony was found guilty of murder and sentenced to 35 years.
FACT: The jury deliberated for less than 3 hours.
FACT: There were zero Black jurors on this jury.
FACT: The prosecution used peremptory strikes to remove 100% of eligible Black jurors while keeping a white educator after claiming they didn't want educators on the jury.
FACT: Karmelo Anthony never stood up. The confrontation happened while he was seated. Austin Metcalf was standing over him.
FACT: The jury had the option to choose manslaughter. They chose murder.
FACT: The "sudden passion" defense which would have capped the sentence at 2 to 20 years was rejected.
FACT: Karmelo Anthony's mother was the only witness called during the punishment phase. She asked for mercy. The prosecutor responded: "Mercy to the guilty is cruelty to the innocent."
FACT: Karmelo Anthony will be eligible for parole after serving half his sentence, roughly 17.5 years. He is 19 years old.
Now ask yourself, if the races and sizes were reversed, if Karmelo was 6'1" standing over a seated smaller white teenager who reached up with a knife, does this even go to trial?
You already know the answer.
Say his name. Karmelo Anthony.
Stay Dangerous.
Dwyane Wade responds to Pat Bev saying James Harden is better than him 😳
“I don’t understand how you can have a conversation about me and state facts when you’re not as good as me… Pat, where is your facts to say that someone is better?… don’t you ever fix your mouth to say somebody is better than me when you wasn’t better than me. You can’t do that.”
Athletes like Him and Giannis need to start pressing people to say their names right..
If they can pronounce “Ovechkin”, “Roethlisberger”, “Stojaković”, etc..
They can learn to pronounce theirs.
Jaylen Brown keeps running into controversy.
Nike dropped him after he spoke out.
He was left off Team USA despite being an NBA Finals MVP.
Even Beverly Hills had to apologize for shutting down his party.
This is a man who interned at NASA, negotiated his own contract, and represents the kind of educated, independent Black man people say they want as a role model.
Yet look at how he’s treated.
Carmelo Anthony on Dwyane Wade:
“I don’t think people understand how bad of a m’fer D-Wade was, bro. I’m saying it with this much passion because you don’t hear that name come up much with this younger generation. When he was on his s—, arguably he was the best two-guard in the league at one point in time.”
(via @7PMinBrooklyn, 2024)
Dwyane Wade on the 2006 NBA Finals:
“I averaged 35 in the Finals. Let me say that again — I averaged 35 in the Finals. I averaged 40 in four games.”
(via @wynetwork)
Shaq explains why 2006 Miami Heat Championship is his favorite NBA title.
Shaq: This is going to shock the basketball world. It's my favorite because we were not supposed to win. It was one I was pressured to win before the other guy got his fourth. The fact that were were a bunch of misfits that used to argue and fight and do things untraditionally but never not got along. We had damn near fistfights on the bus. We had like 40 fights. My favorite was with Gary Payton down 0-2 in the Finals. "You ain't shit. You ain't Shaq no more. We need to get DWade the ball" #HeatNation