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[SAM_jokin @SAM_jokin]

@donsettlenaija @LilTunechi I ACCEPT that people differ and come to the correct conclusion at diff paces, but I don’t respect when ones POV is realized in the face of other’s pain and suffering. If something I do causes the aforementioned, I rethink. If an opinion I have combats actualities, I do the same.

[The HEAT Realm @WadexFlash]

Dwyane Wade responded to criticism about his free throws in the 2006 NBA Finals👀

“Hold up one minute. I thought I couldn’t shoot? In 50 minutes of play with the ball in my hands, how many drives do you think I had per game? How many times do you think I was trying to dunk on somebody’s head? Of course I’m going to the line often. I’m attacking the rim at all times!”

(via D-Wade IG)

[𝙃𝙀𝘼𝙏 𝙉𝘼𝙏𝙄𝙊𝙉 @HeatvsHaters]

Another James Harden playoff with no hardware to take home.

“Better than DWade” LMFAOOO 🤣

[HeatMuse @Heat_Muse]

James Harden will once again miss the NBA Finals.

He’s only been there once. That series? He averaged 12/4/3 on 37% shooting.

Don’t ever compare him to Flash.

[Boston Bruins @NHLBruins]

Patrice Bergeron.

[The HEAT Realm @WadexFlash]

Dwyane Wade is a playoff riser.

James Harden is a playoff dropper.

Dwyane Wade impacts both sides of the court.

James Harden impacts one side of the court.

D-Wade will always be better.

[The HEAT Realm @WadexFlash]

Michael Jordan believed Dwyane Wade was the MVP in 2009 over LeBron and Kobe:

“I think Dwyane is a phenomenon — if he’s not talked in terms of the MVP then I think that they’re not really giving him a fair assessment of the MVP. No matter what you can say about his team — you take him away from his team I’m pretty sure they would not be as successful as you take away LeBron and you take away Kobe — I’m pretty sure those teams will still be competitive. Not to speak down on his (Wade) teammates — just in terms of how much he represents offensively and defensively…this kid each and every day — if he’s not playing they don’t have a chance to win…”

(via Miami Heat TV)

[SAM_jokin @SAM_jokin]

@TeamDeplorablez @nypost Nope, just love my hockey playing cartoon loving kids. Missed with that one.

[SAM_jokin @SAM_jokin]

@solitaryintp @whoisdshawn23 @LegionHoops Not edgy. Just honest. You live on a platform where you can remain anonymous while spouting your delusional bullshit. You wouldn’t talk this shit otherwise. Oh, and gentrification is as real as your inability to see beyond your rose colored glasses. My life’s pretty damn good…

[SAM_jokin @SAM_jokin]

@TeamDeplorablez Bigger piece of shit than I thought. never seen a piece of shit cling to a narrative harder than you. How bout if you tried harder you’d have an opinion of your own. “Black men don’t raise their kids!” Or, stop being a pejorative piece of garbage and focus on something positive.

[SAM_jokin @SAM_jokin]

@solitaryintp @whoisdshawn23 @LegionHoops The average American wasn’t blessed with the level of nepotism he enjoyed either. Stop suckin his sweaty balls. Ass hat.

[SAM_jokin @SAM_jokin]

@TeamDeplorablez @nypost It’s been done. Over and over again. Yall created that. So shut up and take it. Hiding behind a flag you have no idea what it stands for. Asshole

[Anime Tweets @AnimexTwts]

Happy 60th Birthday to the legendary Yoshihiro Togashi 🎉

[Crazy Vibes @CrazyVibes_1]

Bruce Willis wasn't built like Stallone. He didn't move like Schwarzenegger. He couldn't bench press a car or deliver one-liners while flexing superhuman muscles.
He bled. He limped. He crawled through broken glass barefoot and made pain look like courage.

Bruce Willis wasn't supposed to be an action hero. He became the blueprint for what a hero could actually be.

In 1988, 20th Century Fox cast him in Die Hard. Hollywood executives were skeptical. Willis was the funny detective from Moonlighting, not an invincible warrior.
Test audiences doubted him. Industry insiders questioned the choice. This was the era of perfect heroes. Willis looked like the guy who might fix your sink.

Then came Christmas Eve at Nakatomi Plaza.
McClane wasn’t a hero. He was terrified. Alone. Injured. Fighting terrorists in a skyscraper.
“Come out to the coast, we'll get together, have a few laughs,” he mutters, pulling glass from his feet.
Half comedy. Half cry for help.

That vulnerability changed action films forever. The muscle-bound invincibility gave way to something raw. More human.
Willis made audiences believe a normal man could survive the impossible. Not because he was superhuman, but because he refused to quit. Every wound mattered. Every fear was real.

Born Walter Bruce Willis in 1955 on a German military base, he grew up in New Jersey. A severe stutter made speech a battlefield. Then he discovered acting. Onstage, he could finally speak.

Before Hollywood, he worked odd jobs—bartender, security guard, private investigator. His charisma caught a casting director’s eye.
Moonlighting made him famous. But Willis wanted more than safety. He saw himself in McClane—the underestimated man proving he belonged.

He gambled again in Pulp Fiction, 12 Monkeys, The Sixth Sense—roles that demanded vulnerability over bravado. Each comeback showed that courage is quiet, patient, human.

Off-screen, he was the same: tough, generous, humble. He remembered names, bought rounds, treated everyone with respect.

In 2022, he retired due to aphasia. Later, it was clarified as frontotemporal dementia. Hollywood fell silent.

Bruce Willis humanized heroism. Bleeding. Broken. Determined.
John McClane crawled through Nakatomi Plaza barefoot. Impossible odds.
But he survived.

Because courage isn’t being unbreakable.
It’s being broken—and walking through the fire anyway.

[Home of Fight @Home_of_Fight]

🚨🇯🇲 Aljamain Sterling defeats Youssef Zalal via unanimous decision in a dominant performance. (49-45 x3)

[OLDSKOOLBBALL @oldskoolbballx]

Tim Duncan turns 50 today.

-5 rings.
-3 Finals MVPs.
-2 league MVPs.
-1 team. (19 years)

Sports Illustrated called him "quiet, boring MVP" after his first championship.

He responded by winning 4 more.

Happy birthday to the most underrated superstar in NBA history.

[Crazy Vibes @CrazyVibes_1]

By Season 4 of The Sopranos, Gandolfini was earning $400,000 per episode. HBO wanted Season 5 on the fast track, and the offer was staggering: roughly $1 million per episode across 13 episodes. Agents celebrated. Lawyers drafted. But something stopped him cold.
His co-stars were earning a fraction of what he made. Edie Falco, the woman who carried every scene as Carmela Soprano, wasn't close. The supporting cast earned even less. Gandolfini looked at his contract and saw something executives didn't want him to see — a gap that felt deeply unfair.
So he did something that shocked Hollywood. He walked away.
Production stalled in early 2003. HBO filed a lawsuit seeking around $100 million in damages. Headlines called him difficult. Columnists called him unstable. "They think I'm a wild animal," he reportedly told a friend that spring. The easy move would have been to sign, cash the check, and disappear into Tony Soprano's shadow — the character who made him a household name and quietly trapped him inside it.
Instead, Gandolfini made a different choice.
He eventually returned to the negotiating table and signed the deal. But what he did next became legend. Gandolfini reached into his own pocket and personally gave approximately $33,000 to each of 16 supporting cast members — roughly $500,000 of his own money — as a thank-you for standing by him during the shutdown.
No press release. No cameras. No announcement. Just quiet envelopes handed out privately.
Crew members remembered other moments too. Gandolfini would show up early at Silvercup Studios in Queens, sit in a folding chair, chain-smoke, and ask grips and lighting technicians about their kids by name. He remembered birthdays. He remembered losses. When a crew member's family member fell ill, he quietly helped with expenses. When writers pulled all-nighters rewriting scenes, he fought to protect their words on screen.
The turning point wasn't the signing. It was the pause — the refusal that cost him his reputation, invited a massive lawsuit, and risked killing the biggest show on television. He bet everything on a principle most people would have quietly swallowed.
Season 5 aired in 2004. Ratings climbed. Awards followed. Critics called it one of the greatest seasons of television ever made. But behind the numbers was a quieter truth: James Gandolfini used his leverage not just to lift himself — but to lift everyone standing beside him.
He played a man who ruled through fear on screen. Off screen, he led through loyalty.
When he died suddenly in 2013 at age 51, cast and crew members told the same stories over and over — not about his Emmy wins or his iconic performance, but about the envelopes, the folding chair, the questions about their kids. A legacy built not on what he earned, but on what he shared.
Power doesn't always roar. Sometimes it whispers through a quiet envelope, handed over with no cameras watching.

[NBA en español 🏀 @_NBAESP_]

Exmédico de los Chicago Bulls revela su experiencia de trabajar con Michael Jordan y su mentalidad competitiva

Michael Lewis, ex médico del equipo de los Bulls de los años 90, reveló una historia de cuando Jordan, a pesar de estar lesionado, quería jugar. No sólo para él, sino también para los fans.

“Una noche, 10 minutos antes de un partido, tenía un dolor de cuello tan intenso que no podía moverlo en ninguna dirección. Entonces le sugerí que no jugara esa noche y me miró como si estuviera loco. Dijo: 'los fanáticos han venido desde cientos y, a veces, miles de kilómetros de distancia para verme jugar y no los voy a decepcionar'”.

[Heat Diehards @HeatDiehards]

Dwyane Wade responds to narratives about his legacy:

“It’s hoop talk… we’re going to defend our positions… I’m tired of people playing on my name… you’re talking to somebody that within 5 years had a Hall of Fame career… I’m not the one to play with.”

(via @Par3Podcast )

[SAM_jokin @SAM_jokin]

@AnthonyChe42098 @LegionHoops Chef… your ratio is off. lol

[SAM_jokin @SAM_jokin]

@JayJohnSoFresh @HarrietEve9 Nigga your on some stuff. That’s why you’re not a GM. Your name shows your NBA IQ.