Tony Michael 💎

Entrepreneur, World Traveler, Adventure Seeker, #LanguageLearning, NBA Fan. I reply from @TonyMichael2. PS: I verified myself. 💎

[Tony Michael 💎 @TonyMichael]

People who started using Twitter after 2015 won’t believe me, but there was a time when nobody mentioned ANYTHING about politics on Twitter... ever.

It was WONDERFUL.

I would love a social media site that doesn’t allow ANY news networks or politicians.

So it could be “social”.

[JR Levert @JRho_11]

You know how cold you gotta be to be in the NBA at 5'5????????

[Trung Phan @TrungTPhan]

People will be studying Wemby’s two-week summer retreat with Shaolin monks in the Chinese mountains for decades to come.

Best details from Ramona Shelburne:

▫️slept on three single-beds pushed together and woke up 4:30am each day

▫️meditated several times a day with 100 other monks and length was determined by burning incense wick (“Thirty minutes was doable. But sometimes the incense burned for 90 minutes,…[it is agonizing for someone] 7-foot-4 to sit cross-legged at all, let alone silently for up to 90 minutes, without moving.”)

▫️spent 6-8 hours a day learning Shaolin kung fu poses (“Master Yan'an said he designed Wembanyama's customized martial arts training to emphasize controlling his center of gravity, which would generate force from different positions and resist external forces, to mimic the double-teams and physical play he'd face from NBA opponents.”)

▫️ “One day he told Wembanyama to dribble a basketball up another dangerous mountain route to Sanhuangzhai, a monastery deep in the Song Mountains. The hike traversed cliffside plank paths, suspension bridges and ancient forests, and was five times as long as the one to Bodhidharma Cave. The trail forces you to climb roughly 2,500 feet in elevation across uneven ridges and stone.
Master Yan'an said it would take an average person seven to eight hours to reach the end.
Wembanyama did it -- while dribbling a basketball -- in four and a half.”

▫️On the 6th night, he did a pitch black hike in the Bodhidharma Cave (“There were no lights anywhere,” Master Yan'an said. “You can't see anything. The only way to go is step by step. Listen to your breath and listen to your heart. Feel each step with your foot. Use your awareness. The entire point of this training…was to free your mind from fear and trust your awareness to guide you.”

▫️”Wembanyama ate the same strict vegetarian diet as the monks while he was there, in accordance with Buddhist principles.
But several times a day, his team arranged for a Sprinter van to pull into the monastery, pick up Wembanyama and drive him outside the walls of the temple, where someone would deliver a high-protein meal from a local restaurant. He would eat it inside the Sprinter van, dispose of any remaining meat, then be driven back inside the temple.”

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[Tony Michael 💎 @TonyMichael]

@david_lanson @realDANYANG Yes, slightly. The difference between a top 5 NBA player and a top 50 NBA player isn’t a 10x difference, it’s closer to a 10% difference.

#WhiteMamba said it best, “I’m closer to LeBron than you are to me.”

The difference between a Gold medal and last place is seconds or less.

[Tony Michael 💎 @TonyMichael]

I never thought a coach would surpass Phil Jackson in respect and legacy after his runs with the #Bulls and #Lakers…

Pop proved me wrong.
What a legacy. #Spurs
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[Tony Michael 💎 @TonyMichael]

Impressive…

[frostzy @lmkifiwin]

a horror movie made for $750,000 is about to become one of the most profitable films ever made.

Obsession - shot in 20 days in Alabama by a 26-year-old YouTuber with no stars in the cast - is now eyeing a $250 million+ box office finish. that's a return north of 300 times its budget. it's already the highest-grossing release in Focus Features history.

now look at what the industry spent that same money on:
- Joker: Folie a Deux - ~$200 million budget. a punchline.
- Mickey 17 - ~$118 million. forgotten in a month.
- The Mandalorian & Grogu - $165 million, 7 years, the entire Lucasfilm machine. it's currently losing the weekday box office to... Obsession.

Hollywood keeps insisting you need $200 million, a pre-sold IP, and a marketing budget the size of a small country to make a hit. then a guy with a camera, a wish-granting toy, and three weeks in Alabama outearned all of them on a rounding error of their catering bill.

the most profitable movie of the year cost less than a single second of screen time in the average blockbuster. turns out audiences never wanted the budget. they wanted a good movie.

[Tony Michael 💎 @TonyMichael]

And he’s French, and he knows Kung Fu 😂😂😂

#PoorChet

[Tony Michael 💎 @TonyMichael]

#Spurs vs #Knicks in the #NBAFinals and I can already tell you who wins... NBA Fans.

This will be a great series with two great teams that TOTALLY deserve to be there.

[Hater Report @HaterReport]

If Spurs - Thunder Game 7 not officiated like this I don’t want it

[LakeShowYo @LakeShowYo]

WEMBY JUST VIOLATED CHET 💀

[Tony Michael 💎 @TonyMichael]

@BreadmanBoxing @moredIscovxr Trust me, there are millions of people who are that stupid.

[Tony Michael 💎 @TonyMichael]

@moredIscovxr This is absolutely true... as long as winning, efficiency, leadership, and dominance don't matter.

If you don't count a perfect record in the finals vs a losing record or having to leave a team 3 times to join a super team or playing twice as long and still having less rings.

[NBA on NBC and Peacock @NBAonNBC]

BOB COSTAS GETS US READY FOR SPURS-THUNDER GAME 7!

📺 NBC and Peacock

[Tony Michael 💎 @TonyMichael]

This is one of the funniest and most accurate #NBA takes I've ever heard/read 😂

[🐢✨America Is Musty✨🐢 @DragonflyJonez]

I’m very positive Shai has not shot into the “coworker who doesn’t even watch the NBA but will go out their way to tell you they hate Bron” stratosphere. And I’m more than willing to bet he never will.

[Tony Michael 💎 @TonyMichael]

SGA to the refs when #OKC goes down by 20 points.

[Tony Michael 💎 @TonyMichael]

This is a good start, we need a #Spurs v #Knicks #NBAFinals.

Nobody wants to watch the #OKC Floppers.

[Tony Michael 💎 @TonyMichael]

Sort tries to get out of his slump… Not even close 😂

#Spurs #OKCThunder #NBAPlayoffs

[Tony Michael 💎 @TonyMichael]

@Shane00 @ClanTheSpursFan

[NBA Shane @Shane00]

44 times SGA falls to the floor during this year's playoffs

(🎥: MarchtoMarch via TT)

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Only in Brazil 🇧🇷