Trè Kelley

Dunbar High School Alum 🏀 University Of South Carolina Alum🏀 Professional 🏀 13 seasons globally

[Trè Kelley @TreKel1ey]

@Wjhwjh67 @Djoko_UTD Me too😂😂😂 was trying to figure out what I was missing.

[Trè Kelley @TreKel1ey]

@Lloyd_Dillon23 Would have possibly been the best backcourt in the nation. The dynamics that we share as guards are already tough to handle, but the things that we we different at also created so many problems so together, it would’ve been near impossible to stop.

[Trè Kelley @TreKel1ey]

Ridiculous slim.

[slim @DerMarrJohnson]

@TreKel1ey Terrible

[Trè Kelley @TreKel1ey]

T Mac needs to stop it. This team was ridiculous offensively. AI’s MVP season was what got them to the finals and definitely his effort that won them a game in the finals. Just another terrible narrative.

[Cousins with Vince Carter & Tracy McGrady @VinceAndTmac]

The notion that Allen Iverson carried his team to the Finals bothers @Tmac_213. 😳

"People act like he took a terrible team to the Finals!

[Trè Kelley @TreKel1ey]

Totally agree.

[Trè Kelley @TreKel1ey]

SGA can really play. Very skilled and poised. But he is hard to watch with all of this foul baiting. It’s crazy. He spent the entire first quarter hunting fouls.

[Trè Kelley @TreKel1ey]

Tiger Woods in his prime for a 6 footer is a no brainer.

[Dijami @IamDijami]

If your life depended on it, which option would you choose? (All in their prime)

1. Tiger Woods to make a 6-footer.

2. LeBron James to make a free throw.

3. Adam Vinatieri to make a 50-yard FG.

4. Lionel Messi to make a penalty kick.

[Trè Kelley @TreKel1ey]

What he is doing and who he has become is more amazing than anyone can imagine unless you’ve been with him and been apart of his journey.

Love to see it.

[Famously Garnet Sports @FamouslyGarnet]

Former Gamecock Renaldo Balkman is still at it!

[Trè Kelley @TreKel1ey]

Yall just come up with and say https://t.co/3Bdx7w1qxe

Most players accelerating will kick off the back leg to explode and get first step speed.

Whatever the reason for these injuries are, it’s not this.

[Swervo5️⃣ @4KTSwervo]

They’re all doing the negative/false step. That’s what causes achilles tears!!

[Trè Kelley @TreKel1ey]

@insidemanifest 555

[Trè Kelley @TreKel1ey]

@lunarfq 777

[Trè Kelley @TreKel1ey]

@kediastrolog Hello

[Trè Kelley @TreKel1ey]

@kediastrolog Merhaba

[Trè Kelley @TreKel1ey]

Social media is an insane, bad https://t.co/hhp9LNsHsN whoever wrote this says Dawn Staley is a decent enough coach then went on to state an incredible record in ‘24 along with mentioning 3 national https://t.co/39OhPj6zEV wow. This is ridiculous.

[Game 7 @game7__]

This is why Dawn Staley will never be a true legend.

It's all Balenciaga and Louis Vuitton and whatever is best for Dawn Staley. Of course her players can't win the big one... their coach is too worried about her brand to actually care about what UCLA is doing.

Again, Dawn Staley wore a $2,300 Balenciaga jacket to the national championship game tonight. No South Carolina logo. No team colors. No Gamecocks branding anywhere on her. Her team lost 79-51. That jacket tells you more than the score does.

Staley is a decent enough coach. Three national championships. A perfect 38-0 season in 2024. Five National Coach of the Year awards. The highest-paid women's basketball coach in the country at $4.25 million a year.

But somewhere along the way, Dawn Staley the coach became Dawn Staley the brand. Her fans call her "Louis Vuitton Dawn." She wore Gucci for the first round this year. Balenciaga for the second. Gucci again for the Sweet 16. Louis Vuitton for the Final Four. There are entire articles dedicated to ranking her outfits by round. WWD tracks her sideline looks. Essence runs features on her style. She published a memoir last year called "Uncommon Favor" that became a New York Times bestseller.

None of that is a crime. She's allowed to be all of those things.

But tonight she stood on the sideline in a luxury brand's name while her team put up the worst title-game performance in program history. South Carolina shot 29% from the field. 2-for-15 from three. Their starters went 8-for-31. Joyce Edwards, their leading scorer, was held to 3-for-10 for eight points.

UCLA outscored South Carolina 25-9 in the third quarter. That's the largest single-quarter margin in championship game history. By the end of that quarter it was 61-32.

South Carolina averages 86.5 points per game. They scored 51. That's 35 points below their own standard in the biggest game of the year.

Meanwhile, Gabriela Jaquez had 21 points, 10 rebounds, and five assists. Only the fifth player in history to put up a 20-10-5 in a title game. Lauren Betts had 14 and 11. UCLA's six seniors scored every single one of their 79 points.

Cori Close won her first national championship in her 15th year at UCLA. She wasn't trending for what she was wearing.

The full story on how Dawn Staley's brand showed up and her coaching didn't is here:

https://t.co/uhtURfJVKr

Two days ago, Staley beat UConn 62-48 in the Final Four. She looked every bit the championship coach. Geno Auriemma melted down so badly that assistants had to separate them near the scorer's table.

Two days later, her team came out flat against UCLA, fell behind early, never adjusted, and got run off the floor by a team that wanted it more. The third-largest margin of victory in title game history.

The Balenciaga jacket didn't cause the loss. UCLA was better. Their defense suffocated South Carolina. Their size inside was a problem the Gamecocks never solved.

But when you show up to a national championship game wearing somebody else's name instead of your school's, and your team looks like they forgot whose name they were supposed to be playing for too, the image sticks.

She's still rich and famous. Good for her. But tonight, the brand showed up and the coaching didn't.

[Trè Kelley @TreKel1ey]

It would be illegal if Luka Doncic is not the MVP of the league this season. There is no way possible to choose somebody else.

[Trè Kelley @TreKel1ey]

@Mryems20 I need god, the universe….to grant me blessings and prosperities upon the things I have my hands on at the moment that’s meant for all positivity.

[Trè Kelley @TreKel1ey]

It’s really a designed and orchestrated hate towards Luka so he doesn’t get MVP. It’s crazy. He shots 47% from the field and 77% from the line which is not great but 47% averaging 34 points is good.

What is this about?

[NBA Courtside @NBA__Courtside]

Skip Bayless says Luka Doncic is by far the least efficient player in the NBA:

“Because from three he’s 36% which is if you look at it that ranks 96th in the league. So, he’s taking the most three point shots and he’s 96th in making those shots. And from the free throw line he takes the most free throws and he’s 86th in making free throws, because he is a 70% free throw shooter. So, he’s by superstar standards he’s a poor three point shooter and a poor free throw shooter. But he’s leading the league and attempts and attempts.”

(Via @GilsArenaShow)

[Steve Infanti @SteveInfantiNC9]

His relationship with this city is special. A look back on Gerry McNamara's journey from player to leader of Syracuse basketball...

[The Right Time with Bomani Jones @righttimebomani]

Bob Costas knows ball 💯

“I’ve been name checked at least 5 or 6 times in hip hop tracks.”

[Trè Kelley @TreKel1ey]

Love this. 🖤

[Nick DePaula @NickDePaula]

BREAKING: Darius Acuff Jr is Reebok’s next Signature star.

Reebok will launch an Acuff signature shoe as he enters the NBA — making him just the 11th rookie in league history to launch his own sneaker during their debut season.

“The next HIM,” says Allen Iverson.

Decision to create Acuff signature shoe comes 30 years after company bet big on Iverson’s rookie year and launched the iconic Reebok Question in 1996.