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[tommy @tsyper617]

Thank you Scottie Pippen. I NEEDED to hear this ❤️

[Scottie Pippen @ScottiePippen]

That move you are scared to make, might be the game changer.

[tommy @tsyper617]

Yeah this Knicks team isn’t losing… Knicks fans are too strong for the NBA to let it happen

[NBA @NBA]

“I love you so much, I'm so happy.”

Mariska Hargitay to Jalen Brunson postgame 🥹

A game-high 36 for JB in the Game 4 W!

[Taylor Swift Updates @TSUpdating]

🚨Taylor Swift and Mariska Hargitay wearing matching “Stevie Knicks” shirts.

[Summer @xsummerchildx]

Mariska looking like she faced off against Wemby by herself 😭

[NEXTA @nexta_tv]

In a Japanese zoo, famous male gorilla Kiyomasa was filmed sinking into deep thought after a quarrel with his partner.

[NBA @NBA]

👋 @taylorswift13!

[Electra @Electrarythm]

Tiger Woods' father, Earl Woods, was a U.S. Army Lieutenant Colonel and Green Beret who served two tours in Vietnam, and he openly said he used the psychological techniques he learned in prisoner-of-war interrogator training on his own son to forge his mind.

The methods were direct and constant. He'd drop his entire bag of clubs right at the top of Tiger's backswing so the crash would shatter his concentration, he'd jingle coins in his pocket as Tiger was about to strike the ball, he'd throw a dozen golf balls in front of Tiger's ball so Tiger had to swing through visual chaos, and just before the downswing he'd plant doubt with quick verbal traps like "water on the right, OB on the left" to make Tiger's brain start calculating risk in the half-second when he was supposed to be free. He'd hit him with profanity too, "you little piece of sh*t," "f**k off Tiger," all of it timed to land at the exact worst moment, and Tiger himself confirmed all of this in a 2018 Slate interview.

The point of all that noise was to teach Tiger to build a kind of mental wall, so deep and so quiet inside his own head that nothing outside it could get in. Earl knew this was real psychological conditioning on a kid and it could break him for life, so they made one agreement, a safe word, and Earl said it himself in the HBO Tiger documentary: "I could say one word, and that word was the release word that the whole training was over. I said, 'Tiger, if you never utter that word, I promise that you'll never meet another person as mentally tough as you.'" Tiger never said it. Not once. No matter how brutal it got, the kid refused to tap out, and every time he held the line his threshold for pressure climbed higher, until eventually nothing Earl could throw at him registered anymore.

What the training was really teaching him was visualization, the ability to picture a shot so clearly in his head that the picture became more real than the world around him. Before every swing, Tiger would see the whole thing first, the ball flight, the curve, the bounce, the roll, the spot it would stop on the green, and once he had that image locked in, the actual swing was just his body catching up to a shot he had already lived in his mind. That's why the noise didn't matter. The crowd, the cameras, the heckler, the wind, none of it could shout louder than the picture he was already inside of.

The shot was already done in his head before he ever swung. That's why he looked so still over the ball on TV, the long pause, the quiet stare, the way time seemed to slow around him, it wasn't him thinking, that was him stepping into the picture he'd already seen before his body went through with it.

Earl ended the training with a line that became famous through a Nike commercial: "Tiger, the training is over. You've got it, and I promise you that you'll never meet another person as mentally tough as you in your entire life." He was right.

[siren crave @sirencrave]

daphne joy in real life

[BRO @Tolly_Tweetz]

Gabi Moura on the runway for Miami Swim Week..

[Wobbledy wobbledy @FlightChampagne]

@LegendOfWinning We dont care mane he's weak

[tommy @tsyper617]

I’d argue that Tiger Woods is the greatest athlete of handling pressure with his father putting him on TV at the age of 2 and he over-delivered on the hype in a predominantly white sport where he was the outcast but that doesn’t drive the same views as glazing LeBron for ESPN…

[JB @Jbdapapi]

ESPN “LeBron is the goat of discussing who’s the goat”

Then have a 3-4 min dialogue on LeBron being the “goat of pressure”.😂😂😂

[tommy @tsyper617]

This is crazy they talk about LeBron James every single day 😂 #NBA

[NBA Courtside @NBA__Courtside]

Stephen A. Smith on LeBron James comments about the GOAT debate:

“He’s talking about they would say the same thing, no they wouldn’t. Michael Jordan would never tell you he’s the GOAT, I know Michael Jordan I speak to him often, I’m telling you he’s never ever, ever once called himself the greatest never happened. Kobe Bryant didn’t call himself the greatest, Kareem didn’t call himself the greatest, Magic didn’t call himself the greatest, Bird didn’t call himself the greatest, no that’s not true. He can say they might thought it, but they never articulated it to a reporter for print purposes to be disseminated to the masses. Which brings us to LeBron James why would he do that? Because the man is addicted to trying to control the narrative.”

[tommy @tsyper617]

Near misses is a concept LeBron James has based his career off. Playing in the weak East he racked up either a win or a near miss. Even if he nearly missed he still gets chatter going years later… As soon as he went to the West he did the Father Son and Longevity storyline. #NBA

[Paul Novosad @paulnovosad]

A staple of online gambling is the near miss.

When you play a real life slot machine, you learn probabilities over time, e.g. frequency of 7s. If you get a lot of near-misses, a hit is not that far away.

The online slot machine hacks this brain circuit by giving you more near-misses than would actually occur. Your brain says "HOT DAMN THAT WAS CLOSE," it seems worth another try.

But it wasn't close, when you're gambling on a screen, there's no such thing as close, it's either zero or one, and the near misses are all zeroes. In fact a huge share of zeroes display as near misses, that's what keeps you playing.

There's no transparency on the probability of winning, in fact the probability of 7-7-7 might not just be small, it might be zero! It's completely unverifiable.

Online poker companies did this by having insiders play big money tournaments, with an insider who could see everyone's cards. When you play on a screen, you are almost never playing the game that you think you are playing!

This is part of why online gambling is so insidious and addictive. They are using every trick in the psychological toolbook (including straight up lying to you) to make you overestimate the odds of winning.

[Vandal @BEEHIGHB]

OKAY I’M CRYING HE NOT EVEN JOKING NIGGA LEGIT MAD AS FUCK LMAO

[tommy @tsyper617]

That’s the concept LeBron James based his career off. If he wins the Finals that just adds to his ring total but if he misses closely it still gets chatter going. That’s why he camped in the East for so long. The Finals is like the last leg of a parlay. #NBA

[Vital Vegas @VitalVegas]

When gambling, your brain reacts more to near-misses than actual wins. https://t.co/022xACsdvS

[tommy @tsyper617]

This is what Shannon Sharpe is doing 😂 saying that we are hating on his success 😂 where there is smoke 💨 there is fire 🔥 like stop it fam 🤦‍♂️ just admit you are LGBTQ 🏳️‍🌈 #NBA #ESPN

[THE REAL SPILL ౨ৎ @baddie1ations]

Boston Richey posting money after getting exposed .. baby she said you gay not broke wtf

[tommy @tsyper617]

Boston Celtics 🍀🏀 basketball legend Paul Pierce is furious at a streamer claiming streamers are lame and that streamers are causing women to overvalue themselves… Celtics Nation do you have any clues as to who Paul Pierce is referring to? 👀👀👀 #NBA #DifferentHere

[Ahmed/The Ears/IG: BigBizTheGod 🇸🇴 @big_business_]

What did a streamer do to Paul Pierce to react like this 😭

[tommy @tsyper617]

What streamer pissed off Paul Pierce 🍀🏀? 👀👀👀 He is so mad the lames getting money💰caused women to start charging more for the kitty 🐱omg 😂😂😂 but why are his toes out 🦶🏾like fam 🤦‍♂️ put those dogs 🐶 away 🤦‍♂️ #NBA #DifferentHere

[Ahmed/The Ears/IG: BigBizTheGod 🇸🇴 @big_business_]

What did a streamer do to Paul Pierce to react like this 😭

[Sam 🐐☘️ @S_Scott019]

Bro said he played 19 years in the league and never seen the price of pussy inflated like it is now. He’s at his limit

[tommy @tsyper617]

Another annoying clown 🤡 on the LeBron Klutch media payroll. LeBron even acknowledged he was the best at one point. They brought Kobe on Team USA to win the gold medal 😂 These morons act like you didn’t grow up watching the NBA. Reporting is supposed to be unbiased. #NBA

[Kobe Bryant Stories & Motivation @kobehighlight]

The Kobe disrespect is crazy 😂

Maybe someone should show this to Nick Wright