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@AlexHoops_
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10 months
Stuff like this is what makes League Pass a worthy investment
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3 months
I’ve got bad news chief
@BBGreatMoments
Baseball’s Greatest Moments
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Derek Jeter gives his opinion on analytics. "You can't measure a persons heartbeat."🗣️
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2 years
Somebody said Devin Booker gives off “my dad coaches my AAU team” vibes and that’s gotta be the most accurate description of him I’ve ever heard.
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2 years
I wonder how many Cam Thomas’s are sitting on the bench in the NBA right now waiting for the right opportunity
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1 year
I never wanna see this on my timeline ever again
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1 year
Rudy Gobert working on his 3-Ball 👀🔥
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2 years
Duncan Robinson is making $90 million and getting DNP’s in the playoffs and I feel like people aren’t talking about that enough.
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2 years
Dejounte Murray is showing everyone that he’s an actual menace now that he’s not being sheltered by the private school of the NBA
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2 years
We are so lucky to have Kareem man
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2 years
“As soon as I finished the first chapter I immediately thought to myself “Oh yeah, George kills Lenny at the end”. I could just feel it”
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4 months
This was the nail in the coffin.
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Minnesota Timberwolves
4 months
not satisfied.
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3 years
The logic of Lakers fans
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3 years
Dejounte Murray is almost averaging a triple double and literally nobody is talking about
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10 months
Rudy Gobert is unreal
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3 years
Jalen Green had over a million followers on Instagram by the time he was 15 years old and you all expected him to be HUMBLE???
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8 months
I don’t mean this as a diss towards OG at all, but only certain players are actually *allowed* to defend like this. All but maybe half a dozen players in the NBA get called for fouls multiple times playing this exact defense.
@BricksCenter
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8 months
Bro got his chain snatched 😭
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@FOS
Front Office Sports
11 months
Adam Silver is concerned about younger NBA fans' ability to find and watch the league's games. MORE »
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2 years
Steph Curry really is peaking at the age of 34 man, this is insane.
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1 month
I didn’t know you could give out 12-year contract extensions
@LegionHoops
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1 month
REPORT: Jonathan Kuminga is seeking a $224M max extension from the Warriors, per @JakeLFischer (h/t @RealGM )
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1 year
Nobody can ever convince me that this was a bad Finals series. The level of basketball being played on both ends of the floor was some of the best we’ve seen in recent years.
2021 Suns ball movement was insane😵‍💫
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5 months
Kevin Harlan is one of the GOATS and he has to sit there and keep a straight face while Reggie Miller says Zion is 6’3”
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7 months
Idk man, building around two young stars seems significantly better than building around one
@TheDunkCentral
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7 months
“I think [Brandon Miller] is the best player on the roster despite [LaMelo Ball’s] counting stats being superior to Miller’s…When I watch Miller play, I see a younger version of LA Clippers forward Paul George. As controversial as this will sound, I would trade Ball and build
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3 years
Two of the biggest bag fumblers in NBA history.
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1 year
The NBA seriously needs to enact some sort of media embargo on Woj and Shams during the draft. As far as I know, no other sport has their draft spoiled to the extent that the NBA does.
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1 month
Steph just had probably one of the greatest 60 second stretches of basketball you’ll see for the rest of your life
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11 months
Were we all just gonna collectively ignore this or what
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@SLAMonline
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Hear that? Here comes the BOOM. 💥 The OKC Thunder cover SLAM 247.
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10 months
The Mavs media team deserves some sort of award for this
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3 years
Tim Duncan is the most disrespected all-time great in NBA history.
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8 months
Zoomed in, slowed down look at the replay of LeBron's go-ahead shot that was ruled a two instead of a three
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2 years
Y’all are overthinking it. I’m not saying perfect replicas of Cam Thomas. I’m saying highly productive players that get lost in the rotation on a competitive team.
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9 months
@kylekuzma
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At this point its like “dont be that team” 🤣
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3 years
Y’all wanna hear something crazy? Jayson Tatum is in the bottom 1% of the league in 3-point shot quality, but ranks in the top 1% of the entire league in 3-point shot making and perimeter shooting. Difficult shot master.
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8 months
I do think it’s funny that people genuinely think the NBA would rig a game for the *Timberwolves* instead of the Lakers
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1 month
Team USA is crazy but it’s also crazy that Jokic is legitimately good enough to keep Serbia in it whenever he’s on the floor
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3 years
Ben Simmons is doing the same thing Anthony Davis and James Harden did to get traded despite not having half the talent as either of them.
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10 months
@KOT4Q Who needs the AI generated stuff when we get this kinda ammo anyways
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3 years
Take a break from all the drama with the NBA right now and enjoy this picture of a happy Kawhi Leonard
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2 years
Statmuse had so much potential when it first started to pick up steam as a source for stats. Could’ve helped change NBA discourse by providing unbiased analysis. Instead they chose clicks and trolling for the sake of getting engagement and now the whole community hates them.
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2 years
I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again: If Nikola Jokic doesn’t pass your eye test, it says more about how you watch basketball than it does about Nikola Jokic.
@KendrickPerkins
Kendrick Perkins
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Eye Test = Joel Embiid for MVP!!! Analytics = Jokic for MVP!!! I’m glad I rolled with the EYE TEST on my vote. Carry the hell on…
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7 years
ITT Technical Institute
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3 years
Donovan Mitchell and Davion Mitchell when they play against each other for the first time in the NBA
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1 year
Noah Lyles when he sees “world champions” on the Super Bowl rings
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1 year
Unfortunately, in the NBA, it seems like firing your head coach is the first line of defense for an organization trying to mask over poor roster construction or the fact that the players underperformed when it mattered most.
@wojespn
Adrian Wojnarowski
1 year
BREAKING: The Phoenix Suns dismissed coach Monty Williams, sources tell ESPN. Williams was a two-time NBA Coach of the Year in four seasons with Suns — including a trip to 2021 NBA Finals. Suns lost 6-game series to Nuggets in Western Semifinals.
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4 months
Never seen a player change the narrative quite like KAT has this season
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3 years
You can only pick two to commentate every NBA game for the rest of your life. Who are you picking?
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2 years
We are so numb to Giannis’s greatness at this point man
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2 years
*whispers* Nikola Jokic is better than Pau Gasol
@LegionHoops
Legion Hoops
2 years
The NBA has released their All-Time European teams for #NBA75 : 1st team: Giannis Antetokounmpo Luka Doncic Pau Gasol Dirk Nowitzki Tony Parker 2nd team: Nikola Jokic Toni Kukoc Dražen Petrovic Arvydas Sabonis Peja Stojakovic
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3 years
And let me be clear, I think it’s great that he’s stirring up beef and being cocky. I always hear people say “I wish NBA players would stop giving cookie cutter, media-friendly answers” and then get mad when a player starts trash talking. Pick one.
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1 year
Trading for stars at the deadline 👎 Trading for quality supporting pieces that you know you can integrate into your system effectively 👍
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9 months
So Rudy Gobert is like, clearly the DPOY right now, right?
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1 year
What are we even doing here man?
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2 years
I love how there’s a level of respect from Clippers fans in regards to Luka and then Suns fans are like “well actually, he sucks at basketball”
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8 months
Point being, more players should be allowed to defend like this without having to have the “reputation” of being a good defender.
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2 years
Luka Doncic is averaging 14.3 potential assists per game, the second highest of any player in the Conference Finals. However, he’s only averaging 5.0 assists per game, for an assist to potential assist ratio of only 0.34, the second lowest of any player in the Conference Finals.
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4 months
They did not lose a single game in the 1st round of the playoffs
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5 months
🚨 HOT TAKE: The OKC Thunder are losing in the 1st round of the playoffs.
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3 years
The Kardashian Curse lives on.
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3 months
Being up 3-0 and losing game 4 has got to be a miserable experience because you have to deal with the “Is this the year a team blows a 3-0 lead?!” discourse until the next game
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3 years
Shai Gilgeous-Alexander’s ceiling is a lot higher than NBA twitter seems to give him credit for.
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3 months
Dallas is proof that there is plenty of good talent out there that’s rotting away on bad teams. There’s always upgrades available — you just gotta be willing to pay the price to get it. Complacency is a front office’s worst enemy.
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5 months
Wait a second, I was told Gobert can't do this?
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6 months
They play better defense in college basketball
@C2_Cooper
Caitlin Cooper
6 months
What is a widely accepted basketball cliché that you disagree with?
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2 years
“Tim Duncan was such a boring player”
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2 years
You’re a massive casual if you think advanced stats are the only argument for Jokic to win the MVP
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3 years
These are the players who have created the most open shots for their teammates per 100 possessions so far this season: 1. Trae Young (16.3) 2. Stephen Curry (15.4) 3. Nikola Jokic (14.1) 4. James Harden (13.7) 5. Ja Morant (13.5)
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2 years
Hard to overstate just how much the stars aligned to make this trio happen in the first place, and it genuinely seems impossible that it could ever happen again.
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Offseason workout videos of centers shooting threes in an empty gym is the basketball equivalent of pretending to look busy when your boss walks by you at work
@TheDunkCentral
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Jusuf Nurkić is coming different next season 👀🔥 (h/t @Iceman_34 )
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1 year
$20 a month is absolutely insane You can get subscriptions to cleaning the glass, basketball index, stathead, and dunks & threes for less than the monthly cost of “Statmuse+” I’m baffled by how they managed to come to the conclusion that that’s a reasonable price
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StatMuse
1 year
StatMuse has experienced incredible growth over the past year and welcomed a surge of power users, whose wide range of usage patterns we’re trying to better understand and serve. The goal of this pilot program is to learn and iterate on our premium offering. We aim to strike a
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1 year
If only there were some sort of solution that would allow you to not own a team anymore while also making you a comical amount of money
@TheDunkCentral
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1 year
James Dolan admits that owning teams is stressful “I don’t really like owning teams,” (Via NY Times /h/t @SInow )
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10 months
Chet is everywhere on defense right now
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2 years
This situation is incredibly sad
@TheDunkCentral
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2 years
Lonzo Ball is still not able to run or cut, per @KCJHoop “The expectation is that the team will come out after the All-Star break saying that they are shutting Lonzo down for the season” (h/t @ChiSportUpdates )
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3 years
If you took all of Russell Westbrook’s career highs and turned them into a stat line, this is what his stat line would be: 58 points 21 rebounds 24 assists 8 steals 4 blocks That’s absurd.
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1 year
@KOT4Q Measuring the popularity of any sport using TV viewership as the primary metric seems pretty antiquated in general at this point
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3 years
This game winning dunk by DeMar DeRozan is still one of the craziest endings to a game I’ve ever seen.
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3 years
Karl-Anthony Towns criminally underrated 2020-2021 NBA season👇
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2 years
I love when talking heads use the most prolific scorers in the NBA as examples when trying to argue why a prospect won’t be able to defend at an NBA level, as if those guys aren’t cooking the best defenders in the league on a nightly basis regardless.
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Kendrick Perkins
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Just Imagine what Giannis and Embiid going to do to him!!! God Bless America
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2 years
This is absurd: of all 5-man lineups with a minimum of 100 possessions played, Jrue Holiday, Jevon Carter, Grayson Allen, Giannis, and Brook Lopez are putting up the following numbers: 119.3 ORTG 87.7 DRTG 31.7 Net Rating Far and away the best 5-man lineup in the NBA right now.
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Will never forget the NBA world trashing the Mavericks for tanking two games, now they’re in the Western Conference Finals. Punting on the playoffs for one year is a much better alternative to perpetual mediocrity where you never have enough to make a deep run.
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Minnesota gets an A+ draft grade for me
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8 months
You never know what you're gonna see while watching the in-arena broadcast on League Pass
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8 months
I’m not gonna weigh in on what I think the call should’ve been, but a lot of disingenuous screenshots are being posted of different frames of the replay so I figured this was more useful
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2 years
@JakeAndHoops Honestly, the Raptors. People forget how well rounded that team was.
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3 years
@ShamsCharania For those wondering if they’re related, she is his step-mom
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8 months
This is some sick manipulation from Vasilije Micic
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11 months
Jamal Murray probably shoots at least 60% on “we really need a bucket right now” shots
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2 years
Sixers fans saw JaMychal Green make a couple baseline jumpers and all of a sudden Jokic has a great supporting cast 😭
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2 years
The term “MVP conversation” is really starting to lose its meaning.
@LegionHoops
Legion Hoops
2 years
Devin Booker deserves to mentioned in the MVP conversation. Point blank.
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10 months
Very legal and very cool
@whatsontapnba
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I’m starting to think refs actually don’t like Jaden McDaniels
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@IOnlySayFacts
Are Sports Important?
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Honest question, what is the purest hoop y’all have ever seen? Could be for any sport.
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2 years
New video will be out this weekend. I dove into how the media took advantage of Zion Williamson's injury, and why these false narratives have real-life implications and do real damage. Here's a sneak peak.
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10 months
Where’s that account that finds renaissance paintings that look like NBA moments
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10 months
I’m terrified of what the Timberwolves Brazil account is gonna post after this game
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1 year
Of course the writer of the article lives in California
@TheAthleticNBA
The Athletic NBA
1 year
Anthony Edwards has emerged as Team USA's go-to scoring option. Many around the league believe the 22-year-old is primed to ascend to superstar status this season. Is it time for a bigger stage than Minnesota? The Bounce ⤵️
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2 years
I can’t believe I’m saying this, but if you’re a contender looking to make a legitimate Finals run this season, then Mason Plumlee is absolutely worth a first round pick.
@LegionHoops
Legion Hoops
2 years
Mason Plumlee is “said to be available for a 1st-round pick.” Which team should make a move? (via @MattMooreTAN , )
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The way Robert Williams' career has gone health-wise makes me really sad
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2 years
Brook Lopez and Giannis currently have a 93.5 defensive rating when they’re sharing the court together, the second lowest defensive rating of any 2-man lineup that’s played at least 100 minutes together this season. Best defensive frontcourt in the NBA.
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I understand why, but man it really drives home the idea that you just can’t overpay for specialists these days. Fortunately the Heat have Strus.
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Stephen A. Smith had a sweet gig using Max Kellerman as a human punching bag for two hours every day but decided that wasn’t good enough and now he’s getting tag teamed by NBA players on a daily basis
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