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@benthompson 's not about tech tweets. Mostly NBA (esp. Bucks), mostly unhinged. Giannis stan. #TheFiefdom . Patron saint of @goatnbapod ๐Ÿ

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ESPN: game starts late, but the studio show isnโ€™t worth watching. TNT: game starts on time, but the studio show is great.
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3 years
Giannis, talent evaluator
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2 years
KD looked amazing when Steph was being doubled. Just like Jordan Poole ๐Ÿค”
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5 years
One idea for the NBA is to have announcers who enjoy watching basketball.
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3 years
My daughter was so disgusted by the Bucks blue uniforms she made new alternates during the first half
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4 years
Iโ€™m thankful for the Cowboys hiring Mike McCarthy to demonstrate to the world how insanely good Aaron Rodgers in his prime must have been to make him look competent.
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4 years
LeBron lost to Steph again?
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5 years
Mark Jackson just called Brook Lopez the worst defender in the Bucks starting lineup. NBA announcing is just a nuclear wasteland.
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3 years
Giannis is shooting better than AD from the field, from 3, same for FT, scores more, rebounds more, assists more, initiates offenseโ€ฆbut TNT thinks he is a try hard and AD is more talented. Morons.
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5 months
Jamal Murray not being suspended for one of the most suspendable actions of all time, then going off in Game 3 while Denver gets all the calls is a pretty tough look. Iโ€™d be losing my mind if I were a Timberwolves fan. Good response by Denver though. Game 4 is for the title.
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3 years
Embiid is a great, great player. Giannis is just better
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5 years
Imagine how dominant the Bucks would be if Giannis were skilled
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5 years
Giannis goes for 50-14-6 with zero turnovers, a box score matched by only Michael Jordan. ESPN:
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5 years
This is arguably the greatest manifestation of Lakers exceptionalism I have ever seen. Anthony Davis was absolutely irrelevant to the last decade.
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5 years
All-Decade starting five according to our experts ๐Ÿ€
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5 years
Honestly, still confused as to how this went in.
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5 years
Caruso is going to draw a charge on Giannis in the Finals and House of Highlights is going to put it on Instagram and Iโ€™m going to throw my phone out the window.
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11 months
I thought giving Giannis and Ant technicals for cool dunks prevented this
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11 months
Klay Thompson vs. Jaden McDaniels. ๐Ÿ‘€
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2 years
Richard Jefferson, upon Bobby Marks being asked to evaluate Kevin Durant trade proposals: โ€œWeโ€™ve already seen Bobbyโ€™s work. Itโ€™s why Boston is so good.โ€
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3 years
Giannis playing only 17 minutes in the first half despite not being in foul trouble should be a fireable offense.
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5 years
LeBron stans making the East vs West argument to discredit Giannis should be very very careful about opening that Pandora's Box as far as LeBron's legacy is concerned ๐Ÿ˜ฌ
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4 years
We really got cheated out of Zionโ€™s first season, Giannisโ€™s first title, and LeBronโ€™s 7th loss in the Finals.
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2 years
Congratulations 76ers fans!
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2 years
Giannis just had the first back-to-back 40-20 games since Moses Malone in 1982 and no one outside of Bucks Twitter is going to hear about it.
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1 year
In retrospect, the KD-Kyrie partnership made lots of sense. Both overrated for aesthetic reasons. Both most famous for hitting Finals 3s on teams carried by better players.
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4 years
Giannis on the tough conditions faced by NBA players in Disney hotels:
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9 months
Congratulations to everyone involved, but this is disgusting and honestly not that fun to watch.
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5 years
Khris Middleton Versus Jayson Tatum, LAST 12 GAMES ONLY You know, the 12 games were Tatum is an MVP candidate Per-36: Middleton: 29/8/6 on 53/49/95 Tatum: 29/7/3 on 51/49/78 Middleton better on every number.
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3 years
Shaq is spot on here. โ€œI donโ€™t care how many free throws I miss, Iโ€™m still going to be aggressive.โ€ See Giannis last night. Air-balled a free thrown and only got more aggressive, and won the game.
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2 years
Celtics are really going to flop their way to the conference finals. Embarrassing.
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6 months
I have long maintained that Middleton would have even better numbers if he were ever the number one option. Legitimately one of the most underrated players in NBA history.
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6 months
Middleton last three games: 32.0 PPG 10.7 RPG 5.0 APG 48/40/87% Leading the Bucks in points and rebounds.
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8 months
The fact Giannis isnโ€™t the runaway MVP favorite is truly proof no one watches the Bucks.
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2 years
If Philly-Toronto goes 7 Ben Simmons should sit courtside (heโ€™s available).
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1 year
All 3 players are better than any player Dame has played with his entire career since LaMarcus Aldridge
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1 year
โ€œIโ€™ve never been in a photo like this.โ€ - @Dame_Lillard
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5 years
Dear Giannis, We will always pass you the ball. In fact, we traded away the one guy that wouldnโ€™t pass you the ball (Brogdon). Please sign the supermax. Sincerely yours, The Bucks
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1 year
For years I have been puzzled at Warriors fans complaining about Kerr despite all of their success. I get it now.
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1 year
I canโ€™t believe we are going down with Haliburton on the bench
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2 years
Mark Jackson: โ€œIf I was Steph Curry I would thank Bostonโ€™s defense for the MVPโ€ Seriously, wtf? Who wants this? Itโ€™s just false, and itโ€™s just bitterness. Why do we have to listen to this?
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1 year
Iโ€™m just in a dark place with this Celtics team. Officially NOT TWEETING TONIGHT. See you for the podcast late night.
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2 years
Giannis asked why he is playing with a banged up knee and wrist: โ€œI just love the game of basketballโ€
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5 months
@D0z_M4n_D4rk Victor era began and we didnโ€™t even know it
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8 months
Efficiency doesnโ€™t matter anymore now that Giannis is ahead of Jokic
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8 months
Good heavens
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1 year
When Giannis has a disaster playoff game he still has 38-20
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6 years
Giannis really called Ben Simmon "a f***ing baby" last game and he came back and put up 6 points on 5 shots.
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1 year
Giannis won a title in 2021 with zero all-star teammates.
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Nikola Jokic has ZERO All-Star teammates this season. If he wins a ring with the Nuggets, is it at the same level as Dirk in 2011?
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2 years
Pat Connaughton becoming a no-doubt-about-it 16-game player is one of the most stunning player development stories Iโ€™ve ever seen. (And heโ€™s still working โ€” look at how the keep-it-high shot he added this year paid off)
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If the Bucks donโ€™t win this series, Iโ€™m going to be 75 years old trying to convince the youngโ€™ins how great Giannis was, and heโ€™s going to have one less ring than he should because Bud refused to make the most obvious adjustment imaginable. Bud is damaging Giannis historically
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5 years
Brogdon leaves, Middleton gets more usage, career high 25 points-per-36. Giannis sits, Middleton gets more usage, career high 51 points. If Middleton was the number one on another team, and the Bucks acquired him, everyone would rave about Milwaukee having two stars.
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2 years
Best Game 1 of Budโ€™s career
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2 years
Hearing rumors that some media folks are serious about giving WCMVP to Wiggins over Curry, and just for the record, thatโ€™s incredibly stupid.
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10 months
Embiid would have been sprawled out beyond the sideline. Maybe even in the hospital. Maybe dead.
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Wendell Carter tried to hard foul Giannis and he ends up in a coffin ๐Ÿ˜ญ
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1 year
The irony of Coach Bud is that he, more than anyone, proved that coaching matters with the way in which he elevated the Bucks after Jason Kidd. He builds great structure and culture and any young team looking to elevate their franchise would be lucky to have him.
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Adrian Wojnarowski
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BREAKING: The Milwaukee Bucks dismissed coach Mike Budenholzer, sources tell ESPN. Budenholzer is out after the Eastโ€™s top-seed suffered a first-round loss to the Miami Heat.
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2 years
The team that has Giannis shot HALF as many free throws as the other team who is afraid to go to the rim. 2006 Finals is right but the wrong way lmao
@BillSimmons
Bill Simmons
2 years
That was like 1 of the 2006 Finals ref disasters. No consistency, no feel, all over the place on charges/no-charges and then they completely botched the Jrue push off and Smartโ€™s 3 FT that somehow turned into 2. Just brutal. I hope the NBA is horrified. PS: Great game by Giannis.
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TNT/NBATV are stacked with great announcing teams: Spero Dedes & Greg Anthony are elite Ian Eagle & Grant Hill are elite Gus Johnson & Jim Jackson are elite It is so much more enjoyable to listen to good announcing teams. It's a huge problem for the NBA that ESPN is so bad
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1 year
"As long as Kristaps Porzingis doesn't get hurt..." Giannis vs Kristaps Porzingis
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3 years
Amarโ€™e Stoudemire ruined Andrew Bogutโ€™s elbow for life by shoving him in mid-air and wasnโ€™t suspense for a single game. This is out of control.
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10 months
Such a hilarious publication
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5 years
Oh look, it's the Boston front office telling fans how close they were
@Murf56
Mark Murphy
5 years
One tidbit from Celtics assistant GM Mike Zarren - the 14th pick came within one ping pong ball of landing at No. 4.
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3 years
Kevin Durant gives Khris Middleton his gold medal.
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2 years
Did Brook Lopez have the most successful back surgery of all time?
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3 years
1. Why is Jeff Teague playing? 2. Why is Jeff Teague looking off Giannis in transition and taking a three?
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3 years
The good news is that the Bucks wonโ€™t necessarily shoot 17.2% again. The bad news is that Bud will still be the coach.
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2 years
It is absolutely enraging to watch the Heat take advantage of the Celticsโ€™ inability to dribble and realize that Bud didnโ€™t bother playing Jevon Carter after he successfully pressured Boston ball-handlers in the first 2 games. I absolutely believe it cost the Bucks the series.
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2 years
Giannis has 373 points in 318 minutes since coming back from injury. The Bucks are 10-0.
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1 year
It is absurd that JJJ is unable to stay on the floor and refuses to rebound and still won DPOY
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2 years
People say โ€œyou would love Marcus Smart if he were on your teamโ€ but no I would dislike him even more because I would be so embarrassed
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Denver
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Marcus Smart is shameless oh my lord
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9 months
Iโ€™ve never heard a national announcer so clearly root for one team as Burke and the Celtics
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4 years
1. Jrue Holiday is good 2. Jrue Holiday relative to Eric Bledsoe might be the best player in the history of the NBA
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2 years
Two-handed shoves of a player in the air are apparently not a foul. (It should be a flagrant. Most dangerous play in the game)
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3 years
I love NBA Twitter but I think Twitter has ruined the NBA. Itโ€™s sad how there is such a zero sum constant negativity culture around everything. Why canโ€™t we just celebrate awesomeness?
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3 years
This Khris Middleton no call thing is reaching the heights of absurdity.
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6 years
Snags a $147 million contract with only a promise to work hard, gets to start vacation every April. Legend.
@22wiggins
andrew wiggins
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Year 5 in the books...
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2 years
Curry and Giannis two worst whistles in the league
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6 months
Just caught up. What a game. Turn up the volume.
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10 months
OK, this is a really bad look for the Pacers, particularly in Milwaukee. Childish.
@legendz_nba
LegendZ
10 months
LEAKED Audio Of Pacers Refusing To Give Giannis Antetokounmpo The โ€œGame Ballโ€๐Ÿ‘€: โ€œYou want the ball? Youโ€™re not getting that ballโ€ Then, Giannis gets heated at Tyrese Haliburton and yells at him: โ€œGo get the f*cking ball! You need to go get itโ€
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6 years
Giannis just stuffed John Collins so badly Collins is going to be on ESPN in 10 years saying Giannis canโ€™t finish games.
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3 years
Milwaukee is a step slow, because the NBA inexplicably started the Finals early giving Phoenix three extra days rest than the Bucks despite the fact they also won in 6 ๐Ÿคทโ€โ™‚๏ธ
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NoTechBen
6 months
The funniest thing is the Pacers keep celebrating like theyโ€™re doing something impressive.
@eric_nehm
Eric Nehm
6 months
The Bucks just won't go away. Pacers up, 81-76, with 6:01 left in the third quarter. And Rick Carlisle wants a timeout.
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NoTechBen
3 years
If Giannis got DeRozanโ€™s whistle he would literally shoot 50 free throws a game
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2 years
The rule change is simple: charges can only be drawn by the primary defender. It was inevitable a day like this โ€” two stars injured and a Finals favorite fundamentally compromised โ€” would happen. Current league leadership is a disaster.
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NoTechBen
2 years
How to win in the NBA: 1. Trade with Minnesota
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3 years
Phoenix shot 68% from 3 and lost.
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NoTechBen
4 years
This is low-key one of the most ridiculous plays in the history of basketball and Iโ€™m not even exaggerating.
@NBA
NBA
4 years
Giannis shows off his length to get to the reverse! #WholeNewGame @celtics 87 @Bucks 87 Start of the 4th on ESPN
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NoTechBen
3 years
I would like to thank Giannis, Khris, and the rest of the Milwaukee Bucks for the early Christmas present they delivered in July. Merry Christmas! ๐ŸŽ„๐ŸฆŒ๐Ÿ†
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2 years
Just a reminder that the Bucks improved by *16 games* in the first year post-Kidd.
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6 months
Thank you Khris. Iโ€™ll remember this game.
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6 years
DJ Wilson may be a defensive savant ๐Ÿ˜ณ
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NoTechBen
3 years
I know agents are supposed to gas up their clients, but Rich Paul saying that the Bucks would have won a title with AD instead of Giannis remains one of the worst takes of all time
@YahooSports
Yahoo Sports
3 years
"I blame Anthony Davis... you ain't doing what you supposed to do. You're 27 years old, you're supposed to be in your prime." Chuck goes in on the Lakers' early-season struggles ๐Ÿ—ฃ๏ธ (via @NBAonTNT )
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4 months
Guy who traded 5 2nd rounders for Jae Crowder and passed on OG Anunoby for DJ Wilson probably made a bad draft pick. Shocker.
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3 years
Every Middleton hater can kiss my ass on the way out of Fiserv
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NoTechBen
3 years
Bucks fans are overreacting. Jeff Green went 7 for 8 from 3. Kevin Durant played one of the greatest games of all time. And the Bucks didnโ€™t fold. They got beat. Two more chances.
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NoTechBen
2 years
Should've used the money on PJ Tucker
@DanielBice
Daniel Bice
2 years
BREAKING: Milwaukee Bucks exec Alex Lasry is dropping out of US Senate race. Story coming shortly.
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NoTechBen
6 years
The Bucks roster and where they were drafted: Giannis, 15th pick Middleton, 39th pick Bledsoe, 18th pick Lopez, 10th pick Brogdon, 36th pick Brown, 46th pick Hill, 26th pick Wilson, 17th pick Ilysova, 36th pick Mirotic, 23rd pick Connaughton, 41st pick Snell, 20th pick
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NoTechBen
5 years
If you are an 80% favorite every game the likelihood of a 17 game winning streak is 2.25%. Add even one game with significantly lower likelihood of winning (like the Clippers) and that drops drastically.
@bballbreakdown
BBALLBREAKDOWN
5 years
Is Bucks 17 Game Winning Streak THAT Impressive?
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NoTechBen
2 years
James Wiseman is -54 for the season. The Warriors have played four games.
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NoTechBen
3 years
1. LeBron complains about the narrative 2. The narrative ๐Ÿ™„๐Ÿ™„๐Ÿ™„๐Ÿ™„๐Ÿ™„
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4 years
"Maybe this is an advantage for them". Mark Jackson is just absolutely awful.
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NoTechBen
5 years
Giannis innocently ethering Marcus Smart ๐Ÿคฃ๐Ÿคฃ๐Ÿคฃ
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NoTechBen
4 years
There is a direct link between the NBA having so many terrible announcers that seem to hate basketball, and casual fans being ignorant about why Giannis was the obvious DPOY (and why the Bucks are playing at 1:30pm). In short, the NBA doesnโ€™t know how to sell itself.
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NoTechBen
5 years
Barkley on Kyrie: "You said you want to be your own man, now you're going to be your own man going on vacation Thursday morning"
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NoTechBen
2 years
Watch (and listen) as a fan base sees its life pass before its eyesโ€ฆ
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