Minnesota Timberwolves guard Mike Conley is the recipient of the Joe Dumars Trophy for winning the 2022-23 NBA Sportsmanship Award.
Full voting results:
Duncan Robinson misses his two best looks of the night to potentially pull ahead; Jimmy Butler 2P foul turned 3P foul after BOSTON’s challenge; Butler makes all 3 FTs; Smart’s 3 rattles in and out…
Derrick White with 0.1 remaining
It literally doesn’t get better than this
Whats the cutoff for All-NBA this year?
Is LeBron at 55 games acceptable? If so, then Kawhi’s 52 games should be as well.
If Kawhi’s 52 is acceptable, is Durant’s 47 acceptable? What’s the cutoff?
@TheNBACentral
Did we not watch not the same first quarter where Butler had 22, mostly on Giannis?
We know he’s a help defender + rim protector, not an on-ball perimeter guy
Sam Merrill is a NUCLEAR 3-point threat. 44% on 12.3 attempts per 36 mins this season. Lightning quick release—2nd in volume only to Steph Curry
Makes a ton of movement, contested threes. Always on balance and ready to fire
Because it’s agreed upon in the CBA — meaning both owners and players agreed to it — that brandishing a firearm as shown by Ja is a horrible look for the NBA and should be punished accordingly
JJ Redick got heated on First Take this morning
“WHY ARE WE TRYING TO LAY DOWN THE HAMMER ON A 23-YEAR-OLD WHO DIDN’T BREAK A LAW? EXPLAIN THAT TO ME !”
(h/t
@awfulannouncing
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Whoever hated the Derrick White pick just wasn’t thinking about what Team USA needed
Perimeter defender and disruptor, quick decision-maker, cutter, screener, shooter
He’s been awesome
There’s no possible way anyone watching the games with their eyes open can come to this conclusion
*offensive* liability? Sure
But the Wolves defense craters the moment Gobert takes a seat. Every. Single. Time
That 4 seed is Book+KD, who were heavy favorites to beat Denver btw.
That 7 seed is Bron+AD. They knocked out the 2 seed and the defending champions.
That 8 seed knocked out the 1 and 2 seeds in the East.
Wicked stuff 12 hours after crowning new champs
@dru_star
It was successful in that the defensive foul was overturned to a no-call, giving Miami possession after the Jaylen Brown bucket as opposed to the and-1 it was originally called
Howard Stern says black NBA players ignores him at Knicks games
“The Black players won’t come over and say hello to me, but they go over to Spike Lee. I grew up in a Black neighborhood, you know what I mean? I mean they should know that. But I get ignored.”
(h/t
@RTNBA
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Wemby archived one of my posts from 2020—waited 4 years to respond to this comment
It blew up on a ton of national outlets last 24 hours: ESPN, SportsCenter, BleacherReport etc
Pretty cool
"Well I guess Markkanen just doesn't care about winning"
my brother in christ he just guaranteed himself $220m 10 months earlier than expected and set up god knows how many future generations for life with 0 risk
Harden hits a 3 and they pan the camera to the MSU shooting survivor he invited to the game and Mark Jones gone say “That’s the best medicine he could ask for right now” LMAOOOOOOOO
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@kingjames
and
@jj_redick
are obsessed with basketball.
Consider their podcast, Mind the Game, a celebration of the sport as they discuss the state of the game, dissect X’s and O’s (like they do here), and wax poetic about the game they love.
One of the greatest, most revolutionary defensive players in NBA history will end up being remembered as a mental apocalypse on the floor in his twilight years
and it’s entirely his fault
The inevitable Karl-Anthony Towns trade for expiring salary and one minimal asset is gonna shock a lot of people
That 5y/$270m is killer
That being said, the Grizzlies, Lakers and Warriors could all be a decent fit for him