it’s funny to me to watch people whoosh on why you’re talking about the 54th pick in the draft.

Nikola Jokic is the fastest player in NBA history

(one of my favorite cropped stat images)

Embiid, KAT, and Brook Lopez would all be reasonable shooters to put in a 9-man rotation of Cs.

Centers:
PG - Jokic
SG - Hakeem
SF - Kareem
PF - Wilt
C - Shaq
6m - The Admiral

this team has very little shooting, but is gonna hit all the 2s and get all the rebounds

I thought Kenneth Faried would have a long NBA career. But he didn’t develop a shot, a handle, or defensive awareness. He just had elite rebounding, and that’s not enough nowadays.

The Lodge and TCH are both far better poker streams than Nick’s Hustler Casino Live.

even before Lyles went viral about “world champions of what?” all of the official communication from the NBA about the champs was “NBA champions”. The league keeps the NBA branding front and center, and they’ve been more deliberate about it in recent years (and, probably their guidelines for media partners emphasize this, though they’re not 100% on always doing it.) My Nuggets shirts from 2023 all say “NBA champions”, not “world champions”. The only league I know of that routinely says “world” is MLB’s World Series. “World champs” is really more something that fans say than something the league says.

Noah Lyles is wrong about “world champions” (the league that brings in the best players from the world, and has them all competing, gets to crown “world champions” – not in the same way as the Olympics or FIBA, but all of those have a different claim on “world champions” and they’re all legit.) But this ain’t it. Pretending he was afraid? Cmon man, dude won a gold in the 100m before he dropped out of other events with the 'rona.

Lionel Hollins was a really good assistant coach, and then spent a few years as the Grizz head coach that looked successful – but then he didn’t get his contract renewed, and has bounced around as an assistant. IDK if maybe there was something behind the scenes that led to him not being given another HC gig, like his players considered him a failure in a way other than their on-court record?

On the other hand, Brian Shaw was a leading candidate to take over the Lakers HC gig after Phil Jackson retired, but instead ended up as an assistant in Indy and then went to Denver and was flaming hot garbage, had a big falling out with veteran Andre Miller, and ended up being fired and not getting serious consideration for any future HC jobs.