38% NBA and 37% if manually adding in the Olympics…?

I would say it’s because it’s on super low volume and because he was basically going from 0 to this.

Yep, his jumper looks smooth af. I’m super happy about this because he’s spent way too long being restricted to a DHO merchant. If Spo is letting him shoot there must be something actually developing there.

Hope my goat Dereck Lively can do the same one day, he has a good looking jumper and there’s been rumors of him being knock down in practices/scrimmages.

Kyrie literally sat down on TNT like 5 seconds after the game ended and basically acknowledged that he took it as a challenge that seemed kind of random/unwarranted and that it made him play harder but also that it’s not that deep it’s just competition and it’s also why we all like Ant. I don’t understand why you guys keep trying to act like there was nothing there. it’s not like it was some media conspiracy whipped up out of nowhere. Obviously him saying that affected the series to some extent. There’s nothing wrong with anything about it, he just kind of said something and then it affected how the opponent played, but it’s still something that happened

I swear Timberwolves fans are trying to play dumb about this lol. Ant is literally known for talking shit and being super confident. Nobody’s saying he was doing anything wrong, it’s also part of the reason everyone enjoys his personality and bravado so much.

Anything with how competitive these guys you don’t get up on camera and say on national television “I GOT KYRIE SHOULD BE FUN” and get to act like you were just robotically describing your matchup without any context or reason lol.

Kyrie thought it was a call out and said it made him kind of sit up and play harder.

All the oldhead player TNT guys thought it was a call out.

Fucking Ant himself is on camera here acknowledging it all lmao

But the Redditors “erhm akshually he didn’t technically say anything erm stop brainwashing everyone poor Ant getting manipulated by the media” like Jesus Christ lmao.

It’s not that deep it’s just a very slight call out/talking but it had an effect on the series which has been acknowledged by both parties on camera but Redditors swear they know better

How is it grasping at straws when Kyrie himself literally said it made him kind of perk up and try harder and Ant is literally on the camera here saying that he shouldn’t have said it because it made it harder on him

I feel like people are trying to gaslight me here lmao. He literally looked at the camera and said “I got Kyrie, should be fun”. Nobody’s saying that he did anything super crazy or was trying to cause beef or some shit but that’s a pretty direct call out/asking to be challenged

I miss playoff jimmy man

Bro the one at 0:57 is fucking absurd. It literally looks like it’s edited or a video game or some shit.

Prime copypasta material here

The NBA is more of a “product” than the Olympics but it’s the same sport at the end of the day. You simply can’t recreate the stakes of single game matchups with your country on the line compared to an 82 game season where it’s jersey color vs jersey color. The scoring is gonna be higher/more casual, the defense is gonna be a bit lazier, the reffing is going to be more annoying. But a good basketball game is still a good basketball game.