ethical basketball

This is why I'm always going on about how liberals and centrists have accepted that some degree of suffering must be baked into society. 10-20% suffering... whatever it is. That's the table stakes. Refusing to allow themselves to even dream of a world where this is an obvious affront.

this made me cry? what the hell man

lucifer:

They're like a team owner who is just happy to host one home playoff series a year and pick up the extra gate revenue. Fans can't complain too much because they're "competitive."

Panic on the streets of London

In a way you could say The Strokes ruined my life It seemed like the beginning of a new era and it was just not in the way I thought it was going to be

I said that they should keep it up and things like that that you say to a young band and I don’t think he had much of a reaction either way to that piece of advice. Thanks man he probably said to me while I was standing there holding a hot dog.
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A big part of why the elite media and politicians have been railing against the supposed power of the purple haired baristas with their frivolous concerns and moralistic hectoring for years now is the older people’s struggle to reconcile the fact that the lefty students protesting against war and ICE and for trans rights and so on have something that they will never have again which is youth. There is an abundance of everything available to every human being on earth except for one single thing. And running out of it can drive a person insane. To be fair it's driving me insane too but it is pushing my soul in the opposite direction. Life is supposed to be beautiful and everyone should get to live it without a gun metaphorical or literal pointed at their heads every second of every day. Do you suppose that gluttonous self interest above all is a kind of serenity or does it more closely resemble the torment of the damned? Not only dwelling in isolation from God and humanity but doing so by choice. A self-imposed exile.

There is an abundance of everything available to every human being on earth except for one single thing.

without lionizing Leo XIV too much, i think people are brought up short by encountering someone in a position of authority who seems to have commitments to stable concepts of right and wrong that supersede class loyalty to other powerful people (which is largely the same as what Dan is saying)

Judgment The history books were absolutely cooking me. Simply because of who I had been and what I had done. They always warned about this in my day but who could give a shit now. Almost no one makes it in those things. When they even bother to publish them anymore. Either way I’m chilling here in this elaborate tomb with all of my gold and the skeletons of dozens of my women and most loyal soldiers. The landscaping outside always well fertilized. Every day people file by to come look at where I rest. Where I still exist. You could almost say I never even died. And what did they write about you?

The history books were absolutely cooking me. Simply because of who I had been and what I had done.

I am trying to self promote more and I hate it! But I am getting over it!!!

The Marioval-est of Mariovals Podcast Episode · Podracing · April 16 · 53m

Really good Podracing ep this week from me and @neilpaine.bsky.social come check it out!

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andre drummond is six weeks younger than ariana grande

Blake Griffin is a star

We are celebrating whimsy in 2026!!!!

a solid bit that they are obviously in on!

every sports fanbase thinks their team is the worst but clippers fans are right

Steph Curry & Al Horford combined to score 23 of the Warriors' 43 points in the fourth quarter. 6 combined threes in the fourth.

Curry is 38. Horford is 39.

Kevin Harlan, a true professional, selling the crap out of a live read for the film BALLS OUT

NBA Play-In Tournament Scores and Live Updates: 76ers and Magic Face Off With Playoff Bid on the Line The first day of the NBA’s play-in tournament is in the books, and let’s just say that Day 2 has plenty to live up to after last night’s drama. First, the Sixer

I’m running the live blog tonight for @sportsillustrated.bsky.social as we track the action of the play-in tournament. come hang!

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I feel like the concept of “protein” is getting a huge push right now and I don’t like it

The NBA Is About to Lose a Generation of Rivalries—Here’s How the Next Generation Can Replace Them LeBron James and Stephen Curry have defined a generation of basketball with huge games against each other. Which rivalries will define the next generation?

We’re nearing the end of an entire generation of great NBA rivalries. @tryler.bsky.social breaks down those we’ll say goodbye to in the next few years, and the new rivalries that are poised to replace them for years to come.

Ok so this turns out to be a 2 part thing and the part described below is this man seeing social media reaction to himself, here's both parts

Happy birthday to my dear friend @daltondeschain.com, a brilliant storyteller but more importantly a really good human being. I think about this little compassion exercise a lot. Happy to know you, bud.

one of the good ones

Yes, the Grink was there. I'm getting to that. He was on that island with me. And I wouldn't be alive to tell my story without him.

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CBS commentary really hitting it today, Haotong Li's 2nd at 15

Right next to the microphone, too