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https://www.theringer.com/platform/amp/ ... elle-fultz

Anyone following this story? Bizarre to say the least and not good for the Sixers.
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Week day playoff games, including the finals, were tape delayed until late night when I was a kid.
I remember that quite clearly as well. The legendary game six of Lakers/Sixers 1980 Finals came on at 11:30 PM (it was shown live in something like only 5 cities). I remember I was sleeping over at a friend's house and we ignored his mother and stayed up to watch it
But when the Knicks were in it we had Marv Albert back when he was incomparably great bringing it all to us in real time through the magic of radio. He was the Vin Scully of basketball back then.
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Clams wrote:https://www.theringer.com/platform/amp/ ... elle-fultz

Anyone following this story? Bizarre to say the least and not good for the Sixers.
Yep. I posted a link to that earlier under Woodergate.....
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If you aren't following Joel Embiid's almost daily forays on the playgrounds of Philadelphia, you are missing out.


https://twitter.com/NBCSPhilly/status/1 ... undup.html

https://twitter.com/RobDauster/status/1 ... s%3Dembiid
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Clams wrote:If you aren't following Joel Embiid's almost daily forays on the playgrounds of Philadelphia, you are missing out.


https://twitter.com/NBCSPhilly/status/1 ... undup.html

https://twitter.com/RobDauster/status/1 ... s%3Dembiid
If I was a Sixers fan, his almost daily forays on the playgrounds of Philadelphia would make me nervous as fuck, given his history of fragility going back to his day at Kansas
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We now live in a world where Nick Young has a ring. Even though I am a Warriors fan, I am definitely not down with that
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meant to post this before, totally forgot. Great story

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Holy shades of Joe Carter (hopefully everyone can process the reference)
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John Beilein leaving Michigan to take a 5-year deal with the Cleveland Cavs according to reports. Didn't see that one coming.

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whatwouldcooleydo? wrote:Holy shades of Joe Carter (hopefully everyone can process the reference)
hell of a shot!

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rlipps wrote:John Beilein leaving Michigan to take a 5-year deal with the Cleveland Cavs according to reports. Didn't see that one coming.
Wow, that’s pretty stunning. Huge surprise
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whatwouldcooleydo? wrote:Holy shades of Joe Carter (hopefully everyone can process the reference)
hell of a shot!
Incredible shot. Live by the doink die by the doink, karma's a bitch. :x
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rlipps wrote:John Beilein leaving Michigan to take a 5-year deal with the Cleveland Cavs according to reports. Didn't see that one coming.
Always somewhat surprised when one of the college coaches w/ dream jobs leaves for the pros. Sometimes they've worn out their welcome, sometimes they're one step ahead of the posse, but otherwise you gotta wonder. I'm sure it's more money but they're already doing pretty well, to say the least, and the college jobs are a lot easier and generally more secure. Is it ego, are they tired of the recruiting or with complying (or not complying) w/ all the absurd rules, fulfillment of a lifetime dream or what?
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rlipps wrote:John Beilein leaving Michigan to take a 5-year deal with the Cleveland Cavs according to reports. Didn't see that one coming.
Always somewhat surprised when one of the college coaches w/ dream jobs leaves for the pros. Sometimes they've worn out their welcome, sometimes they're one step ahead of the posse, but otherwise you gotta wonder. I'm sure it's more money but they're already doing pretty well, to say the least, and the college jobs are a lot easier and generally more secure. Is it ego, are they tired of the recruiting or with complying (or not complying) w/ all the absurd rules, fulfillment of a lifetime dream or what?
Or just another challenge.
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As a former Sonic season ticket holder I'm probably going to hell for this: Go Blazers!!!!!

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It's just my belief.
Reason #1246 why Lebron is a complete fraud.
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cortez the killer wrote:It's just my belief.
Reason #1246 why Lebron is a complete fraud.
He just loves the taste of boot leather

He’s scared shitless at the thought of losing the Chinese market for Space Jam 2 :roll:
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cortez the killer wrote:It's just my belief.
Reason #1246 why Lebron is a complete fraud.
Chinese buy sneakers too
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cortez the killer wrote:It's just my belief.
Reason #1246 why Lebron is a complete fraud.
He just loves the taste of boot leather

He’s scared shitless at the thought of losing the Chinese market for Space Jam 2 :roll:
No. You must also be "misinformed". Michael Jordan was all about the money and did not give a shit about social causes. LeBron cares deeply about social causes and really doesn't care bout money. C'mon, WWCD! Get it straight!
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cortez the killer wrote:
whatwouldcooleydo? wrote:
cortez the killer wrote:It's just my belief.
Reason #1246 why Lebron is a complete fraud.
He just loves the taste of boot leather

He’s scared shitless at the thought of losing the Chinese market for Space Jam 2 :roll:
No. You must also be "misinformed". Michael Jordan was all about the money and did not give a shit about social causes. LeBron cares deeply about social causes and really doesn't care bout money. C'mon, WWCD! Get it straight!
So if Daryl Morey and I are miseducated, perhaps LeBron would suggest we go somewhere- I don’t know, maybe a camp- where we can be re-educated
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When asked about the plight of the Uighurs, LeBron’s all like, “damn, I haven’t thought of White Chocolate in years!”
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For sake of clarification: my beef with Lebron here is that after him being so outspoken on political and social issues within the U.S.- takes that I have in most cases agreed with completely- he decided to bend the knee when his bank account is personally threatened (plus I thought his comments about Morey being misinformed were way off-target). I totally get the fear of that, relatively speaking- any threat to my meager bank account would be stressful as hell. However, if I had held myself up as some kind of champion of social justice in situations where I had nothing to financially lose only to do a 180 when it affects my, as the kids say, bag, then calling me a hypocrite/someone with transactional morals would be more than fair. Dude wants it both ways

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This interview is not about basketball--it's about the new Adam Sandler movie, Uncut Gems, but I thought this quote belonged here:
Howard, the character Adam Sandler plays, falls in a long tradition. I think the humor of the film is explicitly Jewish. I think that the concept of being a Knicks fan is explicitly Jewish. This concept of learning through suffering is very Old Testament.
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