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Luka Dončić is currently averaging 1.07 points per minute this season 🤯 That is higher than Wilt Chamberlain’s 1.04 PPM during his legendary 1961-62 season (50.4 PPG). He has surged to the front of the NBA MVP race with +185 odds on @BetUS_NBA

Odds to win the 2026 NBA Cup MVP:   Victor Wembanyama +400 Jayson Tatum +700 Shai Gilgeous-Alexander +800 Cade Cunningham +850 Nikola Jokic +1000  (Via @BetUS_NBA)

Steve Kerr on his viral doppelgänger: “We look exactly the same, don’t we?… We’ve been making jokes about going to the polls together and getting accused of voter fraud.” 🤣

.@timkawakami hints at a potential trade target for the Warriors 👀 "There's one in Denver... What do I know? Nothing, but there is one in Denver." (

Steve Kerr on coaching Steph Curry at 38 years old: "Honestly, it really does remind me of what it was like to play with Michael Jordan back in the day. Every single night you just are amazed and you marvel at what he’s capable of doing no matter what the defense does, but also just the longevity of it. To see night after night, defenses doing everything possible to slow Steph down like they did with Michael, and yet the love for the game, the competitiveness, the passion, the desire to put on a show for the fans — there's such great comparisons to be made there."

Klay Thompson is still not fully over how his tenure ended with the Warriors, per @ThompsonScribe & @NickFriedell “Even when he's saying great things about it, oh, I love the fan base, it's through gritted teeth. Like he just, he ain't over it fully yet. He thought he would still be here.” (

"I wanted to punch him in the face but I couldn't do it." — Charles Barkley on kids bringing basketball cards to his house for autographs on Halloween 😭

His mother worked 3 jobs (12-hour warehouse shifts, Uber, cleaning churches) to support 4 kids while raising him — and is currently battling Stage 4 appendix cancer God bless Yaxel and his mother. Some things are bigger than basketball 🙏❤️

One team had Yaxel Lendeborg ranked 5th on their draft board, but opted not to move into the top 10 because they felt his personality "was going to be a tough fit in their locker room," per @BannedMacMahon "He’s not for everybody, but he’s for the Warriors." (Via The Hoop Collective)

Yaxel surprises his mom with a new house in his 1st YouTube video 🥹

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Rudy Gobert is reportedly “not meshing well at all” with LaMelo Ball, and the Timberwolves could face the reality of him walking in free agency, per @SeanDeveney

Bill Simmons on LeBron James with the Sixers 👀 "He obviously has a great relationship with Maxey. I don't think the relationship with Luka was good. And I think we can safely say that. LeBron last year seemed pretty miserable the whole season and knew it wasn't his team."

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Bill Simmons calls out Adam Silver over the NBA's 82-game schedule, claiming the league is prioritizing greed over player health “You're ruining your players and you're making your sport worse, and you're hurting careers and you're shortening careers. And this should be a 70 game season. And if you talk to literally everybody who plays basketball, all of them would say the season needs to be shorter. And if you don't do it at this point, I just think it's negligent. I really do. I think it's like actual negligence and greed. And those are the two words.”

If the Cleveland Cavaliers fail to turn their season around, head coach Kenny Atkinson is expected to "take the fall," per @SeanDeveney

Draymond Green is not expected to receive further discipline from the NBA following his ejection against the Rockets, per @ShamsCharania "I don't expect the NBA to discipline Draymond Green any further for this play right here… but Draymond clearly got his lick in right there." (Via @PatMcAfeeShow)

The Chicago Bulls currently have a -144 point differential through their first eight games of the season. That is the third-worst point differential in NBA history through eight games.

Sophie Cunningham on men who think they can beat her 1-on-1: “I think I would cook his a—. I think I’m winning. I think I’m skunking him. 11-0.” (Via @NoHesiShow)

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Spike Lee on the Paramount-Warner Bros. merger being run by a pro-Trump family “It might be one less place I’m going to be making films! I’m not hoping for that, but it could be. I don’t think it’s a crazy statement based on my politics and them guys.” (Via @Variety)

Brian Windhorst says Shai Gilgeous-Alexander is taking on a 2015 Finals LeBron James role for the injured Thunder "Shai is turning into 2015 Finals LeBron. He has taken more shots in the last two games than any other two games of his career. He has missed 36 shots — the most shots he’s ever missed in a two-game span in his career... He is doing everything he possibly can to carry the Thunder."

Spike Lee does NOT want the Knicks visiting Trump’s White House “He [James Dolan] can’t force them! It’s been years since the last NBA team has gone. They’re not going. I hope they don’t go!” (Via @Variety)

Uncles at the gym usually have bad knees, this man is dunking on guys half his age

Blake Griffin says not winning a ring still haunts him "The one that haunts you at night and wakes you up in a cold sweat thinking about Chris Paul's hamstrings or Kevin Durant's big-ass feet." (Via @TheStepbackShow)

🐐 LeBron James is THE GOAT... but at what exactly? What category are you giving LeBron? 👀🏀

Blake Griffin roasts his own injury history while warning parents about youth sports specialization “You spent more time on the bench than Clarence Thomas... I had injuries in my career, but my only overuse injury was at the start of my rookie year. I worked really hard to be the No. 1 pick, pushed through Oklahoma, March Madness, combines, workouts, draft, Summer League, preseason — and then, in medical terms, my kneecap took a giant sh*t.” “The takeaway isn’t that I got hurt, it’s that I didn’t get hurt sooner. By that time, recovering was my job. I was getting paid with an entire team’s resources behind me. Kids today might have that injury in high school, and it’s gonna take a lot of car washes to pay for that treatment.” (Via @TheStepbackShow)

Tyler Kolek says Taylor Swift is the "fakest" Knicks celebrity fan "I’m going to get some hate from the Swifties."

Steve Nash and LeBron James on youth sports specialization, and Blake Griffin’s reaction is priceless 😂 Steve Nash: “They gotta commit to this sport year-round at 6, 7, 8 years old.” LeBron James: “That’s the worst thing you can do.” Blake Griffin: “Do you know how bad something has to be for LeBron James to call it the worst thing you can do? When he’s already got a meme about the worst thing you can do: ‘Just shoot it! It’s right there, just shoot it!’” (Via @TheStepbackShow)

Isaiah Stewart thought he might be heading to Lakers or Wizards before Grizzlies trade “I got a call from my agent, and he's thinking it's maybe the Wizards or the Lakers, and called me back a couple minutes later and said Trajan called, and he got a deal from Memphis that he can't turn down.” (Via @andscape h/t @hoopshype)

Adam Silver reportedly likes the idea of cutting NBA games to 40 minutes, per @SIChrisMannix 👀 (Via @SInow)

RT @TheNBABase: Doc Rivers says the COVID season hurt LeBron James' legacy with the Lakers: "It was almost like people denied the title. There was no parade, so he didn't really get to have his day in LA... For the most part, Lakers fans never saw a great basketball team."

Chris Mannix on reports that Domantas Sabonis wants out of Sacramento "Who at this point wants to be in Sacramento?... If you're Sabonis and you are in your prime, hell no, hell no. So I expected them to be bad." (Via @SInow)

RT @TheNBABase: Doc Rivers and Bill Simmons say Luka Dončić is a better scorer than James Harden.

Domantas Sabonis is unhappy and wants out of Sacramento, per @BannedMacMahon “Quite frankly, Sabonis wants out of there, and if they can move him, they would. So he's not happy.”

RT @TheNBABase: Doc Rivers says Giannis Antetokounmpo wanted out of Milwaukee, but didn't want to look like the "bad guy" to protect his legacy "Giannis wanted out, but he was a Buck. And he didn't want to be the bad guy. He wanted John and Wes and those guys to say, 'we're trading you' instead of him asking for a trade. To me, that was the game that was being played."

Rachel Nichols calls out critics who label Luka Dončić a weak defender "People who say like, 'Oh man, he’s just a turnstile.' He is not when it is something that is a priority to him. And that is what we are seeing right now... We haven't seen it sustained for an entire season the way we know he’s capable of." (Via @SInow)

Brandin Podziemski on Draymond Green’s ejection: “I loved it. It fueled our team. We didn't have that edge to us to start the game... I think it was needed and maybe he sensed it, maybe he didn't, but it helped us.”