Rob Dillingham opens up on a trying rookie season and his mission going forward with the Timberwolves www.nytimes.com/athletic/671...

You should do things that connect you to your material reality. Make your own food. Go on walks without a podcast. Read a book with paper pages. Interact with people. Stargaze. Outsourcing or ignoring this stuff is why I think most rich people have melted brains and warped priorities.

Russell Westbrook is now officially a Sacramento King but since he left OKC hasn’t he always spiritually been a Sacramento King?

Three headed dragon meme with two dumb/silly dragons being playoff baseball and MNF and the serious one being Rob Dillingham having 17 points and 6 assists on 6-8 shooting

I really need y'all to learn how to make people emotionally irrelevant to your lives

Happy Friday to you guys

Joan Beringer rim contest to force a Jalen Brunson miss. He is then rewarded by Rob Dillingham on the other end with a lob dunk.

Yeah man, bullet dodged. Wouldn't want to see the country destroyed.

Me, a professor hyping up my poetry class: Alright motherfuckers, let's get out there and FUCK UP some similes. I want to see each and every one of you absolutely demolish your line breaks and murder some rhyme schemes. Feelings on three one two three FEELINGS.

This man’s career overlapped with Darius Miles and Andrew Bynum, is he for real with this

If you guys need a morning jolt I saw a Nuggets fan spiraling on Twitter bc “the wolves still own us” after their preseason loss

72 points at halftime without Ant against a title contender’s starters, best ORTG in the league incoming.

Ant, Julius, and Mike out. Rob Dillingham starting??? I'm locked in 👀

I have also gotten more conservative in the sense of “the way things used to be done were done that way for a reason” and NOT in the sense of “I want to hoard wealth and persecute marginalized groups”

Quick, everybody cancel Ivy+

The worst part is lots of Ds do hate the trans community and are loving the off ramp the Rs are giving them so there's some of that here too. The trans community isn't the last on the list they're just the first on the list and I promise that you might not be first on the list but you're on the list

Hegseth feels like a supporting movie character to me. I just understand him so well because the writers knew he wasn't getting a lot of screen time so he needed to be easily understandable in the space of only a few different beats.

This will genuinely improve his MVP odds more than anything short of the Wolves ending up with the 1 seed somehow.

Mike on Rob Dillingham: "The amount of work he's put in this offseason has been great... The types of questions he's asked mid workout has been impressive." "He really really wants it."

Can't wait for the next Mass Effect game to be a gacha mobile game that explains why slavery isn't actually all that bad and fossil fuels are actually even better than mass effect drives

I’m more worried about the Warriors winning a shuffleboard championship than an NBA championship.

FROM SHAMS: Free agent forward Alize Johnson has agreed to a one-year deal with the Minnesota Timberwolves, George S. Langberg of GSL Sports Group tells ESPN. The five-year NBA veteran will have the opportunity to compete in Timberwolves training camp.

Ant’s playmaking is so underrated.

Awhile back I saw a video of Steph Curry telling a guy to put more space between his palm and the ball so that the fingers did more of the work. So next time I was on the court I tried this, only to disappointedly discover that I already did this and it was NOT the reason I’m not as good as Steph.

this is one of the problem with ideologies which rationalize the routine use of violence: you think you are attracting where violence is the means and the ideology is the ends. you are actually attracting people for whom the violence is the ends and the ideology is the means.

Did we ever find out where most regular (not national) Timberwolves games are being broadcast/streamed? I thought the Fox/Bally/Fanduel contract expired, did they renew? It’s weird to have less than a month before the season and not know something as basic as “how am I gonna watch”

Bet the Lakers under!

The idea of “genetic/racial purity” is a great example of how racism makes you dumber bc it flies in the face of the stunningly obvious fact that genetic diversity is good for human survival and flourishing.

Late breaking special report: videogames rule

Great stuff from Britt as always. The immediate focus on “second unit defense” which Finch explicitly describes as “minutes without Gobert” has me more convinced than ever that Beringer is going to see real minutes this year.

2 wrong assumptions imo: 1. garden variety corruption is worse than a direct attack on free speech 2. that dem politicians did any more or less about Kimmel than they have about Homan, when it was entirely the base that drove the former. But I agree that dems should do anything about anything.

Don’t fuck with Americans’ bread and don’t fuck with their circuses.

"In a landmark study, OpenAI researchers reveal that large language models will always produce plausible but false outputs, even with perfect data, due to fundamental statistical and computational limits." www.computerworld.com/article/4059...

Very cool that the team with the 1st ranked ORTG and the 1st ranked DRTG got a grand total of half a DPOY award in terms of awards recognition.

this exists it is called thinking

The idea that woke just means censorship really pisses me off. Like read one book please. Have a single thought in your head. Please understand anything about the world.

It is pretty funny that the Lynx rope-a-doped the Valks in both their games

Sick

I’ll add to this and say that in most fascist regimes, controlling the media is a means to an end. But I genuinely think Trump is vain and TV/ratings/optics obsessed, and that silencing people who are mean to him is one of his main goals.

bump

Napheesa Collier is the first player in WNBA history to have a season with 20+ PPG on 50/40/90%. (via @realapp.bsky.social)

The attempt on my life by the Jedi has left me scarred and deformed, but I assure you my resolve has never been stronger!

Given the events yesterday and the anniversary today, it's a particularly good time to remember that everything would be better in this country if we'd mourned the losses from 9/11 and not retaliated. Because violence is never the answer as it always corrodes the soul and leads to more violence.

Normally when people sell their soul to the devil they can at least play guitar super well or something. What has voting for Republicans ever gotten anyone the median tax bracket?

I think when we look back at this era of history, to the extent such a privilege exists, we will think of it as the Confirmation Bias Era. The internet has allowed everyone to find information that agrees with them without pushback and LLMs have pushed this to the next level.

Season hasn't even started yet and I miss NAW already :(