Just watched Noah Lyles lay down a 9.88 (0.4 m/s) with negligible wind in the Rome Diamond League.. His Top end speed is unrivaled🔥

Explain to me again what the Rutgers coach was doing with Dylan Harper and Ace Bailey… They were a .500 team. 🤔 hmmmmm

KAT starts on Wemby. Wemby starts on KAT. No crossmatches. Knicks have a bucket on a Hart drive when Wemby was out at the 3 pt line guarding KAT. NY will have to make middies. When you play Wemby the scouting reports say: “The spray is the play” or “The play will be behind you” KAT=0 fouls

Nick Saban…Opps💯. Made 100M on backbone of free labor and now wants to limit how much said labor can earn in a fair market. Interesting how he got ghost when NIL evened the playing field. Guess he can’t coach when kids got Motion. Cant threaten to pull the skolly He Opps.Real ones already knew.

Who else is starting the day by watching several NBA players working out at Stan Remy’s famous gym in Miami. Then tappin in with the Greek League Championship between Olympiacos vs Panathinaikos ! Then the NBA Finals tonight. I love this time of year.

Coach Adelman’s “Corners” offense was actually ahead of its time. It was based on reads and helped to supercharge Sacramento to make them unguardable at times. Doug Christie told me that after 8 years with 3 different teams he “really learned how to play offensive basketball in Sacramento” RIP 🙏🏽🏀

Hall Of Fame coach Rick Adelman passing away at 79 years old. It’s a poignant,gut wrenching day for the basketball community. In Portland where he took the Blazers to the Finals. In Sacramento..He coached the Kings from 1999-2006 and took them to within a game of the NBA Finals. RIP Coach🙏🏽

Not a secret if you watch hoops through an unjaundiced educated prism. And just to be clear for the newbies who just discovered the WNBA 2 years ago. Opponents “attack” you when you’re the weak link defensively. The “pidgeon” in hoop talk. The “food” It’s business. Not personal 💯

Spoke with Harrison Barnes today. What a Happy Birthday for my man. Turned 34 years old. His team gave him a trip to the NBA Finals with a game 7 win. And he still weighs 225 pds. As he has for every day of his NBA career. 😆

Flagrant 1.

Damn…Castle just put SGA in the weight room. 👀💯

Point Wemby..to Castle waiting in the dunker spot. A wrinkle I didn’t see coming

Congrats Precious Achiuwa ♥️ Proverbs 18:22 🙏🏽

Knicks Coach Mike Brown when asked if it matters which team New York plays in the NBA Finals. Answers like a brother tryna not spend a grip😂. Actin like he throwing around nickels like man hole covers😂

San Antonio’s Stephon Castle not making NBA All Defensive Teams tells me my media colleagues don’t know what they don’t know💯

On Ja’s IG story…

On this day in 1892, a white mob destroyed Ida B. Wells's newspaper office while she was away and threatened bodily harm if she returned because she challenged the myth of Black criminality.

Spurs using the “Lebron” defense against SGA.. Heavy gapping.. Guarding him with all 5 players…like Spurs did vs Lebron in the 2007 Finals.

Fantastic “lay out” by Mike Tirico. Sometimes hearing and feeling the crowd is the best version of tv. Talking isn’t always essential. Let the pics and sounds do the talking💯

Miller & Brazil are headliners for Kings workout tomorrow Miller started @ FSU. Scotty Barnes comp when he first got there…Big game at Kansas.. his signature game this yr. Brazil is a freak athlete...initially played for Mussleman at Arkansas..Lob threat. Shot blocker. Live body. He’s switchable

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The OKC Thunder will probably have Pastor T.D. Jakes🙏🏽 courtside for game 5.😂.

May 24, 1961 – American civil rights movement: Freedom Riders are arrested in Jackson, Mississippi, for "disturbing the peace" after disembarking from their bus.

On this day in 1961, a white mob in Montgomery, Alabama, ambushed the Freedom Riders after the city's Public Safety Commissioner offered the Ku Klux Klan time to attack the group without police interference.

Olympiacos wins..Fournier your MVP

Evan Fournier putting the final touches on this Euro league championship win for Olympiacos… Real Madrid down 88-84 with 22 seconds to play. Wow Campazzo fouled on a 3…hold on 👀

Sasha Vezenkov gets called for a charging foul on Trey Lyles in the EuroLeague title game. A couple of former Sacramento Kings players. The play under review. Olympiacos vs Real Madrid… .

Because of the Jaxson Dart situation, I thought it was important to remind people that there is a difference between loving to entertained by Black people and wanting to be our ally youtube.com/shorts/AHg5D...

Watching Portland vs Toronto and noting the heavy international flavor in the game… While also remembering the Women’s USA Basketball Team 8 has won consecutive Olympics. 8 straight. Dominating. Sometimes the best are right in front of you in the neighborhood..down the block💯

Don’t worry about Fox’s ankle. He played most of his last season in Sacramento with a torn tendon on his shooting finger. He couldn’t extend it. He showed it to me in January before he was traded to SA and his finger was going north, south, east, and west at the same time. He played through it.

Crazy how a lot of national and local NBA talking heads, podboys,writers have sooooo much to say about Ja. And haven’t spoken to Ja or anyone in his inner circle in years. Speaking to management and “league sources” ain’t it.Sorry. Y’all ain’t even close. And yes..I have..if you’re wondering.

It took Fenerbahce 7 minutes to score its first points on a hem Birch slam. 👀

Here we go !

Where are my real hoop junkies at🏀? Who else is watching the Euroleague Final 4 today with me ? Hey Kings fans..Sasha Vezenkov crushed it this season for Olympiakos. Averages 19ppg and shot 39% on 3s🔥

Sometimes I think there’s nothing in this world better than a great night sleep. 8 hours without moving💯 Round of applause for…👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽 That edible gummie 💯

Spurs tried to call up McCain and ball screen action. But Wallace slid under the pick. Spurs did that a lot and game one The term is “pigeon”

Sacramento Kings rookie Maxime Raynaud makes NBA All Rookie 2nd Team. He also led all rooks in double doubles. I spoke with Raynaud a moment ago. He wants more.He told me it was “amazing” to see SA vs OKC game 1 first hand. Called it “the game of the year” and his “french mate” stood on business

So proud of the type of grown up De’Aaron has evolved into. Had a heartfelt visit with him prior to the game. His lovely bride Receé & family have flourished. De’Aaron told me how much he smiles daily and why. He told me “ the most enjoyable part about Wemby,Castle and Harper is that they listen”

Mike Brown is serious about this upcoming timeout huddle. I know this because he reached in his pocket and turned off the microphone he’s wearing😂

Ran into Sacramento Kings Nation here on the Plains of Oklahoma. We’re game one of the Western Conference finals. Beam Boys..Maxime Reynaud,Nique Clifford,Dylan Cardwell. All ready to sample what lies ahead. Getting a small taste of the post season. Just an appetizer 💯

It really is a trap with nice curtains 💯

Chet with a key block. I love a big who can actually provide resistance at the rim. Especially when it decides a game. 💯

That’s not basketball… Standing that far from the hoop takin a hit ? Play on y’all. Play on. Please

Stephon Castle keeps bludgeoning his way to the hoop. Not sure anybody can keep him out of the paint.

Spurs shrinking the floor very effectively against SGA

Ran into Sacramento Kings Nation here on the Plains of Oklahoma. We’re game one of the Western Conference finals. Beam Boys..Maxime Reynaud,Nique Clifford,Dylan Cardwell. All ready to sample what lies ahead. Getting a small taste of the post season. Just an appetizer 💯

Rickea Jackson 🙏🏽❤️🏀