“Do not get lost in a sea of despair.” - John Lewis #RIP

The JD Vance quote in this article is absurd. “So you think maybe he's a little bit sensitive about somebody ramming him with an automobile?” THIS JUST IN: if an officer of the law is sensitive, they get to kill you in cold blood. GTFOH

what you clearly see, CLEARLY, is a driver who is spooked by the agents grabbing her door, takes steps to drive away, and is immediately shot as moves her vehicle *away* from the agents.

Walter Clayton Jr. has played perhaps the worst 5 minutes of offense I’ve seen this season in the last minute of regulation and the entirety of OT so far. He’s been awful

Who moved all the Timberwolves’ players’ sliders to “absolute shit” just now? What the hell…

I was back in Minnesota for the holidays and man, the limited means by which NBA fans can watch their local broadcast SUCKS. It’s such a bummer that most markets don’t include their NBA broadcast channel as part of their basic cable/streaming packages and I wish the NBA would do something about it

Beside the point, but I’m a fan of Denver’s court tonight. I don’t think this particular design looks as good on their jerseys, but I like simple subtlety of the white mountains, white text, negative space city scape and the line pattern colors

Crappy way for the game to end, but everything before the ending was very fun! Monster games by two stars on Christmas. This type of game is exactly why the NBA schedules Christmas Day games.

On the replay, that call on DDV is pretty stupid. Jokic had space to land/operate. Jokic created the contact. DDV was very vertical. Goofy looking play, but not a foul IMO.

Mr. Edwards. Why did you do that?

I don’t like the outcome of that challenge. It’s absolutely the right call, but damn it’s a bummer

Oh Rudy. If only…

Lol I like Donte as much as the next Wolves fan, but boy am I terrified when he’s dribbling the ball in the open court

GOD DAMN. ANTHONY MOTHER EFFING EDWARDS

Idk…3 on 2 break. With the amount of time remaining, I think you gotta get a 3 up there.

Even when he’s dunking I never feel fully confident about a Gobert shot until the ball is all the way thru the net

So Ant looks to be at least slightly injured and the Wolves are losing the plot here in the second half. I’m starting to SERIOUSLY question whether Santa is even real at this point. Did he even get my letters? Because this isn’t what I wanted *at all*

Remember those good old days when NAW had Jamal Murray in basketball hell? That was fun

I really try not to be too critical of the refs and their calls/no calls. They go your way and they don’t, and it all tends to mostly even out eventually. But a no call like that Ant drive in transition leaves me shaking my head. There wasn’t a lot of ambiguity or room for interpretation there.

The Wolves as a team have a lot of flaws. Some normal. Some absolutely maddening. But one thing they absolutely are *not* is a team afraid of Jokic and the Denver Nuggets. And I love I that. Because being afraid of Jokic would be 100% justified

What an absolutely bonkers finish by Bones in transition there.

I once watched Tim Hardaway Jr. in ATL beat the Houston Rockets basically by himself after the Hawks had put their bench unit to wave the white flag. I know his game is somewhat one dimensional, but I’m a believer in how valuable guys like that can be when they do enough of the basics competently

This game has been weird so far. Almost like you can tell it’s being played around 9pm on Christmas Day

That’s a bad call on Julius. You can’t let Joker be as physical as he is (which I’m all for btw) but also give him little touch fouls like that.

Bruce Brown runs like he’s holding in a dump

It’s somewhat beside the point, but I often times wonder: how can you be such a blatant public white supremacist with biracial kids? And put another way: how terrible it must be to be one of his kids, who will eventually grow up and realize he hates a core part of who they are. What a piece of shit

ANTHONY EDWARDS TAKES NO PRISONERS

Goddamn Ant!

That was such a ridiculous 3 by SGA. That was perfectly guarded by Naz

Rise up and throw that shit down, Jaden! Don’t overthink it!

That’s a tough call on Julius. Never like the offensive player getting called for contact like that where the motion is completely natural and appropriate

More like “Naz Three(d) Point Play”, AMIRITE FOLKS?!?

I wish Jalen Williams was worse at basketball, at least in games against the Timberwolves. He’s so goddamn solid and he’s tough and fearless. I like him a ton as a player. But please: show some respect for my feelings and play just a tad worse for the rest of the night

I knew that one would be a flagrant. Those always are and I always disagree. I think slo-mo makes it look worse. And if you watch it with the knowledge that the play happened in real time and that DDV is moving his body to where he think the ball will be instead of where it is, it’s a common foul

I always love to see coaches fighting with their own players and stuff so they can go yell at their ref. It’s just such a “drunk friend at the bar” type scenario. A group of friends saying “it’s not worth it!” and one dude saying “no, I’m gonna fucking do this!”

I have not been watching the Hawks game but I just checked the box score and LOL at the Hawks being down 6 and NAW being a PLUS 24 in 30 minutes played. That seems impossible. Is my app glitching or is that real? Literally everyone else is in the red except Gueye who’s a +4 in 10 minutes

Jock Landale is the new Collin Gillespie: the white role player who unleashes a reign of terror vs the Timberwolves with no regard for the fact that I really don’t want him to do that at all

I love a good Bones play as much as the next guy, but why is he launching 3s like he’s Steph Curry tonight? Cool it, buddy

Why would this even be considered? Doesn’t Cameron Indoor hold like 9k ppl? T-Mobile in Vegas holds at least twice that IIRC. This is barely more half the capacity of the smallest NBA arena. I get that you might want to have an East host and a West host somewhere neutral, but let’s be serious here

The United States: famously known for being exploited for the purpose of enriching other nations while it toils away in abject poverty… Yo, Satan, come get your boy Stephen, man. He’s talking crazy again

No real reason for Wemby to show such aggressive help on that Kolek drive. Just stay home in the corner on OG. Kolek was all alone and was already well defended

I think this is the best pass I’ve ever seen KAT throw. His issue with stuff like this is that technically he’s perfectly capable of doing it, but he’s not judicious about when he attempts it, so this flashy passing ability usually hurts him more than it helps. But when it pays off, it *pays off*

KD didn’t shoot the ball in OT right? Maybe he was just gassed. Don’t love that he didn’t get the last shot or that he didn’t even touch the ball to force DEN to panic. Would have felt better about the quick trigger on that final shot if KD was shooting it too.

Lol why did they call a foul on Amen there? I don’t understand…

Tough break for Houston seeing as Sengun definitely got fouled on his go ahead basket before the tripping call. But who am I to argue with free basketball?

Hardaway tripped over his own feet right? I’m not seeing the trip