10 BLOCKS FOR VICTOR WEMBANYAMA 🚨 HE TIES THE RECORD FOR MOST BLOCKS IN A POSTSEASON GAME!

Simultaneous 2nd round games is just terrible. It's like the league wants to make watching the playoffs as difficult as possible. This plus having five different possibilites for where the games live is just brutal

Mailbag time! Got a question for @bellraja19.bsky.social, @loganmmurdock.bsky.social and me? Send them to [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] And we might answer on Tuesday’s show.

Say what you want about Kelly Oubre but the man is hilarious

Knicks lead 33-25 after one quarter. Brunson leads with 14 points. Embiid has 8 pts and has drawn, by my count, 5 fouls and 6 separate "Fuck Embiid" chants.

I’ve never described the details of my sexual harassment at @foxsports.com.web.brid.gy until today on my podcast. It’s humiliating, but the industry MUST change. With the Dianna Russini/Mike Vrabel matter, people are having important conversations around women in sports. youtu.be/dgakWMlA_YA?...

Chris Finch says Anthony Edwards is IN tonight.

Congrats, @pablo.show!

What can we do, to make clear that we will not accept ICE in our neighborhoods, or NYPD collaboration with them? Sign up for ICE watch, protective presence, or rapid response: @handsoffnyc.bsky.social If you see ICE, call or text the Hands Off NYC hotline: 229-304-8720 (2/2)

ICE has been ratcheting up their presence in Bushwick & East NY in recent days. It is especially disturbing to see apparent coordination between NYPD & ICE. (1/2)

Return to play, in these situations, involves a delicate balance of athlete and medical input. There is no way to know if this is the right decision; hindsight is always going to be 20/20. Extreme excitement and nervousness are the only appropriate feelings.

The NBA’s first round wasn’t just weird; it was revealing. The NBA’s margins have all but disappeared. Latest from me, at The Ringer:

May the 4th be with you.

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Cornell's student journalists broke a big story over the weekend and (like most student newspapers) could use your support. Link:

The Dallas Mavericks have named Masai Ujiri as their new president of basketball ops. (Excellent hire, IMO.)

NBA announces referees for the second round:

The NBA’s first round wasn’t just weird; it was revealing. The NBA’s margins have all but disappeared. Latest from me, at The Ringer:

Official: The Magic announce the dismissal of head coach Jamahl Mosley

Hi! I'd like to write about the measures people are taking to make sure the upcoming Sixers games in Philly aren't full of NY fans. Have you turned down crazy offers for your tickets? Dipping into savings to buy one? Skipping work to be there? If you'd like to share, I'm at [email protected]

The problem with the Raptors this year is they had too many players who sound like buildings. "Shed"? "Barns"? "Temple"? It was too much.

Dying at this lady's face as Donovan Mitchell lands in her lap 😭😭😭

I don’t have the tracking data to back this up, but I believe Donovan Mitchell leads the league in landing on fans while chasing loose balls. #analysis

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Now 7-0, making this the most definitive Game 7 stat of all time.

Martyrdom of Saint Simon Zelotes, Saint Judas Thaddeus, by Martin Johann Schmidt, 1796

Jayson Tatum is OUT tonight

One more thing on NBA lottery reform ⬇️ The current odds, established in 2019, are already significantly flattened from the odds the league used from 1994 to 2018 That change did not reduce the tanking problem

In NBA history, players are 6-0 when playing in a Game 7 on their birthday. www.sports-reference.com/stathead/tin...

These 2 just sent home the Rockets💯

Orlando Magic running that "the Strait of Hormuz is open" type offense

It’s a make-miss-miss-miss-miss-miss-miss-miss-miss-miss-miss-miss-miss-miss-miss-miss-miss-miss-miss-miss-miss-miss league

This is unreal. I covered Game 7 of the Western Conference finals in 2018, when the Rockets missed 27 straight threes. This is…comparable.

The Nuggets scored fewer than 100 points just twice in 82 regular-season games. Minnesota held them under 100 three times in six games in the first round.

With Denver's loss, bottom-10 defences have a 5-18 series record in the first round since 2011.

37,964 games have been played in the NBA since the 1996-97 season, regular season & playoffs. Knicks/Hawks is the first game where the road team scored 100 points before the home team had 50.

The Atlanta Hawks are outscoring OG Anunoby 36-26 in the first half.

Wemby: “I refuse to carry the burden of having to hide my emotions.” This is amazing.

All four Eastern Conference series will go at least six games. just the fourth time that’s happened in either conference since 2003, per @nba.com

Have been spending the last few months reporting and fact-checking a new PTFO investigation. It involves Jeffrey Epstein. Part I drops first thing in the morning 👀

Ausar Thompson Michelle Yeoh 🤝 Everything, Everywhere All At Once

Magic coach Jamahl Mosley said Franz Wagner is out tonight for Game 5 in Detroit.

No better authority on the Thunder than my guy @jxlorenzi.bsky.social. Give him a follow, if you aren't already, #NBASky.

A whole load of great new stuff added to @basketball-reference.com which should lend some lacking perspective on the players who played before 1974 and thus never had 'official' blocks, steals, offensive rebounds, turnovers, etc www.sports-reference.com/blog/2026/04...

Complete voting results for Twyman-Stokes Award:

The Twyman-Stokes Award recognizes "the player deemed the league’s best teammate, based on selfless play, leadership on and off the court as a mentor and role model to other NBA players, and commitment to the team." Current players selected the winner from a group of 12 finalists.

DeAndre Jordan is the 2025-26 winner of the Twyman-Stokes Teammate of the Year award, as voted on by his peers, per @nba.com

And to be clear, in case it’s not, democracy cannot and will not exist without these protections. We already see a South so heavily gerrymandered that numerical majorities cannot win elections and where a minority holds supermajorities in state legislatures.