still can’t believe someone decided to get married during cape verde-argentina

Cabo Verde’s players are absolute heroes man I don’t know what else to say about it

👏🏽 👏🏽 👏🏽 🇨🇻 👏🏽 👏🏽 👏🏽

cancel the tournament

i am dead

how is vozinha real

yeahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh

lol the jaylen brown discourse has crossed the rubicon. he's an extremely talented albeit flawed and complicated player. nuance is okay. but if you solely use analytics—a word that means nothing—or the eye-test to determine his value, your assessment isn't worth anything to me

Mamdani: "As we mark 250 years ... we see the wealthiest country -- one where children go to sleep hungry while the world's first trillionaire hungers for more ... we see masked agents terrorizing our streets, eating food cooked by undocumented neighbors before spiriting them away in unmarked vans"

there's no better way to celebrate america's 250th birthday than for lebron james to announce his decision to sign with the denver nuggets

*sigh*

💀

woooooooow

ban offsides

during the 2022 nba finals, i had a sitdown interview with jaylen brown about the arc of his career, from getting booed on draft night, to enduring constant trade rumors, to becoming an All-Star on the biggest stage in the world. it’s almost surreal to go back, today, and read some what he said:

i simultaneously think the celtics will be very good next year and can't believe they made this trade last night. regardless of what you think about the return (which is very bad), was philadelphia's offer ever coming off the table?

i simultaneously think the celtics will be very good next year and can't believe they made this trade last night. regardless of what you think about the return (which is very bad), was philadelphia's offer ever coming off the table?

i wrote about the truly astonishing jaylen brown trade: www.theringer.com/2026/07/01/n...

during the 2022 nba finals, i had a sitdown interview with jaylen brown about the arc of his career, from getting booed on draft night, to enduring constant trade rumors, to becoming an All-Star on the biggest stage in the world. it’s almost surreal to go back, today, and read some what he said:

i wrote about the truly astonishing jaylen brown trade: www.theringer.com/2026/07/01/n...

the column i just wrote might have the most question marks in anything i'll ever publish

i haven't received more texts about anything since i got married lol

did boston hire the joker as its general manager and not tell anybody

this is a "i will always remember where i was when i heard about this trade" (giving my kids a bath and listening to 'september' at an unreasonably high volume) kind of trade

wrote about the lakers going all in for walker kessler (?) nbarankings.theringer.com/the-offer-sh...

just thinking out loud here but I think I might rather have the trade package the clippers got for kawhi leonard than the trade package the bucks got for giannis antetokounmpo. this even being a debate is hilarious.

the trey murphy dream is technically still alive

just wrote up a little something about the norm powell contract, which is bruce brown jr. 2.0 and ok for everyone involved.

hell yes to that john collins deal. perfect fit. love it a lot.

Just to clarify/disagree, "full mutual options" aren't a thing in the NBA.

As someone who left home in L.A. to build a life in Toronto back in 2019, Kawhi's return means a whole lot to me. On the eve of my first Canada Day as a citizen, I wrote about the player who changed the course of my life. www.theringer.com/2026/06/30/n...

lakers can offer the max

potential next teams for lebron james, ranked by the level of freakout that would ensue: 4) cleveland 3) golden state 2) san antonio 1) dallas

may alito have the absolute least relaxing retirement possible

i don't think this is a needle mover, but it could make sense for the nuggets to acquire nikola topic. they can give the thunder a second-round pick and then fit him into their trade exception. okc gets to cut its tax bill. denver gets young backup pg. serbian connection exists. win-win!

thomas simply couldn't join the opinion, this corrupt, misanthropic bigot had to throw in his two cents and put his bigotry into the record

previewed free agency in a wide-ranging conversation that touched on kawhi leonard, jaylen brown, denver, detroit, the voltron warriors, and so much more, with @zachlowenba.bsky.social! open.spotify.com/episode/4iKR...

real quick, none of the jalen duren reports make sense to me. why would detroit lose cade’s most important teammate now that it’s finally started to surround the two with three-point shooting? the guy is restricted, and short of another team clearing enough space to go nuts, he has no leverage

omg germany

This Jaylen Brown trade idea from The Ringer's @michaelvpina.bsky.social would see JB head to the Sacramento Kings and the Boston #Celtics receive DeMar DeRozan, Domantas Sabonis and THREE first-round picks! ☘️☘️👑👑 #DifferentHere #LightTheBeam #NBASky nesn.com/boston-celti...

this pod was a fantastic opportunity to say that a kawhi-scottie-cmb frontcourt would make toronto my favorite league pass team by a wide margin open.spotify.com/episode/4iKR...

previewed free agency in a wide-ranging conversation that touched on kawhi leonard, jaylen brown, denver, detroit, the voltron warriors, and so much more, with @zachlowenba.bsky.social! open.spotify.com/episode/4iKR...

jimmy?

hard to come back from that

the best part of being cape verdian is there’s at least a 90% chance i’m somehow related to at least one player on this team

the best part of being cape verdian is there’s at least a 90% chance i’m somehow related to at least one player on this team

Cape Verde becomes the smallest country in World Cup history to reach the knockout round.

cape verde baby

here are seven questions that interest me about the nba’s offseason www.theringer.com/2026/06/25/n...

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