Michael Pina
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Senior staff writer, The Ringer Be better tomorrow
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After watching the second episode of Celtics City, I bought and read a copy of Bill Russell’s first memoir and wrote this piece on how the absence of anything resembling his voice is felt in today’s NBA, and throughout the country:
www.theringer.com/2025/03/11/n...
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The NBA Is Desperately Missing a Voice Like Bill Russell’s
While history repeats itself in this country, modern NBA stars have stayed silent. Maybe it’s unfair to ask so much of athletes, but it wasn’t too much for the greatest champion in NBA history, who do...
https://www.theringer.com/2025/03/11/nba/bill-russell-boston-celtics-city-go-up-for-glory-book
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Dan of the Year
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lol she got his ass and he knows it
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jamelle
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“woke” is when you acknowledge that black people have contributed to the united states
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The Jaime Highway
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lol rockets...dear lord hold onto the ball
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Nikola Jokic is shooting 92% at the rim (lol) and averaging 12 assists per game, which is something only five players have ever done for an entire season.
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Congresswoman Yassamin Ansari
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I'm here outside Speaker Johnson’s office because he is starving families and gutting health care to cover up the Epstein Files. Change my mind.
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Jaylen Brown scored at least 30 points in 9 games last season. He's already done it five times this year.
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Luka is averaging 40 points, 11 rebounds, 9.2 assists, and 2 steals per game.
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Just watched Lakers-Spurs. Fun game. Incredible ending. Awesome gameplan against Wemby. Peak Marcus Smart through and through. I still don't think we talk enough about that time when the Dallas Mavericks traded Luka Doncic.
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This NYT story about how Mamdani dealt with the opposition by the city's elites fails to mention one particular elite institution: The NYT editorial page, which last June railed against him as "uniquely unsuited to the city’s challenges... lacks political savvy"
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/04/n...
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How Zohran Mamdani Beat Back New York’s Elite and Was Elected Mayor
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/04/nyregion/how-zohran-mamdani-won-nyc-mayor.html
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Yes!
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these people are so evil and cowardly. truly pathetic shit.
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Wrote about the NBA’s TV arms race and Dirk Nowitzki sitting on couches.
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Who Is Winning the NBA’s TV Arms Race?
ESPN, NBC, and Amazon are vying for broadcast supremacy
https://www.theringer.com/2025/11/05/nba/espn-nbc-amazon-nba-tv-michael-jordan-inside-the-nba
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The New York Times
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Shortly after Zohran Mamdani was anointed the mayor-elect of New York City on Tuesday, he strode onto the stage of a cavernous theater in Brooklyn and delivered a victory speech that celebrated New York’s immigrants, working class and young people. Follow live:
nyti.ms/3X9h35I
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Jason Concepcion
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currently running neck and neck with "write ins"
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Mark Harris
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People who are leaving NYC, please post pix of your U-Hauls!
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no way to know for sure but sixers almost definitely win this game if they sit embiid in crunchtime. he was beyond atrocious
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glorious basketball game
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sixers-bulls is fun. ugly, but fun.
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did any republicans win tonight or are they all big time stupid losers?
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double bang worthy
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LMAO
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i'm just a guy, doing what i can
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Kyle Kuzma lol
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Embarrassing.
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If there is a synonym for “cursed” that indicates something way worse than a curse, that is the word I would use to describe the New Orleans Pelicans
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go vote
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I wrote about Paolo Banchero's unsettled developmental track, and, after a discouraging start, how he can still become the superstar Orlando desperately needs him to be:
www.theringer.com/2025/11/04/n...
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The Paolo Plateau: What If Banchero Never Takes the Next Step?
If this is as good as Banchero gets, the Magic might be closer to their ceiling than anyone wants to admit
https://www.theringer.com/2025/11/04/nba/paolo-banchero-orlando-magic-shooting-midrange
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went on the
@zachlowenba.bsky.social
show to give some first impressions about the clippers, lakers, timberwolves, nuggets, blazers, grizzlies, and impossibly sad pelicans:
open.spotify.com/episode/3gLF...
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What’s Going on in Memphis With Chris Vernon, and a Trip Around the West With Michael Pina
Spotify video
https://open.spotify.com/episode/3gLFNdFOjYC4nlwijD4CgB?si=IVcAqxIvSXyX_yJxaDnbig&context=spotify%3Acollection%3Apodcasts%3Aepisodes
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I wrote about Paolo Banchero's unsettled developmental track, and, after a discouraging start, how he can still become the superstar Orlando desperately needs him to be:
www.theringer.com/2025/11/04/n...
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The Paolo Plateau: What If Banchero Never Takes the Next Step?
If this is as good as Banchero gets, the Magic might be closer to their ceiling than anyone wants to admit
https://www.theringer.com/2025/11/04/nba/paolo-banchero-orlando-magic-shooting-midrange
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went on the
@zachlowenba.bsky.social
show to give some first impressions about the clippers, lakers, timberwolves, nuggets, blazers, grizzlies, and impossibly sad pelicans:
open.spotify.com/episode/3gLF...
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What’s Going on in Memphis With Chris Vernon, and a Trip Around the West With Michael Pina
Spotify video
https://open.spotify.com/episode/3gLFNdFOjYC4nlwijD4CgB?si=IVcAqxIvSXyX_yJxaDnbig&context=spotify%3Acollection%3Apodcasts%3Aepisodes
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Blake Wesley going down is not the news I wanted to see today
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I say this knowing it can make a left turn at light speed, but Westbrook's off-ball defense has been terrific, particularly when Bucks run that Giannis-Rollins empty corner pick and roll
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boston's defense is allowing the fewest points in the paint right now. yes, fewer than the thunder and the spurs. this is miraculous.
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my wife and i went as an oreo cookie for halloween and i’ve never in my life received so many compliments
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Halloween power ranking! 1. Halloween (1978) 2. Halloween II 3. Halloween (2018) 4. Halloween IV 5. Halloween H20 6. Halloween III 7. Halloween: The Curse of Michael Myers 8. Halloween: Resurrection 9. Halloween V 10. Halloween (2007) 11. Halloween Kills 12. Halloween II (2009) 13. Halloween Ends
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pretty sure ryan rollins is about to wally pipp kpj
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The Austin Reaves situation is so fascinating. Ridiculous start. Almost definitely getting max contract offers this summer. If that happens and he stays in LA, building a contender with him and Luka filling 55% of the cap will not be easy.
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Just watched Pelicans/Nuggets and can't help but wonder how much Zion actually likes playing basketball right now. Also, Denver is a joke.
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I love how Miami is playing and feel good about picking Erik Spoelstra to finally win COY
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This was just posted by a CBS News producer on their Instagram stories.
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Every team is spending a higher % of their possessions in the bonus compared to last season...except the Kings
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what prediction?
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Only two teams in NBA history have scored more points in their first four games than the Miami Heat: the '91 Nuggets and '63 Warriors. Neither made the playoffs.
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If SNAP benefits vanished tomorrow, feeding 42 million Americans for a month would cost about $7.8 billion.That’s less than 1% of the combined net worth of the three richest men in the U.S. A reminder of how obscene inequality has become and how easily hunger could be solved if we chose to.
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There are days when I worry about my pal
@michaelvpina.bsky.social
's sanity. Friends, this is one of those days.
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A tradition unlike any other: It’s time to overreact to the first week of an NBA season
www.theringer.com/2025/10/27/n...
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13 Overreactions to the First Week of the NBA Season
We’ve seen enough. From Wemby to the Warriors, these are the players, teams, and trends that stick out from the first few games of the new campaign.
https://www.theringer.com/2025/10/27/nba/victor-wembanyama-mvp-golden-state-warriors-nba-regular-season-2025-26
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Paolo Banchero has 3 assists in 3 games
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