Every person in this photo is named Mike. (An eighth Mike sprained his wrist and had to leave early.)

Anybody in the luxury boxes with a ruling on that red card?

Was looking for his sketch pad.

That Scheffler “birdie” was almost too dumb to comprehend. Any amateur who hits the exact same shots makes a double.

Hey, let’s check in on the leading candidate to represent UVALDE (and my hometown) in the U.S. House of Representatives.

He was in a very good L&O episode that happens to be on Sundance now.

Mick Jagger dot gif.

It’s been more than a week since an Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent in Houston fatally shot 52-year-old immigrant Lorenzo Salgado Araujo. | Opinion

If Uncle Rico’s parent had a bluesky account.

Victor Wembanyama could have signed an extension worth $302MM, and instead chose to help the Spurs out by signing one for $252MM, and it made me think of this Chappelle explanation of giant dollar amounts.

Hugo Balderas-Ibarra said his clients' accounts of what led to the ICE shooting are "extremely different" from the agency's. bit.ly/4f8GCwp

Wemby sends message signaling he may have already agreed to a highly anticipated new long-term contract extension that would make him the highest-paid player in Spurs history. www.expressnews.com/sports/spurs...

Incredulous dental hygienist, examining a chipped tooth resulting from a pickup basketball collision, to the old man with his mouth open: “YOU still play basketball?”

At the risk of ensuring I’ll never attract a big-money podcast sponsorship by acknowledging this: These sites are evil.

Brutal

That first half was the rudest Belgium-related treatment of Americans since: youtu.be/ZEDctOPVKMk?...

Wait, the guy who got the Nazi tattoo might have done other terrible things? If only there’d been some sign.

Let’s see what kind of clout the King of England has.

Dave Alvin, Flaco Jimenez and David Hidalgo. Dare you to get through this whole thing without smiling. www.youtube.com/watch?v=54zx...

Sunday's column. www.expressnews.com/opinion/comm...

One of the most important columns I’ve ever written: After making the NBA Finals with a young team built around an emerging superstar, this is why the Spurs SHOULD NOT trade Victor Wembanyama for Jimmy Butler. www.expressnews.com/sports/spurs...

As long as you pretend that one very dumb scene in the last episode was a dream, the final season of The Bear is perfectly enjoyable.

Billy Donovan has agreed to become Spurs coach Mitch Johnson's lead assistant, a league source confirmed. First reported by @ShamsCharania and @PeteThamel.

One of the most important columns I’ve ever written: After making the NBA Finals with a young team built around an emerging superstar, this is why the Spurs SHOULD NOT trade Victor Wembanyama for Jimmy Butler. www.expressnews.com/sports/spurs...

Gene Stallings told us that people who use drugs go to prison. Never forgot that, man.

Hard to believe that it was only nine years ago when the Celtics and Mavs met in the Finals.

One of the few ways that I relate to NBA head coaches is that I think people make way too much of who’s on the floor during the first four minutes of a game. Harris is the closest thing they have to a true 4, and he’s gonna play a bunch.

League is still getting used to Wemby’s impact, and so is at least one schmuck who covers him. Reckoned there was no way the Spurs could get a guy like Tobias Harris to settle for a two-year deal at the MLE. Reckoned wrong. Heck of a signing.

I keep reading today that LeBron was a Laker for eight years and that Kawhi was a Clipper for seven, and neither of those claims seem remotely true.

Guaranteed: 1) Black girls will be harassed and demanded to be tested over and over again regardless of how competitive they are. 2) Winners from public schools will be relentlessly hounded by the parents and coaches of losers at private schools, with the goal of making them quit the sport.

5-4 for what it explicitly says in the constitution is incredible. They were this close to undoing the civil war entirely. bsky.app/profile/mjsd...

A league source confirmed that Julian Champagnie plans to sign a new three-year, $45 million pact with the Spurs through 2028-29 after the club declined his $3 million team option. First reported by ESPN's Shams Charania.

I realize there are no ethical music apps but I’ve used Tidal ever since the other big one started inundating me with crappy podcasters a few years ago, and my experience has been mostly positive.

Can’t be the only guy who thinks of Warren Zevon every time he hears the word “Congolese.”

This contains one of the most amusing “player’s camp leaks his preferred destinations” test balloons of all time.

Did you realize the Spurs haven’t fired a coach or a general manager in 30 years? That kind of continuity is unthinkable in pro sports, and it’s one reason Brian Wright can take big draft swings other GMs can’t. On patience as a team-building superpower: www.expressnews.com/sports/spurs...

Victor Wembanyama made the NBA Finals in his third season and the kid the Spurs just drafted to be his backup is five months older than Wemby is.

If Quaintance is a redshirt, Reed makes sense. Spurs know the UConn staff really, really well, for what that’s worth.

No judgment at all on that pick but enjoy thinking about all the Mavs scouts who watched prospects for months and months and compiled exhaustive report after exhaustive report only to have the new coach have a recruit from his old school follow him.

Kingston Flemings, the highest-drafted San Antonian since some sergeant’s son from Cole.

Finally.

Wrote about De’Aaron Fox, and three things we know: 1. The Spurs’ trade for him was good, and they’d do it over again. 2. They wouldn’t have made the Finals without him. 3. They will have to move on from him eventually, and it might be this summer. www.expressnews.com/sports/spurs...

One of the funniest emails I received today is from a PR firm offering to put me in touch with the guy who advised Steve Patterson at Texas and Larry Scott at the Pac-12 about the “damage done to Wemby’s reputation." I will pass.

After the last two months, tonight I’m going to set my alarm for Wednesday.

This will make the story better. When it’s Victor Wembanyama’s turn to celebrate like Jalen Brunson did Saturday, this will be the flashback scene, the agony to avenge. “I can’t tell you what the lesson is,” Wemby said. He will show us soon enough. www.expressnews.com/sports/spurs...

This will make the story better. When it’s Victor Wembanyama’s turn to celebrate like Jalen Brunson did Saturday, this will be the flashback scene, the agony to avenge. “I can’t tell you what the lesson is,” Wemby said. He will show us soon enough. www.expressnews.com/sports/spurs...

"before we can be back in the Finals." (want to make sure it doesn't come off sounding like a guarantee from him)

Victor Wembanyama: “What I’m pissed about is there’s 100 more games before we’re back in the Finals.”

It wasn’t the first quarter when we were going to find out if the Spurs were over Game 4. It was right about now.

Brunson might win a ring but man is he not going to miss seeing Dylan Harper this summer.