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Co-host // directed AMERICAN SON an ESPN out in 2023 // staff writer // only here for Kings Twitter
Joined March 2009
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Responding to this fwiw, which I have no idea how to even parse
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The Phoenix Suns are prepared to pursue Brooklyn Nets star Kevin Durant should he become available, league sources tell @NBAonTNT, @BleacherReport.
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Would you trade Fox and Keegan for KD
When you make a selection it cannot be changed
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Terrible look for LeBron!
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BREAKING: The Brooklyn Nets are trading Kyrie Irving to the Dallas Mavericks for Spencer Dinwiddie, Dorian Finney-Smith, a first-round and multiple second-round picks, sources tell @TheAthletic @Stadium.
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There really has never been a more devastating line with more strays flying in every direction than ‘save that shit for the lyricist’s lounge.’ Anyway, grizzlies… enjoy your little moment!
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Just realized Grizzlies are Canibus circa 1998 right before the album flop and LL coming out with the Ripper Strikes Back
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He’s 5’9”. Play the hits.
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NEW: Democrats are worried about running against DeSantis in 2024, given his age (44 vs. Biden's 80) + his experience running a big, diverse state. They know the playbook of how to win against Trump but are trying to figure out how to thwart Fla. governor: bloomberg.com/news/articles/
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Snoop on G Thang probably winner but some others
Protect Ya Neck
Ghetto Bastard
Know the Ledge
Suicidal Thoughts
I am, I Be
Ante Up
B.O.B.
The Truth from Handsome Boy
On my Block
Cell Therapy
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Twinz
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Greatest start to a first verse in hip-hop history?
Me and @loganmmurdock say its "Ambitionz"
Got any nominations? Talking only how the rapper comes into the first verse.
Another lock to be near the top: Snoop's start to "G Thang"
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I interviewed UCLA professor Robin D. G. Kelley about the attacks on African American Studies and what we do about it.
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Except for the whole ‘we spent hundreds of millions of dollars and lit out future on fire to win a title with KD and we need to figure out how to salvage even the smallest part of this’ part!
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Just like with Durant, the Nets aren’t under pressure to trade Kyrie Irving. He can tank his own value by not playing the rest of the season, or he can raise his value for the summer by playing.
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CP3 and KD winning the title would simultaneously a giant win and a giant loss for haters everywhere. Please make this happen.
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trading chris paul to the nets in exchange for kyrie irving might actually lead the nets to win the championship
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Kyrie going to the Kings, asking if the beam is a space laser and then getting mad when you ask him what he means by that. Bad times all around.
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I’m not sure how the guy who asked for a trade 7 months ago does with ‘hey, we got Russ AND Austin Reaves back and no real future way to get better’
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How do you trade Kyrie and not also trade KD? Seems impossible
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Definitely true of recipes, which is 90% of what I Google, but I also don’t really enjoy most cooking videos and even stuff like ‘how do I do this in Premiere’ gets tedious. I just want someone to send me step by step instructions in like the notes app or something.
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Lotsa talk about ChatGPT killing Google, but YouTube is already doing it.
As a search engine, YouTube offers more useful, more educational, deeper and often more trustworthy info than on the web.
TLDR: YouTube > Goog
My @NYTOpinion column, please read nytimes.com/2023/02/03/opi
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A giant hole with a giant blanket over it
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It’s truly incredible that a young, up and coming team from a small market with Ja could also be absolutely despicable but that’s what the 23 Grizzlies have become. Get out of here!
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Dillon Brooks is a mid-card heel with no charisma and average ability
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Listen to this man spend 3 minutes say ‘hey these are the ingredients but if you don’t have them who cares’
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Wish there was a cooking show where the chef doesn’t have 30% of the ingredients and just substitutes stuff and says ‘hey it’s not a big deal.’ Baek Jong-won does this for Korean food and it’s great.
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LIGHT THE BEAM SABONIS
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I. Love. This. Team.
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"GIMME THAT S***, MAYNE!"
first of many DPOG chains for @AhmadMonk 
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NFL films is really the greatest production company of all time. They’ll put like a 8 second clip of an NFL player going ‘that’s how we do it!’ on instagram and I’ll watch it and be ready to run through a wall for whatever team he plays for. Just incredible quality.
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thanks to for bestowing THE LONELIEST AMERICANS with its annual prize for non-fiction. Love librarians! apalaweb.org/2023-asian-pac
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Get some real friends. This loose network of gossipy ambition monsters will stab you in the back for fifty cents a word. You can all do better! I believe in you.
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Sorry not interested in a list of manners for broke losers who spend half the day sharing tweets they hate in group texts and the other half worrying about what every consumer choice they make says about how they’ll be perceived by other broke losers! Eat shit!
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I have been waiting for this for years! Straight edge but for social media. It just makes so much sense! The Kang Drop Out Commune applauds you.
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This @lourdesgnavarro conversation with a teenager who has given up her smartphone did more to make me face how much I'm wasting my life than pretty much anything else. But that's a recommendation! nytimes.com/2023/02/02/opi
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There are writers in here who changed the way I thought about the world when I was in high school. There are also writers here who changed the way I thought about the world last year. There’s an entire intellectual life’s worth of work here. How pathetic for everyone involved.
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I know it’s ridiculous but I have 100% bought into the ‘Mahomes was disrespected and now everyone must pay’ narrative. He’s the best quarterback any of us have ever seen play! I also now understand why Warriors fans get so mad about Steph slander.
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Me and Tammy talk about Tyre Nichols, the consultant-ified way that the video was released, and how the governments response to horrific police violence seems to only be geared towards preventing protest
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On this week’s episode, Tammy and Jay talk through some painful questions following the fatal beating of Tyre Nichols by Memphis police officers.
goodbye.substack.com/p/tyre-nichols
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Good lord, if you’re looking for a school to pump out 23 year old GOP staffers who scream all day about woke indoctrination, just go 5 miles down the road to Duke.
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. @UNC's provost said today he was surprised by the resolution of the Board of Trustees creating a new school w/in the university on "civic life & leadership" - which the Board chair calls a "remedy" for the left-of-centerness of the faculty.
dailytarheel.com/article/2023/0
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JUSTICE FOR THE KINGS
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Ask, and you shall receive: I reviewed every L2M report for every team, and here is the data (in which LAL is 2nd only to LAC in percentage of late-game missed calls/no-calls in their favor): @YahooSportsNBA: sports.yahoo.com/sleepless-nigh
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The most ‘I can fix him’ move in NFL history lol. Like that Mets pitching coach eyeing Victor Zambrano and going ‘yeah 15 minutes with me and he’s winning the Cy’
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Breaking: Saints and Broncos are finalizing compensation in return for Super Bowl-winning HC Sean Payton, sources tell ESPN. This clears the way for Payton to sign with the Broncos to become Denver’s next head coach.
And so Payton is expected to head to Denver as its next HC.
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As for the backup center question. Please play Richuan! Overall don’t think Kings should do anything drastic here like trading HB. Only concern I have is that they’ve been so healthy this year that it’s eerie. That’s why Gordon makes sense - gives you reliable scoring depth
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Thybulle would be interesting but it’s kinda hard to bring in guys like that mid season and just expect the defense to adjust to maximize what they do. I still think Eric Gordon makes a lot of sense. They need another veteran to play some of the Davion/TD/Monk minutes.
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Thybulle is an interesting target for the Kings.
He solves some defensive problems, but he offers zero offensive ability. He’s essentially a better KZ Okpala.
I can’t imagine the cost would be particularly high - something akin to Davis and second rounders.
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Happy anniversary to the soundtrack for every NIMBY liberal who has ever put a BLM sign up in their yards but then voted against every single measure that would actually bring any change into their bullshit communities. Anti school bussing libs, congrats on the quarter century!
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Also it’s a mess to say. ‘Next up on LAist…’ who wants to say all those vowels in a row.
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So weird. Would think KPCC has so much name recognition and ‘brand strength’ in LA that any chance, much less to Laist, would be met with howls of anger
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Goodbye to KPCC: L.A.’s most popular public radio station is rebranding itself LAist 89.3. latimes.com/entertainment-
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From a literary perspective, the ‘hey my life was a squalid disaster but here I am today, applying to your prestigious school because I’m just tougher and smarter than all the other ppl in my predicament’ is even grosser.
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