From reviewing churches on NBA road trips to coining “Next Plane Up Mentality,” Luke Kornet’s blog is back — and more honest than ever.
@jaredweissnba.bsky.social sat down with Luke Kornet exclusively about faith, writing and finding his voice ⤵️
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Luke Kornet isn’t just the San Antonio Spurs’ backup center.
He’s a church critic, a satirist, a parenthetical enthusiast and an author.
From “Don’t Pass the Rock” to finding faith on road trips,
@jaredweissnba.bsky.social goes inside the creative mind of the NBA's most unexpected writer.
Vital reporting by @jaredweissnba.bsky.social on why All-Star Weekend tickets are so expensive. Even in today's age of absurd ticket prices, this floored me. www.nytimes.com/athletic/704...
16.02.2026 02:11 — 👍 14 🔁 4 💬 2 📌 8
Victor Wembanyama vs Anthony Edwards is emerging as the new-age rivalry that can carry the NBA into its next chapter.
Check ball.
With @jaredweissnba.bsky.social
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Saturday night in San Antonio, the two went at it down the stretch again.
@jaredweissnba.bsky.social and @jonkrawczynski.bsky.social on the budding rivalry ⤵️
www.nytimes.com/athletic/697...
What's it like for Victor Wembanyama to:
-Present a PowerPoint to you
-Watch film of your performance
-FaceTime you and your infant son
-Pull up to your practice, then stay for two hours
@jaredweissnba.bsky.social on the Jackals, the community that Wemby built.
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“This was my project. This was a part of my legacy.”
@jaredweissnba.bsky.social's exclusive on Victor Wembanyama’s vision for the Jackals and why it means so much to him ⤵️
www.nytimes.com/athletic/696...
Me in the corner casually talking to @jaredweissnba.bsky.social about transportation logistics and missing this completely
16.01.2026 00:59 — 👍 9 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
The Spurs' "Jackals" fan section that our @jaredweissnba.bsky.social wrote about today is loudly counting out the seconds on Giannis's free-throw attempts. Go to 13 on the last one.
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My favorite story I wrote from the Celtics’ championship run was my feature on Jrue Holiday and how he learned to be a leader from his wife Lauren.
“I think the only thing he cares about is how his teammates feel about him.”
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Earlier in the playoffs, I spoke with Tyrese Haliburton about overcoming his mental health struggles to have the best season of his career. That was after a hamstring injury ruined the start of his season.
Now he has to come back from a likely Achilles tear www.theathletic.com/6338707/2025...
SGA has 5 fouls and the Thunder have no timeouts. Pacers have a few gambits to play now by targeting SGA and also flooding the inbounder to try to force a 5 second call here. Lots of variables up in the air that give Indiana a chance at a miracle here.
23.06.2025 02:37 — 👍 6 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0Really curious to see if Carlisle keeps Sheppard out there for a few more minutes or goes back to McConnell. They're gonna need more offensive movement now that SGA is back out there, but Sheppard is holding down his spot in the defense pretty decently.
23.06.2025 02:30 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0Giving SGA step back 3s has been the best risk to take in this series and that didn’t last forever.
23.06.2025 02:06 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0The Pacers defense worked when they were forcing the Thunder into step backs they weren’t making. But the Thunder are finally hitting their shots and they’re running away with the title. Sometimes it’s as simple as you pick your poison as a defense and live with the consequences.
23.06.2025 02:06 — 👍 11 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 1The Thunder have switched but we haven't seen Siakam get any post ups in this game. The Pacers need to get him a switch in transition and feed it into him just to get some variety into the offense and take some pressure off the point guards.
23.06.2025 02:00 — 👍 12 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0Nembhard and Siakam can't sit on the bench for the rest of the game. Pacers have no chance without them.
23.06.2025 01:53 — 👍 25 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 0Thunder are suddenly half court trapping and it's quickly taking McConnell out of the game. Great call by Daigneault there to spring that on Indiana while the second unit is out there.
23.06.2025 01:52 — 👍 10 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0Pacers have to stop opening up these passing windows at the last second for him and make him beat them with the floater game.
23.06.2025 01:44 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0That is two great reads by SGA from the mid post area as he starts to figure out how to pass through the Pacers’ help rotations. The Pacers have been so disciplined about forcing him into bad twos, but they are giving into temptation late in his drives and he is reading it perfectly.
23.06.2025 01:44 — 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0Can't wait for the Thunder to win this game with a Caruso 3 at the buzzer and then hear "does the Thunder's title have an asterisk?" for the next 12 months. Either that or we spend next year debating if TJ McConnell is a max player.
23.06.2025 01:03 — 👍 12 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0Thunder can't give him any daylight in transition, which is gonna open up more pitch actions for him and give Siakam more room to target some cross matches in the post.
23.06.2025 00:20 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Haliburton is making a statement early that he sees the Thunder's low pick up point on him and wants to drag them out by raining from 3. Watch the Thunder come out of this timeout pressing him harder at the half-court line even when he is off the ball.
23.06.2025 00:20 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
🚨EMERGENCY POD🚨
We talked KD’s trade IMMEDIATELY after it happened at The NBA Daily.
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If you missed it…
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To preview Game 7 of the NBA Finals on our @theathletic.bsky.social live blog, I wrote about the big Pascal Siakam defensive adjustment that won Game 6 for the Pacers and what the Thunder need to do to fix this problem: t.co/YrRkZRGm6h
22.06.2025 22:44 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
For the latest edition of my NBA Finals film series, I dove inside how the Pacers pulled the chair on SGA by completely flipping the script on their defensive pressure.
Breaking down how they tweaked their press and found a new way for Pascal Siakam to take over the game: t.co/itPJU5qz7A
Indiana doesn’t have an answer for OKC's defensewithout Tyrese Haliburton being an effective scorer, @jaredweissnba.bsky.social writes.
What does this mean for the Pacers in Game 6?
Details:
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Great adjustment by Daigneault to have J Dub in the slot opposite SGA. It means when the Pacers shift early into the lane to help on SGA, they have to rotate back to J Dub and get cooked.
17.06.2025 03:04 — 👍 6 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0Haliburton cutting while McConnell is Nash dribbling around the basket is a great action for the Pacers. Haliburton doing the classic give and go with the rim to set up the kickout three, maybe not sustainable.
17.06.2025 02:19 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
This is a vintage Rick Carlisle win. The way he reconfigured Haliburton's pick & roll to kill the Hartenstein drop coverage was a chef's kiss Finals adjustment. Now they lead the NBA Finals 2-1.
Here's my story on how they became a match made in heaven: www.nytimes.com/athletic/641...
