Dan Devine

ICYMI, something to read ahead of today's Spurs-Knicks matinee!

The Nihilism of Trump’s War Games - Truthdig At home and abroad, demonstrating strength through punishment is more important than “victory.”

The point of Trump wars is the war. There are plans for condos, but no peace. He preens, extorts what he can, and loses interest, assuming he began with any. What's left is a killer opportunity with no excuse left for it but civilizational extremism that ends either in futility or war crime.

Shaker, that contribution rules, and I thank you for it

You know what I love? When my internet pals DC and Jesse are out here chattin' about Concrete on a Saturday night.

(It's cool that you're here too, Ken Jennings, I just don't know you like that)

It’s been terrifying to have almost every year in the past 20 years be a lesson in how many people with power make decisions about who lives and dies with little thought or care or even a clear idea as to why they’re doing anything, and it’s terrifying that it seems to be getting worse

11 things to know about the Spurs: Why San Antonio is the hottest team in the NBA Victor Wembanyama and Co. are riding an 11-game winning streak — and looking like a legit title favorite.

At Y! Sports: In honor of their 11-game winning streak, here are 11 things worth knowing about the Spurs, who kick ass (that's a 12th thing to know about them): yhoo.it/4kX4EwK

We really let Anthony Kiedis get away with the lyric “first-born unicorn/hardcore soft porn” 25 plus years ago, and he’s only grown in dark mystical power ever since

11 things to know about the Spurs: Why San Antonio is the hottest team in the NBA Victor Wembanyama and Co. are riding an 11-game winning streak — and looking like a legit title favorite.

At Y! Sports: In honor of their 11-game winning streak, here are 11 things worth knowing about the Spurs, who kick ass (that's a 12th thing to know about them): yhoo.it/4kX4EwK

Cut Your Hair

"songs mean a lot
when songs are bought
and so are you"

open.spotify.com/track/4tBl1x...

OK, everybody back to the MVP discussion mines, we've got some rewrites to do

Obi Toppin will start in his return to the court. It's Nembhard, Sheppard, Walker, Toppin, and Huff for the Pacers tonight.

Barclays Center

Got to the gym way too early because of the democratic socialist-cleared sidewalks and the democratic socialist-run express train that was way too on time.

Dystopian nightmare.

My third Little Number on today's episode of THE BIG NUMBER with @tomhaberstroh.bsky.social was 44% — the odds, as of this morning, that @inpredict.bsky.social gave the Spurs of finishing No. 1 in the West. (Guessing those go up by morning.)

If that happens ... Wemb-VP? youtube.com/watch?v=ybqC...

"Why is your name all over the Willie Cauley-Stein Files"

ohhhhhhh fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck

pretty inconsiderate to your "picking children up from after-school, helping them with homework and making dinner" audience

My pleasure!

"What was once intimate and immediate is now curated and monetized, each mistake spun into a meme that drips with venom. The playground where Kevin Durant first learned to engage has transformed into a courtroom where everybody loses."

"Meet Josh, Eric and Alejandro: Deandre Ayton plays several different characters thanks, in part, to the Green Goblin"

Keeps bringing a smile to my face that this morning brought a fresh "Deandre Ayton sometimes pretends to be a guy named Alejandro" story to the basketball internet. Some blog posts and headlines you just don't forget writing.

YouTube video by Yahoo! Sports NBA The Craziest NBA MVP Race We've Ever Seen?

🆕 BIG NUMBER: 7-3 🏆

@tomhaberstroh.bsky.social noticed one weird thing that all the top MVP candidates have in common!

ALSO: Little Numbers on Cade, Jaylen and Wemby, the Luka/LeBron endgame fiasco, and more!

🍎: tiny.cc/i6hz001
✳️: tiny.cc/h6hz001
📺: youtu.be/ybqCxLCgpIU

My third Little Number on today's episode of THE BIG NUMBER with @tomhaberstroh.bsky.social was 44% — the odds, as of this morning, that @inpredict.bsky.social gave the Spurs of finishing No. 1 in the West. (Guessing those go up by morning.)

If that happens ... Wemb-VP? youtube.com/watch?v=ybqC...

OK, was not trying to diminish the hardship the Thunder are facing due to injuries, so everyone, read the post the way he said it instead

OKC losing in Detroit and San Antonio coming back to win in Toronto means the Spurs are now only two games out of first in the West, and hold the head-to-head tiebreaker. Incredible to think, with the way OKC started the season, there's a chance they don't get the No. 1 seed.

I think it's just Michigan State-themed Monopoly? Tillman went to Michigan State, right?

Looked like Wemby was still able to get his hand on that Harper FT miss despite Poeltl and Ingram sandwiching him, keeping it alive for Harper to grab his own miss. The game just bends around him.

Back-to-back incredible defensive rips by Scottie and Wemby. Just laugh out loud "fuck you, gimme that" plays.

Julian Champagnie driving and kicking to Victor Wembanyama for the catch-and-shoot corner 3. Sure.

I believe this is "Weezer"

If you'd told me Buddy Boeheim Brooks Barnhizer was a law firm, I'd at least have to Google

The Thunder now being down, if I'm counting right, seven rotation players has taken juuuuuust a little bit of zing out of this marquee matchup, but the Pistons owe no apologies for doing what they're supposed to do.