Dan Devine

I just watched Bilal Coulibaly bank in two separate jumpers in about five seconds of game time to give the Wizards a chance to force overtime, and I am not afraid to die

Magic-Wizards just contained maybe the worst minute of basketball I've seen in a Wizards game this week, which is saying something

THAT'S IT

I said what I wrote: that I rewatched all 26 of the fouls he drew, and that I believed most if not all were legitimate fouls earned through his aggression. What other analysis did you want?

I don't think I was ever a "Harden's a scourge on the sport" type, but feel free to check the back catalog.

hands and feet: no better at drawing them today than I was then (she had to help me)

I really love that Siobhan decided the cleanest explanation for why I made Superman so squinty was "a lizard is squirting a lemon in his eyes"

LETTER OF RECOMMENDATION: drawing and coloring with your daughter, even if you haven't made something of your own or even tried to copy a picture in forever

maybe especially if you haven't

This episode might have been the first time a TV show I liked made me cry and is also how I learned who The Magnetic Fields are, which is a pretty perfect Pete and Pete thing

Bam Adebayo EXPLODES for 83 YouTube video by Yahoo! Sports NBA

🆕 BIG NUMBER: 83 🔥💥😳

@tomhaberstroh.bsky.social + I go deep on Bam Adebayo's surreal, historic 83-point game — asterisk talk, Bam's remarkable growth as a player, the stunning rarity of it, and more!

🍎: tinyurl.com/37u9yx2y
✳️: tinyurl.com/2s3sub7e
📺: youtu.be/OFXRLt6qqRo

Career highs in points per game/per 36 minutes/per 100 possessions, true shooting and PER. Tied for the league lead in steals, just outside the top 10 in deflections. Highest EPM since 2017. Clips are +7-per-100 in his minutes, and have the second-best record in the NBA since 12/20. Unreal.

"Hey, they're fighting!" streamable.com/7mpmeb

Of course Fears and Queen are getting better and should continue to. But if the Pelicans plan on being competitive next season (they do), then those two need to remain bench pieces

I've said this before but the Pels vets are ready to compete and the rooks are not. A lot of their early season losing was directly related to more rookie minutes and their wins now are related to those minutes declining. The front office will have to grapple with this reality

There haven't been very many good Jordan Clarkson games this season, but it's awful nice for the Knicks to get one while in the midst of looking abject in the midst of a long road trip

Desmond Bane threw one of the worst entry passes you'll see in a crunch-time situation, but the ruling is that it went out off Cleveland, giving Orlando the ball back ... and Bane hits a massive 3 to go up 5 with 17.4 seconds to go.

It's from the library — the kind of idea America probably wouldn't allow to be invented now, but that thankfully continues to exist for now!

I'd forgotten how Jack Skellington-y Dejounte Murray looks as he moves around. Perfect fit for the team with the Skelican alternate logo.

SUPERMAN FOR ALL SEASONS was wonderful. Tim Sale really nailed the Norman Rockwell of it all.

Come on, come on, come on: get through it NOTE: A lot of people who have read this have shared their condolences and well wishes, which is really nice. Some have also asked if there was anything they could do for Sean’s family, which is...

Today would've been my friend Sean's 44th birthday. I loved him a lot, and I miss him a ton, which is why I share this semi-regularly — to remind you that it's a good idea to tell the people you love that you love them, while you still have the chance. www.yourmandevine.com/post/1813094...

How unlikely star Bam Adebayo stormed into NBA lore with his 83-point night Historically huge games sometimes involve ventures toward the extreme for those special moments to happen. And on Tuesday night, Adebayo and the Heat did all they could to make history.

At Y! Sports: Wrote about the conditions that created Bam Adebayo scoring 83 points in a single NBA game — an absurd, surreal, ludicrous, historic thing that actually just happened, and will always have happened: yhoo.it/47tItZB

I look like so many fuckin' guys

Okay, are you telling me this isn’t @yourmandevine.bsky.social?

fuck

Bam Adebayo EXPLODES for 83 YouTube video by Yahoo! Sports NBA

🆕 BIG NUMBER: 83 🔥💥😳

@tomhaberstroh.bsky.social + I go deep on Bam Adebayo's surreal, historic 83-point game — asterisk talk, Bam's remarkable growth as a player, the stunning rarity of it, and more!

🍎: tinyurl.com/37u9yx2y
✳️: tinyurl.com/2s3sub7e
📺: youtu.be/OFXRLt6qqRo

Closing time: Victor Wembanyama's late-game defense is the Spurs' not-so-secret sauce The Spurs — 16-1 over their past 17 games — are closing contests consistently and doing so against all caliber of teams. And of course, Wembanyama is the key to it all.

The San Antonio Spurs are locking teams down in the final quarter of games at a ridiculous rate.

It starts with you-know-who.

My latest at Y! Sports:

sports.yahoo.com/nba/article/...

pretty good game

pretty good game

challenge: hold within your mind the possibility that *multiple* players can have had very good games, and that saying one was good does not inherently devalue another

difficulty level: impossible

hahaha, yeah, I bet I am exactly what he had in mind

"What makes it a real basketball game, and not cynical, farcical, kayfabe'd basketball-like choreography, is that both teams are out there trying to fucking win."