Dan Devine

Boston Celtics Quarter Pole Check-in Thoughts on the major Celtics’ topics 20 games into the 2025–26 season

Thoughts on the Celtics 20 games in:
🔍 Finding another center
📋 Joe can coach
🕊️ Wings!
🔗 Holding it together at the top
💰 Taxes (still)
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Austin Butler probably wonder who Collin Gillespie is lol

How the Suns are turning the page on the Kevin Durant era — and enjoying unexpected success in the process Phoenix is off to a surprising 11-6 start in the West while building a new identity.

The Suns, currently holding a 24-point fourth-quarter lead on the Lakers in L.A. despite losing Devin Booker early to a groin injury, do not suck: yhoo.it/48kHnit

Lakers entered tonight allowing 129.6 points-per-100 with Luka/LeBron/Reaves all on the floor — NBA-worst-level defense: www.pbpstats.com/wowy-combos/...

Only 75 minutes, small sample size, etc. ... but it was that way last season too. Talked about it on THE BIG NUMBER before the season:

At some point, I am going to have to start believing that these Dillon Brooks jumpers are going in, because they just keep going in.

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They no longer feel like the laissez faire team that employed Durant and Beal. They now feel, frankly, like the one that employs Dillon Brooks, who helped shepherd (sometimes overly) aggressive defensive overhauls in Memphis and Houston, and is now doing the same in Phoenix. “He’s one of the hardest workers I’ve been around,” Suns superstar Devin Booker said of Brooks, one of the key pieces that came to Phoenix in the Durant trade, alongside high-scoring guard Jalen Green (working his way back from a hamstring injury) and No. 10 overall draft pick Khaman Maluach. “He spends countless hours — even when he was going through his core injury, I was telling him, ‘You supposed to be going that hard?'” Whether he’s supposed to or not, Brooks does go that hard — and now, so, too, do the Suns. (Fun stat: Phoenix is tied for seventh in loose balls recovered per game, up from 20th last season.) Occasionally, all that physicality is to their detriment: Phoenix has been whistled for 23.7 personal fouls per game, second-most in the NBA, and sits 24th in opponent free-throw rate. “We’re not going to be a low-foul team,” Ott recently said, according to Kellan Olson of Arizona Sports. “We’re going to defend to the legal limit [and] we know that comes at a cost.” But that cost, thus far, hasn’t outweighed the benefits. The refs can’t call everything, and setting that sort of physical defensive tone — with Brooks, O’Neale and Dunn up front and on the wing, with Gillespie and Goodwin at the point of attack — can pay dividends that compound over the course of the game. And so far, the results have been impressive.

From last week: yhoo.it/48kHnit

Man, I had no idea I'd enjoy watching the Suns this much this season. Was absolutely skeptical about all the rah-rah culture change stuff on media day, but they really do play their asses off, every possession, every night.

Robbie Hummel, reporting live from Austin Butler's vibe radius

Robbie Hummel, reporting live from Austin Butler's vibe radius

Jordan Goodwin entered tonight with the third-best plus-minus on the Suns, and having watched him with them a few times, the only surprise about that is that he isn't first or second. Good things seem to happen for Phoenix every time he's on the floor.

this can't be good

shit

Politico management violated key AI adoption safeguards, arbitrator finds The ruling marks one of the first major tests of an AI clause in a newsroom union contract.

“‘This ruling is a clear affirmation that AI cannot be deployed as a shortcut around union rights, ethical journalism, or human judgment,’ said Ariel Wittenberg, unit chair of the PEN Guild.”

GOOD AFTERNOON TO ORGANIZED LABOR www.niemanlab.org/2025/12/poli...

Guest column | How Nick Saban and ESPN tried to help Lane Kiffin coach two teams at once Kiffin wanted to stay at Mississippi through the College Football Playoff even after taking the job at LSU. That only made sense on television.

"'GameDay,' a platform with unmatched influence over the sport it covers, also didn’t report LSU initially offered its job to Saban himself, who declined and instead guided Tigers leadership to his choice: Kiffin." @stevengodfrey.bsky.social: www.washingtonpost.com/sports/2025/...

The Lane Kiffin–LSU–Ole Miss Saga Was Only Ever Going to End This Way After weeks of theatrics, ultimatums, and not-so-quiet contemplation, Kiffin is leaving Ole Miss to take the head coaching job at LSU. And his Oxford departure feels similar to so many of his other pr...

i wrote about lane kiffin and why that tiger went tiger. www.theringer.com/2025/12/01/c...

Ray Ratto's so damn good at putting sentences together, and he really knows his way around a kicker.

Haha, oh sorry, I was on mute. I was saying I worry I’ve permanently worn down all the charming edges of myself that others didn’t like and I’ve become dull like a riverstone—and perhaps the only way to make new edges is to fragment into smaller and smaller pieces until nothing is left.

"you big-time shit boy" runs through my head several times a month

The cover of Richard Price's "The Whites."

Richard Price's writing -- the dialogue, especially -- really snaps. Like twigs, or bones. Really fun way to spend a few hundred pages.

@edsbs.bsky.social just getting up to speed on the latest developments, and I feel compelled to say

and I'm sorry if I'm pronouncing it wrong, what with my lifetime Northeast-iness

congrats on your new progrum

YouTube video by Yahoo! Sports NBA Fanbases with the MOST to be Grateful for this Thanksgiving

ICYMI: A Thanksgiving-themed BIG NUMBER with @tomhaberstroh.bsky.social — all about NBA gratitude!

The Lakers, Lonzo, Spo, Jalen Suggs, Derik Queen, the Raptors' offense, OKC's chase, Tom not even having a cat, and much more!

🍎: tinyurl.com/yub7acc3
✳️: tinyurl.com/4n7e82k5
📺: youtu.be/cK3pZFUBBGU

how fucking wack to do you have to be to make Doing Drugs wack

Thanks, @yourmandevine.bsky.social and @samvecenie.bsky.social. I knew you beloved in me.

Holy shit!

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 makes seven years since one of the best friends I'll ever have died. Do me a favor today, and tell someone you love that you love them. And maybe listen to "Parklife." www.yourmandevine.com/post/1813094...

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 makes seven years since one of the best friends I'll ever have died. Do me a favor today, and tell someone you love that you love them. And maybe listen to "Parklife." www.yourmandevine.com/post/1813094...

How the Suns are turning the page on the Kevin Durant era — and enjoying unexpected success in the process Phoenix is off to a surprising 11-6 start in the West while building a new identity.

The Suns, currently taking the juggernaut Thunder to the limit in OKC, do not suck: yhoo.it/48kHnit

"Did you mean 'crate of Bengay for your aches and pains'???"

I like that when I just searched "modest mouse tour," Google asked if I also wanted results for "built to spill tour," because, y'know, yeah, man. You know who I am and what age I am, so, sure. Show me that too.

College Football Time Remaining57m College football teams from around the country will intensely compete against one another, as expert analysts give play-by-play commentary.

Very good guide description written by @jonbois.bsky.social

YouTube video by Yahoo! Sports NBA Fanbases with the MOST to be Grateful for this Thanksgiving

ICYMI: A Thanksgiving-themed BIG NUMBER with @tomhaberstroh.bsky.social — all about NBA gratitude!

The Lakers, Lonzo, Spo, Jalen Suggs, Derik Queen, the Raptors' offense, OKC's chase, Tom not even having a cat, and much more!

🍎: tinyurl.com/yub7acc3
✳️: tinyurl.com/4n7e82k5
📺: youtu.be/cK3pZFUBBGU