@samvecenie.bsky.social
I write about basketball. And watch movies. Senior Writer at @TheAthletic on the NBA/NBA Draft. Host of the Game Theory Podcast. Email: sam.vecenie@gmail.com
Talked about the Jonathan Kuminga situation with Golden State on the podcast yesterday and laid it out from all angles on why this is such a mess.
Kinda think both sides are playing this the way they should right now. Restricted free agency just sucks.
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Talked about Jacob Furphy’s strong World Cup showing last night with @samvecenie.bsky.social.
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Got to see him live today at UConn & was as impressed as expected with skill & feel. Conditioning already improving & looks to have long-term on-ball potential.
Hello! Going live here in 2 minutes to chat 2025 NBA Offseason and the 10 moves we've liked the most with...Es Baraheni!
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That’s great that they don’t want it, but I’m good on it. Also thought Castleton was bad so outplaying him doesn’t really mean much. Can keep Chomche on a two way but I think he’s still so far away from being able to play in an actual nba game.
23.07.2025 20:41 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Hello! Going live here in five with @motorcityhoops.bsky.social to talk about the rookies at NBA Summer League! Come hang out and watch us chat about Cooper Flagg, Harper, Tre Johnson, Kon Knueppel, and way more.
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Okay a lot here. A. The top few picks look bad, my guess is No. 13 will probably be pretty close to average. They have no incentive not to do that.
B. I’m all for teams winning. But as I said on the show, I think this team isn’t as flexible financially for the future as people think.
I totally agree with you, think the pick has very little to do with this. Just find it weird that people keep bringing that up.
22.07.2025 03:50 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0People keep bringing this up. The other option is simply to just do a deal with Chicago where you unprotect the 2027 pick as opposed to selling out to make the playoffs as the 8 seed once in the next two years. That draft looks bad at the top so the downside would be minimal.
22.07.2025 03:31 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 2 📌 0Boston can offer their full MLE, which is the taxpayer MLE. They can’t offer the non-tax MLE. He didn’t misspeak, he just…made it sound better lol.
22.07.2025 02:45 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0I totally buy this stuff as being valuable for the Blazers. Dame should genuinely be invaluable for Scoot.
Idk if I love the overall picture of what they’ve done this summer, but I do like the idea of Dame setting an example for the kids.
Boston and Minnesota don’t have the full mid level, which is something we discussed. They couldn’t offer more than 6M per year.
22.07.2025 02:39 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Going live here with @motorcityhoops.bsky.social to talk about some of the offseason stuff that has occurred!
-Bradley Beal to LAC
-Marcus Smart to LAL
-Dame back to PDX!
-JDub extension
Plus a few other things.
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Going live now with @motorcityhoops.bsky.social to break down today's Free Agency Madness,
-Lillard Waived
-Myles Turner to MIL
-Duncan Robinson to DET
-Nuggets strike again
-Raptors get into the mix.
-More.
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Going live here with @andrewjclaudio.bsky.social to talk about NBA Free Agency, Night One.
-MPJ for Johnson
-NAW to ATL
-Rockets
-Grizzlies moves
-Lopez to Clips
-LaRavia to LAL
-More
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The Bear is back, man. That 4th season was tremendous, my goodness. Loved every second of it. Episodes 2, 4, 7, 9, 10 are spectacular. Just totally back to where it was prior to Season 3.
29.06.2025 12:26 — 👍 42 🔁 1 💬 2 📌 1Think there’s a chance he spends time in the G but he’s ready on defense for sure. On offense, definitely some development that he’ll need to make for sure
29.06.2025 01:40 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Team-by-team draft grades are live. Deep dives into all of the choices and decisions made throughout draft week.
I love what the Spurs, Hornets, and Wizards did. I think everyone knows who I have questions about. About 10k words in total.
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This was literally me trying to run the draft show in the second round while Taelon Peter got picked and I was trying to figure out what’s going on while writing a quick analysis for the site and still talking.
27.06.2025 10:07 — 👍 40 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0I appreciate Alex immensely for pulling this video lol. Very funny.
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Ready to find out how your team did in Round 1 of the 2025 NBA Draft?
@johnhollinger.bsky.social and @samvecenie.bsky.social broke down every’s team’s pick.
Here’s what they said ⤵️
Going live with @MotorCityHoops here to break down the ENTIRE First Round of the 2025 NBA Draft.
Come join us! Hang out! We'll talk draft picks and analyze the players selected, as well as their team fits.
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Yeah I feel like we have the NBA champion its due love lol
24.06.2025 07:51 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Going live here momentarily with @motorcityhoops.bsky.social to talk Thunder winning the NBA Title (!!!), Haliburton getting hurt, and the Kevin Durant deal to Houston from earlier today!
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Going live with @motorcityhoops here momentarily to talk about that absolute beat down that the Pacers gave to the Thunder, then also some NBA Draft stuff and KD stuff as we sort through it all!
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That’s an offseason project FWIW. We will hopefully have some over the summer.
19.06.2025 10:19 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Going live here momentarily with @motorcityhoops.bsky.social to talk about the Thunder being one win away from an NBA championship after a JDub masterpiece in OKC.
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Going live with @motorcityhoops.bsky.social here and we're digging into the Thunder tying the series with the Pacers 2-2!
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Hello! @motorcityhoops.bsky.social and I are going live here momentarily! Come join! We'll talk Game 3 and some NBA Draft stuff!
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I would need to dig deeper into him at some point, but from what I've seen, would be pretty close to the top-65 or so.
10.06.2025 21:51 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
The 2025 NBA Draft Guide is here.
-198 pages and 160,000 words of evaluations and breakdowns on prospects in this draft class. Very deep dives on player scouts, tendencies, etc.
-My final top-100 rankings (barring surprise international entrants).
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