Tom Westerholm

Indignant and wrong: The Nick Nurse story.

Rayan Cherki is skilled enough to be nonchalant and experimental in a meaningful Premier League match, which firmly places him in my absolute favorite genre of soccer player.

“Could” is lifting a Herculean amount of weight here

Smart people were fully convinced OKC was inevitable and I still don’t entirely understand why.

Kate Scott also clears every main host in the NBA by a mile

There's just no Big Meeks equivalent

I dream that someday the NBA will have a halftime/studio show as genuinely fun and engaging as the Champions League crew

Pretty good basketball team the Celtics have here, I'm not afraid to say it

Jordan Walsh has not returned to the game since Joe Mazzulla benched him for wasting the challenge lol

Honestly he is, two was unfair!

The Celtics, whose center situation was considered apocalyptic before the season, now have two genuinely good bigs lol

Jordan Walsh at his best is a massive difference maker.

YouTube video by Locked On Celtics BONUS: Inside Joe Mazzulla's Head, and Why He's Better Than Ime Udoka Would Have Been

Bonus @lockedonceltics.bsky.social: talking Mazzulla vs. Udoka with @tomwesterholm.bsky.social turned into the revelation that Joe is basically Ime after therapy.

Full episode:

youtu.be/hNGsY6hR3CY

It is absolutely essential that every person who claims they "wrote" music using AI be shunned and shamed.

Conceptually and intellectually, I'm aware that Luka Doncic is a superstar, but he's so consistently underwhelming against the team I watch most that my brain tells me he's one of the most overrated players I've ever seen.

You should not come to the World Cup

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Haha I chose Spurs a few years ago, so spiritually, I kind of did become an Everton fan? My son and I have been watching every game for a couple years now, for better or mostly worse.

YES 1000 percent. I simultaneously feel unbelievably late to the party, but also so happy to have found the party lol

Something I didn't expect when I started getting way too into soccer is that if you like horror movies (I do), you will love watching a defender play a risky ball backward in the box with attackers converging, because they instill a very similar sense of panic.

Who is charging $1,500/month???

European soccer academies sign kids to train and play free.

This is America, so I assume NBA Next Academies would charge $1,500/year AND would get the signing rights to kids in their program.

The extractive potential is so high, I’m surprised Adam Silver hasn’t implemented it already.

I‘m in favor of ending the NBA draft because I think it would make team-building an endlessly fascinating process.

I will say if you think American sports parents are crazy now, wait until they think they get their talented kid onto a Lakers Academy U12 team.

Jaylen is just getting all the ball-hog shots out of his system in preparation for a future when Tatum returns

He’s so special, I’m glad we’ve had this entire season honestly.

The smartest change here is clearly the mini-game format. USA vs. World is fine, but the All-Star game formatted as a full NBA game was way too long and left way too much room for fluff. Possessions feel meaningful in this format.

Kawhi giving the kids watching something to aspire to with this performance.

I can’t believe this unbelievably goofy idea is working, but it is unquestionably working lol

Obama saying it’s not expensive to get a basketball game organized, and that basketball is like soccer in that way, tells me Malia never played club sports.

I will watch the All-Star game but only because I am LITERALLY doing nothing else this afternoon.