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Spooky Joseph Boo-cker @josephzucker.bsky.social · 5h

Love to sit normally and casually

Spooky Joseph Boo-cker @josephzucker.bsky.social · 5h

The LeBron 2.0 era was when I kinda got radicalized as a sports fan because so much of that period was tense and angst-ridden. And you knew so much of the regular season was totally irrelevant and not worth enjoying because it all came down to the playoffs.

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Spooky Joseph Boo-cker @josephzucker.bsky.social · 5h

As a Cavs fan, I remember watching the series when Victor Oladipo pushed LeBron to the brink and actually being a little jealous of Pacers fans

David_j_roth @davidjroth.bsky.social · 6h

One thing I've noticed about getting older as a sports fan is that I have a new and growing appreciation for exhausting max-effort teams. I have disliked the Indiana Pacers longer than just about any pro sports team but I really respect how annoying they are.

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Spooky Joseph Boo-cker @josephzucker.bsky.social · 6h

Getting Julia Fox for an episode of “Elsbeth”

Spooky Joseph Boo-cker @josephzucker.bsky.social · 8h

As a draft prospect, McCarthy was one of those “if you say so” guys where enough people praised him so I believed it. Zach Wilson was like that too

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Spooky Joseph Boo-cker @josephzucker.bsky.social · 8h

I didn’t believe this until I saw Wentz walking through the tunnel with one of those shoulder braces on his left arm. They’re throwing him out there with a bum arm while JJ McCarthy is still recovering from an ankle injury

Denny Carter @dennycarter.bsky.social · 9h

JJ McCarthy was benched and the Vikings can’t bring themselves to say it

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Spooky Joseph Boo-cker @josephzucker.bsky.social · 8h

A track meet in Atlanta you say?

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Spooky Joseph Boo-cker @josephzucker.bsky.social · 8h

Seeing the NBA/FanDuel commercials in light of recent events

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Spooky Joseph Boo-cker @josephzucker.bsky.social · 9h

The bar turned off the USWNT for the South Alabama/Georgia State game

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Spooky Joseph Boo-cker @josephzucker.bsky.social · 9h

Rose Lavelle, Ohio’s state flower

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Spooky Joseph Boo-cker @josephzucker.bsky.social · 11h

I think it was on the Totally Football pod when one of the panelists talked about all of the extra steps Arsenal and other clubs are required to take when they have kids this young around the first team. And it really drove home how much added care is required in these situations.

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Spooky Joseph Boo-cker @josephzucker.bsky.social · 14h

I'm glad the Dallas Wings are thinking outside the box and hiring a first-time WNBA head coach

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Spooky Joseph Boo-cker @josephzucker.bsky.social · 16h

LeBron coming out to his retirement press conference wearing one of those foam neck braces

Spooky Joseph Boo-cker @josephzucker.bsky.social · 16h

It would be really funny if LeBron James' back trouble suddenly progressed to become career-ending

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Spooky Joseph Boo-cker @josephzucker.bsky.social · 16h

If we're being honest, I think it's also good in the bigger picture that Staley wasn't hired. I don't know how anybody successfully navigates the transition away from Damian Lillard. And if Staley does poorly, the loudest and dumbest voices would've screeched about how women can't coach in the NBA.

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Spooky Joseph Boo-cker @josephzucker.bsky.social · 16h

At the risk of downplaying the significance of Staley coaching in the NBA, she dodged a bullet on that one. I wouldn't wish the Blazers job on my worst enemy.

Claire Watkins @scoutripley.bsky.social · 16h

Remember when Dawn Staley interviewed for that Trail Blazers job

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Spooky Joseph Boo-cker @josephzucker.bsky.social · 16h

Look, it was worth it to tell Damon to his face that he was no Daniel Gibson

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Spooky Joseph Boo-cker @josephzucker.bsky.social · 19h

Guy whose hiring was overshadowed by a previous sexual assault allegation gets ensnared in an illegal gambling probe

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Spooky Joseph Boo-cker @josephzucker.bsky.social · 19h

I don't know how Blazers fans feel about him, but this seems like a fitting coda to the Chauncey Billups era when the vibes were bad from the start

www.espn.com/nba/story/_/...

Sources: Billups, Rozier arrests tied to gambling

Trail Blazers coach Chauncey Billups and Heat guard Terry Rozier have been arrested as part of a pair of investigations related to illegal gambling, sources told ESPN.

www.espn.com

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Spooky Joseph Boo-cker @josephzucker.bsky.social · 1d

This is one of the many features in the last CBA that made me wonder how much the WNBPA had the right lawyers

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Spooky Joseph Boo-cker @josephzucker.bsky.social · 1d

People don't seem to understand that 2021 was a different time with different standards. Nobody knew homophobia was bad four years ago.

Christopher Wiggins @cwnewser.bsky.social · 1d

SCOOP: Maine Senate candidate Graham Platner apologized for homophobic language and antigay slurs he admitted to writing on Reddit in an interview with me this afternoon, after I confronted him on comments I discovered from as recently as 2021.

www.advocate.com/politics/gra...

Maine Senate candidate Graham Platner admits using ‘indefensible’ antigay slurs in unearthed Reddit posts

"Today I find that stuff abhorrent," Platner told The Advocate. "And I am sorry that I ever used it.”

www.advocate.com

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Spooky Joseph Boo-cker @josephzucker.bsky.social · 1d

A comparison that came to mind yesterday was how Maryland initially tried to circle the wagons around DJ Durkin. The school jeopardized its morals for a coach who wasn't even that good. Graham Platner is just some guy who decided to run for Senate.

Spooky Joseph Boo-cker @josephzucker.bsky.social · 1d

Something the "oh, are we supposed to permanently cancel every young man with a Nazi tattoo?" crowd didn't think through was that there's a good chance more damning stuff comes out about this guy

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Spooky Joseph Boo-cker @josephzucker.bsky.social · 1d

A max salary of $850,000 would be ludicrous when Cathy loved trotting out that mythical $750k salary that was available in the old CBA

www.nytimes.com/athletic/674...

WNBA players union director criticizes NBA commissioner Adam Silver’s statements

Revenue sharing remains a wedge issue in CBA talks. Silver said the focus should be on salary increases.

www.nytimes.com

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Spooky Joseph Boo-cker @josephzucker.bsky.social · 2d

I can't believe he's basically trying to play the cancel culture card over a Nazi tattoo