Sending love and prayers to former Duke star Dereck Lively II, who posted on Instagram today about the passing of his mother, Kathy Drysdale, after her long battle with cancer.

Wrote about their relationship after Lively's best college game against UNC:
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Luka Dončić has ascended to this sport's highest level, something more meaningful to him and his franchise than any award race result: theathletic.com/5409867/2024/0…

The way Larry David tries to explain Jalen Brunson’s game is hilarious. 😂

Had a lot of fun chatting with Tim about how Victor Wembanyama is breaking our player tracking reports by blocking 'open' threes – ones where the body-to-body distance is more than six feet – something which seems like it should be impossible 😅

“he’s defying physics as I did understand them. now I’m recalibrating.”

Wembanyama's shot blocking is more than what he does to teams around the rim. he's making the NBA's best shooters rethink things, too. theathletic.com/5400337/2024/0…

google search results are so broken. can’t even figure out the real score of a goddamn nba game anymore.

luka doncic’s passing tonight is directed by wes anderson

WHERE DID IT GO

everyone’s like wow the eclipse! it’s so cool! i am so excited! but have you considered how scary it’s gonna be for someone like me, a guy who lacks object permanence

Luka and Kyrie have combined for 83 points. there's no team in the world who wants to play them. there's nothing you can do when they're like this.

but, like, seriously why did thompson do all that

not many better non-star two-way players in the league than PJ Washington if he's shooting 40 percent

James Singleton is at tonight's game

Wemby: I GOT 23-15-8 WITH 9 BLOCKS

Jokic:

#Nuggets

this is incredibly high level hoops

imagine if they were teammates

y'all send me some questions

gonna answer some here, some in an article, maybe some on our podcast me + Austin are recording tonight.

here’s a hot take: SOMEBODY TOLD ME has always been a better song than MR. BRIGHTSIDE. sorry for being right.