Lexi Held is already one of my fave players in the W. Total psycho. Doesn’t take plays off. Every winning team needs a player like this. 🏀

This NYL/IND game is the WNBA game of the year so far and it’s not particularly close. 🏀

This NYL/IND game is absolute madness so far! 🏀

These Pacers, man… they’re unflappable. 🏀

Wrote a quick little reax post after Game 1 of IND/NYK for the smallweb basketball people. 🏀

I’ve been building a little site over at Bear. It’s still a work in progress (and I still need to map combatdavey dot com to it) but I’d be grateful it if you took a look and read a few things: combatdavey.bearblog.dev

Wrote another hoops post for the (other) smallweb basketball 🏀 enjoyers (cc: @jefbrr @pilch @manton @cheesemaker @miljko) and yes I think I may be heat-checking at this point

I don’t think it’s a narrative. I think Caitlin Clark and Angel Reese actually dislike each other. 🏀

Watched parts of all three WNBA games tonight, working on a post for tomorrow. 🏀

Happy first day of the WNBA season to those who celebrate! I’ve been looking forward to today since my Lynx got jobbed in the Finals. (Napheesa Collier revenge szn loading……..) 🏀

Wrote a short post _{(about being right about Julian Strawther)} for the (growing?) group of basketball 🏀 enjoyers on the smallweb (cc: @jefbrr @pilch @manton @cheesemaker @miljko)

It took a few days but I scratched out some thoughts on the NBA draft lottery for the 🏀 folks in on the smallweb (cc: @jefbrr @pilch @manton @cheesemaker and prob others)

I’m finding it easier to stay in the zone and write, lately. Today’s post was a mishmash of NBA thoughts that only @manton + @cheesemaker + maybe @pilch are going to care about: this is the link to the post 🏀

NBA basketball heads! Can you please vote in this poll over on Threads? 🏀

Joel Embiid has a $69,065,472 player option for the 2028-29 season lmaoooooo how do you trade this contract??? 🏀

Dallas getting first pick in the Cooper Flagg draft after trading Luka? Rigggggggged. Also, as a Raptors fan I am low-key crestfallen. 🏀

Today was a mixed bag. On one hand, I lost my job. On the other, the Celtics choked at home again. 🏀

I want a Mike Breen “BANG!” when I plug the USB cable/device into the port correctly the first time. 🏀

“How y’all gon' be fuckin' with me — I just sent y’all nXXXXs home. How they gon' do that? They been talking shit all week. ‘Lakers in 5.’ And then, look, when we was up 3-1 they said ‘Lakers in 7.’ Go to hell today. The good guy gon' die in this movie.”

Anthony Edwards rules. 🏀

This GSW/HOU game in two words: elder abuse. 🏀

Iconic stuff from Sam Adams x Derrick White 🏀🍺

The 2nd half + OT of this Heat/Hawks game was better than half the games I watched all season. Unreal shot-making. Drama like a mf. Ice water in all the veins. Davion’s best game ever. Just amazing, amazing stuff. 🏀

If LeBron James didn’t exist, dozens (hundreds?) of sports media people would be unemployed and 75% of the online basketball commentariat would know what grass feels like. 🏀

Screw it, let’s do this again. I just bet a few truly bonkers parlays on the MIA/CHI play-in game. If I win the biggest, dumbest one I will buy someone a one-year subscription to Micro.blog. (A screenshot has been sent to @cheesemaker so he can keep me honest.) 🏀

Update: it didn’t hit. :(

I just bet a few truly bonkers parlays on the Atlanta/Orlando play-in game. If I win the biggest, dumbest one I will buy someone a one-year subscription to Micro.blog. (A screenshot of the biggest, dumbest one has been sent to @cheesemaker so he can keep me honest.) 🏀

Update: it didn’t hit. :(

Been a Paige Bueckers fan for a minute, but not as long as this guy. Big night for her coming up. 🏀

This is like when Jack Donaghy and the writers endlessly tinker in order to create the perfect microwave and end up designing the Pontiac Aztek. 🏀

Sure, it’s only my brother’s lowly redraft league, but winning is winning, and RAJON ROOMBA sips from the cup of glory today! 🏀🏆🍾

Scottie’s fit tho… 🏀

Not the best I’ve ever done, not the worst I’ve ever done. (I have Florida over Houston as my final, too.) 🏀

If karma is real, if our actions matter at all to the powers that control the universe, the Philadelphia 76ers should get the seventh overall pick in the upcoming NBA draft. #iykyk 🏀

This MIN/DEN game tho… 🏀

Firing Taylor Jenkins is… insane? You have to figure something was happening behind the scenes in Memphis. 🏀

That Bulls/Lakers game was wiiiiiiild omg 🏀😳

Just made a bad pancake that was a pretty good pancake, all things considered. (First time vaguebooking on Micro.blog, what a day!)

Relevant to my interests which are also @cheesemaker’s interests and also maybe @manton’s. 🏀

A lot of NBA players have missed time with hamstring issues this season, and leading up to the trade deadline I wondered if some of them were taking their sweet time coming back bc they were getting traded. I’m stupid. I’m on week four of a pull/strain and I’m only like 25% of the way back. 🏀

At the time of this writing, Max Christie is +33 in a nine-point game. 🏀

Jordan Hawkins pitched a no-hit shutout 😬🏀☠️

Raptors should take a flier on Jalen Hood-Schifino. It’s criminal that there’s already some kind of “bust” stink on him, as he didn’t get a real opportunity in LA. He was the Big 10 Freshman of the Year in 2022-2023, joining the likes of Branham, JJJ, Miles Bridges, DLo, Redd, and CWebb. 🏀

Been low-key run down for weeks. Not sick, something more halfway. I’m tired but not exhausted; I’m sore but not aching. I’ve been waiting for a second hit that hasn’t come. It’s a weird liminal space to be in. I watched all the NBA traded deadline drama from bed, though because #priorities.

The NBA trade deadline has been so intense I feel like I have a concussion. 🏀

Didn’t expect NYT columnist Frank Bruni to comment on Cooper Flagg’s moistness today, but here we are. 🏀

TIL Khris Middleton’s full name is James Khristian Middleton. WE COULD HAVE BEEN CALLING HIM JIMMY MIDDLES THIS WHOLE TIME! 🏀

Today is February 4, 2025 — i.e. 2/4. Among active NBA players wearing #24 this season (the 24-25 season), Norm Powell is first in minutes played, FGM, FGA, 3PM, 3PA, FTM, FTA, steals, turnovers, and points. He’s also averaging a career-high 24 points per game (okay, 24.1 — but I rounded down). 🏀

Happy day, Shotcreator seems to be back! 🏀🏀🏀

The world is ending so I’m playing with the (Fanspo) Trade Machine (instead of the ESPN one) and this feels… plausible? 🏀

The world is ending so I’m playing with the Trade Machine. 🏀

I had a dream the Raptors traded Chris Boucher for a first and a second. It’s not likely but tell that to my subconscious. 🏀

Today is February 3, 2025 — i.e. 2/3/25. The only active NBA players to score 2,325 or more points in a single regular season are James Harden (4x), Kevin Durant (2x), Russell Westbrook, LeBron James, Steph Curry, and Luka Dončić. Dončić did it most recently, scoring 2,370 last season. 🏀

I didn’t write a trivia post yesterday because the Luka/AD trade broke my brain for a day. Mea culpa.

Another consequence of Luka Doncic getting traded is that the most annoying people on LinkedIn are now going to write 1,000 tHoUgHt LeAdErShiP posts about how no employee is irreplaceable.

Went to check the Mavs subreddit and my tablet melted.

Seriously man what the fuck just happened. How did the Lakers do that? Why would the Mavs do that? They had time! They could have shopped around! Man, Mavs fans must be inconsolable.

I’m assuming Luka gave the Mavs fair notice that he wasn’t gonna extend and they were getting ahead of it. That’s the only rational explanation.

I can’t process this so I’m not going to try. This is insane. If this trade is real we are 100% living in a simulation.

I’m assuming Shams got hacked…

You better be watching this, @cheesemaker. Your Blazers have clearly figured something out.

Today is February 1, i.e. 2/1. The only active NBA player celebrating a birthday today is Drew Eubanks (b. 1997). He was also traded today. 🏀

Today is January 31, i.e. 1/31. Zach Lavine is the only NBA player to score 31 or more points in five consecutive games this season. He did it six consecutive games earlier this month. 🏀

Today is January 30, i.e. 1/30. This season, among current NBA players who currently wear #30, Steph Curry has the third-best 3FG% at 40.5%. Who’s ahead of him? Journeyman C Jay Huff at 41.7% and his brother Seth, who is currently shooting an absurd 46.9% from deep. 🏀

Draymond would kill it on LinkedIn.

I co-wrote a sports trivia newsletter with a friend for a few years but eventually life got in the way and we had to go on hiatus. This weekend we’re meeting up to discuss a revival and I couldn’t be more excited.

Ayton is so good when he tries. 🏀

Tyrese Maxey should get 4th and 5th place MVP votes. 🏀

First, the Jewell Loyd/Kelsey Plum trade. Now apparently the Mercury are acquiring Alyssa Thomas? Huge moves happening in the W! 🏀

Just opened Brave on my iPad for the first time since I woke up. Apparently I passed out reading Pacôme Dadiet’s pre-draft scouting report over at NBA Draft Room.

Watching the Celtics get cooked tastes so good it has to be fattening. 🏀

Season over for Brandon Miller. 🏀😔

I hate the Celtics even more than usual tonight because on top of everything else they’re making me cheer for the Clippers. 🏀

Said by the Hornets colour guy just now, re: how the Charlotte Hornets played Kyrie Irving on a Dallas possession: “Quality D right there. Twenty-two seconds of excellence.” 👀🏀🍆

Conversation from my 🏀 Discord:

Him: Too bad the US tanking won’t get us a top draft pick.

Me: I mean, it will. But Russia owns your picks for a few years.

Just started The Joy of Basketball and laughed out loud when I read this part. 🏀

Skylar. Diggins. Smith. For. The. Win. 🏀

76ers: Joel Embiid will be re-evaluated in 7 to 10 days. He will receive treatment to address not having that dog in him. 🏀

Oof, Anfernee Simons tossed up a donut tonight. 🏀🍩😩

Noticed a few Timberwolves fans on Threads clowning Andrew Wiggins, which is their absolute right (and I get why they feel the way they do). But it’s worth noting that a) he became a better player after he left the Wolves and; b) he has a ring. 🏀

Raptors troll game on point 😂

Unbelievable Raptors win. Beyond proud. 🏀🦖

I stopped posting on Twitter forever ago but can’t seem to delete the app or my 50,000+ tweets bc of all the bangers I’ve liked/RTed over the years. I basically only it for dynasty basketball research reasons, but, while there, I check the temperature of the zeitgeist. (Spoiler: it’s bad.)

Legit getting emotional watching Magic and Pat Riley being on the mic for Michael Cooper’s jersey retirement. 🏀

“We should trade (player/players who are bad and/or overpaid and/or hurt + some 2nds) to (rebuilding team with promising young talent) for (all their promising young talent). It’s so obvious!” — fans of good-but-not-great NBA 🏀 teams on social media

Flipping through games tonight and stopped on WAS/CHI for a few minutes, specifically bc of their colour guys. A few minutes later they called Matas Buzelis “Lil Buzi Vert” after a breakaway dunk and I felt rewarded. 🏀

The success the Cavs are experiencing under Kenny Atkinson is not a repudiation of the work done by J.B. Bickerstaff. This current Cavs team owes a lot to Bickerstaff, who is doing excellent work with a young and talented team in Detroit. As teams evolve, their needs evolve. Simple as that. 🏀

Anyone who watched OKC/CLE last night and still wants to complain about the state of the NBA simply doesn’t like or understand basketball. 🏀

There’s no pain quite like waiting to find out if the dynasty 🏀 trade you pitched was accepted. I am one tapped button away from acquiring one of my favourite players (who is objectively awesome) and I am almost nauseous about it.

Shaq (once again) talks about how he doesn’t care about Dwight Howard, then gets cooked by… Dwight Howard. 🏀

Devin Carter, whose draft day outfit was written up by the NYT, could make his NBA debut tonight. 🏀

Was in the house for IQ’s return last night. Scottie Barnes plays so much better when he doesn’t have to be the primary distributor and playmaker. 🏀

I’m still not over the Minnesota Lynx getting jobbed in the WNBA Finals. 🏀

Letting Jordi go, then extending Brown, then firing Brown when there’s no HC prospect in the wings is such a Kings move. Was this Fox or was this Vivek? And, either way, does this mean they’re blowing it up? 🏀

Dyson Daniels is awesome and The Great Barrier Thief is such a good nickname. 🏀

It’s okay to not like outside-in (or kinda in) basketball. But the way people are connecting “I don’t like 3s” with “NBA ratings are down” (something no layperson has ever cared about btw) suggests these people think they should have a say in how NBA basketball should be played. It’s insane. 🏀

The number of times I’ve read the (untrue) Rickey/Olerud story over the last few days is wild. I get it. It’s fun. But sports discourse on social is generally bad because it’s just cOnTeNt now. Reposts of reposts, bad takes, bad faith takes. Especially the recent 🏀 stuff.

Beyond impressed by how the Raptors played in the 1Q. Especially considering RJ, Bruce, Jak, and Quick are out. 🏀

Uh, is Wemby going to trip dub with blocks? 🏀

I just completely tore down one of my dynasty 🏀 teams and now all I do when I have a few hours of spare time (in the wee hours, say) is scout prospects in the 2025 and 2026 drafts and keep up with my newly-acquired prospects playing in the G. True sicko behaviour, yes, but I regret nothing.

Not having a dumb late game on the NBA slate (LAL/GSW would hit so good rn) is the worst. I’m supposed to just sit here?! With my thoughts?! 🏀

Where are the dynasty basketball people (sickos) on micro.blog? I want to chat with people who have opinions on, like, Egor Demin, Nikola Đurišić, and Tidjane Salaün. 🏀

Jordan Clarkson and Ron Holland squaring up and getting ejected last night was strange. The whole altercation had a real “Let’s Remember Some Guys” vibe of randomness, except both guys were active and David Roth was nowhere to be seen. 🏀

Lakers fans bellow about JHS and Max Lewis being busts even though neither has played much. I think they’re wrong, but I understand the perspective. But then those same fans seem to think the Lakers will get a big return for a package of… wait for it… JHS and Max Lewis. Make it make sense! 🏀