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Giri Nathan
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as if the Lakers season couldn’t get any worse. Read more

There’s a rare pleasure right now in sharing a sense of awe and celebration over Zion that cuts across team loyalties like nothing else I’ve seen. Watching his college career together in real time feels like a piece of incredible luck and weirdly unifying because he’s just so damn undeniable. There’s not really a Read more

Not just that, but exudes sheer joy while doing it. I fucking hate Duke, but seeing how well these guys get along, always smiling and hugging each other, just having fun, it almost melts my cold cynical heart. Read more

It’s so rare to see a dude who’s both way better than everyone he plays against and tries harder than everyone he plays against. I’m completely demoralized just watching those highlights. Read more

I’ve watched the replay of the breakaway dunk at 00:15 of the highlights video roughly 17,000 times in the last 10 minutes. The dribble he is making at the screen shot below comes just inside the half court line and well outside the 3-pt line. It’s also his last dribble and he ends with a dunk without traveling. I

I forget which of the recent games it was, but in one (perhaps all of them) he went up on just a normal random play and looked for all the world like Dwight Howard doing his dunk contest superman dunk with the ball almost violently flying through the hoop with such force and velocity. Unlike Dwight, the game clock was Read more

As a fan - this was a really great match to watch. The steely Kerber with her high competence vs. the teenager who hit ridiculous forehand winners along with all kinds of crazy moon balls, lobs, drop-shots, etc. Read more

Two words come to mind when watching Andreescu: command and control.
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Nice all court game that’s fun to watch. Get tired of the bashers like Muguruza/Osaka/etc with their one dimensional games. Or the retrievers like Kerber/Wozniacki. Read more

One time in one of our high school games the opposing team held the ball for the entire quarter with a 2 point lead. Read more

I remember my middle school coach telling us to do this if we magically took the lead against a team a lot better than us.  I just remember thinking that we must suck so much ass for him to want us to do this.
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Good lord, some of those returns look like glitches in a video game! None of the physics make sense. Read more

It really is a shame that he’s spent so much of his career basically wasting his talent. As backhanded of a compliment as it was (pun intended), Rafa was right when he said Kyrgios could be one of the greats. Let’s hope he grows up and shows us his full potential before he’s too old/injured. Read more

He makes those forehand shots look so unbelievably easy and with such little effort.  Unreal ability. Read more

“Weird arm man” indeed. He puts SO MUCH bend into his arm the wrong way, that he gets such a crazy whip from the racket right at the right moment of impact with the ball. That’s crazy. Read more

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my man kicks his left foot out on those forehands like he’s doing the hokey-pokey back there Read more