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14 Oct, 4 tweets, 1 min read
the NBA could easily take $2 million per year from its billionaire owners and allocate that $60 million to further subsidize the W's operations and player salaries.
when you realize the entire WNBA player base makes less per year than Nikola Vucevic
I’m being *conservative* with the $60m. You could very well just assess each billionaire the equivalent of the MLE (which i think is around $8m this season?) and get to $240m in total operating costs/salaries for the W.
NBA teams have skyrocketed in value over the last two decades; it’s one of the reasons the plutocrat class wants to own them so badly.

Steve Ballmer paid $2Bfor the right to own the Clippers, historically the sorriest team in North American sports.

These ppl can pony up 8 mil!

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14 Oct
i think the thing that's irritating about whatsherface's true believers is how they get froggy abt the mildest criticisms

i remember a year or so ago when the truancy program came up and actual Black people on here were copping pleas for it
if you heard what that program entailed in a vacuum — fining and potentially locking up the parents of chronically absent school children — wouldn't you *immediately* presume that the ppl who would get caught up in it would be Black/Latinx/Native, poor, or ppl w/ disabilities?
the fact that that wasn't obviously where her thinking went tells you a bit about her politics and priors, doesn't it?

the most charitable read is that her office fell into the "if all you have is a hammer..." trap.
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14 Oct
Excited to read this. Post-civil rights Black America saw the rise of a Black professional/elected class AND the rise of mass of incarceration and maybe we need to reckon with how those two phenomena informed each other.
we flick at this in this week’s episode but as one example: a whole generation of Black lawyers, prosecutors, and electeds signed on to the logic of carceral state and rather explicitly tied their jobs to their sense that they were inheritors to the mantle of civil rights
And @brentinmock has written smartly about this but the term “Black on Black crime” was initially Speaking to the concern that Black people in segregated Black communities were uniquely in danger of crime and violence.

Less “it be your own people!” and more “911 is a Joke.”
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12 Oct
*cough*

LeBron James will almost certainly finish his career with the most points in the history of the NBA. He will finish somewhere in the top 5 in assists. (He’ll be the only non-PG in the top 30.)

He has been the best basketball player in the world since the Bush administration.
LeBron James was on the cover of Sports Illustrated as a 16-year-old HS junior. He has been *the* face of the NBA since he was 25.

He has — somehow — been better than all of his hype. Image
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11 Oct
(Butler is playing more efficiently and unselfishly on offense and more disruptively on defensively than Captain Mamba Mentality ever did an a Finals series)
Just for giggles:

2000 Finals vs Indiana (LAL wins 4-2)

Kobe is at 16 ppg, 4.6 boards, 4.2. assists. Clearly still the second-banana here, and the shooting splits are horrific: 37% from the field, 20% from three and 91 from the line.
’01 against Philly. (LAL wins 4-1)
25 ppg, 8 rpg, 6 assists. He cracks 40% from the field this time, at least: 41% FG, 33% 3FG, and 84% from the line.
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1 Oct
@jbobmal @_Almaqah @jbouie Oh, we’re pretending like white liberals don’t seek out segregated neighborhoods and schools as a rule?
@_Almaqah @jbouie Are all these white people in these comments clutching their pearls and dunking on this lady living in mostly Black/Latino neighborhoods? Sending their kids to schools where the kids are in the minority?

Or are yall making the same choices that white people make everywhere?
@_Almaqah @jbouie Where this lady messed up is she didn’t know she was supposed to not say it.

She didn’t say “well, we were looking To buy a home in a neighborhood/suburb with a good school” or whatever white people say whenever they don’t want to say they want to live in a white neighborhood.
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1 Oct
Basketball i love yooooooouuuuuuuu
What’s a Domino’s HQ?
Ey, man

what do you think Red Panda and Quick Change and them up to?
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