The first @Hoops4ALS game (1/9 on ESPN 9 ET) was announced yesterday. #Duke at #Pitt. I want to tell you about a Hoops4ALS committee member named in the paragraph below.

Adam Wilson. He died yesterday. ALS. I want to tell you about how he lived. (🧵1/18) After Mom was diagnosed with ALS, my brothers and I helped start a grassroots initiative: Lou Gehrig Day. My brother Steve sent an email saying hello to 7 people with a shared dream. (Most of us hadn’t met).

In less than an hour, someone volunteered to run it. Adam. (2/18)

As far as I can tell here's what happened:

So, foul called on Al Horford. The ref that made the call was Josh Tiven, in the foreground.

Notice that the clock shows 2.5 and Tiven has *yet to call the foul*. No hand up. 1/x

https://twitter.com/haralabob/status/1662665427347185664

The clock stops at 2.1 seconds. Celtics coach Joe Mazzulla challenged the FOUL call.

As you can see here, Tiven called the foul at 2.3, not 3.0 or 2.1. So why 3.0? The devil is in the details.

👁️THREAD: The NBA assigns its best, most-experienced referees to the Lakers and Warriors. Worst-caliber refs: Magic.

The league almost never puts rookie referees on Lakers, Sixers and Knicks games.

I'll explain the simple way I calculated Ref Rating. (1/x) #basketballilluminati Each morning, the NBA publicly announces its refs for every game with role assignments (transparency!). Track this for every game and we can see which refs the NBA trusts in its leader role (Crew Chief), secondary role (Referee) and last (Umpire). #basketballilluminati (2/X)

So here's my story about Jerry Remy (RIP). When I was 17, my older brothers and I scored tickets to sit on the Green Monster at Fenway. We were die-hard Red Sox fans and thought Remy was the absolute best. So I hatched a plan to get his (and @DonOrsillo's) attention. Thread (1/x) At the time, Wally the Green Monster was having a moment. The @RedSox mascot had become a beloved character on the NESN broadcast. A Wally doll would sit with Remy and Don in the booth. They'd tell funny stories about his day. It was an awesome bit. But it missed something. (2/x)