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Meyers Leonard: š King of the Bubble. Accepting all challengers š @NBABubbleLife @CoorsLight
JJ Redick: Sorry meant to post this earlier. Multitasking post practice. @budlight @NBABubbleLife
Darren Wolfson: The #Timberwolves had a good group in for workouts last week, more guys coming in this week. Itās an important summer from a developmental perspective for so many. By the way, the wrap on Russellās right ankle is normal post-workout taping. Nothing to worry about.
Thybulle posted a vlog on Saturday of the Sixersā trip, documenting their flight to Orlando and early hours in quarantine. The players have since cleared the initial mandated quarantine and returned to practice Saturday for the first time since March 10.
Spencer Dinwiddie: Day 16 update: My son has to get a small procedure. Just really puts everything into context. As a dad you aināt even worried about the ups and downs of your health anymore.
Brandon āScoop Bā Robinson: Given that certain players are wearing social justice words on the back of their jerseys, how big of a distraction do you think that could be from the NBAās restart? Mark Cuban: None. It will be something that people talk about, but once the games start fans are going to be fans and love watching the games and people who are not fans will want to commentate. Players are used to ignoring commentary on social legacy and social media, so I donāt think they are distracted by it at all. Plus, this is such a unique situation, my hope is that the players will become closer and stronger together.
Ky Carlin: Joel Embiid has jokes already about the food in the bubble #Sixers
LeBron James: Just left the crib to head to the bubble. Shit felt like Iām headed to do a bid man! Fr. Hated to leave the #JamesGangš.
Gordon Hayward’s wife Robyn posted a heartfelt message to Instagram as the team was leaving noting how long she and their kids could be away from her husband. She is due with their fourth child in early September and Hayward has said he will leave the bubble in order to be with her when she goes into labor. Here’s the post.
Former NBA player Stephen Jackson defended DeSean Jackson on Tuesday night, saying the Philadelphia Eagles wide receiver was “speaking the truth” with his controversial social media posts, including an anti-Semitic message that he attributed to Adolf Hitler. The Eagles called DeSean Jackson’s posts “offensive, harmful and absolutely appalling” and the wide receiver later issued two separate statements of apology with “a promise to do better.”
“So I just read a statement that the Philadelphia Eagles posted regarding DeSean Jackson’s comments. He was trying to educate himself, educate people, and he’s speaking the truth. Right? He’s speaking the truth. You know he don’t hate nobody, but he’s speaking the truth of the facts that he knows and trying to educate others,” Stephen Jackson said in a video posted on Instagram. “But y’all don’t want us to educate ourselves. If it’s talking about the Black race, y’all ain’t saying nothing about it. They killing us, police killing us and treating us like s—, racism at an all-time high, but ain’t none of you NFL owners spoke up on that, ain’t none of you teams spoke up on that. But the same team had a receiver (Riley Cooper) who said the word n—– publicly! They gave him an extension! I play for the Big3. We have a Jewish owner. He understands where we stand and some of the things we say, but it’s not directed to him. It’s the way we’ve been treated.”
Nets Daily: Nets are ramping up their Chinese language social media offerings, recently hiring Mengyang Liu, a former NBA reporter for TenCent, the big Chinese Internet company. Liu has a degree in sports management from Michigan.
Former NBA small forward and co-host of SHOWTIME Sportsā āAll The Smokeā podcast Stephen Jackson has sat back and watched what happened after DeSean Jackson caused a ton of controversy after posting on social media an anti-Semitic message that he attributed to Adolf Hitler and admiration for Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan.
The Philadelphia Eagles wide receiver has since apologized and stated he has no hatred toward the Jewish community. Stephen Jackson doesnāt think his apology shouldāve happened, because he was right in what he posted about. Check out the below video:
Kellan Olson: Looks like Devin Booker has arrived at Walt Disney World (instagram.com/dbook)
And for people as weirdly fixated on this as I am, it turns out it gets even more interesting, because apparently Magic isnāt even the one sending his own tweets. As he revealed to Rob Lowe in a truly bizarre exchange during his appearance on the Rob Pelinka lookalikeās podcast, Johnson has a person send his tweets for him
Rob Lowe: Of all the things that you could ask one of the greatest men, players, but thatās what they wanted to ask, so here I am, Iām asking: Why are they obsessed with your tweets? Magic Johnson: I donāt know. No, I have somebody write them out. I tell them what I want to say and they write them.
Evan Fournier: Man Im so tired of hearing ā he put on 20 pounds of muscle in 2 monthsā. Its just not possible. Its physically impossible to create muscles that fast. š¤·š½āāļøš¤·š½āāļø
Sarah Todd: on an Instagram live Donovan Mitchell said that he’s a huge fan of The Office and knows whole episodes by heart
Some 10.71 million students in China are about to sit for the country’s national college examination, or Gaokao in Chinese, on Tuesday. This exam will, in a way, decide their future. On Monday, NBA All-Star forward Tobias Harris sent these students his best wishes for Gaokao through a video posted on Weibo.
Meanwhile, unlike other stars who have their accounts run by their staff, according to Tencent Sports, Harris manages his own Weibo posts which often include posts in Chinese. He has been learning the language for the same purpose. From time to time, he posts personal videos and replies to comments of his fans.
Enes Kanter: Kurdish people have been discriminated,oppressed & persecuted through out history Human Rights are every Human beingās Right All the people including Kurdish people have an equal right to freedom! Kurds have their right to live free! I stand with Kurds #KurdishLivesMatter ā
A generation ago, it was tough to find any Warriors fans outside of the Bay Area, let alone at some desolate outpost in Southeast Europe. But by now, such encounters no longer count as shocking. After five consecutive trips to the NBA Finals, with a roster that features some of the gameās most marketable players, and after a concerted effort to raise their profile abroad, the Warriors emerged as a certifiable global brand. According to the teamās internal tracking, the majority of the Warriorsā social media followers reside outside the United States ā thatās 80 percent of their followers on Facebook, 70 percent on Instagram, 52 percent on Twitter.
He recalled over the phone last week that in the late ā80s, growing the NBA meant Stern handing a baffled TV executive from Italy a stack of videocassette recordings in hopes the exec would air them when he got back home. āThe victories were getting a game that was played 10 days ago aired at a terrible time on Italian television,āā Welts said. āThatās the kind of thing we considered a victory back then.ā Around that time, league officials also attended an international market show in Cannes. āWith pretty much a cardboard table and a bunch of business cards,āā Welts said. āWe just tried to grab any television programmer who was there to try to explain to them what the NBA was and why it would be such a great property for their company to air on television.ā
The coronavirus canāt stop Spencer Dinwiddie from needling Knicks fans. Quarantining since his recent positive test, the Nets guard responded Thursday to a picture circulating on social media of Knicks center Mitchell Robinson. In that selfie, Robinson is wearing what appears to be a custom-made shirt that shows him blocking Dinwiddieās shot. Dinwiddie, who designs his own sneakers with images and messages, then wrote on Twitter: āI wouldāve put em on a shoe, but ima need him to not lead the league in fouls before I do that.ā
Sarah Todd: Donovan Mitchell said that he was overcome with disappointment when negative comments popped up on the Utah Jazz BLM post and his Juneteenth post. Said that seeing the same people who cheer for the team say things that hurt was not okay which is why he wasn’t quiet on it
Goran Dragic: Good luck to @Fenerhahce Beko and Igor KokoÅ”kov on the 3 year journey. Proud of you my coach šš¼ iyi Åanslar
Trae Young (Atlanta Hawks) unfollowed LeBron James (Los Angeles Lakers) on Twitter.
Phoenix Suns center Deandre Ayton and Phoenix Mercury center Brittney Griner are using the power of gaming and social media to raise money for COVID-19 relief and social justice. Ayton and Griner are two of 11 athletes joining forces with Facebook Gaming to livestream games exclusively on Facebook and their own Facebook pages using a Live Donate button to raise money for two of the most prominent causes in the United States and beyond.
Facebook is also donating $20,000 to the charity of choice for Ayton, Griner and nine other athletes ā Donovan Mitchell (Utah Jazz), Julian Edelman (New England Patriots), Allie Long, (U.S. Soccer/Reign FC), Alex Caruso (Los Angeles Lakers), Bogdan BogdanoviÄ (Sacramento Kings), JaVale McGee (Los Angeles Lakers), Josh Richardson (Philadelphia 76ers), Zach LaVine (Chicago Bulls) and Tacko Fall (Boston Celtics).
Chris Bosh: Make it happen. #BlackLivesMatter @ColorOfChange thelastchip.com
