Me having to hear a looped Mbappe ad on a flat screen by the elevator of my building for the past 9 months:
From @TheAthleticFC: Kylian Mbappe has apologised amid a fierce backlash to comments he made about China’s former leader Mao Zedong that caused two companies in the country to terminate their partnerships with him. nyti.ms/4iaNkVy
Watched Odyssey for a 3rd time at the picture show bc 1. great film 2. this brother starving for dramatic films
Only issue that grinds my gears about China. Only films China imports is action flicks, horror, & animation. Gratuitous violence + cartoons is a-ok. Everything else is censored
‘One upon a time in the Middle East’ is a poignant film. Depicting the anarchic violence of the Iraq war is a tough watch and centers the movie too much on who is and isn’t a “terrorist” but it’s well-done mostly
i dislike slander names bc they’re usually mean spirited but we should bring back ego-anunoby bc it’s something a 4 yr old would come up with and that’s why it’s genuinely funny
Knicks executive William Wesley stepped in when OG Anunoby had issues with his role last season:
"KAT clashed with Mike Brown over his role in the offense and, according to people around the team, OG Anunoby often felt the same way
"Wes stepped in. He built a relationship with Anunoby
"'That was huge for us' said a Knicks source, 'because OG was the person who needed the most massaging'"
In-depth profile of Wes & partner Leon Rose ⤵️
One thing I always appreciated about popular baseball catch-alls is the algorithms are publicly available.
For ex: wOBA, the pre-eminent offensive measure weights obp as 1.8 more valuable than slg based on historical pbp data. Easy to understand and fully transparent
Nba dorks say their catch-alls are forced into a digital black box bc the calculations are proprietary and that might be so…
Cleaned the clocks of the Chinese in 2 poker games at the bar and despite no money being involved, (*marge simpson voice* gambling is illegal!) wallahi I’ve never been on such a high
Felt the diff bw the instantaneous decisions the D has to make with a Mitch roll vs Drummond trying to lay it off glass
I don’t believe in the sixers. Embiid can’t jump and moves like he has fiberglass in his shoes. Ain’t no way turnstile D winning multiple playoff series