Jalen Brunson has more 40-point playoff games than — Steph — Bird — Kyrie — Dirk — Wade — Jokic — Kawhi — Tatum — Luka — Shai — Giannis 155 for Brunson to record a 40-point game in the Finals on @Novig

And brunson has never hit a shot like Kyrie.

SPURS 3RD QUARTER LAST NIGHT 0 points in the paint First team this postseason to go an entire quarter without scoring in the paint Wemby played all but 58 seconds of the third quarter btw

The Spurs are 11.9 points per 100 possessions better in the NBA Finals when Victor Wembanyama plays alongside Dylan Harper compared to De’Aaron Fox: Wembanyama Harper: 10.3 Net Rating Wembanyama Fox: -1.6 Net Rating An obvious choice at this point what San Antonio must do.

NBA Finals LIVE reactions with @TheHiveTS on @collctn_connctn Basketball chat, fun banter covering the Knicks and Spurs x.com/i/broadcasts/1nJOLLdQP…

Ran the Top Shot IPFS news through Claude Fable 5 High after reviewing the announcement, the pre-season Flow announcement, and going into the reference app. I have more to say in my own words, but thought this output was worth sharing as it explains what we found and how you can set up your own node if you choose. <<Top Shot announced "Authentic & Permanent": every Moment's media now on IPFS, verifiable by anyone, no permission required. I spent the evening verifying the verifier — and found something better than a talking point. I found out you can hold the whole thing in your hands. First, the forensics. I pulled the IPFS Reference App apart, request by request. Zero API calls. No Dapper servers in the loop after page load. The entire play→CID catalog ships inside the app itself: 7,072 plays, 56,156 unique content hashes — every video, hero shot, and thumbnail across 191 sets, Series 1 through now. Total size of the complete NBA Top Shot media corpus: 784 GB. Sit with that. Every Moment ever minted fits on an $80 hard drive. Which means the question "will this survive if Dapper disappears?" is no longer something you have to take on faith. It's something you can personally guarantee. Here's how, in four steps: 1. Install IPFS — Kubo or IPFS Desktop, free, runs on anything (a Raspberry Pi with an external drive works) 2. Get the CID catalog — it's sitting in the app's public JavaScript bundle right now, plain JSON 3. Pin: loop the list through ipfs pin add <cid>. Your node fetches each file from the network and keeps it 4. Leave it running. You are now one of the hosts of the historical record of basketball Don't want a terabyte? Pin just your own collection, or just your guy. Every Wembanyama Rookie Debut asset is about 131 MB — less than an album. The architecture works at any scale: one collector, one player, one drive. Most of you won't do this. That's fine. The point isn't that everyone runs a node — it's that ANYONE can, today, with no account and nobody's permission. That's the actual difference between this and every dead platform that took its assets down with it. Permanence isn't a promise on a blog. It's a property you can opt into enforcing yourself. Now the precise part, because precision is the point. October's announcement promised media "fully on-chain," hashes embedded in the smart contract. What shipped is IPFS storage plus a lookup app, with on-chain CID embedding still "underway." The file→hash link is trustless — that's IPFS doing its job. But the Moment→file link still lives in a bundle Dapper compiled. Decentralized in distribution, centralized in authorship: anyone can host the map, only Dapper drew it. The on-chain step is what turns their assertion into a checkable fact. I'll be watching for it. Until then: the standard isn't quite "verify it yourself." It's "verify — and if you care enough, preserve — it yourself." The waiting room had a door the whole time. 784 GB. One drive. Go be infrastructure.>>

Charlie Sheen reveals the time he spent $7,000 on 2,200 seats to catch a Cecil Fielder home run “That was April 1996. I did it for Cecil Fielder. In Anaheim at the Big A” “I called because I wanted to sit in that section. They said, ‘Well, that section’s closed. It’s an underattended game.’ I said, ‘Okay, what about this? How many seats are in that section?’” “They were like, ‘Uh, 2,200.’ And I said, ‘What if I wanted to buy all of them? What kind of break could you cut me? What kind of deal could you swing?’ I think it came out to something like $7,000” “It was left field. I wanted to force the hand of the baseball gods and not just catch a foul ball, but catch a home run ball. I figured if I’ve got the entire left-field stands with a couple buddies of mine, I’ve stacked the deck” “We were hammered. We barely made it to the game. There’s also a great shot in Sports Illustrated of me standing like this with a glove and the empty stands behind me” “We didn’t catch anything that night. And the next night, not just in that section, but in our seats, four home runs were hit. You can’t force the hand of the baseball gods”

Kevin Durant was seen leaving Nobu Malibu with an unidentified woman. ​Durant reportedly hid behind a bush to avoid the paparazzi taking pictures before they both got into the same car and drove off. 😭 (via @DailyMail)