Smh got him looking like Tony in “Blue Chips.”

You forgot: Unmarried, no kids, starts the day surfing in Costa Rica 😂

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This short essay spoke to something that has been troubling me the past few years: even though I am surrounded by people all day every day, I often feel something that can only be described as self-inflicted loneliness. I have had close friendships in my life, and yet the very closest -- often due to my neglect or mistreatment-- faded away. "And perhaps this is why adult friendship feels increasingly radical. It resists the transactional logic modern life rewards everywhere else. Because a real friend offers something profoundly rare: unoptimised presence. Family is structured by blood. Marriage by institution. Work relationships by utility. Friendship survives purely through mutual choosing. Nobody has to stay. And yet some people do." timesofindia.indiatimes.com/…

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But did he vote for change? Did he demand NC pay teachers as professionals? Or does he just post?

Old heads called Jordan the goat for doing this same move and miles bridges Is doing it in a play in game lmao

Major League was on this morning— so many parallels to this Hornet’s season. All we need is LaMelo to stand up in the locker room and proclaim, “there’s only one thing left to do…win the whole. f@xking thing”

There’s no single path in wrestling. Some kids need to be pushed early. They’re winning everything, dominating locally, and if you don’t get them into better rooms and tougher tournaments they get comfortable. They start thinking they’re better than they actually are. Those kids need to get tested early so they stay hungry and stay humble. But on the flip side, some kids are already getting tested every day. They’re losing in the room, losing at tournaments, struggling to place. And that’s where parents panic. They think something’s wrong so they try to add more—more training, bigger events, tougher competition. That’s where it gets messed up. If your kid is already getting beat, already dealing with adversity, already having to figure things out… they’re on the right path. That’s how you build resilience. Not from winning. From losing, adjusting, and showing back up anyway. Throwing them into something even harder doesn’t speed it up. Most of the time it just buries them. Harder isn’t better. Better is what they actually need. The biggest problem is comparison. Parents see another kid dominating at the same age and think their kid is behind. So now it becomes blaming coaches, blaming the room, blaming everything instead of just understanding they’re on a different timeline. You’re watching a snapshot and acting like it’s the whole story. Some of those early studs never learn how to lose. Then they hit college, get beat every day, and they don’t know how to respond. No resilience. No identity. They fade out. Meanwhile the kid who couldn’t win a bracket at 10 learned how to handle losing, learned how to adjust, learned how to keep showing up when it sucked. That kid becomes dangerous later. And then people get burnout completely wrong. Burnout almost never comes from training too much. It comes from pressure. It comes from a kid feeling like every match defines them, like they’re letting people down, like they’re never doing enough. That’s what drains them. You rarely see a kid who truly loves it and owns it burn out from mat time. What you do see is kids start to check out. They stop focusing in practice, go through the motions, avoid hard situations, and become inconsistent. Then people say they’re burned out. No—they’re detached. Wrestling stopped being something they enjoy and became something they feel judged on. And a lot of the time those kids were never fully bought in, they were just carrying expectations. That ties right back into the path. When you force a kid into a path that isn’t theirs—chasing rankings, chasing other kids, chasing results—you don’t build confidence, you build anxiety. So when things get hard they don’t lean in, they pull away. The kids who last are the ones who were allowed to develop. Win, lose, struggle, figure it out. Because it’s theirs, not yours. If your kid is winning, good—challenge them. If your kid is losing, good—let them grow. Either way stop panicking. Most kids don’t fail because they were on the wrong path. They fail because someone rushed it or made it about themselves, and eventually the kid walks away.

Pretty cool note I got from a tech CEO/founder who watched NCAAs about hiring wrestlers: “I'll say this: without question my favorite hiring profile is a D3 All-American wrestler. You competed in the darkness. No lights, no crowd, sometimes literally no one watching. You showed up anyway and you figured it out. Give me 10 of those guys and they're worth 50 fancy Ivy League degrees. Every time. The mat doesn't lie.” Thoughts?

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Join us in wishing Miles Bridges of the @Hornets a HAPPY 28th BIRTHDAY!

Lamelo’s chops coming in like Lemmy from Motörhead

Round tables of America!

Terrence Malick’s first cut of The Thin Red Line (1998) was seven hours long. To reach the final theatrical length, he famously edited out entire performances by stars like Bill Pullman and Mickey Rourke to focus on the film’s poetic tone.

If One Battle wins any Oscars, I sure hope PTA thanks the Coen brothers and Jeffrey Lebowski (not the millionaire) for leading the way.

Bright future!

LAMELO FROM THE TD GARDEN PARKING LOT 🔥 HORNETS ROLLING THE CELTICS IN BOSTON 😳