No sale this weekend, so let's do a free giveaway. Here's another vintage cigarette package filled with pre-war cigarette sports and non-sports trading cards from the 1930s. Simply follow and retweet / repost this for a chance to win. Will draw a winner on Sunday (5/24).
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🖼️ NFT: Elgin Baylor Heroes of the Game (Series 7) Ultimate #9 / 10
🌎 Collection: NBA Top Shot
💵 Sale Price: $821
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Hayley is awesome! Season ticket rep who brought @GrzGng to floor seats with @NBATopShot
Get your tickets before we win the lottery twice and see Edey, Coward, Boozer and Dybantsa in the starting 5!
Memphis, from someone who lives there, and covers the Grizzlies, and understands the nuances of the discourse about the city, and Nashville, and LeBron, and what we should all consider before judging a city & a history most of us don't know.
Take it away, @SharonShyBrown:
His comments weren’t just about a hotel. They reflected a deeper reality about how Memphis is perceived, positioned, and too often overlooked.
memphisflyer.com/lebron-said…
real gaslighting ish going on instead of addressing the “move the team from memphis to nashville”
it’s one thing to say “i dont like hotels” but moving the team and the economic impact it would have on real people is why memphians got a problem.
soft ball question too that let him just side step like prime harden.
lame behavior from bron…
“Did I say I don’t like Black people? … I’m 41 years old and there’s two cities I don’t like playing in right now. And that’s Milwaukee and that’s Memphis.” - LeBron James when asked about the backlash to his comments on a recent Bob Does Sports appearance
.@DrewHill_DM writes: "Do you want to know how the Toronto Raptors spent their random bleeping Thursday in Memphis? They went to @StJude . You know, that world-renowned children’s research hospital that has treated patients from all 50 states and around the world for the last 61 years? The place where families never receive a bill, not for treatment, travel, housing, or food — so they can focus on helping their child live? Yep. That place." Read more ➡️ dailymemphian.com/subscriber…
Story by @drewhill | 📸: Courtesy @StJude
The parade of shitting on Memphis is tired, cruel and so incredibly misguided. The way people talk about this city is nuts.
Happy to give any NBA player (or anyone!) an itinerary the next time they’re in town to debunk this absurdity.
LeBron James on playing the Grizzlies:
“I’m f***ing 41 years of age. You think I want to do sh** in Memphis on a random Thursday? I’m not the first guy in the NBA to talk about this. You guys got to move the team… go over to Nashville already.”
(via @leaguealerts)
Arkansas freshman star Darius Acuff Jr. has landed a signature shoe with Reebok, becoming the first NCAA men’s athlete to receive one from a major U.S. brand while still in college, Reebok’s head of basketball, Jide Osifeso, tells ESPN.
Nashville preserves and hosts music. Memphis transforms it. Nashville moves like an industry town. Memphis moves like a cultural engine. That’s the difference.
Memphis believing they have been more impactful in black music than Nashville is a generational delusion…
-Fisk Jubilee Singers (Reason Why Nashville is Called “Music City”)
-Jefferson Street birthed a job for black R&B, Jazz, and Blues acts.
-Home of the National Museum of African-American Music.
-Nashville is STILL one of the hot beds for black hip-hop, pop, and r&b acts to cut hits.
We earned that name! #MusicCity
Baseball used to not have a draft.
Players were free to sign wherever they wanted… coincidentally the New York Yankees won 20 World Series titles in 42 years from 1923 to the 1st year of the draft in 1965.
They have won 7 titles in the 61 years since that inaugural draft…🤔
David Aldridge calls for the NBA to eliminate the draft:
“The lottery and draft are corporate welfare for sports teams... Teams don’t do anything to earn the talents of those players; they are simply given to them.”
(via @davidaldridgedc, h/t @TheNBABase)