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One might hear that there are too much white kids in the NBA. Sure, Cooper Flagg might usher a fandom of whiteness that will infiltrate NBA reddit like a FBI agent, but some of these alabaster kings can hoop; to deny it would be to dishonest. Let's give credit where it's due: The Orlando Magic's Franz Wagner is a kid you will be hearing about all season. He's starting to take the leap, a trademark phrase for when a NBA prospect that had an abundance of talent starts to put it all together. It's been excellent to see. Last week, he had 37 points against LeBron James and the Los Angeles Lakers. Last night, he had 30 points against the Pistons. If you live in Brooklyn, go to the Barclays Center to watch this kid; if possible, load up some games on NBA League Pass, or stream the link on Reddit. Wagner is playing like Scottie Pippen right now. Don't miss it.
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It’s my favorite time of year…Weather’s getting good and it's the glorious NBA postseason, where winning and losing matters a lot. Storylines are all unpredictable, lotsa surprises, upsets, script changes…Always some old reputations tarnished (Chris Paul?) new legacies born (Ja Morant). Right now we’re watching The Championship Finals and I'm still not really over the Heat loss, but decided that the only way I'm gonna have fun this series is if I get into my little Warriors Mode. This decision is in-part due to my hatred for the Celtics: their dumb, whiny attitude, ruthless media-chokehold, and basically all that the Bostonian culture represents...though I also tend to enjoy watching the Warriors win (in more ways than one) with Steph Curry being a unique points-machine wizard, and the team having motion offense brilliance with a little bit of awesome zone defense sprinkled in too. Speaking of fuckin Cool defense, special shouts-out to the tenacious Draymond Green for making Game 2 special to watch. His energy is super contagious when he's all charged up, talkin shit, startin shit, able to both guard his guy while also being everywhere else at once... that's what I call fun basketball!!! But enough about that, the point of this is to say it's not always easy figuring out where to watch games (blackout broadcasting, league Pass scams, Hulu glitching) so look to NBA reddit streams as an easy way to throw on any game for free.
Jun 7, 2022
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I cannot believe the run these guys are on.
I grew up in southwest Connecticut and my grandma needed the cable package with UNIVISION and TELEMUNDO so we also got the MSG network channel. Despite me being a Miami Heat fan (coolest franchise in the league) I watched a ridiculous amount of Knicks basketball from 2011-2015. They had so many shitty teams during that run. Completely wasted Melo’s prime.
And naturally I grew to be a Knicks hater on account of the franchise being historically ass And also in my face style ass.
But I am so happy to see the run they’re having with these Villanova guys. Brunson might be the truth. He’s having his Isaiah Thomas (the young one) season. Their championship run might be loading. I don’t think they have it this year tho.
+ Hartenstein’s new tattoo sleeve is ass.
May 9, 2024
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Positions in basketball have lost all meaning with players like LeBron and Jokic playing point forward and point center. Does that mean that a point "guard" now is the just play creator, but short? If that's the standard then Magic's big ass definitely shouldn't be in here. I'd get out Kidd and Glove because I'm a hater and throw Kyrie and Tony Parker in. Everyone besides Nash, Russ, Steph, and AI I can't speak on because I'm not one million years old, but I've never been a fan of putting people on a pedestal that got to play before every other player looked like a linebacker
May 14, 2024
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I'm often accused of being an "old soul", a categorization I vehemently dislike because it pretends as if my taste is because of nostalgia, as opposed to what is actually cool and compelling. (If something cool comes out now, I enjoy it, but we're in a down period when it comes to culture). But, something old about me, is that I do not care at all about TikTok ending, if does happen. If Elon takes it over from the Chinese, you might as well leave anyway, but I'm just worried at why this is a huge deal for people. It's just an app. Another one will be made. TikTok is not culture, it directly flattens culture into these ten second clips that take music, movies --- things that you need to process --- into something that is now consumed by everyone at a rapid pace, not allowing for the nuances, the style, the aesthetics to sit with us.
I have never watched something on TikTok and thought that this is something in that pushing American culture to deeper heights. I am sorry. Now I am sure they're good stuff on the app, but it's not really a necessity. Whenever I hear the words "it's blowing up on TikTok", my mind immediately growls.
I understood why X becoming overrun with Elon bots and right wingers is a big deal; X actually created things, made careers, made American life, and American events available to be seen by everyone. However, TikTok is a corrupt fantasy, chopping at the wires that make physical connection important.
Read a book! Go to the movies! Go to the restaurant of a cuisine that is unheralded, go to a baseball game. Who cares about TikTok?
Jan 14, 2025
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There's something quite startling about Martin Scorsese's 1980's period compared to the rest of his decades as one of America's greatest filmmakers. In the 80's, he was weird, strange, and making weirdly manic films that feel more New York than even some of his movies about the mob. They're movies about characters who aren't glamarous people that they want to be, but rather, are losers who can't seem to correctly fucntion in normal society. They're non-violent sociopaths. I saw The King of Comedy at Metrograph recently, and it's exhilarating, hilarious, manic, and scary. With Jerry Lewis, Bobby De Niro and Sandra Bernhard, Scorsese was able to create a world where incels who are bad at comedy are wishing for fame. Sound familiar?
This is a great movie. In 1983, it was a box office flop. But in 2025, it is magical in how it's telling the future. A future of scam artists who don't want to work to get there, and don't want to sit in their mediocrity: they want to steal to get their fifteen seconds. Go watch this masterpiece.
Jan 28, 2025
It's a perfect movie. It's almost too perfect. The fashion, the look on Cate's face when Theresa (Rooney Mara) is walking to her at the end, the line reading of "ask me things, please"; the fact that men are the joke throughout the movie.
It makes me wonder about representation and the limits of it because of how womanly and queer this movie is, despite the fact that it never feels like a movie made for women. It's just a great movie.
Feb 13, 2025