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Kevin Garnett says he almost went to the Lakers instead of Celtics in 2007 but Kobe was acting real arrogant so he chose Boston
“I talked to Chauncey, and Chauncey was a real friend. We was in the summertime, we was all working out, and he was like, ‘Man, you got to move on, man. I know you don’t want to, but you’re going to look up and you’re going to have exhausted all your great years here, bro.’ That was the first time I heard that where I actually listened to it and it touched me.”
“Then I just called Kevin and said, ‘Yeah, let’s go ahead and start to find another situation. This ain’t working for me.’ So then him and Danny were friends, and they started that, and it made sense. I had played with Paul before and I had played with Ray, but not officially. Ray’s from South Carolina, so I knew him. So I liked it.”
“I liked the idea more than the other options I had. I think I had a Phoenix option. I had a Lakers option. Couldn’t get Kobe on the phone. He was acting real arrogant. So I was like, ‘You know what? I’m just going to [go with] them.’ And that’s how I ended up in Boston. It was perfect.”
“I had to holler at Antoine before I went to Boston, though. That’s when he gave me the lick on P. Like, ‘If you’re going to play with Paul, Paul cares about these things.’ He told me what worked with them and what didn’t work, and I took that to heart.”
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Draymond Green says the Jayson Tatum and Jaylen Brown beef is conversations that probably needed be had back then, but probably wasn’t never had:
“When I look at it now, it’s now festering. All of those feelings, you know, one guy could be looking at like, man, I remember when such and such said this. Maybe he was feeling a way. The other guy could be looking at it like, “Oh man, I remember when this came out. Maybe he was feeling.” And so I think what you’re seeing now is like probably just a culmination of all the years of people saying, “Oh man, they don’t get along.” And all of these things have now reared its ugly head and they’re not teammates anymore. They don’t have to kind of fake like they’re on the same page anymore. And they just move forward.”
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He is five foot eight.
He has hit 21 home runs in his entire Major League career.
Tonight he hit one to tie a World Series game.
His name is Sal Frelick and he plays right field for the Milwaukee Brewers.
Start with the sport he gave up.
At Lexington High School in Massachusetts he played quarterback. As a senior he threw for 1,940 yards and 30 touchdowns, and ran for another 1,779 yards and 20 more.
That is 50 touchdowns in one high school season. He was named the Gatorade player of the year for the whole state. In football.
Steve Addazio offered him a football scholarship to Boston College. Once word got around that he would listen, more offers came in.
Here is the part that decided his life.
Boston College was the only school in the country that wanted him for baseball.
And the baseball coach there, Mike Gambino, told him exactly what that meant.
"If you're coming here, you're just playing baseball."
He thought about leaving for somewhere that would let him do both. Gambino asked him a question instead. Was he looking past college.
He realized he was not.
"My degree was the main reason I went to BC."
Boston College Magazine wrote all this down last year. He graduated in December of 2021, after summer classes and an overloaded final semester, while he was already riding minor league buses.
The Brewers had taken him 15th overall that July.
In 2024 he won a Gold Glove in right field and led every outfielder in the National League in defensive runs saved.
He grew up a Red Sox fan copying Dustin Pedroia, another small infielder who played like he was being chased.
His mother Patty calls him scooch. It is Italian slang for a pain in the neck, and she has called him that since he was a toddler who would not stay where she put him.
He hugs her after games.
Be honest about this season, because it was not a good one. He hit .230. In July he went on the injured list with a torn labrum in his right shoulder and did not play again for more than a month. He has never been a home run hitter and he is not one now.
And his team has never won a World Series. They have been to exactly one, in 1982, and they lost it.
They are up two games to none in this one. They need two more.
But a five foot eight outfielder who was a better football player than a baseball player, who got one baseball offer in the entire country, who hit .230 this year on a shoulder he is still playing through, tied Game 2 with one swing, and his team is up two games to none.
This week his hometown renamed a road after him.
When did you last pick the harder thing on purpose.
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There have been 1,006 pass att meeting each of the below criteria in the past 20 years
- Final 10 sec of a half
- 40+ yards from end zone
- Thrown 10 or fewer air yards
Only 1 resulted in a TD. Drake Maye’s 48-yd TD to Rhamondre Stevenson tonight
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“Larry Bird remembers when players that later went bankrupt made fun of him for saving his money:”
Even when I was at the top of my game, we didn't drive a Mercedes-Benz or live in million-dollar homes, things like that. When I first started playing, we bought a nice little house in the French Lick/West Baden area. It cost $125,000. We didn't run out and spend all our money because we knew there would be a time when it was over, and I wanted to have options on what we could do with our future. I never thought about retiring. I just assumed I would always work."
"Some of the guys who made far less than me bought the $700,000 homes, and the ROLEXwatches, and the big luxury cars. I used to tell them, "You're crazy, you should be saving your money." They'd just laugh and make jokes about me stashing my money away. But I could see what they were doing. They were throwing away their future. So many of them were living for today and not even stopping for a minute to think about ten years down the road when their playing careers were over and the money stopped pouring in. And by the time they realized what I was telling them was true, it was too late.I can't tell you how many ex-teammates have asked me for money. It's heartbreaking for me to say no, but I do because I warned them. I told them to save."
Source: NBA Draft Central
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The safest cities in America, according to WalletHub's 2026 rankings:
1 Juneau, AK
2 Warwick, RI
3 Overland Park, KS
4 Burlington, VT
5 South Burlington, VT
Other New England rankings:
11 Portland
22 Nashua
38 Boston
44 Providence
63 Worcester
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THIS IS INSANE…
Legendary #NFL quarterback Steve Young went a PERFECT 10-0 with his College GameDay picks yesterday on ESPN.
Reminder that Young was one of the best analysts at ESPN before the network let him go in 2023 due to cost-cutting layoffs.
I hope the NY Giants suck the rest of the this yr and next and Harbaugh loses his job!!!! He’s a pos
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THIS IS THE GREATEST CELLY EVER:
#JAGUARS RB BHAYSHUL TUTEN AND HIS TEAMMATES JUST CELEBRATED A TOUCHDOWN BY DOING THE ICONIC “TIP TOEING IN MY JORDANS” DANCE.
THIS IS ABSOLUTELY HILARIOUS.
😭😭😭
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THIS IS ONE OF THE COOLEST STORIES IN SPORTS 🤯
Back in 2014, the Milwaukee Brewers offered fans the opportunity to purchase a $1,000 "Timeless Ticket" that could be redeemed for ANY future home game, including the WORLD SERIES.
The tickets NEVER expired.
Only 1,000 were offered, and each came as a personalized brass ticket that fans could keep forever.
Now, more than a DECADE later, the Brewers are headed to the World Series for the first time since 1982.
The Brewers are honoring those tickets, allowing fans to redeem them for World Series games this year.
Shoutout to the Brewers ❤️
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If you spent your teenage years hanging out at roller skating rinks in the late '80s, you KNOW this song was guaranteed to come on.
The second that beat hit, you knew exactly what time it was.
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Tony Montana casually eating a lemon from a bowl might seem like a humorous detail, but it reveals something much deeper about his character in Scarface. Surrounded by expensive suits, luxurious restaurants, and wealthy people, Tony is determined to prove he belongs among the elite. Yet the bowl in front of him isn’t meant for eating. It’s a finger bowl, traditionally used to rinse your fingers during a formal meal.
Tony doesn’t realize this, and no one bothers to correct him. That’s what makes the moment so revealing. He can afford designer clothes, expensive dinners, and a lavish lifestyle, but wealth can’t instantly teach him the social customs of a world he never grew up in.
Coming from poverty in Cuba, Tony never had the opportunity to learn the unwritten rules of high society. His ambition has earned him a place at the table, but he’s still unfamiliar with the culture surrounding it.
That single lemon becomes a subtle symbol of his journey. Tony has the money to enter a world he once dreamed of, but he hasn’t fully learned how to fit into it. In a movie defined by power, greed, and violence, one tiny detail reveals more about his character than an entire conversation could.
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After missing most of the last 2 years due to Tommy John surgery and other injuries, Conrad Cason is healthy and participating in the Red Sox offseason training program, per @alexspeier.
While he was drafted as a 2-way player, his future role has not yet been decided, but he seems “likely to continue developing as a position player — either exclusively, or in tandem with pitching.”
