🏀 Here is for another abysmal season!
🎾 They found him, and they boy ended up getting more than just a hat. Love a happy ending.
🎾 Ladies and gentlemen, behold the US Open’s Jackass of the week. I hope that sweaty unautographed hat stinks up everything in the bag.
🏀 The Denver Nuggets have fired coach Michael Malone and GM Calvin Booth. I guess they wanted to avoid the inevitable.
🏀 Alex Ovechkin has just broken Wayne Gretzki’s career goal record and looking at his career trajectory made me realize Nikola Jokić was becoming the Ovechkin of basketball:
- GOAT contender with a remarkable sports IQ
- 20 years playing for the same team
- Won a single championship
Which is great!
🏀 Kudos to the person who suggested that the Orlando (Magic) at Washington (Wizards) game should be Harry Potter Night. Showing the Orlando starters as dementors was a lovely touch.
🏀 Jordan Poole of the Washington Wizards (bottom of the Eastern conference, worst win/loss ratio in the league) served a 35-foot buzzer-beater yesterday to beat the Denver Nuggets (top three of the Western conference, 2023 NBA Champions). This is the Wizards' second win against the Nuggets, the first one being back in December. So it is, in fact, a season sweep. Sport is nontransitive, as are so many other things in life.
Some pre-weekend reading:
- Fertility on Demand by Ruxandra Teslo
- The Nikola Jokić problem: Why we will never fully explain his brilliance
- Wikipedia: Monkey selfie copyright dispute (learned about this from the offspring)
- The hardest working font in Manhattan ← my pick of the week
🏀 Jordan Poole went from being my least favorite Wizards' player last season to their most valuable senior team member, and now that I learned he was a fellow cat lover I like him even more. Now if only their record wasn’t so bad… (ᔥr/washingtonwizards
🏀 Speaking of sports, how about them Wizards? Of course it happened while we were away and couldn’t enjoy the rare win, but it is also good since it was against the Nuggets and the family is split around which team we would have supported. So it goes…