Jason Willams on Yaxel Lendeborg and Luka Doncic trash talking situation: “I’m cool with buddy thinking that, but I’m just me as a young guy coming into the league, it’s no way that I would even fix my mouth to say any fu*king thing to Gary Payton ever in my life my rookie year, bro. No matter what buddy was saying to me, no matter what buddy was doing to me, that’s just me, you know what I mean? What am I supposed to do? He called Luka trash come on, dog. When do they play again? And not even just Luka every scorer that Yaxel is going to have to guard and Yaxel is going to want to guard him, bro. Yaxel is going to want to guard every player. And I love that out of buddy. But you can’t call Luka Doncic trash, dog.”

Utah Jazz star Jaren Jackson Jr. has sustained a torn MCL in his right knee and will be sidelined for 6-to-8 weeks, sources tell me and @BannedMacMahon. Jackson will not require surgery.

Dripped out courtside for Game 4 of the Dream-Valkyries 🥶 The Shumpert crew is rockin' the #WNBASeason30 BLING! #2026WNBAFinals

Baron Davis and Nick young call out Gilbert arenas after he says giannis antetokounmpo needs to start shooting the ball 45 times and ignore the other players on the Miami heat if they ain’t making shots

Y’all seeing Yaxel!?!?

Cheers and tears filled Harlandale High School when @spurs guard Devin Vassell surprised student-athletes with new basketball shoes and a major donation to the school’s athletic department. “It inspires me to do better with my life,” said @HHS_Girls_Hoops star Perla Valenzuela.

Karl Smesko rips the officiating: "The contact they allow on Angel compared to everybody else is just ridiculous, just ridiculous. And we should have gone to the foul line six to eight more times just on that and then to miss double dribbles and travels, multiple that always led to points? Man, you can't be at this level and make that many mistakes. I'm kind of tired of some of the excuses that I'm hearing"