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Derrick Henry arrives ahead of Ravens-Jaguars TNF 👑 (via @NFLonPrime)

Ravens’ Joe Fagnano arrives ahead of his first NFL start! 🍿 (via @NFLonPrime)

“My agent calls me and says ‘It's a 4 year deal for $70M.’ I'm like, ‘$17M?’ And he's like, ‘No. $70M.’ I'm like, ‘Oh my God’… I felt like a lottery ticket, I was trying not to die.” Evan Turner on the time he signed a $70 million deal with the Blazers 😅💰 (via @club520podcast)

“Welcome to the greatest show on earth... There’s not another athlete in sports right now that is competing or sitting at the same table with [Wemby]." Kendrick Perkins on Victor Wembanyama’s HISTORIC performance last night 👽 (via @ESPNNBA)

ClutchPoints’ @BrettSiegelNBA on the future of Kristaps Porzingis and the Warriors: “There was always a concern that the health issues could pop back up… Why is [Kristaps Porzingis] okay with [not getting paid]? It’s the fact that he’s going to be traded sometime within the next month/month and a half... The Warriors have been talking to multiple teams on the trade market… When he gets traded, he will be reaching a buy out agreement with whatever team he goes to.” (via “Clutch Scoops”)

“I think it was a different situation for him in New York… We actually need him to do a little bit more and want him to do a little bit more... He'll get there." Paul George on Mitchell Robinson 👀 (via @CelticsCLNS)

Every time LeBron James has started a season 8-1, he’s made the NBA Finals 👀 Will history repeat itself this year for Bron and the Sixers? 🤔

We've seen EIGHTEEN 40+ point games split between ten players in just over two weeks of NBA action: 🔸 Jayson Tatum - 40 PTS 🔸 Scottie Barnes - 41 PTS 🔸 Jamal Murray - 42 PTS 🔸 Devin Booker - 43 PTS 🔸 Stephen Curry - 44 PTS 🔸 Ty Jerome - 40 PTS - 45 PTS 🔸 Shai Gilgeous-Alexander - 42 PTS - 43 PTS 🔸 Anthony Edwards - 45 PTS - 47 PTS 🔸 Victor Wembanyama - 43 PTS - 52 PTS 🔸 Luka Doncic - 40 PTS - 41 PTS - 42 PTS - 45 PTS - 52 PTS Who you got as your way-too-early scoring champ prediction for this season? 🤔

🚨 The Lakers have assigned Bronny James to the G-League, the team has announced.

“I can understand [Domantas Sabonis’] frustration… The best thing he can do is embrace it... You got a young killer who's going to be there for a while. Work with that." Carmelo Anthony on the Kings’ future with Darius Acuff Jr. 👀 (via @7PMinBrooklyn)

“Great player… I could see him being an All-Star, easily.” Terance Mann with HIGH praise for Mikel Brown Jr. after the Nets win last night 🙌 (via @ErikSlater_)

James Wiseman’s NBA story isn’t over yet 👀 The former No. 2 overall pick came into the league with massive expectations, but his career has taken a lot of turns: 🔸 No. 2 overall pick in the 2020 NBA Draft 🔸Missed '21-22 season after tearing meniscus 🔸Sent to G-League during his comeback 🔸Traded to Pistons in 2023 🔸Signed with Pacers in 2024 🔸Tore his Achilles in first game of season 🔸Played for Team USA in World Cup qualifying 🔸Traded to Raptors and got waived 🔸Returned to Pacers and got waived 🔸Came back to Pacers on 10-day deal 🔸Signed with the Knicks in 2026 Now he gets a different kind of opportunity. Not on a rebuilding team or a team asking him to save the franchise. But on the defending champs. The Knicks lost Mitchell Robinson, then answered by bringing in Andre Drummond and taking a swing on Wiseman too. New York doesn’t need James Wiseman to be a star. They just need him to contribute. And that's EXACTLY what he did in a blowout win vs. Bulls as the Knicks are easing him into the rotation: 🔸 10 minutes 🔸 8 points 🔸 8 rebounds 🔸 3 blocks Keep an eye on James Wiseman. He's somehow still only 25 years old... And he's still writing his story 🍿

"If Joel Embiid is at 70-75 percent come playoff time, the Philadelphia 76ers are winning the championship… I don’t believe they win the championship without Embiid.” Thoughts on this take from Stephen A Smith? 🤔 (via @FirstTake)

“What happened to Shedeur [Sanders] in his draft was the biggest draft injustice I have ever experienced… I thought he should go No. 1 to the Titans instead of Cam Ward… I pray for this kid to get a chance somewhere.” - Skip Bayless 👀 (via @FirstTake)

To say the Bulls hate playing on the road this season is an understatement. To their credit, the NBA gave the Bulls a pretty rough schedule to start the season. 6 of their first 8 games were against teams that finished top 5 on the east last season. 6 of those 8 games were also on the road. Nobody exactly had the Bulls as one of the top teams in the east this season, but they've barely shown any effort to compete when they play away from the United Center 😬 📉 43-PT loss against Raptors 📉 35-PT loss against Celtics 📉 14-PT loss against Celtics 📉 19-PT loss against 76ers 📉 30-PT loss against Knicks That's an average losing margin of 28.2 PTS. The only road game the Bulls showed up was against the Bucks when they won by 7. But they also gave up 125 PTS. In their 8 games, they've been outscored 1,037 to 893 and currently have the lowest net rating this season at -17.2 👀 The growing pains of a team in a rebuild...

"At this point, the hay is in the barn now. We're preparing for the Dallas Cowboys. We got a home game. After last week, nothing else matters. We just gotta give these fans a win." Jonathan Taylor on whether he's requested a trade from the Colts. (via @RomeovilleKid)

“I really watched the NBA. I watched the Jason Williams, the Jason Kidds, Steve Nash. Steph Curry… And I forgot to mention Kyrie [Irving].” Lynx star Olivia Miles on her biggest NBA influences growing up 👀 (via @OldManAndThree)