Joel Embiid beclowns himself:
Joel Embiid has noooo chill pic.twitter.com/rhSygMqs3o
— NBA Meme Team (@NBAMemeTeam) July 16, 2014
< Sigh. >
Tweet of the Day:
Seriously, how has someone not gotten to Joel Embiid and disabled Twitter on his phone? Tweets like a drunk middle school kid.
— Kyle Tucker (@KyleTucker_CJ) July 17, 2014
Welcome to the NBA, Joel.
Your Quickies:
Kentucky football
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Young players that are most likely to contribute next season. Consider:
The Cats also signed four-star receivers Dorian Baker from Ohio, who is 6-3, 197-pounds, and Blake Bone from South Carolina, who is 6-5, 198 pounds. Those two also made Brown’s most-likely-to-contribute list.
"We’ve got to have at least one of the big (receivers) step up and be able to contribute this fall," he said. "We’d also like for somebody like Josh Krok to come in and be a factor in that third or fourth tackle position."
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"And where I excel is ridiculous, sickening, work ethic. You know, while the other guy's sleeping? I'm working." -Will Smith #AttackTheDay
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ESPN’s recruiting director thinks Kentucky is poised to make a jump this season, but doesn’t know if that will be reflected in their record.
I can see that, but I do think it’s important for Stoops & Co. to find at least four wins. Another 2-win season will really hurt Kentucky, so somehow, they have got to find at least two more wins somewhere. I think they will.
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Today, it’s Mark SToops’ turn in the glare of SEC Media Days. Za’Darius Smith and
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Kentucky is picked last in the SEC again. I mean, why not, eh? It isn’t as if Kentucky has produced a reason on the field to do otherwise. Until they do, I’d say this is fully justified.
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Kentucky is awesome in the APR area when it comes to basketball. Unfortunately, football has a troubling downward trend right now that needs to be reversed, and that right soon. Hat tip: @MarkEnnis
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They set records every year RT @secnetwork 1,267 media members are in attendance this week at #SECMD14 . Yes, that's a record.
— Brian Eldridge (@BriEldridge) July 17, 2014Too right.
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Heh. But is it a fortune cookie?
SEC Network, the cookie. pic.twitter.com/aGbeoPkDCl
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Hope for this season?
Don't forget last year at this time NO ONE picked Mizzou and Auburn who were 5-7 and 3-9 the previous year before meeting for title
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I had a feeling this might be coming:
Stoops says looks like UK will switch to synthetic turf at Commonwealth Stadium after this season.
— Kyle Tucker (@KyleTucker_CJ) July 17, 2014
Kentucky basketball
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Analysis of the fit of James Young and Julius Randle on their respective teams.
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Boogie says UK fans understand him best:
Known as one of the NBA’s most hot-headed stars, Cousins said that at UK, "I was just being myself, and they loved me."
It’s there, after all, that former assistant coach Rod Strickland gave Cousins his nickname.
"He said I had a lot of boog in my game, so he started calling me ‘Boogie," Cousins told Simmons.
One of my all-time favorite players.
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John Calipari and Steve Alford chatting after that Jaylen Brown game. UK, UCLA might be top two. pic.twitter.com/I9iQlFdEgn
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The much-discussed Malik Newman-Diamond Stone package deal. They put the odds of it actually happening at 50-50. I’d say that’s likely optimistic, but it has happened before.
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Nobody can stop Jaylen Brown this summer, and despite all the negative crap that gets said to him about Kentucky, he says he doesn’t buy any of it:
"Some people just don’t like Kentucky," Brown, one of the Wildcats’ top targets in the 2015 class, said Wednesday night. "Family members come up to me and say, ‘You can go anywhere, but don’t go to Kentucky.’ And I ask them why, and they say, ‘I just don’t like it. I don’t like the environment, and them boys are shady or whatever.’
"There’s no reasoning behind it. It’s just how they feel."
Embrace the hate, Jaylen. We do around here, and trust me, it works.
Other Kentucky sports
- Time Warner still holding out on SEC Network. Time’s a-wasting if you want to keep my business, TWC. Once I go through the trouble of leaving, you can’t win me back.
Links posts
College football
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A sure sign of the apocalypse — Golden Flake is no longer sponsoring the SEC. Hat tip: Hoboat
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How Texas A&M legally paid almost $60,000 to keep a football player.
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With zero facts to support him, Bret Bielema continues to hammer his pet theory that HUNH offenses are a player safety issue.
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What will anger Nick Saban today?
Your tie is a nanometer off straight and he can see it.
Heh.
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Alabama and Auburn are picked to be the best in the SEC again this season.
College basketball
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What Eamonn Brennan would change about college basketball if he were emperor of the NCAA.
My comments:
- No to #1. Let them earn money after college. Pay for everything they do while in college.
- No to #2. Change is a part of life, a part of the world. Trying to say that the NCAA Tournament as currently executed cannot be improved on is head-in-the-sand purblind nonsense. There is always room for improvement in anything.
- Yes, please, to #3. I realize this would create problems for coaches, but it’s a reform that’s long overdue. If we are going to make athletes wait until after school to earn money (see #1 above), then the least we can do is give them the opportunity to test their marketability without consequence. I would even acquiesce to allowing them to accept reasonable expenses during the effort from professional teams without paying them back.
- Yes, please, to #4. I think $200k is too low, but $300 or $350 seems fair. Granted, that’s more than the POTUS makes, but that salary is ridiculously, jokingly low and should have been revised upward long ago.
- No. 5 is just silly to me. No comment
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Mercer wins the ESPY for best upset. That it was Duke they upset makes it all the sweeter. I wish I could dance like that.
This looks familiar. MT @ESPYS: Congrats to the @MercerMBB for winning Best Upset! These boys had a blast in LA. https://t.co/0Vtl59KmQX
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Memphis hires father of three elite recruits to their staff. This has been coming for a while now.
Other sports news
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Jeff Goodman says other NBA players don’t want to play with Rajon Rondo. I find that suspicious, and not just because Goodman wrote it. When somebody says "numerous players," what does that mean exactly? Ten? Twenty? Fifty? How many does it take to be "numerous" when we are talking about 450 potential players?
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The Cavaliers now seem ready to trade Andrew Wiggins for Kevin Love. It would be a good trade, no matter how good Wiggins eventually becomes.