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Embiid is the worst.

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There’s that idea that sometimes unjustified confidence works like bootstrapping. So, maybe it’s a selectively adaptive irrationality. Great in certain areas. Disastrous elsewhere.

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“Fake it til you make it”

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trodgers said: ↑

There’s that idea that sometimes unjustified confidence works like bootstrapping. So, maybe it’s a selectively adaptive irrationality. Great in certain areas. Disastrous elsewhere.
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yeah, pro sports i think it certainly works. at least on the court.

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Umm send this film to the Bulls FO. Time to trade Vuc and Lavine. This Flagg kid looks like a legit #1 pick

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These Olympics are going to wear down AD man you can already see in the highlights he's on every critical possession for his defense

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Then they ought to wear Bam’s always voted better on D’s a** down instead. F****** clowns with their deliberate AD disrespect.

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Has to be great for the kid’s confidence

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These Olympics are going to wear down AD man you can already see in the highlights he's on every critical possession for his defense
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lol, podziemski thinking he's murray with jokic on the weak side. no sir.

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That footwork by AD closing the gap .... holy crap!! Yeah let's sell "high" and see what we can get for him.

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And yes to chime in on the above: Flagg is going to be special.

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*recruit alert* *recruit alert *

Bron doing the Lord's work

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Do they have a complete team roster yet? I think they should include Cooper Flagg for the Laettner role

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He just graduated HS though ... not even a freshman.

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Seventeen-year-old Duke phenom Cooper Flagg may have been the surprise star of Team USA training camp, but the real plot twist was that an NBA legend more than twice his age, 39-year-old LeBron James, was simply the best.

James, the NBA’s all-time leading scorer who is months away from the start of his 22nd season, was voted the top national team player in camp in a straw poll of Olympic camp participants conducted by The Athletic.

“That’s what I told my brother after the first day, I was like dude’s 40 and he’s the best player on the court,” said Amen Thompson, a forward for the Houston Rockets and a voter in the poll, due to his participation in camp as a select team member.

The U.S. roster is full of future Hall of Famers and is often compared to the storied “Dream Team” of 1992, but James won the poll with a plurality of votes cast with five.

Stephen Curry, Anthony Edwards and Jrue Holiday each received two votes. Joel Embiid, Anthony Davis, Kawhi Leonard and Bam Adebayo each received one vote.

In a different question for the same poll, Flagg — who is two years younger than LeBron’s son and new Los Angeles Lakers teammate, Bronny — was easily the top vote-getter among select team members with nine votes.

“If I had to choose one person (on the select team), it was definitely Cooper,” said Rockets forward Jabari Smith Jr., another select team member.

The Athletic has conducted this informal poll to gauge the top U.S. player in camp for the last two summers. For reference, Jaren Jackson Jr. won last year’s poll as the top player in camp for the Americans in preparation for the World Cup.

This year’s poll was a little different than last: the participants this time were most of the players and coaches from the select team — a collection of younger NBA players, G Leaguers and Flagg, brought to Las Vegas for three days of scrimmages against the Olympic team.

Last summer, the 12 Americans on the World Cup team voted. Access to Team USA’s players is not the same this time, due to the greatly expanded media interest with the massive star power on the roster. The camp concluded Monday, and only three national team members were available for interviews. Thus, national team members were not included in this year’s poll.

Instead, we asked their opponent.

As previously mentioned, this was a straw poll, so players were permitted to vote for multiple teammates if they chose.

“I feel like LeBron’s focus, Steph’s focus, people who have been doing this for so long and still keep that focus, still keep that hunger — that’s what impressed me the most,” Smith said.

Jamahl Mosley, coach of the select team and the Orlando Magic, said James exemplified the immense leadership and poise he saw from Team USA throughout camp.

“You feel and see his presence on the court,” Mosley said. “You see exactly what he’s doing, the way he’s communicating, the way he’s talking, getting guys in position. There’s a level of focus on the seriousness of understanding the moment that he just continues to show.”

So, perhaps James shouldn’t come off the bench for this team?
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Playing Canada tonight. f*** Brooks

Banana boaters reunited

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Thanks God https://x.com/usabasketball/status/1811049692345815332

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Glad we are adding more defense instead of someone like Kyrie. I feel much better with Jrue and White out there.

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kawhi just wanted the free gift basket and a weekend in vegas

it was baffling why he was even chosen for the team from the start

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