hello friends it's the 2018 NBA Playoffs, a place where dreams GO 2 DIE

http://bleacherreport.com/articles/2771394-the-bottled-water-obsession-taking-over-nba-locker-rooms

So why alkaline water? For Temple, it’s all about mind and body wellness. He says that alkaline helps reduce inflammation and keep the immune system in check.

“The science that I know is that we put so much acidity in foods that you have to balance it out some way,” Temple says. “I’ve also heard reports of the two big [bottled water] brands having brain-eating amoebas in it and things of that nature.” (This could not be confirmed.)

lol

lebrons post game interview was very heartfelt talking about pop, he was on the verge of losing it. xp

― they call me melo gelo (Spottie), Wednesday, April 18, 2018 11:40 PM (yesterday) Bookmark

it was but at the same time it was clear he hadn't heard the news until asked point blank about it being interviewed on national tv... i thought that was a v inappropriate question to ask given the circumstances

― 龜, Thursday, April 19, 2018 7:45 AM (five hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

yea i agree. they shouldve saved the question for the postgame presser instead

i only saw it when they aired it later on tnt and i never even heard the question they just cut straight to his response.

that water article is awesome. this was good too
http://www.espn.com/nba/story/_/id/23216496/nba-how-philadelphia-76ers-formed-culture-built-win

water article is great because it's just another example of how rich people can be made to believe anything

selling witchcraft to the super wealthy is the only remaining healthy industry in 2018 america

The NBA’s obsession with water is difficult to trace, but one player who pushed the league’s taste forward more than any is Antawn Jamison. For years, the retired NBA player, who currently works as a scout for the Los Angeles Lakers, sung the praises of water purity. Every jump shot, he would yell “Fiji,” because, as he tells it, “it was water, baby!” He even wrote it on his shoes.

jfc

https://img.bleacherreport.net/img/article/media_slots/photos/002/794/093/ede2ea7b5d1848ccebffc830c3c575de_crop_exact.jpg?h=533&w=800&q=70&crop_x=center&crop_y=top

silicon valley's absurdity is actually just rich people's absurdity after all

i'm gonna go out and get a bottle of essentia right now

The NBA isn’t alone in this obsession. For the first time in American history, sales of bottled water exceeded those of carbonated soft drinks in 2016. And that gap widened in 2017. Americans also drank 9 billion gallons of bottled water last year, according to the Beverage Marketing Corporation. (That seismic shift in the market recently caught the eye of LaVar Ball, who is now selling Big Baller Brand bottled water from Lithuania.)

ok that Jamison part sounds like an Onion article

nola grabbing those first two on the road is p wild man

these teams are prob pretty evenly matched but its hard to imagine portland recovering from this, also they prob just dont have the personnel to deal w brow w/o the rest of their D springing leaks every place

they need dame to go off asap

a$ap offy

dame's been making the right pass out of the double teams and such but no one else has stepped up. he also might just need to take maters into his own hands and make his moves faster.

o shit

Joel Embiid is upgraded to probable for game three.

— Jessica Camerato (@JCameratoNBCS) April 19, 2018

boom.

he shd come out in the mask then rip it off or something some sort of wrestling style intro just spitballin

def some real possibilities to do something epic

sweet

pumped 4 whiteside vs embiid

hasnt embiid owned whiteside extremely hard historically

not their last reg season game

i think there was a preseason game this year where whiteside fouled out in like 15mins is what im thinking of

embiid def roasted him early this season then roasted him in the media after yeah.

not that bad:

https://www.basketball-reference.com/play-index/tiny.fcgi?id=PPZTf

yeah embiid is one of the only discreet players whiteside is really useful against

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DbLinv5WAAAJNKz.jpg:large

that mask/goggles combo lol

who is this masked and begoggled man

wait so klove has a torn thumb ligament? lol

http://www.sun-sentinel.com/sports/miami-heat/fl-sp-miami-heat-tyler-johnson-s20180416-story.html fucked up

ha p cool

it's me, the guy who's lost all his teeth playing basketball

The dental distress is nothing new, Johnson with a penchant for losing teeth dating to his collegiate days.

"I lost the majority of them in a practice," he said recently. "I think I lost like six in practice. From there, I've probably lost in a game like four, something like that."

"She likes it this way, because I'm less attractive," he quipped amid the Heat's playoff preparations at Temple University. "She just is cool with me looking as ugly as possible.

every partner's dream

love a ten minute delay for offsetting techs

wade back to his old dirty tricks trying to kelly o dude's arm

this was incredible

Oh my goodness Ben Simmons’ handles too nice pic.twitter.com/wbItWiln6L

— MF Wob (@World_Wide_Wob) April 20, 2018

not idea why theyre picking him up 35 feet

ha yeah classic dwade xp

this game is good

such a feisty series

this is hella juciy yes. james johnson <3

winslow having the best game of his life

winslow realizing his potential here

lmao winslow failing to destroy the mask