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No @TorraineWalker. We are not celebrating an African American man being elected governor of Florida when that same man consistently voted for an anti-Black MAGA agenda. This ain’t about partisanship. This is about Black people. Damn Byron Donalds. You go right ahead and clap.

The Warriors are not delivering payments to Kristaps Porzingis on his $20 million salary, ruling that he is not rendering services, sources tell me and @anthonyVslater. Golden State is permitted to move his contract at any point before the Feb. 11 deadline even without paying him currently, and will continue exhausting trade avenues as the 31-year-old leans toward ending his NBA career. Absorbing Porzingis' near-expiring deal would allow a rival team to move a salary out and save money and clear a roster spot via a buyout.

A Republican loss in November is inevitable but I think it has little to do with the last two years. Midterm elections are less about any single policy or accomplishment and more about historical patterns. Since the Clinton administration, the party of a newly elected president has consistently lost control in the first midterm election. I believe it is simply easier to energize the base of the party that is out of power. Even if President Trump had delivered two flawless years in office, the likely outcome would still be the same. Midterm elections are rarely a referendum on “what has been done”; they are typically driven by the opposition’s ability to mobilize voters around new promises and the desire for balance in government.

If you're not voting democrat after the last two years, you really are fucking stupid.

Sunday morning worship at @reidtempleame 🙏🏾

Adults taking a picture of their “I Voted” sticker is the equivalent of being back in elementary getting a sticker for writing your name properly. 😂

Just in: Sacramento Kings guard Ben Simmons is believed to have sustained a torn Achilles tendon at practice Sunday, sources tell ESPN. A suspected season-ending injury for Simmons after rejuvenated and impressive training camp and preseason performances.

The United States has more guns in civilian hands than every military in the world combined.

Series TIED. #LetItFly

The Braves are going with Ray Kerr tonight. That means we have used an opener in 3 of our 5 playoff games. If we win tonight, we’ll obviously have Sale and Mahle for games 3 and 4. However, if the series goes to a decisive game 5, we’d need another bullpen game. I don’t know if I’ve ever seen this before.

Raekwon & Ghost - Can it Be All So Simple (Enter the 36 chambers LP) (1993)

Ray Kerr was working at a 7-Eleven and a movie theater, thinking his baseball career was over. Then he got signed for $2,000 and spent seven seasons in the minors. He just dominated the Phillies over 3.1 scoreless in his first MLB postseason game.

Sale-ing into October ⛵ #LetItFly

Red October, indeed 😎 #LetItFly

Chris Spatola scored 1,543 points at West Point. Fifth most in the history of the academy. Then he graduated, put on the other uniform, and went to war. He served five years as an Army officer. He was a company commander. He deployed in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom, and he came home with the Joint Service Commendation Medal, awarded for what the citation called exceptional combat performance. Then he came back to basketball. In 2007, Mike Krzyzewski hired him at Duke. There is something in that worth sitting with. Krzyzewski played point guard at Army from 1966 to 1969. Captained the team as a senior. Then served in the Army and was discharged as a captain. Spatola played guard at Army from 1998 to 2002. Then served in the Army and made captain too. Two West Point guards, 33 years apart, on the same bench. Spatola was on the Duke staff from 2007 to 2012. Four ACC Tournament titles. The 2010 national championship. He was a court coach for USA Basketball, for the team that won gold in Beijing in 2008 and gold at the world championship in 2010. He also married Krzyzewski's daughter Jamie. They had three children. After coaching he went into television. He joined ESPN in 2015 and spent a decade as one of the most thoughtful voices in college basketball, because he had been a player and a coach and a soldier, and he talked like a man who had been all three. He ran a basketball camp for kids in Durham every year. Chris Spatola died unexpectedly this week. He was 47 years old. ESPN said he was thoughtful, prepared and passionate about the sport. The Krzyzewski family said they had no words to adequately express their heartbreak over the loss of "our beloved Chris Spatola," and that he "served our country, was a devoted husband and father, and was such an important part of our family." Seth Greenberg put it shortest. "Heartbreaking. Such a good soul." He leaves behind a wife and three kids.