Jasen Mendoza @ipajay77

Jalen Brunson says he saw himself as JJ Barea off the bench in Dallas and never asked for more, until New York handed him a franchise. "My mindset was, I'm filling JJ Barea's role. He came off the bench for Dallas. He did all these great things for Dallas. That's where I see myself. I'm gonna work to be better, but that's where I see myself. That's where I feel like I can help this team." "The more you show in your role, the longer your leash gets, the more you're able to do. People just want to say, 'Hey, I can do this, I can do that.' Well, do what's asked of you first. Perfect it. Master it." "And all of a sudden you'll be surprised of what they'll allow you to do. And you'll be surprised by yourself, like, 'oh damn, I can do this.'" "So it's all about starring in a role."

Jalen Brunson on people calling him the King of New York: “I’ve never called myself the King of New York. I will never call myself the King of New York, but I feel like it’s I don’t know. I just for me to call myself that, I feel like that’s obviously it’s eh and to say things like that like just, imagine I get on this call with you, right? I’m like, “Yo, you know, King of New York’s here. Whatever, whatever. You guys are going to look like, “What the fu*k this dude is so self-centered.” Like, no. I just find a way to kind of be the same because of the people around me. Like, I have the same people I’ve had around since high school and my closest friends from college. Like, it’s always been close-knit and I kept it that way and they keep me humble. But it’s a true, true credit to my parents.” (Via @RoadTrippinShow)

Today, we remember an important turning point in history: the abolition of the transatlantic slave trade. Here in New York City, we remember the tragedy of slavery through Dr. Lorenzo Pace’s Triumph of the Human Spirit, a memorial at the oldest and largest known burial site of free and enslaved Africans in North America. On the International Day for the Remembrance of the Slave Trade and its Abolition, we honor all those who resisted slavery and fought for their freedom, and we remember those who were killed or died while still enslaved. We carry their struggle forward by building a city rooted in justice, freedom and dignity for all.

Let me see if I have this straight: in 2026, the President of the United States   1Wants to reduce military exercises with key ally South Korea because he thinks he has a “good relationship” with Kim Jong Un, the North Korean dictator who leads a country that can’t feed itself, jails and executes hundreds of thousands of its own people, and props up its economy by counterfeiting U.S. currency and international pharmaceuticals, and renting out its military to Russia   2Wants U.S. Navy battleships to return to outdated technologies to have more of a “World War II aesthetic” because he thinks they “looked better” regardless of their current advanced warfighting capabilities   3Threatens to “bomb the shit out of” a longtime Gulf region ally who has worked to rescue American hostages from Iran, back channeled sensitive, covert communications between the U.S. and the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps over the Iraq war and other regional crises, and is now helping to facilitate secret oil tanker loading to circumvent the Straits of Hormuz and stabilize global energy prices   4But stands by a Defense Secretary who prioritizes testosterone therapy to make “better warfighters” over the well being of an aircraft carrier crew that’s been at sea for nine  months and is stretched to the breaking point   Yeah, this guy is compromised by a foreign intelligence service, everything he does is good for our enemies’ morale… Our allies don’t trust us….. Our enemies don’t fear us…… Dangerously Incompetent DONALD J. TRUMP

People always ask me where the tan suit came from. I think it’s time the truth finally came out. Tune in to the series finale of Life, Larry and the Pursuit of Unhappiness on @hbomax.

"My first basketball hero Was Clyde First team I remember rooting for Was the 70s Knicks That won in 1973 I'll be 65 It's been a long time Happy for the Knicks" –– Happy 65th birthday Barack Obama 🎂

Happy birthday, @BarackObama! 65 never looked better. Every day, you make me a better person, and I’m thankful for all the ways you show up for our family and our country. Love you. ❤️

In 1968, CBS aired a documentary called Black History: Lost, Stolen or Strayed. One segment showed something uncomfortable: side-by-side comparisons of famous European artists and the African sculptures they copied. Paul Klee. Picasso. Modigliani. One after another. The African artists? Unnamed. Uncredited. Called "primitive." The European copies? Displayed in museums. Taught in schools. Called genius. Bill Cosby said it plainly: "When you look at this copying, you gotta give us a little more than rhythm. You gotta give us style."

Alex Rodriguez wears a Keith Hernandez jersey and does a picture-perfect impression of Keith's stance while touting his Mets fandom

Lmaoooo why is this so fucking accurate, esp the way she twists her back😭

The hypocrisy is staggering. op: @briantylercohen

Jennifer Welch on Lindsey Graham: “Here’s a man who every single day preached family values and anti-gay rhetoric and talked about the killing of civilians, was a homicidal war criminal. Now we know, as we’ve known for a long time, that he likes to put on red panties and kink around with sex workers”

Chuck Modi made great points on The Collision “Where Sports And Politics Collide” Angel Reese & Alyssa Thomas were both receiving death threats & the Congressman didn’t batt an eye. It’s not about protecting women or even white women, just one white woman youtu.be/pIRDHnC2V8c

Paige Bueckers on black coaches in the WNBA: I grew up with prominent bw in my life. I understand how amazing they are, the WNBA was built on black women. @paigebueckers1 is pure class! Gotta love her! youtu.be/rAmrX4eHLrs?si…

Ethan Hawke explains why you can't see how good your own era is until it's already gone "My kids and stuff, some of my kids are older, so 27 23 and they're like" "Oh back in the 90s, my son showed me the other day like 5 movies that came out some weekend in 1994 something and they're all amazing" "He said what a time I wish i lived in that time and I was like wow I remember being nonplussed that weekend and I remember wishing it was 1974" "So we're in this ongoing thing which make it really easy to be critical and negative about what's happening" "Cause usually time is the great curator, time will reveal what's good about what's happening right today cause it's harder for us to see it"

George Johnson, a hair-care magnate who rose from a sharecropper’s cabin to found the first Black-owned company listed on a major American stock exchange, and who made a fortune on products like Ultra Sheen and Afro Sheen, died has died at 99. nyti.ms/4aDT6L2

A 7-year-old girl wrote to President Obama after losing her mother to cancer, and he wrote back. 17 years later, her letter lives on at the Obama Presidential Center. She became a registered nurse and thanked him for reminding her to dream big.

Jennifer Welch: “They’re so terrified that Zohran Mamdani or Barack Obama isn’t white, but they’re smarter, they’re better looking, they’re more liked. Black excellence exposes white mediocrity and they can’t stomach it”

Street signs are going up today along 6th and 7th Avenues for every Knick: 🚏6th Ave & W Houston: Jordan Clarkson 🚏6th & Bleeker: Dillon Jones 🚏6th & Minetta: Deuce McBride 🚏6th & W 3d: Josh Hart 🚏6th & W 4th:  Pacome Dadiet 🚏6th & Washington Pl : Jose Alvarado 🚏6th & W 8th: OG Anunoby 🚏6th & W 9th: Kevin McCullar 🚏7th Ave & W 11t h: Jalen Brunson 🚏7th & W 13th: Tyler Kolek 🚏7th & W 20th: Jeremy Sochan 🚏7th & W 23rd: Mitchell Robinson 🚏7th & W 25th:Mikal Bridges 🚏7th & W 32nd: KAT 🚏6th & W 44th: Landry Shamet 🚏7th & W 50th: Trey Jemison 🚏7th & W 51st: Mohamed Diawara 🚏7th & W 55th: Ariel Hukporti Signs will stay up 4 weeks