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Houston Rockets are 8-7 since the KD files leaked, 4-6 in their last 10, and 2-7 against teams above .500 KD’s burner account “getoffmydickerson” was exposed February 15th (same day as the ASG). Since then they are 8-7 including 4-6 in their last 10. In fact they’d be 7-8 if Pelicans didn’t choke that 4pt lead with 30 seconds left. Against teams above .500 (at the time of the game), they are 2-7. Against teams below .500, they are 6-0 which makes them look better than they really are. Next they will face a Hawks team coming off 11 straight wins.
DLLS Mavs: Mavs co-interim general manager Michael Finley talked to @kandc1053 about the infamous video of him taking a beer away from Luka Dončić: “I leave the court. I see number 77 standing over there having a beer, and I say, ‘Congratulations, young fella, you definitely deserve that beer.’ And he's like, ‘Thanks, man, thanks.’ I leave him. I go in the locker room. I celebrate with the rest of the team. We're having a great time. Champagne is being popped. Pictures are being taken and we're having a jolly old time. And I come out of the locker room and our social media department is, is frozen. I'm like, ‘What’s going on guys? What's wrong?’ They said, ‘We wanna take a picture of Luka and his dad.’ I said, ‘Well, take the picture. You guys are great at it, take the picture. They said, ‘But Luka’s holding a beer, he's drinking a beer.’ I said, ‘Well, go take the beer from him.’ They said, ‘What? We can't do that. I said, ‘OK, I'll do it.’ So when you watch the video, I go take the beer, I hug Luka again, and that's why Luka looked like, ‘Man, what are you doing? We just talked about this and you said it was cool.’”
Steve Kerr got off social media entirely, and hasn't looked back since. The Warriors coach, who once was very active on platforms such as X, formerly known as Twitter, deleted social media years ago, and in an interview with 95.7 The Game's "Willard & Dibs" on Wednesday, shared his reason for doing so at the time.
"It was a concious decision about five years ago," Kerr said. "James Wiseman was getting beaten up on social media and I went to him and I said 'Hey, let's get off social media together.' So we did it, and I figured it would be, you know, a month or two and I would go back, because I did enjoy a lot of it in terms of the newsfeed on Twitter and just following people that I like to follow, and then I realized after a couple weeks how great it was, that I didn't actually miss it and that I could just do the navigation on my own and find stuff that I wanted to read but avoid a lot of the toxic stuff."
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Bryson Akins: Trae Young via Instagram: “March 5th.”
Trae Young via Instagram: “March 5th.” pic.twitter.com/rPnkXS3NRg
— Bryson Akins (@BrysonAkinsNBA) March 2, 2026
Spencer Jones—the 24-year-old Nuggets forward still trying to make a name for himself in the NBA—followed a similar path. Knowing a future pro career wouldn’t last forever—if he was able to make the NBA at all—he learned about venture capital investing, looked over pitch decks, and analyzed health and tech start-ups looking to raise capital. He joined LinkedIn near the end of his senior year at Stanford to formalize the relationships he’d built over five years on campus. “The weight of each follower on LinkedIn carries a lot more than any other platform,” Jones says. “Venture capital is a fairly small community once you’re really in it, and so founders typically know other founders. You get insights on them, and you get insights on how companies are performing beyond what they send you. And so my due diligence has only increased with the increasing network.”
Dejounte Murray: LETS CLEAR THE AIR CAUSE FUCK A SOURCE… Me Or My Agent Never Requested A Trade Out Of NEW ORLEANS!!!! Joe And The Whole Organization Know I Was Locked In To Come Back Better Than Ever To Help Make This Play In Push And Whatever Comes After That!! 😂😅 It’s Bouts To Get Fun!! 🍿
Bobby Portis: “If we lost two games in a row, the talks intensified. If we lost three, four, five in a row, it got magnified: this might not be the team, these players might not fit, and he might not want to be here anymore. Once you log on social media or turn on TV, you see Giannis’ face circulating—maybe he’s going here—rumors with the Warriors, the Heat, the Timberwolves. You couldn’t duck it for a month and a half, six weeks. Every time you get on social, you see it. Every time you get on TV, you see it. It was a real thing.”
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LeBron James makes a case for Jaylen Brown for MVP and says that his relationship with Brown “will be all right” after Brown went on social media to offer support for Bronny James after he had been caught on camera at a Summer League game questioning James’ son’s game. pic.twitter.com/tI7wy5wE6E
— Dave McMenamin (@mcten) February 23, 2026
Mark Cuban: I made the point that “tanking” , IMO, is not as important an issue as affordability. I wanted to give some context. I think some in this discussion are underestimating the long term value, and importance of families changing from being committed to a team, to following players. When a family can afford to come to a game, they do. It’s a unique, bonding event, that creates incredible memories. When they come as a family, they not only become a fan of a team, and the players, they become a “Mavs family”. It’s this connection that makes sports different than every other business. It’s a connection that drives an emotional link, hopefully for decades. This is why the Mavs had $2 tickets for a while. It’s why David Stern put in place $10 tickets after the lockout in the 90s. It’s why every Mavs game had 4k tickets under $19. The math is the marginal revenue of an increased ticket price vs the incremental value of families committed as “Mavs families “. I gave up probably $15per ticket or $60k per game. $2.4m a year. That is a lot of money, until you compare it to what it costs in marketing, advertising and promotions to try to connect to all the families you priced out of games. And then add the cost of being able to watch games on streaming and legacy tv. Also not cheap.
Mark Cuban: No player will play forever. But the pictures in homes of families together at a game, all in mavs gear, when the kids were in school. Then when they had kids. Then generations and extended families together, all connected by the Mavs. All in pictures around the house. What is possibly more valuable to an organization than that ? IMO, this made perfect financial sense as well. We live in an uncertain world. Every sport and league will have its ups and downs. Any sport, if it can sustain its connection to families, can survive whatever happens. If it becomes like any other business, maybe not.
In an Instagram story on Friday, which included a screenshot of the email, Nina Westbrook tied the hostility to the growth of gambling culture, which has coincided with increased vitriol toward players and their families across sports. The Athletic could not independently verify the authenticity of the email. An email message sent to the sender’s address in the screenshot went unanswered. In the expletive-laden message, the writer said Russell Westbrook “sucks to fckn bad can’t even get 10 points is pathetic I hope you both die in a car crash dumb b—-.”