Jack Tien-Dana
Writer at Freelance
Associate Editor at ClutchPoints
Two years away from being two years away. Words: @rollingstone, @realgm, @insidehook, @mensjournal
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2 months ago |
basketball.realgm.com | Jack Tien-Dana
How do you explain the inexplicable? Are the Dallas Mavericks’ new casino magnate owners exploding the team to strong-arm the Texas state legislature into approving the finest resort-casino that the Dallas-Fort Worth metroplex has ever seen? Are they angling for a move to Las Vegas? Is it that, as they imply, Luka Doncic can’t stop eating and/or drinking? Or maybe it’s the “ultimate ego-trip” of “power hungry” Mavericks’ general manager Nico Harrison?
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2 months ago |
basketball.realgm.com | Jack Tien-Dana
The most remarkable thing about LeBron James is that he’s still recognizably himself. Even if he’s not the best basketball player ever, he’s certainly the best 40-year-old basketball player ever. Forty-seven games into his 22nd season, James can do just about everything that can be done on the basketball court. He switches hands mid-air to throw down sidewinding dunks over guys who are younger than his NBA career; he’s added a running, one-legged pull-up three to his repertoire.
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Jan 10, 2025 |
basketball.realgm.com | Jack Tien-Dana
If Washington D.C. is anything, it’s a monument to myth-making. Carved out of the Chesapeake’s fen and bogland in 1790, there’s no logical reason for the city to exist. It belongs to no state. There’s no broader cultural footprint—no one has a DC accent; no one hungers for DC-style cuisine. It’s a city that’s home to nearly a million people, but more, it’s a symbol of how money and power can create importance, not meaning. All of which is to say that the Washington Wizards are bad.
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Nov 22, 2024 |
basketball.realgm.com | Jack Tien-Dana
RJ Barrett has lived a life of mosts. The son of the most powerful man in Canadian basketball, he became the country’s most celebrated youth prospect of his generation. During his one year at Duke, he teamed up with Zion Williamson to form the most exciting college basketball team in decades. And once the Knicks drafted him with the third pick in 2019, he became the most scrutinized player on the league’s most scrutinized team. Now, Barrett is mostly forgotten.
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Nov 18, 2024 |
basketball.realgm.com | Jack Tien-Dana |John Wilmes
by Jack Tien-DanaWhile Jalen Brunson's sphere of influence has turned the Knicks into contenders, Julius Randle is why they could become champions. by Wes GoldbergTom Thibodeau has always loved to play his best players a lot of minutes, but he rarely plays small. This season, in order to fulfill the former, he will likely have to compromise on the latter.
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Feels like Power Balance bracelets were ahead of their time. Some day soon, Kyle Kuzma and Rudy Gobert will rediscover the power of performance hologram technology
20,000 of these in Dallas tonight. Mavs fans need to have some self respect https://t.co/9gA1r2Li39
Biggest possession of his entire life and Kelvin Sampson put on an episode of Slappin’ Glass at 5x speed in the huddle and ran some frou frou elevator screen nonsense because he wanted X’s and O’s substackers to think he’s cool
