Michael Pina
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for Part 2 of the analytics/eye test column we published earlier this week, here are my Jaylen Brown All-Stars! www.theringer.com/2026/08/05/n...
The Jaylen Brown All-Stars
Five NBA players with underwhelming advanced stats who are worth believing in anyway
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for Part 2 of the analytics/eye test column we published earlier this week, here are my Jaylen Brown All-Stars! www.theringer.com/2026/08/05/n...
The Jaylen Brown All-Stars
Five NBA players with underwhelming advanced stats who are worth believing in anyway
theringer.com
This is a great article. Too often it feels like sports analytics just turns into a variation on “don’t believe your lying eyes” regardless of what your observations are. Neither metrics or observations are more “correct” than the other and are instead complimentary pieces of information
Michael Pina@michaelvpina.bsky.social · 2d agoI wrote about the NBA’s increasingly stupid analytics vs. eye test conversation: www.theringer.com/2026/08/03/n...
I wrote about the NBA’s increasingly stupid analytics vs. eye test conversation: www.theringer.com/2026/08/03/n...
How Did the NBA Analytics Discourse Get So Stupid?
The aftermath of the Jaylen Brown trade exposed the fallacy of the analytics vs. eye test debate
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I wrote about the NBA’s increasingly stupid analytics vs. eye test conversation: www.theringer.com/2026/08/03/n...
How Did the NBA Analytics Discourse Get So Stupid?
The aftermath of the Jaylen Brown trade exposed the fallacy of the analytics vs. eye test debate
theringer.com
went on the ringer nba show with @howardbeck.bsky.social to reveal our way-too-early, unnecessarily spicy nba awards predictions: open.spotify.com/s/ccORxxe
Way-Too-Early 2027 NBA Player Awards | Ringer NBA Show
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"These young girls that are sitting at games with anti-trans signs, do they understand actually what the real problems are and how they’re being marginalized? We’re still not in a space where we have equality."
![“Years ago, I encouraged the WNBA leadership: what’s our stance? What are we going to do when this occurs? Are we going to be ready? Are we going to be reactionary? And so I think it would make sense for our league to be leaders in this space,” she said. ” … I’ve chosen to educate myself about the space. I’ve chosen to listen to transgender families, and what I know is exclusion is not the answer. We’ve got to find a common ground and be inclusive. That’s the space. I think if we all come from that.”
Reeve then pondered the real issues facing women’s sports and whether the people attempting to “defend” them even know what they are.
“The [transgender]issue isn’t as big as the issues that we have in women’s sports,” she continued. “Whether it’s cisgender men that have held us down for years in spaces like being able to have access to facilities and uniforms and locker rooms, all the things that these young girls that are sitting at games with anti-trans signs, do they understand actually what the real problems are and how they’re being marginalized? We’re still not in a space where we have equality. We don’t even have the Equal Rights Amendment in all 50 states, right? So there’s real issues. This is an issue that I think that we can thoughtfully work through, and that’s my hope."](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:ljtaqjfy2qlxv2u5sb6njbhr/bafkreict6exctik6d3kjui5h7qjmkk4v465o7sv5twonjaw5rzudxfbv4i)
Awful Announcing@awfulannouncing.bsky.social · 4d ago
Batman: Michael Keaton's 'Get Nuts' Joker Scene
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Michael Pina@michaelvpina.bsky.social · 4d agowent on the ringer nba show with @howardbeck.bsky.social to reveal our way-too-early, unnecessarily spicy nba awards predictions: open.spotify.com/s/ccORxxe
went on the ringer nba show with @howardbeck.bsky.social to reveal our way-too-early, unnecessarily spicy nba awards predictions: open.spotify.com/s/ccORxxe
Way-Too-Early 2027 NBA Player Awards | Ringer NBA Show
The Ringer NBA Show · Episode
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no matter how much an employee does for a company, the organization is under no obligation to return the favor. on how the Warriors' failed pursuit of LeBron James exposed Golden State's years-long failure to make the most of Steph Curry's twilight. www.theringer.com/2026/07/29/n...
How the End of the Steph Era Got So Bleak
The Golden State Warriors failed to entice LeBron. Now they’re stuck in limbo with Curry.
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Tim Walz replays his veep debate with JD Vance. Nice JD was the one JD he didn't prepare for. Full interview w/ Walz about the midterms, his final months in office, and much more here: open.spotify.com/episode/4NXD...
“Their 14-month-old daughter, Giovanni, was found crying beside her mother’s body” www.stlpr.org/law-order/20...
Overland couple shot dead in Guatemala after local ICE stop led to deportations
The couple’s 14-month-old daughter was found crying beside her mother’s body in a sugarcane field last week, according to Guatemalan authorities and media.
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Mamdani criticizes Netanyahu. Later, a crazy man stabs a Jewish man and an Asian man. And we get an article suggesting that while one stabbing (dismissed in six words) is just a shrug, the other implicates the mayor. Disgraceful framing. Shame on everyone involved. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/24/n...
After Stabbings, a Rise in Jewish Fears and Questions for Mamdani (Gift Article)
Some politicians said Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s criticism of Israel had created a dangerous environment. He pushed back, condemning the stabbings of two men on the Upper West Side and defending his state...
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i wrote about lebron's final decision, philly's near unprecedented collection of talent, and how it all fits together: www.theringer.com/2026/07/24/n...
LeBron’s Final Decision Is a Massive Plot Twist for the NBA
James will take his talents to Philly for the final chapter of his career. What does this mean for the league’s most chaotic franchise, the Eastern Conference, and the NBA writ large?
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i wrote about lebron's final decision, philly's near unprecedented collection of talent, and how it all fits together: www.theringer.com/2026/07/24/n...
LeBron’s Final Decision Is a Massive Plot Twist for the NBA
James will take his talents to Philly for the final chapter of his career. What does this mean for the league’s most chaotic franchise, the Eastern Conference, and the NBA writ large?
theringer.com
on lebron james and the philadelphia 76ers (what is happening) www.theringer.com/2026/07/24/n...
LeBron’s Final Decision Is a Massive Plot Twist for the NBA
James will take his talents to Philly for the final chapter of his career. What does this mean for the league’s most chaotic franchise, the Eastern Conference, and the NBA writ large?
theringer.com
on lebron james and the philadelphia 76ers (what is happening) www.theringer.com/2026/07/24/n...
LeBron’s Final Decision Is a Massive Plot Twist for the NBA
James will take his talents to Philly for the final chapter of his career. What does this mean for the league’s most chaotic franchise, the Eastern Conference, and the NBA writ large?
theringer.com
just wrote a column that should be up soon but i actually feel like he chose one of the most challenging basketball situations on the board. it’s fascinating
Daniel Burke@burke13.bsky.social · 2w agoLebron going ring shopping
"New York is Whitehead’s cradle and his muse." Read more on COOL MACHINE from bsky.app/profile/trib... www.theringer.com/2026/07/21/b... via @theringer.com.web.brid.gy
How to Die and Be Reborn in Colson Whitehead’s New York
The Pulitzer Prize–winning author opens up about midlife, the state of writing, and how his new book, ‘Cool Machine,’ makes sense of the world
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