https://twitter.com/dallasmavs/status/11...0185500672

For the next study lets move the story forward slightly. Genesis 1 covered the creation of the world and it's flora while Genesis 2 focuses in on the creation of humans. 

Here's the passage:

4 These are the generations
of the heavens and the earth when they were created,
in the day that the Lord God made the earth and the heavens.

5 When no bush of the field[a] was yet in the land[b] and no small plant of the field had yet sprung up—for the Lord God had not caused it to rain on the land, and there was no man to work the ground, 6 and a mist[c] was going up from the land and was watering the whole face of the ground— 7 then the Lord God formed the man of dust from the ground and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life, and the man became a living creature. 8 And the Lord God planted a garden in Eden, in the east, and there he put the man whom he had formed. 9 And out of the ground the Lord God made to spring up every tree that is pleasant to the sight and good for food. The tree of life was in the midst of the garden, and the tree of the knowledge of good and evil.
10 A river flowed out of Eden to water the garden, and there it divided and became four rivers. 11 The name of the first is the Pishon. It is the one that flowed around the whole land of Havilah, where there is gold. 12 And the gold of that land is good; bdellium and onyx stone are there. 13 The name of the second river is the Gihon. It is the one that flowed around the whole land of Cush. 14 And the name of the third river is the Tigris, which flows east of Assyria. And the fourth river is the Euphrates.
15 The Lord God took the man and put him in the garden of Eden to work it and keep it. 16 And the Lord God commanded the man, saying, “You may surely eat of every tree of the garden, 17 but of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil you shall not eat, for in the day that you eat[d] of it you shall surely die.”
18 Then the Lord God said, “It is not good that the man should be alone; I will make him a helper fit for[e] him.” 19 Now out of the ground the Lord God had formed[f] every beast of the field and every bird of the heavens and brought them to the man to see what he would call them. And whatever the man called every living creature, that was its name. 20 The man gave names to all livestock and to the birds of the heavens and to every beast of the field. But for Adam[g] there was not found a helper fit for him. 21 So the Lord God caused a deep sleep to fall upon the man, and while he slept took one of his ribs and closed up its place with flesh. 22 And the rib that the Lord God had taken from the man he made[h] into a woman and brought her to the man. 23 Then the man said,
“This at last is bone of my bones
    and flesh of my flesh;
she shall be called Woman,
    because she was taken out of Man.”[i]
24 Therefore a man shall leave his father and his mother and hold fast to his wife, and they shall become one flesh. 25 And the man and his wife were both naked and were not ashamed.

Fadeaway Midrange jumpers and a mid range jump shot

Similar to what you saw with Jordan and what Kawai does now

If Luka adds that element to his game he will no doubt be in the conversation of future best player in the world

I was a big fan but he looks terrible for the Knicks. 

The worst thing that could happen to him is him going to the Knicks and having to hear the Porzingis feedback. 

He is not a starter and lost his starting position to Elfrid Payton

https://twitter.com/townbrad/status/1188185272485322754

...please, if the Mavs are 2-3 by late Friday night, please don't wail and moan. Any win against one of those three playoff teams would be huge. The team is still gelling. Trust the process. And no, not that process. 

Speaking of which, where's VP?

So, in game 2 he already has his first triple double. That got me to thinking, could he double his triple doubles from last season? What do you guys think? I'm gonna set the over-under at 16.

Who was the "player of the game" who outplayed their usual self to help the team win?

Okay, so I have seen this brought up many times and I have brought this up personally many times. 

SAS just nearly outright explained that black athletes aren't having the whole white European players team thing...

The comment section is wild, and I have mentioned this before and an underlying racism that occurs within this nation and that issue being translated over into the NBA in it's various forms. 

Obviously I don't think all black NBA players feel this way as it most likely isn't even a majority of them... but I bet there is a portion of them that do have issues with it. 

the clip is right here... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sLOfgCWJWYo hopefully this discussion can stay reasonable and stay here or maybe it needs to goto Troll or ROTW if it gets out of hand hahaha, which are not my intentions. 

I am trying to have a reasonable and realistic debate here:

So vote on the poll and let's discuss...

Is there a racial issue within the NBA that might make some FAs not want to come play with our two stars?