Channing Frye: ‘Nostalgia is killing the NBA. The ’90s basketball era with Michael Jordan and Kobe Bryant was not as clean as you think’

Channing Frye: Everyone hated me for the first 2 months lol. Jack: For the chemistry folks, I will remind you of this trade from the championship season. That Cavaliers locker room was devastated after they traded Anderson Varejao. -via x.com / February 6, 2025

Amid yet another report of how the situation played out ahead of Jimmy Butler’s current suspension, agent Bernie Lee took to social media Saturday to clear up what had become an exaggerated misconception. In the wake of a podcast when former NBA center Channing Frye said Butler made the Heat wait two hours on the tarmac on Jan. 22 for the team’s flight to Milwaukee, Lee posted a flight alert of the Heat team plane actually departing 15 ahead of schedule that day. -via South Florida Sun-Sentinel / February 2, 2025

Channing Frye: I’m watching the Blazer game and it is gross watching a certain player absolutely FUCK OFF his minutes is unreal. Please stop playing this person Trailblazers -via x.com / January 15, 2025

Jersey Shore Vinny Guadagnino: I had a crazy Kobe Bryant experience. It was in the middle of Jersey Shore airing. I’m just sitting at this on the courtside like I do and… that sounded douchy. I meant like just standing there doing nothing, I didn’t mean to say… whatever. So all of a sudden Kobe’s giving an interview and then he just starts like going like this, and like I know this is not to me, so I literally like am looking in another direction, because I don’t want to be the guy that like accidentally thinks Kobe’s waving to him, but he keeps walking over and walking over, and he won’t stop. And I’m like ‘Is this motherf*cker talking to me?’ So then he pulls me, he’s like ‘you’, and then he dabs me up in the middle of the Madison Square Garden, I have a video, it’s on my Instagram, and he’s just like talking to me cuz I guess he had just watched an episode of Jersey Shore where I was wearing Kobes, and he had like just dropped them too. That night he invited me to wherever he was eating, we chilled a little bit, and the next day there were 20 pairs of sneakers at my door of the Kobes. It was f*cking epic and he just dropped like 67 points on the Knicks that night. It was crazy, it was pretty legendary. -via YouTube / February 21, 2025

Former NHL player P.K. Subban: ‘If you’re really about it, if you’re really about sports, then you’re about two things: Your teammates and the fans. And I’m sorry, it doesn’t matter how much money you’re making. When you do not show up to play, you’re letting your teammates down. When you do not show up to play you’re letting the fans down that are paying you 40, 50, 60 million. I don’t care if you’re getting 300 million, congratulations, but these people in here are paying $2,500 a ticket, five grand, that are blue-collar, hard-working people. If you don’t get your head wrapped around that you shouldn’t be in pro sports, because how are we going to grow? How do we expect you to be an example? Well guess what, you don’t want to be? you are one. You’re on the biggest stage, you just said it, they make the most money, you’re an example. you got to show up. You gotta take that on. I’m sick and tired of making athletes greats, all-time greats, that are not the best examples. Those are the people that we want our kids, athletes to follow. That helps us in our game. Stephen A. Smith, you want athletes to be educated on this and understand this. They gotta understand the importance of showing up at the All-Star Game, and being on the court, and playing banged-up sometimes, and playing injured maybe at times, and participating. Because here’s the thing: because you’re making 100, 200, 300 million, you should be out there banged up. That’s why we pay you, is to max out. We talk about greatness and the longevity of somebody’s career. I don’t care if you play 50 years. I want your best 10. I want you on the court dominating. I want you to go all-out. I want Michael Jordan, I want Kobe Bryant. That’s what I want on every sport. That’s the guy that I follow. If you’re a different version than that, you don’t have my respect.’ -via reddit / February 21, 2025

Trump announced on Thursday the National Garden of American Heroes will include statues of African American icons. This was where he mentioned Bryant as one of the national figures. “Martin Luther King Jr., Muhammad Ali. Not a bad athlete, what do you think, Muhammad, not too bad, and the late Kobe Bryant. People love Kobe Bryant. We’re going to save Tiger Woods for another time,” Trump said. -via Clutch Points / February 20, 2025

Jorge Sierra: Non All-Star Domantas Sabonis (age 28) passed Michael Jordan and Clyde Drexler in rebounds last night for No. 138 in NBA history. Also: Brook Lopez moved ahead of Grant Hill in scoring. He’s No. 103 all-time now. -via Bluesky / February 22, 2025

Dave McMenamin: Austin Reaves on LeBron James’ 40 point game tonight on the 2nd night of a back-to-back at 40 years old: “He really doesn’t have anything else to prove. And if people say he does, then they’re Jordan fans” -via x.com / February 21, 2025