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Muskegon 2023 Jordan Briggs (WSU commit) and 2023 Anthony Sydnor (Ferris State commit) talked to The D Zone after their win. Great players and great kids! #4 Muskegon beat #13 Warren Lincoln 50-45 MuskegonBigRedHoops Jordan Briggs🏀 Anthony Sydnor jr Horatio Williams MLK Freedom Classic

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Why Michael Jordan is Overrated!!!!!!!!!!! He wasn't clutch - the opportunity to eliminate opponents in the playofts shooting % dropped a whopping 9% all the way down to 40% Rebounds decreased to 4.8 a game Assists went down to 3.2 a game 0.08 fewer steals & 0.06 fewer blocks That is not killer instinct - scored less, played less defense and didn't help his team by assisting or rebounding Jordan with his back against the wall he saved himself 41.7% of the times a record of 5-7 he regressed in major cotegories, he shot worse from the field & FT line he stole the ball 0.07 fewer times & turn the ball over 1.5 more times & 2.7 more PPG The Expansion League - those who call him the greatest fail to look at the league around him - 6 teams were added (Hornets & Heat '88, Magic & Timberwolves '89, and Raptors & Grizzlies'95 Before first playoffs & Jordan's record against them Before first playoffs & Jordan's record against them '88-93 Hornets 140-270 & Jordan was 18-3 88-92 Heat 95-233 & Jordan 14-0 *89-94 Magic 106-249 & Jordan 12-4 '89-95 Timberwolves 192-464 & Jordan 13-1 95-00 Raptors 135-243 & Jordan 10-2 *95-02 Grizzlies 101-418 & Jordan 7-1 then got cut from Wizards in 03- Grizzlies didn't make the playoffs until 04 At any given point after "88 in Jordan's career, at least 3 teams had 5 or fewer years of experience in the league This resulted in a top-heavy league with very few talented teams In Jordan 11 years after expansion only 4 seasons had more than 50% of the over .500 A league of a small number of good teams destroying bad teams & bosting their records to appear better than what they actually were In Jordan 6 title years 4 of the seasons had more losing teams in the league than winning teams He lost to His Greatest Opponents in their Prime in the postseason not including the Finals He lost to His Greatest Opponents in their Prime in the postseason not including the Finals 0-2 vs Bird, Walton, Mchale, Parrish,Dantley & DJ 1-3 vs Isiah, Dumars, Rodman, 1-1 vs Shaq 1-0 vs Dominique, Reggie & Dikembe Mutombo 2-0 vs Barkley 3-0 vs Morning 5-0 vs Ewing He face 16 HOFs on 39 occasions and posted a winning record against only 6 of the 16 & tied record with 1- that's a losing record against 9 Total record in the playoffs against HOFs was 17-22 with 10 of his 17 wins against Ewing, Barkley & Morning He beat 9 HOFs in the Finals, 20% of his his postseason wins came against 3 players who never won rings Never beat Larry Bird in the playoffs, and Jordan greatest statistical season he couldn't win 1 game against Bird He faced Isiah 4x and lost 3 straight winning only the last one when isiah never recovered from a broken wrist Jordan beat Magic in the Finals but not the ShowTime Lakers with Kareem, Scott & Worthy injured and sat out of game 5 He faced Isiah 4x and lost 3 straight winning only the last one when Isiah never recovered from a broken wrist Jordan beat Magic in the Finals but not the ShowTime Lakers with Kareem, Scott & Worthy injured and sat out of game 5 The Washington Years Failed to make the playoffs More than half of the league got into the playoffs- the so-called goat couldn't He only needed 42 games to get into the playoffs The bottom line is that he wasn't challenged enough to be name the GOAT Conclusion : JORDAN ISNT THE GOAT

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Greatest PLAYER Ever in the history of NBA!🔥🔥 Dwyane Wade: Jordan is the best for this game, but Kobe is the master. Chris Bosh: I knew Kobe, but I didn't know him. Played basketball against him. He's the best player ever, and he was almost untouchable. Kyrie Irving: When I say [Kobe is] the greatest to play this game, it doesn’t mean I’m knocking anybody else, all right? The greatest to play this game to me! I don’t give a f*** what you talking about. I don’t care about your stats.” Anthony Davis: Kobe and MJ are the two greatest players of all-time. Kevin Durant: Kobe Bryant is the greatest of all time. His skill is second to none. Him and Michael Jordan are neck and neck as far as skill. Dirk Nowitzki: His skill level was unbelievable. There was not one shot he didn’t have in his repertoire. So, to me, in my 20 years, he was probably the best offensive or the best player I’ve seen/faced. Tony Allen: He pushed me past my limits, and I did the same to him. To me, that's what makes him the greatest. Steve Smith NBA: [Kobe] was the most fundamentally sound player that I've seen play. #GregAnthony: Kobe Bryant is the most complete basketball player the game has ever seen. Tony Parker: Maybe the closest to Michael Jordan, who I think is the best ever. #MattBarnes: Jordan is 1, and Kobe is 1B. Jamal Crawford: There's no list I will ever respect if Kobe Bryant isn't top 5. Klay Thompson: He's the greatest in my eyes. He is the reason I play today. Nate Robinson: Kobe, in my opinion, is second to MJ as the most complete player ever. Metta World Peace: There are legends, then there are guys who are in a class of their own. Kobe is in a class of his own. #WaltFrazier: Players see him as the biggest icon in basketball, and he deserves it. Mike knows that. Isaiah Thomas: I'm still a Kobe guy when it comes to the GOAT conversation. #KenyonMartin: [In] my 15 years of playing basketball, Kobe Bryant was the best basketball player in the National Basketball Association." Dwight Howard: "Everything Michael Jordan did, Kobe did better." Kevin Durant: "Kobe is the Greatest of all time. His skill is second to none. Him and Michael Jordan are 1A, 1B as far as skill." Shannon Brown: "Kobe is the best of all time. He comes first before Jordan." Brandon Jennings: "Jordan never win a championship without Pippen. Kobe won 2 without all time great teammates. Kobe is the GOAT."

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Greatest PLAYER Ever in the history of NBA!🔥🔥 Dwyane Wade: Jordan is the best for this game, but Kobe is the master. Chris Bosh: I knew Kobe, but I didn't know him. Played basketball against him. He's the best player ever, and he was almost untouchable. Kyrie Irving: When I say [Kobe is] the greatest to play this game, it doesn’t mean I’m knocking anybody else, all right? The greatest to play this game to me! I don’t give a f*** what you talking about. I don’t care about your stats.” Anthony Davis: Kobe and MJ are the two greatest players of all-time. Kevin Durant: Kobe Bryant is the greatest of all time. His skill is second to none. Him and Michael Jordan are neck and neck as far as skill. Dirk Nowitzki: His skill level was unbelievable. There was not one shot he didn’t have in his repertoire. So, to me, in my 20 years, he was probably the best offensive or the best player I’ve seen/faced. Tony Allen: He pushed me past my limits, and I did the same to him. To me, that's what makes him the greatest. Steve Smith NBA: [Kobe] was the most fundamentally sound player that I've seen play. #GregAnthony: Kobe Bryant is the most complete basketball player the game has ever seen. Tony Parker: Maybe the closest to Michael Jordan, who I think is the best ever. #MattBarnes: Jordan is 1, and Kobe is 1B. Jamal Crawford: There's no list I will ever respect if Kobe Bryant isn't top 5. Klay Thompson: He's the greatest in my eyes. He is the reason I play today. Nate Robinson: Kobe, in my opinion, is second to MJ as the most complete player ever. Metta World Peace: There are legends, then there are guys who are in a class of their own. Kobe is in a class of his own. #WaltFrazier: Players see him as the biggest icon in basketball, and he deserves it. Mike knows that. Isaiah Thomas: I'm still a Kobe guy when it comes to the GOAT conversation. #KenyonMartin: [In] my 15 years of playing basketball, Kobe Bryant was the best basketball player in the National Basketball Association." Dwight Howard: "Everything Michael Jordan did, Kobe did better." Kevin Durant: "Kobe is the Greatest of all time. His skill is second to none. Him and Michael Jordan are 1A, 1B as far as skill." Shannon Brown: "Kobe is the best of all time. He comes first before Jordan." Brandon Jennings: "Jordan never win a championship without Pippen. Kobe won 2 without all time great teammates. Kobe is the GOAT."

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On Lebanese talkshow صار الوقت with Marcel Ghanem: 1. If Hezbollah is winning and beating Israel like it claims, then why is it dying to stop the war and be part of the Iran ceasefire? Why not go on and win back all the land from Israel? If the war stops this minute, at least 300,000 Lebanese won't be able to return to the buffer zone in south Lebanon. 2. The Lebanese keep on saying "Israeli aggression" while in reality, in 2006, 2023, 2026, Hezbollah was always the aggressor, the one that started the war. Also, from an international law perspective, Israel is in the clear defending itself while Lebanon is in violation of UN Security Council Resolution 1701 (disarm Hezbollah). 3. Hezbollah chief Qassem published a book called The Resistance State that a government coexists with an armed non-state actor against global imperialism. Israel wants this model dead. Either Lebanon becomes a normal sovereign state responsible for any violence that originates from its territory, or Israel will keep a buffer zone like in Gaza until Hezbollah surrenders its arms. 4. Hezbollah surrendering its arms to win back land is great. After all the goal is for Shia to live in their land in peace. The goal is not to keep the arms. The arms is a tool and if throwing it away achieve the goal, then be it. 5. Disarming Hezbollah doesn't have to be war, it requires Lebanese political consensus to ask Hezbollah to surrender its arms to the army. It succeeded in 1982 when the Lebanese asked Arafat to leave Lebanon to stop the war with Israel. It succeeded in 2005 when the Lebanese ejected Assad's army from their country.

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KD on seeing Kobe score 81 points: "This is the greatest player I ever seen."🐐 "[Kobe] strived so hard to be Michael Jordan. When I go back and I look at his videos and I say to myself, ‘Damn he was better than Michael Jordan.’” - Scottie Pippen Phil Jackson : Kobe Is More Skilled Than Jordan. Greatest PLAYER Ever in the history of NBA!🔥🔥 Dwyane Wade: Jordan is the best for this game, but Kobe is the master. Chris Bosh: I knew Kobe, but I didn't know him. Played basketball against him. He's the best player ever, and he was almost untouchable. Kyrie Irving: When I say [Kobe is] the greatest to play this game, it doesn’t mean I’m knocking anybody else, all right? The greatest to play this game to me! I don’t give a f*** what you talking about. I don’t care about your stats.” Anthony Davis: Kobe and MJ are the two greatest players of all-time. Kevin Durant: Kobe Bryant is the greatest of all time. His skill is second to none. Him and Michael Jordan are neck and neck as far as skill. Dirk Nowitzki: His skill level was unbelievable. There was not one shot he didn’t have in his repertoire. So, to me, in my 20 years, he was probably the best offensive or the best player I’ve seen/faced. Tony Allen: He pushed me past my limits, and I did the same to him. To me, that's what makes him the greatest. Steve Smith NBA: [Kobe] was the most fundamentally sound player that I've seen play. #GregAnthony: Kobe Bryant is the most complete basketball player the game has ever seen. Tony Parker: Maybe the closest to Michael Jordan, who I think is the best ever. #MattBarnes: Jordan is 1, and Kobe is 1B. Jamal Crawford: There's no list I will ever respect if Kobe Bryant isn't top 5. Klay Thompson: He's the greatest in my eyes. He is the reason I play today. Nate Robinson: Kobe, in my opinion, is second to MJ as the most complete player ever. Metta World Peace: There are legends, then there are guys who are in a class of their own. Kobe is in a class of his own. #WaltFrazier: Players see him as the biggest icon in basketball, and he deserves it. Mike knows that. Isaiah Thomas: I'm still a Kobe guy when it comes to the GOAT conversation. #KenyonMartin: [In] my 15 years of playing basketball, Kobe Bryant was the best basketball player in the National Basketball Association." Dwight Howard: "Everything Michael Jordan did, Kobe did better." Kevin Durant: "Kobe is the Greatest of all time. His skill is second to none. Him and Michael Jordan are 1A, 1B as far as skill." Shannon Brown: "Kobe is the best of all time. He comes first before Jordan." Brandon Jennings: "Jordan never win a championship without Pippen. Kobe won 2 without all time great teammates. Kobe is the GOAT."If you want stats, look for LeBron. If you want rings, look for Russell. If you want MVPs, look for Kareem. If you want records, look for Wilt. If you want impact, look for Steph. If you want dominance in a position, look for Shaq. If you want perimeter defense, find Gary Payton. If you want athletics, find Kemp, Giannis or Malone. If you want greatness, look for Bird or Magic. If you want exquisite dunks, look for Carter, Dr. J or Wilkins. If you want a good Trash Talker, look for Garnett. If you want influence, look for Iverson. If you want remarkable scoring skills, look for Durant. If you want competitiveness, look for Michael. If you want Impavidez at Clutch moment, look for Michael again. Now, if you want a good slice of all that fit to a single player, then look for Kobe Bryant 🐐 #MambaForever #mambamentality 🐐

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SGA’S EXCELLENCE: FUELING OKC’S DOMINANCE & AN MVP CAMPAIGN “That was a masterpiece,” said Thunder coach Mark Daigneault after Shai Gilgeous-Alexander’s 45-point outburst in Thursday’s win over Indiana. “Shai was outstanding … He was at his own pace the entire night. Great blend of passing and attacking. Great blend of shooting and attacking. He just had total control of the wheel.” SGA’s masterful outing extended the Thunder’s league-best win streak to nine games. Tonight, OKC will face Charlotte (6 PM ET, NBA TV), looking to match its longest win streak in a single season since 2013-14 — with Gilgeous-Alexander firmly in the driver’s seat. MVP Level: Ranked third on the Kia NBA MVP Ladder, SGA (31.1 ppg, 6.1 apg, 2.0 spg) is the only player in the league averaging 30+ points, 6+ assists and 2+ steals. Leveling Up: Amid the win streak, he’s elevated his game, averaging an NBA-best 33.8 points and 2.6 steals while raising both his FG% (54.2) and 3P% (37.3). In Thursday’s win, SGA shot 15-of-22 (68.2%) from the floor, 4-of-5 from deep (80%) and 11-for-11 (100%) from the line, becoming just the fourth player in NBA history to score 45+ points on 65/80/100 shooting splits or better. One game prior, he dropped 41 points with three steals and three blocks — a feat no other player has accomplished this season — proving his impact extends well beyond scoring. Since 2018-19, his first NBA season, SGA leads all players in 30+ point, 3+ steal games with 39. In that same span, he ranks first among guards in games of 3+ blocks and 3+ steals with seven. This season, SGA leads the Thunder in total steals (57) and blocks (32), and 72% of their forced turnovers come when he’s on the floor. His all-around excellence drives OKC’s success on both ends — at an unprecedented level — as it’s on pace to become the first team to record more steals than turnovers since turnovers were first tracked in 1977-78. “There’s two sides of the ball on every possession,” said SGA after Monday’s win. “I try to affect the game anywhere I can on every possession and help my team win.” Tonight, the Thunder will not only look to match their longest single-season win streak since 2013-14 but also equal their best 30-game start since moving to Oklahoma City with 25 wins — a mark set by the ’13-14 squad. That team was led by Kevin Durant, who went on to win that season’s Kia NBA MVP. Eleven years later, OKC has another MVP-caliber player leading a historic start.

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NIGER HONOURS REVOLUTIONARIES, NOT COLONISERS On 15 October, the anniversary of revolutionary Burkina Faso President Thomas Sankara's assassination, the government of Niger re-named street names and monuments after him and other great Pan-Africanists. A portrait of a French coloniser, Parfait-Louis Monteil, was replaced with the image of Sankara and a memorial of his likeness was remade in his honour using images. The Nigerien capital of Niamey's Charles de Gaulle Avenue was named after the great Nigerien freedom fighter Djibo Bakary, founder of the Sawaba Party, a mass socialist Pan-Africanist party that campaigned against French neo-colonialism. When Bakary was exiled from Niger, he was embraced by presidents, such as Kwame Nkrumah of Ghana, Modibo Keïta of Mali and Ahmed Sékou Touré of Guinea. He and his comrades received military training in China and Algeria to launch a guerilla struggle to liberate Niger, which was unsuccessful. Francophone Plaza was also re-baptised as the Alliance of Sahel States Plaza after the anti-imperialist Pan-African federation aiming to unify Mali, Burkina Faso, and Niger into a single federal state with an eye on unifying the whole continent. This is just one of several steps toward decolonisation since President Abdourahamane Tiani came to power through a military coup d’état on 26 July 2023. Like neighbouring Burkina Faso and Mali, Niger has expelled the French military from its soil. Niger also became the first country to boot the US Africa Command (AFRICOM). Niger's government has also revoked the mining license of the French company, Orano, which was exploiting Niger's uranium deposits. Niger nationalised water after kicking out a private French company and decreased the public cost of medical treatments by 50 per cent. Nigerien citizens organise regular rallies to express support for the Tiani-led government. What do you think of Niger re-naming their streets and monuments? Let us know in the comments.

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America’s Public Schools Are Setting Our Kids Up For Failure, This Is So Bad It Has To Be On Purpose ALL 13 Baltimore Schools Had 100% Of Students Fail Math Proficiency. Not One Single Student Passed The City School CEO Is Making $445,000 Per Year From Taxpayers “When it comes to the most recent Maryland state test scores I can't tell you how horrible 13 Baltimore City high schools, not a single student who took the 2023 math exam in the spring scored proficient, not one. Hidden findings by our Project Baltimore team after Fox 45 obtained unredacted state test scores for Every school in Baltimore City. Now these results have not yet been released to the public, but Chris Pappz has been analyzing them, and what he discovered is hard to believe Even at the highest performing schools in the city. When it comes to the most recent Maryland state test scores. I can't tell you how horrible that is. There's a consensus. Parents, guardians, Supporters need to be outraged. What Project Baltimore discovered in these unredacted test results is a problem. Do you find it acceptable that there's 13 high schools in Baltimore City with no students proficient in math? No. At 13 Baltimore City high schools, not a single student who took the 2023 math exam in the spring scored proficient, not one. It's sad and disheartening because today, more than ever, the school system has the money and the resources. We obviously are not doing enough. This is when people get fired. Project Baltimore made the discovery after a source gave us the unredacted test scores for every school in Baltimore City. The data has not yet been released to the public, but we didn't just find 13 city high schools with 0 students who tested proficient in math. We also looked at the city's top schools, and what we discovered there may be just as alarming. According to the state test results, these are Baltimore's 5 top performing high schools in terms of math proficiency. At these schools, a combined 809 students took the state math test in the spring. 92 students tested proficient, meaning a total of about 11% of students are proficient in math at the best high schools in Baltimore. When Maryland public school students take the state test, their scores place them in 1 of 4 categories. Level 1 is beginning, all the way up to level 4 distinguished. Of the 92 students who tested proficient in math at the 5 best Baltimore City high schools, All 92 tested into level 3. There were no level fours. In fact, there was not 1 high school student in the Higher city in math who achieved the highest level of proficiency. City School CEO, doctor Sonia Santelises, last Kear earned $445,000 in total compensation.”

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Abdul El-Sayed's House of Horrors After he "fixed" a juvie jail, kids suffered rape, beatings, and were given expired meds By Charlie LeDuff Charlie LeDuff Abdul El-Sayed, the unlicensed doctor, says he’s got the chops and experience to govern from D.C. But does he? On the campaign trail, on television, and online, he talks about his tenure as the Wayne County Health Director and his miraculous turn around of the fetid and violent juvenile detention facility. “We had to rebuild it from the ground up,” he told a crowd of black pastors. “We rebuilt it from the studs up,” he told a group of black Democrats. “When the juvenile detention facility was in shambles, I declared a public health state of emergency to rebuild it,” he told CBS. But those claims don’t hold up when you examine the officials records, court filings, or talk to people who actually worked at the juvenile jail. Those employees paint a picture of horror, abuse, and incompetence. “Nothing was fixed,” said Jalal Malik-Ikram, a retired Detroit cop and former security officer at the juvenile jailhouse. “It was like prison. The kids called the shots, and their care and safety were beyond terrible.” Malik-Ikram was fired for taking secret photographs to document the abuse. El-Sayed may have built the studs, but he forgot to lay a foundation. “They were giving the kids expired medications,” Malik-Ikram said. “Or we couldn’t give the meds at all because it wasn’t safe. School? Education? There wasn’t none to speak of.” El-Sayed came to work for Wayne County in 2023. His resume listed few professional jobs beyond his 16 months as the Detroit Health Director. He quit that job in 2017, ran for governor, and lost. From there he became a paid talking head for CNN during the Covid pandemic. Citing standard talking points, El-Sayed got most things wrong, including the benefits of school lockouts, masking outdoors, and the efficacy of the vaccine. But El-Sayed was a “get” for the scandal-plagued county, whose Covid nursing home response was under intense scrutiny as was the plummeting life expectancy of Detroiters. In El-Sayed, they had themselves a real life TV doctor. Wayne County paid him big—about $280,000 a year. That was $100,000 more than his predecessor, a black female, and $100,000 more than his successor, also a black female. This disparity came despite El-Sayed’s social justice position decrying the pay gap between white men and black women. The month El-Sayed came aboard full-time with the county—March 2023—a 12-year-old boy was gang raped in the juvenile jail. Squalid and overcrowded, the deteriorating facility with overflowing sewage was a dumping ground not just for Detroit and Wayne County delinquents, but also for juveniles from across the state. It was the embarrassed County Executive Warren Evans—not El-Sayed—who declared a three-month state of emergency. It was Evans who appointed El-Sayed his juvenile jail czar and handed him $10 million. El-Sayed spent the money. The kids got fresh underpants, the guards got a pay raise, but little else changed. “[We] reorganized healthcare at the facility, raised salaries and wages by 35% to retain staff, and provided daily access to to hygiene products and clean underwear,” he told the Detroit News. And it was Evans, the county executive, who lifted the emergency declaration in June 2023, calling El-Sayed’s 10-week tenure a great success. But it wasn’t a great success. A week later, another kid was raped. Another week, and another beating. A few months later, the facility’s license was downgraded to a “provisional” status—requiring state supervision. The findings by a state investigator were appalling—violence, irregular meals, 22-hour lockdowns. In December 2023, two nurses filed a whistleblower lawsuit, alleging that they were fired after complaining to superiors that the children were being given expired medications. In February 2024, the juvenile jail was given a second “provisional” license after a boy was savaged by other inmates. Weeks later, a detention worker was charged and later convicted of the sexual assault of two boys. She is currently serving a 6-to-15-year prison sentence. One of the victims is now suing the county in federal court. That’s when Malik-Ikram began snapping his photographs. He tells the story of a gay teenager so distraught about being left in the general population that he pulled the florescent light bulbs out of the ceiling to harm himself. “The kid ate the glass so they’d take him to the hospital,” Malik-Ikram recalled. “That way, he figured, when he come back to lock-up, he’d get placed on the safe floor. But they wouldn’t put him on the safe floor, so the kid would eat glass again. When that didn’t work, he got violent, and that’s when security officers slammed the kid’s head into the wall. I saw that, and I took pictures.” Malik-Ikram was fired. He, too, has an active whistleblower lawsuit. Last year, the children were moved into the new Wayne County Criminal Justice Complex, a project engulfed in corruption and cost-overruns. Violence and staffing levels remain serious issues there. El-Sayed is now asking voters to consider his record at the juvenile jail as he pushes for Medicare for All when the truth is that he couldn’t manage medical care in a juvenile jailhouse. But on the upside, he got kids toothbrushes and underpants.

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