| 1 | Jul 16, '21 | Source: Blazers star Damian Lillard to request trade in the days to come. If this is a surprise, you haven't been paying attention. | 79.3× | 0 | 3.7k | 961 | 74 |
| 2 | Sep 3, '20 | Final minute of Game 7. One point game. Two of the savviest players in history, Chris Paul and James Harden, both bet on the same move: the flop. | 35.3× | 0 | 3k | 388 | 52 |
| 3 | Jun 25, '20 | "Do I get to speak now? It's been like ten minutes." Working with Bill Simmons. | 25.1× | 0 | 1.9k | 339 | 139 |
| 4 | Jun 1, '20 | Gregg Popovich: “McConnell has destroyed and degraded our judicial system. He has tried to destroy heath care. He’s destroyed the environment. He’s the master and Trump’s the stoog | 24.6× | 0 | 1.8k | 707 | 12 |
| 5 | Apr 28, '17 | Basketball Twitter you are entirely over the top, hyperbolic and possibly drunk. And I thank you for it from the bottom of my heart. | 22.6× | 0 | 2.2k | 361 | 0 |
| 6 | Jul 29, '21 | @Dame_Lillard For sure. Appreciate that, and you. But realize: I work in a profession where my reputation is as important to my livelihood as health is to an NBA player. Please be | 21.7× | 0 | 508 | 50 | 18 |
| 7 | Jan 27, '20 | "This is why mother's don't sleep." Vanessa Bryant's nightmare. | 17.1× | 0 | 1.2k | 374 | 91 |
| 8 | Feb 8, '19 | What happened to TrueHoop? +On the brink of re-launch. +Same fearless truth-telling mission. +Game on. Drop your email here, be the first to know when it’s go time: #truehoop #sotr | 12.6× | 0 | 1k | 156 | 5 |
| 9 | May 31, '19 | Count on Kawhi returning to the Raptors, per TrueHoop sources, @coachthorpe. | 10.7× | 0 | 584 | 274 | 10 |
| 10 | May 22, '19 | @KDTrey5 This all looks like innocent internet fun until I see how many people appear to believe @Chris_Broussard manufactured the entire tale! I worked with Chris, we disagree on | 10.7× | 0 | 1.2k | 82 | 4 |
| 11 | Jun 4, '20 | NY, LA, Chicago, Houston, Phoenix, Philadelphia ... you are being outdanced by Nebraskans. | 10.6× | 0 | 1k | 164 | 14 |
| 12 | May 28, '19 | Rob Pelinka tells a story about Kobe Bryant seeing "The Dark Knight," later picking Heath Ledger's brain over dinner. @baxter: "The Dark Knight" was released six months after Ledge | 9.7× | 0 | 557 | 209 | 25 |
| 13 | May 12, '21 | "According to the NBA’s Last Two Minute Reports, Jokic has been on the wrong end of a bad call a league-leading 14 times this season. Twice as many as the second-most player." Real | 8.8× | 0 | 613 | 177 | 27 |
| 14 | Jun 14, '19 | Steve Kerr: "It's like, 'You've got to be kidding me.' It just has to stop. ... I don't know if it's related to five straight seasons of playing 100-plus games and all the wear and | 8.5× | 0 | 789 | 155 | 3 |
| 15 | Jul 29, '21 | Who names their site TrueHoop? My whole career is about the truth. Of course I have never published a made-up story, and never will. If you think somebody is lying about this @Dame | 7.9× | 0 | 370 | 36 | 10 |
| 16 | May 19, '19 | Stephen Curry can run the Warriors to perfection by himself. X times a year. Doesn't need Kevin Durant--in any one game. But it's too much to ask Steph to be this 82 times a year p | 7.9× | 0 | 648 | 141 | 7 |
| 17 | Jul 27, '21 | "Sources say Damian Lillard is willing to forgo paychecks to get to a title team, if it comes to that." Did you know Lillard has earned almost $300 million already? A lot of new in | 7.7× | 0 | 185 | 51 | 6 |
| 18 | Mar 10, '23 | Fred VanVleet paid $30,000 to tell us about a referee. Remember when Rasheed Wallace got in trouble like that, and the referee turned out to be corrupt Tim Donaghy? | 6.6× | 158k | 421 | 101 | 16 |
| 19 | Jul 16, '21 | @bosnianbeast27 He has come awfully close to saying it himself. Has he told you different? | 6.1× | 0 | 471 | 24 | 4 |
| 20 | Feb 19, '19 | FBI's plan for corrupt referee Tim Donaghy: "they were going to wire up Donaghy so he could get other allegedly corrupted NBA referees to incriminate themselves." But it never happ | 6.1× | 0 | 446 | 115 | 51 |
| 21 | Jun 11, '19 | "Kevin takes a lot of hits sometimes, but he just wants to play basketball, and right now he can't. Basketball has gotten him through his life."--Bob Myers | 6.1× | 0 | 608 | 104 | 3 |
| 22 | Mar 6, '21 | Come with me on the craziest reporting journey of my life. It's real, it matters, it really involves the CIA, the NBA, and Jeffrey Epstein. The world is far crazier than I once tho | 6.1× | 0 | 440 | 70 | 94 |
| 23 | Jun 18, '20 | How much do you know about the family history of Tilman Fertitta, governor of the Houston Rockets? | 6.0× | 0 | 333 | 107 | 61 |
| 24 | Apr 11, '19 | Spent much of yesterday on the phone, learning about the inner workings of the Lakers. This free TrueHoop post makes the case that to get ahead, the Lakers will have to get past th | 5.5× | 0 | 373 | 83 | 40 |
| 25 | Jun 25, '25 | This post is unlocked, free for all, and deep on the concept that your NBA mock drafts are sleeping on one particular player. | 5.0× | 119k | 228 | 63 | 63 |
| 26 | Jun 21, '23 | "The Pacers run a drill they call 'Ringing the Bell.' ... If you hit 20-of-25, you ring the bell. Prosper hit 23, I’m told. A Pacers rep told me only Buddy Hield had done that this | 4.9× | 118k | 232 | 41 | 8 |
| 27 | Oct 14, '20 | Who's that crazy guy who ranked Stephen Curry third all-time? THAT'S ME, and I'd do it again! 🤓 Here's why: Also, on BRING IT IN shortly: @jshector reveals his top five. Free sub | 4.8× | 0 | 414 | 68 | 23 |
| 28 | Apr 17, '20 | Adam Silver says more than the reported seven players have tested positive for coronavirus, but "for privacy reasons we are not reporting any other tests." | 4.7× | 0 | 353 | 102 | 2 |
| 29 | Sep 11, '20 | Kyle Lowry is not as tall as Jimmy Fallon. He has short arms, middling athleticism, and when he started his NBA career he scored as many fouls as buckets. And he effects his team a | 4.7× | 0 | 355 | 95 | 11 |
| 30 | Jun 24, '22 | Jalen Williams and Chet Holmgren, both new Thunder players barring trades, share an agent and have been working out together in Santa Barbara for months. | 4.6× | 0 | 527 | 48 | 2 |
| 31 | Jan 2, '20 | Exceptional, ruthless: David Stern doesn't fit tidy eulogies | 4.6× | 0 | 321 | 81 | 32 |
| 32 | Jun 14, '19 | A few years ago in the Finals I left my credential in the hotel. I was wearing a suit, I'm a white guy. Nobody ever stopped me. I walked through security, onto the floor, locker ro | 4.3× | 0 | 356 | 113 | 1 |
| 33 | Feb 8, '23 | Is @kaj33 upset @KingJames broke his scoring record? He writes: | 4.3× | 102k | 258 | 39 | 4 |
| 34 | Jun 30, '19 | @wojespn No lock this will work. The contracts and cap commitments are guaranteed but the chemistry and performance is not. | 3.7× | 0 | 292 | 33 | 5 |
| 35 | Jul 6, '23 | When the Lillard/Blazers drama began two years ago, an agent told me that he saw it as a test of Aaron Goodwin. A question young stars have, when picking between, say, Aaron or Klu | 3.7× | 88k | 130 | 23 | 1 |
| 36 | Apr 22, '22 | Not scientific, but winner seems to be Jalen Brunson. | 3.7× | 0 | 445 | 31 | 0 |
| 37 | May 30, '20 | All year people have been asking why I write about billionaires so much. The answer is because what’s happening with them matters immensely to all of us. I am shocked and disappoin | 3.3× | 0 | 316 | 62 | 4 |
| 38 | May 15, '19 | Trade idea: Zion Williamson for LeBron James. | 3.2× | 0 | 274 | 40 | 0 |
| 39 | Mar 1, '21 | ANAND: Should billionaires exist? DJAFFAR: In a well-regulated, well-managed, and thriving economy without monopolies, they wouldn’t. Wealth is like manure: spread it, and it makes | 3.1× | 0 | 253 | 75 | 10 |
| 40 | Jun 8, '15 | Feisty, elite team D, mediocre hero ball O. The 2015 Cavs have become the 2001 76ers, with @KingJames as a supersized @alleniverson. | 3.0× | 0 | 105 | 150 | 0 |
| 41 | May 14, '22 | Are the 76ers missing better players, or a way to get players to believe in what they're doing? The fine art of getting the most out of people. | 3.0× | 0 | 216 | 46 | 18 |
| 42 | Apr 24, '22 | I know squat about the issue, but need some convincing to cheer men tackling a woman who’s politically inconvenient for a billionaire. | 3.0× | 0 | 107 | 6 | 5 |
| 43 | Jan 28, '22 | After a bad COVID infection, shoulder surgery, and various other disappointments ... Pascal Siakam is playing the best offense of his career right now. @coachthorpe watched a ton o | 2.9× | 0 | 274 | 48 | 12 |
| 44 | Jul 4, '18 | Don’t break up the Warriors! They’re making coaching and front office competence cool. Once 30 teams have that down, there’s nothing left to fix when it comes to competitive balanc | 2.9× | 0 | 259 | 47 | 0 |
| 45 | Dec 9, '20 | A source close to the Rockets tells TrueHoop "they might end up as the worst team in the league." A timeline of missteps that have led to a combustible situation. | 2.9× | 0 | 152 | 22 | 23 |
| 46 | Nov 19, '20 | Plugged in NBA source: "Kyrie was right--the earth IS flat. The Rockets are about to prove it by falling off the edge." | 2.7× | 0 | 273 | 25 | 0 |
| 47 | Jul 27, '20 | The NBA is 100 miles from perfect. But it's in a class with MLB and the NFL, and they grade on a curve, so they get an A every time. | 2.7× | 0 | 288 | 37 | 1 |
| 48 | May 24, '16 | Russell Westbrook declined a partial academic scholarship to Stanford, and much more from @royceyoung | 2.7× | 0 | 163 | 102 | 1 |
| 49 | Apr 26, '16 | Why NBA players and coaches revere Brad Stevens, by Jackie MacMullan. | 2.6× | 0 | 161 | 100 | 0 |
| 50 | Aug 28, '20 | How useful are NBA billionaires likely to be in ending racism? Following the money takes us to some pretty weird places, and not as far as you might like from the NYPD, Steve Banno | 2.6× | 0 | 171 | 62 | 18 |
| 51 | Jun 15, '19 | NBA: 56% of the Canadian population (20.5 million viewers) watched all or part of the 2019 NBA Finals. | 2.6× | 0 | 223 | 57 | 2 |
| 52 | Nov 9, '16 | Michael Jordan pioneered a weird and secret way to train your brain for basketball. From @tomhaberstroh | 2.6× | 0 | 215 | 58 | 0 |
| 53 | Mar 14, '19 | Utah Jazz GM Dennis Lindsey tells a crazy sad story about his mom's death...And the winding road from that event to the Jazz banning a fan for making a racist comment to Russell We | 2.4× | 0 | 200 | 48 | 9 |
| 54 | Feb 12, '16 | Adam Silver just had a conversation, on stage at the Tech Summit, with a convincing, talking, full-sized hologram of James Naismith. | 2.4× | 0 | 147 | 87 | 0 |
| 55 | Mar 5, '22 | I asked a veteran of the game, and she laughed, asked if I really didn’t know. Did they get better sponsors, sell more tickets I wondered? She felt sorry for me, being so dumb. The | 2.3× | 0 | 172 | 56 | 4 |
| 56 | Feb 23, '21 | He was the banker who took Microsoft public. He was in the CIA. He was arrested with a 9mm at the airport. And now he's a key figure in investigating ties between Jeffrey Epstein a | 2.3× | 0 | 188 | 35 | 22 |
| 57 | Apr 21, '22 | Many sources believe the NBA is on rails to adding 31st and 32nd teams in Vegas and Seattle–and that it will bring the biggest windfall in NBA history, perhaps as much as $10 billi | 2.3× | 0 | 138 | 37 | 0 |
| 58 | Aug 21, '20 | Wenyen Gabriel plays his ass off, got excited LeBron gave him his first bloody nose, could probably get work as a model, and, we now know, gave $2500 to his elderly uber driver. | 2.2× | 0 | 258 | 19 | 2 |
| 59 | Jul 3, '16 | Jackie MacMullan, from April, on why players respect the hell out of Celtics coach Brad Stevens | 2.2× | 0 | 158 | 63 | 0 |
| 60 | Mar 30, '21 | TrueHoop source on the Jazz flight to Memphis says the 757's engine failed after hitting a flock of birds quickly after takeoff. The damage, especially to the engine, is obvious. T | 2.2× | 0 | 135 | 37 | 1 |
| 61 | May 14, '19 | Knicks have a 14% shot at the #1 pick, and aren't even likely to end up in the top three. When, later today, some other team gets Zion Williamson, we don't need an inquest. | 2.2× | 0 | 189 | 24 | 0 |
| 62 | May 30, '17 | Quick show of hands: If I drag @SherwoodStrauss to happy hour somewhere in Oakland tomorrow, and invite the public, will you attend? | 2.1× | 0 | 228 | 7 | 0 |
| 63 | Aug 19, '20 | Chris Webber’s explanation of the block/charge: “It’s whoever got the foot down first.” IIRC the NBA officials who have spent hours tutoring us media on this rule have never said a | 2.0× | 0 | 209 | 21 | 0 |
| 64 | May 28, '19 | Telling the truth is difficult, painstaking, often thankless work. Not everyone has the stomach for it. I think ESPN faces tough choices about whether it wants to nurture evidence- | 2.0× | 0 | 157 | 38 | 7 |
| 65 | May 16, '19 | The @ringer NBA draft guide shook me: I've spent my whole life looking at ugly draft content! Let them all be pretty like this from now on. | 2.0× | 0 | 230 | 15 | 6 |
| 66 | Aug 7, '20 | In case you don’t have League Pass, what you missed is Gary Trent, Jr. is now on a path to be MVP, commissioner, and president. | 2.0× | 0 | 224 | 21 | 0 |
| 67 | May 4, '18 | Today, based on one low scoring game, a lot of Twitter sees the flaws of @BenSimmons25. He's a 21-year-old 6-10 rookie point guard with Superman vision, a calm demeanor and elite a | 1.9× | 0 | 149 | 42 | 0 |
| 68 | Jul 27, '20 | Epidemiologist on baseball: "Jesus Christ. I mean ... Jesus Christ." | 1.9× | 0 | 151 | 52 | 1 |
| 69 | Jan 7, '21 | This thread is like a crystal ball. | 1.9× | 0 | 141 | 55 | 5 |
| 70 | May 21, '22 | Fresh off the combine, and having talked to a good list of insiders, I believe Jabari Smith is the first pick and anything else is smoke. | 1.7× | 0 | 143 | 18 | 1 |
| 71 | Sep 3, '20 | Obviously I don’t love flopping. But this is hardly proof the game is terrible. Neither flop worked! The refs saw right through it, which means the floppers hurt their teams. That’ | 1.7× | 0 | 212 | 5 | 0 |
| 72 | Dec 4, '20 | "Seriously. How did I end up with this in year 15? I gotta fucking do this shit all over again with Stan. Oh man." Full maniacal giggle from Redick. Media day is different, realer, | 1.7× | 0 | 164 | 21 | 6 |
| 73 | Jun 26, '25 | Doubt Blazers' smart front office thought Yang Hansen was best available player. Team is for sale. First question I'd investigate: Might a prominent Chinese player helps the team's | 1.6× | 39k | 197 | 20 | 15 |
| 74 | Apr 9, '21 | 3⃣steps to get James Wiseman's rookie season back on track. Years of @coachthorpe's wisdom in minutes, free for all: | 1.6× | 0 | 127 | 26 | 5 |
| 75 | Oct 8, '20 | Lawrence Frank did a hell of a job getting Kawhi. But the Paul George trade was the trade of the year ... for the Thunder. | 1.6× | 0 | 168 | 21 | 0 |
| 76 | Jun 14, '22 | Tatum would have every reason to be especially tired now. He leads every NBA player in a lot of playoff statistics, including minutes. With a game or two left, he has already logge | 1.5× | 0 | 106 | 27 | 3 |
| 77 | Aug 20, '19 | I love @Highway_30 but disagree. Sure, Carmelo can do skill things Jared Dudley can't. But teams play better with Dudley on the floor. Tough D, spreading the floor, making simple p | 1.5× | 0 | 109 | 31 | 1 |
| 78 | Jun 11, '19 | “When we say this is like a real brotherhood, a team, people have no clue what goes into that and how we feel about each other.” —Andre Iguodala | 1.5× | 0 | 139 | 28 | 0 |
| 79 | Jun 13, '19 | Tonight we learn if the 2020 Warriors roster can hang in the 2019 Finals. | 1.4× | 0 | 145 | 20 | 0 |
| 80 | Jan 7, '22 | NBA: this is fine | 1.4× | 0 | 130 | 12 | 6 |
| 81 | Jan 4, '21 | Handle's Messiah. | 1.4× | 0 | 140 | 18 | 2 |
| 82 | Sep 11, '19 | By halftime it was clear to most of us @rudygobert27 would cause USA's 1st tournament loss since 2006. To @coachthorpe it was clear 4 years ago, and that’s why he's on Team TrueHoo | 1.4× | 0 | 130 | 23 | 0 |
| 83 | Apr 24, '20 | @JaneMayerNYer @politico Steele dossier cited a source close to Trump and Manafort saying GOP campaign team was "happy to have Russia as media bogeyman to mask more extensive corru | 1.3× | 0 | 84 | 44 | 5 |
| 84 | Dec 7, '20 | UBI for billionaires! | 1.3× | 0 | 126 | 23 | 2 |
| 85 | Oct 12, '16 | Incredible reporting and storytelling by @kevinarnovitz with the untold tale of gay NBA referee Bill Kennedy | 1.3× | 0 | 119 | 26 | 0 |
| 86 | May 22, '20 | What about re-opening the NBA ... outside? You're going to say "but the breeze will affect shooting" and I'm going to say "well ... death, though." | 1.3× | 0 | 116 | 14 | 0 |
| 87 | Dec 10, '22 | If Grant Wahl’s death proves to be foul play, remember that bribes win the right to host the World Cup. Is there a downside to sports corruption? Yes: scary people win dirty contes | 1.2× | 0 | 118 | 25 | 0 |
| 88 | May 19, '19 | There’s a team kinda like the Warriors where they entrust one ball-handling wizard of a shooter to solve every defense. And exhaustion consumes the Rockets every year. | 1.2× | 0 | 119 | 14 | 0 |
| 89 | Nov 20, '22 | Two episodes in, American Psyop is really something. | 1.2× | 0 | 92 | 29 | 5 |
| 90 | Apr 19, '21 | In that story, I noted the players who had played the most in the bubble, who'd have little time to recover for this season. 1. Jimmy Butler 2. Anthony Davis 3. LeBron James 4. Jam | 1.1× | 0 | 103 | 21 | 2 |
| 91 | Jun 7, '19 | So I guess one really good floor seat just opened up for Game 4. | 1.0× | 0 | 121 | 6 | 0 |
| 92 | Aug 26, '22 | "Occam’s razor melts and warps once it crosses the Russian border." "I am not normally a false flag kind of girl, but Russia is a false flag kind of place and Putin is a false flag | 1.0× | 0 | 92 | 18 | 5 |
| 93 | May 21, '20 | I am as excited as anyone for NBA play. But rather than Tilman Fertitta and Donald Trump, would love to hear a panel of actual scientists on the likelihood of this approach actuall | 1.0× | 0 | 104 | 9 | 0 |
| 94 | Feb 11, '20 | Not long ago NBA players basically never missed a game for the birth of a child. Now Giannis is missing a game for the best reason ever and it appears just about 100 percent of peo | 1.0× | 0 | 114 | 8 | 0 |
| 95 | Nov 22, '22 | Unintended consequence of Elon buying Twitter: @substack is spicing up! Fired up for @AshaRangappa_ @petestrzok and several players to be named later … | 1.0× | 0 | 105 | 11 | 5 |
| 96 | Feb 9, '23 | So the Warriors wanted to trade #2 overall pick James Wiseman for Gary Payton II, but the Blazers were like that's nice but what we really want is Kevin Knox and five second-round | 1.0× | 24k | 106 | 9 | 1 |
| 97 | Nov 5, '20 | Profoundly admire the dude who has no regard for his career, ignores his Fox bosses, and calls state after state for Biden. | 1.0× | 0 | 117 | 5 | 1 |
| 98 | Jan 2, '20 | David Stern died. I am terribly sad--in part, because I am convinced the forces of horsecrap will over-sanitize his story into meaninglessness. His genius was not what you think it | 1.0× | 0 | 101 | 10 | 1 |
| 99 | May 26, '22 | Another good call from @coachthorpe. In January, about when Pascal Siakam didn't make the All-Star team, David wrote that Pascal Siakam "deserves consideration for a return to the | 0.9× | 0 | 106 | 7 | 2 |
| 100 | Jun 24, '22 | @realStanVG Stan this is an outrageous lie. We are grading the picks tonight. | 0.7× | 0 | 99 | 0 | 0 |
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