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Eric Apricot, the red nosed reinpug
@ericapricot.bsky.social
Makes Explain One Play, NBA/WNBA/Warriors/Valkyries video series. Founder of ValkyrieNation.org. Co-founder of DubNationHQ.com. Past: SB Nation, BBallBreakdown.

Videos: youtube.com/@EricApricot
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Explain: NBA shooting coach analyzes Kuminga, Podz, Hield and Steve Kerr | Marc Campbell part 1

Thanks to Marc @LowManHelp of LowManHelp.substack.com for a fascinating conversation!

youtu.be/dTs3gkMzOIU
Low Man Help | Marc Campbell | Substack
Detailed breakdowns and insights into the game of Basketball through the lens of an NBA Shooting Coach. Click to read Low Man Help, by Marc Campbell, a Substack publication with thousands of subscribers.
LowManHelp.substack.com
Currently working on another video for the Warriors… should be released on their YouTube channel in next few days…
January 2, 2026 at 6:47 PM
I just opened up two consecutive Talenti sorbetto jars with my bare hands first try, no power tools or anything

Ask Me Anything
January 2, 2026 at 6:44 AM
GSW look excellent except for having trouble in the last 2 minutes of the game in the speciality skills of inbounding the ball, avoiding bad fouls, committing strategic fouls, passing the ball (to teammates), dribbling the ball (and keeping it), shooting the ball (through the net).
If they can get to five games over five hundred I’ll change my outlook for them… they have played better but also don’t _look_ like a good team
January 1, 2026 at 4:30 AM
For all of the consistent agony of the GSW games, they actually have won 5 of the last 6 and were 2 total points away from winning their last 8 games in a row.
I should schedule this to auto-post every Warriors game
Dub Nation, just so you know, I've seen this movie before and it's Always Close Enough To Hurt™
December 31, 2025 at 8:36 PM
I should schedule this to auto-post every Warriors game
Dub Nation, just so you know, I've seen this movie before and it's Always Close Enough To Hurt™
December 31, 2025 at 8:15 PM
Warriors up 10 with 0:58 left on the road back to back. This game has made my pancreas twitch uncontrollably
December 30, 2025 at 3:00 AM
Dub Nation, just so you know, I've seen this movie before and it's Always Close Enough To Hurt™
December 30, 2025 at 2:52 AM
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the best action to take about this is to subscribe to papers that cover women’s sports so that they keep sending women’s sports writers to cover stories
December 29, 2025 at 4:29 AM
Great piece on the arena voice of Ballhalla and Warriors. So much serendipity in her life!

By @janekennyy

How Ari Waller became the voice that makes Chase Center feel alive
How Ari Waller became the voice that makes Chase Center feel alive
A behind-the-scenes look at the arena host shaping energy, identity, and connection for Valkyries and Warriors fans.
sfstandard.com
December 27, 2025 at 4:46 PM
TMI?
Jimmy Butler on the Draymond Green and Steve Kerr argument and reconciliation this week

“I like that. Y’all yell at each other. Turned me on a little bit. I’m not gonna lie.”
December 26, 2025 at 4:33 AM
Merry Christmas everyone, I just wanted to tell you all that I love you
December 26, 2025 at 12:53 AM
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Merry Christmas, Dub Nation! I made you a silly Christmas card.
#DubNation #GSW 🏀

(inspired by @ericapricot.bsky.social 's E1P)
December 24, 2025 at 8:54 PM
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Tonight marks Pat Spencer's 29th game active for the Warriors. He has 21 left on his Two-Way deal, which would take him through Feb. 3rd, before he has to be sidelined.

The other Two-Ways, LJ Cryer (38 games) & Malevy Leons (36 games) have not used any of their available games.
December 23, 2025 at 7:14 AM
Did you see my last video here? In a secret hiding place where no one ever goes

dubnationhq.com/p/explain-st...
December 23, 2025 at 12:28 AM
HAVE I MENTIONNNNNED
Have I mentioned I have an irrational good feeling about Will Richard?
December 21, 2025 at 4:09 AM
From yesterday...

The Warriors asked me to make some videos for them, so enjoy this, the first of three planned videos!

Explain: Steph Curry's Record-Breaking 48 Points and 12 Threes

by @EricApricot

On zipper cuts and holiday celebrations
December 18, 2025 at 2:00 PM
I probably won’t go back to doing those… It’s a lot of work and 10% of the audience...
Congrats! But that means you get to do E1P after losses sometimes, how do you feel about that?
December 18, 2025 at 6:29 AM
The Warriors asked me to make some videos for them, so enjoy this, the first of three planned videos!

Explain: Steph Curry's Record-Breaking 48 Points and 12 Threes

by @EricApricot

On zipper cuts and celebration innovation
December 18, 2025 at 12:24 AM
Sorry, I was too tired and busy this week. But if all goes well, I am hoping to have a video out next week published on a most interesting YT channel...
@ericapricot.bsky.social I can haz explain one playz?
December 12, 2025 at 8:02 AM
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Veronica Burton’s breakout year continues.

Three months after being named the WNBA’s Most Improved Player, the Golden State Valkyries point guard is spending December at Team USA’s training camp in her first senior national team callup. | @sfchronicle.com

www.sfchronicle.com/sports/artic...
Valkyries’ Veronica Burton’s stellar year leads her to Team USA camp
Golden State Valkyries guard Veronica Burton, the WNBA’s Most Improved Player, has joined the country’s best players at Team USA’s training camp at Duke University.
www.sfchronicle.com
December 12, 2025 at 1:56 AM
HAVE I MENTIONED I HAVE AN IRRATIONAL GOOD FEELING ABOUT WILL RICHARD
December 11, 2025 at 11:28 PM
Excellent article about epidemic of calf strains, with Steph Curry featured heavily.
December 11, 2025 at 11:14 PM
Great article about Pat Spencer’s basketball journey
“I got one damn year to figure it out.”

Six years ago in Evanston, Pat Spencer was just a grad transfer with a crazy plan.

How a season at Northwestern propelled the best lacrosse player in the country to the NBA:
How a season at Northwestern propelled Pat Spencer from NCAA lacrosse star to an NBA starter
Pat Spencer is making a name for himself in the NBA — and accomplishing the impossible — a little more than six years after converting from lacrosse to basketball at Northwestern.
www.chicagotribune.com
December 11, 2025 at 11:04 PM
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During today's media availability, @mingemi.bsky.social asked Golden State Valkryies guard Veronica Burton about being reunited with her head coach, Natalie Nakase, at her first USA Basketball Senior Camp.
December 11, 2025 at 10:52 PM
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Notes on Jonathan Kuminga's Trade Kicker:

🔹Worth 15% of the remaining guaranteed value left on the contract (25/26 prorated salary)
🔸Does not count as outgoing salary for GSW
🔹Does count as incoming salary for JK's new team
🔸Does count against GSW's cap sheet after trade
December 10, 2025 at 1:58 AM