Only just now learning that VJ's actual middle name is Drexel...

No joke, this was far and away my best Friday

Gorgeous

Felt like many writers appealed specifically to Jokic’s stat line that year, which was, of course, magnificent. But if there were a narrative reason to give Embiid the MVP any year, it was that year; giving it to him the next year felt like a make-up call.

Have always felt that (especially according to more traditional, narrative-based voting) Embiid ought to have won it the year before he actually did, given how excellent he was in the mess of the Simmons saga which took place that year.

Exquisite

Pretty sure he’s our Tulsi Gabbard

McMenamin says LeBron didn’t know??

Maybe a good plane movie, then?

This was lovely, a very welcome, humanizing but not saccharine read. Look forward to the next!

I celebrate his whole catalogue

Such a powerhouse, so clean, so expressive. Basically the Berlin Philharmonic in pop-vocal form

Outlandishly talented

Could not be more correct