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Quarterback tops #Colts GM Chris Ballard's punch list! #iubb loses after huge comeback! #iuwbb tonight!

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NBA Summer League 2024🏀

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NBA Summer League 2024🏀😎

#NBA #NBASummer #SummerLeague #SummerLeague2024 #AtlantaHawks #BostonCeltics #BrooklynNets #CharlotteHornets

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Michael Jordan shoots over Reggie Miller of the Indiana Pacers (c. 1996)

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[ponytailcoby]

Hold on Obi Toppin really looked like that the whole time????

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[dianasprnce]

im not even mad that the celtics won because i’m just happy an eastern conference team won that wasn’t the bucks

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Fantasy Basketball Drop Candidates: Time to cut these players amid changing roles? Advertisement Advertisement Advertisement Advertisement Advertisement Advertisement Advertisement Advertisement Advertisement Advertisement Advertisement Advertisement Advertisement Advertisement

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NBA All-Star Game: LeBron James, Luka Doncic, Kevin Durant... and Tyrese Haliburton - who deserves to play in the Utah showpiece?

NBA All-Star Game: LeBron James, Luka Doncic, Kevin Durant... and Tyrese Haliburton - who deserves to play in the Utah showpiece? | @JamieOS14 #NBA #NBAAllStar

The All-Star game, and weekend in general, has been somewhat lacklustre and forgettable in recent years – but it can spark debate among NBA fans all around the world. With a reduced roster for the All-Star game, consisting of only 12 players compared to 15 in a NBA game, in-form players and fan favourites are frequently left out. These snubs are often a hot topic when the All-Star weekend comes…

[kenttsterling]

Shane Steichen’s first #Colts quarterback will be…? #iubb tonight at Northwestern! Can TJD lift the Hoosiers again??

[ladykailitha]

Grief (A Friend Indeed) Part 2

Hey, guys! Part two has arrived. A little bit of Steve whump in this one.

Part 1

***

The next morning saw Wayne waking the two boys up at a little after five with coffee and breakfast.

Steve stood, leaning against the counter cup of coffee in his hand in a mug that proudly stated “Not a Morning Person”. He had mindlessly choked down breakfast on sheer auto-pilot and had poured a second cup of coffee while he wait for Wayne and Eddie to eat their bacon and scrambled eggs.

“I thought you’d be used to waking up this early,” Eddie said with a feral grin. “You know, having to be up for your sports stuff.”

“I didn’t know you played a sport, Steve,” Wayne said, directing the conversation away from Eddie’s teasing.

Steve stuck his tongue out at Eddie. “Technically three. Baseball, swim, and basketball. Stopped baseball when I got into high school because practice was the same afternoons as swim, and I was better at that so...”

“Just tell me you aren’t a Bulls fan I’ll let you on this trip,” Wayne teased.

Eddie looked at his uncle, scandalized. “Why do you get to tease him and I don’t?”

Steve laughed. “Not a Bulls fan. Pacer fan all the way.”

Wayne nodded sagely. “You’ll do.”

Steve laughed again. “The reason he gets to tease me and you don’t, was you were mocking my jock-ness and he was asking about which team I liked in a teasing matter. Two completely different things.”

Eddie ducked his head and began pushing his food around on his plate. Steve twisted his head down to try and see around the curtain of curls.

“Hey,” he said gently. “I know you weren’t serious. I didn’t mean to call you out like that. Not in your own house. That was rude. I’m sorry.”

Eddie just half shrugged.

Steve sighed and put his mug on the counter. He walked over to his friend and put his arms around his shoulders, just holding him.

After a minute or two Eddie relaxed back into Steve’s arms. “I’m sorry, too. I wasn’t trying to make fun of you for being a jock. I was just surprised you weren’t all perky and cheerful first thing in the morning. It was more about a you thing and less about it being a sports thing.”

Steve hugged him tighter. “Okay. Just so you’re aware, I got hopelessly teased for being a grouch first thing in the morning on every team I’ve ever been on.”

Eddie tilted his head back so he could see Steve’s face. “Duly noted. Still, I’m sorry.”

Steve nodded. “You can be the chipper morning person, and I’ll be the grumpy one, okay?”

Eddie chuckled. “Sounds like a deal.”

Wayne decided that moment to clear his throat. “If you two boys are done, I’d like to get on the road, please.”

Steve stepped back and scratched the back of his neck sheepishly. “Just let me finish this cup and I’ll be ready to drive.”

Eddie got up and pulled out a small styrofoam cup from the pantry. “We keep these on hand for when Wayne gets called in to work a double.” He poured Steve’s coffee into it and put on a lid. “There. Now you can sip on your coffee and I’ll drive until you’re awake enough to.”

Steve blinked at him a moment and then nodded, gingerly taking the cup from him. “Thanks.”

Once they got out to of the vehicle Wayne pulled out a map. He pointed to a speck on the side of the road. “This is a truck stop. We will stop there and refuel and stretch our legs. No matter who gets there first does not move on until the other one shows up. Am I clear?”

Eddie and Steve nodded.

“I have no desire to show up on Aunt Penny’s doorstep without you,” Eddie said fiercely.

Wayne chuckled. “She might think you done me in to get a big cut of the inheritance.”

“She absolutely would,” he agreed. “See you in three hours!”

Wayne smiled and swatted Eddie with the now folded up map. “Go on. Get!”

Eddie and Steve laughed all the way to the BMW. Steve slid into the passenger seat and buckled in. He held the coffee tightly in both hands. Eddie had just gotten in the car, when Steve called, “Wait!”

Eddie looked at him strangely.

“I forgot to call Robin!” He handed the cup of coffee to Eddie and scrambled out the car.

Eddie shook his head and tossed Steve the keys so he could get back into their house for him to call Robin.

He was back out in two minutes mumbling apologies to Wayne and Eddie as he got back into the bimmer.

Eddie and Wayne shared an amused glance before they got back into their vehicles.

Once they were both back in the car, Eddie handed him back his coffee.

“Thanks,” he murmured. “She would have killed me when I got back.”

Eddie chuckled. “Yeah she would have. But you remembered in time and that’s what matters.”

Steve nodded hands curling around his coffee. As Eddie backed out of the driveway he spotted a cooler on the back seat. Once they were on the road, he asked about it.

Steve blushed. “I remembered that when I was little and we’d go on road trips we would always have drinks and snacks for the journey. So we have cans of soda in there as well as some cookies and stuff.”

“Homemade?” Eddie asked with a grin.

Steve sighed. “Sadly not, I didn’t have time. I hope store bought will do.”

“I’m sure it’ll be fine, Stevie,” Eddie soothed.

Once they were down the road and Steve was more awake, he reached back and pulled the cooler up front.

He handed Eddie an orange Crush and took a can of Coke for himself. He opened the bag of cookies and offered them to him.

“Fudge Stripe cookies?” Eddie asked with a fond smile. “What made you pick those?” He took two and took a bite of one.

Steve held the cooler on his lap and looked down into it mournfully. “It’s what we would take on our roads trips when we’d visit Nana.”

Eddie blinked a moment. He was the one that supposed to be grieving but seemed like this trip stirred something up in Steve, too.

“You want to visit her while we’re close?” Eddie asked. It was only a two hour trip, he had made longer trips to Indy for the latest D&D guide.

Steve shook his head. “Don’t tell Keith, but she died when I was seven. It’s how we were able to afford living in Loch Nora.”

Eddie glanced over at Steve a moment before he turned back to the road. “You’re weren’t always super rich?”

“No,” he murmured, still clinging to the cooler. “I’m not sure what we were, to be honest. My dad made good money. We had a nice house in Indy where we lived until Nana died and a nice car.

“You really are full of depths, Stevie.”

Steve scoffed, Eddie had said something similar yesterday. “I guess.”

“Appreciate you coming with,” Eddie said, “but I can’t help but feel like this bringing up lots of bad memories for you.”

Steve put the cooler down between his legs. “She left my mom a lot of money. Like proper life changing money. Only instead of making things better, it only served to show how badly matched my parents really were.” He twisted his hands together nervously.

“My dad started sleeping around. My mom started drinking herself into oblivion and then when she saw that my dad paid for an abortion for his secretary’s twenty year old daughter, she started going with him on trips to make sure he kept in his pants. I grew up not having to want for any material thing, but I was still old enough to remember what life was like before the money. I think that’s why I always envied you.”

“Me?” Eddie squeaked. “I lived in the poorest part of town, dealing drugs to make sure the power stayed on and you envied me?”

Steve nodded. “It sounds so twisted, but you had Wayne. I used to imagine that I had a uncle somewhere. Kentucky, Chicago, New York. England sometimes. That he would hear of my neglect and abuse and sweep in like an avenging angel and take me away.”

“Shit, dude,” Eddie said thickly. “You’re going to make me cry.”

Steve pinched his nose and rubbed the end. “Sorry. I think this trip is a bit for me too. To final grieve the life I could have had...had she lived a little while longer.”

He reached over and grabbed his hand, giving it a squeeze. “We’ll still take a trip to visit her grave, okay?”

Steve let out a shaky breath. “Thanks, man.”

“Was she who you were thinking about when you called Keith?”

He shook his head. “I miss her. But no, that’s not who it was.”

Eddie glanced at him again and decided not to pump him for that tidbit. He could tell whoever it was, their death had really hurt Steve in a way that left a deep scar. One that hadn’t healed right.

He turned on the radio and just let it fill the silence between them.

About an hour into their trip, Eddie looked over to see that Steve had slumped against the window and had fallen back to sleep. He smiled fondly at him.

It wasn’t just anyone who drop everything in his life to take a road trip to the last place he had been happy, knowing that place had been a person like Eddie’s own grandma. Eddie always knew Steve and he were more alike than what appeared on the surface, but this trip was starting to be an eye opener in the worst way about just how similar they were.

He made a vow then and there that he would be there for Steve like he was there for him. Robin was good, great even. But she had loving parents who deeply cared for her and didn’t understand what it was like when someone who should love you, just didn’t.

So he would be that shoulder to cry on for Steve, someone who understood far too well.

***

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Just...about Eddie and Steve's interaction at breakfast, grief can make you stupid. They're just bumping against each others wounds old and new and learning how to navigate all that. They'll get there, I promise.

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[xariarte]

current nba sports rpf ships list - listed from least popular to most popular teams

Thanks @kdsburneraccount for helping me with this long list, especially with the teams I was not familiar with! 💖

Hornets — prev LaMelo/Bridges (before the allegations) Trail Blazers — prev CJ/Dame Spurs - Wemby/Sochan Jazz - prev Bojan/Donovan, prev Rudy/Donovan Pistons - no data available Nets - Cam Johnson/Mikal Bridges Sixers - prev Simmons/Embiid, Maxey/Scottie, Maxey/Quickley Bucks -  Giannis/Khris, Dame/Giannis Clippers - PG/Kawhi, PG/Russ, PG/Russ/Kawhi Suns - Booker/Luka Kings - Monk/Fox, Fox/Sabonis Cavaliers - Donovan/Jayson, Darius Garland/Donovan Mitchell Bulls - prev DeMar/Zach, Pat/Coby Wizards - Kuzma/Poole, Deni/Corey, Deni/Kuzma Magic - Paolo/Franz Mavericks - Maxi/Dwight, Luka/Kyrie Thunder - prev KD/Russ, SGA/Dort, Jaylin/J-Dub, Chet/J-Dub Lakers: Anthony Davis/LeBron James, D'Lo/Vando  Grizzlies - Morant/Jackson Jr. Pacers - Nembhard/Mathurin Raptors - prev Scottie/Pascal, prev DeMar/Kyle, Scottie/Gradey, RJ/Quickley Timberwolves - Ant/Kat Rockets - Alperen/Jabari Hawks - Trae/Bodgan, Bodgan/Murray  Heat - Bam/Jimmy, Jimmy/Tyler Pelicans - no data available Nuggets: Jokić/Murray Knicks: Jalen/Josh, Donte/Josh, Jalen/Donte, Jalen/Josh/Donte, Josh Hart/Tyrese Haliburton Celtics: Jayson/Jaylen, Bam/Jayson, Brisset/Jrue Holiday Warriors: prev GPII/Jordan, prev Steph/Jordan, Steph/Klay

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