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Winning 'Blake of the Year' carries a performance curse for professional athletes

Everything sort of went downhill after last year's Blake of the Year. I had a rough year fellas, and I think it started with those ping pong balls. Now I can't even look at a ping pong ball without thinking of the devastating loss... This kind of begs the question: is there a Blake of the Year curse?

Griffin's numbers and role did decline significantly with the Nets following his previous win, though attributing it to a podcast award is subjective.

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Jul 27, 2022
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We are actively trying to never be nominated for a Sports Emmy unless it is for the John Cena interview

We are actively trying to never be nominated for everything... if they wanna nominate us and only do it on our John Cena interview, we're in.

This is a statement of intent for the show's awards strategy.
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Collecting signatures is objectively weird and has been replaced by the selfie

I don't think that as a society, we talk enough about the fact that collecting signatures is just fucking weird. Yeah. It is. Especially if you have a picture and you're like, 'Hey, can you write your name on the, on this picture that I have of you?'... I do think that the selfies have taken the place of it, which is a hundred percent, way more meaningful.

Subjective opinion on social norms.
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LeBron James is actually 0-10 in NBA Finals appearances if you apply the proper asterisks

LA Fraud is actually 0 and 10 in the finals in my eyes. 2007, lost swept. 2011 lost. 2012, baby thunder doesn't count. 2013, Ray Allen also rigged. 2013, Ray Allen doesn't count. 2014 lost. 2015 lost. 2016, injured warriors doesn't count. 2017 lost. 2018, lost swept. 2020 Mickey Mouse doesn't count.

LeBron James has won four NBA championships (2012, 2013, 2016, 2020).

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The Pacers will surprise people

I think they're gonna surprise people if people forgot.

The Pacers' 2026-27 season and playoff performance will show whether they exceeded expectations.
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The Nuggets' championship window is closing

I think that the Nuggets do, but this window's closing just because all this injury stuff, I think once you start to have that injury bug, it's hard to come back and just have your whole team be relatively healthy for a whole season.

The Nuggets' subsequent championship success in this roster era will determine whether the window was effectively closing.
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NBA awards voting should be handled by a smaller group

Maybe you just take the pool down of the number of voters. ... I don't know. I don't know what the answer is, but I do think maybe you just take the pool down.

This is a proposed policy preference, not a claim with a single objective answer.