Commenter Teffec wrote:
Heavy is the Head that Wears the Crown
Jalen Brunson has once again defied the odds.
The undersized second-round point guard actually pulled it off: living up to the nickname “King of New York” by bringing an NBA title to the Big Apple for the first time in over half a century.
How did he do it?
How did HE do it?
How did a man with comparable stature and explosive athleticism to my next door neighbor possibly outcompete the biggest genetic freaks on the planet and walk away with the prestigious MVP of the Finals?
While New Yorkers will forever call him “King,” Chinese basketball fans, a tad less reverentially, gave him the appellation “Big Head”.
No, they are not implying that he’s conceited. Rather, they are pointing out the obvious – that Jalen Brunson literally has a huge fucking head: https://www.instagram.com/reel/DXHSeQQEnp7/
“Oubre isn’t the first person to make comments about the size of Brunson’s head. His New York teammate, Josh Hart, has made similar comments, once revealing that Brunson was unable to fit into multiple hats he purchased on account of his head size.”
“Who cares?” a well-adjusted human being may ask, but the answer is anyone who wants to know why Jalen Brunson is so good.
A wise man once said, “intelligence is the ability to adapt, to take whatever situation you’re in and turn it to your advantage.”
Adaptation is the name of Brunson’s game. See him in action, and you’ll notice how he creates offense for himself and his teammates: feints, counters, counters to counters. He just reads, manipulates, and executes – taking what the defense gives him and turns it to his advantage time and time again.
The stadiometer at the draft combine missed what the calipers would have screamed: “this man knows how to play.”
Do you all agree that Brunson is so good because his head is so big?
Or do you not respect Pumpkin Person at all.
I don’t know what Brunson’s IQ is but he is a metaphor for why brain size tripled in 4 million years of human evolution. Despite being relatively short and unathletic, he dominates men much taller and more athletic thanks to an intelligence linked to his brain size. Similarly, despite our species lacking speed, strength, fur, fangs and claws, our species dominates much bigger, faster, stronger and ferocious animals, thanks to an intelligence linked our brain size. Big brains evolved, because when your situation is disadvantaged, you must turn it around to your advantage and by you, I mean your brain. That’s the essence of who you are.
Pill says people can work together.
Then why is my mom going to die.
No one in the family wants to help.
The wider society is just like this.
pill is a stooge
I’m very sorry to hear about your mother
she wont eat much and can barely walk
she need nutrients but the doctors will not give her anything but psych meds. I am afraid to tell my sister anything because she listens to the doctors – if I buy something for her it won’t be given and I have no money for a months time. my brother just wants to yell at us. The house needs cleaning and I tried to help but my sister has ADD – she has money problems too.
Its like if no one can organize to help the family how can people do anything about rich people – normal people barely feed themselves and are not smart enough to understand basic issues of society.
[redacted by pp, nov 1 2026] you keep talking to her like you talk to me. Maybe play some music instead. It will help alot more than you talking about Ayn Rand and AI and the telephone book numbers