GAME. BLOUSES.
No pain, no game (y’all see what I did there?) must have been the theme of the night for Boston Celtics guard Isaiah Thomas. Forty-eight hours removed from losing a tooth and less than 24 hours removed from surgery on said tooth, Thomas hit the deck again in the team’s second game against the Washington Wizards … head and mouth first.
Clearly, the blow was ineffective, as Thomas went off for a playoff career-high 53 points in the Celtics’ 129-119 win over the visiting Wizards on Tuesday night. Boston now has a commanding 2-0 lead in the Eastern Conference semifinal series.
The 5-foot-9 guard became just the fourth player in Celtics history to score 50 or more points in a postseason game. Washington’s John Wall finished with 40 points and 13 rebounds.
*Gets tooth knocked out of mouth 48 hours ago*
*Gets tooth fixed and replaced 24 hours ago*NOOOOOOOOO 😩😩😩 pic.twitter.com/sH4x7IkHOV
— Rob Perez (@World_Wide_Wob) May 3, 2017
BLESSINGS
.@AprilDRyan has been named the 2017 @NABJ Journalist of the Year! https://t.co/z2apFLeY7l #NABJCongrats pic.twitter.com/IEnhAuY9sr
— NABJ Headquarters (@NABJ) May 2, 2017
SOCIAL STATUS
American University finds bananas tied to nooses on campus in "crude" act of bigotry https://t.co/qz3SFqoGnT
— TIME (@TIME) May 3, 2017
The first Black woman SG president is an AKA… then there's bananas hanging from nooses marked with AKA 🤔 unacceptable #TheRealAU
— Genáe (@itsgenae) May 1, 2017
AU students hold withdrawal forms #BLACKEXODUS pic.twitter.com/gZmVLbAWjY
— THE BLACKPRINT (@theblackprintAU) May 2, 2017
.@Othniel4Prez says @AmericanU Provost Scott Bass has committed to meeting with his fraternity and other black student leaders pic.twitter.com/oeTKDGuO0d
— The Eagle (@TheEagleOnline) May 2, 2017
.@AmericanU holds town hall in response to May 1st hate crime, students march in protest of incident https://t.co/mNkNmsqu0T pic.twitter.com/Sv2eEMyhpU
— The Eagle (@TheEagleOnline) May 2, 2017
Statement from @AmericanU Office of Campus Life on disturbing racist act reported on campus pic.twitter.com/L1i2ZkSs5M
— Megan Yoder (@meg_yoder) May 1, 2017
FOR THE CULTURE
“The government’s stated intention with the residential schools was to ‘remove the Indian from the child.’ ”
Balch Springs, Texas, Police Department fires officer Roy Oliver, who fatally shot 15-year-old Jordan Edwards with rifle.
Justice Department will not charge Baton Rouge, Louisiana, officers in fatal shooting of Alton Sterling.
Former Flint, Michigan, emergency manager in a closed-door meeting: “My job did not include ensuring safe drinking water.”
Netflix’s Dear White People earns a rare 100 percent on Rotten Tomatoes.
Michael Slager pleads guilty in killing of unarmed, fleeing black man Walter Scott.
TOP THREE TWEETS
1. PICK UP THE PHONE, BABY
Even a G gets left on read sometimes 😔 pic.twitter.com/Co1F9Vknog
— Kenny G (@kennyg) May 2, 2017
2. BUSTED
3. IT’S A PARTY, IT’S A PARTY
in honor of met gala monday 2017 lets not forget this iconic video from last year's event pic.twitter.com/DPE5dsXjJm
— olympia (@cumfusing) May 1, 2017
ICYMI
The Fenway crowd cheers @SimplyAJ10. #MLBNShowcase pic.twitter.com/F5mZK4Atep
— MLB Network (@MLBNetwork) May 2, 2017
Racism in the official USA:
7/4/1776-5/2/2017 https://t.co/8hp8vkiB8L— Zach Harper (@talkhoops) May 2, 2017
"SEE! We're not racist!!!!" https://t.co/InMFcrsw8N
— Master Tesfatsion (@MasterTes) May 2, 2017
Red Sox fans giving Adam Jones a standing O as he steps to the plate is the equivalent to handing him a Pepsi btw.
— Richard⚡️Johnson (@RJ_Writes) May 2, 2017
tell you this, though: if folks were as passionate about fighting as they are saying "NOT ALL OF US," we might get something done.
— El Flaco (@bomani_jones) May 2, 2017
PICTURE-PERFECT
“Young black men don’t grow up thinking they’ll make it here. They should.” In 2015 just 38 UK students accepted to Cambridge were black. pic.twitter.com/KCnB4wm43g
— Channel 4 News (@Channel4News) May 2, 2017