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Evaluating The NBA’s DONDA Talent Pool

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If you read this site, you probably have a Twitter account. And if you have a Twitter account, you probably follow Kanye West, or at least follow someone who’s retweeted one of his tweets. And whatever it was he did last night, it reminded us of his Twitter’s status as appointment television. What started out as a reminiscence on his childhood and fledgeling fashion-design career took a turn for the incredible when Yeezy invited us to share in his dream for the future:

I have started a new company and I'm so excited about the name.... it's got the best name ever of all companies of all time!!!....
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The name of the company is DONDA
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DONDA is a design company which will galvanize amazing thinkers and put them in a creative space to bounce there dreams and ideas...
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Kanye is friends with plenty of NBA players. He’s got to be reaching out to at least some of them for this…thing. Especially since “wealthy” was one of the desired qualities he outlined in his Twitter manifesto. But whom in the NBA player pool will Yeezy turn to? Let’s dive in.

I am assembling a team of architects, graphic designers, directors musicians, producers, AnRs, writers, publicist, social media experts...
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So he’s looking for a social media expert? He’s got plenty to choose from. A ton of NBA players are on Twitter, and lots of them (notably Anthony Tolliver, Jamal Crawford, Jared Dudley, Nazr Mohammad, and let us now pour one out for Kendrick Perkins’ short-lived but glorious foray into tweeting) are funny and engaging. But there’s one guy who jumps out as a perfect fit for Kanye’s espoused philosophy:

Sometimes my grammar is wrong but my thinking is right : )
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Yeah, how could he pick anybody but Tony Allen?

We need scientist and top world designers to directly affect governments.
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It’s well documented that Lakers center Andrew Bynum loves taking apart cars, phones, and computers. He’s also been absolutely destroying the league this season since returning from a five-game suspension, so you could pick worse people to have on your side when planning world domination. Under normal circumstances, questions of his maturity would threaten his hireability, but Kanye West of all people not hiring Andrew Bynum because of the J.J. Barea incident would be almost as ironic as Syd Barrett being kicked out of Pink Floyd for having too big a drug problem.

Photo via Kanye West's brain.

If he wants to make the stage design you see above a reality, Bynum might be his man.

I want to put creatives in a room together with like minds that are all waaaay doper than me
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Kanye wholeheartedly endorses the super-team era of the NBA. The Knicks and Clippers have the same idea, and maybe Mikhail Prokhorov will make David Stern disappear until Dwight Howard is in Brooklyn. If that happens, Kanye will probably throw his buddy Jay-Z a bone and hire the Nets to embody his collaborative ideal. But until then, the clear choice here is the trio in Miami.

We want to help simplify and aesthetically improve everything we see hear, touch, taste and feel.
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You always want German engineering at your service when planning a worldwide project the magnitude of whatever the hell Kanye’s on about (I’ve re-read his entire timeline from last night more times than is probably healthy, and I still have no idea what DONDA will actually, like, do). That, and Dirk Nowitzki’s fadeaway is one of the most simple, effective, and aesthetically beautiful creations in the history of organized sports. You couldn’t ask for a more quintessentially DONDA idea.

If anyone would like to reach out email us atgmail.com">contactDONDA@gmail.com
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Never change, Kanye.

Got Skillz: Kanye and Jay-Z, LeBron and Wade

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This edition of Got Skillz is not, strictly speaking, about the musical pursuits of basketball players. As anybody with a functional Twitter account no doubt is well aware, last night saw the release of Watch the Throne, the hotly anticipated new album from Kanye West and Jay-Z. The track “Gotta Have It” features this line from Kanye: “Ain’t that where the Heat play?/N***as hate ballers these days/Ain’t that like LeBron James?” To which Jay responds: “Ain’t that just like D-Wade?” Rappers name-check ballers all the time, but this one felt strikingly appropriate. An album-length collaboration from Kanye and Hov is more or less equivalent to LeBron and Wade teaming up in Miami, and comes with many of the same questions.
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