Your Morning Dump... Where we catch up with Jabari Bird

Every morning, we compile the links of the day and dump them here… highlighting the big story line. Because there’s nothing quite as satisfying as a good morning dump.

Jabari remembers his mother, Tonya, had cooked something. Tonya can’t recall what she made. Jabari’s father, Carl, has food amnesia, too. No one knows exactly what words exchanged in the immediate moments following the most important news of Jabari’s professional life. Carl and Tonya just remember their son yelping something incoherent after receiving a text from his agent, Aaron Goodwin, midway through the meal.

He’d scuff up his bedsheets after — and he was persistent enough that Mom or Dad would have to wait until he passed…