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euphronius
Feb 18, 2009

He’s not saying booker should go to Golden state so idgi


https://twitter.com/rachel__nichols/status/1291869575525675009?s=21

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May 23, 2009

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euphronius posted:

That’s fine whatever

what about some cavs fans i seen talking about Sexton Garland and gently caress uh that other young cat for Simmons

Metapod
Mar 18, 2012

euphronius posted:

He’s not saying booker should go to Golden state so idgi

Don't go on national TV and call for an all-star to be traded

Lockback
Sep 3, 2006

All days are nights to see till I see thee; and nights bright days when dreams do show me thee.
Minnesota didn't hate Butler, he just flipped out at the team. He fits the spirit though

Probably Magic
Oct 9, 2012

Looking cute, feeling cute.
gently caress Draymond and all, but that ain't tampering, lol. Saying, "Man, playing for lovely teams sucks," is, like, Magic Johnson level analysis.

Punkin Spunkin
Jan 1, 2010
Yeah and Draymond's not on a great basketball team anyway so there's no way you can say it's tampering

MourningView
Sep 2, 2006


Is this Heaven?
Yeah the hate with Butler mostly goes the other way

hifi
Jul 25, 2012

golden state has like, five wins and phoenix is gunning for the playoffs. which one is the lovely team again

bornbytheriver
Apr 23, 2010

Spacebump
Dec 24, 2003

Dallas Mavericks: Generations
It’d never happen but it would be hilarious if Draymond got sent to PHX in a Booker trade.

verbal enema
May 23, 2009

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GS gets no good players anymore ever again gently caress GS

Metapod
Mar 18, 2012
Bazely gets his career high against the atrocious wizards d 😊

bornbytheriver
Apr 23, 2010

Metapod posted:

Bazely gets his career high against the atrocious wizards d 😊

Also, Muscala with a bunch of threes was good.

It’ll be interesting to see who Billy D plays vs the Suns tomorrow.

Bip Roberts
Mar 29, 2005

Metapod posted:

The all they hate me team

G: Hayward
G: Butler?? (Did Minnesota hate him)
F: Durant
F: ???
C: Gobert

Is Dwight good enough 2k20?

Edit: or hated enough 2k20?

Spacebump
Dec 24, 2003

Dallas Mavericks: Generations
Is it just me or have there been a lot less dunks/oops in the bubble?

verbal enema
May 23, 2009

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Spacebump posted:

Is it just me or have there been a lot less dunks/oops in the bubble?

I also think this

ChickenMedium
Sep 2, 2001
Forum Veteran And Professor Emeritus of Condiment Studies

MourningView posted:

Yeah the hate with Butler mostly goes the other way

I thought that beef all started when Butler hosed KAT's girlfriend

The Maestro
Feb 21, 2006
If he would have just said No when Ernie asked him if he was tampering, he might not have been fined.

“You been drinking tonight?”
“Maybe”

Katana_Warrior
Dec 25, 2009

ChickenMedium posted:

I thought that beef all started when Butler hosed KAT's girlfriend

yeah, but the rest of the team was still cool with jimmy. could be why they're all gone now

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verbal enema posted:

what about some cavs fans i seen talking about Sexton Garland and gently caress uh that other young cat for Simmons

Take Horford too

R.D. Mangles
Jan 10, 2004


https://twitter.com/KDTrey5/status/1292548685025296385?s=20

Carlosologist
Oct 13, 2013

Revelry in the Dark

KD finally getting a win on the trolls is loving hilarious.

People are still harping on him going to the Warriors as if that’s not old news at this point

Spacebump
Dec 24, 2003

Dallas Mavericks: Generations

verbal enema posted:

I also think this

My theory is everyone knows the bubble sweat moppers are a problem so players are dunking less to prevent landing in sweat/slipping/getting injured.

WhyteRyce
Dec 30, 2001

KDs level of awesomeness is inversely related to how good his team is.

NickRoweFillea
Sep 27, 2012

doin thangs
https://twitter.com/peteredmiston/status/1292535251571478539?s=21

This is “dire”

Declan MacManus
Sep 1, 2011

damn i'm really in this bitch

morestuff posted:

It does make sense the league might want a prominent white star, but I still don’t really think that’s what’s happening here. And it doesn’t really sound like Declan does either? Not really sure what he was driving at

my posting is very freewheeling and stream of consciousness

so, to clarify: in my opinion, the nba doesn’t care about having white stars specifically, they want young and exciting stars that help them sell merchandise to their core demographics (younger americans and chinese people) and expand into new territories (like hyping up rui hachimura to attract japanese fans) but aren’t especially interested in catering to eastern europeans, since they’re already interested in the nba but aren’t spending as much on it

the league will market luka because he’s a good, exciting player, not because of any particular agenda

chilihead posted:

This is a hot take. The league is a quote "woke,hip,blackity,black league" because 80's of it's players are inner city or poor black american players."
You could also talk about the demographic of it's fanbase, but c'mon. I read countless sports forums and blogs and the people who frequent them are not a majority of young urban,poor males, much less african american males.
The league promotes all of it's stars, some more then others. Who was the last non international white player superstar? For a millisecond my mind went to Steve Nash before i remembered he is Canadian.
To quote a famous person"It is what it is." The truth is very similar to baseballs current player base. After integration MLB had dozens of black star players, but slowly over the last 20 years they have all but disappeared. Different demographics have gravitated to different sports the last generation.I can talk for hours about how baseball is about upper middle class american kids and poor latino's but gonna save that for another forum.

the nba makes a point of driving home that it’s the most politically active sports league; this is in sharp contrast to the david stern years which were more or less demographically identical to now but instituted targeted policies like the dress code to police expressions of blackness (see also the blackballing of craig hodges and mahmoud abdul-rauf)

social consciousness has been commodified and it’s what young consumers prefer so it’s what the nba endorses; embracing that stuff is good and cool but it’s driven by financial motivations, you know?

(i would love to talk about the relationship between baseball and race but people in this thread don’t want to talk baseball)

morestuff
Aug 2, 2008

You can't stop what's coming

Declan MacManus posted:

my posting is very freewheeling and stream of consciousness

I know it and I love it.

dokmo
Aug 27, 2006

:stat:man

Spacebump posted:

Is it just me or have there been a lot less dunks/oops in the bubble?

you right, there's been a 20% reduction in dunks/lobs as a proportion of shots in the paint. there's also been a 6% reduction in shots in the paint, but a 12% increase in fouls in the paint.

Maneck
Sep 11, 2011

The Glumslinger posted:

Lmao, not even in the bubble and still loving up

While this one got the fine, his take on Black Lives Matter and Canada was much worse. Please don't enable the denial of our racist shitheads!

Doltos
Dec 28, 2005

🤌🤌🤌
I imagine the least appealing aspect of playing for the Warriors is having Draymonds locker near yours

R.D. Mangles
Jan 10, 2004


VIC LAW IS IN THE NBA :siren:

Lockback
Sep 3, 2006

All days are nights to see till I see thee; and nights bright days when dreams do show me thee.

Declan MacManus posted:


social consciousness has been commodified and it’s what young consumers prefer so it’s what the nba endorses; embracing that stuff is good and cool but it’s driven by financial motivations, you know?

(i would love to talk about the relationship between baseball and race but people in this thread don’t want to talk baseball)

I think the first part is right but I also think Silver is more aware that you can do the non-lovely things too (his strong support for Morey despite the Chinese backlash comes to mind) and I think many other commissioners are/have been a lot slower to pick up progressive causes even when they are good business. That's not too say a lot isn't motivated by financial reasons, but I think Silver in particular is trying to do good now and then, even if it's only in the margins.

And I'd love to talk baseball and race, as long as we don't get topic police.

BWV
Feb 24, 2005


R.D. Mangles posted:

VIC LAW IS IN THE NBA :siren:

AC Law the 106th?

R.D. Mangles
Jan 10, 2004


BWV posted:

AC Law the 106th?

mods??????????????

ChickenMedium
Sep 2, 2001
Forum Veteran And Professor Emeritus of Condiment Studies

"Dillon Brooks" sounds like it should be the name of the bad guy in Teen Wolf

Dejan Bimble
Mar 24, 2008

we're all black friends
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MourningView posted:

He legit said Luka, who was the reigning MVP of the second best league in the world, would average single digit points in the ACC. At one point he was Cowherd's go to draft expert which is just *infinite chefs kissing infinite fingers*

I can't decide if the funniest person in that top 20 is Tony Carr, who was like the third best player on a NIT team, or Trey Duval, who is currently struggling for minutes with the Iowa Wolves.

E: lmao he and Kendrick Perkins are currently talking about how Luka is only up for MIP because of an AGENDA

I guess he filled the niche of the NBA DRAFT TAKES guy since everyone else was trying to rank prospects by assumed talent/potential or trying to handicap the draft. He's absurd

Dexo
Aug 15, 2009

A city that was to live by night after the wilderness had passed. A city that was to forge out of steel and blood-red neon its own peculiar wilderness.
https://twitter.com/GavinFailson/status/1292575978456195072?s=20

The Walrus
Jul 9, 2002

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i love the bubble

The Maestro
Feb 21, 2006
@ bornbytheriver, the gif magician, today Dame drove to the hoop and tried to kick it back out, but it hit Tobias Harris (I think) in the head and went in the basket instead. Just in case you needed another play to gif

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Declan MacManus
Sep 1, 2011

damn i'm really in this bitch

donovan mitchell is gonna have to publicly cop to watching porn on instagram live to avoid getting quarantined

what a time to be alive

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