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Algund Eenboom posted:This is very true, with the only exceptions being section80, and also good kid maad city, and also untitled unmastered. And also none of his mixtapes. And also the warriors won a title in a year he didnt release an album, and also, they won one in the 70s, and also one in the 50s, and also one in the 40s. But hey 3 out of 7 isnt too bad. Or 3 out of 12 if you look at it the other way around I'm fine with Kendrick albums being a necessary but not sufficient condition of Warriors' recent rings if we get more dope Kendrick albums.
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Cavauro posted:how many years in a row do you think the finals will be 6 games? so far it's four years in a row. i think it will be four years in a row. What is the most common number of games in the NBA Finals (in this format)? 6 sounds right to me, not a blowout but one team is clearly better. 4-5 makes one question what the other conference was even doing (or that the winner was inordinately dominant), while 7 feels like a special event, for the rare series that could truly have gone either way. I don't know about 4 years in a row, but I predict of the next 5 Finals series, 3 will be decided in 6 games.
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Jun 20, 2022 06:05
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Cavauro posted:sweep - 9 Thanks for the info/compliment. More game 7s than I would have guessed, but I suppose that's a good thing.
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Jun 20, 2022 06:40
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I'm sure there's a lot of Warriors fans who are absolute jackasses, the complete scum of the Earth. I definitely know a few. But lmao at pointing to YouTube comments as being indicative of anything other than the various mental health disorders that compel one to comment on YouTube. YouTube comments are even worse than Twitter, and about in line with other sites with the -Tube suffix.
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Jun 21, 2022 02:16
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SwissArmyDruid posted:Would have to be after Klay retires, see previous statements about going full Jordan ride-or-die with Phil Jackson. Iggy is going into venture capital, if his statements on Draymond's post-Game 6 show are to be believed.
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Jun 21, 2022 16:26
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predicto posted:I think it’s also actually possible that one of his teenage kids had a breakdown at being moved for the third time in three years and Atkinson belatedly decided that family mattered more than taking this job. He already makes a couple million a year with the Warriors. Yeah, this seems to me one of the likelier explanations for the reversal. Dude has a family, and isn't exactly in a bad situation in his current role.
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Jun 21, 2022 19:34
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chilihead posted:Quick question, let's say Las Vegas and Seattle are the two next expansion teams. Which team moves to the East? Memphis and Minnesota are also kinda out of place in the "Western" Conference.
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Jun 22, 2022 19:27
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Lakers is the funniest option to me, I assume it would also most likely involve sending Westbrook to Brooklyn. If Durant stays, that's two hilarious full circles. The amazing thing is both teams might still very well be first round exits at best in that scenario.
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Jun 23, 2022 21:30
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Lockback posted:It drives me crazy. I can forgive making mistakes and being wrong about guys, but this is just totally not understanding what your team is. Yeah, the Kings (from the outside) seem like the NBA team that least understands the sinusoidal nature of NBA success. You have to be truly, truly bad for a bit to get back on the upswing. They've been stuck in 11-seed hell for as long as I can remember.
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Jun 24, 2022 19:30
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Papes posted:Well that’s what happens when you pass on a generational talent Which time?
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Jun 24, 2022 19:32
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Crazy Ted posted:Given how angry Italians get about food I'm surprised an Italian-American hasn't shanked him in broad daylight in NYC. I'm not of an ethnicity which makes bones over pasta, but I stand in solidarity with them in this instance
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Jun 24, 2022 20:06
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i am a moron posted:I guess Kyrie has realized he isn’t practically a co owner with KD or whatever Kyrie is basketball Benito Mussolini
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Jun 25, 2022 02:42
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Space Camp fuckup posted:It really feels like it might be coming together, huh? That fat oaf Flex from Jersey said Phoenix is his preferred destination on 98.7 today. I have a feeling he’ll end up in Miami but it’s fun to dream. KD Suns and/or Kyrie Lakers will be excellent Western heels for the Good Guys (the Golden State Warriors) to defeat.
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Jun 25, 2022 02:55
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OzFactor posted:Okay, so, honest question: it seems like everybody really hates Kendrick Perkins. He’s bad at his job, so we NBA fans don’t like him, and it sure feels like every active player really loving hates him. His “analysis” boils down to saying things that are either totally inconsequential or immediately ridiculed as factually incorrect. How does he retain employment at ESPN? Yes, there are tons of annoying people working at ESPN, but others at the very least try to do their homework. My entirely unsubstantiated theory is that most sports commentary generally, especially in legacy media, is by design dumb enough that the least informed member of the audience could have a reasonable opinion on if it is "right" or "wrong." A nuanced take that involved knowledge of how certain skillsets or plays are generally effective are exclusionary to a mass audience, while everyone can have an opinion as valid as anyone else's on what is essentially basketball TMZ. The larger the audience that can join in the conversation, the greater engagement for the product. Kendrick Perkins provides an important service, in that his commentary is so dumb that any idiot watching the program can feel like their opinions are of "expert" quality, and thus they are a well-informed fan of the game of basketball. Also, a distressing number of people just seem to genuinely enjoy the ill-informed hot-take-artist style of commentary.
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Jun 25, 2022 18:24
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OzFactor posted:I just don’t understand how he gets to continue saying “I know what these guys [active NBA players] are like / are thinking” when so, so many of them directly address him to tell him to shut the gently caress up. I feel like he trades on a non-existent commodity and it baffles me. Because it drives this very sort of engagement? "NBA Star Claps Back at Perk, Destroys Him With Facts and Logic" is a video that gets clicks. The commodity is people getting baited into interacting with him in the first place, and that interaction sells ad space.
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Jun 25, 2022 19:28
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I'm sad all of the bullish Ben Simmons predictions didn't pan out, including my own. Now it's time for more Kyrie drama.
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Jun 25, 2022 23:59
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Alaois posted:*in a cartoonishly New Jersey accent* Being from the Bay, it's a bit of a culture shock to have some random guy come up and grab the gas hose from you at 2am, insisting it's "his" job. This happened when I was in college and I had to drive through Jersey for the first time, I thought it was a mentally unwell street person harassing me until I saw his employee badge.
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Jun 26, 2022 22:16
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rjmccall posted:You’ve never driven up to Oregon? I'd been through Oregon several times at that point. I wasn't unaware of the concept, i just didn't know it applied to NJ at the time. It was fun giving kids from NJ poo poo when they tried to defend the practice though.
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Jun 27, 2022 00:51
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Algund Eenboom posted:As a former new jersey gas station attendant, rest assured the teens you forced to listen to your spiel really appreciated it It was me ribbing other freshmen in college lol, my roommate and best friend was one of them .
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Jun 27, 2022 06:33
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I'm torn. On the one hand, people like Perk deserve negative respect, and I would be pretty mad if I were someone like Draymond or Reddick and might have to be on TV with him. On the other hand, Draymond, you fool, this is exactly what ESPN wants when they roll that corpulent moron out there.
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Jun 28, 2022 01:56
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Dexo posted:Also calling Perk a coon is like, probably a bit much lol. As someone who lacks the privilege to use said word, I'm a little less well-versed in its proper application, so gave I Draymond the benefit of the doubt. This is the first time I've seen it used in the wild.
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Jun 28, 2022 02:44
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SamuraiFoochs posted:Everything about Kyrie loving SUCKS, god I hate that motherfucker
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Jun 28, 2022 03:09
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predicto posted:Are we sure it was "coon" and not "goon?" I'm pretty sure it was the former, but now I'm mad at the missed opportunity for the rhyming "goon to coon."
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Jun 28, 2022 03:40
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The Clippers would be such a terrifying team if they could ever be fully healthy. Alas alack
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Jun 28, 2022 03:47
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Papes posted:Westbrook is fine, not worth his current deal but is a a complete dogshit fit on that lakers team. That last bit is the most consistently under-appreciated part of the Westbrook drama. His actual abilities (for what it's worth, I'm on team "still decent but overpaid") are less important than the fact that his skillset and playstyle are not good for the lakers team as currently constructed and led by Davis/James. The fact that he is still pretty good kinda exacerbates the whole thing, as it's more frustrating to watch a team that's less than the sum of its parts than a merely bad one.
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xbilkis posted:https://twitter.com/ChrisBHaynes/status/1541977658396790786 This a serious question: what is the point of anti-tampering rules? Every season, I see plenty of articles speculating about player moves that were necessarily negotiated in advance, and the regulations seem to be more honored in the breach if anything. What harm is done that is serious enough to need rules but not serious enough to be enforced?
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Jun 29, 2022 04:11
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TheKevman posted:Rest your weary head my friend, the cap going up helped them out bigly I am willing to spend every dollar Joe Lacob has to keep those guys. But yeah, that cap raise is very nice
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Jul 1, 2022 02:26
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gently caress. Can't be too mad though, he put in his dues and deserves to get the biggest bag he can. I'll always be grateful for his contributions to this year's title.
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hifi posted:I still like d. lee as a prospect type player but the recent suns record for choosing and developing guards kinda sucks. payne regressed/sucks, shamet is still a headcase, aaron holiday didn't do anything, elfrid payton sucked, e'twaun moore sucked, tyler johnson sucked, and they shipped off guys like ty-shon alexander, elie okobo, and jalen lecque instantly. the third best guard that james jones brought in is probably langston galloway. Damion Lee playing rotation minutes in a competitive game is not ideal for your team. That being said, that list of guards isn't terribly inspirational, so who knows? I'd be pretty surprised if he looked better/improved after leaving the Warriors (frankly, most people I know assumed he was a roster tax to keep Steph happy).
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Jul 2, 2022 07:06
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Spacebump posted:I’m worried the Mavs will do that. Hope they don’t sign him. The best part of your favorite team being in cap hell: very little chance of signing Miles Bridges.
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Jul 3, 2022 01:59
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Salvor_Hardin posted:I just thought about the awkwardness of Rudy being patient zero and acting incredibly irresponsibly with Covid and KAT having all that personal trauma surrounding it. I hope that this "storyline" doesn't get any airtime this season, for KAT's sake if nothing else.
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Jul 3, 2022 02:40
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Ammanas posted:You mean KD right KD's love for Kyrie is something to behold. It's an unbelievably funny tragic flaw.
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Jul 3, 2022 05:29
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dokmo posted:When he went from flat earther to anti vaxxer I hated this period of Kyrie, because it was after flat earth Kyrie. Like, there's dozens of other NBA players (not to mention literally anybody else) with important contributions to the conversation, and this moron who spent the last year+ fighting the ghost of Copernicus is being signal boosted?
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Jul 3, 2022 19:15
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a new study bible! posted:The current president of the United States sent his base of 40-90 year old people into the mouth of death during the height of a pandemic. It's possible to have contempt for many different people at once, in varying degrees of intensity. So long as we all keep it proportional, clowning on Kyrie for his many immensely idiotic statements can coexist alongside much more vehement condemnations of other pandemic responses/failures. Also, is it "about other issues" when I generally dislike people who spread medical misinformation on large platforms, and this description fits Kyrie? It's not all about him, he just falls into several categories of rear end in a top hat.
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MOVIE MAJICK posted:Wasn't voyager digital, the newly recent shitcoin victim , touted by Mark Cuban and a bunch of other NBA players?? The crypto endorsements would be a lot more outrageous imo if we weren't also getting ads for "The official sports betting site" of various leagues. It's a gross manifestation of a larger problem, the official marriage of sports and gambling.
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I'm not sure if KD returning to the Warriors would be an absolutely good thing, but it would be tremendous content.
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NieR Occomata posted:Speaking as a Dubs fan, I don’t think I want KD back again since it’ll probably mean getting rid of all of our young talent (unless it’s like Kuminga and Wiseman and Looney, I don’t even want to lose JP) and then everyone will hate us again. I’m absolutely fine with running it back and in fact would prefer it; unless KD comes over for mostly cash and picks and end of the roster young dudes the Warriors aren’t really using I just don’t see the need to land him, and just don’t want to deal with the headache all loving over again. If they can get him without completely gutting the team, I'm for it. I like the young guys, but maximizing Steph Curry's athletic prime is the most important part of winning another chip, and Durant is a move that does that. Plus: Aye Doc posted:everyone's going to hate your team, KD or not May as well have the hate be of the impotent variety with the return of the ultimate basketball team.
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Senator Drinksalot posted:Ugh you just reminded me I have to root for Wilson this year And just like Wilson, he's only annoying until you remember some of the alternatives. What's good Browns fans?
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i am a moron posted:Steph ruined basketball, and society, with his egregious three point shooting. the very fabric of our society is being rent apart by this obscenity, this insult to the basketball gods. one can only hope that a long two or some nasty postups will finally put an end to his reign of terror and we can be delivered from the basketball demon-child Crying and shaking as Stephen Curry removes my ability to feel human
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Dexo posted:I would trade my sister for Kevin Durant ngl Warriors already shipped Damion Lee out of state for a few months, light years ahead
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