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NBA offseason thread

Discussion in 'Sports and News' started by Jake from State Farm, Jul 29, 2021.

  1. Jake from State Farm

    Jake from State Farm Well-Known Member

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  2. TigerVols

    TigerVols Well-Known Member

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  3. HanSenSE

    HanSenSE Well-Known Member

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  4. heyabbott

    heyabbott Well-Known Member

    OH MY
    Someone in print has criticized an NBA player’s biblically and constitutionally annointed right to go wherever he wants and do anything he wants. Columnist must be a flagrant racist

    https://www.washingtonpost.com/sports/2021/09/25/ben-simmons-76ers-trade-demand/



    ‘Wait, more like his demands. He’s a famous NBA player who has been done wrong. By the team that has handled him with silk gloves since taking him No. 1 in the 2016 draft and by the “casuals” who exist beneath him in the media. Even by the meanies in the City of Brotherly Love, who have alternated between serenading Simmons with lusty boos and defending his game through clenched teeth.

    That fact, coupled with teammate Joel Embiid’s pointed comments, created a rift, and last month the Philadelphia Inquirer’s Keith Pompey broke the news that Simmons wants out. He still has four years and $147 million remaining on the max contract he signed a year ago. But legally binding agreements be damned when bruised egos clash with unmerited power.
So where does an overrated, fragile “superstar” averse to shooting go when he’s disgruntled? Anywhere he pleases in the NBA.’
     
  5. Michael_ Gee

    Michael_ Gee Well-Known Member

    I knew without reading the Rolling Stone article that the most vehement anti-vaxxer in the NBA would be Kyrie Irving. He passed the Charming Eccentric station for the Crazy Train about six stops back.
     
  6. heyabbott

    heyabbott Well-Known Member

    Just a moron whose flat earth idiocy has been passed off as intellectual curiosity by journalists who fear players.
    These anivaxx players, not just NBA, fall into 2 categories.
    The shaq players who will use any excuse to get out of training camp and early season games. Don’t have surgery on summer vaca but wait until you have to do your job.
    And the players who equate their paychecks with educated Brains.and think they are smarter than everyone. Privileged elite who got a pass in HS and college to play now think they have Nobel Level intelligence
     
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  7. JC

    JC Well-Known Member

    Kyrie has been ripped for being a moron for years.
     
  8. heyabbott

    heyabbott Well-Known Member

    Do you watch the Pre and post game shows, the NBA Today, anything with a former player turned commentator? Not a critique. Maybe some educated sports writer, but nothing more. And I do realize that the TV shows are an extension of the NBA and in no way should be confused to news and reporting. All fluff. But all most all pro players have trump skin and trump brains, thin and without substance
     
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  9. Regan MacNeil

    Regan MacNeil Well-Known Member

    Isn't he a Flat Earther?
     
  10. Songbird

    Songbird Well-Known Member

    There's a segment to be done about flat earthers if written properly.
     
  11. TheSportsPredictor

    TheSportsPredictor Well-Known Member

  12. PCLoadLetter

    PCLoadLetter Well-Known Member

    He's got chronic knee problems and he tore his ACL at the end of the season. He's almost assuredly out for the year.
     
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