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Stephen A. threatens Durant: "You don't want to make an enemy out of me."

Discussion in 'Sports and News' started by bigpern23, Oct 5, 2015.

  1. doctorquant

    doctorquant Well-Known Member

    This is one of those things that I really can't understand: How can people be so clueless about how good even mediocre top-flight athletes are? My best friend played very low-tier D1 basketball as a point guard, and his older brother was a 4th-round pick and made it to AA as a shortstop. Even in their 50s they're ridiculously good athletes, and they were absolute nobodies. To play a decade or so in the NBA? Are you kidding me?
     
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  2. SportsGuyBCK

    SportsGuyBCK Active Member

    And its right to reproduce ...
     
  3. cjericho

    cjericho Well-Known Member

    Forget where I saw the link to this before, but the caption was 'Steven A goes Tony Soprano on Durant.'
     
  4. Songbird

    Songbird Well-Known Member

    Perhaps but Jalen is still very good on the Grantland Basketball Hour. Well, was. He and what's his name -- brain fart -- were a good combo.
     
  5. Songbird

    Songbird Well-Known Member

    Bill Simmons. (stinky brain fart)
     
  6. Chef2

    Chef2 Well-Known Member

    Skip Bayless and Stephen A. Smith are 2 of the most unlikeable, pompous asses on the planet.
     
  7. Alma

    Alma Well-Known Member

    I'm going to defend a little bit SAS, in part because I think a celebrity worship of a different kind is going on here.

    Kevin Durant called SAS a liar. Well, he said he's lying. That is, SAS made up sources and made up the story.

    Journalists do not like being called liars. Ever. I can just imagine how the good folks at Deadspin would react to being called liars, since they react with such great comportment to every other criticism of them. So, on some level, I get that reaction. You get called a liar, and you're quite sure you're not lying, that's not a good feeling.

    Especially when it comes from Durant, who's decided to try on being an imperious asshole for awhile. It's not a good look for him - he's too direct in his words to do it the way trained, lifelong, condescending assholes (usually baseball players, in my experience) do it. And whether we or not we like SAS - whether or not most writers think he's gone too much over to provocateur or whatever - he has long history of relationships and influence in the NBA.

    I read SAS to be hurt in that moment on TV. Hurt bleeding over into mad. Now, look, I appreciate that there's something ridiculous about that.

    But columnists/opinion-makers in sports have long had egos the size of Neyland Stadium. This isn't new.
     
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  8. MisterCreosote

    MisterCreosote Well-Known Member

    Maybe he should try being a journalist again, instead of a professional shit-thrower.

    He spends all day, every day catering to his own self-importance and the lowest common denominator.

    He has ZERO credibility as a journalist. So he can screech all he wants, but attacks on non-existent credibility aren't going to garner any empathy.
     
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  9. poindexter

    poindexter Well-Known Member

    SAS isn't a journalist, he's a WWE character appearing on a Monkeys-Flinging-Feces-On-A-Wall television show.
     
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  10. Songbird

    Songbird Well-Known Member

    We're A LOT fucking cooler than SAS, bub! /Neyland Stadium

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  11. TyWebb

    TyWebb Well-Known Member

    Hideous.

    Go Dawgs!
     
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