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3rd Eye Ky Has Arrived
But because of Irving’s galaxy-brain public persona, it’s hard to resist reading the tea leaves behind his couture choices. The Celtics guard showed up to Sunday’s Game 1 against the Indiana Pacers wearing a Wales Bonner T-shirt (price: 150 pounds), and he changed back into it before he hopped onto the postgame podium at TD Garden to discuss Boston’s 84-74 victory. Black with red lettering, the shirt boasts several Dass bons mots from Be Here Now, including “But: You can’t hustle it. You can’t make-believe you’re calm when you’re not. It never works. Everybody knows. You know. It’s horrible” and “You must center inside yourself. And: Whatever your dance is, you’re doing it from that place.” After leaving an aging Lebron and all his toxicity in Cleveland, Kyrie was able to unleash his "stream-of-conscious mind" unto the world without any fear of backlash or scrutiny. He was free at last, no longer in the shadows of Lebron - the quintessential diva - and finally alone in the spotlight and eager to make his own mark. “We understand the position that we’re in,” Irving said. “There’s no time to really [dwell] on the mistakes that happened in the first half. At this point, it’s really just what’s the next thing we can [do to] impact the game? What’s the next thing that we gotta do to be more locked in?
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I think it is time to say that lillard > westbrook.
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The Raptors starting line up of Lowry-Green-Leonard-Siakam-Gasol only played 157 minutes together this year during the regular season.
There is some whining amongst Raptors fans that they got stuck with a 7 seed that is the hottest team in the NBA over the last 31 games. I think this is exactly what the Raptors need. This is a great opponent for a team with a starting line up that is still getting to know each other. A 6 game series would be good for the Raptors.
Their 5 man unit starting line up has improved by leaps and bounds since it was briefly used in Mid-February in the middle of games when Gasol was coming off the bench.
Al Pacino is really pissed off they are not using an Italian in the 21st Century re-boot of the Godfather. He can't believe they picked a Nigerian for the part. + Show Spoiler +
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On April 18 2019 01:34 JimmiC wrote: I think it is time to say that lillard > westbrook. It has long been that way. Even in Westbrooks MVP season, Lillard was the more important and meaningful player. That argument is like Jordan vs. Lebron. One is a straight up competitor going for the win each time, the other just masses on the stats.
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Marv Albert with the Gary Cheevers and Terry Sawchuk references... Albert is a wonderful old man. I love NBA Jam just as much as the next guy. That said, can't society find something else for him to do ... anything other than being a colour commentator for NBA playoff games...
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I'll be interested to see how Milwaukee responds once they play better teams.
Damn, guess I should have kept watching the Bos-Ind game.
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I dont get why the media aligns itself with players so often. Players are mostly stupid 20 year olds and most the player shills remain anonymous low paid wannabe Bomanis. If you align yourself with fans you can rise quickly even with little talent like Will Cain, or shape the entire sports media for a decade if you are talented like Skip Bayless.
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Wait did you just call skip bayless talented? WTF?
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On April 18 2019 13:09 cLutZ wrote: I dont get why the media aligns itself with players so often. You make an interesting point. I say they do it for the same reasons Jason Schreier always backs the front line employees at game studios. Scheier even backed that woman who got canned by ArenaNet.
These "Journalists" get their "inside scoops" from the front line workers. They can't bite the hand that feeds them.
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On April 18 2019 13:09 cLutZ wrote: I dont get why the media aligns itself with players so often. Players are mostly stupid 20 year olds and most the player shills remain anonymous low paid wannabe Bomanis. If you align yourself with fans you can rise quickly even with little talent like Will Cain, or shape the entire sports media for a decade if you are talented like Skip Bayless.
In cases like this, the media loves to be the moral judges of the peons.
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On April 18 2019 13:33 JimmiC wrote: Wait did you just call skip bayless talented? WTF?
Skip Bayless is insanely talented. He is often wrong. But he is insanely talented.
On April 18 2019 14:12 Jerubaal wrote:Show nested quote +On April 18 2019 13:09 cLutZ wrote: I dont get why the media aligns itself with players so often. Players are mostly stupid 20 year olds and most the player shills remain anonymous low paid wannabe Bomanis. If you align yourself with fans you can rise quickly even with little talent like Will Cain, or shape the entire sports media for a decade if you are talented like Skip Bayless. In cases like this, the media loves to be the moral judges of the peons.
Prolly.
Ooops missed you JJR
On April 18 2019 13:37 JimmyJRaynor wrote:Show nested quote +On April 18 2019 13:09 cLutZ wrote: I dont get why the media aligns itself with players so often. You make an interesting point. I say they do it for the same reasons Jason Schreier always backs the front line employees at game studios. Scheier even backed that woman who got canned by ArenaNet. These "Journalists" get their "inside scoops" from the front line workers. They can't bite the hand that feeds them.
That is plausible, but not all that believable for most "hot take artists" because they don't break news, simply react to it. In fact, the worst part of most programs is interviews with players & coaches. I fastforward through all player/coach interviews on any podcast I subscribe to.
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He's too much of a fake outrage and a controversial for the sake of controvercy kind of guy, so I'll have to take your word for it.
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a lot of people don't know this ... but Pascal Siakam's grandfather whose name is also Pascal Siakam played in the NBA for the Buffalo Braves in the 70s. Here is his basketball card from the 70s.
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On April 18 2019 13:37 JimmyJRaynor wrote:Show nested quote +On April 18 2019 13:09 cLutZ wrote: I dont get why the media aligns itself with players so often. You make an interesting point. I say they do it for the same reasons Jason Schreier always backs the front line employees at game studios. Scheier even backed that woman who got canned by ArenaNet. These "Journalists" get their "inside scoops" from the front line workers. They can't bite the hand that feeds them. So wrong. There are only 2... maybe 3 in all of nba "journalists" who have actual scoops first hand from players and their group. The people we are talking about here such as Skip, Shannon, SAS, Nick Wrong, etc etc are not even within 6th degree of scoop from players, so thats not the reason why they slant so hard. Their case is one of controversy for relevance. Its all fluff for the sake of generating audience share with the same people who watch Kardashians and cry at Beyonce concerts. Its TMZ-culture corrupting sports media, and people like you and others nephews eat it all up with wide-eyed enthusiasm.
In private, I doubt Skip and SAS actually believe half the garbage they spew. Its all theater, they only do it because it sells big time! Nick Wrong on the other hand is proper garbage.
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On April 18 2019 14:12 Jerubaal wrote:Show nested quote +On April 18 2019 13:09 cLutZ wrote: I dont get why the media aligns itself with players so often. Players are mostly stupid 20 year olds and most the player shills remain anonymous low paid wannabe Bomanis. If you align yourself with fans you can rise quickly even with little talent like Will Cain, or shape the entire sports media for a decade if you are talented like Skip Bayless. In cases like this, the media loves to be the moral judges of the peons. Its not even about morality or any values. Its naked unadulterated lust for money. Like I said to JJ, these loudmouths are all winky wink on this. The best part about SAS and Shannon and Skip is that they are self-aware of the madness, whereas blowhards like Nick Wrong true morons.
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Yes SAS even laughed at himself when he was talking about the NFL and was saying a guy who tore his ACL in preseason was going to be a big factor because of how awesome he was playing. They are controversial for the sake of it and some people eat that up.
I can't ever respect Skip though, him getting famous by making up Aikman is gay rumors is just something I cannot respect. It would be bad enough now, but to a Texas QB in the 90's, what an asshole.
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On April 19 2019 23:02 Twinkle Toes wrote: The people we are talking about here such as Skip, Shannon, SAS, Nick Wrong, etc etc are not even within 6th degree of scoop from players here is the original comment.
On April 18 2019 13:09 cLutZ wrote: I dont get why the media aligns itself with players so often. Players are mostly stupid 20 year olds and most the player shills remain anonymous low paid wannabe Bomanis. If you align yourself with fans you can rise quickly even with little talent like Will Cain, or shape the entire sports media for a decade if you are talented like Skip Bayless. Its not clear from that comment the discussion is about the 4 guys in your list.
any how, I'll narrow my comment down... The media who gets their knowledge from the immature, emotional, young front line employees leaking stuff ... don't bite the hand that feeds them. Thus, the information pipeline remains open.
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On April 19 2019 23:22 JimmyJRaynor wrote:Show nested quote +On April 19 2019 23:02 Twinkle Toes wrote: The people we are talking about here such as Skip, Shannon, SAS, Nick Wrong, etc etc are not even within 6th degree of scoop from players here is the original comment. Show nested quote +On April 18 2019 13:09 cLutZ wrote: I dont get why the media aligns itself with players so often. Players are mostly stupid 20 year olds and most the player shills remain anonymous low paid wannabe Bomanis. If you align yourself with fans you can rise quickly even with little talent like Will Cain, or shape the entire sports media for a decade if you are talented like Skip Bayless. Its not clear from that comment the discussion is about the 4 guys in your list. any how, I'll narrow my comment down... The media who gets their knowledge from the immature, emotional, young front line employees leaking stuff ... don't bite the hand that feeds them. Thus, the information pipeline remains open. Whch is like I said a wrong statement to make because 2 people is not the media, and the majority of them - the ones we are referring to, have no direct sources, so there is no hand-biting happening in this context, just controversy-mongering
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