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08-26-2020, 02:47 PM | #2506 |
Hockey Town
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08-26-2020, 02:47 PM | #2507 |
Cheat Death
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Shorting Orlando stripclub stock
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08-26-2020, 02:48 PM | #2508 |
Hockey Town
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Yea lets boot a league MVP and one of the legit contenders, good stance. That would probably piss off all of the other teams, it would lead to lots of great things I'm sure.
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08-26-2020, 02:49 PM | #2509 |
Mahomes: We Are All Witnesses
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The NBA’s TV ratings were tanking before this.
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08-26-2020, 02:49 PM | #2510 |
George Brett shit his pants
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Any NBA player who has an open shot. At the start of LeBron's career I lauded him because he would pass to the wide open guy at the end of games for game winners or game tying possessions. The media crucified him because they are idiots. Now if you watch LeBron, he will almost always do the Kobe and force up a shot in the final possession because he's the "star". He got so much shit for being "afraid" to take the big shot. It had nothing to do with that. It had everything to do with seeing the soft spots of the defense & attack it. If there is ANYTHING you should do at the end of the game, it's exploit the defenses tendencies to double team & front the star player from beating you. Kick it to the the wide open role player for the better shot if you have to.
People always thought of Kobe as being clutch at the end of games. There was a case study I read years ago about Kobe (RIP) and he was one of the worst players in final possessions of games. You just remembered all the games he won because he was always the one shooting it and had more chances than anymore else. There was a ton of games he put up a brick and they lost or went to OT. |
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08-26-2020, 02:50 PM | #2511 |
Resident Glue Sniffer
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I'll wait for Shaq's mumbled political take on this.
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08-26-2020, 02:50 PM | #2512 |
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Rockets and Thunder are also boycotting.
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08-26-2020, 02:52 PM | #2513 |
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There's no way any other NBA team plays tonight.
The real question is whether it bleeds into baseball and football. A superstar athlete like Giannis doing it takes a lot of pressure off other athletes to be the first to make the call. |
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08-26-2020, 02:52 PM | #2514 |
In Search of a Life
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Get woke go broke playing out in front of us |
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08-26-2020, 02:53 PM | #2515 | |
George Brett shit his pants
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When I grew up, if there was social media like there is now it would be all about what party are you at? What concert did you go to? What sporting event did you go to etc? Nowadays, it's rewarding to those who post things of what protest they were at. That can be good, but it can also not be genuine thought or reasonable thought process of said protest. For example, George Floyd is a more reasonable case to protest compared to Michael Brown. Even with George Floyd we are just assuming it was racism because it was a black man. We should wait until we KNOW it was and let the investigations take place and THEN act accordingly. When the largest determining factor in being shot by the police is sex, and not race, I feel the angst & response is not consistent with the volume of atrocity. There are plenty of atrocities, even racial ones, that take more lives than police shootings that we could focus on as well that as a whole would save more lives and invoke more cultural & socioeconomic change. Last edited by BWillie; 08-26-2020 at 03:48 PM.. |
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08-26-2020, 02:53 PM | #2516 |
In Search of a Life
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Let’s sit out for career criminals that resist arrest, but ignore the kids that died as a direct result of the riots for said career criminals. Not to mention the fanning of the flames for MORE rioting and deaths.
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08-26-2020, 02:54 PM | #2517 |
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Pretty much, the NBA is 100% a players league so they have more pull than any of the others.
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08-26-2020, 02:55 PM | #2518 |
Sauntering Vaguely Downwards
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You’ve already acknowledged the hive mind in LA.
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08-26-2020, 02:55 PM | #2519 |
Thank you
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Go Bucks.
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08-26-2020, 02:55 PM | #2520 | |
Mahomes: We Are All Witnesses
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Remember when LeBron James said this about Daryl Morey’s tweet in support of the Hong Kong protestors...
Link: https://www.espn.com/nba/story/_/id/...hina-hong-kong Quote:
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