not trying to bring “real talk” to the thread just responding to gd’s post and I already regret it
No regrets!! #MambaMentalitySeriously that's valid for you to bring up. I should've specified I meant respect as a basketball player.
― A True White Kid that can Jump (Granny Dainger), Monday, 27 January 2020 04:01 (four years ago) link
dame 50-6-13, 1 TO. 158 points in his last three games.
― Clay, Monday, 27 January 2020 04:21 (four years ago) link
is that good
― lag∞n, Monday, 27 January 2020 04:22 (four years ago) link
its a lot of hoop
― majority whip, majority nae nae (m bison), Monday, 27 January 2020 04:22 (four years ago) link
meant that for the stats thread but whatever
― Clay, Monday, 27 January 2020 04:23 (four years ago) link
all sports are #stats now
― majority whip, majority nae nae (m bison), Monday, 27 January 2020 04:24 (four years ago) link
kobe was the last great stats dont matter guy
― lag∞n, Monday, 27 January 2020 04:26 (four years ago) link
the amazing thing isn't so much Dame's numbers as the fact that opposing teams are basically free right now to concentrate the entire focus of their defense on him and he still puts those numbers up.
― A is for (Aimless), Monday, 27 January 2020 04:28 (four years ago) link
its wild how much better all the greats are than kobe at the advanced stats but he had like 15 all-nba selections, a whole mess of all-defense selections, 5 rings, 2 fmvp, 1 real mvp. kobe's career is a study in contrasts.
xp
― majority whip, majority nae nae (m bison), Monday, 27 January 2020 04:28 (four years ago) link
yeah his best argument is longevity which certainly isnt nothin
― lag∞n, Monday, 27 January 2020 04:29 (four years ago) link
I never really hated Kobe even as a non-Lakers fan not while Derek Fisher was sticking around at least. At the end Kobe was becoming more likable. His final game was hilarious of course.
― omar little, Monday, 27 January 2020 04:32 (four years ago) link
Second best argument was “I’m not fish“
― omar little, Monday, 27 January 2020 04:33 (four years ago) link
i think i placed kobe as one of the villains of much of my adult life and i kinda feel like batman w/o the joker rn
― Clay, Monday, 27 January 2020 04:33 (four years ago) link
kobe meticulously planned then executed becoming more likable i mean cmon ppl right
― lag∞n, Monday, 27 January 2020 04:34 (four years ago) link
he was probably the first sports person i truly hated (sports hate). I found him insufferable and thought his final season lovefest farewell tour was a bizarre stain on the league. cad otm i loved cheering against him, more than any other athlete. i loved him on the 08 redeem team. def agree his second act seemed to be headed in a real positive direction. i hope he truly changed his ways after aspen but we'll really never know. news hit me more cos he really seemed to love his daughter(s) and was on the way to her basketball thing...
― omg what did you type to find this gif? (Spottie), Monday, 27 January 2020 04:34 (four years ago) link
there's a great what-if scenario with kobe that i'd like to really dig into sometime, like if he had been in a small market and gotten 1 championship in an advantageous year but otherwise put up the same stats how would he be thought of
― call all destroyer, Monday, 27 January 2020 04:35 (four years ago) link
he just did some weird psycho dad coach shit with his daughters team like 6 months ago
― lag∞n, Monday, 27 January 2020 04:36 (four years ago) link
yah if charlotte kept him or something xp
― omg what did you type to find this gif? (Spottie), Monday, 27 January 2020 04:37 (four years ago) link
one of my stronger memories of being at a bball game was at the rose garden sitting pretty close to the floor surrounded by teenagers w/ kobe jerseys (they were ubiquitous when the lakers came to town). this was maybe 2009 or so, and the lakers were winning but double digits going into the fourth. this kid a couple rows in front of me has two kobe jerseys, one on his chest and one he's using like a flag, just waving it around in that showy boastful laker fan way. the blazers came back in the fourth and won and the absolute slump to his gait as he walked past my seat is seared in my memory
― Clay, Monday, 27 January 2020 04:38 (four years ago) link
― call all destroyer, Sunday, January 26, 2020 11:35 PM (three minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink
prob something like wade
― lag∞n, Monday, 27 January 2020 04:39 (four years ago) link
xp truly nothing sweeter than a dejected kobe stan. witnessed it many time vs the suns (and the opposite of course)
― omg what did you type to find this gif? (Spottie), Monday, 27 January 2020 04:40 (four years ago) link
xp lol wow, thank you for just taking care of that for me. i mean you're right, that's what it would have been.
― call all destroyer, Monday, 27 January 2020 04:41 (four years ago) link
just doin my job
― lag∞n, Monday, 27 January 2020 04:42 (four years ago) link
I liked Kobe well enough as a player during the failure seasons, I think success + the presence of Phil made him twice as intolerable but again I found him less hateable than some other laker scrubs from the era.
― omar little, Monday, 27 January 2020 04:43 (four years ago) link
this kid a couple rows in front of me has two kobe jerseys, one on his chest and one he's using like a flag, just waving it around in that showy boastful laker fan way. the blazers came back in the fourth and won and the absolute slump to his gait as he walked past my seat is seared in my memory
― Clay, Sunday, January 26, 2020 11:38 PM (five minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink
i can jusr see this
― lag∞n, Monday, 27 January 2020 04:44 (four years ago) link
very vividly
― omg what did you type to find this gif? (Spottie), Monday, 27 January 2020 04:46 (four years ago) link
the only time i ever left a hoops game early was when the lakers destroyed the spurs in ~2010 or so, the bandwagon SA-born-and-bred laker fan contingent was just too much to handle past the first half.
― majority whip, majority nae nae (m bison), Monday, 27 January 2020 04:48 (four years ago) link
speaking to the heart of a nation in pain
“They were inspired by what he did on the field, what he meant off the field” — Pete Buttigieg on Kobe Bryant, who played basketball pic.twitter.com/nv67WSz4UK— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) January 27, 2020
― lag∞n, Monday, 27 January 2020 04:50 (four years ago) link
this is the first time ive actually felt bad for mayor pete bc this is such a colossal self-own
― majority whip, majority nae nae (m bison), Monday, 27 January 2020 04:52 (four years ago) link
Did you guys see how Trump or probably one of his staffers kinda copied Obama’s tweet?
Kobe was a legend on the court and just getting started in what would have been just as meaningful a second act. To lose Gianna is even more heartbreaking to us as parents. Michelle and I send love and prayers to Vanessa and the entire Bryant family on an unthinkable day.— Barack Obama (@BarackObama) January 26, 2020
Kobe Bryant, despite being one of the truly great basketball players of all time, was just getting started in life. He loved his family so much, and had such strong passion for the future. The loss of his beautiful daughter, Gianna, makes this moment even more devastating....— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) January 26, 2020
― omar little, Monday, 27 January 2020 04:55 (four years ago) link
“kinda”
― omar little, Monday, 27 January 2020 04:56 (four years ago) link
lmao man what a world
― lag∞n, Monday, 27 January 2020 04:57 (four years ago) link
i don't know how you come back from that but i feel like mayor pete stans prob proudly say "sportsball" xxp
― Clay, Monday, 27 January 2020 04:57 (four years ago) link
its funny cause hes so expertly executing the boilerplate otherwise
― lag∞n, Monday, 27 January 2020 04:59 (four years ago) link
1) the thoughts expressed in both are relatively obvious and are a good match what you can fit into a tweet, but they are not a particularly close match in their language or weight of emotion. 2) no way in hell did Donald J. Trump, President of the United States of America, compose that tweet.
― A is for (Aimless), Monday, 27 January 2020 05:02 (four years ago) link
The odd use of despite makes me think it’s a poorly plagiarized version tbh
― Matt Armstrong, Monday, 27 January 2020 05:25 (four years ago) link
still the all time greatest kobe gifhttps://media1.giphy.com/media/a7JyJuA7gjV2o/source.gif
― omg what did you type to find this gif? (Spottie), Monday, 27 January 2020 06:05 (four years ago) link
display name checks out
― symsymsym, Monday, 27 January 2020 06:23 (four years ago) link
lol
― omg what did you type to find this gif? (Spottie), Monday, 27 January 2020 06:29 (four years ago) link
OTM
― totally unnecessary bewbz of exploitation (DJP), Monday, 27 January 2020 14:32 (four years ago) link
this really all feels very wrong for such a fun good times league, the best league in all sports if i'm being real w/myself.
― omar little, Monday, 27 January 2020 17:49 (four years ago) link
you'll remember pete when the west wind moves upon the fields of kobe
― zuck zuck lucify (Sufjan Grafton), Monday, 27 January 2020 17:58 (four years ago) link
I decided to search Buttigieg sportsball to reinforce the stan hypothesis and came across a tweet so cringeworthy that I hesitate to post it because I don't want traffic linking back to here but I also feel like I have to share it because it has to be read to be believed:
twitter.com/SoReasonable/status/1218506379205529601
― totally unnecessary bewbz of exploitation (DJP), Monday, 27 January 2020 18:05 (four years ago) link
When that happens they will inevitably learn the truth about circumcision. #Pete2020
https://media.giphy.com/media/uOW1f99Beb2q4/giphy.gif
― omar little, Monday, 27 January 2020 18:07 (four years ago) link
feeling very privileged to not know what the truth could be. the foreskin is actually still there?
― zuck zuck lucify (Sufjan Grafton), Monday, 27 January 2020 18:12 (four years ago) link
sorry i missed that the entire twitter conversation there was about circumcision
― omar little, Monday, 27 January 2020 18:13 (four years ago) link
they actually add more?
― zuck zuck lucify (Sufjan Grafton), Monday, 27 January 2020 18:13 (four years ago) link
The fuck is this bullshit in the hoops thread?
― (•̪●) (carne asada), Monday, 27 January 2020 18:15 (four years ago) link
fyi it began with a tweet embed
― zuck zuck lucify (Sufjan Grafton), Monday, 27 January 2020 18:16 (four years ago) link
ban tweets
― totally unnecessary bewbz of exploitation (DJP), Monday, 27 January 2020 18:22 (four years ago) link