the bubble sounds good to me too. disney world is really nice!
― call all destroyer, Saturday, 13 June 2020 18:22 (three years ago) link
Welcome to Apocalypse 2020 where billionaires reap the lion's share and millionaires fight for future endorsement deals by playing games in an impervious disneyworld bubble WHILE THE WORLD BURNS?!?!?!?
Anyways, I'm sticking to the same point I made yesterday and that jordan fleshed out further: if they're going to do this, it would be a good look for the players to use this opportunity as leverage to nudge the NBA platform to being explicitly supportive of police defunding/abolition and, i dunno, deposing neo-fascists.
Separate from all that and apropos of nothing, watching the backy ball would be a deeply fun distraction and i would dearly like to finish the season. So I'm torn.
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Saturday, 13 June 2020 18:49 (three years ago) link
I don’t think the NBA needs to endorse police abolition
― Matt Armstrong, Saturday, 13 June 2020 19:40 (three years ago) link
i still think they should abandon 2020 and focus on making sure next season happens smoothly but seems like they've gone too far down a different route at this point
― ciderpress, Saturday, 13 June 2020 19:55 (three years ago) link
this is prob a warm up for next season tho
― lag∞n, Sunday, 14 June 2020 01:12 (three years ago) link
nudge the NBA platform to being explicitly supportive of police defunding/abolition and, i dunno, deposing neo-fascists.
consider who owns the NBA platform: billionaires, including not so long ago, Donald Sterling. the best I would expect would be a feel good message about how everyone deserves equal treatment and justice under the law, underlined by some less controversial quotes from MLK, Jr.
― A is for (Aimless), Sunday, 14 June 2020 01:41 (three years ago) link
suspect theyre gonna have to do a little better than that this time
― lag∞n, Sunday, 14 June 2020 01:53 (three years ago) link
i mean weve got candy bars saying black lives matter these days
― lag∞n, Sunday, 14 June 2020 01:54 (three years ago) link
weve got candy bars saying black lives matter
The owners would have to figure out whether letting the NBA logo appear on PSAs where players say "black lives matter" would be construed as the league endorsing Black Lives Matter. I think owners like Dolan would shrink violently from anything that looked like endorsing BLM.
― A is for (Aimless), Sunday, 14 June 2020 02:02 (three years ago) link
make pop commish
― Clay, Sunday, 14 June 2020 02:02 (three years ago) link
he'd hate it
― A is for (Aimless), Sunday, 14 June 2020 02:05 (three years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xfkM5CHGrdk
if anyone didn't hear this well i thought this was Good
― Clay, Sunday, 14 June 2020 12:03 (three years ago) link
https://www.gq.com/story/damian-lillard-black-lives-matter-george-floyd-interview
this is also very good
― Clay, Sunday, 14 June 2020 12:06 (three years ago) link
Hoopers say what y’all want. If @KingJames said he hooping. We all hooping. Not Personal only BUSINESS🙏🏾🙏🏾🙏🏾 🙏🏾 #StayWoke ✊🏿✊🏿✊🏿— Patrick Beverley (@patbev21) June 14, 2020
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Monday, 15 June 2020 17:48 (three years ago) link
i mean, he's not wrong
― J0rdan S., Monday, 15 June 2020 18:36 (three years ago) link
I do think letting the stars decide is the way to go
― Matt Armstrong, Monday, 15 June 2020 19:38 (three years ago) link
well it's sorta the reality one way or anothe r
― J0rdan S., Monday, 15 June 2020 20:16 (three years ago) link
what the
Stephen A Smith compares what Kyrie Irving and Dwight Howard are doing to rioting and destroying their own community Max Kellerman "Rioting in their own communities? Black people don't own those communities" pic.twitter.com/YQXquGkDXm— gifdsports (@gifdsports) June 15, 2020
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Monday, 15 June 2020 22:27 (three years ago) link
kellerman's been about the shit on the espn
― methinks dababy doth bop shit too much (m bison), Monday, 15 June 2020 22:42 (three years ago) link
jesus christ
― circles, Tuesday, 16 June 2020 00:01 (three years ago) link
SAS is a fucking clown and always has been. if he gets canceled yesterday it’d have been too late
― k3vin k., Tuesday, 16 June 2020 00:17 (three years ago) link
lol the look on his face he thought he had a layup won that tired old play
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 16 June 2020 00:19 (three years ago) link
― k3vin k., Monday, June 15, 2020 8:17 PM (twenty-seven minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink
otm, i have no idea why anyone even pays attention to what these guys say
― call all destroyer, Tuesday, 16 June 2020 00:46 (three years ago) link
i think he's entertaining enough in bite size clips here or there. no reason to take him seriously or watch him daily though.
― Spottie, Tuesday, 16 June 2020 00:52 (three years ago) link
he's very deferential to power... he's also very funny
― J0rdan S., Tuesday, 16 June 2020 00:54 (three years ago) link
the Drew Magary profile of him was great, I think it did a great job of getting to the essence of Stephen A Smith
fwiw I kinda love the guy even though he's wrong about basically everything. I cringe whenever he talks about any non-sports stuff b/c I know he's gonna say something terrible
― frogbs, Tuesday, 16 June 2020 01:06 (three years ago) link
It’s really funny when Stephen a smith talks football and thinks a retired player is starting that Sunday at tight end
― Matt Armstrong, Tuesday, 16 June 2020 02:26 (three years ago) link
J0rdan S.Posted: June 15, 2020 at 4:16:25 PMwell it's sorta the reality one way or anothe rwld be interested in hearing about how star players came to wield so much power union wise
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 16 June 2020 14:18 (three years ago) link
The NBA has long presented itself as a league of star players, not a league of teams. Their influence with fans gives them leverage with owners, their leverage with owners gives them pre-eminence in the union.
― A is for (Aimless), Tuesday, 16 June 2020 18:08 (three years ago) link
idk if that really scans
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 16 June 2020 18:10 (three years ago) link
i mean i guess marginal players cld be sucking up to stars to get jobs but that seems more like an edge case
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 16 June 2020 18:12 (three years ago) link
like most personnel decisions arent influenced by stars, and most players arent stars but also not end of the bench guys in danger of falling out of the league if some star doesnt cosign them
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 16 June 2020 18:14 (three years ago) link
breaking
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― lag∞n, Tuesday, 16 June 2020 22:48 (three years ago) link
stars bring in the money. having an outsized effect on the league's profitability gives them outsized power.
― A is for (Aimless), Tuesday, 16 June 2020 23:02 (three years ago) link
yeah but in a union where everyone gets a vote whats the mechanism of that power
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 16 June 2020 23:06 (three years ago) link
kyrie reeeeally trying to disrupt things
In a recent chat group with Nets players, Kyrie Irving lobbied for skipping the bubble, the Daily News has learned. In that chat, he also proposed that the players can start their own league, according to a source. https://t.co/SqC0wcccPJ— Stefan Bondy (@SBondyNYDN) June 16, 2020
― Spottie, Tuesday, 16 June 2020 23:12 (three years ago) link
players league! players league!
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 16 June 2020 23:14 (three years ago) link
I’ve noticed that amongst some of my more out there friends that lockdown has really sharpened a lot of their edges, so if that holds true this scans
― Clay, Tuesday, 16 June 2020 23:16 (three years ago) link
by which I mean kyrie learning really hard into his antisocial shit
― Clay, Tuesday, 16 June 2020 23:17 (three years ago) link
yeah makes sense
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 16 June 2020 23:17 (three years ago) link
(only downside of the players league is i suspect the nba is actually a great deal for the players but still i want to see it)
when I game it out in my head the owners band together and spend billions to squash it, just lock them out of every stadium and gym in the country and bribe every city
― Clay, Tuesday, 16 June 2020 23:18 (three years ago) link
i think someone wld take the players money
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 16 June 2020 23:21 (three years ago) link
whats the mechanism of that power
in a nutshell, the pecking order. nba athletes are very aware of it. visibly setting yourself up in opposition to what the top players want and failing to rally enough support is a dangerous career move in a league that's as status-conscious as the NBA. only a very secure player would hazard it.
― A is for (Aimless), Tuesday, 16 June 2020 23:21 (three years ago) link
idk man
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 16 June 2020 23:22 (three years ago) link
i mean the gms hire players not the other players
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 16 June 2020 23:24 (three years ago) link
*except for lebron obvs
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 16 June 2020 23:25 (three years ago) link
which isnt to say the stars dont have some influence on their teams personnel decisions but just going along w what the stars want in detriment to yr own interests doesnt make a ton of sense
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 16 June 2020 23:27 (three years ago) link
i think the stars are maybe more organized cause they tend to stay in the league longer, they form a block and stack the union leadership etc in their favor, then peel off enough rank and file with glow/intimidation and it kinda makes sense
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 16 June 2020 23:30 (three years ago) link
use Tidal as a model and promise only high quality play in the new league. Could make a convincing A/B reel from kyrie's last celtic season alone.
― voltmeter said i had potential (Sufjan Grafton), Wednesday, 17 June 2020 00:46 (three years ago) link