2021-22 NBA "REGULAR" SEASON THREAD

reading that article every allegation is met with a denial like i would never do that im a nice and respectful boy then finally hes all ok fine i did pants that one guy in front of everyone

the fact that they got a quote from a suns co owner makes me think that this is part of a serious push to get him out of there

guess theres not enough here to out him outright? think they players or the fans will have to revolt or something

yeah this does not feel like a bombshell investigative piece to me but sarver is clearly a shitty dude and a bad owner and there is definitely some sort of scheme to oust him that is not based on nothing

the steve kerr quote really stands out in that article…wonder if he wishes he just said “no comment” now

yeah agree re the kerr comment. he couldve even said in my experience with him and left it open to the possibility of him being a pos.

one things for sure, earl watson... not a sarver fan

i'm curious about the kerr/sarver relationship

also james jones - obv he's still there so a lot more motivation to tow the party line, but both his and kerr's statements are pretty strong

cp3 is one of the most powerful players in the league it will be interesting to see his reaction to this. i don’t think that this story is enough to remove sarver as an owner — they mention in the story how difficult it is?— but if a lot of powerful players put pressure on the NBA publicly maybe silver would try and move on him

i agree tho that the co owner aspect is very telling

this story is also a good reminder that you can hire black coaches and GMs for racist reasons

I thought that was one of the weakest parts of the story actually — how it paraphrased sarver as wanting to hire a black coach who could “speak the players’ language.” obviously how that sentiment is conveyed will mean everything, but the way it was presented in the story made it seem pretty innocuous, essentially the standard neoliberal diversity mantra

the most depressing aspect of the story for me is that even if Sarver is forced out, he'd also cash out at near the team's peak value and be able to pocket hundreds of millions in capital gains.

obviously how that sentiment is conveyed will mean everything

I should add that I don’t exactly trust that sarver had the best intentions

well, to be clear, here is how that sentiment was (allegedly) conveyed:

"These [N-words] need a [N-word]," Sarver told the staffer of his largely Black team, according to the executive.

um ok apparently I completely glossed over that? retracted

that was in reference to lindsey hunter vs dan majerle & not earl watson — nonetheless

in other news, this team is decrepit as hell

New story: LeBron James is out with an abdominal strain. While no timeline for his return has been provided by the Lakers, a source familiar with the injury told ESPN that the team's medical staff "wants to take their time" with James' recovery https://t.co/2Gv9cMhXvH

— Dave McMenamin (@mcten) November 4, 2021

seems like that sarver story got held up so that he/his lawyers could rebut and deny as much as possible once it was leaked that it was happening?

he's a scumbag but i'm not really sure i'm seeing the angle that ends up with him selling the team.

😬 Not worried but my radar is up. pic.twitter.com/o6NTMBhPvp

— Yaya Dubin (@JADubin5) November 4, 2021

xp

i guess ankle vs ab is different but lebron was allegedly healthy going into the playoffs last year and looked like a shell of himself

seems like that sarver story got held up so that he/his lawyers could rebut and deny as much as possible once it was leaked that it was happening?

he's a scumbag but i'm not really sure i'm seeing the angle that ends up with him selling the team.

― call all destroyer, Thursday, November 4, 2021 3:13 PM (nine minutes ago)

i feel like it's going to come down to public pressure and whether that will get him to step away. if he wants to be litigious about it i question whether there is enough there to forcibly remove him

watching a woj thing just now and he mentioned the hawks owner who had to sell the team after his racist email leaked and floated the idea that some sort of hard evidence might be turned up in investigating sarver. (or maybe not, if no one leaked anything to baxter holmes.) the levinson thing also happened months after sarver so maybe that timing was an important factor

the article said it was hard for the co owners of the suns to remove him but im not sure what the leagues options are, maybe the rest of the owners can just vote that he violated some conduct clause and make him sell, they got sterling out of there fast iirc

but the threat of deep public humiliation via investigation might be more relevant at this point

sarver seems particularly intransigent but yeah there may be more evidence or he may just not want to deal with it, good luck predicting anything with these types of guys.

i mean if he uses email hes basically fucked

all the owners have dirt they dont want to sell eachother out i bet

yeah im sure they dont want to but there is a point at which they will

cuban/mavs gonna avoid this one like the plague

lol yeah

typography is my passion

The NBA is expected to soon launch an investigation into the allegations reported today by ESPN’s @baxter Holmes against Suns majority owner Robert Sarver … and Sarver just issued a statement in response that closes by essentially acknowledging an investigation is forthcoming: pic.twitter.com/xJswSUl3vR

— Marc Stein (@TheSteinLine) November 4, 2021

sarver welcoming an NBA investigation has some real “what are you gonna do, stab me?” vibes to it

xp me when i change the font size but forget to change the line space size in photoshop

pretty funny that watson called him toxic and he yelled back im not toxic youre fucking toxic now he cant stop saying the word toxic

hes mad about that hes all i may have my faults but one thing im not is toxic thats going too far man

dude can't figure out spacing on the court or in his public statements

“i cannot believe all the inaccurate reporting in baxter holmes’ story… except when randomly i asked taylor griffin if he shaves his balls. i did do that.”

The n-word is not part of my vocabulary. I have never called anyone or any group of people the n-word

Google translate: I'm absolutely certain there aren't any emails, tapes or videos out there. At least I sure fucking hope so.

“i cannot believe all the inaccurate reporting in baxter holmes’ story… except when randomly i asked taylor griffin if he shaves his balls. i did do that.”

― J0rdan S., Thursday, November 4, 2021 1:46 PM (twenty-eight minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

plus panced the guy but whoops i soon after realized that was maybe not good

theres gotta be an earl watson interview coming on espn right?

i play pickup ball with a guy who worked for the suns for the last 22 years and was just canned during a round of layoffs during the pandemic. hoping to get some inside dirt from him. he said hes dealt with sarvr a lot

the part about trying to invite strippers to get impregnated so they'd stay in Phoenix is such a Nathan Fielder-level idea

pic.twitter.com/9ttEAtbeUx

— Earl J Watson (@Earl_Watson) November 4, 2021

^ great statement from Watson, but I gritted my teeth at "fulsomely". he should've searched it before hitting send.

Sixers are up on the Pistons midway through the 2nd. Embiid has 0 points and they are missing 3 of 5 starters. Pistons might be bad.

sixers have been on a real roll shorthanded tho

beyond hideous basketball between the heat & celts tonight. legit setting basketball back like 60 years

they should just stop counting the turnovers at this point

smart got a tech from the bench lol

marcus, respectfully, stfu

Duncan Robinson is having a shooting slump too. What did they do to that damn ball?