⭐ OFFICIAL 2020-2021 NBA Off-Season Thread: Olympics begin 7/23; NBA Draft 7/29⭐

[DCAllAfrican]

DCAllAfrican it irks me when kids don’t watch basketball. I let them know. Don’t come workout with me and you don’t have the nba app on your phone

I don't even fight that battle anymore.

I force them to watch it with me.

I gave up that fight almost 10 years ago man.

 

[BIG LEEMELONE]

It's not my place to figure out what anthony edwards was thinking

 

[addict4sneakers]

Ant man is 19. Let say he gave up baseball at 15. What was A ROD doing in 2016 worth talking about to a 15 year old with limited interest in baseball?

You think Spencer rattler knows who joe Johnson is?

 

[firstclass]

Kai going for 40 on thotbull head amitt5504

#1 seed secured

 

[EZMONEY SERVANT]

time for some Alize

 

[getback]

I think Edwards was trolling. He came out and said he was an MLB caliber short stop, center fielder and pitcher. Don't think both can be true. So he's lying one way or another.

 

[lawdog1]

In this situation, why are you assuming JLO/AROD relationship status is even coming across HIS table?

What do you think he is doing/watching that THAT info is so irresistible to his world? As if he can't move around without knowing of them.

Again, yall REALLY overestimate what kids consume and are even exposed to.

He is 19/20.

I have a fifteen year old son who is constantly on the Internet. He knows of a lot of things and people who don’t relate directly to the things he’s most interested in.

Why are you assuming that Anthony Edwards doesn’t pay attention to anything that isn’t perceived as relevant to 19 and 20 year olds?

 

[addict4sneakers]

I think Edwards was trolling. He came out and said he was an MLB caliber short stop, center fielder and pitcher. Don't think both can be true. So he's lying one way or another.

he had like top 1% physical measurements of all NBA players ever. I don’t doubt what he could have done as an athlete. Baseball is more than athleticism, I know

 

[DCAllAfrican]

I have a fifteen year old son who is constantly on the Internet. He knows of a lot of things and people who don’t relate directly to the things he’s most interested in.

Why are you assuming that Anthony Edwards doesn’t pay attention to anything that isn’t perceived as relevant to 19 and 20 year olds?

I am assuming that AE doesn't know AROD.

Why? He told me so.

Your son isn't AE.

If your son didn't know a random famous 50 year old has-been, I would completely understand why.

This issue here is YALL find it hard to believe a CHILD doesn't know what yall think he should know.

Guess what? He doesn't so there HAS to be a reason why.

 

[tomdiginson]

I coach kids that don't watch BASKETBALL.

AE said he played baseball.

When he said he didn't know anything about it, I took it as him not knowing the MLB.

Fair enough, but I still think he's trolling. However, I don't know him personally, so it could be the total opposite.

 

[getback]

he had like top 1% physical measurements of all NBA players ever. I don’t doubt what he could have done as an athlete. Baseball is more than athleticism, I know

If he was an MLB prospect, he'd know who A-Rod is.

 

[addict4sneakers]

If he was an MLB prospect, he'd know who A-Rod is.

this isn’t true though. He just found Steph curry was really like that. It’s not far fetched for him not to know about a Rod

 

[DCAllAfrican]

If he was an MLB prospect, he'd know who A-Rod is.

Precious Achiuwa didn't know who James Worthy was.

How do you explain that.

 

[addict4sneakers]

Gilbert arenas said he didn’t know college all Americans were while he was in college

 

[DCAllAfrican]

If he was an MLB prospect, he'd know who A-Rod is.

Mark Price coached players @ Charlotte that didn't know who he was outside of playing NBA 2K.

How do you explain that

 

[lawdog1]

I am assuming that AE doesn't know AROD.

Why? He told me so.

Your son isn't AE.

If your son didn't know a random famous 50 year old has-been, I would completely understand why.

This issue here is YALL find it hard to believe a CHILD doesn't know what yall think he should know.

Guess what? He doesn't so there HAS to be a reason why.

You generalized about what he would and wouldn’t know well beyond just A Rod, but ok.

You are free to believe him unequivocally and I’m free to have my doubts.

 

[lawdog1]

Gilbert arenas said he didn’t know college all Americans were while he was in college

And Gilbert is a known, admitted troll.

 

[addict4sneakers]

And Gilbert is a known, admitted troll.

Not knowing who someone is = trolling?

 

[lawdog1]

Not knowing who someone is = trolling?

Absolutely could be. Yes.

 

[dman14]

 

[getback]

Precious Achiuwa didn't know who James Worthy was.

How do you explain that.

I don't know. But JW is like 60 and hasn't played in 27 years. Precious didn't even start playing basketball until he moved to the US in the 8th grade.

A-Rod is a household name in baseball, one of the greatest hitters of all time, played AE's position, played for the Yankees, retired 5 years ago, is an ESPN analyst and Sunday Night Baseball commentator and beyond that is pretty much a celebrity. If you're a MLB caliber shortstop, you know who Alex Rodriguez is.

 

[DCAllAfrican]

Some of yall are speaking from the perspective of older men.

Why would being an analyst on baseball tonight increase his relevance to someone.....nvm.

I tap out.

 

[lawdog1]

Some of yall are speaking from the perspective of older men.

Why would being an analyst on baseball tonight increase his relevance to someone.....nvm.

I tap out.

Let me ask you a question - when you were in your teens had you heard of any pro athletes, actors, singers, etc. who had been retired for a while and/or were old?

 

[akajae]

he tapped out. leave him be. please. pretty please.

 

[addict4sneakers]

Let me ask you a question - when you were in your teens had you heard of any pro athletes, actors, singers, etc. who had been retired for a while and/or were old?

Depends on who is relevant to me? DMX? Yes. I never heard of Robert Downey until iron man