2021 NBA OFFSEASON THREAD: Media Day...SHENANIGANS

[HOU$TON]

Also...did Morey ruin Houston? Or did James Harden run CP out of town and force the team to bring his friend in...all going downhill from there?

Morey, harden, Tillman and Cp3 played different roles in ending the rockets

 

[HIM]

NBA going full NFL with the antivaxxer stuff. Might be worse than the NFL tbh


Cancel the season

 

[elpablo21]

 

[pmatic]

Jonathan Isaac in that article is something else.

 

[VARNELL HILL]

Still bears some responsibility as GM of the team. Prioritizing your stars stats and fraud coaches gimmicks over building a solid winner for years to come isn't hardens fault.

Those "gimmicks" seemed to work against everyone but the same Golden State Warriors team that "ruined the NBA". TWICE. And then they traded CP3 for Westbrook at the request of their star player that jumped ship a year later.

 

[wavycrocket]

 

[elpablo21]

Irving, who serves as a vice president on the executive committee of the players’ union, recently started following and liking Instagram posts from a conspiracy theorist who claims that “secret societies” are implanting vaccines in a plot to connect Black people to a master computer for “a plan of Satan.”

 

[antidope]

Multiple players who won't be seeing another NBA contract after this one. Feels like that will be the response. Who's gonna want to be the team that paid Andrew Wiggins after this?

 

[dacomeup]

Kyrie and Isaac being the dynamic anti-vax and conspiracy theory duo

 

[wavycrocket]

Kyrie and Isaac being the dynamic anti-vax and conspiracy theory duo

its so on the nose, considering their “leanings”

 

[lawdog1]

Here's my conspiracy theory: Kyrie isn't really anti-vax, he just doesn't want to hoop anymore and is going to use this to retire as a conscientious objector.

 

[ballinsam23]

Kyrie got a chip, multiple all stars, multiple contracts. I really don’t think he cares anymore.

 

[Zo gif]

Im old enough to remember most antivaxxers were only middle aged white women.

 

[dacomeup]

Im old enough to remember most antivaxxers were only middle aged white women.

Never ever heard this take

 

[lawdog1]

The NBA's Anti-Vaxxers Are Trying to Push Around the League -- And It's Working

The NBA is struggling to contend with a significant subset of players who are refusing to get vaccinated against Covid-19.

www.rollingstone.com

KAJ has no time for the anti-vax crowd.

 

[lynchpin33]

It can’t still be an honor to speak with MJ for Steph. Steph’s dad does commentary for the Hornets. It has to have been multiple convos over the years at this point to be numb to it.

 

[reconic supreme]

 

[Blue Mamba]

The first game Ben Simmons plays at Philly is going to be something else

 

[lawdog1]

I know I’m white, and I know that the US has a terrible history with vaccinations and people or color, but really? The COVID vaccine is what made Issac decide to study black history?

 

[wavycrocket]

It can’t still be an honor to speak with MJ for Steph. Steph’s dad does commentary for the Hornets. It has to have been multiple convos over the years at this point to be numb to it.

Bro what?!

 

[VARNELL HILL]

As Black Americans continue to get vaccinated at a slower rate than any other race or ethnicity measured by the CDC, Abdul-Jabbar says that players who remain silent about the vaccine are no longer legitimate role models.

“They are failing to live up to the responsibilities that come with celebrity. Athletes are under no obligation to be spokespersons for the government, but this is a matter of public health,” the Hall-of-Famer writes Rolling Stone in an e-mail. Abdul-Jabbar is especially disappointed in athletes of color: “By not encouraging their people to get the vaccine, they’re contributing to these deaths. I’m also concerned about how this perpetuates the stereotype of dumb jocks who are unable to look at verified scientific evidence and reach a rational conclusion.”

 

[elpablo21]

aepps20 we gotta get our brother Isaac on a CPAC panel soon!

 

[Blue Mamba]

 

[wavycrocket]

When he did that “I stand for the flag” ****, I had it .

Prolly one of my favorite/players prospects in a long time too. The white evangelical indoctrination of him is strong. **** sad, cuz a lot of it comes from this…and is an extension. Ain’t even study his real history

 

[firstclass]

Monday is gonna be insane

Kai about to get there saying dumb **** just to retract it 48 hours later