2022 NBA Offseason Thread: Preseason kicks off; Things are fine in Los Angeles, Draymond beats the charges

[aepps20]

I can't lie, I used to laugh at his antics

I remember when he was acting like Ninja's publicist in the Political Thread

Say anything about dude he would come running. I think I remember him posting dude's inseam one time.

Then aepps20 would mock his post. Comedy gold

Then he would post da Sean Michaels gif for me but the irony was lost on him.

 

[Vincent Van Goat]

Definitely feel like Durant would consider Portland

 

[Based Jesus]

If KD left Steph just to join up with Dollar Tree Steph the jokes should never end

 

[antidope]

Legit serious question. Is Miles Bridges from the trenches? I never realize the anti Miles Bridges rapping was so loud until the whole posting Lean thing happen and I can't really understand why.

BabyTron too. No clue.

 

[smedroc]

Legit serious question. Is Miles Bridges from the trenches? I never realize the anti Miles Bridges rapping was so loud until the whole posting Lean thing happen and I can't really understand why.

I think people have issue with him leaning too far into the rap ****.

Like at the end of the season he tweeted something about him putting out the hardest tape of the summer.

Athletes putting out music is cute and all but let's relax.

 

[VARNELL HILL]

Legit serious question. Is Miles Bridges from the trenches? I never realize the anti Miles Bridges rapping was so loud until the whole posting Lean thing happen and I can't really understand why.

BabyTron too. No clue.

Right. Nobody knows **** about Miles Bridges other than the fact he's from Flint

We know nothing else about him in detail to determine what kind of circumstances he came from.

 

[antidope]

Right. Nobody knows **** about Miles Bridges other than the fact he's from Flint

We know nothing else about him in detail to determine what kind of circumstances he came from.

Yeah man I am lost. Legit puzzled when this really became a thing what people were basing it off cause I couldn't find anything that spoke one way or the other.

 

[addict4sneakers]

Trenches or the burbs he was wilding posting that alleged cup of lean.

I don’t care if he raps all summer.

 

[frshstunna]

Legit serious question. Is Miles Bridges from the trenches? I never realize the anti Miles Bridges rapping was so loud until the whole posting Lean thing happen and I can't really understand why.

BabyTron too. No clue.

Ppl think he really living what he raps about

But yo really made a list of dudes from the “trenches” based on pure surface level stuff …Karl Kuzma reps Flint too but yo wasn’t on that list, I wonder why

 

[picasso swerve]

It’s crazy that Evans won ROY that year.

I was rooting heavy for dude to do well in the league and it just never happened.

His hoopmixtape vids.

 

[fac3 tak30v312]

Definitely a lot of truth to the narrative from seeing the change through the yrs, back then it was way more hood cats that made it from your Iversons, D. Miles, Sheed, Z-bo, Marbury, Eddie Griffin, Rodney White, DerMarr Johnson, Artest, Dajuan Wagner, D Rose, John Wall, Tyreke Evans, Stephen Jackson, Caron Butler etc. Can go on and on, either that or they were country/rural areas like Michael Jordan, Karl Malone. A lot closer to NFL non QB demo. It's been trending to 2nd gen NBA players, or their parents played pro basketball in some overseas league. Or their dad played pro sport in something else like Shane Larkin, Vernon Carey Jr. etc. One or both parents played a pro sport at some level basically. This is for the American landscape, now the rest are coming from Canada, France, the former Yugoslavia nations etc.

Just look at how these recent yrs Ballislife and those other platforms do those videos visiting their cribs and you see how they living in gated communities and nice houses and all that, Mikey Williams, Amari Bailey etc. They wouldn't be doing visits to the projects and section 8 apt complexes that the players from the past lived in. Basketball is no longer a lower income sport in America, its been gentrified. I think the John Wall draft might've been the last yr before the shift really became noticeable

Feel it’s moreso a byproduct of the monetizing of the lower levels of basketball. A couple of the players you posted has other family members that played either pro or semi pro sports. For example Marbury’s brothers got him better coaching from an earlier age.

There were actually a couple of coaches like that, who would cut you for an ex teammate son so they could get more reps.

Then now you gotta also understand this is the era of out of wedlock kids. Baby mamma sons growing up. Another example is Paul George. I’m sure his kids if they choose to play sports will get better training just because of who their father is

 

[osh kosh bosh]

 

[frshstunna]

I was rooting heavy for dude to do well in the league and it just never happened.

His hoopmixtape vids.

Reke was on his way, just peaked too early and had too much off the court stuff going on

20/5/5 as a rookie was a great start tho

 

[pmatic]

I found out today that the chef Rick Bayless is the brother of Skip Bayless

Da ****

I never put it together.

Damb, i remember Rick from Top Chef...never made the connection though

 

[VARNELL HILL]

Reke wilding to the max off the floor.

 

[had pants]

 

[lynchpin33]

1.) That was a classic. That was the pinnacle of my youth, and I think that a lot of these shows owe their success to Rome.
2.) Jim Everette was a g in my eyes that moment going forward. In my eyes, he did nothing wrong.

Remember this as well. Rome was on LeBatard talking about this and among other things, he said they have not seen each other since this day and they have been pretty much been living in the same neighborhood for years and have never bumped into each other.

 

[Xennial]

Gentrified? We are still 70% of the NBA. now everyone isn’t coming from tough backgrounds. And that’s a good thing.

Gentrified doesn't necessarily mean race, i'm talking economic backgrounds. Even if we're talking white American players guys like White Chocolate and Birdman came from low economic backgrounds. This was all done by design, I been seen the shift when Stern implemented the dress code in the NBA, went from the era of Iverson being the popular player for kids to Curry being it. All the stats point towards majority of these basketball prospects in America being from upper middle class and up economic backgrounds now just like Soccer, Baseball, Hockey here. Out of the 5 mainstream team sports in America the only 1 left where hood kids still make it at a high clip is football besides the QB position unless you're just an athletic phenom like a Mike Vick.

 

[lynchpin33]

Didn’t Dwight find out he got traded to Charlotte doing something similar years ago and stopped the stream immediately?

 

[Xennial]

Xennial has BEEN a strange dude. Remember, he always talks about measurements and size, like a slave owner on an auction or something

Buddy super strange

you're speaking as if physical measurements aren't an integral element for athletes across pretty much every sport

 

[lynchpin33]

This Grizzlies team talks too much. One over achieving year and they think they’re hot ****. Give me the Conley-Tony Allen-Zbo-Gasol team over this any day.

You talking about the team where Tony Allen was going to get revenge on the Warriors for having Bogut “guard” him by leaving him wide open? And disrespecting his jump shot? And changing that series completely?
Also, had Marc Gasol playing point guard when Conley got hurt or went to the bench because they had no backup PG.

If so, I’ll take the current Grizzlies.

 

[getback]

I can't lie, I used to laugh at his antics. Very suspect but still ridiculous

I remember when he was acting like Ninja's publicist in the Political Thread

Say anything about dude he would come running. I think I remember him posting dude's inseam one time.

Then aepps20 would mock his post. Comedy gold

Ninja’s publicist

 

[Vincent Van Goat]

 

[addict4sneakers]

Gentrified doesn't necessarily mean race, i'm talking economic backgrounds. Even if we're talking white American players guys like White Chocolate and Birdman came from low economic backgrounds. This was all done by design, I been seen the shift when Stern implemented the dress code in the NBA, went from the era of Iverson being the popular player for kids to Curry being it. All the stats point towards majority of these basketball prospects in America being from upper middle class and up economic backgrounds now just like Soccer, Baseball, Hockey here. Out of the 5 mainstream team sports in America the only 1 left where hood kids still make it at a high clip is football besides the QB position unless you're just an athletic phenom like a Mike Vick.

Can’t agree with any of this. It’s less dudes coming from rough backgrounds because our economic standing has improved over the last 30-40 years. That should be applauded. The game is still the game. poor kids have the same opportunities middle class kids do. When you’re nice in elementary school, someone looks out for you. You don’t pay for anything on a traveling team regardless of how much your parents have. That’s how you get noticed. Kids with all the economic advantages in the world don’t make it everyday, B. Look at shareef O’Neal.

I know dudes that hooped their way out of the hood into the NBA. I know dudes that come from good homes that hooped their way into the NBA. The game doesn’t care about your background. If you got it, you’ll get there.

 

[finessence]

Just wish we’d stop equating, being from the hood = hard, tough, etc and being from the suburbs = soft

I know plenty dudes from the hood who ran from fights, and I know plenty of dudes from the suburbs/great homes who will stand in the paint and throw hands with no hesitation…

Being from the “trenches” does not automatically make you tough