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

[ill steelo]

Saw this earlier too:


Not sure why you even entertain that meeting aside from a free meal when Bam is ineligible, Jimmy is off the table and Herro only brings back like $6MM in salary this year with a brazy extension on the way

Will be interesting to see how this ends.

Miami has nothing to offer, Ayton about to sign an offer sheet killing the Suns offer but even if they could include him in the trade I don’t think Phoenix accomplishes anything with CP/Book/KD & nothing else. Nobody doing dirty work on the wings or in the paint.

Pelicans offer with BI, Herb, & the rook they just drafted is as good as it gets…. For everyone involved.

 

[antidope]

Lose your most important development guy during a rebuild.

 

[Mark Antony]

Man stop posting this joint, I can't take it.

I mean keep posting her of course.

 

[Maximus Meridius]

I actually feel bad for Russ because he's from there, wants to be there, was originally accepted with open arms and now it seems like the fans and the team are both wiping their hands of dude and kicking him to the curb first chance they get.

Gotta be sarcasm

 

[noblekane]

Aight I **** with ray Allen ***** *** now

ehh i remember when ray allen was lebron's thot practically begging for him to sign him to his team when noone else would.

 

[pmatic]

 

[smedroc]

KD really getting traded for Beyblade and Thad Young.

 

[lovehateself]

I actually feel bad for Russ because he's from there, wants to be there, was originally accepted with open arms and now it seems like the fans and the team are both wiping their hands of dude and kicking him to the curb first chance they get.

i wonder if he never dreamt of playing in the cba

 

[wavycrocket]

This what happens when sports networks fully devolved into the hot takes culture, and SOURCE information from social media.

They be desperate for content. Mining the lowest of the low. Eventually, you going to scoop up trash bottom feeders.

 

[rolaholic]

Will be interesting to see how this ends.

Miami has nothing to offer, Ayton about to sign an offer sheet killing the Suns offer but even if they could include him in the trade I don’t think Phoenix accomplishes anything with CP/Book/KD & nothing else. Nobody doing dirty work on the wings or in the paint.

Pelicans offer with BI, Herb, & the rook they just drafted is as good as it gets…. For everyone involved.

 

[danikerhino]

 

[6pac]

 

[storm2006]

This what happens when sports networks fully devolved into the hot takes culture, and SOURCE information from social media.

They be desperate for content. Mining the lowest of the low. Eventually, you going to scoop up trash bottom feeders.

What is most shocking to me is that ESPN didn not eem source it from Ballsack Sports. They sourced it from BLEACHER REPORT, a legitimate outlet, who sourced it from Ballsack. Inception-level misinformation.

I do not know how, but this has to be stopped. I can avoid Ballsack and tell which accounts are suspect on Twitter by the eye tests. However, fake sources, with large followings at that, getting picked up by reputable sources and national platforms is problematic. Especially now that it is happening at a greater frequency

 

[pmatic]

ESPN interns gotta get fired over this.

 

[antidope]

ESPN is 100% doing this on purpose now. Sad man. Real sad.

 

[lawdog1]

ESPN is 100% doing this on purpose now. Sad man. Real sad.

ESPN has been trash for a while. I haven't watched any ESPN programming other than NBA broadcasts for years now and, over the last couple years, mostly stopped watching the pre-game and halftime shows of those.

 

[storm2006]

I was wondering if it was intentional too but I wanted to give Jacoby and even Perk, the benefit of the doubt. Espousing a hot take that you do not believe in for the sake of debate or shock value is one thing because it is merely an opinion. Peddling a falsehood to the masses that defames or undermines the character of someone else is completely different and totally unacceptable.

Intentional or not, this is low, even for ESPN

 

[MajinZuub]

ESPN abandoned journalism awhile ago

Hate how they underutilize talent like Bomani and Foxworth

 

[datznasty]

pmatic i was today years old when I learned that Jeremiah Robinson Earl on the Thunder is Lester Earl’s son

 

[703 hwy]

Morant isn’t a superstar, Dame isn’t a superstar, and Trae isn’t a superstar.. But even still Jordan played against other superstar players

 

[nick.]

Paolo ducking Chet

 

[storm2006]

ESPN abandoned journalism awhile ago

Hate how they underutilize talent like Bomani and Foxworth

Absolutely. I recognize that and acknowledge it whenever it is on. But in those instances I am not even looking for E:60 or Outside The Lines type of content. Is it too much to ask for the truth or some got damb fact checking. Bothers me that people will just run with it and formulate an opinion on Ja or his contemporaries based on a fallacy. Just see below:

Morant isn’t a superstar, Dame isn’t a superstar, and Trae isn’t a superstar.. But even still Jordan played against other superstar players

 

[had pants]

 

[dman14]

espn leans into that sports entertainment aspect. hot take culture
its the only way they can draw audience
the majority do not really care for X and Os, or "news"

 

[Hank Scorpio]

Any chance riles throws in bam?

Doesnt work with Bam. He cant be on the same team as Ben Simmons.