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

[antidope]

Sure it does. America has the infrastructure of a 3rd world country I have no faith.

 

[antidope]

Can’t ever trust America with public transportation, no matter how good they make it sound

Folks still gon drive and be pissed around there

Bro EXACTLY. I just had to talk about this for an hour today. America loves to turn it's nose up at public transportation.

One day it will become privatized like it should be. Uber will solve this.

 

[Mark Antony]

Dudes wanna be rappers so bad and bring nothing new.

Was surprised it wasn't a rubber band bass sounding beat with offbeat raps though.

 

[akajae]

 

[WASHED KING]

God damnit Washed is back.

This is the worst.

 

[HOU$TON]

 

[ballinsam23]

I was a fan of Deni coming out the draft. Hope he can put it together.

 

[D StaXX]

Naw this lowkey fire. Need the full track.

 

[lawdog1]

Shaq remains the GOAT pro athlete rapper.

 

[wavycrocket]

This sound hard!

 

[freeze]

These hoopers still wanting to be rappers is funny to me. Feels like they still doing it for the 9-9 and double oh

 

[NickFolarin]

 

[assyrianplaya]

i wouldnt say trash but why is he gangster rapping bro you make millions whyyyyyyyyy

 

[Vincent Van Goat]

Everytime I see that gym I know not to care about anything in the clip because nobody playing any type of defense

Those “highlights” are worthless lol

 

[pmatic]

I think his rep coming into the draft was as a point forward, but he hasn't had the opportunity with Beal, Westbrook, Dinwiddie his first couple of years. But yeah, he's real good defensively. Just not a good shooter.

 

[addict4sneakers]

He can’t dribble either but yeah defensively he’s legit.

 

[frshstunna]

Deni won’t do anything till he’s out of DC…They don’t have the roles or mins for him to be at his best based on what he was supposed to be coming out the draft

 

[VARNELL HILL]

I think his rep coming into the draft was as a point forward, but he hasn't had the opportunity with Beal, Westbrook, Dinwiddie his first couple of years. But yeah, he's real good defensively. Just not a good shooter.

He was the primary ballhandler in the second unit a bunch last year and the results weren't great. He can pass well...but "point forward" won't ever really be a thing for him.

 

[RustyShackleford]

Bro EXACTLY. I just had to talk about this for an hour today. America loves to turn it's nose up at public transportation.

One day it will become privatized like it should be. Uber will solve this.

Just want to say, privatizing public transportation is a horrible idea. Just think about the idea for a few minutes and I can already see how many bad incentives it will create.

And the only way it would work is with tons of public subsidies, and it would make things worst for poor people. Poor people can't just catch Uber's everywhere. Rate increases will be even more prevalent.

The reason public transportation sucks is because the car and oil lobby spent billions making it that way. Privatizing it is not a panacea. It will probably make things worse.

 

[RustyShackleford]

I live in the Southwest where public transportation is nowhere as good as the Northeast.

Everytime a new public transportation project is proposed people get excited for it.

Then the Koch brothers,taxi lobby, car lobby, and ride share lobby all come in to fund a negative add campaign against it.

This story been going on in Vegas forever.

Everyone including the casino out here would like the monorail to go from the airport to the strip. Everyone would compromise and take an express bus.

But every time there is any movement on it the negative add campaign comes. Americans turn their nose up to public transportation because they have trained to do so. And billions have been invested to make it unappealing. That is before you take into account NIMBYs sabotaging it too.

When I moved to MD in 1999, I remember people taking about the Purple line, and how it was gonna solve all these issues for commuters. It would have definitely came in handy for me when I lived in the area.

2022 and I heard that **** isn't even open yet

 

[freeze]

Lmaooo

 

[moonman818]

IDK about yall but I'm never taking a ******* bus or train into DTLA...

Hell nah

 

[antidope]

Just want to say, privatizing public transportation is a horrible idea. Just think about the idea for a few minutes and I can already see how many bad incentives it will create.

And the only way it would work is with tons of public subsidies, and it would make things worst for poor people. Poor people can't just catch Uber's everywhere. Rate increases will be even more prevalent.

The reason public transportation sucks is because the car and oil lobby spent billions making it that way. Privatizing it is not a panacea. It will probably make things worse.

I was talking about trains/buses. An Uber train system > NYC MTA

 

[lawdog1]

IDK about yall but I'm never taking a ****ing bus or train into DTLA...

Hell nah

I took the Metro train from Culver City to DTLA once a few years ago because my car was in the shop. I was good on it after that.

 

[Coupé It]

I live in the Southwest where public transportation is nowhere as good as the Northeast.

Everytime a new public transportation project is proposed people get excited for it.

Then the Koch brothers,taxi lobby, car lobby, and ride share lobby all come in to fund a negative add campaign against it.

This story been going on in Vegas forever.

Everyone including the casino out here would like the monorail to go from the airport to the strip. Everyone would compromise and take an express bus.

But every time there is any movement on it the negative add campaign comes. Americans turn their nose up to public transportation because they have trained to do so. And billions have been invested to make it unappealing. That is before you take into account NIMBYs sabotaging it too.

When I moved to MD in 1999, I remember people taking about the Purple line, and how it was gonna solve all these issues for commuters. It would have definitely came in handy for me when I lived in the area.

2022 and I heard that **** isn't even open yet

So true.

LA could probably fix all their traffic and congestion issues forever if they didn’t turn up their noses at public transportation.