The Official NBA Season Thread: Las Vegas Summer League | USA VS South Sudan at 3 ET on Fox

[addict4sneakers]

It's nasty what the media is doing to this man. JJ Reddick was the only talking head that gave a valid opinion.

Media can’t talk about you if you don’t give them anything to talk about. Again hopefully he figures stuff out

 

[rolaholic]

Hope someone's checking up on Ja :/

 

[WASHED KING]

Media can’t talk about you if you don’t give them anything to talk about. Again hopefully he figures stuff out

I never said he wasn't wrong. But two wrongs don't make a right.

Why were people using a 23 year old basketball player as the moral compass that should be held to incredibly high standards in this gun obsessed country? Then people want to make the nasty comparison of bringing up mass shootings as a reason Ja can't be seen with guns like he looks anything like a stereotypical school shooter.

Got the draft lottery going on and Malika asking Adam Silver questions about Ja's suspension when everyone was waiting to see where Wemby was going and then they're out here interviewing strippers to get more dirt to throw on him.

Whole time he hasn't broken an actual law. Miles Bridges put his wife in the hospital but people care more about Ja dancing with a gun.

 

[had pants]

 

[addict4sneakers]

I never said he wasn't wrong. But two wrongs don't make a right.

Why were people using a 23 year old basketball player as the moral compass that should be held to incredibly high standards in this gun obsessed country? Then people want to make the nasty comparison of bringing up mass shootings as a reason Ja can't be seen with guns like he looks anything like a stereotypical school shooter.

Got the draft lottery going on and Malika asking Adam Silver questions about Ja's suspension when everyone was waiting to see where Wemby was going and then they're out here interviewing strippers to get more dirt to throw on him.

Whole time he hasn't broken an actual law. Miles Bridges put his wife in the hospital but people care more about Ja dancing with a gun.

I don’t care about moral compasses. That’s not what this is about. He’s been reckless. Moving like a man with nothing to lose. The NBA told him to chill and he didn’t. This ain’t even about guns. The guns just make him look worse. Don’t play this 2A thing either. We black. It’s always been different rules.

And of course if a top 10 player in the league wilds out and creates a headline, they will ask about it. Miles isn’t close to the same caliber player so he isn’t going to get the same coverage. We are smarter than this I hope.

Correct me if I’m wrong but weren’t you campaigning for miles to the lakers so he could feed his kids?

 

[nick.]

Not even the grifting republican politicians are taking the second amendment rights angle with Ja Morant

 

[freeze]

Nah what dis mean?

 

[Based Jesus]

Ja was wrong
Ja needs help

Both of these can be right. They're not mutually exclusive states of being. In fact, they often go together.

 

[WASHED KING]

I don’t care about moral compasses. That’s not what this is about. He’s been reckless. Moving like a man with nothing to lose. The NBA told him to chill and he didn’t. This ain’t even about guns. The guns just make him look worse. Don’t play this 2A thing either. We black. It’s always been different rules.

And of course if a top 10 player in the league wilds out and creates a headline, they will ask about it. Miles isn’t close to the same caliber player so he isn’t going to get the same coverage. We are smarter than this I hope.

Correct me if I’m wrong but weren’t you campaigning for miles to the lakers so he could feed his kids?

So double standards are cool and we should be ok with them? Once again I never said Ja wasn't wrong but this whole burn him at the stake reaction was over the top.

If we don't care about moral compasses why is this a discussion? He didn't break a law, he didn't break league rules this time, the whole issue is about perception and the leagues morals.

 

[100027]

Ja’s responsible for his own actions but his only victim so far has been himself…. I don’t have the appetite for the blame tour. It’s sad. Media and fan excoriation is not going to change his behavior when he’s dealing with substance abuse problems and hasn’t acknowledged it yet. Man has to get there on his own timetable.

 

[addict4sneakers]

So double standards are cool and we should be ok with them? Once again I never said Ja wasn't wrong but this whole burn him at the stake reaction was over the top.

If we don't care about moral compasses why is this a discussion? He didn't break a law, he didn't break league rules this time, the whole issue is about perception and the leagues morals.

Nah I just want him to not trick off everything he’s earned in life thinking that life is fair or that he’s afforded certain luxuries because he can hoop.

 

[WASHED KING]

Nah I just want him to not trick off everything he’s earned in life thinking that life is fair or that he’s afforded certain luxuries because he can hoop.

I agree he needs to stop.

 

[rolaholic]

 

[ballinsam23]

Doc Rivers just keeps getting handouts despite constantly failing everywhere he goes.

 

[WASHED KING]

Name a more powerful championship than the 08 Celtic one.

 

[Platinum State]

Doc Rivers just keeps getting handouts despite constantly failing everywhere he goes.

He riding that one lucky Boston chip to his grave

 

[ballinsam23]

He riding that one lucky Boston chip to his grave

I wouldnt call it luck, but man he's had some great underachieving rosters.

 

[g-time]

you could argue this past series loss wasn't exactly on him.

 

[bhzmafia14]

I understand him not openly admitting the alcohol, but really hoping he gets it under control.

This has always been the case because many people in Memphis have been around Ja since he entered the league. Most will tell you he’s not the same guy. All this stuff really happened after his 3rd season.

 

[lawdog1]

Doc Rivers just keeps getting handouts despite constantly failing everywhere he goes.

Baffling.

I’d say he actually failed twice with the Clippers since he coached both the Lob City group and the Kawhi/PG group to no further than the conference semi-finals (and blowing 3-1 series leads with both).

 

[storm2006]

In the modern day NBA there hasn't been a team that made a major mid-season trade and won the championship that year. It's really hard to do and those 08 Lakers were the closest.

 

[pmatic]

In the modern day NBA there hasn't been a team that made a major mid-season trade and won the championship that year. It's really hard to do and those 08 Lakers were the closest.

Guess it depends on your definition of major.

 

[aepps20]

Not even the grifting republican politicians are taking the second amendment rights angle with Ja Morant

Because he hasn’t asked them to. They already put on the cape for him and just need him to fully commit

 

[don ramon]

you can't say "i take full accountability," bail and then try to flip it on others like they're the ones doing you wrong when it gets hot

 

[Bert.]

Doc Rivers just keeps getting handouts despite constantly failing everywhere he goes.

This

No idea why he’s always a hot commodity