The Official NBA Season Thread: NBA Cup Night

[B Sox]

Definitely getting some kind of multi-game suspension.

 

[MVP]

 

[lawdog1]

Just touched down in New Orleans for the first time— wya @freddie fig

Great city. You should have fun.

If you want some food recommendations, search the NT food thread for posts from Grine

 

[aepps20]

I’m a huge Ja fan. He is an amazing player and he was carving up the Nuggets for most of the game on the PnR game. I don’t know what he gains with this persona. If he grew up like that then I would feel differently but that’s not how he grew up. Not worth throwing your career over at best or getting yourself or someone you love killed at worse

 

[antidope]

Its very wild that the NBAs biggest stories are consistently not about basketball

And still this. Its been a disaster PR season for the league, and it annoys me. Cause it has been a good basketball product season and I feel like even the stuff that is about basketball like the points explosion (why are we mad about people getting better at basketball its dumb) & Jokic winning MVP again get negative spins. Like every big story about the NBA is negative now its crazy.

 

[Mark Antony]

My whole point is that Tee Morant could do everything right here, and it could possibly change nothing. Ja Morant is truly independent in every sense of the word. Tee Morant's job is done in the sense that he can't MAKE Ja do anything so I hope people don't start blaming him.

Yeah I get everyone's point but if you think back to your own 18-23 years there wasn't much your parents could say to change the dumb **** you did.

 

[storm2006]

Another element of this is that aside from being a public figure, Ja is a role model for impressionable young kids. I know EYE wouldn’t have thought it was cool to pick up the tool because my favorite hooper did but I can’t speak for everyone out there. He really has to do better for them, at least.

 

[Coupé It]

I don't know about yall but I'm still copping them 1s tho

So will I….

If Nike even releases them at this point tho.

 

[storm2006]

Surely this means he would have to step down as commissioner, right?

 

[nick.]

I’m a huge Ja fan. He is an amazing player and he was carving up the Nuggets for most of the game on the PnR game. I don’t know what he gains with this persona. If he grew up like that then I would feel differently but that’s not how he grew up. Not worth throwing your career over at best or getting yourself or someone you love killed at worse

I think at this point, whether Morant is 'real' or not is irrelevant.

Guns are nothing to mess around with.

 

[antidope]

I’m a huge Ja fan. He is an amazing player and he was carving up the Nuggets for most of the game on the PnR game. I don’t know what he gains with this persona. If he grew up like that then I would feel differently but that’s not how he grew up. Not worth throwing your career over at best or getting yourself or someone you love killed at worse

This too. Gotta be on him to be more responsible.

 

[Mark Antony]

Surely this means he would have to step down as commissioner, right?

Do people even have any real grievances against Adam Silver? What has he done that was so bad?

 

[Coupé It]

Bomani Jones really did say it best….

“Real or fake it ends up the same way..”

At this point real or fake doesn’t matter.

He’s recording himself breaking the law now - This is out of hand.

 

[addict4sneakers]

What do you mean if Steph hypothetically started chilling in East Oakland? Maximus Meridius

 

[MVP]

Do people even have any real grievances against Adam Silver? What has he done that was so bad?

Time for the Mark Tatum era. Silver trying to turn the league soft, players running amok.

 

[antidope]

I hope Silver leaves, Mark Tatum is a good guy met him a few times. Loves the league and really gets how good it is for people of colour.

 

[elpablo21]

The masses aint ready for Mark Tatum and his game show host voice

 

[Coupé It]

I hope Silver leaves, Mark Tatum is a good guy met him a few times. Loves the league and really gets how good it is for people of colour.

Man I thought you loved Adam Silver

 

[finessence]

Yeah get Silver GONE

 

[MVP]

Nike probably texting Kyrie 'Hey Big Head'

 

[Maximus Meridius]

What do you mean if Steph hypothetically started chilling in East Oakland? Maximus Meridius

This ain't hanging in Oakland

 

[antidope]

Man I thought you loved Adam Silver

I do, but I would love to see a black man run basketball. This was always the natural order of things so now that it's here I am all for it.

That's on me I should have been clear. I want Adam Silver to leave if it is of his own volition, there's no reason Adam Silver should be forced out. The guy isn't perfect but by all accounts, he's tried to do right by the players more often than against them and that is all I want from a sports commissioner.

 

[MVP]

If Terry Rozier telling you chill...

 

[big j 33]

Ja Wick is hilarious.

What makes this so much worse is this is clearly not who this guy is. These stories of him picking on teenagers, retail workers, and NBA staff lmao.

Him holding a gun like he's 5 years old.

I've been saying Ja is a dork and I feel even more right this morning.

Also being shirtless in the strip club holding a gun recording YOURSELF is chaos behavior.

 

[lawdog1]

I fully expected there to be turn on Silver at some point, but was not expecting it to be accompanied by people also waxing nostalgic about David Stern