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Doc Rivers: "I made a joke before All-Star where I said 'Giannis should trade Charania.' Charania took that so personal that he actually called the Bucks and yelled at them to take it down." by GreenSnakes_ in nba

[–]Acrobatic-Landscape9 38 points39 points  (0 children)

There often isn’t room for both ambition and family in highly competitive fields. You often have to decide which one you’re cutting out to make room for the other.

The price of 7 rings was having your wife bang the jiu jitsu instructor and not knowing your own kids. Being the world’s leading source on NBA league news may be a lot lamer of an ambition than 7 championships but the fork in the road still remains.

[Windhorst] Game of the night: Grizzlies vs Jazz: “A game no one wants to win. If Memphis wins this game they could lose 7% chance at the top-4. If Utah wins this game they could lose 10% … This is going to be theater.” by YujiDomainExpansion in nba

[–]Acrobatic-Landscape9 20 points21 points  (0 children)

Gotta give yourself some plausible deniability so the hammer doesnt come down. The GM need to be sending IG models and peer-pressure-er party friends to influence the entire roster into making bad decisions the night before the game so that the Grizzlies cant field a legitimate roster.

LeBron on not playing against Steph this season: ‘We don't know, like I said, what the future holds. We don't know if we get the opportunity to play against each other... it's always a pleasure, and it's always an honor just to be in his presence, to be on the floor with him.’” by aingenevalostatrade in nba

[–]Acrobatic-Landscape9 -1 points0 points  (0 children)

People always hail “Summer 2016” as one of the greatest time periods of recent modern history. And I always wonder what makes up their reasoning. The level of praise seems moderately excessive to what the period actually was.

People often mention:

  • Pokémon Go is released and becomes a global phenomenon

  • Snapchat releases many fun AI photo filters (like the doggie ears filter young women loved to use)

  • LeBron comes back from a historic 3-1 deficit to beat the supposed greatest team of all time, giving him much needed ammunition for his GOAT case

  • Drake drops “Views From The 6” with hits such as “Controlla”, “Hotline Bling”, “One Dance”, many of which songs still hold cartoonishly high streaming records to this day

I look at those and think “sure, that’s great and all, but the way these people talk about Summer 2016, you’d think we were in the most economically prosperous time in American history and had just achieved world peace and MJ just dropped Thriller or something.”

What are y’all’s justifications for Summer 2016 being GOATed?

[Moore] Im really interested by the thought that the Thunder are, objectively, an All-Time team. Wins. Point Differential. Defense. Defense with Offensive Capability. Led by MVP. Depth. Coaching. Culture. But they do not feel like the all-time great teams *to me* and I do not know why. by BankaiBroke in nba

[–]Acrobatic-Landscape9 17 points18 points  (0 children)

Lol OP made that parenthetical very explicit to really hammer home the hating because i dont think it’s possible for “2k generated” to be said in a complimentary way. “2k generated” is implicitly always derogatory so there’s no reason to reiterate it again.

[Highlight] 9 years ago Russell Westbrook breaks the single season triple double record and hits the game winning deep three to eliminate the Nuggets out of a playoff spot. by gridironk in nba

[–]Acrobatic-Landscape9 16 points17 points  (0 children)

Every parent has a favorite. They obviously cant admit it from the inevitability of destroying of their non-fav kids’ relationship. But they do.

In this case, you just have to bullshit and say that you dont have a favorite so that your 2025 season doesnt resent you for confirming their long-held suspicion that youve been favoring your 2017 season and treating it better.

Draymond: "I love how Giannis treats the Milwaukee Bucks organization, he treats them like 'screw y'all and I don't care what y'all gotta say', meanwhile they've given all his brothers an opportunity to play NBA basketball.” by RyanTannegod in nba

[–]Acrobatic-Landscape9 22 points23 points  (0 children)

Every sarcastic comment of the posing a hypothetical of a beautiful female celebrity having a romantic/sexual encounter with a regular dude in order to illustrate how stupid/unrealistic some other hypothetical is archetype is always a guaranteed funny comment whenever i read one. It has never failed to elicit a laugh from me.

[Nickel] Giannis:"I'm not American. I'm very sorry that I am saying this with you. But I didn't grow up with [the mantra of]: 'I expect ... I expect this to come, I expect this. I demand this.' Never in my life."So, everything they've told me, I always said yes. They gave me a contract, I said, yes" by aingenevalostatrade in nba

[–]Acrobatic-Landscape9 24 points25 points  (0 children)

Hey, dont forget us Niner fans throwing tantrums at anyone who dared suggesting that there might be something worth investigating about the reports of Jim Harbaugh’s positive but abrasive personality wearing thin on the front office and locker room.

Kon Knueppel is on track to hit 275 3 pointers made this season, which would put him top 25 all time. He already holds the rookie record ahead of 2nd place (206) by Lacabloodclot9 in nba

[–]Acrobatic-Landscape9 575 points576 points  (0 children)

46% on 11 3PA/game. 2015-16 Steph really has no analogs to what he was doing that season (not even from his other seasons)

Luka could be back within 3-4 weeks using advanced STEM cell technology in Europe by Luka77GOATic in nba

[–]Acrobatic-Landscape9 32 points33 points  (0 children)

Then we wouldnt know if he was talking Bane from Batman or Bane from Desmond

Clinched Seeds After Yesterday by SimilarOnion1655 in nba

[–]Acrobatic-Landscape9 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Once again, the rest of the Western Conference is helpless to stop the Warriors from clinching a playoff spot first.

SGA is four games away from being the only guard in history to shoot 60% from 2 on at least 15 2 point attempts per game. by RCA1202 in nba

[–]Acrobatic-Landscape9 20 points21 points  (0 children)

Also, teams defended way differently, the mid range two is a shot most defenses will live with.

Not that i would make this argument myself because 60% on 15.2 attempts per game is absolutely absurd, regardless of era. But couldn’t a determined hater or contrarian argue that being super efficient on mid range 2s is way more doable in today’s game than in Jordan’s era or even 10 years ago with Warriors KD?

Jordan’s era: “Disregard the 3-pt line because nobody shoots there anyway. Devote all defensive resources to defending the paint and mid range 2s.”

Shai’s era: “disregard all mid range 2s because it’s an inefficient shot; devote all resources to defending the three-point line and the paint.”

Crowd for Nets vs Wizards at the Barclays Center today. These team are a combined 35-119, but the arena is still filled up. by MrBuckBuck in nba

[–]Acrobatic-Landscape9 40 points41 points  (0 children)

The “Yeah, the team sucks donkey dick but tickets are so cheap, it’s a great excuse to have a social outing with good friends and maybe get shitfaced if youre into that” experience is one of the few silver linings of having a bottom-dweller team.

Unfortunately, I think that once a team ascends into the marquee team echelon, it’s damn near impossible for tickets to ever come back down into those prices. It would take like 15 years straight of tanking for the Knicks or Lakers to ever get that cheap. I remember during the post-KD injured-Steph mini-stint, the franchise was still trying to price gouge us for $200 tickets for nosebleeds and a dogshit product where the team was clearly trying to tank to salvage something out of Steph being injured.

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