MDDad
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Post by MDDad on Aug 26, 2020 21:40:12 GMT -8
I wasn't interested in the NBA with the whole messages on the jersey thing, but now the players boycotting games over a felon resisting the police getting shot has raised my disgust even further. Forget them for my life. I sold/ditched all of my Laker gear, including a signed Magic Johnson jersey. I'll still talk NBA with people in a historical perspective, but the game is dead to me. The entire league is worthless, racist trash. The owners deserve to lose millions of dollars in franchise worth, they ran their businesses like crap. The players can look at those kids coming up in college & high school who will no longer have the future they were given and know it was they, racist millionaire brats, who killed the goose that laid the golden egg. I'm not sure if I will follow any pro leagues anymore, their choice to try to force their politics down my throat is unforgivable. What a bunch of despicable hypocrits. Utter outrage over a resistant felon getting shot, but not a word of protest over the tens of thousands of people persecuted, imprisoned or killed in China for pure ethnic or racial reasons, because that would cost them and the league some money. I guess money talks and bullshit walks is as true as ever. The NBA can go to hell. |
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Post by Luca on Aug 27, 2020 7:32:43 GMT -8
It looks like I'm going to be reading a lot more. I don't follow HSFB anymore because of the corruption in that sport.
College football has quit on me, at least until next year.
Baseball is out (not that I was ever a huge fan) given the cancellation of games recently and the BLM BS plastered on the field
Professional basketball's history as there is not enough Zofran in Southern California to suppress the nausea from watching these preening prima donnas.
Bizarre. In a year when you could use as much distraction as possible from all the bad news, NOW the entitled pro athletes think it's time to showcase their virtue/wokeness. The best thing that can be said about 2020 is that it'll be over in about 4 months........................Luca
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Post by SK80 on Aug 27, 2020 7:40:55 GMT -8
It wasn't but a few months ago I stood behind the notion that America needs sports as a healthy outlet during the draconian Covid lockdowns..., sports was an escape for many from their work week, a chance to participate with others and forget about life's grind....., it was even something I saw as having a real chance to bring people together. I was utterly wrong, not in my notion but the not understanding that those in power did not nor do not want this, they care about themselves, nothing more.
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Post by davidsf on Aug 27, 2020 8:16:22 GMT -8
I wonder how many of those progressive privileged, overpaid small brains are critical thinkers.
i think it is safe to assume those involved in cancelling the playoffs are not.
this doesn’t even make a dent in my life: It has been a very long time since I’ve paid any attention to the NBA. Honestly, not since Magic Johnson came off the bench to replace injured Kareem Abdul-Jabbar in game 6 of the 1980 playoffs.
So I had to dig a little to find out why the playoffs have been shut down, but once I knew, all I could do was SMH. 🙄
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MDDad
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Post by MDDad on Aug 27, 2020 8:19:31 GMT -8
Hearing this morning that the NBA playoffs might be cancelled made a beautiful sunny day just a little bit brighter. The NBA can go to hell.
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Post by SK80 on Aug 27, 2020 8:31:58 GMT -8
Hearing this morning that the NBA playoffs might be cancelled made a beautiful sunny day just a little bit brighter. The NBA can go to hell. Well its already SUNSET over at MDDads house... NBA to RESUME! |
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Post by MDDad on Aug 27, 2020 10:33:05 GMT -8
I guess I shouldn't be surprised that the players caved as soon as they learned it might cost them a couple bucks. Players: We won't play because of systemic racism and because black lives matter. Owners: OK, then you won't get paid. Players: OK, then I guess we'll play. It seems that players' convictions and sense of social justice extend right up to the point where their wallets start. The NBA can go to hell. |
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Post by RSM789 on Aug 27, 2020 14:20:50 GMT -8
So Lebron wants change?
How is this for change - the league becomes a bottom tier sport and the top player earns the same as the top guy on the PBA tour (about $100K per year). No guaranteed contracts, no chartered flights, players have to pay for their own shoes.
Way to destroy the league for the next generation Lebron.
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Post by RSM789 on Aug 27, 2020 14:25:24 GMT -8
Honestly, not since Magic Johnson came off the bench to replace injured Kareem Abdul-Jabbar in game 6 of the 1980 playoffs.. 🙄 Not to be a dick, but I just have to correct that notion. Kind of an ADHD thing. Magic didn't come off the bench for that game, he was a starter for the entire season & playoffs. What did happen was Magic moved from his point guard spot to center to fill in for Kareem & even took the opening tip. Norm Nixon took over alot of the ball handling duties, but Magic still led quite a few fast breaks that game, often with Jamaal Wilkes doing the scoring. |
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Post by MDDad on Aug 27, 2020 14:50:51 GMT -8
So Lebron wants change? How is this for change - the league becomes a bottom tier sport and the top player earns the same as the top guy on the PBA tour (about $100K per year). No guaranteed contracts, no chartered flights, players have to pay for their own shoes. Way to destroy the league for the next generation Lebron. Lebron has his billion, so what the hell does he care? The NBA can go to hell. |
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Post by thefrog on Aug 27, 2020 15:55:24 GMT -8
Add the NHL to the list.
Guilty until proven innocent.
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Post by RSM789 on Aug 27, 2020 18:25:24 GMT -8
Add the NHL to the list. Guilty until proven innocent. I used to hold up the NHL as the only league whose players weren't pampered. No more. It looks like the Teemu memorabilia and Ducks stuff is gone as well...although in actuality, the Ducks didn't participate in the walk offs... |
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Post by Bick on Aug 27, 2020 18:54:57 GMT -8
No! You go too far.
Teemu is a dude.
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Post by Credo on Aug 27, 2020 20:32:04 GMT -8
Conspiracy theory: are the NBA owners intentionally trying to tank the league by going along with their idiot players just so they can tear up the CBA and start over again from a better bargaining position?
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Post by RSM789 on Aug 27, 2020 21:00:26 GMT -8
No! You go too far. Teemu is a dude. It is off topic, but here is a Teemu related story. I was with a customer about 5 years ago and while talking, the subject of hockey came up. The customer mentioned that his son played jr hockey with Teemu's son in the past and that he & Teemu got to be friends from being at the practices & games together. I mentioned that one of my wife's prized possessions is a Teemu signed hockey stick. The customer smiled and relayed a story about a Teemu signed stick. The customers company was going to hold a charity event down in Laguna Beach and they were looking for items to be auctioned off to raise money. The customers wife asked "Why not ask Teemu for some memorabilia to raffle off?" At first the customer was hesitant, he didn't want to mess up the friendship they had made as hockey parents and turn it into a player/fan relationship. Eventually he gave in and of course, Teemu was happy to oblige and donates a signed hockey stick. So my customer is at the auction and the stick comes up for bid. The auctioneer rattles off information about Teemu and says "lets start the bidding at $500". Not a single hand goes up. Nothing but crickets. My customer didn't realize that the Laguna Beach crowd whom the fundraiser was aimed at were not hockey fans and they had no idea who Teemu was, much less any interest in anything about him. So my customer panics and bids $500, winning the autographed stick. When he gets home, he relays the story to his wife, who laughs and says "Well, at least you can hang it in the game room". My customer replied "No I can't. If Teemu or his son ever come over & see it, they will think I made up a lie about the auction just to get an autographed stick". So that $500 donation now sits in his closet... |
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