re: JJ Redick “mentoring” NAW

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Yea the whole pregame thing was bad press

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you are way overreacting to this.

First, the highest profile tweet about this is from ESPN. It has 53,000 likes.
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Here's an article from NBC Sports about Bradley Beal doing his own Get Off My Lawn rant. They point out how he replied to the tweet I mentioned above with a very emphatic "FACTUAL!!!"
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CBS Sports had a pretty matter of fact take on it and point out how social media wasn't as big of a thing when JJ came into the league.
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Bleacher report went even more in depth and referenced an interview Redick did with Tom Haberstroh about a month ago.

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Haberstroh built off those comments when further explaining Redick's stance:

"To be clear, Redick isn't judging his teammates' use of social media and doesn't want to be the locker room grump by any means. He's at a different stage of his life and claims he's played in much more phone-crazed locker rooms before. He looks around the league and sees an NBA that is full of players increasingly locked into their devices. On the bus, on the plane, on the trainer's table, at the locker, at the dinner table—the phone is inescapable.

"In many ways, the league's love of social media is understandable. It offers athletes a sense of control over the messaging, a slice of ownership over their public image. It can open doors and entertain the masses. But how much is too much?"

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There's a lot of replies to the tweet I referenced at the top so I can't tell you what every random person on twitter said, but the most common sentiment of the ones I glanced at seemed to use the tweet as an opportunity to take a shot at fashion icon Kyle Kuzma.

The reaction is actually a lot more positive than I was expecting. Normally Get Off My Lawn rants are quickly dismissed with Old Man Yells At Sky memes. If you think this is playing out negatively for the Pels you must be locked in a deep dark part of the twitterverse. It doesn't even look like it's playing all that negatively for Redick, Kuzma seems to be the one taking collateral damage here.