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re: Why are so many NBA stars unlikable?
Posted on 2/6/19 at 10:48 am to JabarkusRussell
Posted on 2/6/19 at 10:48 am to JabarkusRussell
High school educated, Petulant, melinial minorities who whine and complain about everything, think they’re opinions are intelligent and well thought out and act like they’re persecuted while making 40 million a year?
What’s not to love?
What’s not to love?
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Posted on 2/6/19 at 1:16 pm to hoopsgalore
They hate to see certain types of people with control over their own destiny & who can control things.
Posted on 2/6/19 at 1:21 pm to jj06
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They hate to see certain types of people with control over their own destiny & who can control things.
Certain types should know their place jj. Management should control them like they did DeRozan,Griffin , IT,etc....( Sarcasm).
This post was edited on 2/6/19 at 1:22 pm
Posted on 2/6/19 at 8:12 pm to JabarkusRussell
Thugs.
Posted on 2/6/19 at 9:19 pm to JabarkusRussell
I like Carnelo actually
Posted on 2/6/19 at 10:11 pm to jj06
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They hate to see certain types of people with control over their own destiny & who can control things.
If that’s what you think it boils down to you are an idiot. There are certain qualities a teammate, and a man, should exhibit as a leader and role model. When people fall short of meeting these expectations it’s going to garner some hate.
Posted on 2/7/19 at 1:51 am to JabarkusRussell
Because Lebron.
Posted on 2/7/19 at 2:24 am to rocket31
Ah, the ole racism card. When all logic and reasoning fail, blame racism.
Posted on 2/7/19 at 3:50 am to rocket31
I loved 80s and 90s NBA, watched it any chance I could. I guess I've become racist as I've gotten older because I can't stand todays NBA, or it could be that the players want to put politics in a game and play the racist card when people don't like them.
Posted on 2/7/19 at 6:58 am to JabarkusRussell
Is Porzingis unlikable?
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His brother is his agent and is doing the same thing Rich Paul is doing & he even threatened to go to Spain if he didn’t get his way
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His brother is his agent and is doing the same thing Rich Paul is doing & he even threatened to go to Spain if he didn’t get his way
Posted on 2/7/19 at 7:00 am to Minden tiger
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If that’s what you think it boils down to you are an idiot. There are certain qualities a teammate, and a man, should exhibit as a leader and role model. When people fall short of meeting these expectations it’s going to garner some hate.
Please tell us who these role models are in sports. You can find dirt on any athlete.
Posted on 2/7/19 at 10:13 am to yaboidarrell
NBA star players are concerned about their legacy. AD is pouting because he feels entitled to a ring(s). Everyone knows Golden State will decline in about 2-3 years so the King is trying to organize a dream super team to win a couple rings in Lakertown in 2021/22.
No one wants to end up like John Stockton, charles Barkley, or Patrick Ewing.
No one wants to end up like John Stockton, charles Barkley, or Patrick Ewing.
Posted on 2/7/19 at 11:26 am to JabarkusRussell
When I think back to the 80s and 90s, it was a much more likeable league. Guys like Barkley, Jordan, Shaq, Malone, Drexler, Ewing, Kidd, Robinson and Olajuwon all were stars that had very likeable public personas. Shaq played the bad guy at times, but he was entertaining.
Kobe to me is the demarcation of mostly likeable stars to mostly unlikeable stars. Kobe, Lebron, Carmelo, Howard, Rondo, Harden and Durant are exhibit A of unlikeable modern stars. Steph Curry is a glaring exception, and foreign players have always had less ego than American players.
I am sure if I was told I was the best thing since sliced bread from the time I was 13 or 14, given tens of millions of dollars and treated like a god by fans and cleat chasers, I would be an entitled prick too.
Kobe to me is the demarcation of mostly likeable stars to mostly unlikeable stars. Kobe, Lebron, Carmelo, Howard, Rondo, Harden and Durant are exhibit A of unlikeable modern stars. Steph Curry is a glaring exception, and foreign players have always had less ego than American players.
I am sure if I was told I was the best thing since sliced bread from the time I was 13 or 14, given tens of millions of dollars and treated like a god by fans and cleat chasers, I would be an entitled prick too.
Posted on 2/7/19 at 1:44 pm to Bunk Moreland
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I'm going to get killed for this, but I think there is a hint of racism in it. If you had Rodgers, Brees, Brady manipulating the system like NBA players, everyone would talk about how smart they are.
It has a racial component, but that doesn't make it racism.
People look at relatively stupid guys making stupid money saying stupid things and living, often, genuinely stupid lives (both in the good and bad sense). There is probably a bit of jealousy and animosity toward the culture/lifestyle of those guys, and race factors into it.
Posted on 2/7/19 at 3:39 pm to WestCoastAg
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The NBA is the single most player empowering league we have. No other league allows players to speak as freely about anything as the NBA does and no league allows the players to have as much power over the individual teams as the NBA does
Well there is only one thing in this that people should applaud.
There is no reason whatsoever that any team, no matter how terrible the mgmt, should ever consult a player or his representatives on which players they should go after or get rid of. I don't care if it's the best player in the world. Should have no say so or feel there is a need to run it by him. At all, end of story. Now, if the player is meeting with mgmt, they can tell him that they have a plan, will go after best player available according to their plan, salary sitution. No reason that player should have any input on who or how that plan is put into action.
Posted on 2/7/19 at 3:42 pm to yaboidarrell
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nba players are selfish crybabies who worry more about cultivating their brand than their team winning.
And who do you think are mostly responsible for that? Any answer other than fans....is wrong.
Posted on 2/7/19 at 3:45 pm to BowlJackson
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It's more than that. The international stars all seem grateful and happy to be here, and they all have great senses of humor. A lot of American born stars seem entitled and thin skinned.
The NBA needs some Gronks.....honestly. Can you imagine someone in the NBA being as fun as Rob Gronkowski? But he'd probably end up being labeled a chauvinistic pig.
Posted on 2/7/19 at 3:47 pm to jj06
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jj06
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I don’t see how you can unlike someone you don’t know personally & who hasn’t done anything to effect your way of living. Y’all are a bunch of bitches
Yet you react this way to a bunch of strangers......
Posted on 2/7/19 at 3:49 pm to msutiger
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Not to mention he has a high school degree
Not a Lebron defender, but why do people who want to insult him use this as part of their argument. I would venture 75% maybe more of the NBA has this, and nothing further.
Posted on 2/7/19 at 3:54 pm to Lester Earl
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But there really aren’t those personalities or sideshows that they had in the 90’s.
If 24hr news, social media, and smartphones existed in the 80's & 90's (so called glory days) of the NBA, the same bullshite if not more would be public knowledge just as it is today.
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