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Tetsujin

Tetsujin

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Jaden Ivey saying that God answered his prayers and declaring himself healthy literal hours before doctors examined his knee and shut him down for the season would be peak basketball twitter if it didn't directly lead to the man having a Kanye style mental breakdown
 
Tetsujin said:
Jaden Ivey saying that God answered his prayers and declaring himself healthy literal hours before doctors examined his knee and shut him down for the season would be peak basketball twitter if it didn't directly lead to the man having a Kanye style mental breakdown
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I wouldn't write Ivey off for all time over this, but I certainly would have some questions for him before signing him to a new contract. And as a fringe NBA player, that is not a cloud you want over your head if you can avoid it. Kyrie Irving went on some pretty eyebrow raising Twitter rants some years back and sat out for awhile over it but ultimately wasn't black-listed from the sport. Ivey needs to get healthy and prove he still belongs in the NBA first of all. At that point, the other 29 NBA teams will decide if the potential media backlash is worth adding him to their roster or not. History says, if he's any good he'll still be able to find a spot in the league.
 
hrdboild said:
I wouldn't write Ivey off for all time over this, but I certainly would have some questions for him before signing him to a new contract. And as a fringe NBA player, that is not a cloud you want over your head if you can avoid it. Kyrie Irving went on some pretty eyebrow raising Twitter rants some years back and sat out for awhile over it but ultimately wasn't black-listed from the sport. Ivey needs to get healthy and prove he still belongs in the NBA first of all. At that point, the other 29 NBA teams will decide if the potential media backlash is worth adding him to their roster or not. History says, if he's any good he'll still be able to find a spot in the league.
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Counterpoint: Kyrie Irving, when healthy, is a Top 5 point guard in the NBA, and he ain't #5. Jaden Ivey... not so much.
 
Mr. S£im Citrus said:
Counterpoint: Kyrie Irving, when healthy, is a Top 5 point guard in the NBA, and he ain't #5. Jaden Ivey... not so much.
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If Ivey proves that he is both healthy and good next season, he'll be fine. Before injuries disrupted his career last year, he was starting to look like one of the more exciting up and coming guards in the league. Certainly not in the class of Kyrie Irving, but a player most teams would want to take a chance on assuming he's not crazy. I'm not going to try to quantify which player's comments were "worse" but Kyrie made more of them over a longer period of time and also refused to apologize until after he got suspended indefinitely.
 
Let's presume, for the sake of discourse, that LeBron James does not re-sign with the gd lakers. LeBron's team has played in a Christmas Day game every year since 2007... Is there any team that he could sign with that the NBA wouldn't put him on TV on Christmas?
 
Imagine getting fined and suspended for tampering with a potential draft pick and that draft pick ended up being a relative nothing burger like Yang Hansen has been thus far.
 
Anthony Edwards is missing his seventeenth game of the season and, apparently, one of his previous fifty-nine games doesn't "count," because he only played three minutes, which would make him ineligible for postseason awards.
 
Victor Wembanyama is missing his sixteenth game of the season. He can only afford to miss one more of the Sours' five remaining games and maintain eligibility for postseason awards.
 
https://twitter(.)com/ByTimReynolds/status/2040424135407403165

There have been two days in NBA history, spanning 80 years, where at least nine games were played with an average margin of victory being at least 24 points.

Only two such days. In 80 years.

One was yesterday.

The other was Sunday.
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One of the worst things about the internet is the way online communities dedicated to discussing a thing are inundated with people who can't wait to tell you how much they hate that thing.
 
It always cracks me up when a "successful" challenge comes back, "Actually, it was a foul, just on this dude, not that dude. But technically, you won the challenge!"
 
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