Fox Watch 2025

[Sherds]

Fair point. But I do think I'm mostly talking to reasonable people so the effort isn't entirely pointless? I hope?

I'm trying to stay out of this for the most part but maybe I'll make one more plea for deference instead of vitriol. We all know "NBA Player" is a job and yet somehow diplomat, humanitarian, public relations expert, and diehard loyalty to a city for which your only connection is arbitrary draft randomness all get folded in. Padrino made a good post about this in the trade thread... The idea that any professional athlete is playing for us and not themselves is a delusion we willingly enter into. Most of us, I believe, know that it is a delusion but it's a relatively harmless one so we allow it to take on the appearance of reality. I wonder if more than anything people are mourning the abrupt jolt of reality replacing the delusion? Fox selling shoes for us is a good thing but selling shoes for his own profit makes him a snake? I haven't gotten my Under Armour royalty check yet...

In this case it may be easy to blame the player as the cause of our momentary discomfort but Mike Brown didn't ask to be fired, and a lot of ya'll cheered that decision. Harrison Barnes didn't ask to be traded this summer. DeMar signed a 3 year contract with the understanding that he would be teammates with Fox and coached by Mike Brown and now he has no choice but to honor that commitment to a team which didn't honor his. This goes on and on for however far you want to look back. Is it really that difficult to just accept it and move on?

Not sure who your talking to exactly but I'll respond cause you clipped one of my posts.

Like most things, you can handle a situation many ways and still have the same outcome.

I was critical of the way the Kings handled the Brown firing, even if I was open to the idea that it was the right decision. Same with Fox, I have zero hate towards him for leaving (As I posted in the Thank you thread) it was how he left thats starting to not sit so well because of his doublespeak that's now coming out.

I believe he was being deceitful for a long time, instead of just saying the truth.

If you don't believe that's a "reasonable" request and is "too much" to ask, I guess we should just agree to disagree.

 

[serbiangoat]

Incredibly jarring how silent the Atlanta broadcast seems compared to our very own broadcast with never ending talking and stories

I swear 50% of the Hawks broadcast is Dominique Wilkins saying that's a terrible shot every time the opposing team misses but when the Hawks do the same he says nothing.