[NBA] Comments that don't warrant a thread (TDOS)
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Holy bejesus they retired Dan Marino's #?!?
Retiring Jordan's is interesting too. I always wondered why anyone would want to wear 23 who entered the league between say ~93 and 2005. It makes a little more sense as a tribute, but while he was active and dominant or just recently retired. and it's not like anyone will ever associate you with the number, I always liked picking a unique number of sorts. Then I started rocking 77 for a while but Luka has sorta wrecked that for me now.
macadocious
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Big George Muresan fan?
KainLear
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Souley Boum Signs With Nuggets
I thought he looked solid in the limited time he had with us in the SL. Good to see him finding his footings in the NBA.
I thought he looked solid in the limited time he had with us in the SL. Good to see him finding his footings in the NBA.
77 was just for the year punk entered he mainstream consciousness.
Also Ray Bourque, but I wore #4 as a defenseman when I played hockey because as awesome as Raymond was...
kingsboi
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but wasn't Peja born in Croatia?
QWERTYLICIOUS
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Yes, but he was born into a Serbian family and, thus, played for Serbia, and not Croatia.
Tetsujin
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I mean, Domas was born in Portland but plays for Lithuania.
serbiangoat
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Chat GPT must have only seen that one dunk he had on JJJ
kingsboi
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I never quite agreed with the criteria necessary to play for a specific country even if not born into it
Was young Bjelly every super athletic?
Isn't it having citizenship? He was born with dual so it's well within his rights to play for either nation and presumably the US didn't want him.
A little dicier imho when a player plays for an adopted country when their path to citizenship was "great athlete" while starving asylum seekers wait at the borders.
serbiangoat
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By NBA standards never, he moved fairly well as a 6'11 SF by Euro standards. like Poku is a way better athlete than young Belly.
kingsboi
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as an asylum seeker myself, I believe the whole process is chance and some luck so it's not one of those situations where you can allow entry to all
of course, but I'm kind of talking about where we might fast track say the 30th best Italian footballer citizenship so they could be a star on the USMNT. That might be a straw man but it sort of happens.
kingsboi
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so do you believe that having a choice to pick what country you want to play for because of a dual citizenship is acceptable?
If it's dual citizenship by birthright, yes.
If it's totally random except a marginal team trying to load up on talent, no.
Telemachus
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Tetsujin
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ESPN doing everything in its power to not have me tune into games. Who in the hell is going to want to sit through color commentary teams featuring Doc Rivers and Richard Jefferson? Plus they're breaking up the Mark/Doris team, AKA my favorite national TV broadcast crew.
On the plus side, I guess this means Mark Jones is calling more Kings games this year (apparently with Matt Barnes on color commentary for some of them).
PorchSurfin
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Richard Jefferson is a Kings hater. F that guy.
captain bill
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They're running out of cornbread
I would argue that no one in the underrated tier is actually underrated either.
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