Tyrese Watch

Kingster said:
It sure would be nice if the NBA could use their $billions in having a Manhattan Project for these soft tissue injuries. We've got biotech, AI, tons of $, yet still it seems we don't have a clue about soft tissue maladies. Get to work, NBA. This is ridiculous.
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Most NBA training staffs are already equipped to the gills with the necessary body optimization technologies and regimens, but at a certain point, human tissues just aren't meant to move the way that professional athletes push their bodies. Tyrese strained his calf and then played on it. Achilles injuries have been known to follow. Whether the team or the player made the ultimate call, it was a calculated risk and it didn't pay off. It really didn't pay off. It's a shame for Indiana. Next season's certainly going to be a struggle, but in the immediate sense, I would much rather have witnessed OKC beat them at full strength in a game 7 rather than watching Hali go down in the first.
 
Padrino said:
Most NBA training staffs are already equipped to the gills with the necessary body optimization technologies and regimens, but at a certain point, human tissues just aren't meant to move the way that professional athletes push their bodies. Tyrese strained his calf and then played on it. Achilles injuries have been known to follow. Whether the team or the player made the ultimate call, it was a calculated risk and it didn't pay off. It really didn't pay off. It's a shame for Indiana. Next season's certainly going to be a struggle, but in the immediate sense, I would much rather have witnessed OKC beat them at full strength in a game 7 rather than watching Hali go down in the first.
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At the very, very least they need to come up with an objective medical test to determine the risk of an achilles injury. Just as they are coming up with better tests to determine cancer in very early stages, they have to be able to come up with some kind of scan that can give a yes or no to playing. You cannot rely upon upon how a player "feels" to determine whether he should play. You might as well rely upon how a woman "feels" about the lump in her breast.
 
basketball shoes keep getting and looking worse by the year. Players still haven't caught on what Stewart is doing
 
Capt. Factorial said:
For those of us from Gen-X and older, is "booty grease" good or bad?
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Nike made the same shoe 30 years ago. I had them.

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Tetsujin said:
https://twitter.com/x/status/1978491625140617462
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Tyrese Haliburton, the vast majority of Gen Z, and hell, far too many people who are much older, all would benefit from hearing this: there is no legal requirement nor binding contract nor mandatory obligation for you to be on social media. If it's causing you psychological distress (and there's a good chance of that), then you are perfectly free to remove the source of that distress from your life. And if you find yourself unable to log off, well there's a word for that, and maybe we should interrogate the fact that hundreds of millions of people are hopelessly addicted to these technologies, we all know they're harmful and corrosive, and everybody has just kind of tacitly agreed that they're going to keep doing the thing that's absolutely terrible for them because I guess the lulz on Twitter and TikTok are just that worthwhile?
 
Padrino said:
Tyrese Haliburton, the vast majority of Gen Z, and hell, far too many people who are much older, all would benefit from hearing this: there is no legal requirement nor binding contract nor mandatory obligation for you to be on social media. If it's causing you psychological distress (and there's a good chance of that), then you are perfectly free to remove the source of that distress from your life. And if you find yourself unable to log off, well there's a word for that, and maybe we should interrogate the fact that hundreds of millions of people are hopelessly addicted to these technologies, we all know they're harmful and corrosive, and everybody has just kind of tacitly agreed that they're going to keep doing the thing that's absolutely terrible for them because I guess the lulz on Twitter and TikTok are just that worthwhile?
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The people who own and profit from our use of these platforms being some of the biggest assholes on the planet is reason enough for me to stay away. Apple, Google, Amazon and Spotify are all pretty odious too from an ethics point of view but some are easier to quit than others.
 
hrdboild said:
The people who own and profit from our use of these platforms being some of the biggest assholes on the planet is reason enough for me to stay away. Apple, Google, Amazon and Spotify are all pretty odious too from an ethics point of view but some are easier to quit than others.
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what amazes me is that my "for you" feed on twitter is basically all people I hate. I switched to my following page, which is not the default, of course, and forgot about it... next time I signed in I didn't get a single political post, all about sports and music. I was stunned. Then I realized what happened. So maddening that they do that on purpose to make us hate each other and then profit from all of it, both directly from their products and indirectly when they rob us blind while we fight people we have more in common with than we don't.
 
Padrino said:
Tyrese Haliburton, the vast majority of Gen Z, and hell, far too many people who are much older, all would benefit from hearing this: there is no legal requirement nor binding contract nor mandatory obligation for you to be on social media. If it's causing you psychological distress (and there's a good chance of that), then you are perfectly free to remove the source of that distress from your life. And if you find yourself unable to log off, well there's a word for that, and maybe we should interrogate the fact that hundreds of millions of people are hopelessly addicted to these technologies, we all know they're harmful and corrosive, and everybody has just kind of tacitly agreed that they're going to keep doing the thing that's absolutely terrible for them because I guess the lulz on Twitter and TikTok are just that worthwhile?
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I don't think forswearing social media is a good business decision if you're trying to be a public figure.
 
Insomniacal Fan said:
I don't think forswearing social media is a good business decision if you're trying to be a public figure.
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Maybe, maybe not. Kevin Durant has likely done more harm than good to his reputation/legacy by feeding the Twitter trolls. More to the point, plenty of high profile public figures get on just fine without a significant social media presence, and many of them farm out the "social media responsibility" to PR reps. If you want to protect your privacy and/or sanity, being publicly available to trolling, scorn, and ridicule at all hours of the day is probably not a wise decision.

Once upon a time, a little mystery and inaccessibility were important to cultivating any kind of serious public image. And while I recognize that the culture has shifted due to the supposed demystification of celebrities via their online presence, I don't think Tyrese Haliburton loses meaningful endorsement money if he steps back from his personal social media use. At the very least, he ain't losing enough to justify the mental health struggle that can result from reading and watching random people online trash you day in and day out.
 
Insomniacal Fan said:
I don't think forswearing social media is a good business decision if you're trying to be a public figure.
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A lot of people making a lot less than NBA guys have social media managers. I agree that having a social media presence can be huge for your brand and is more or less essential to some extent. But if getting tons of DMs and mentions about what a loser you are because of your game last night is something you can't filter or ignore then it is essential to have someone else doing that for you.
 
a record of 1-14 in the Eastern conference is crazy. Hali was good in the second half of the season and great in the playoffs but what's going on with the Pacers and how is the national media not clowning them for how God awful their roster construction is? Surely Hali's absence and two injuries to their rotation guys shouldn't be enough to be this bad, right? Siakim is still out there so is he not that big of an impact player or what
 
NewArena said:
a record of 1-14 in the Eastern conference is crazy. Hali was good in the second half of the season and great in the playoffs but what's going on with the Pacers and how is the national media not clowning them for how God awful their roster construction is? Surely Hali's absence and two injuries to their rotation guys shouldn't be enough to be this bad, right? Siakim is still out there so is he not that big of an impact player or what
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Myles Turner walking for nothing because he felt constantly disrespected by Indiana is definitely a story that should get more attention.
 
pdxKingsFan said:
Myles Turner walking for nothing because he felt constantly disrespected by Indiana is definitely a story that should get more attention.
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In what way was he constantly disrespected? They traded Sabonis to allow him to be the feature 5 for a team that made two long playoff runs and got to a game 7 championship deciding game
 
ShastaKingsFan said:
In what way was he constantly disrespected? They traded Sabonis to allow him to be the feature 5 for a team that made two long playoff runs and got to a game 7 championship deciding game
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Then they traded for Siakam but I think they were cheap with salary never offering him more than $20m/year. That's not "featured player" money?
 
pdxKingsFan said:
Then they traded for Siakam but I think they were cheap with salary never offering him more than $20m/year. That's not "featured player" money?
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Most of these guys are going to chase the extra millions if they can and why wouldn't they. Had someone like Monk been signed somewhere else for some more than what the Kings wanted to offer, it probably would have been a similar story. At the end of the day, of course the money is the bottom line in pro sports and there is a lot more to it than respect.

That said, someone like Sabonis isn't worth 20+ million more a year than Turner. So I can understand where his frustration was
 
ShastaKingsFan said:
Most of these guys are going to chase the extra millions if they can and why wouldn't they. Had someone like Monk been signed somewhere else for some more than what the Kings wanted to offer, it probably would have been a similar story. At the end of the day, of course the money is the bottom line in pro sports and there is a lot more to it than respect.

That said, someone like Sabonis isn't worth 20+ million more a year than Turner. So I can understand where his frustration was
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No but that wasn't your question. I don't think the Pacers chose Turner as much as they found a taker for Sabonis first. They had Turner on and off the block and never wanted to commit to him with a payday. Perhaps they are better off for not committing that money to Turner but they definitely alienated the guy.
 
pdxKingsFan said:
No but that wasn't your question. I don't think the Pacers chose Turner as much as they found a taker for Sabonis first. They had Turner on and off the block and never wanted to commit to him with a payday. Perhaps they are better off for not committing that money to Turner but they definitely alienated the guy.
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The Pacers are a strategic organization that has a plan in a smaller market. They know what they're doing with their investments. They envisioned Turner as a lower cost 5 that would fit towards building towards a contender....and they were right. Now we will see if their decision not to invest a bigger multi year contract in him during their gap year pays off for them moving forward
 
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