Tyrese Watch

[Padrino]

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.

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.

 

[Kingster]

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.

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.

 

[Tetsujin]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1937913620454593006

 

[Tetsujin]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1944755541852459070

 

[Tetsujin]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1967597064235462659

The internet gonna have a field day with that second photo if Tyrese comes back and plays like ass lol

(Also those shoes are booty grease)

 

[Capt. Factorial]

(Also those shoes are booty grease)

For those of us from Gen-X and older, is "booty grease" good or bad?

 

[pdxKingsFan]

I'm going with bad, Cap.

Clearly I am not the market for this stuff.

 

[kingsboi]

basketball shoes keep getting and looking worse by the year. Players still haven't caught on what Stewart is doing

 

[macadocious]

For those of us from Gen-X and older, is "booty grease" good or bad?

Nike made the same shoe 30 years ago. I had them.

 

[Tetsujin]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1978491625140617462

 

[kingsboi]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1978491625140617462

social media can do that if not careful, take the Jokic approach and just stay far away Hali

 

[Padrino]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1978491625140617462

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?

 

[hrdboild]

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?

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.

 

[pdxKingsFan]

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.

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.

 

[Insomniacal Fan]

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?

I don't think forswearing social media is a good business decision if you're trying to be a public figure.

 

[ShastaKingsFan]

I don't think forswearing social media is a good business decision if you're trying to be a public figure.

Depends on the reality of your situation, what you have experienced, and if it will improve your focus and potentially make you better at your actual job

 

[Padrino]

I don't think forswearing social media is a good business decision if you're trying to be a public figure.

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.

 

[pdxKingsFan]

I don't think forswearing social media is a good business decision if you're trying to be a public figure.

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.