NBA Off Topic Thread

[ProfessaPackMan]

Damn that’s wild smh

[DamnYanks2]

Quote: Originally Posted by jeebs9

Well that's very very sad. 25..... Years old .... Damn https://www.espn.com/mens-college-ba...d-pick-dies-25 He's a player before his time. Would it worked out really well. SMH this is sad. I was rooting for him.

Damn way way too young. Didn't really pan out in the NBA. But he was a rock solid big at Purdue. Remember him well.

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[King_B_Mack]

So I know we pride ourselves on being a Skip Bayless free zone around these parts, but this got shared to me on Facebook and I felt like it was worth sharing here. I'm sure he'll weasel out of it with just a suspension or weak *** apology or something, but it would be great if this could finally cancel this idiot.

LeBron isn't around for him to pick on and level his hatred at, so I guess according to the original story, he's been riding on Steph Curry throughout the playoffs and hating on him in LeBron's place and today or whenever this is from, he had this to say....

Quote:

"I don't care what Twitter says. I don't care what anyone says, I just know what I did and did not see from little light-skinned Steph. There have been too many times when he got so light-skinned in the Finals I couldn't see him any more, because he turned into a ghost. He just went 'Poof!' right before your very eyes."

[VDusen04]

Quote: Originally Posted by DieHardYankee26

https://www.sltrib.com/sports/jazz/2...en-utah-jazzs/

I'm not even a Jazz fan but just as a fan of design, this was the article we needed.

Quote: Originally Posted by Andy Larsen

The highlighter yellow is garish. It makes the eyes water, even bleed. In combination with both white and black, it’s just a poor fit. It gets worse, though. In chasing simplicity, the Jazz’s uniform designers make their black, white, and yellow jerseys minimalist to the extreme. Frankly, it looks like they spent about six minutes designing the jerseys; the black and yellow ones especially look like cheap reversible jerseys one might buy for a middle-school team.

I'm not sure I've seen a rebrand botched quite the way the Jazz did here. Their rebrand reveal video was one of the most bizarre I've seen and absolutely the most confusing.



You've got a new scheme and new jerseys, yet the focus of your reveal is a return to an old jersey with the hashtag #purpleisback while showing a '98 jersey that's already been retroed being presented as new while two other purple jerseys are revealed as coming in '23-24 (two purple jerseys the same year?)

Then, they come out insisting that the new black/white/highlighter jerseys totally have a deeper meaning.

Quote:

The white and black uniforms symbolize the white and black keys on a piano, a significant element in the history of Jazz music. The yellow jersey represents the spotlight designated to the greatest performers in history, a nod to the fact that Utah embraces being in the spotlight with all eyes watching.

An insanely tone def, unforced error by new ownership. I just... can't.

If I didn't know better, I'd say this is karma for turning their backs on the Arches gradient unis.

[Yeah...THAT Guy]

Quote: Originally Posted by King_B_Mack

So I know we pride ourselves on being a Skip Bayless free zone around these parts, but this got shared to me on Facebook and I felt like it was worth sharing here. I'm sure he'll weasel out of it with just a suspension or weak *** apology or something, but it would be great if this could finally cancel this idiot. LeBron isn't around for him to pick on and level his hatred at, so I guess according to the original story, he's been riding on Steph Curry throughout the playoffs and hating on him in LeBron's place and today or whenever this is from, he had this to say....

Is there a video? That doesn’t seem real to me but maybe it is

Edit: just saw it. Yikes.


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[DieHardYankee26]

Quote: Originally Posted by Yeah...THAT Guy

Is there a video? That doesn’t seem real to me but maybe it is Edit: just saw it. Yikes. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

I had the same reaction. “Even Skip isn’t quite that flagrant…well I’ll be damned.”

[ojandpizza]

Shannon calls him “the little light skin kid from the Bay” and Skip basically air quotes him when he says it making a joke about he was so light skin that he was a ghost and that’s supposed to have racial intent or something? Idk man. Likely would have made the same exact joke “so white he was a ghost” if this was about *insert white player* too.

Shannon just laughed at the joke. That alone seems like it would be enough to show those trying to make this into something it’s not that Skip was not just randomly making poor-tasted race related comments, which idiot or not just isn’t something he would do.

[King_B_Mack]

Quote: Originally Posted by ojandpizza

Shannon calls him “the little light skin kid from the Bay” and Skip basically air quotes him when he says it making a joke about he was so light skin that he was a ghost and that’s supposed to have racial intent or something? Idk man. Likely would have made the same exact joke “so white he was a ghost” if this was about *insert white player* too. Shannon just laughed at the joke. That alone seems like it would be enough to show those trying to make this into something it’s not that Skip was not just randomly making poor-tasted race related comments, which idiot or not just isn’t something he would do.

......

You've essentially given us the "well Ray Ray calls Bobby the n-word all the time, I was just saying what he said" version of events here OJ.