The NBA Thread

[Señora Airi]

Damien Lillard is back with his boo after a two year fling.

 

[Dragged Into Sunlight]

Damien Lillard is back with his boo after a two year fling.

The NBA is so hard up for the next generation of super stars that they're still paying far too much attention to washed stars like Lillard, Westbrook, KD....

In other news, the WNBA All-Stars all showed up to warmups in these shirts and continue to demonstrate how out of touch they are. This is what happens when you have the media trying to artificially prop up the women's leagues and make them seem more popular than they are.

 

[Señora Airi]

In other news, the WNBA All-Stars all showed up to warmups in these shirts and continue to demonstrate how out of touch they are. This is what happens when you have the media trying to artificially prop up the women's leagues and make them seem more popular than they are.

If that were the case, Caitlin would be taking in 90% of the WNBA's revenue. Which I'd be fine with, considering every time she's on the court she's the victim of a hate crime.
I've never seen a sports league so actively hate its main attraction.

 

[Dragged Into Sunlight]

If that were the case, Caitlin would be taking in 90% of the WNBA's revenue. Which I'd be fine with, considering every time she's on the court she's the victim of a hate crime.
I've never seen a sports league so actively hate its main attraction.

It's amazing how mad they were at Shane Gillis' joke about Clarke. The joke Waffle House fight joke implied it was Caitlim fighting black women, when in reality it's black women constantly going after her.

 

[Señora Airi]

Chris Paul going back to the Clippers.

 

[SteinserGate]

Chris Paul going back to the Clippers.

Chris Paul 2nd lob city arc, but it's the second unit, and it's with John Collins and Derrick Jones Jr.
The entire clippers roster looks like a MyTeam from 2018.
It's like Moneyball. Instead of saving on contracts, you are saving money by firing anyone involved in developing young players.

 

[Froggy Fresh Sextape]

I've never seen a sports league so actively hate its main attraction.

The players don't like her. It's understandable from their perspective considering A'ja is a generational talent and nobody cared and oh look here's this white bitch from corn country getting multimillion dollar Nike deals.

Not sure why the league would simply bow to the players like that though.

Clark's averaging less FTs per game than Steph so you know her whistle is completely terrible.

 

[Womble of Wimbledon]

The WNBA is a lolcow organisation. I don't know what percentage of the league's expenses is player salaries, but it is too high as it is.

I also don't understand the Caitlin Clark hate, is it literally just envy? Because everything I have ever heard her say is the usual bland athlete bullshit, has she said/done something controversial apart from be white and be very good?

 

[Super-Chevy454]

I also don't understand the Caitlin Clark hate, is it literally just envy? Because everything I have ever heard her say is the usual bland athlete bullshit, has she said/done something controversial apart from be white and be very good?

Good question, I wondered the same thing and you can add jealousy to the list. Because Caitlin Clark is far away to be a Megan Rapinoe thank goodness.

 

[SteinserGate]

I also don't understand the Caitlin Clark hate, is it literally just envy?

Apparently, 44 WNBA players are gay. There's 13 teams with a minimum of 11 per team. At the very least, there are 143 players.
44/143 = 0.307692307692308, basically 30%. Apparently, there was a shit-ton of turnover on the gay roster, they still increased.
I wouldn't think it's crazy to say there's prob a good handful that haven't came out, pushing it to 50% realistically.


Candace Parker in 2017 basically said that WNBA player culture was anti-straight, jealous, and conformist to whatever the current regime is.




This sounds absolutely crazy btw. What trauma from the WNBA player culture warrants this statement?


If we throw in current day race-relations, you can see why the league hates Catlin Clark.
She is essentially the counter-culture to the entire WNBA while also being one of the best and most popular.
I can only imagine the equivalent is Mahmoud Abdul-Rauf playing in the NBA right after 9/11.

 

[Random Internet Person]

My only thing about the WNBA, and the media in general ,is how they only saw now as a way to take advantage of a big star in the form of Caitlin Clark. Think of all the ballers women’s basketball had since the league started:

Lisa Leslie
Sue Bird
Diana Tuarasi
Sabrina Ionescu
Candace Parker
Maya Moore
Breonna Stewart
Rebecca Lobo
…just to name a few

Some of them got some buzz, but nowhere near what Caitlin Clark recieved.

 

[Super-Chevy454]

Apparently, 44 WNBA players are gay. There's 13 teams with a minimum of 11 per team. At the very least, there are 143 players.
44/143 = 0.307692307692308, basically 30%. Apparently, there was a shit-ton of turnover on the gay roster, they still increased.
I wouldn't think it's crazy to say there's prob a good handful that haven't came out, pushing it to 50% realistically.
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Candace Parker in 2017 basically said that WNBA player culture was anti-straight, jealous, and conformist to whatever the current regime is.

I can only imagine the equivalent is Mahmoud Abdul-Rauf playing in the NBA right after 9/11.

Could we said then Caitlin Clark is the white female quivalent of Jackie Robinson?

 

[Froggy Fresh Sextape]

basically said that WNBA player culture was anti-straight, jealous, and conformist to whatever the current regime is.

It should not really be surprising how it ended up this way. There's a reason why people joke about NCAAW players being future dentists.

The WNBA doesn't pay shit, uproots your life for months at a time AND you'll probably get cut if you get pregnant. If you want to start a family it's a downright terrible career option. If you're a lesbian and just want to hoop then it's more doable.

 

[SteinserGate]

Could we said then Caitlin Clark is the white female equivalent of Jackie Robinson?

Yeah, pretty much.
Jackie Robinson's rookie year got him 5th in MVP voting. Caitlin Clark's rookie year was 4th in MVP voting.
Robinson was pretty good in his rookie season. He had the 2nd most steals, 2nd in Runs Scored, 9th in Doubles, and very solid stats across the board that season.

Clark is the greatest/most prototypical guard in the WNBA.
Her rookie season ranks 13th in points, 1st in assists, and 2nd in 3PT, 1st in 3PT attempts, 1st in TO, etc. of all-time seasons.
You can argue that Caitlin Clark is more to the WNBA than Robinson was to the MLB in regards to their rookie season.

 

[Hulkster]

Dear NBA fan Kiwis, I have an existential crisis. I need you to solve: which team should I root for? For reference, I'm from a military family, and I was born in Dallas and lived there for a couple of years before moving to New Mexico, then California, but now after the divorce, my dad retired and moved back to Texas and settled down in Austin. So recently, me and my dad celebrated his birthday down in San Antonio. It was an amazing city, and he wants me to move with him to Austin.

So now I have an existential crisis: do I root for the Dallas Mavericks, being born in Dallas, or do I root for the San Antonio Spurs that are closer to my dad? Please help me solve this dilemma.

 

[Señora Airi]

Go with the Spurs, they won't hire retards (at best)/malicious (at worst) GMs.

EDIT: Yay that was my 3000th message on the Farms.

 

[SteinserGate]

Dear NBA fan Kiwis, I have an existential crisis. I need you to solve: which team should I root for? For reference, I'm from a military family, and I was born in Dallas and lived there for a couple of years before moving to New Mexico, then California, but now after the divorce, my dad retired and moved back to Texas and settled down in Austin. So recently, me and my dad celebrated his birthday down in San Antonio. It was an amazing city, and he wants me to move with him to Austin.

So now I have an existential crisis: do I root for the Dallas Mavericks, being born in Dallas, or do I root for the San Antonio Spurs that are closer to my dad? Please help me solve this dilemma.

Spurs either (a): Get a generational star and build around them forever, (b): supplement their winning seasons with rental stars right before they begin to sort of decline (DeRozan, Fox prob, Dejounte arcs), or (c): Tank super fucking hard to try to secure an (a) case.
Spurs GMs are pretty much middle-pack (good at trading for picks and stars, sort of suspect team building), but their draft scouts are pretty much top-tier.
You are gonna watch home-grown teams for the most part. If not, it's gonna be middle-of-the-pack winning slop for you. They don't tank for too long.

Dallas throws as much money as possible at their problems, but Dallas as an organization and a free-agent destination is pretty low.
The Knicks photoshop meme with free agents is big, but right behind them is Dallas lol.
Drafting talent seems to be a bit better now. I think there's prob some upside in Dallas in the future. Development of stars is low-to-middle tier.
Be prepared for rage-bait level signings and disappointment in supposed stars, though. You can never fault Cuban for trying as hard as he can to get money flowing with rings.
When Dallas gets good, though, they really take off. It's a really big, go all the way or bust, team they sneakily assemble and send in their contending years.

 

[Womble of Wimbledon]

Both San Antonio and Dallas are banking majorly on "generational talents" carrying them to a championship in the next few years. If I had to bet on one, I would bet on Dallas because Victor Wenbanyama looks like a strong wind could knock him down and he now has an issue with blood clots. Not to mention there has never been a player that tall not riddled with injuries. Cooper Flagg at least seems solidly built.

Man I am not looking forward to the next face of the league being called "Cooper", that is the most current-year shit imaginable.

 

[Froggy Fresh Sextape]

Both San Antonio and Dallas are banking majorly on "generational talents" carrying them to a championship in the next few years. If I had to bet on one, I would bet on Dallas because Victor Wenbanyama looks like a strong wind could knock him down and he now has an issue with blood clots. Not to mention there has never been a player that tall not riddled with injuries. Cooper Flagg at least seems solidly built.

Wemby has a much higher ceiling, although yeah I think he's going to be one of those "what if" players after they scrape his broken body off the court at some point.

Flagg's ceiling is like "Tatum, but 100x more photogenic"

 

[Xavier Renegade Angel]

Dear NBA fan Kiwis, I have an existential crisis. I need you to solve: which team should I root for? For reference, I'm from a military family, and I was born in Dallas and lived there for a couple of years before moving to New Mexico, then California, but now after the divorce, my dad retired and moved back to Texas and settled down in Austin. So recently, me and my dad celebrated his birthday down in San Antonio. It was an amazing city, and he wants me to move with him to Austin.

So now I have an existential crisis: do I root for the Dallas Mavericks, being born in Dallas, or do I root for the San Antonio Spurs that are closer to my dad? Please help me solve this dilemma.

Spurs the league always loves helping them over the years vs rigging finals games against the mavs