Shaq thinks Coaching is overrated. Kenny "I played your teams before Phil Jackson, and you were easy to beat"

[NYC Rebel]

Jealousy in regards to the bread

I'm not tryna carry myself like Chuck or Shaq ain't 50 plus

shyt is embarrassing.

I find that NBA players dont carry a fraternity mentality among each other as do other sports current and past players

 

[Gil Scott-Heroin]

I see the most negativity coming from black folks though about the product, so its not just Shaq and Chuck. Maybe the NBA should look at fixing the issues and not just silencing those critical.

Except you're assuming that this negativity is warranted and comes from an honest place.

Do you think that's the case? Do you think those folks are being fair with their criticism? Or are they just hating?

I will add - the most negativity comes from Right-wing puppets, who actually shape politically-driven agendas to use as fodder because they believe the NBA has become "too woke". It's why you have cats on this board who've ignorantly sourced the decline in TV ratings from MAGA domains with shyt like this -

NBA Is The Original Bud Light, And No One In Mainstream Sports Media Will Tell You That | Clay Travis

Bud Light's business has collapsed since April, plummeting 30% in consumption, the result of the company putting a trans influencer on a can to celebrate the NCAA's March Madness

www.outkick.com

NBA alienated fanbase by going woke. It turns out Republicans don't just buy sneakers, they really like NBA basketball. Or at least they used to.

LeBron James, Adam Silver embrace left-wing madness

I think it's mostly a story about two superstars, one, Michael Jordan, who created a brand and a league that people of all types loved and another, LeBron James, who created a brand and a league that was fueled by identity politics.

Woke ideology will plague NBA

You've got to ask yourself, are you on the right side if you're aligning yourself with the same mentality as these crackas?

 

[Rekkapryde]

Very unfortunate how dumb Shaq is

he gets away with it.

 

[GoldenGlove]

Name a single business model where its employees openly trash its employers. Where is that EVER ok?

I'm all ears.

The NBA and TNT's Inside the NBA seem to be doing an extremely good job at this business model wise no?

 

[NYC Rebel]

The NBA and TNT's Inside the NBA seem to be doing an extremely good job at this business model wise no?

They are doing good for THEMSELVES at the expense of the GAME.



What is it that you aren't getting?

Good God....these conversations in here.

 

[KidJSoul]

No one here is gonna bring up that Kobe wasn't in his prime yet?

If Shaq had 2001-era Kobe in tbe 90s, they would have won a chip before Phil Jackson

 

[verbaltelekinesis]

Greg Poppovich fukking exists!

He is the epitome of beating you with his 5 and then taking your five and beating you again.

Shaq is a fukking know nothing buffoon.

 

[Flight]

I hope ESPN doesn’t bring dude on board man….

All he says is bullshyt

 

[MustafaSTL]

When they have a slate of games that are trash and have multiple high profile players missing due to injury or load management, what would you like the hosts to say?

They only really shyt on the "product" or tell fans that they can turn off the channel when the game they have on that night is ass for the most part.

Who has sat out for load management this year?

 

[Boonapalist]

No one here is gonna bring up that Kobe wasn't in his prime yet?

If Shaq had 2001-era Kobe in tbe 90s, they would have won a chip before Phil Jackson

You’re telling on yourself with this comment. There is no 2001 era Kobe without Phil, Tex and the triangle.

And I’m pretty sure you didn’t watch the Del Harris/Kurt Rambis Lakers

 

[duckbutta]

again shaq was not a hooper he was a professional wrassler*

When Candace Parker had to explain pick and roll defense to Shaq, who of course spent 100% of his nba career in drop coverage never playing any defense in the pick and roll, that's when i realized you actually can be great at something without knowing anything about it.

 

[thelonious21]

This show needs to go.

The NBA deserves so much better than being used for engagement farming like Shaq attempted to do

It's Shaq

Bring back C Webb and GP

 

[Born2BKing]

The U.S. adult literacy rate is around 46% of adults with a literacy proficiency at or above Level 3.

This means more than half of Americans have a reading comprehension/literacy level that is below 6th grade. Therefore, and I say this with no disrespect, it does not make sense to debate or argue w/ people online who appear to sincerely lack the ability to comprehend literary complexity of the type of subject matter one is speaking on.

This is where we are at with dude.

Damn nikka we was cool and you going to go this low on a nikka? The fukk?

 

[NYC Rebel]

Damn nikka we was cool and you going to go this low on a nikka? The fukk?

I honestly thought you were someone else. My bad

 

[nieman]

I think that its uncomfortable that of all the major American sports its basketball that has the most negative rhetoric around it.

The sport with the most black stars has the most toxicity when it comes to those stars.

This rhetoric is not from fringe media outlets but those sponsored and supported by the league itself.

The NBA is also the most "get the bag" league of the 4 majors. Its own participants treat the actual game like an afterthought. There's very little passion involved around it - the most passion comes from retired players. You have to drag most football players off the field. Baseball players love their game, even as popularity diminishes, and hockey players go all in for their sport.

So if you have an entire generation that get paid what they do, have the most rights/freedom/authority and still don't love the game, those that played for pennies and would play for free, feel their game is disrespected. And there's enough of the the population in which you can generalize it.