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Catdaddyhorn

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  1. @ztejas I totally get and agree with the Booker/Kobe comparison. Booker isn't anything like Klay. For one, Booker only shoots like 34% from 3, and two he does way more off the dribble than Klay could ever dream of doing. Klay and Booker aren't in anyway comparable players outside of their skin tone. Obviously Booker isn't near as good as Kobe, but in today's game and style of play he's a midrange assassin akin to what Kobe was.
  2. What I've never understood about Cuban's cap hoarder-worship at the God of uber free agents approach is that his 2 best teams were built with 1 mega star surrounded by a number of players who were 6s & 7s with Jason Terry flashing an occasional 8 in a couple big games. This year's Atlanta squad is proof positive that approaching the draft with some level of seriousness and not attempting to hit a homerun free agent every offseason can yield great results. Yet every year it's the same shit with him, bypass quality free agents in hopes of striking it rich with the pipe dream of a Giannis or Kawhi.
  3. What do you mean?!! He told us he has not just one, but two medical degrees at the school board meeting a few weeks ago.
  4. The finals being in July as opposed to June probably isn't really helping those ratings.
  5. What part of me saying many Nigerians have English surnames negates the fact that most them have ethnic names? Igbo's are primarily Christians and the overwhelming majority of them have Igbo names, however there are a few, like Vincent's Dad, who have english surnames as well. I highlighted the fact that Gabe's middle name is Nnamdi in my original post.
  6. Vincent's dad is Nigerian and more than that many Nigerians have English surnames which is a function of being a former British colony akin to Indians having surnames like Thomas, Jacobs, or Matthews.
  7. The thing about bigs like Mobley playing at the college level is its difficult to get a good assessment of how good they really are. There simply isn't a lot of space on the interior for college bigs. And on top of that they are typically limited by lackluster guards who either don't realize their bigmen need the ball or can't get it to them consistently. The fact that Mobley is a extremely fluid athlete with seemingly high skill level makes him intriguing and easily the top pick in the draft if we weren't in the guard/wing era of NBA basketball.
  8. To add to what you quoted from the same article: "Ratings are only a fraction of the NBA's audience Armchair TV ratings experts often cast aside the nuances of an inherently flawed metric that is increasingly under fire (i.e., the exclusion of regional network simulcasts, and Nielsen only began including out-of-home viewership — an expected double-digit numbers increase — in October, when sports bars were mired in a pandemic), they also ignore the fact that TV ratings account for a fraction of the NBA's media consumption. The NBA reaches a billion people in more than 215 countries across the world, and roughly three quarters of its viewers are outside the U.S., boosted by the popularity of Antetokounmpo, Embiid, Nikola Jokic, Luka Doncic, four of the top six vote-getters in the MVP race. Global viewers on League Pass for the playoffs are up 18% from last year and 24% from 2019, per the NBA. None of them are included in Nielsen ratings. Neither is the majority of the NBA's 56 million Instagram followers, an audience that generated 6.55 billion views and counts about twice the following of the NFL, NHL and MLB combined. The league is approaching 9 billion lifetime views on YouTube — again, almost as many as the three other major American sports leagues combined. Nearly 70% of the NBA's social media followers are outside the U.S." It's interesting that the NBA's ratings are such a hot topic among a certain group of people. It's almost as though they have a vested interest in NBA ratings going in a certain direction.
  9. Giannis hasn't always been a garbage free throw shooter. He needs to return to whatever he was dying a few years ago.
  10. The NBA had a different set of protocols if a teams had over 75 or 85% of their players vaccinated. When Dennis Schroeder went on an extended quarantine it meant that at least 2 of the Lakers weren't vaxed at the time. People theorized that it was Schroeder and Lebron who weren't vaccinated at time because comments made by Schroeder about this length of his quarantine. I say all this to say that a certain point of the season most teams were over that 85% threshold.
  11. And that's no different than TNT. Shit, Turner Sports owns NBAtv in conjunction with the NBA. They operate under the same parameters as ESPN, but somehow they manage to put out a much better product when broadcasting that same entity.
  12. His original True Hoops podcast crew with Ethan Strauss, Tom Haberstroh, Zack Harper, Wosny Lambre, and the occasional Tim Mcmahon pop in on there were all awesome together. There were a few others on as well. They had a rotating cast of characters who all played off each other well. And they told great behind the scene stories when they weren't bossa novaing it to music. And of course like ESPN tends to do, they ruin good things that come about organically. All the talk about ESPN's pregame studio show sucking in comparison to Inside the NBA stems from the fact that they clearly micromanage any authentic behavior right out of their on-air talent. Someone mentioned it earlier, but Michelle Beadle was easily the best pre game host out of any of them, who alongside the right crew (here's a hint Jalen and Jason aint it), would've struck the right balance of funny and basketball analysis.
  13. Multiple people shared it. Only one person was reprimanded for sharing it. That person shared it with Maria Taylor who was the subject of discussion. Amin made a great point in how ESPN could've easily figured out which employees were working when Rachel had her conversation recorded and gotten down to the bottom of who actually did the recording. However, it didn't seem as though ESPN (a company that in the past has seen one of their main talents surreptitious recorded in the nude) took the fact that it was an invasion of privacy seriously.
  14. After listening to the podcast I've changed my mind a bit on this issue. ESPN really is a poorly managed company and they essentially setup this situation where these women would view each other as threats. They even gave voice to the idea that Nichols claims of the role being in her contract may actually be true and it's part and parcel with ESPN's inability to make tough decisions before they get to a boiling point. And Amin called the claim that Rachel's TVU app malfunctioned or was somehow operator error complete bullshit. Apparently the app can be controlled remotely by ESPN employees.
  15. Good color on the behind the scenes stuff pertaining to this issue on Dan Le Batard Show's podcast The discussion begins about 25 minutes into the link. Goes into the poor management practices at ESPN and essentially setting up this Highlander, "there can only be 1" situation. https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/local-hour-jemele-hill/id934820588?i=1000528005298
  16. That's fair and I probably short cutted to how these conversations usually go. Typically when references to quotas and diversity hires are made it's as a stand in for hiring people who aren't qualified while most people of color view it as a mechanism to combat entrenched, prejudicial tendencies in hiring practices.
  17. Could've sworn that both Nichols and Taylor hosted the NBA countdown show for the remainder of that season after Beadle left. They switched in and out. Sometimes going with The Jump style NBA countdown show, which Nichols would host, and then going with Taylor as the host in a conventional setting. ESPN didn't choose to go with Taylor as the sole host over Nichols until the bubble. A decision which is clearly what Nichols was responding to in her conversation with Mendelsohn. Interesting that Nichols felt entitled to a a position that ESPN clearly demonstrated they were both auditioning for during the season.
  18. Ultimately you end up with shit like this. https://www.instagram.com/reel/CP3qvInAMO2/?utm_medium=copy_link
  19. I read some article about this the other day. The NBA has something called the "gather provision". I'm not sure when it was instituted, but suffice to say some time between my last high school game in 1995 and now, a change was made. Or at the very least a change in how the rule is interpreted was explicitly changed by NBA head honchos. It boils down to how lenient the NBA is vs other leagues on the gather step. Essentially the NBA doesn't count the gather step as part of your 2 allotted steps after picking up your dribble.
  20. So let me get this straight. When Big Brother was 95% white it wasn't manufactured or contrived or anything. It was totally reflective of society at large? They really went and jumped the shark when they .....check notes..... made cast 60% white instead of the 95% they had in previous years?
  21. From the article: I first discovered Foxnews during the runup to the 2000 election. Probably sometime during that summer 2000. So I can't really speak to what Foxnews was for the first 4 years of its existence ('96-'00), but ever since I've been aware of it the idea that it was in any way a truthful, center-right news network is absolutely laughable. They've never ever attempted to be good faith actors in my view. The only difference is the toxicity of the fires they start now has increased compared to what they were doing 20 years ago.
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