NBA 2022-2023 Regular Season Thread : Donkey Punching Poole Party

[Krandor]

Kyrie got in front of some microphones again today, the results are about what you would expect.

https://twitter.com/outsidethenba/st...MmGs17k7wvsu_A

Statement put out by the Nets says this exchange was the last straw and why he's being suspended.

https://twitter.com/wojespn/status/1...3Li4PPlX-aBuLw

[Deader2818]

I think the Nets are just done with him

[Krandor]

I think the Nets are just done with him

Different sport but

https://twitter.com/WillBrinson/stat...zbut04I06t80tA

[archibaldcrane]

Love the "5 games minimum" with the clear implication that it's forever unless he apologizes to the actual Jewish people

[Mertron]

probably got suspended for saying he read the oxford dictionary

fuckin nerd

https://twitter.com/joonlee/status/1...0TeWFNe8kjlIgw

[Mertron]

also the “but free speech” warriors are out in full force again

[Deejay]

so he's just banned until he admits what? that he no longer believes his people are og jewish?

what an odd kerfuffle

[Krandor]

I'd assume the bare minimum is to say "no I am not anti-Semitic"

Which he failed to do today despite being asked 3 times

[archibaldcrane]

and "I apologize to the Jewish people, I understand the harms I have caused"

[archibaldcrane]

has anyone seen this movie tho? is it fire?

[Krandor]

It's apparently 3 and a half hours long, so probably not

Edit : except for Pablo Torre I guess

https://twitter.com/PabloTorre/statu...owirXg9ygWNOUw

[Deejay]

and "I apologize to the Jewish people, I understand the harms I have caused"

"I take full responsibility for posting something on instagram or twitter that had unfortunate falsehoods in it"

and "posting a documentary doesn't mean i'm anti-semitic"

it's kinda weird that they suspended him for that

[Koyangi]

optics

[Deejay]

this whole situation is dumb. they nets or the nba should have just suspended him from jump, or gave him 24 hours to apologize before doing it. this just looks like they're mad at him for not bending the knee hard enough

[kisada]

agree

mega virtue signal going on

[Krandor]

I dunno man, he was asked outright 3 times if he's antisemitic and refused to answer.

That's... not great

A lot of what he's been saying/posting could be brushed aside as "ok he's just a dumbass" but there's no handwaving him away refusing to answer that question.

[Andalusian girls]

deej te amo mucho but if jeffrey dahmer was a brother you'd be in here like i'm not defending it but what about all the heads he didn't eat

[Andalusian girls]

agree

mega virtue signal going on

the NBA has never valued ethics over dollars and that was definitively, irrevocably proven when the league collectively bowed down to China as it was brutalizing Hong Kong

but

if you're gonna get fuckin cute with racism you're a cunt and cunts getting slapped is always a +

[kisada]

agree

i mean i sure wish my ideal sport was doing ideal things in my ideal world but life ain't about that

so you take what you can get and i'll always be pleased that the nba's pretty much the best thing we got in terms of being progressive. i often compare that to the nfl, which i assume still has josh gordon on lockdown for weed, and as of more recently was making sure everyone and their mom was hearing them say "wE shUld HAve LIsTeNed tO kAP"

obviously the only thing i can really be mad about is that they (and especially the NBA) didn't do it sooner, because it sends such a terrible fucking message by not.

[Deejay]

deej te amo mucho but if jeffrey dahmer was a brother you'd be in here like i'm not defending it but what about all the heads he didn't eat

spreading hate is WRONG and has no place in amazon prime the nba