Quote Originally Posted by SlimTrae View Post
@TitoFan per this post, there were a few issues, 1. injury (thanks) & then the stuff about the owner- @El Kabong.

Yeah I overheard a few at work talking that. Wasn't sure exactly. You know I don't want to agree with you right? But if I'm as objective as I claim to be, damn this new world racism is just so unnecessary.

So they can't say owner anymore? Reminds me of a scene in the movie Tropic Thunder, Robert Downey Jr playing a black dude responds to Ben Stiller saying 'you people'

Kirk Lazerus aka Robert D "WHAT DO YOU MEAN?.....YOU PEOPLE?
Real black dude Apla Chino aka Brandon J "What do YOU mean...you people?" Classic scene, but never mind if you didn't see it.

I'm okay with athletes, entertainers and etc talking smack about presidents. Trump dishes it out, let him suck it up. If Ted Nugent cant tell Obama to suck on his rifle.....but I digress.

Durant had an injury it seems that maybe he could have still played more than he did is what I gather
And the owner got sucked into a race-bait-debate.

Got it.
Yeah the "controversy" around whole term owner is pretty ridiculous to me. Anyway in that vid Common says what he says that "it's really not being considerate of the history" ?? And just to lay this caveat out beforehand MAYBE I DON'T KNOW BECAUSE I HAVEN'T HAD THE EXACT SAME LIVED EXPERIENCES OF BEING BLACK OR GROWING UP BLACK...but NBA players are at the very least making $838,464 a year (rookie minimum salary from what I could find) and the title of the guy that pays out that money is bothersome I just can't wrap my mind around it...yeah I get Owners and Slavery and that, but we're talking Unionized MultiMillionaires to compare that to slavery is.....well it's a fucking disservice to the hell actual slavery must have been/was...I mean when Lebron left Cleveland the first time, yeah the Owner acted like a jilted boyfriend who was all in his emotions about the hot chick getting away from him and yeah that's a bad look (it's Cleveland's aura though that town is the living beating heart of the Springsteen classic 'Glory Days'), but Lebron was able to leave without any consequences bar a few hurt feelings...from what I understand slavery didn't work in such a friendly "Go ahead leave! I didn't like you anyway!!! WE COULD HAVE HAD SOMETHING SPECIAL!!!!" manner, but hey again not my lived experience (I mean I assume I'm right in my reasoning, but I'm willing to be told I'm wrong and have it explained to me).


Spot on call with the Tropic Thunder reference! That was an epic movie "Simple Jack belong to us now"


Maybe I was younger and didn't pay attention to it so much, but I enjoyed when sports and politics were a bit farther apart...then again you look back into history of many sports and there's a political tinge to things. Jesse Owens in the '38 Olympics....well the Olympics in general have always been a hotbed of political emotion, Louis-Schmelling 1 & 2, USA vs Russia 1980 Lake Placid "Do You Believe In Miracles?", Ali vs damned near everyone, Kareem Abdul Jabaar was politically active during his playing career, and so on....maybe it's the 24/7 news cycle that is the difference and hell maybe more athletes (like everyone else) are dialed in a bit more on politics or maybe it's the change in how news is covered, I don't know....just seems to be a lot more and when fans used to be able to forget the world while watching a game, now you just can't escape it and I guess I wonder where that will take us all....can people disagree politically and still be good neighbors or good citizens to each other at the end of the day? Kind of feels like we're heading away from "Absolutely" and closer to "I don't know" which strikes me as odd for some reason.

Ted Nugent is well out there in terms of his shouting his kind of politics from the rooftops....he's one of the very few Republican/Right leaning celebrities there is. And hell I don't really expect most "artists" regardless of the genre (music, acting, painting, etc) to be Republican or Right leaning but it seems as if 99.99999% are hardcore Mao's Little Red Book carrying Lefties....in sports too which I find shocking.



Oh the Lowry-Owner mix up is here...


Doesn't look like much, but it's certainly too much from ANY fan. Only thing that maybe you wonder about is "What if that was Marc Gasol? Would the reaction have been different?" and that only that guy doing the shoving would know.