Submitted for your approval is the greatest moment in broadcast television history:
With the recent announcement that Call of Duty is going to be played at the X Games this year as an official 'sport' I figured it's a good a time as any to poll the ottiance.
What's your favorite X Game? Ever skateboarded or motocrossed or did a sick flair on a Mongoose bike? Would it be a good place to try out that "Pro Wrestling as an Olympic Sport" model?
What about those classic X Games video games: Tony Hawk's Pro Skater, Agressive Inline, Dave Mirra's BMX 2, and that ESPN Snowboarding game that better than it had any right being - Ever play those?
With the recent announcement that Call of Duty is going to be played at the X Games this year as an official 'sport' I figured it's a good a time as any to poll the ottiance.
What's your favorite X Game? Ever skateboarded or motocrossed or did a sick flair on a Mongoose bike? Would it be a good place to try out that "Pro Wrestling as an Olympic Sport" model?
What about those classic X Games video games: Tony Hawk's Pro Skater, Agressive Inline, Dave Mirra's BMX 2, and that ESPN Snowboarding game that better than it had any right being - Ever play those?
I always liked the Ultimate X at the X games.
ReplyDeleteWe had a local BMX track when I was a kid and I farted around on that a bit. Otherwise I've never been much of an X-treme sports guy.
ReplyDeleteI put more hours into Tony Hawk 2 than I've probably put into any other single entertainment avenue.
Holy shit do I wish the X-Games would go away.
ReplyDeleteSpider-Man is the only acceptable skater in any of those games.
ReplyDeleteTHREADJACK: I can't be the only person who had Jack Tunney/Danny Davis flashbacks when Adam Silver announced that Donald Sterling was "banned for life" from the NBA.
ReplyDeleteMaybe Sterling could use a loophole to return as a player!
How exactly do you ban an owner? Will the NBA force him to sell the team?
ReplyDeleteCall of Duty as an X Games "sport"? I hearby announce my retirement from the human race.
ReplyDeleteOr come back as a ref. Only calling fouls on the black folk. Games would end up as 2 on 2 contests.
ReplyDeleteAnyone watching this Adam Silver press conference? This guy is friggin awesome. No nonsense. Brought down the hammer. Sterling defamed the league and has put the Clippers players in an impossibly awkward situation. I'm so glad Stern retired.
ReplyDeleteDid Silver chase Sterling down to courtside and get on the PA mic to announce it?
ReplyDeleteHe's banned from all NBA events. It's up to the owners, though, to force him to sell/relinquish his ownership by a 3/4 vote.
ReplyDeleteWell how do you define sport? Some people say it combines multiple individual skills into one competition, others say it's that but there needs to be an athletic element.
ReplyDeleteThus, all sports are games, but all games are not sports.
Tony Hawk Pro Skater 3 was quite fun even though I was mostly mashing buttons.
ReplyDeleteGiven that, aside from watching some of the Winter X Games events at the Olympics, that is my only X Games-ish experience, I was lost during "the greatest moment in broadcast history."
Too bad he wasn't in a position of power like deputy commissioner when Sterling had the housing discrimination suit settlement...
ReplyDeleteah, the x games and related: the purvey of douchebags everywhere
ReplyDelete"We had a local BMX track when I was a kid and I farted around on that a bit."
ReplyDeleteand by "farted around on that" you mean you ran around the course busting ass in time with your pace
I imagine there are intense private negotiations happening right now behind the scenes for the sale of the team. The banning happened because it has to. If for no other reason than it would be a HUGE distraction from any game to have that clown sitting in the stands
ReplyDeleteI guess I missed out on some exercise by not playing Call of Duty from the comfort of my couch.
ReplyDeleteIn an age where SPELLING BEES are covered by sports channels, TV has helped blur the line of what is sport. There was a time when I thought NASCAR was silly, but when I read about pulse rates and dehydration and things like precision and timing, I gained a little more respect for it. However, first-person shooters: not a sport. Ever. If you're sweating over a video game, you need to step outside for a bit.
That game is simply nirvana. After that stuff was still really good, but the arcadey nature of some of the tricks irked me.
ReplyDeleteWhat about Poker?
ReplyDeleteWhatever you say Shitty.
ReplyDeleteif he's smart he sells. As long as he is owner the franchise tanks as players won't go there, advertisers ditch, merchandise sales dwindle
ReplyDeleteSilver must know he has the votes to drop the bomb out of the gate.
ReplyDeleteI don't consider playing cards a sport. Also, chess is not a sport. Cheerleading gets a pass because of the physicality involved, but it's very low on the totem pole. Magic the Gathering: not a sport.
ReplyDeleteand what about if they're hot
ReplyDeleteand up the ass?
I have nothing against profesional gamers, I see it like being a pro chess player. A game of skill--but not something that belongs at a sporting event
ReplyDeletefull contact chess!
ReplyDeleteWe were all too poor to actually buy video games, but we played the FUCK out of the Tony Hawk demo disc that came from Pizza Hut. It was just the first level, cut to 2 minutes... repeatedly.
ReplyDelete" However, first-person shooters: not a sport."
ReplyDeletebut what if it's really not a game, a la enders game?
*ominous music*
Why COD?
ReplyDeleteIt's systemicaly less fair and competitive then other games in its own genre--let alone games in general.
Selecting one game and "elevating" it is mucho grando retarted.
This is a publicity stunt.
I love watching Poker. I wouldn't call it a sport
ReplyDeletewhat's even more amusing is that there will be tons of actual stereotypical gamers criticizing gameplay from the comfort of their couches and their doritos and mt dew
ReplyDeletepoker? i barely know her!
ReplyDeleteAgree 100%. Stern would have found a way to piss everyone off and come off as a pussy like always.
ReplyDeleteHell no
ReplyDeleteLove Silver. He's got sone great outside the box ideas also for the nba
ReplyDeleteI hate the X games.
ReplyDeleteAll I know is Tony Hawk 1-3 were badass. Rented 4, disk didn't work, never played another again
ReplyDeletetj:
ReplyDeletelol, what a dipshit
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TK71J_ue0Is
esp when punk refused to compete for his team when kevin steen broke taker's bmx flipity record!
ReplyDeleteUgh.
ReplyDeleteIt doesn't help that FPS players take themselves WAY to seriously. Also have blindness to their own one dimensional-ness. (In that they brag about being best gamer...because they rock at one game)
The fighting and strategy scenes are a lot less hot head filled, and I feel like they know they'd be fucked outside their game of choice.
Random side note. Pokemon players are hardcore mother fuckers
Nailed it.
ReplyDeleteIf you're sweating over a video game, you need to step outside for a bit.
ReplyDeleteSweating for exertion sure, that is ridiculous. sweating because your next pokemon move/starcraft decision could cost you $10, 000 I'll allow
Way to no sell my awesome shit perfoance line yesterday.
ReplyDeletePrick.
I am no fan of X games. Not even anything related to it. When I was a kid, I found Rocket Power boring.
ReplyDeleteWhen is the Otter awards coming out Meekin?
So Sterling is banned for life! Wow. I'm with Mark Cuban that taking a team from someone based on their private words as opposed to their actions is a slippery slope and I'd say a guy like Dan Gilbert and his predatory quicken loans is more offensive but what's done is done. So now that sterling is going to be forced to sell his team.....
ReplyDeleteHow awesome would be it be if he sold the clippers to Seattle???? Everyone wins. Sterling will get top dollar for the team, very likely close to a billion dollars, the NBA gets the old time sonics back as instant contenders (imagine a soncis vs thunder series!!!), LA loses nothing because no one out here cares about the clippers at all, Adam silver not only gets rid of Sterling but he rights David sterns greatest wrong by getting a team back in Seattle.
Is this real? Or a joke? Because adding call of duty to the x games is really stupid. Like ruin the x games level dumb. Why would they do that? Just to get cash from Xbox or Sony? Yikes what a joke
ReplyDeleteExactly. Professional gaming is cool and obviously takes a shit ton of skill. But to add it to the x games...smh
ReplyDeleteNot a video game.
ReplyDeleteI mean "E-Sports" are a pretty big deal in a lot of places in kind of the various niches of the internet, there's HUGE fighting game tournaments, and Star Craft 2 is broadcast on Korean TV to the point where the players get their own endorsement deals and such.
ReplyDeleteI imagine the idea is a little synergy. X Games isn't the name is WAS, with the Dew Tour and a bunch of other stuff kind of diminishing it from its heyday, and adding in some Gamer eyeballs to the X Games could be cool for them and for nostalgia (as they surely remember Tony Hawk as much as anyone else does), and gives competitive gaming a national platform.
It's not really my bag - the most competitive gaming stuff I'll watch is Hearth Stone games for strategy or whatnot, but it seems to make sense in a target demo kind of way.
He's not forced to sell the team yet . He's banned from the NBA, and the owners have to vote a 75% yes vote to remove him from ownership....
ReplyDeleteWell I'm all for competitive gaming and used to play NBA live for cash back in college all the time. I'd even watch a gaming tournament. But to add it to the x games seems like it will ruin the x games.
ReplyDeleteWith the near unanimous agreement with the players, executives, and owners who have spoken out, I don't think this is producing a slippery slope. It's not making a knee-jerk, drastic reaction to something bad. Just about every player and former player was adamant in making this decision. Wussing out on a decision like this would've made things much worse.
ReplyDeleteSterling's words and the immediate blowup afterward had a direct effect on those Clippers players, which is one of the major deciding factors in being decisive about this.
Silver and the owner will act within their bylaws, too. It's what Sterling signed up for.
Eh, it's like having a WeeLc Match at extreme rules. Worse case scenario its an eye roll and a potty break, and best case it kind of surprises folks in a good way.
ReplyDeleteSo he's just banned from going to the games? Is he allowed to make personnel decisions still? I could see Sterling trying to ruin the team to spite the league but I really hope he sells to Seattle.
ReplyDeleteHe's allowed to go to the games, as long as he doesn't bring black people with him.
ReplyDeleteFrom Mark Cuban's twitter: "I agree 100% with Commissioner Silvers findings and the actions taken against Donald Sterling"
ReplyDeleteJust because the majority of people want something doesn't make it right. Out here in California the majority of people voted for prop 8 which attempted to make gay marriage illegal. It passes with 55% to 45% margin. Doesn't make it right. However I don't really care either way. I hope Sterling sells to Seattle because that would be best for basketball or at least comically destroys the team to spite the league and players.
ReplyDeleteWell frankly, that's a rule everyone should follow.
ReplyDeleteHe's banned from everything... Going to games, making ANY decisions regarding the organization, etc. But since he technically still owns the team until the board of governors ( The Owners) vote, he's still collecting revenue and moolah as an owner...
ReplyDeleteI can't imagine Silver does this out of the gate unless he knew he had 3/4 in the bag.
ReplyDeleteCue my dumber Facebook friends posting about infringement on first amendment rights. Morons!
ReplyDeletehttp://m.espn.go.com/nba/story?storyId=10854381&src=desktop&rand=ref~%7B%22ref%22%3A%22https%3A%2F%2Fwww.google.com%2F%22%7D
ReplyDeleteWell I agree with Cuban yesterday then.
I agree....
ReplyDeleteI'm sure he'll sell the team off then. Sonics are about to be back. I hope they get it done in time for next year!
ReplyDeleteYou're morphing this argument into something else. He defamed the league and put players WHO ARE CURRENTLY PLAYING IN THE PLAYOFFS in an awkward and disadvantageous position. The NBA has rules and guidelines they can follow to combat that. They have and they will. If you cannot uphold your end of the bargain in terms of character, then don't buy an NBA team. It's a privilege, not a right.
ReplyDeleteI'm fine with the decision. It's a good decision moraly and it's a great buisness decision. They lost what, 15 sponsors? You pissed off a good chunk of your audience. You pissed off a major chunk of your employees/players. It's what's best for buisness.
ReplyDeleteI don't really care either way but its an interesting thing to see people putting more stock into someone's private thoughts than his public actions. I don't blame the ncaacp for giving him two lifetime achievement awards for charity, because in the words of the immortal clay davis..."I'll take any motherfuckers money if they just giving it away" and I don't blame the NBA for banning him. This isn't the first time he's pissed of the league and I'm not even counting racist stuff. I just hope the clippers end up in Seattle as the sonics!
ReplyDeleteA sport is any time I get off the couch, but someone is keeping score.
ReplyDeleteFirst, it's the NAACP. Second, I think it's healthy to care about these things. That's just me, though.
ReplyDeleteSterling's public actions have been pretty racist too. Its a shame its taken the NBA this long to act.
ReplyDeleteI don't like living in a world where people are lynch mobbed for their private actions but this guy has been pissing off the NBA for a looooong time and I'm sure this is the just the straw that broke the camels back so frankly I don't really care that he got banned. As a basketball fan I'm ecstatic because this opens the door for the return of the Seattle supersonics.
ReplyDeleteI like when the bikers or skateboarders go back and forth on the thing.
ReplyDelete...I dont know what its called but they do flips and stuff and ollies?
Is that right?
No, it's wrong. You could hurt yourself.
ReplyDeleteThe people who do that have bad parents, very bad.
Good shit.
ReplyDeleteI hate racists.
This is far more of a pissing contest amongst billionaires than some kind of social statement. Either way its funny to see a racist with two lifetime achievement awards but like I said who cares where the money came from I'm sure it did some good.
ReplyDeletehttp://deadspin.com/your-complete-quotable-guide-to-decades-of-donald-sterl-1568047212
ReplyDeleteI see what your saying but like Silver said it did become public. And honestly the public, his employees, NBA employees and NBA players and owners all seem to agree this was wrong what he said and don't want to do buisness with this guy.
ReplyDeleteWhat is the event (??) Called. What are the tricks and stuff called? Thats what I meant. If im flipping and I see them doing that then I watch... other tha that I have no interest.
ReplyDeleteThe shit they do on the bikes and skateboards is awesome.
I hate Sterling but this sets a really bad precedent. I'm curious if Silver is trying to exert authority early in his tenure? I hate the punishment
ReplyDeleteThe only thing that really bothers me about this is that quicken loans is one of the most responsible parties for our mortgage/housing bubble and crash that helped kill our economy. I'm sure tons of black people as well as white people lost their homes and savings and credit because of their sleazy practices, and this cocksucker Dan Gilbert has the nerve to high horse Sterling. Sterling is a definite slime bag and this was probably a long time coming but I'd like to see Gilbert punished for his actions too. Won't happen though.
ReplyDeleteWhat precedent is it setting? Its more nuanced that people are making it out to be. Sterling is a long time racist with a history of racial issues in his public life. Its not like he woke up one day and decided he didn't want black people at his games anymore.
ReplyDeleteMakes for great TV. But not a sport.
ReplyDeleteYup. And the info is so out there now, you can't just ignore it. At the end of the day the NBA is a public company and can act as it sees fit to protect its brand. Oh, the whole decency thing.
ReplyDeleteHe didn't commit a crime. He didn't even violate an nba rule.
ReplyDeleteSure he's an asshole and I have no use for him but banning him for life for not breaking a tangible rule/law us always a bad precedent.
Why not do 5 years? Like is this really as bad as gambling on sports like Pete Rose? Maybe in the ethical sense but not within the confines of protecting the game.
I really like Silver and some of his progressive ideas for thr game but this ruling sucks
Well in someways it seems like he's being punished for comments made in private. I'm aware of his past history not even counting the housing discrimination and hes been an abysmal owner for years so this guy literally has zero good will to trade on, but these were things said in private.
ReplyDeleteThe NBA is a private company. If they see this guy as bad news, they can act accordingly. Him staying on board is going to lose sponsorship money and also lead to boycotting of games, players not signing in LA, etc etc. Besides the obvious morality piece, it is as much a business move.
ReplyDeleteBut they are made public. They can't just ignore them at that point, regardless of how the information got out.
ReplyDeleteExcept all the times he has committed crimes. Granted the Baylor lawsuit was thrown out. But I'm pretty sure we know who was telling the truth...
ReplyDeletehttp://www.businessinsider.com/donald-sterling-racist-history-2014-4#!GtAlC
Well what if you privately record a owner saying he hates America and wishes the government would be overthrown, or you get a guy saying he thinks gays are gross, or Christians are all stupid etc
ReplyDeleteWill you lose your team for expressing any unpopular point of view in a private setting?
So should people be punished for their private thoughts if they are made public against the speakers will?
ReplyDeleteNBA is a private company I believe.
ReplyDeleteI'm not arguing that they don't have the right to ban him.
ReplyDeleteIs he worse than Marge Schott? Why lifetime? Give him a 2 year ban or whatever. Lifetime is do over the top for this particular incident. If Sterling had a long history of violating NBA rules, I'd be ok with that.
Has he ever even been reprimanded by the NBA before for anything? Serious question
I wonder if a owner with a better track record (not even counting the discrimination suits) would be treated the same. Sterling has been a god awful owner for years, and I'm sure the NBA has been angling to dump him for awhile.
ReplyDeleteThis.
ReplyDeleteAll All of us have said things in private that would look awful if made public.
ReplyDeleteNever once. And the housing discrimination suits were settled with no finding of discrimination. This was sterlings first punishment.
ReplyDeleteyou really think this is the only time he's talked like that? You know damn well he's said stuff around the Clippers office and while doing official NBA business.
ReplyDeleteIf this is a lifetime thing, I'm more ok with it.
ReplyDeleteHas he ever been reprimanded by the NBA before for anything else? I know about his issues with housing discrimination and other shit.
I'm really curious as if this was a predominantly white sport (baseball) if the suspension would be different. *not that it would condone his actiins
No. Stern never did anything to him. Even cancelled the Chris Paul trade to the lakers and sent him to the Clippers to pair up with Blake Griffen. Stern was a Sterling enabler for years.
ReplyDeletesee post below
ReplyDeleteAnd frankly very few of us have donated as much money to charities that help minorities as to get two awards from the NAACP. Of course he had his own business/tax reasons for doing it but the money still did some good. Sterling is total dirtbag and I'm very excited about the prospect of this team going to Seattle possibly, but I really agree with Cuban that this is a slippery slope.
ReplyDeleteI'm at work and haven't been able to really read a detailed report of the ruling. Does Sterling have to sell? If so, immediately? What are the mechanics of this?
ReplyDeletedevils' advocate:
ReplyDeleteif it was a non-white owner talking about white people, would there be the same outrage and consequences?
I don't know that someone should be punished for their private thoughts regardless of how often they think them. Also I don't personally think people should be punished for things they may have said. But again this is probably more the straw that broke the camels back.
ReplyDeleteNBA owners have to vote 3/4 majority to force him to sell. Unless that is done, he doesn't have to sell.
ReplyDeleteI would hope so.
ReplyDeleteCompletely agree. I wonder if this happened after Silver had been commissioner for awhile if he would have been more lenient.
ReplyDeleteThis screams of him trying to placate sponsors (not that theres anything wrong with that) and asserting himself)
Silver MUST have had the support if other owners to do this I'm guessing also
Of course, lets be serious. White folks are never going to let a black person own a major league franchise.
ReplyDeleteNo chance. In fact in response to Sterling Knicks executive and former NBA star larry Johnson said there should be an all black basketball league with no white people allowed. Promise you LJ won't even have to apologize.
ReplyDeleteWill Larry Johnson lose his job with the Knicks for his comments? No chance.
ReplyDeleteOh. So he just can't go to games?? I'm act a little more ok with that then
ReplyDeletehis comment was just as stupid.
ReplyDeletegames, practices, office, etc.
ReplyDeleteIf you make bigoted remarks that are made public and directly and negatively affect a business, a community, and players (I'd loathe to be in their position to have an "owner"--now ponder on that word for a bit--who is an old-timey, condescending racist)... then, yes, to answer your question.
ReplyDeleteYou deserve the punishment of an NBA team being denied to you. "Ouch. I can't have my 9-figure NBA franchise anymore. I will be forced to sell it for a tremendous profit."
You're confusing rights with privileges, and you obviously haven't had a character clause in any contract you've signed.
Wonder if he actually cares.
ReplyDeleteThe Bobcats?
ReplyDeleteSure but its interesting to note not only will he keep his job, you won't see him have to make a fake apology, and you won't see mike wilbon or someone else work the false outrage angle on TV. I don't care what he said but the hypocrisy is probably worth noting.
ReplyDeleteHe's joking.
ReplyDeleteGreen is the only color people see when they look at MJ
ReplyDeleteRobert Johnson before MJ
ReplyDeleteI did see something the other day saying LJ's comment was stupid because segregation is just as bad as what Sterling was saying. But yeah, he's not a rich white owner, so he'll get by.
ReplyDeleteHe'll be forced to sell once the owner do the vote and get 3\4 approval. He also can't have any involvement with the team.
ReplyDelete"Does Sterling have to sell?"
ReplyDeleteinherent in his gimmick is that he doesn't have to sell, but he probably will sell the ending of his ownership streak
I, like Stephen Colbert, can't see race. I assume because Michael Jordan owns an NBA team that he's white.
ReplyDeleteHe said a major league franchise.
ReplyDeleteAggressive Inline needs more love. Unfortunately it came out between THPS2 and 3 and got buried like a tag team taking Pedigrees.
ReplyDeleteMy fav extreme sports games would be THPS2 (best stages and OST, and I prefer the pre-revert system) and SSX3 (played it so much I ruined 2 PS2 controllers; amazing game)
He is a rich black executive though.
ReplyDeleteThere was also something about him having to have unprotected sex with Magic Johnson.
ReplyDeletethps, ost, ssx3..
ReplyDeletewtf?
He already owned the team. Someone taking your property from you is a punishment. If I secretly recorded everything you did and as soon as you said something bad I immediately went and fucked you up at your job would that be a fair thing to do?
ReplyDeleteNo he can't do anything at all with the team.
ReplyDeleteThey aren't "taking his property". They are forcing him to sell his property, pursuant to league rules he agreed to when purchasing the team.
ReplyDeleteI can't believe theres all this grandstanding about racism or privacy and we're not all speculating about what happens to the team. Will sterling gut it to spite everyone? Will he do the right thing and sell it to the Seattle group. Will he misguidly attempt to keep the team? Will he try and keep them in LA?
ReplyDeletePlease please please sell them to Seattle Donald.
The NBA bylaws are confidential so I dont know what the standard is for that but the maloofs were allowed to keep a team for years when they had no money so it may not be that easy
ReplyDeleteYeah I don't know what the fuck was up with that. Any of the other major sports, owners like this would have been gone a long time ago.
ReplyDeleteTHPS = Tony Hawk's Pro Skater
ReplyDeleteOST = original soundtrack
SSX3 = name of that game
It would be fucking hysterical tho if the Clippers won the title this year. The awkwardness when they usually hand the owner the trophy would be phenomenal
ReplyDeletePretty sure he doesnt, Silver made it clear Sterling showed no remorse for his comments. Hes fine reaping the money before selling it off way more than he bought it for.
ReplyDeleteExactly. That's kinda what I was getting at. He's already made his money back in his investment, multiple times over. He obviously doesn't really care about winning a title. I'd bet this barely bothers him unless he has to sell. The owners vote is gonna be more interesting to me
ReplyDeletehe wouldn't be there.
ReplyDeleteId think itd be the opposite. Sterling wouldnt even be in the building so Doc or CP3 take it to roaring approval
ReplyDeleteThey're not going to let the end result of this be that the Clippers (who have a huge minority fanbase) are moved to Seattle, one of the whitest cities to own an NBA team.
ReplyDeleteSterling didn't care for the longest time about the clippers. They were the biggest joke of a franchise for a long time until Stern and the NBA decided to "push" them as another big team in LA.
ReplyDeleteYea, that's what I was getting at. Would be even better tho if Silver had to give him the trophy
ReplyDeleteThe NBA and the mistress are two different parties, and in this hypothetical, you've merged the two parties into one, so it's not a perfect comparison. Still, it wouldn't be fair of you as the person who recorded it, but if my employer decided it no longer needed my services because of it becoming public, I would have to accept it. And if I was reimbursed for the property for an exorbitant amount (which he will be), then yes, it's fair.
ReplyDeleteYou think people are faking outrage over this?
ReplyDeleteAny analysis yet by an "insiders" on how the owners are gonna vote? That's gonna be the fascinating
ReplyDeleteThey are not moving to Seattle.
ReplyDeleteSkateboarding, poop, and board games. The QOTD everybody!
ReplyDeleteWell he cant gut anything since hes now barred from all basketball related decisions.
ReplyDeleteAs others said below, I'm sure Silver had 3/4 already before going with the lifetime ban.
ReplyDeleteSome people act like Sterling owns the Clippers like he would own an independant, private business. He owns them like someone who owns a Subway franchise. Yeah, he owns it, but he still has someone to answer to over stuff like this.
ReplyDeleteI'm hoping for Seattle, too. But even if he doesn't sell it to that interested party, can't we just get an expansion team in Seattle? Some will point to the Bucks or Pistons as saying the league is diluted as it is already, but these playoffs and the last 15 years of Western Conference playoffs show that it's a highly competitive and entertaining league. There's enough in Seattle to fully support a team.
ReplyDeleteExactly. There is a reason teams are called "franchises"
ReplyDeleteMost have said Silver wouldnt throw out strongarming him out of the team unless hes already talked to enough owners to be certain it'd get the 2/3rds of the vote, and some owners have already backed it.
ReplyDeleteMakes you feel like a kid again, eh?
ReplyDeleteI support the theory that they like having Seattle open in order to strong-arm cities into building arenas, subsidizing teams, etc. Great leverage tool.
ReplyDeleteTony Hawk Pro Skater ftw
ReplyDeleteIt's called vert. Check out the video at the top to watch Tony Hawk - arguably one of the greatest Skaters of all time (at least in name recognition) go NUTS over one of the craziest come from behind runs in vert history.
ReplyDeletea/s/l?
ReplyDeletedtf?
I dunno man, THPS1 had Goldfinger's "Superman" which is a gaming classic.
ReplyDeleteSterns biggest black eye is letting the sonics go to okc. If silver is trying to right some wrongs made by stern he can dump Sterling and a get a team in Seattle in one fell swoop. Even with this ban any time you buy a ticket to a clippers jersey you're still putting cash in Sterlings pocket. They need him to sell and the Seattle move gets the most money and does well by the NBA.
ReplyDeleteAlso there is a pretty popular team in LA already that has 99% of the fan market share. People only go to clippers games because they couldn't get Lakers tickets. I've lived in socal for 14 years. I've met more Lakers fans than I can even comprehend and I've never met one clippers fan (yeah Theres some bandwagon cp3 griffin fans but let the Lakers field a remotely competitive team and they are gone). No one will care if the clippers leave and they are never ever cracking the Lakers market share. People out here will fight you over the Lakers.
If silver is trying to right sterns wrongs he gets a team in Seattle asap and this is a great opportunity.
No one is saying the NBA can't do this. (Well we don't really know what they can and can't do since the bylaws are confidential and the maloofs kept a team for years when they had literally no money and just kept borrowing against the team to fund other ventures). Some of us are saying the punishment for private thoughts is a concept worth thinking about, and also wondering/pointing out Knicks executive Larry Johnson won't be punished for equally racist comments he made publicly.
ReplyDeleteThat's not going to happen though. They are going to stay in Los Angeles. Seattle is going to be like LA in football, always used as a relocation threat.
ReplyDeleteOf course
ReplyDeleteIt would be extremely awesome if it did and the clippers are a team no one in LA would miss.
ReplyDelete12/female/Boise
ReplyDeleteYes!
not gonna go there; i'm not jerry lawler
ReplyDeletebesides, how do i know you're not just pj polaco in disguise?
A. Hypothetical- you're the boss, overseeing a staff of 50 people. You have a private conversation with your girlfriend where you say the same racist shit Sterling said. She secretly tapes it and disseminates it publicly so that everyone at work hears it. You don't think any action should be taken, even though you oversee people of the same race you claim to despise? You don't think employees have a right to *not* feel like their boss harbors discriminatory feelings towards them?
ReplyDeleteB. Larry Johnson's comments are "equally racist" the same way cracker and the n-word are "equally racist".
Sooner or later, we need a QOTD with the question of "What do you want to talk about today?
ReplyDeleteA no
ReplyDeleteB thats a borderline racist answer IMO because you're acting like black people shouldn't be held to the same standard as white people. LJ is a executive for the new York Knicks. He said there should be an all black league where no whites are allowed. As an executive for the Knicks he is responsible for the scouting and signing of players, scouts and coaches. Him saying that indicates to me he will probably be prejudiced against non blacks. He also made these comments publicly, as a member of the Knicks front office. For you to brush it off with a childish joke while claiming to be outraged by sterling suggests that you think black people aren't as responsible for their actions as white people, which is as racist as the behavior you've been claiming to condem.
How do I know your not?
ReplyDeleteHe probably didn't care until someone told him no. I bet he makes this really ugly. Nothing to be about Sterling says class act who will ride off into the sunset quietly
ReplyDeletehttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dw_mRaIHb-M
ReplyDelete*inserts "i'm him, he's me" scene from sixteen candles
ReplyDeleteI feel there's an element of cultural race versus actual race at play with a lot of this.
ReplyDeleteNot sure what your point is. Are you saying a black NBA executive shouldn't be held to the same standard as a white NBA executive. You don't see anything racist about your attitude? You're basically calling blacks inferior by holding them to a lower standard.
ReplyDeleteI saw that picture once in science class when the teacher just didn't give a fuck.
ReplyDeleteOh man the internet and twitter are already peppered with clips to Seattle stories. However its apparently a completely unknown area about who will control the sale, Sterling or the NBA but it sounds like sterling has a firm legal ground to sue to control the sale but no one really knows right now.
ReplyDeletehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1-rXOlnntDQ
ReplyDeleteIf Larry Johnson is only committed to signing black players, I think the Knicks have a bright future.
ReplyDeleteSo the Knicks shouldn't hire a white coach or scout either, or try to sign a guy like Kevin Love or JJ reddick or al horford? Just because they're not black...that isn't racist?
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