Oh yeah, faking it is way worse. But being an outspoken poor role model against vaccination for a disease that killed a million people in the US alone is a pretty shitty path too. It just doesn't look as bad now that our vax rates are high, treatments are vastly improved, and Omicron is less deadly.
... who was not a team doctor.
Our team doctor in college kept administering something to me for my knee that was supposed to be a hard-stop after two weeks treatment due to its potency and all I did was yell at him. I’m sure plenty would be fine with an envelope as well.
Right. All I’m saying is that there’s no evidence I know of or reason to think the Brooklyn team doctor would be *likely* to break the law for money. It’s just a lazy assumption that all team doctors are on the take or somehow “compromised.”
The most shots I ever took in college was after I was given a medical treatment that accelerated my heart rate, made me feel less fatigued and gave me overwhelming feelings of well-being. I also really slept on the bus ride home after reading 100 pages in half an hour.
Of course you can find a physician to fake something up for you, but you would have to look for them and assume that they just won’t give you the vaccine anyway rather then wasting some perfectly good sterile normal saline. There are deadbeats in every profession. This section of the website is named for one of them.
Kareem‘s best cameo might be on FX’s Dave, where they really get into his writing and persona. Seems like a really impressive guy all around.
He wrote for Veronica Mars. He might have the most interesting second act of any elite American athlete.
I'm mortified to report that I read this as "Rupert Murdoch" several times and had no idea what you were talking about.
Kareem is what outspoken players from a past
The full article provides some interesting context.
Far be it for me to defend that POS, but Simmons being told in the moment that he should have shot seems OK to me. It's actually more constructive than telling later, when it's more conceptual.
Yeah, that’s incredibly common when playing hoops. Was less demonstrative than that infamous LeBron/JR Smith moment in the finals.
Maybe. Or maybe it will push the kid back into a bubble. If Kyrie is the guy giving advice to someone struggling with some mental aspects of being a pro basketball player, the battle is already lost.
I hear what you're saying. On the other hand, if Ben can't take this sort of feedback on the court, he's already in a world of trouble. I mean, you hear worse stuff on a pick-up court. The only way to get over his confidence issues or whatever they are is for Ben to actually face them, and he's gonna hear a lot worse out there than his teammate telling him to shoot it.
I disagree, but see your point, and in the end hope that Kyrie has made another mistake that will allow many to see him for what he is and mock him as he deserves! Whether this instance deserves that or not! More Kyrie mockery, more better!
I was imprecise, maybe. I wouldn't say he needs tough love. And I'd add that Kyrie and KD, who are also incredibly thin-skinned and hypocritical, are exactly the wrong kind of teammates for a guy like Ben at this time.
That's fair.
I'm 100% on the same page. I don't think you need to apologize for anything. One of the things we underestimate about public figures is how crushing the humiliation of failing in front of millions can be. Not to get to moralistic, but the people who should be apologizing are those who seek to profit off humiliating these people.
I think most of it is who he’s played for, with the 76ers and Nets being conference rivals and repeat playoff opponents. If he was going through the same thing for Denver or Utah or Portland, there would be less reveling in it on here, while if he was on the Heat or Lakers, it would be the same or worse. (I’d even add that the 76ers tanking so prominently to acquire him also feeds into the schadenfreude, like they went through all that and this is what they got out of it? Ditto to the Brooklyn super team now having to rely on him after Kyrie drove Harden away.)
I'm sure that there's a good amount of truth in this.
There's resentment, too. People who are bitter about their own lot in life often enjoy watching people much richer and well-off fail, especially when those people are being paid to play a game.
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I don't know if they do specifically, but I do remember Giannis always having an extra bounce in his step when he plays against Simmons. Some decent back and forth a few years ago:
This is absolutely right. Simmons struggling in Brooklyn and Philly directly impacts the Celtics (positively), so it's pretty natural to root for it. Add in the way that those teams were built (as opposed to the Knicks or Raptors), and it's extra fun seeing them fail to make deep playoff runs. I'll root for Simmons to succeed professionally the minute his success has less of a negative impact on the Celtics.
Actually, think there is relatively little of that. When I think of other guys in sports who developed yips, I am hard pressed to come up examples of fans in general (as opposed to fans of the team's archrival) reveling in their failure. The discourse has been some mix of disbelief, sadness and impulse to avert one's eyes.
