2023 NBA All Star Weekend Game Thread
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Right? I mean yes, its a huge amount of money for these programs, and yes they start at 150K. But the NBA or whomever the sponsor for it can easily afford to say 50K for the losing team, 100K for the winning so, you know, ALL the kids win from pennies in the NBA sofa
Holy shit.
Do you have any insight into what it is about the music industry that makes the execs tey to obscure from us unwashed masses that their cutting edge talents are well versed in previous music? This reminds me of finding out that Prince was an amazing guitar player. Is it some notion of wanting to promote the idea of sui generis prodigy? Because this shit it amazing, and I love learning that he’s steeped in grunge—and it makes so much fucking sense. And he’s even rocking the house dress style that Mike from Phish does…
So what the hell?
For me that would be great. For this and Super Bowl, it always sucks. Even when it’s good it’s good “for a halftime show”. The one exception is Prince who might be the greatest pop musician of the last 50 years.
Neither of those things were really hidden. Prince shreds in the hit movie Purple Rain and the Nirvana tribute was covered a lot when it happened. I think this a more of function of you being into a lot of things that you missed it.
I think you increasingly need to follow a lot of what you academics call “secondary literature” to find it. Prince’s guitar stuff is obvious on live stuff, but not in his albums, for example. Like, maybe I would have wanted to watch Purple Rain if I knew he could play guitar.
All sorts of bands have this going on; The Grateful Dead may have pioneered it—find out what the real version sounds like if you go look. I kind of get it: Reward the real fans… but I dunno… as someone who wasn’t raised to learn how to find music, I get left out. I think my thoughts would give Jerry some pause, though I do get what they’re doing with it. So I’m conflicted.
Don't we talk about LBJ enough? He got a 30 min interview during the pregame show. All the love during the broadcast. I'd much rather hear a story about a guy like Dame than more Bron
Maybe, idk. Klosterman spoke about this referencing the album:
At the apex of Prince's career, I listened almost exclusively to metal. My sister actually purchased 'Purple Rain' on cassette, which I write about in my anthology ["Chuck Klosterman IV: A Decade of Curious People and Dangerous Ideas"]. And I felt ashamed that I liked Prince so much. A typical rock fan would be embarrassed that they liked Warrant or Ratt at the time, but I had the exact opposite experience. And I had this overwhelming fear that Prince was actually a better guitar player than any of the metal gods.
Hell no. He belongs in prison. I’m happy they are starting to pay attention to what he did.
Yes! You nailed exactly what I mean! (So often you do get me…
)Like, I loved guitar. Had no idea Prince was a guitar god. And no less than Klosterman needed his sister to clue him in?
Looking forward to @CaptainLaddie ’s thoughts. And, like, increasingly, the genres have really been crashed for musicians, but I sometimes feel like the boundaries are being buttressed by industry, and I wonder if it’s because it makes segmenting marketing easier.
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If NBC ends up winning the broadcast rights to the NBA. Hopefully they can bring back the above
If NBC ends up winning the broadcast rights to the NBA. Hopefully they can bring back the above
Team Giannis already has 144 points - can they hit 200 tonight?! And Tatum clearly leading for MVP right now
The 24 point max 4th will kill it unless they get insanely hot for the rest of the third
So Joe is coaching Tatum the same way in the allstar game as a C's game? The whole 3rd and 4th coming? I'd be less minutes due to the cap in the 4th
