Welcome Jared McCain!

[Stanford]

Tons of men under 30 wear it, especially under 25, including the straight men (I teach at a University).

I understand that, but they're also big basketball fans? There's enough of those people?

[76thBearCub]

Yes

[M2J]

Tons of men under 30 wear it, especially under 25, including the straight men (I teach at a University).

I understand that, but they're also big basketball fans? There's enough of those people?

Half of his 5 million tiktok followers

[Stanford]

Fair enough. I'm not on tiktok

[fkd215]

I would guess there are a lot of young guys who would like to try painting their nails, but would catch **** from other guys if they did. Maybe the fact that the polish comes from a pro athlete gives them a little cover, makes it a little safer. That might be part of the market.

[SixthStreet]

I'm in my mid 40s but play basketball weekly with a group that is mostly in their 20s. There's a few guys who occasionally show up with painted nails and then a lot of positive curiosity by a lot of the rest of the guys. That's just my little anecdote.

[Arsenal]

Being the next Steph will sell a ton of nail polish no doubt!

[Jailblazers7]

A big part of the business strategy is the earned media this gets Sally Hansen. They can do a relatively limited run of inventory, have Amazon handle fulfillment operations, and generate a ton of publicity because of the novelty. If it turns into a legit product, they can scale it pretty easily into a long-term collaboration.

[M2J]

My note on the nail polish thing is I have a friend in late 30s that does it. He's kinda an artist, but it looks way better than Jared's because it's art, he gets designs not just full color on big ass hands.

Jared's nail beds look larger than most people's fingers because of the full color and it's odd looking. He should get like 76er logos or create his own logo to put onto it. Jared's said Clarkson was his inspiration as he was for many, but Clarkson often gets designs too

For example



Vs

[LeonJordanJr24]

Gross

[Negrodamus]

My note on the nail polish thing is I have a friend in late 30s that does it. He's kinda an artist, but it looks way better than Jared's because it's art, he gets designs not just full color on big ass hands.

Jared's nail beds look larger than most people's fingers because of the full color and it's odd looking. He should get like 76er logos or create his own logo to put onto it. Jared's said Clarkson was his inspiration as he was for many, but Clarkson often gets designs too

For example



Vs

IIRC, he does it because he kept biting his nails and it stopped him from doing so. So putting designs on it doesn’t add the utility of painting the whole nail.

[the_process]

Being the next Steph will sell a ton of nail polish no doubt!

No pressure, Jared.

[sodmoraes]

In a not at all related to basketball question, would you guys, in the US, classify Mccain as a black person? Probably a polemic question, but here in my country( Brazil), in the last 10 years, we are having a lot of laws reserving a percentage of hires in the public sector to black and brown people( mixed race, known here as "pardo"), like a kinda of DEI hiring you guys got there.. As here there are a lot of good jobs in the government, there has been a lot of problems with this law ( known as "cota"), since a lot of people tried to pass as black or mixed race, so they invented like committee in every government hiring process known as "Banca de Heteroidentificação", which,in reality, can be described as a Racial Court, since they will decide if you are apt to use this benefit.

The thing is that this is really problematic in brazil, since we are a really mixed people( most part of the population is considered pardo), but, in reality, in most selections the" bancas de heteroidentificação" tend to privilege the black people, and most mixed people are rejected( doesnt matter if your parents are black, they only consider your phenotypes). So thats why im asking the question about Jared. Looking at his features( hair and nose) it seems evident his mother or father are black, but here, in brazil, i have my doubts if he would be able to use the "cota", since his skin isnt black enough to be considered black by this ridiculous committes.

[Stanford]

wtf

[Arsenal]

In a not at all related to basketball question, would you guys, in the US, classify Mccain as a black person? Probably a polemic question, but here in my country( Brazil), in the last 10 years, we are having a lot of laws reserving a percentage of hires in the public sector to black and brown people( mixed race, known here as "pardo"), like a kinda of DEI hiring you guys got there.. As here there are a lot of good jobs in the government, there has been a lot of problems with this law ( known as "cota"), since a lot of people tried to pass as black or mixed race, so they invented like committee in every government hiring process known as "Banca de Heteroidentificação", which,in reality, can be described as a Racial Court, since they will decide if you are apt to use this benefit.

The thing is that this is really problematic in brazil, since we are a really mixed people( most part of the population is considered pardo), but, in reality, in most selections the" bancas de heteroidentificação" tend to privilege the black people, and most mixed people are rejected( doesnt matter if your parents are black, they only consider your phenotypes). So thats why im asking the question about Jared. Looking at his features( hair and nose) it seems evident his mother or father are black, but here, in brazil, i have my doubts if he would be able to use the "cota", since his skin isnt black enough to be considered black by this ridiculous committes.

In the US historically, we've gone by the "one-drop rule" meaning any black ancestry whatsoever would classify you as black. Functionally, that would be if you have around 1/4th to 1/8th black ancestry or more, since if it's less than then people would typically "pass" as white (or not black).

So Jared McCain would be classified as black in the US by most people.

However, we also have cases of people like Elizabeth Warren who claimed to be Native American with virtually zero native ancestry, in order to abuse affirmative action programs similar to your cota laws.

[Jailblazers7]

What the f*ck is going on in here?

[sodmoraes]

In a not at all related to basketball question, would you guys, in the US, classify Mccain as a black person? Probably a polemic question, but here in my country( Brazil), in the last 10 years, we are having a lot of laws reserving a percentage of hires in the public sector to black and brown people( mixed race, known here as "pardo"), like a kinda of DEI hiring you guys got there.. As here there are a lot of good jobs in the government, there has been a lot of problems with this law ( known as "cota"), since a lot of people tried to pass as black or mixed race, so they invented like committee in every government hiring process known as "Banca de Heteroidentificação", which,in reality, can be described as a Racial Court, since they will decide if you are apt to use this benefit.

The thing is that this is really problematic in brazil, since we are a really mixed people( most part of the population is considered pardo), but, in reality, in most selections the" bancas de heteroidentificação" tend to privilege the black people, and most mixed people are rejected( doesnt matter if your parents are black, they only consider your phenotypes). So thats why im asking the question about Jared. Looking at his features( hair and nose) it seems evident his mother or father are black, but here, in brazil, i have my doubts if he would be able to use the "cota", since his skin isnt black enough to be considered black by this ridiculous committes.

In the US historically, we've gone by the "one-drop rule" meaning any black ancestry whatsoever would classify you as black. Functionally, that would be if you have around 1/4th to 1/8th black ancestry or more, since if it's less than then people would typically "pass" as white (or not black).

So Jared McCain would be classified as black in the US by most people.

However, we also have cases of people like Elizabeth Warren who claimed to be Native American with virtually zero native ancestry, in order to abuse affirmative action programs similar to your cota laws.

Yes i think the one drop rule makes the most sense. But here i think they there was a bias when they made the law. I think, in the begining, it was only meant be used by black people, but they inserted the possibility of being used by mixed race people after, just to inflate the numbers of the cota laws.

Explaining, the law dictates that 20% of the governamente hires ( which occur by a test, known as a "concurso") will be reserved for black or mixed people. But in reality, only 8% of brazilian people consider themselves as black, while 45% of the population see themselves as "pardo"( here we had a lot of portuguese, italian and germany immigration, but a lot of african people were brought to work as slaves too). So if the lawmakers made a law that only black people would be able to use, the percentage would need to be lower (its going up to 30% next year, until 2050, without any public policy analysis of the gains of this law, that started in 2014). So they kinda used the pardos just to inflate the percentage of the DEI hires, but in reallity the committes tend to just aprove the black people, which is kinda bizarre. If your dad was black but your skin is lighter your arent black? That doesnt make sense. SO because of that, we have a lot of weird cases, like people who gets tans to try to pass as blacks and all that.

I think the affirmative action programs should focus in hiring poor people, since what tends to happens in the best jobs( like "concursos" for law judges) is that the majority of the people who are hired by the "cotas", are people who are wealthy, so it kinda ruins the true objective of the law.

[Foshan]

In a not at all related to basketball question, would you guys, in the US, classify Mccain as a black person? Probably a polemic question, but here in my country( Brazil), in the last 10 years, we are having a lot of laws reserving a percentage of hires in the public sector to black and brown people( mixed race, known here as "pardo"), like a kinda of DEI hiring you guys got there.. As here there are a lot of good jobs in the government, there has been a lot of problems with this law ( known as "cota"), since a lot of people tried to pass as black or mixed race, so they invented like committee in every government hiring process known as "Banca de Heteroidentificação", which,in reality, can be described as a Racial Court, since they will decide if you are apt to use this benefit.

The thing is that this is really problematic in brazil, since we are a really mixed people( most part of the population is considered pardo), but, in reality, in most selections the" bancas de heteroidentificação" tend to privilege the black people, and most mixed people are rejected( doesnt matter if your parents are black, they only consider your phenotypes). So thats why im asking the question about Jared. Looking at his features( hair and nose) it seems evident his mother or father are black, but here, in brazil, i have my doubts if he would be able to use the "cota", since his skin isnt black enough to be considered black by this ridiculous committes.

In the US historically, we've gone by the "one-drop rule" meaning any black ancestry whatsoever would classify you as black. Functionally, that would be if you have around 1/4th to 1/8th black ancestry or more, since if it's less than then people would typically "pass" as white (or not black).

So Jared McCain would be classified as black in the US by most people.

However, we also have cases of people like Elizabeth Warren who claimed to be Native American with virtually zero native ancestry, in order to abuse affirmative action programs similar to your cota laws.

Yes i think the one drop rule makes the most sense. But here i think they there was a bias when they made the law. I think, in the begining, it was only meant be used by black people, but they inserted the possibility of being used by mixed race people after, just to inflate the numbers of the cota laws.

Explaining, the law dictates that 20% of the governamente hires ( which occur by a test, known as a "concurso") will be reserved for black or mixed people. But in reality, only 8% of brazilian people consider themselves as black, while 45% of the population see themselves as "pardo"( here we had a lot of portuguese, italian and germany immigration, but a lot of african people were brought to work as slaves too). So if the lawmakers made a law that only black people would be able to use, the percentage would need to be lower (its going up to 30% next year, until 2050, without any public policy analysis of the gains of this law, that started in 2014). So they kinda used the pardos just to inflate the percentage of the DEI hires, but in reallity the committes tend to just aprove the black people, which is kinda bizarre. If your dad was black but your skin is lighter your arent black? That doesnt make sense. SO because of that, we have a lot of weird cases, like people who gets tans to try to pass as blacks and all that.

I think the affirmative action programs should focus in hiring poor people, since what tends to happens in the best jobs( like "concursos" for law judges) is that the majority of the people who are hired by the "cotas", are people who are wealthy, so it kinda ruins the true objective of the law.

Okay, this has gone off topic enough, let’s get back to sixers basketball please

[M2J]

In a not at all related to basketball question, would you guys, in the US, classify Mccain as a black person? Probably a polemic question, but here in my country( Brazil), in the last 10 years, we are having a lot of laws reserving a percentage of hires in the public sector to black and brown people( mixed race, known here as "pardo"), like a kinda of DEI hiring you guys got there.. As here there are a lot of good jobs in the government, there has been a lot of problems with this law ( known as "cota"), since a lot of people tried to pass as black or mixed race, so they invented like committee in every government hiring process known as "Banca de Heteroidentificação", which,in reality, can be described as a Racial Court, since they will decide if you are apt to use this benefit.

The thing is that this is really problematic in brazil, since we are a really mixed people( most part of the population is considered pardo), but, in reality, in most selections the" bancas de heteroidentificação" tend to privilege the black people, and most mixed people are rejected( doesnt matter if your parents are black, they only consider your phenotypes). So thats why im asking the question about Jared. Looking at his features( hair and nose) it seems evident his mother or father are black, but here, in brazil, i have my doubts if he would be able to use the "cota", since his skin isnt black enough to be considered black by this ridiculous committes.

Going to get really technical here

A friend of mine that just moved back to Brazil now works for Amazon after working for Pinterest in SF...was just telling me something about this, but I don't quite get it. Just to say in US...DEI truthfully is a setup to be a recruitment tool to entice different backgrounds to put their names in the fat for careers, and get an equitable shot at getting them based on merit (merit would say that for the most part there will be diversity)....plus install plans so there is continued plans to ensure their needs are met to feel included culturally and safe while in that work environment. It's not a requirement set by government or corporations for the most part to pick a specific group.

That said, in America there was officially a one drop law that some still consider which ended with the civil rights act in 1964 that if you have one black ancestor... You're black. I would say now that Jared's appearance would have most consider him to be African American on sight and thus he'll initially on sight be treated like a black person by certain authorities. But I'd say at this point, he can decide what he identifies as. He grew up with both parents, so I'm sure he holds both parts of his cultural heritage close.

[ExplosionsInDaSky]

Fingernail painting isn't my thing. I'm 43..Not into it. Don't care if he does. I also do care what race he is either. I like McCain, I think he'll be a heck of guard if he can stay healthy. That is all. My god! This went off the rails.