D'Angelo Russell thinks Lakers fans are spoilt

DrazenPetrovic3 · Post #1 » by **DrazenPetrovic3** » Sun Aug 30, 2015 6:45 pm

danggggggggggggggg http://www.slamonline.com/nba/dangelo-russell-on-t-mac-tweet-theres-a-lot-of-spoiled-lakers-fans/#MU7tj0E33tbVasIQ.97

“There’s a lot of spoiled Lakers fans. I wasn’t downgrading Kobe at all,” Russell said Saturday in an interview with the Los Angeles News Group. “I was just watching a highlight tape of Tracy McGrady and I got excited. I tweeted and the whole state of California went crazy.”

Post #2 » by **Kilroy** » Sun Aug 30, 2015 8:15 pm

Yeah, I'm at the point where I cringe every time I see a direct quote from Russel... Not sure he gets it.

'It' being a whole lot of stuff.

Wavy Q · Post #3 » by **Wavy Q** » Sun Aug 30, 2015 9:12 pm

He isn't wrong lol.

moonpie · Post #4 » by **moonpie** » Sun Aug 30, 2015 9:55 pm

Should've drafted Porzingis. He would've given interviews to some obscure Latvian paper saying Lakers fans are spoiled and we wouldn't know anything about it because ENGLISH MOTHA TRUCKER DO YA SPEAK IT?

Post #5 » by **TyCobb** » Sun Aug 30, 2015 11:11 pm

Dumb thing to say. Without the fans expectations, there is no LA atmosphere that creates the pressure which grows mega stars. He just doesn't know what he's in for yet.

Post #6 » by **Kilroy** » Mon Aug 31, 2015 1:09 am

From everything I've seen from him, I'm afraid he thinks he's bigger than LA and the Lakers.

kblo247 · Post #7 » by **kblo247** » Mon Aug 31, 2015 1:30 am

Kilroy wrote:Yeah, I'm at the point where I cringe every time I see a direct quote from Russel... Not sure he gets it.

'It' being a whole lot of stuff.

He's going to be an aloof enigmatic **** ... That's a given and should have always been since the day he wrote I'm the best player in the draft on the combine board. He has it, and IMO is more of a sure thing cReer and longevity wise over Okafor easy.

Still stick to the fact I see Mudiay as being the better athlete, the better player, and having the better career

His personality is like meshing Magic and Kobe together ... Might run some people the very wrong way

moonpie · Post #8 » by **moonpie** » Mon Aug 31, 2015 4:11 am

[tweet]https://twitter.com/LA_Sparks/status/638147518895755264[/tweet]

BEazy · Post #9 » by **BEazy** » Mon Aug 31, 2015 4:21 am

Well, be prepared to hear about this crap for the next 2 weeks. Russell is right though. He is his own person, he doesn't have to worship the ground Kobe walks on. Of course he respects him, but people think he should bow down to the guy. He's trying to make his own legacy and I respect him for that.

EArl · Post #10 » by **EArl** » Mon Aug 31, 2015 4:26 am

We havent seen the guy play a regular season yet and we have people bitching about him. He can say that Lary Bird is the goat as long as he wins for us. Its all that matters.

TN3LL662 · Post #11 » by **TN3LL662** » Mon Aug 31, 2015 5:01 am

ScHoolBoy B wrote:Well, be prepared to hear about this crap for the next 2 weeks. Russell is right though. He is his own person, he doesn't have to worship the ground Kobe walks on. Of course he respects him, but people think he should bow down to the guy. He's trying to make his own legacy and I respect him for that.

This is pretty much how I feel. People are acting like he called Kobe a scrub or something.

Post #12 » by **Slava** » Mon Aug 31, 2015 5:26 am

What he said doesn't even make sense to me. Why does calling T-Mac anything and the Lakers fans rebelling against it makes them spoilt? You can make statements like those when you've done something to the magnitude of what Kobe did in LA and what Lebron did in Cleveland or Wade in Miami but you haven't done anything for these fans yet before you call them spoilt. For once I wish these guys just STFU and show a bigger game than talk.

Blackfyre · Post #13 » by **Blackfyre** » Mon Aug 31, 2015 7:28 am

He better not be a bust because he makes it too easy to dislike him.

Mirjalovic · Post #14 » by **Mirjalovic** » Mon Aug 31, 2015 8:56 am

this kid probably has LeBron like potential

i mean LeBron's mouth potential before LeBron hired better PR company

Marionettetc · Post #15 » by **Marionettetc** » Mon Aug 31, 2015 7:51 pm

On the contrary, the fact Russell has his own opinions and runs his mouth is great. I already like the kid, and he hasn't played a minute of NBA time yet. I have much more respect for players that are real to themselves, regardless of what that self may be than the guys who say stuff like "Both teams played hard" in interviews.

Sixteen · Post #16 » by **Sixteen** » Mon Aug 31, 2015 8:32 pm

Marionettetc wrote:On the contrary, the fact Russell has his own opinions and runs his mouth is great. I already like the kid, and he hasn't played a minute of NBA time yet. I have much more respect for players that are real to themselves, regardless of what that self may be than the guys who say stuff like "Both teams played hard" in interviews.

Sure, but you have to be smart about voicing your opinion. Kobe's ego has been well documented. Why would you even make that a public statement? Who cares if he thinks Lakers fans are spoiled, keep that to yourself. These 'spoiled' fans, for the most part, are paying your salary. Cockiness is great when you have the talent to back it up.

DrazenPetrovic3 · Post #17 » by **DrazenPetrovic3** » Mon Aug 31, 2015 8:44 pm

Phila Tough wrote:
Marionettetc wrote:On the contrary, the fact Russell has his own opinions and runs his mouth is great. I already like the kid, and he hasn't played a minute of NBA time yet. I have much more respect for players that are real to themselves, regardless of what that self may be than the guys who say stuff like "Both teams played hard" in interviews.

Sure, but you have to be smart about voicing your opinion. Kobe's ego has been well documented. Why would you even make that a public statement? Who cares if he thinks Lakers fans are spoiled, keep that to yourself. These 'spoiled' fans, for the most part, are paying your salary. Cockiness is great when you have the talent to back it up.

And we still don't know if he has the talent to make it in the NBA. I like cocky players. I respect them. I respect players who have their own opinions and are not afraid of voicing it. That's why I like Hezonja and Russell the most in this draft...also the fact that I like their skillset.

Marionettetc · Post #18 » by **Marionettetc** » Mon Aug 31, 2015 8:49 pm

Phila Tough wrote:
Marionettetc wrote:On the contrary, the fact Russell has his own opinions and runs his mouth is great. I already like the kid, and he hasn't played a minute of NBA time yet. I have much more respect for players that are real to themselves, regardless of what that self may be than the guys who say stuff like "Both teams played hard" in interviews.

Sure, but you have to be smart about voicing your opinion. Kobe's ego has been well documented. Why would you even make that a public statement? Who cares if he thinks Lakers fans are spoiled, keep that to yourself. These 'spoiled' fans, for the most part, are paying your salary. Cockiness is great when you have the talent to back it up.

Every interview I've heard and seen from Russell exudes personal intelligence. He's a very mature, well adjusted and articulate young man. Obviously his NBA production is an unknown at this point, but you'd either have to be a real big pussy or one of those spoiled fans to take offense to him having an opinion, that most of us 100% agree with.

To reduce this whole thing to the bottom line - if the Lakers org or even his own management thought his statement was a real issue either for PR or his own marketing, he would have released a public apology already.

DEEP3CL · Post #19 » by **DEEP3CL** » Tue Sep 1, 2015 2:08 am

Boy this dude gonna make it hard for me to really support him, first the GOAT comment, now his follow up to that comment is to diss the fan base ? First off I hate when media and outsiders even use the word "spoiled"....was the Laker fan based spoiled in the 60's when they couldn't even fill the Sports Arena ?

Was it spoiled when they couldn't get past Boston in all those 60's Finals matchups ?

Was the Laker fan based spoiled when even after trading for Kareem Abdul-Jabbar they still were a treadmill team that couldn't get past the Blazers or Sonics in the the mid 70's ?

Bottom line it's asinine to say a fan base is spoiled when many in this same fan base saw the lull periods, saw them struggle after Wilt, Jerry and Elgin got old. Saw them be mediocre even before getting Kareem and even after for a few years.

Yet while the franchise as a whole had a previous prestige of being a winner it ain't been as easy as the snot nosed outsiders want to think. The words to use is high expectations, spoiled is what the haters and national media wants to pin on us. A word they use because they think they're sticking the fan base when they use it.

But DeAgelo ain't making it easy for this fan base to embrace him....especially when more than a good portion wanted Jahlil in that draft. Part of me still think the Lakers were scared of the perception of them taking a big would be looked upon as them still stuck in the what made them. Bigs made and cemented this franchise no matter if Magic and Kobe were the lone guards that were exceptional.

People keep saying Russell has "it"....but having "it" also means having a savvy brain to follow, this is where he may be lacking. Yeah he's entitled to have his own opinion, be his own man, but aside from all of that this franchise is the franchise you're going to start your career off with for the next 7 years for the most part anyway. Why agitate a fan base already on edge, one that can't even handle being down for a few years.

Truth be told all Russell has done now is make it real easy for these same so called spoiled fans to come at him with insane fury when he's not putting out, and have no remorse if he ever comes up on the trade block.

The worst part to all this is that Russell seems to be an attention whore, while the man who's gonna run on the other side of him is putting in work. Aside from an occasional pic of Clarkson,we don't hear nothing from him.

The Lakers and many in this fan base hope D-Lo is Kobe's replacement and glossing him up to be just that, but the one who resembles Kobe's killer mode is JC and it seems the franchise is ready to anoint D-Lo as soon as ball goes up. I see more of a kill at will focus in Jordan than I see in DeAngelo....the so called "it" is something the team stuck on him. We have yet to see "it".

The boy is making it hard to like him like we do all of our stars, now he's got to really earn our respect now.

Post #20 » by **dockingsched** » Tue Sep 1, 2015 2:27 am

I agree that it was a dumb ill advised comment to make. Even if true, you don't agitate your fan base with comments like that. Going off of the context of the comment I think he just had a very bad choice of words, but he has to be more careful.

At the same time, the fan base has to be more supportive and not be so venomous. His first introduction to the fan base was an arena full of boos cause the team was struggling in a summer league game. His next experience with the fan base is getting attacked in Twitter for complimenting tmac. It's kinda silly on the part of the fan base.