"Around the NBA": 2020-21 Season Thread

[andrewww]

No one, and I mean no one, on the Bucks board was celebrating Kyrie’s injury. Also, no objective person thinks that his injury was intentional.


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This is a complete lie, and you know it.

Those slick remarks yall were making on your board, especially that crap about "durability" and injury proneness, and the outright clowning of Harden and Kyrie being done by Bucks fans, came back to haunt you. Yall thought it was real cute after Game 4 what happened.

Now you guys are on your board in absolute despair. This is what you all get. This is what Giannis gets for undercutting a player in mid air who is vulnerable. Now you know how it feels. Sucks doesn't it?

The sad part is, I went on your board and wished you guys good health before Game 1. Then I saw that slick **** you all were talking and nah. Wish I never did that.

I have no respect for Giannis and your entire fanbase. And miss me with this "objectivity" talk. Anyone with a working set of eyes can see what Giannis did. It was dirty, you don't undercut someone in mid air.

Oh well, better hope that MRI comes back clean.

Depending on the MRI, if it's a torn ACL it would be truly ironic to see Giannis get "Klay'd" and be the one to end up ultimately missing the most time eventually, which could be all of next season in a worse case scenario. Yikes.

[Prokorov]

Then, grabbing Capela's leg, pulling him down, and almost injuring him as well was not something that earned any bonus points in my book. I'm sure it was probably unintentional, but...

I dont think pulling down capella was intentional... just like i dont think hurting Kyrie was intentional. But there is a lot of room for hurting someone between intentionally looking to injure and a normal basketball play.

While i dont think Giannis is some dirty playing looking to hurt people, he is clearly reckless and the safety of players around him doesnt seem to be high on his priority list. Which in itself, can have the same result as an intentionally dirty play, as we have seen multiple times.

There is a reason the league put in all these rules and is calling flagrants for stuff that isnt necessarily dirty. cause guys are getting hurt and you cant protect yourself well as a jump shooter or driver. Giannis needs to start making the safety of others a priority. It isnt good enough to just "not be intentially hurting people"

[Prokorov]

No one, and I mean no one, on the Bucks board was celebrating Kyrie’s injury. Also, no objective person thinks that his injury was intentional.

I’ll leave you with this: I hope for better health for your team, but some of your fans are disgusting. I apologize for getting one of you confused with Mr. DB.


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To be fair, guys on the bucks board were certainly happy when kyrie and harden got hurt, and we celebrating it. maybe not to the extent of MDB, but they were. even on here, some guys were trolling us about it

[Matches Malone]

No one, and I mean no one, on the Bucks board was celebrating Kyrie’s injury. Also, no objective person thinks that his injury was intentional.


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This is a complete lie, and you know it.

Those slick remarks yall were making on your board, especially that crap about "durability" and injury proneness, and the outright clowning of Harden and Kyrie being done by Bucks fans, came back to haunt you. Yall thought it was real cute after Game 4 what happened.

Now you guys are on your board in absolute despair. This is what you all get. This is what Giannis gets for undercutting a player in mid air who is vulnerable. Now you know how it feels. Sucks doesn't it?

The sad part is, I went on your board and wished you guys good health before Game 1. Then I saw that slick **** you all were talking and nah. Wish I never did that.

I have no respect for Giannis and your entire fanbase. And miss me with this "objectivity" talk. Anyone with a working set of eyes can see what Giannis did. It was dirty, you don't undercut someone in mid air.

Oh well, better hope that MRI comes back clean.

Yikes man.

[MrDollarBills]

No one, and I mean no one, on the Bucks board was celebrating Kyrie’s injury. Also, no objective person thinks that his injury was intentional.

I’ll leave you with this: I hope for better health for your team, but some of your fans are disgusting. I apologize for getting one of you confused with Mr. DB.


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To be fair, guys on the bucks board were certainly happy when kyrie and harden got hurt, and we celebrating it. maybe not to the extent of MDB, but they were. even on here, some guys were trolling us about it

They were elated over it. And then they got butthurt when I said I hope Giannis gets what's coming to him.

And to be 100% honest, if I didn't think Giannis didn't make a dirty play, or if Bucks fans didn't celebrate Kyrie and Harden being hurt, I would have said none of this stuff. But they brought this on themselves.

[MrDollarBills]

No one, and I mean no one, on the Bucks board was celebrating Kyrie’s injury. Also, no objective person thinks that his injury was intentional.


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This is a complete lie, and you know it.

Those slick remarks yall were making on your board, especially that crap about "durability" and injury proneness, and the outright clowning of Harden and Kyrie being done by Bucks fans, came back to haunt you. Yall thought it was real cute after Game 4 what happened.

Now you guys are on your board in absolute despair. This is what you all get. This is what Giannis gets for undercutting a player in mid air who is vulnerable. Now you know how it feels. Sucks doesn't it?

The sad part is, I went on your board and wished you guys good health before Game 1. Then I saw that slick **** you all were talking and nah. Wish I never did that.

I have no respect for Giannis and your entire fanbase. And miss me with this "objectivity" talk. Anyone with a working set of eyes can see what Giannis did. It was dirty, you don't undercut someone in mid air.

Oh well, better hope that MRI comes back clean.

Yikes man.

Cry about it.

[Matches Malone]

This is a complete lie, and you know it.

Those slick remarks yall were making on your board, especially that crap about "durability" and injury proneness, and the outright clowning of Harden and Kyrie being done by Bucks fans, came back to haunt you. Yall thought it was real cute after Game 4 what happened.

Now you guys are on your board in absolute despair. This is what you all get. This is what Giannis gets for undercutting a player in mid air who is vulnerable. Now you know how it feels. Sucks doesn't it?

The sad part is, I went on your board and wished you guys good health before Game 1. Then I saw that slick **** you all were talking and nah. Wish I never did that.

I have no respect for Giannis and your entire fanbase. And miss me with this "objectivity" talk. Anyone with a working set of eyes can see what Giannis did. It was dirty, you don't undercut someone in mid air.

Oh well, better hope that MRI comes back clean.

Yikes man.

Cry about it.

Okay I cried. Now what?

[MrDollarBills]

Yikes man.

Cry about it.

Okay I cried. Now what?

Some truly despicable people over on the Brooklyn nets forum.

^^Go back to your board and cry about it some more.



Again, man I hope that MRI for his knee comes back clean. It would be a shame that Giannis has to miss an entire season, like Kristaps Porzingas did when he injured him, or have to miss the rest of the playoffs, like Kyrie did after Giannis decided to box him out while he was in mid air like a goon.

[Matches Malone]

Cry about it.

Okay I cried. Now what?

Some truly despicable people over on the Brooklyn nets forum.

^^Go back to your board and cry about it some more.



Again, man I hope that MRI for his knee comes back clean. It would be a shame that Giannis has to miss an entire season, like Kristaps Porzingas did when he injured him, or have to miss the rest of the playoffs, like Kyrie did after Giannis decided to box him out while he was in mid air like a goon.

[DarkXaero]

Then, grabbing Capela's leg, pulling him down, and almost injuring him as well was not something that earned any bonus points in my book. I'm sure it was probably unintentional, but...

I dont think pulling down capella was intentional... just like i dont think hurting Kyrie was intentional. But there is a lot of room for hurting someone between intentionally looking to injure and a normal basketball play.

While i dont think Giannis is some dirty playing looking to hurt people, he is clearly reckless and the safety of players around him doesnt seem to be high on his priority list. Which in itself, can have the same result as an intentionally dirty play, as we have seen multiple times.

There is a reason the league put in all these rules and is calling flagrants for stuff that isnt necessarily dirty. cause guys are getting hurt and you cant protect yourself well as a jump shooter or driver. Giannis needs to start making the safety of others a priority. It isnt good enough to just "not be intentially hurting people"

I agree with this a lot. Giannis might not have malicious intentions but he plays incredibly reckless and clumsy, and that is what resulted in Kyrie's injury. Majority of the people downplayed that incident, but that was not a basketball play. You don't run all the way from the left corner to the the front of the basket to undercut a mid air player taking a point blank shot that he's not going to miss. And Giannis did it so badly that he didn't even get Kyrie's left foot which was closer to him, Giannis got across Kyrie's body and ended up getting his right foot. It was incredibly reckless and 100% a flagrant for endangering a player's safety. If someone does that **** even in pick up basketball, it could start a fight.

That being said, best wishes to Giannis, I never want to see any player getting hurt, and I hope his injury does not turn out to be as severe or bad as it looked. It would especially suck if it is a long term injury and ruins the Bucks' next season.

[andrewww]

Then, grabbing Capela's leg, pulling him down, and almost injuring him as well was not something that earned any bonus points in my book. I'm sure it was probably unintentional, but...

I dont think pulling down capella was intentional... just like i dont think hurting Kyrie was intentional. But there is a lot of room for hurting someone between intentionally looking to injure and a normal basketball play.

While i dont think Giannis is some dirty playing looking to hurt people, he is clearly reckless and the safety of players around him doesnt seem to be high on his priority list. Which in itself, can have the same result as an intentionally dirty play, as we have seen multiple times.

There is a reason the league put in all these rules and is calling flagrants for stuff that isnt necessarily dirty. cause guys are getting hurt and you cant protect yourself well as a jump shooter or driver. Giannis needs to start making the safety of others a priority. It isnt good enough to just "not be intentially hurting people"

I agree with this a lot. Giannis might not have malicious intentions but he plays incredibly reckless and clumsy, and that is what resulted in Kyrie's injury. Majority of the people downplayed that incident, but that was not a basketball play. You don't run all the way from the left corner to the the front of the basket to undercut a mid air player taking a point blank shot that he's not going to miss. And Giannis did it so badly that he didn't even get Kyrie's left foot which was closer to him, Giannis got across Kyrie's body and ended up getting his right foot. It was incredibly reckless and 100% a flagrant for endangering a player's safety. If someone does that **** even in pick up basketball, it could start a fight.

That being said, best wishes to Giannis, I never want to see any player getting hurt, and I hope his injury does not turn out to be as severe or bad as it looked. It would especially suck if it is a long term injury and ruins the Bucks' next season.

What Giannis did to Kyrie would have started a fight in a pick up game, no question.

[Karate Diop]

Then, grabbing Capela's leg, pulling him down, and almost injuring him as well was not something that earned any bonus points in my book. I'm sure it was probably unintentional, but...

I dont think pulling down capella was intentional... just like i dont think hurting Kyrie was intentional. But there is a lot of room for hurting someone between intentionally looking to injure and a normal basketball play.

While i dont think Giannis is some dirty playing looking to hurt people, he is clearly reckless and the safety of players around him doesnt seem to be high on his priority list. Which in itself, can have the same result as an intentionally dirty play, as we have seen multiple times.

There is a reason the league put in all these rules and is calling flagrants for stuff that isnt necessarily dirty. cause guys are getting hurt and you cant protect yourself well as a jump shooter or driver. Giannis needs to start making the safety of others a priority. It isnt good enough to just "not be intentially hurting people"

Well said... Giannis isn't dirty but he's very emotional and when he gets emotional he tends to make reckless plays... Sucks that he got hurt, and hopefully it's not serious. But I don't have any sympathy for what this does to the Bucks title chances.

[gigantes]

Yeah, I feel for Giannis, but he darn near injured Clint while bracing from the fall of his own injury. He gets reckless at times, as Kyrie can surely attest.

I dont think pulling down capella was intentional... just like i dont think hurting Kyrie was intentional. But there is a lot of room for hurting someone between intentionally looking to injure and a normal basketball play.

While i dont think Giannis is some dirty playing looking to hurt people, he is clearly reckless and the safety of players around him doesnt seem to be high on his priority list. Which in itself, can have the same result as an intentionally dirty play, as we have seen multiple times.

How much of Giannis' play is dirty versus reckless versus highly enthusiastic... it does seem like kind of a spectrum he lives in at this point.

I do agree Giannis needs to dial it back a little and play smarter. I think it only helps him and the Bucks in the long run. Otherwise Giannis might just be on his way to becoming one of the more hated players in the league, and maybe even someone who prompts rule changes in the offseason. Not unlike Harden and others who are maestros at drawing fouls.

Difference is-- Beard isn't out there putting others in high-risk situations on a regular basis.

[MrDollarBills]

I dont think pulling down capella was intentional... just like i dont think hurting Kyrie was intentional. But there is a lot of room for hurting someone between intentionally looking to injure and a normal basketball play.

While i dont think Giannis is some dirty playing looking to hurt people, he is clearly reckless and the safety of players around him doesnt seem to be high on his priority list. Which in itself, can have the same result as an intentionally dirty play, as we have seen multiple times.

There is a reason the league put in all these rules and is calling flagrants for stuff that isnt necessarily dirty. cause guys are getting hurt and you cant protect yourself well as a jump shooter or driver. Giannis needs to start making the safety of others a priority. It isnt good enough to just "not be intentially hurting people"

I agree with this a lot. Giannis might not have malicious intentions but he plays incredibly reckless and clumsy, and that is what resulted in Kyrie's injury. Majority of the people downplayed that incident, but that was not a basketball play. You don't run all the way from the left corner to the the front of the basket to undercut a mid air player taking a point blank shot that he's not going to miss. And Giannis did it so badly that he didn't even get Kyrie's left foot which was closer to him, Giannis got across Kyrie's body and ended up getting his right foot. It was incredibly reckless and 100% a flagrant for endangering a player's safety. If someone does that **** even in pick up basketball, it could start a fight.

That being said, best wishes to Giannis, I never want to see any player getting hurt, and I hope his injury does not turn out to be as severe or bad as it looked. It would especially suck if it is a long term injury and ruins the Bucks' next season.

What Giannis did to Kyrie would have started a fight in a pick up game, no question.

That's why I laugh when I see people trying to write that off as a clean play. You do that on the black top, you'd better be ready to square up. I've seen dudes get punched for less

[MrDollarBills]

And all trolling aside, I mean it when I say I hope that his MRI comes back clean. It's not that serious where I'd want his career threatened. But if he misses the rest of the playoffs, tough.

[Prokorov]

I agree with this a lot. Giannis might not have malicious intentions but he plays incredibly reckless and clumsy, and that is what resulted in Kyrie's injury. Majority of the people downplayed that incident, but that was not a basketball play. You don't run all the way from the left corner to the the front of the basket to undercut a mid air player taking a point blank shot that he's not going to miss. And Giannis did it so badly that he didn't even get Kyrie's left foot which was closer to him, Giannis got across Kyrie's body and ended up getting his right foot. It was incredibly reckless and 100% a flagrant for endangering a player's safety. If someone does that **** even in pick up basketball, it could start a fight.

That being said, best wishes to Giannis, I never want to see any player getting hurt, and I hope his injury does not turn out to be as severe or bad as it looked. It would especially suck if it is a long term injury and ruins the Bucks' next season.

What Giannis did to Kyrie would have started a fight in a pick up game, no question.

That's why I laugh when I see people trying to write that off as a clean play. You do that on the black top, you'd better be ready to square up. I've seen dudes get punched for less

Giannis is like when you go to play pickup and bring your football athlete friend who doesnt know how to play... yeah maybe he isnt break rules or fouling but he is out there like a tornado and everyone is like 'yo chill you gonna get someone hurt'

[gigantes]

Heh. In other major sports news, French police finally tracked down the nitwit woman who caused this clusterfluff at the very first stage of the Tour de France a few days ago: (46s mark)

https://youtu.be/Bh5y1q-MDl0?t=46

Usually even the most obnoxious spectators pull the sign back just before the riders go past, but she wasn't even looking. In this case, she caused most riders to crash, and even knocked a German rider entirely out of the race due to injury.

[MrDollarBills]

What Giannis did to Kyrie would have started a fight in a pick up game, no question.

That's why I laugh when I see people trying to write that off as a clean play. You do that on the black top, you'd better be ready to square up. I've seen dudes get punched for less

Giannis is like when you go to play pickup and bring your football athlete friend who doesnt know how to play... yeah maybe he isnt break rules or fouling but he is out there like a tornado and everyone is like 'yo chill you gonna get someone hurt'

Dudes like that are why I retired from pick up ball

[gigantes]

That's why I laugh when I see people trying to write that off as a clean play. You do that on the black top, you'd better be ready to square up. I've seen dudes get punched for less

Giannis is like when you go to play pickup and bring your football athlete friend who doesnt know how to play... yeah maybe he isnt break rules or fouling but he is out there like a tornado and everyone is like 'yo chill you gonna get someone hurt'

Dudes like that are why I retired from pick up ball

Man, one time back in West Philly I was going for a layup to the front of the rim, but sensed someone coming from behind HAM for the block. So I slowed down and pump-faked once, expecting him to go up and come back down uselessly. Instead, he jumped fully on my back, rolled off, and fell to the ground, landing on his wrist. I don't know what he was even doing, pulling that move in a damn silly game of cutthroat (21). He was a stranger and we'd had no beef.

Anyway, he gets up painfully and starts screaming at me, saying "always leave space for someone to land!!," and "don't ever DO that to someone again!!" He pretty clearly wanted to have a go at me, but his wrist was jacked, so all he could do was swim in a sea of rage and humiliation at that point. I felt badly for him and all, but I don't know what I'm supposed to do when someone's completely behind me, doing whatever. Most of the time I'd just get bumped a little on that play, and/or maybe swatted a bit on the back of the head. No biggie. But not this time.

So that was one of the last times I went to those school courts. Which sucks, because they were some sweet courts and I'd had lots of fun there over the years.

[hisairness]

I don’t feel bad for Giannis after the bs he did to Irving. Karma is a b*tch

**** you and the other Brooklyn fans that wanted Giannis to blow out his knee. If there is such a thing as karma, you idiots better get ready.


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You came to this board looking for this. The series is between Bucks and Hawks, not the Nets, and if you wanted reactions from neutral fans GB would have been a place to go but you came to this board specifically because you knew what Giannis did to Kyrie wasn't right and Giannis' injury would generate a bitter reaction from at least one Nets fan. Then for you to post here from a "victim" perspective, take a high moral ground and talk about karma is just laughable. If you want to talk karma then, like someone already explained few posts before, Giannis incident would have been karma at work.