FreeThrowLine wrote:It used to be outdoors and you could bring your pets, sadly things changed
Used to be home to revolutionary basketball minds also, the Shaq/Boykins offense springs to mind.
Edit: Shoutout to the GOAT RealGm poster Green Apple.
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FreeThrowLine wrote:It used to be outdoors and you could bring your pets, sadly things changed
Flash Falcon X wrote:Before the ubiquity of memes, the Portland Blazers board had a thread for some guy name Ha something. It was filled with a bunch of photoshops of him. If anyone could find that thread it would be awesome to revisit for some laughs lol.
emunney wrote:
We need a man shaped like a chicken nugget with the shot selection of a 21st birthday party.
GHOSTofSIKMA wrote:
if you combined jabari parker, royal ivey, a shrimp and a ball sack youd have javon carter
toshiro_mifune wrote:Ryoga Hibiki wrote:there was usenet before thatamcoolio wrote:Early 2000s, there was no social media, just forums. ESPN had their own which was the most popular. Fans from different teams were fighting eachother all the time, it was glorious. Then they shut them down for what I presume to be costs because they had quite literally millions of posts. Realgm filled that void quickly and has still remained popular, which is hard to do in the age of Twitter and Reddit.
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anybody here remember / used to read rec.sport.basketball.pro?
Flash Falcon X wrote:Funny part is there were several users who joined RealGM strictly because of the Off-Topic board. I believe it got too out of hand drawing so many non-sports posters that RealGM decided to make the OT Board private so as the reduce lurkers who weren't posters. I could be wrong, though.
DeBrick wrote:anyone remember when Johnathan Tjarks from RealGM asked Westbrook a question? I forget his response but it was funny
ceiling raiser wrote:KembaWalker wrote:it was really bad, then tsherkin finally left
now its okay
I understand that he is a controversial figure on the general board, but tsherkin was a brilliant poster on the PC board. It definitely is worse off without his knowledge (especially given a lot of other knowledgeable, legendary posters no longer frequent there).
What posters became professionals, as far as we know?Sofia wrote:DeBrick wrote:anyone remember when Johnathan Tjarks from RealGM asked Westbrook a question? I forget his response but it was funny
Jonathan Tsharks, realgm. Did they win this game or did you lose this game?
What? Bruh nah I’m out man. This n***** trippin
bearadonisdna wrote:my shot in the dark too.
realgm used to break news too.
Realgms or FO staff would use this platform as a defacto type of secured transaction outlet.
Tim Lehrbach wrote:Doctor MJ wrote:Flash Falcon X wrote:prerak
Prerak - to my knowledge - never did anything ambitious with basketball again (I believe he was about to go to med school when he made this decision).
Law school. He would later -- and I swear I'm not making this up -- go on to serve as chief of staff for Ted Cruz.
Tim Lehrbach wrote:Doctor MJ wrote:Young Stapler wrote:I've been meaning to ask this for a while. Obviously, if you scroll down to the about us link at the bottom you get a very basic description of RealGM but I am looking to go deeper. Mods, admins, OG's etc I want to know: What is the history of RealGM? Who are the people in charge of this site? Did Howard Mass start RealGM? Does any of the leadership post in the GB? I think it would be nice to hear from some people about the beginning of RealGM and what it was like then and how it compares to now.
Howard did not start RealGM. From the current About page:The RealGM Team
Ryan Hoak, President and Chief Executive Officer
Michael Benbow, Chief Information Officer
Todd Essman, Chief Operating Officer
Christopher Reina, Executive Editor and Chief Marketing Officer
Howard Mass, Forums Administrator
Michael Haegele, Senior Developer
Andrew Perna, Quality Control
Derek Johnson, Senior International Basketball Consultant
My understanding is that Hoak & Benbow started the project with Essman coming on soon after.
Howard was someone who, I believe, started off as a poster early on and later got put in charge of the forums themselves.
In my experience as a mod has virtually all been through Howard, with others stepping in very rarely.
I think originally a poster called Winterpeg (don't remember his real name anymore, but he was great at iSketch) was the admin in charge of the forums, and Howard Mass was, as you said, a poster who was selected as the first Global Moderator before becoming a part of the admin team and running the mod team.
Michael Jackson wrote:Doctor MJ wrote:Flash Falcon X wrote:prerak
And for those who don't know, there was once a poster named Prerak who dominated these boards. He posted TONS in seemingly every community to the point that there was a running gag where he wasn't a "he" but a team of people paid to take shifts.
Prerak's most significant thing though was probably founding Draft City with Jonathan Givony - which at one point was tied directly to the Draft message board (then called Draft City as well).
Then Draft City got threatened with a lawsuit based on something reported pertaining to a draft prospect. That site shut down, the RealGM draft board got renamed losing all association with the other site, and Prerak - to my knowledge - never did anything ambitious with basketball again (I believe he was about to go to med school when he made this decision).
Givony would then form Draft Express, which originally looked almost exactly like Draft City but with a different name, and continue to grow the site until going to work for ESPN. He made a specific splash in recent years being one of the most vocal proponents of LaMelo Ball at a time where Ball's prospect stock had really taken a tumble.
I know Prerak personally. He went to law school. You can look him up he works for Ted Cruz these days.
Prerak’s posting history at one point was beyond inhuman. It was believed that had to be multiples of him. He was also posting this volume while I think he was 16 years old at Drexel before he went to the University of Chicago for his law degree.
Flash Falcon X wrote:Funny part is there were several users who joined RealGM strictly because of the Off-Topic board. I believe it got too out of hand drawing so many non-sports posters that RealGM decided to make the OT Board private so as the reduce lurkers who weren't posters. I could be wrong, though.
mattao313 wrote:Was he that bad? i remember people talking about him but i was never a big GB posterKembaWalker wrote:it was really bad, then tsherkin finally left
now its okay
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