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birdman:
Lol, actually I need to stop explaining money to you guys. Lezz move on, ice cube is a business genius! this move has cemented his business good vibes for another year! yaaaaay!

Nothing you can explain to me. Don't gas yourself.

Just take off your Woke Socialist hat and act like you have a clue on how these things work

birdman:
Exactly! Now you get it! By himself giannis brother is not a smart financial move. But as tag along to his brother, it is. You have to think through your move, not just on immediate dollars and cents.

So now, back to ice cube. Follow me now. Caitlin likely will not play for Cube anyhow. So net net, do you think this whole episode is a positive for cube or a negative? Ahan, now you gerrit.

You sound goofy. Now I get it?

Pass that Igbeaux to the left hand side man

Giannis has made a small market Bucks team relevant, they can increase prices on season tickets, merchandise, concession stands. You're comparing what Giannis a franchise player means to the ecosystem of pretty much the state of Wisconsin to WNBA players? Apply some critical thinking nauu

It's a 100% positive for Ice Cube. That's more free publicity for his league. Look at this thread for example. Who has mentioned Big 3 before the offer

The demographic outraged at Cube do not matter in the grand scheme of things. This is not politics

Let them use that outrage to make the WNBA profitable so they're not NBA tax write off for another 30 years

birdman:
Sorry boss, but this is not really true in any business. Some people get hired for talent, others get hired to keep things smooth. You think Giannis brother was hired by Bucks based on his skills? Even where you work, Im sure you know folks like this lol.

This is the nature of things, and good businessmen know to stay out of these type of controversies. Notice how no other black mogul touched this matter with care, focusing on S Carolina coach instead.

Giannis is the goose that lays the golden egg and puts butts in the seats. Hiring his brother is not a charity move. With the value Giannis provides to the Bucks having his brother tag along is one of the perks of the office. Completely different scenarios

You keep infusing race into this matter and that is always the problem. Putting color before greenery.

If the Big 3 is going to grow and be more than just a circus show and niche league then this your Black vs White agenda must be discarded. Anything you tie or restrict to race in a multicultural society you're setting a ceiling for it. Even the NBA had to expand and embrace international products for it to reach where it is now.

The onus is not on Cube but on BW to push and present marketable and undeniable stars with crossover appeal.

birdman:
Im not claiming that he isnt. Me personally, I dont have any issues with him. But all decisions are not purely financial. There is always history and recency bias in these things. Any good businessman knows this. Forbes 500 companies spend billions on goodwill all the time, even accountants recognize it can have cash value on a balance sheet. For Cube to jump into the fray this way was not smart imo. Just because it makes you money doesnt mean its good business. He should have stayed faaaar away from this

Lmao is the Big 3 a Forbes 500 company? Wtf are you waffling about blud

There's nothing profitable or sustainable about picking up a non draw BW to a Big 3 league. The WNBA is a 70% BW league and black women are not supporting it so why in the blue hell should Cube be arsed about signing a BW player who cannot bring him any business or ratings

Comparing a small company to institutions that have ran for 50 plus years is absurd. Cube is not at a financial level where he can afford to carry and pay non contributors that will not bring back money's worth in ads and revenue. It's a business not a socialist brunch

The Kings season was cooked the second Malik Monk got hurt.

What Sabonehead and Fox did the last couple of minutes of that game was a complete war crime

15 double digit leads blown this season. 15!

birdman:
Well, when cube was a nobody, they were the ones watching his movies and listening to his music until he became big enough to do his own thing. It would be like Davido or Wizkid getting this big and thinking they can stop catering to the nigerian base. Las las it wont end well. I think guys like Cube should learn lessons from dem Denzel, etc the older generation. Everything is not simply about the dollars

Lmao. You will make a fine comedian.

So BW are Ice Cube's biggest demographic or what are you claiming

This man no take laugh kill me abeg. Basketball is not a race based product. Besides you're suggesting Cube pay BW that can't draw money just because

You will make a sensational businessman.

Oprah is a literal billionaire I don't see you asking her to start a league for BW

Cube is pushing his late 50s. He is the older generation, He doesn't need to learn nothing from nobody. Are you kidding? We're talking about someone in his 4th decade of relevancy

Everything is absolutely about the Almighty dollar. Are you serious? You want the league to pack up? Leagues are not run by sentiment and vibes, they're run by cold hard greenbacks, revenue. There's a reason so many WNBA teams have packed up in the past, they're being subsidized by the NBA now, Cube's league doesn't have such luxuries

birdman:
Interesting response from both of you, and I think this is what black women are driving at. You are trying to have the conversation based solely on performance, implying that there are no other underlying issues.

Lol. What yeye underlying issues. What have black women done for Ice Cube's Big 3 league?
Why should he pander and bend over backwards to a demographic that has not supported his brand for the most part?

Maybe it's their culture but I've never seen any other group of men who are groomed as indentured servants to their women. The level of entitlement and ownership I've never seen elsewhere. The women demand it the men enforce and police it. Pure insanity

I've always told Black women it's either you need Black men or you don't. You don't get to pick and choose when it's convenient

birdman:
But lets take that apart: If driving sales is all its about according to you Roland17, shouldnt Reese's notoriety also have been an asset last year? Because it looks like Ice Cube is only welcoming popularity accepted by mainstream americans as opposed to more black american.

Duhh. Black people are less than 13% of American population. Only a silly businessman will not tailor his products to the mainstream. When you factor that said black women don't even support their own WNBA which is predominantly black women and wannabe men why should Cube be arsed?

I've told you before Angel Reese is a putback/rebound merchant. Her game is not what puts butts in seats. She's been fortunate to leverage her sexuality and rivalry with Caitlin. Talent wise she's not in the same zip code. There's no aspect of her game that will hold up in a contest with men

birdman:
A40 you say Ice Cube is just a capitalist and he looks at it from just money angle. OK, lets accept that. Why didnt he capitalize last year or other years? Granted Caitlin is more skilled, but if its just about making money why was that not offered last year to drive sales as well? Unless Cube is not as politics agnostic as he would like to think

Maybe cos there was need to be sure that the Caitlin Clark phenomenon was not a fluke. Whatever you want to call it. No businessman with any sense God gave geese won't try to capitalize on someone that can get 15million people watching a basketball game. If you like make it about race or politics na you sabi

Not surprising that players get up for the teams that drafted and traded them

Roland17:
Ice Cube is about to add more petrol to the fire. Baba has offered Caitlin $5M to play in the in his BIG 3. If she accepts that offer, that would be monumental earnings for just 8 games and it doesn’t stop her from playing in the WNBA. I imagine WNBA players will die even further of hate and jealousy.

Many of these women are being unnecessarily bitter and petty about everything.

Hmmm there are pros and cons to it. If she looks bad competing among men it would badly hurt the WNBA. I'm sure the WNBA begged her feverishly not to accept the offer

Remember when Clay Travis said he would give the WNBA champions $2m if they beat a Male high school basketball team of his choosing and they never responded

Roland17:
Fair question for black women to ask, however, an offer like this is primarily about driving sales, rating and revenue for Ice Cube. While Reese is a dominant player, she did not drive the attendance or rating like Caitlin did. The NCAA Womens tournament had its highest watch rating ever this year.

The rating bettered the mens by a long mile and improved from last year’s and these metrics were primarily influenced by one person.. Caitlin Clark. So no, Reese isn’t getting that type of offer because it is not charity.

S. Ionescu is a player with similar playing style when she was in college but she never came close to what Caitlin is doing neither did she get any invite from any other league.

Caitlin isn’t your regular type of player and we have to accept that. Once everyone is on the same page about that, we shouldn’t have some of these issues/ debates.

Laughable that people try to compare putback merchant Angel Reese to Caitlin.

Fairplay to Angel for leveraging her physicality both on and off the court, it's at least refreshing to not see wannabe men like Griner, Taurasi and co but comparing her to Caitlin as a star would be like comparing Steph to a Rudy Gobert

birdman:
The offer is at about 2 weeks old and she hasnt spoken on it, so I doubt she will take it. But it has raised questions for black women. A fair question to ask is where was this effort for black women like Angela Reese? I think black women are frustrated with the type of answers black men in power often give to these valid questions. Its like black men try to play pretend when it suits their pockets. Kinda like what Emmanuel Acho did some days ago. Acho is my guy, but he is very tone deaf on these matters.

Forgive me yall if I m starting a fire in a dry forest

Ice Cube is a capitalist trying to make money. Nothing consign am with all this una socialist talking points

There's no real bankable black female basketballer out there. Don't mention Angel Reese pls we are not talking about twerking here.

Caitlin can do TV numbers alone Reese can't. You think he won't offer a black woman money if she's box office? These guys only see green mayne

Besides how is it that the same Black women that say they're doing better than black men still turn around asking to be saved by black men when it hits the fan. You can't have it both ways. A Black man do not owe you anything just cos you're a black woman btw

Speaking about Acho I hate that he didn't stand on what he said and allowed himself get sonned and lil bro'd by these pandering charlatans like Ryan Clark and Matt Barnes of all people. Why didn't they tackle Shady McCoy and the other guy James Jones who said the same thing or even worse. Still this their useless African immigrant hate that 'FBA' (goofies that are still in denial that their ancestors were all shipped from Africa) and excuse making black Americans cling on everytime

Seems like the Kings are going to ruin the Lakers x Warriors matchup after all.

At this point Warriors might jump to 8

greypencils:
Clark passes as someone who is comfortable in her own skin. She has left all on the floor in back to back NCAA finals. She didn't win on both occasions but she clearly made a name for herself. She is etched in history as having scored the most points in NCAA both Men and Women. The haters can hate. I found myself disliking BET for their 'excessive blackness' posting content on Angel Reese and LSU with the 'Black Queen' mantra. It suddenly began to reek of inferiority complex to me when they posted reactions of black celebrities to South Carolina's NCAA win with their followers on social media hawking the 'black queen' mantra like gala. I just tire. When it comes to BBall, no one cares your race, just play ball. C.Clark has been able to draw the attention of the world, Male, Female, Black & White. I just pray she continues and ups that level at the WNBA. Let the hate continue. Boys go still tune in to watch her assists and 3-points shots.

Exactly. All that counts is that she brought historic number of eyeballs to their game. Whether the other women rally round her remains to be seen. You know these people have a socialist mindset they don't know the league needs revenue to pay them. They think they're owed money cos they throw balls in a hoop

They for the most part seem bitter and jealous even the white ones among them which is why I don't think it's just a race issue. The fact that she's not bent the knee to the Woke/LGBTQ mafia is also no bueno. You see one of the primary reasons for the existence of that league is to push that agenda. Caitlin Clark is a contrast to that. If you want to see real hate. Let her bring up God or declare her support for Trump that's when you will see real outrage

Black American people especially the women are always on some victimhood P. That one is not new. All I'd say is they should stop celebrating and embracing degeneracy and maybe people will start taking them seriously.

It's in the interest of that league if they ever want to be profitable to know the demographic that gives a damn about sports (straight 15-65 year old males) and keep pushing women like Caitlin Clark not masculine presenting women like Britney Griner or Diane Taurasi that don't even have the athleticism to backup their masculine costumes

Clippers vs Mavericks first round should be fun.

Hopefully Kawhi doesn't have his yearly injury Retreat again

OJ da Juiceman aka potential double homicider passes on

Looks like our Warriors x Lakers 9 v 10 Battle of the Bastards derby is still on.

Praise Jah Jehovah

greypencils:
It's down to the wire. 3 more games to go, Suns, Pels, Sac, Lakers & GSW in the mix. I am calling it now, Suns won't make the playoffs.

Basketball gods really punishing KD for all his team hopping

Missing the playoffs should remove KD from top 20 consideration IMO

AD buttersoft ass not playing

Chai. We had the chance to steal this game. Coman came so close and hit the post.

If not for Tucheliban and his satanball I would have been confident of shredding Arsenal at the Allianz. The fact that we were pretty ordinary and Arsenal at their best couldn't win at home shoulda been cause for encouragement

Davies and Dier wan sell match but Gnabry, Kane, Goretzka had other plans

Roland17:
I agree with you on the jealousy but I think it spans across the gender and not just blacks. Diana Turasi made some comments of National TV that reeked of jealousy.

I think the current WNBA players, especially the older ones feel she hasn’t done anything to be in the GOAT conversation.

Many of them are happy she did not win a title because according to them, you can’t be in a GOAT conversation without a title.

They are also offended by the narrative that she is coming to save or lift the WNBA because of her following and record attendances whenever she players. Also she isn’t so much interested in any other thing thing than playing basketball, which is different from what the current WNBA players do.

I'd get specific. There's an all inclusive Venn diagram of her haters. The first side are black women and men jealous that a white woman is getting all the coverage and attention in a sport with a black majority. They've used all types of talking points to diminish her greatness, look at that bitter yenta that came at Ice Cube cos he wanted her in his big 3 league. They brought their woke talking points and socialist mentality not realizing his league is also in the market place and needs revenue to stay afloat

Second side is the Alphabet mafia, the Woke gang, Caitlin is a white, heterosexual woman who's not gotten in bed with the mafia, she's uninitiated and that's no bueno. She will have to bend the knee and get down with the get down or else they will keep sending hate her way

She's probably not the GOAT but she's definitely in the top 5 conversation. She beat the two champions in back to back seasons just not in the last game. Suggesting she's not in the Mt Rushmore is just hate

I hope the WNBA players continue their hate on the woman that's the last hope of their league so their league can remain in rigamortis for another 30 years. You would think women and WNBA players alike would put their emotions to the side and rally round someone coming to save their league. If they think 14m people will tune in to their tournament next year they're sadly mistaken

WarHammer2000:
Hi guys, nice to meet you all. All my life, I had only watched football until recently when I had to research to write some YouTube scripts on some upcoming basketballers.

Since then, think I am slowly falling in love with the game and I can't believe that I looked down on it before although I still don't know much about it.

Can someone please recommend a site where I can watch NBA games (legal or illegal)? I don't mind paying for subscription if necessary.

NBA League pass

AD made from out of Fine China. My goodness

I see a lot of people by people I mean black people (women and simp men) hating on Caitlin cos of her skin color and not being down with the Alphabet mafia. And I pity them.

If they care anything about that charity league they call WNBA they would rally round her so none of them need to take vacations with Vlad Vlad or OG Xi. She's the last hope of that league and it's a pity their inferiority complex and racial biases won't get out the way

raumdeuter:
From shadow marking, we will see spiritual heading, ghost player, ogbanje tackle

All excuses to avoid primary calling of defending

Silentgroper:

Noob saibot .. my favorites character in mortal Kombat after sub zero ..

You dey play p.s?? If you do .. you'd see what van dijk is doing is similar.. it is strategic .. He might be the last defender at those point and would be foolish to just lunge at the opponent to avoid being dribbled past .. Instead he shadow marks him till back up comes or waits for to hit the ball then position himself to block the ball . It help frustrates the opponent at times thereby causing confusing especially when the opponent is just expecting he(vvd) marks him head on so he would just dribble past him .. it is strategic .. Boathand or whatever they calling him, if he has employed this in his defending days no go dey chop grass easily as exposed in the pictures above ..

The funny thing is everyone does it .. So I do not know why oga ramdeuter finds it strange ... Even for street sef, we dey do am when we dey play ball for area.. na common thing nw..

You cannot effectively defend without getting your hands dirty.

Van Dijk with his point and kill defending does it prevent him from getting cooked? No!

Decisive strikers wax him or have him sticking his butt out like who wan sidioke and dadubule.

Boateng chopped grass to a World Cup and two CLs. Show me a defender that did not chop grass and I will show you a defender that did not do his job.

Who chop grass pass Vidic, go and ask Torres. Still remains one of the best PL defenders.

oliverano:


Baba don play PS2 taya. That one wey Adriano go collect ball from GK overpower everybody go score.

The good old days Adriano for left, Martins for right

Silentgroper:
have you ever heard of shadow marking

Shadow marking? When no be Noob Saibot dey for pitch

raumdeuter:
Is it possible to take a walk over and 3-0 without showing up?

Omoh I am so discouraged going into next game vs Arsenal the first time in almost 25yrs that I havent gone into a game vs Arsenal super confident

Lol. Them go beat us like Igbo women dey beat housemaid or step pikin

This baboon Upamenonsense must leave this club at all costs

kendrick9:
He made just one senior appearance for Bayern.
He was a youth player who wanted a better pathway into senior football.
One thing that's been consistent with Hummels is the fact he's left Bayern twice on his own will.
He has no love for Bayern, he only saw them as a career progression.

How has his lack of love for Bayern helped him?

Lost a CL to Bayern and after we chased him away we won again.

Wetin consign us with Hummels

Make we no just show face for Emirates because them go too flog us wetin no good

Amigoss:
Obviously

Ballzproblem2:
to loot more money,my saving grace was that my uncle worked for NIMC if not I no wetin I for spend just to run am.

They're never tired of stealing money even though nobody is leaving this planet with a pin.

How many useless schemes do they want to do? What have they done with the existing ones

The Bosun they were hyping up and down that one was talking about AI. AI for country wey no get light. Shey na Bulaba go power data centers or wetin

I don't even know if association with APC corrupts people or it just exposes them.