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birdman:
Ccin past players. Confirm if you are playing so I can bold your name below, and check your fantasy team. If you want to join, give me a holla!

aliondo killrhymz01 SmooshCHN Hohenheim KNIGHTBlaed steady986 joephemzyz sylvanus Hardetayour donlittle25 larride honlucas

Draft this Saturday 10/17
1PM WAT,
8AM EST

If you still wanna join, hit me up!

SmooshCHN:
What time is the draft Commissioner?

Saturday 10/17
1PM WAT,
8AM EST

larride:
It should be this Saturday I think

cc Birdman

It is this saturday. I usually choose a time when I know SmooschCHN will be asleep from friday night activities. It backfired last season though

SmooshCHN:
This man!!! 😂😂
I'm just curious. What do you mean by ashewo reasons? You get to see her if they win or what?

ol boy, I think am small, shake head. I dont want to be in greypencils mind. Now Im even wondering what greypencils is supposed to mean. God abeg...

Killrhymz01:
na injuries cause all this

very specific and timely injuries.

Nothing but respect for you my Broski!! Me and you 1&2 again this season. Same strategy. Me Wemby, you Jokic. Anything goes after first round. If you like, no test your network before draft.

pride cometh before destruction

KNIGHTBlaed:
Active!! As una don too humble me, make I dey lowkey

na killrhymz suffer pass. I have not seen the brother this year smooshchn used jazz, thats the only explanation

birdman:
Friends, nairaleauge Fantasy NBA 2026/2027 is upon us . If you would like to play this year, send me your email address and I will send you an invite.

Last year was bad!! I still have sifia pains over the dude who carried the trophy, affliction must not arise a second time .

If you played last year, I will ping you this weekend on nairaland or via email

Ccin past players. Confirm if you are playing so I can bold your name below, and check your fantasy team. If you want to join, give me a holla!

aliondo killrhymz01 SmooshCHN Hohenheim KNIGHTBlaed steady986 joephemzyz sylvanus Hardetayour donlittle25 larride honlucas

Friends, nairaleauge Fantasy NBA 2026/2027 is upon us . If you would like to play this year, send me your email address and I will send you an invite.

Last year was bad!! I still have sifia pains over the dude who carried the trophy, affliction must not arise a second time .

If you played last year, I will ping you this weekend on nairaland or via email

greypencils:
Look at this Oloshi. Thank God my Giannis don commot.

He is not wrong. I would rather use preseason to warm into the season. Its not playoffs now

SmooshCHN:
Commissioner Birdman, how body? Any action this season? Some of us have a streak to keep please.

Can you promise neither you nor Uche will draft Lebron? This sixers team is looking scary o

Roland17:
He has just put his young career in a make or mar situation. I even understand he is missing preseason activities because he is holding out. There is no pro in this situation. If he goes into the season without a contract, he'd be risking getting hurt while playing and that will kill any chance of a big contract. If he refuses to play, he will get docked pay, lose shape and nobody will take a chance on him. He just put his entire life on a very risky trajectory and to imagine he is just 22.

The option to make a wise decision is not compulsory, it's a choice. Sometimes skill level dey pass wisdom level. Brother man is about to find out

joephemzyz:
Hello guyssssss, here to say that I am patiently waiting for the start of the new fantasy season😄😄

Dey talk like snake, I still no fear

https://www.instagram.com/reel/Dd4H4nthcn1/?stkn=MXBsOGlyN2hsdWQ1cQ==

Always warms my heart to see the Dream

A40:
Which kin help Jaylen Brown go need though? Unless him break law or something.

We are talking about a nigga with 9 figure earnings. He has that FU money

ahan... na so. wahala dey wey money no go solve

Roland17:
JB rest oh!!!!

All these talk too much oh!!!!!

I like the guy but e don become Elejo Wewe!

I applaud his going to ile ife. But guy man needs to go low key sometimes. Reminds me of mahmoud abduraouf. all the guys inviting you to shows and making you talk will stop picking your calls when you need help

A40:
If you are a marriage and family minded black man you have to embrace the reality that your options will have to include non blacks

I was watching this Pop Balloon show the other day a young dude early 30s no kids was standing there and a lineup of 6 women. All of them had at least 1 child. Wtf are you supposed to do with that?

It's so normalized that if you say you don't want that it's like something is wrong with you

You start looking early, and you pray. Life is very spiritual, and I dont mean that in the spooky naija way. When you set you mind to a thing, certain events start to attract themselves to you. You will just be at some random gathering, and someone who knows you will suddenly see you in a different light, and just remember that they know someone that would actually fit you. Chance encounters are usually not chance. Something as serious as a life partner is too heavy to leave to "whatever will be will be". It is very likely Barack never even thinks about becoming president with a different kind of wife.

SmooshCHN:
I typed a whole paragraph and just deleted it because it's of no use. I wouldn't say I have the perfect life enough to give an opinion but f* it. There has to be something these boys are seeing to make them do all their best to actively go this same route that has ruined the lives of hundreds of thousands of men. What is it biko? I don't want to hear it's a culture thing. What am I missing? 4 kids within how many years? And then he recently got married so maybe he's probably on the right part? It's confusing.

Let me type the paragraphs for you

Think about it like this: you grew up in naija, 2 parent home very likely. Both parents went to school all the way up to uni. Then got jobs, got married and raised a family. The reason this sounds normal to you is because that is what you saw your parents do. It is now a track that plays in your subconscious, so you most likely will do the same thing - go to school, get a job, marry one woman etc. And if your parents spanked you with belt, it will be very difficult for you not to do the same with your child, even if you know better. Why? What your parents modeled is what your inner man considers normal and it will always drift that way.

Now imagine your grew up in an inner city yankee household with only your mom raising you. You have an irresponsible father that pops in from time to time, has like 8 kids by 3 different women, and cant settle in one place. That, is your normal, wether you like it or not. You were born into it, you didnt choose it. And it is now your curse: your inner man, your psyche will always drift in that direction, even though you know what it did to you. You have to do deep inner work, lasting years to break it. Instead, these rich athletes are partying, getting drunk regularly, spending nights in strip clubs. They will NEVER outrun the initial programming. Their psyche will slowly compel them to look exactly like pops by the time they are 50.

And unfortunately for the youngns, they are too proud to consider that OGs who were in the game even before they were born had to slow down to not wreck themselves. I watched Anthony Edwards talking to Barack Obama during a bball game like he was playing his homie. Barack is a very cool guy, but dont let that fool you - even in yankee respect goes a long way. Best believe Barack took note, just kept silent, like other OGs will. The elders that could talk to him will just step back as his pride leads him down that dark road

greypencils:
Talking about mechanisms, see Jayson Tatum's father speaking out on being shunned by the media when his son made the league. The narrative out there is that black men are not involved in their children's lives and the media is reinforcing that narrative. Everything western is about weakening the power of men in favour of the woman. These are crazy times and we black men need to be aware and very careful. You can pile up wealth but one mistake with the opposite sex, even with ones spouse and one's years of hardwork can crumble into nothing.

I dont disagree with what you said, but practicing this is harder than it looks. Guys are very easy to fool, we will always fall for babes blessed with our favorite shape , now if the have a killer smile, we are sold 2 years later you are a baby daddy that cant see your kids while still paying child support.

One practical way to start is to grow past which lady is hot, which is not. Trust and believe, they are all the same, na just packaging. Those ESPN babes brodas dey drool over, after one month seeing her from morning to night every day, that magic light will dissapear They will all grow older, lines will appear, no amount of beauty or make up can help you cope with bad character.

Another way in addition, is to forgo court marriage. Just make sure the families are involved, because last, last, they will be the ones that can either scatter it, or keep the peace. If you are the guy, make sure you have her father's ears. Dont waste that access on trivial things, you might need him to step in one day. Worst comes to worst, its not a court marriage so they cant use lawyers to harass you.

dandadee:
Walter Ofonagoro is alive!

So the author himself is clueless. Wonderful

A40:
You're a naive individual. Either that or quite sinister

I'm sure if there's a leaky roof in your house you would wait till it's rainy season before you fix it

Now I don't have problems with them people. They have the right to exist but the point is it doesn't matter if it's 1 or 1 million. The pathway for competing with women in sports should be completely shut. Not this whataboutism and obfuscation tactics you are displaying

Also the image below shows you're categorically lying and that is what a lot of you wokies are very skilled at doing

Good find. The psychology of humans is that if you legitimize something, a certain portion of the population will take that path. Specifically in western societies, there are several mechanisms at play. For example family structures are under severe strain here in the west, people are pulling 14, 16 hours of work per day as single moms or single dads in some cases. So little attention is paid to children in their formative years. To make it worse, if you happen to be in some states like Cali, the school tries to actively encourage the students to 'explore' alternative options, trying to cut out parental authority. A child can do gender change without notifying the parent!!

I can find it later, but I remember a community of hispanic immigrants fighting back against it. It got so brazen the lt. gov. showed up at a hearing to threaten them over their own children. Nvm, found a blurb on it:

https://www.ewtnnews.com/world/us/california-parents-sue-governor-over-law-banning-notification-of-student-gender-identity

I said all that to say, this trans in wnba thing is a long play, to set things up for the future.

Apparently Im under a rock at the moment. Don Nelson made living a full life look easy. Rest on pops!

Hohenheim:
Can't wait for the passive aggressive comments from JB and Bron after theat first losing streak.
It's going to be be cinema.

Im sure they will await your comments when they go on a win streak

SmooshCHN:
Philly vs Celtics for Christmas day match up please. And the Warriors shouldn't even get a chance to be on TV that day abeg. Thanks

you want to spoil christmas with bad blood

if JB, Embiid and Lebron win a ring, that would easily be the most unpredictable thing ever. JB and and Lebron have landed on this team in a very nonsensical way. But it wont happen though, Embiid is injury prone, and Lebron is just too old. I have always been a fan of Nick Nurse, I am curious to see how they play.

I forgot sef, steady986, are you ok?

https://sports.yahoo.com/articles/shame-her-female-ryan-clark-203822045.html

Agenda agending. Make una dey there, dey yarn dust. Meanwhile they targeting folk based on color, then turning around and calling them the racist instead. But typical black man, until e touch am personally, na grammar e go dey talk. Kwantinue

A40:
Come on man. Give or take you've spent 4 decades on this earth. You are likely older than me

You can tell passive aggressive and subliminal behavior, I'm pretty sure you're street smart.

If you want to feign ignorance of what's being implied no wahala. That's part of your human right, but I'm sure you know better or more importantly if you were Jaylen Brown watching that how you would react

Thanks for that lol. I have also lived long enough to see innocent people get roped into things they nothing of by mischievous people. That is why good character is a defense. If JT was some guy always mouthing off, or running down others, then this accusation would have legs. As it is, the overwhelming evidence on ground is guy man has been in the league 10 years, and we have no record of such passive aggressive talk, not even in the years they lost painfully. So Im going to give him the benefit of the doubt over guys on the internet hunting for stories.

Wotowotoman:
For most people, secondary source of income. Not because they think they are about to be fired

For most people. Is RC or SAS most people? no. They make more than enough to not need secondary income. Yet SAS has his own show as well. Its called hedging your bets. Btw, being fired and being laid off are not the same thing, RC was laid off, and I urge you to go take some time to understand the difference.

Thankfully, he will be alright, if he was waiting for the people on nairaland, he would have starved. SMH, spending yall spending energy to crucify a brother whose main crime was standing up. Thats why they laugh at you, you dont even have enough awareness to understand the game.

A40:
What is your point exactly? There are many things that are not our fights and we intervene or are expected to intervene regardless.

RC is a goofball for questioning the blackness or bringing up his interracial relationships and I stand by that. He is a race grifter and race hustler. And that's why he's had to severally come on live TV to apologize and walk back his uninformed comments.

Why are you questioning another man's black card cos he made an obvious observation. Based on basketball!

He said Reese hated Clark and had more smoke for her than her fellow black players on the court that attack her physically? Did he lie. Didn't we see proof?

RC is not the blackness sheriff. Nobody died and appointed him or either of you to decide who can give commentaries on these issues

Also an American can discuss on any issues he pleases as far as he has done his research and understands the context. The same way everyone is carrying Jewish and Palestine matter for head.

You don't need to be Martin Scorcese to say "this movie sucks" so miss me with your example

regardless, I appreciate the way you laid this out

A40:
That's what it sounds like. Everyone can't be a radical I get that. But a wiser person will not sneak diss his ex teammate like that who's said nothing about him in a negative or incendiary manner

how you so sure he was dissing him though. or fans just reading too much into everything?

Wotowotoman:
RC didn’t start Pivot because he knew what was coming. It was a side gig and that podcast has been running since 2022. RC never saw that sack coming!

you know why 9-5ers have side gigs right? lol

SmooshCHN:
I've moved on from winning ever since plus Steph also seems to be perfectly ok with how everything has played out so it's all good. I just watch the game just because I enjoy watching some players in the team and that's it. Last season was Al Horford, KP, G.Santos and a few and that's it for me. This season would take less of my attention because I know Kerr isn't going to do anything different.

I brought up Steph's leadership style on this forum some years back, I was labeled a hater. But its now obvious to all, that he should have stepped up and asserted leadership a long time ago. There is no such thing as co-leadership. Anything with two heads is a monster! He shied away from having a tough conversation with Draymond, and enforcer became cancer, wasting what could have been 2 more rings for Steph.

A40:
Tatum is the typical company man. Do-boy follow follow that is cool with not rocking the boat. However these comments are in poor form

Unless JB has shaded him in the past which we are not aware of.

This is not how you come out to sneak diss your fellow comrade.

I just think he's always had a silent beef with Brown and at the end of the day Oba o le pe meji laafin. He probably still feels those MVPs should have gone to him

These guys all have an ego. They just play it differently

that he keeps quiet doesnt mean he is a do-boy. Maybe just older and wiser