NBA Playoff Thread

[Magnetic Curses]

On Monday, Sacramento overcame those long odds when an NBA ownership committee studying the situation unanimously voted against relocating the Kings. A formal vote of all 30 owners is scheduled for May 13 but sources told ESPN.com the full body is expected to ratify the recommendation of the 12 owners from the relocation and finance committees.

 

http://espn.go.com/nba/story/_/id/9225104/nba-owners-committee-recommends-sacramento-kings-stay-put

 

Suck it, Seattle.

 

is it sad that i actually thought for a second that Sacramento already lost their team and Seattle and Sacramento were the finalists for an expansion team?

[Sammy Sofa]

if i'd had to guess which of the four major sports would have an active athlete come out first, i probably would have guessed hockey. pretty sure basketball would've been my last guess, due to the smaller roster size and high numbers of black american athletes.

 

Why hockey? I don't follow the sport so I'm actually curious.

[Magnetic Curses]

hockey players usually seem a little more honest and less full of mindless platitudes than any other sport, i'd guess.

[Guest]

Your opinion is bad and you should feel bad.

 

Please post less.

 

please go back in time and create a new timeline where you never find out about nsbb

[imb]

 

@TimBrando: I'm hearing Collins is a HERO because he made history! Ok  as a Sports Commentator if I make a SEX tape is that history?The word matters ok

 

tim brando is being a huge [expletive] about this thing

[cubbyvirus00]

Your opinion is bad and you should feel bad.

 

Please post less.

 

please go back in time and create a new timeline where you never find out about nsbb

 

Try harder next time.

[cubbyvirus00]

hockey players usually seem a little more honest and less full of mindless platitudes than any other sport, i'd guess.

 

I dunno, there's always the toothless tough guy act in hockey

[Magnetic Curses]

hockey players usually seem a little more honest and less full of mindless platitudes than any other sport, i'd guess.

 

I dunno, there's always the toothless tough guy act in hockey

 

no, hockey players are pretty genuinely tough, it's not an act. they say and do what they want and it gets them into fights sometimes.

[Magnetic Curses]

and holy [expletive] Chris Broussard is a [expletive] psycho.

 

i think another reason hockey could be seen as more likely to have an openly gay player is due to the lack of blacks. there is a perception that it's a major taboo in black north american culture. personally, i've had a couple of gay black friends and neither of them had any straight black friends, so i might agree with that perception.

[Tangled Up in Plaid]

Collins coming out in and of itself is awesome, but the side effect of exposing the scumbags like Brando and Broussard is great as well.

[Derwood]

personally, i've had a couple of gay black friends and neither of them had any straight black friends, so i might agree with that perception.

 

I have a black gay co worker who hates black people

[Sammy Sofa]

and holy [expletive] Chris Broussard is a [expletive] psycho.

 

i think another reason hockey could be seen as more likely to have an openly gay player is due to the lack of blacks. there is a perception that it's a major taboo in black north american culture. personally, i've had a couple of gay black friends and neither of them had any straight black friends, so i might agree with that perception.

 

Yeah, the bold part is something I touched on earlier when cubbyvirus was trying ti minimize this as much as possible. Black male celebrities/public figures coming out as gay just does not happen all that often.

[TruffleShuffle]

if i'd had to guess which of the four major sports would have an active athlete come out first, i probably would have guessed hockey. pretty sure basketball would've been my last guess, due to the smaller roster size and high numbers of black american athletes.

 

Why hockey? I don't follow the sport so I'm actually curious.

 

more scandinavians and canadians, where gay marriage is not considered nearly as controversial as in the u.s. also don't think that machismo is as great in hockey and baseball as in basketball and football.

[Mark Priors Calves]

Matt Binder puts together a tumblr of public shaming of idiots posting bigotry and idiocy on twitter in response to big events. Here's his latest from Tim Brando.

 

http://publicshaming.tumblr.com/post/49229412239/tim-brando-and-me-we-come-from-different-worlds-he

[Magnetic Curses]

Matt Binder puts together a tumblr of public shaming of idiots posting bigotry and idiocy on twitter in response to big events. Here's his latest from Tim Brando.

 

http://publicshaming.tumblr.com/post/49229412239/tim-brando-and-me-we-come-from-different-worlds-he

 

perfect example of some bigoted idiot letting his mask slip when he writes "it's a choice." aha, now we get it.

[TruffleShuffle]

and holy [expletive] Chris Broussard is a [expletive] psycho.

 

i think another reason hockey could be seen as more likely to have an openly gay player is due to the lack of blacks. there is a perception that it's a major taboo in black north american culture. personally, i've had a couple of gay black friends and neither of them had any straight black friends, so i might agree with that perception.

 

a lot of conservatives gleefully love to point out that prop 8 would have failed in california if blacks hadn't voted at a rate of almost 70% in favor.

[Ding Dong Johnson]

Matt Binder puts together a tumblr of public shaming of idiots posting bigotry and idiocy on twitter in response to big events. Here's his latest from Tim Brando.

 

http://publicshaming.tumblr.com/post/49229412239/tim-brando-and-me-we-come-from-different-worlds-he

I didn't like him before, but wow. What a dick.

[TruffleShuffle]

Matt Binder puts together a tumblr of public shaming of idiots posting bigotry and idiocy on twitter in response to big events. Here's his latest from Tim Brando.

 

http://publicshaming.tumblr.com/post/49229412239/tim-brando-and-me-we-come-from-different-worlds-he

 

perfect example of some bigoted idiot letting his mask slip when he writes "it's a choice." aha, now we get it.

 

he bashes the "hero worship" of jason collins but then goes on to retweet something about how the real heroes are the soldiers, police, firefighters, etc. people who get paid to do a job that involves some level of danger. jason collins coming out of the closet can't possibly have a positive impact on his ability to keep playing basketball in the nba, and it may hurt him if teams think it will be a headache in the locker room. kind of makes me laugh that tim brando says that someone doing something that no male professional athlete in basketball, football, baseball or hockey has ever done is not brave or heroic, but meanwhile the millions of people who serve as soldiers, paramedics, police officers, firefighters, etc are true heroes.

[Guest]

Read from the bottom up.

 

http://i.imgur.com/UyUGYEQ.png

[cubbyvirus00]

Read from the bottom up.

 

http://i.imgur.com/UyUGYEQ.png

 

That's great =D> =D>

[Guest]

disgusting

[Sammy Sofa]

Read from the bottom up.

 

http://i.imgur.com/UyUGYEQ.png

 

That's great =D> =D>

 

No, it's pretty horrible.

[Guest]

oh, those are past tweets? then that's funny, and it's just him that's disgusting

[Guest]

Man, after Googling him, I realized where I remembered Ben Shapiro from. Dude created quite the controversy at UCLA with idiotic/racist comments about Muslims and was pissed the school paper wouldn't print them.

[Sammy Sofa]

Yeah, Ben Shapiro is a grade-A scuzzball. There's a whole crop of his ilk; like a herd of tiny Tucker Carlsons merged with Matt Drudge.