Fact or fiction: the NBA is ridiculous (in the right direction)

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Fact or fiction: the NBA is ridiculous (in the right direction)

How ridiculous is the NBA? Let’s consult the tracks. During last week …

• Two former players, extending nearly 14 feet and weighing nearly 600 pounds combined, began to fight to fight for the way they believe that the game should be covered from the media point of view.

This is what happened when Charles Barkley of TNT said: “I want all the smoke”, calling Kendrick Perkins of ESPN an “idiot” and an “idiot”. To which Perkins said: “I will add to his A ** like the figures on a house. “”

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And what, pray to say, could be the reason why these two giants are so angry with each other? Barkley thinks that Perkins devotes too much time to the Los Angeles Lakers and Golden State Warriors. That’s it. It is the entirety of their last beef, at least as far as I read it. A fame of fame is upset because a guy who has an average of 5.4 points per match for his career does not speak enough about Cleveland riders.

• One of the greatest players in the history of the league personally and very publicly urged a media member for daring to talk about his son’s ability to play basketball, even if his son plays basketball professionally. And one of these people is a bit seriously Being discussed as a potential candidate for the President of the United States, and it is not LeBron James or his son. It’s Stephen A. Smith.

James, who tweeted last season how “hilarious“It’s how much Bonny is better than some peers of the NBA, is essentially Big Mad that Smith called him, saying:”I beg LeBron James as father: Stop this.“” This “, we assume, is the show of dogs and pony to claim that Bonny James would be in the NBA, winning $ 8 million in these very Lakers until 2028, if his name was Jonny Bramas.

(In fact, Jonny Bramas is a big name. This guy probably would be be in the NBA.)

And of course, Smith took every opportunity after the confrontation of calling it “weak” and “certain bulls ***”, as if James could not challenge something he said. Good good for his presidential campaign.

Has anyone stopped to ask Bonny what he feels about all of this? He is a 20-year-old professional who, according to all indications, is fully able to speak for himself in these situations. Having his father, who prepared him for all this, fighting his battles to make him nepoticism more.

• An active player accused another of abandoning him a third because two of them had an animated practice in 2018, even if the accused only did anyone; He attended funeral for a personal friend.

Confusing, right? Draymond Green said on his podcast that the New York Karl-Anthony Towns New York Center would not play his warriors because Jimmy Butler was on the other side. When it turned out that Towns had to deal with someone close to his family, did Green apologize?

No, he didn’t do it. Rather, he connected his podcast. (Although the cities have addressed the problem.) In what fresh hell we live, where Green serves his signature dish. You can guess what’s on the menu. (Index: This is something Stephen A. Smith said earlier.)

• The guys who made the most stupid trade in the history of the NBA, a month later, always defend the stupleest trade in the history of the NBA as if it were not the most stupid trade in the history of the NBA.

It is true: the governor of Dallas Mavericks, Patrick Dumont, still talks about the trade of Luka Dončić.

“It was a decision on the future,” said Dumont recently.

Weird. Your managing director, Nico Harrison, said it was a winning decision, and you just said it was also one. And your team is in absolute ruin a few weeks just weeks before the 25 -year -old superstar negotiations that led you to the NBA final last year. There is no future to talk to Dallas. And not present either.

I would tell them to stop talking if it was not as fun to watch them dig their hole more deeply. Even Mark Cuban is here telling the people he sold the mavericks because He didn’t want his children to make such a stupid job. This is not the reason why he sold the team, but it is hilarious that he says it.

• A team was sentenced to a fine of $ 100,000 for violating the Participation policy of the NBA players in its efforts to disembark the season, while another is more skillfully – if not accidentally – which leads its campaign in the ground.

The NBA inflicted a fine on Utah Jazz to “do not make Lauri Markkanen available” against Washington Wizards in a battle of the two worst League teams on March 5. Jazz must have thought that no one was looking at, even the league office.

Meanwhile, have you seen the rotation of the 76ers of Philadelphia on their current series of misery? On Wednesday, they started Jared Butler, Quentin Grimes, Kelly Oubre Jr., Andre Drummond and Justin Edwards. We will wait while you are looking for “Jared Butler” and “Justin Edwards” to make sure they are actually real NBA players.

It is not the fault of Philadelphia that Joel Embiid, Paul George and Tyrese Maxey are all wounds defined in a vague manner in the non -disclosed recovery deadlines. But if I was a team that was to win a draft niche among the first six so as not to lose their first -round choice, and I had the sixth NBA record, I would make sure that all my best players are breastfeeding defined wounds without disclosure on the non -disclosed recovery times.

• Two incredible MVP candidates played two incredible games, each appreciating a sublime performance in one victory on the other, and some people wanted to explain why one of them is “A mistake merchant. “”

Why can’t we just have beautiful things? Shai Gilgeous-Alexander and Nikola Jokić are very beautiful things. In my opinion, it is wild that Gilgeous-Alexander appreciates one of the greatest seasons for a guard of history, and yet Jokić is in his own class, because his statistics are (probably) the biggest that we have ever seen.

But the debate cannot stop there. We must label one of them with a nickname that gives people who have not yet been presented to SGA a reason not to love it. Here is a counter: if Gilgeous-Alexander does not really win its many trips on the line of free throws, why, then, do the coaches do not dispute these calls?

This is how the NBA works. Don’t you like something? Make reasons why everyone should not like something, so that we can all enjoy it less. Or challenge someone to fight. It’s the same show.

Determination: Do. The NBA is ridiculous. Where can you find this drama but reality TV.