damn why are NBA players unclaiming rings now?

[Big Boss]

 

[Gotright]

I blame KD

 

[Big Boss]

 

[DrexlersFade]

You don't hear that shyt from the Will Perdue's Jack Hayley's other bench warmers. I hate when dudes start hoping on trends.

 

[Mʀ2ᴋDᴇᴇᴢ]

Ring is a ring

 

[I AM WARHOL]

I respect it. Trying to add to the sanctity of rings. They want to be real about the competitive aspect of the enjoyment of winning ships. Not all rings are equal. Hopefully this makes these new upcoming superstars want to battle it out for rings

 

[concise]

This is a team sport, this is not boxing or swimming or tennis.
I guarantee if Matt Barnes was a locker room disruption, they would have sent him home immediately.

 

[Hersh]

clout chasing

 

[PortCityProphet]

The championship is destroying the culture and fun of basketball.

Doesn’t mean we downgrade players because their teams weren’t good enough, their front offices were wack, or for whatever other reasons out of their control. The “you gotta won rings” narrative is killing basketball.

Bruh its the Jordan effect. The league, league media and marketing departments created the perfect player in Jordan and thats cool. But then they spend the next 20 years trying to recreate that and kills everyone who plays afterward. The entire game living in his shadow and cant escape it cause no matter who comes along they cant let the game move on without mentioning him.
Nobody can be great in their own time without being connected to him through comparisons, articles, trash ass nba media, game commentators.
In a sense the NBA killed themselves all they talk about is rings and playoffs and then wonder why nobody watches or cares about their regular season. Why after someone's favorite player retires they tune out.

If the NBA media moved on and pulled the game outta the shadow of 23 than it'd be a lot better.

 

[Megadeus]

Ego. Thats all it is.

 

[FromStLouis]

Sometimes you have to let people have their pride.

Barnes was the 4th leading scorer on the We Believe Warriors, he's from The Bay, he's obviously going to have a strong opinion about it.

I watched the interview and he didn't seem bitter about, it was just a matter of principle.

I'd tell him keep the ring for your kids though.

 

[madness]

Blame the media and annoying ass stan wars who focus only on rings for this asterisk shyt

 

[jwinfield]

Honorable thing to do. Honestly, the rest of the GSW squad should come out and do the same thing. The first one was against injury ridden teams. That ain't greatness. Last 2 with KD was just cheating and even then it took a CP3 injury one year. They all have 0 respectable rings if you really look at it. Rings have become overrated because it was part of MJ's story of greatness. But these other guys ain't great like MJ was.

Salute Matt Barnes.

at rings not counting because your team was too good.

 

[Drizzy Dre]

Cuz nikkaz is bored. I fux with Barnes too but it sounds more like he was disappointed in his amount of playing time and thus has the attitude of “fukk this ring” but to be polite and PC he’s worded it differently

 

[letti cook]

i understand what Matt saying

but foh with Barkley and Malone...shyt if Karl was healthy they probably wouldve won and if Barkley got to the finals with the Rockets, he obviously wouldve been a major factor in winning