Kyrie Irving And The Death Of The Ghetto Superstar

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Its accepted in the black community if you go to Duke you a hoe nikka :yeshrug:

for the most part true.. but there are exceptions to every rule i.e; Elliot Williams 8 Kyrie

too much flash and hood nikka mentality of going at nikkas to just be a hoe nikka
 

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Whole article sounds like a discussion he was having with a white guy and say, "Hey, that's a great write-up!"

Whats wrong with the article? Before reading it, I never really thought about it
I did back when it was an issue during the iverson era. But I didn't really think about how the new "PG" is not this hood nikka.
I just assumed they was. Chris Paul just has the swag of that Hood nikka PG that can pass his ass off
Maybe white boys have a chance now :heh:
 

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Whats wrong with the article? Before reading it, I never really thought about it
I did back when it was an issue during the iverson era. But I didn't really think about how the new "PG" is not this hood nikka.
I just assumed they was. Chris Paul just has the swag of that Hood nikka PG that can pass his ass off
Maybe white boys have a chance now :heh:

The problem with the article is because he's speaking for a whole generation of people as IF everyone thought something....something he'd probably get mad at if a white dude did it. Its just "unnecessary"...
 
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How can they say he's Carlton with a better handle and then say he's Kobe with a better jump shot in the same article?:ohhh:

Did they not see Carlton take that last shot?!!
He isn't talking about Carlton's game, he's talking about Carlton's background. I see that went over other folks' heads too.

It stayed that way for decades, but now, there are chinks in the armor. It’s changing, and now we’re on the verge of a paradigm shift. Why? Because the nastiest guard (not the best, but the “nastiest”) in the NBA is a prep school kid from the tony suburbs of Jersey who went to Duke.

West Orange is a small city in Essex County, approximately a half-hour outside of New York City. To say it’s a normal suburb makes it sound too perfect. Too idyllic. We aren’t goin’ there. But numbers don’t lie, and man, the numbers associated with West Orange are dope. The median household income is $88,884, the average price of a house is over $402,000, and in 2011, there was one reported murder. Kyrie Irving spent his freshman and sophomore years at nearby Montclair Kimberley Academy (before transferring to national power St. Patrick’s Academy, in Elizabeth). The tuition for ninth through twelfth graders at Montclair is $ 32,000 a year. They don’t have a principal; they have a headmaster. You get the point.

Kyrie’s father, Dred, played college ball at Boston University and after a stint playing overseas (Kyrie was born in Australia), came back to the states and began a career as a bond broker on Wall Street.
 

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He isn't talking about Carlton's game, he's talking about Carlton's background. I see that went over other folks' heads too.

I was hoping people would get the joke I was trying to make friend :shaq2:

In fairness, I should have hit them with the :troll: though, :sadcam:
 

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:leostare:.................................. I'm gonna have to take your word for it then.

I'm saying though they said the man is Carlton Banks with a handle and then proceeded to say he's a better shooter than Kobe. Im like did they ever see the episode where Carlton took the ball from Will and tried to shoot it?!
:lolbron:
You know, get it?..:ld:.. :ehh:

*hears crickets*




:sadcam::to::why: I thought it was funny :snoop:
 
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I'm saying though they said the man is Carlton Banks with a handle and then proceeded to say he's a better shooter than Kobe. Im like did they ever see the episode where Carlton took the ball from Will and tried to shoot it?!
:lolbron:
You know, get it?..:ld:.. :ehh:

*hears crickets*



:comeon:

i get the joke.

i mean, i have to take your word for it that you did dap that post for 'unintentional humor' and not dapping it because you initially thought like other folk that the those statements were a contradiction of each other - 'irving's game is like carltons one moment, than in the next breath saying he's more polished/better shooter than kobe' and suddenly realising you misinterpreted what he said after reading it again.
 

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:comeon:

i get the joke.

i mean, i have to take your word for it that you did dap that post for 'unintentional humor' and not dapping it because you initially thought like other folk that the those statements were a contradiction of each other - 'irving's game is like carltons one moment, than in the next breath saying he's more polished/better shooter than kobe' and suddenly realising you misinterpreted what he said after reading it again.

Well they do feel like contradictory statements that the writer makes even though he wasnt talking about specifcally his game with the Carlton Banks comparison...but that's why its also funny because one could easily interpret that too :jawalrus:[/
 

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He isn't talking about Carlton's game, he's talking about Carlton's background. I see that went over other folks' heads too.
You're responding to one person. Its clear to everyone else that he was parlaying Carlton's upbringing. Nothing about that article going over "folks" head.

It's an attempt to get deep but really isn't.
 

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Endlessly discussing and qualifying our Blackness is exhausting.

The article and the argument is tiresome and it never goes anywhere.
 

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I think he's getting into how black culture is like a movement.

coming up through grade school white people were rockers, hip-hoppers, valley girls, emo kids, etc.

the only thing on average blacks did was from a hip-hop video of the sorts. Like early 2G's seems liked 70% of n!gga was rockin black tees and white tees only. looked like a uniform. he's saying black people tend to have a singular mind-set and don't have a lot of mental diversity in terms of expression. like...for every black guy in a hottie in the blowfish band there is a 1000 rappers. For every nysnc there are 2 fred durst etc. Black people don't have those many images is the point...





like everything goes back to the hood....white people don't bring everything back to the trailer park or keepin it real for the trailer park. There is no authentic white image. It could be a wall street kid, hunting gear wearing hick, jersey shore types etc.
 
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