gtj1982
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I'm not mad at this. Haliburton was being a cry baby. He's been up and down all playoffs and wasn't playing well despite the game winner in game 1. He deserved to get criticized.
Why is NBA Media so much worse than other Major Sports
I'm not mad at this. Haliburton was being a cry baby. He's been up and down all playoffs and wasn't playing well despite the game winner in game 1. He deserved to get criticized.
Then why wasn't SAS' angle more along the lines of "You have had one good game in these Finals" as opposed to "People more important than you have failed at what you're doing"?
The "journalist" of this equation is supposed to remain unbiased.
Simple answer: It's the most talked about sport that people watch the least of. When I say watch, I mean an actual full-game or condensed 10-15 minute highlights of a game. At least with the NFL, they might watch RedZone throughout the day, and isolated prime-time games.
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He isn’t doing a report and hasn’t been a journalist in awhile. His job is to share his opinion. You got me looking crazy out here defending SAS.
You're talking about politics, which i don't care about because I don't vote & believe that electoral politics is a scam.
I'm talking about the way they function on a daily basis in the game.
Patrick Mahomes shows up when he's supposed to, doesn't "load manage', doesn't get his coaches fired every year, doesn't call all the people who preceded him plumbers, & blame the media for all of his problems.
What he does in the voting booth is his business.
I bet a lot of NBA players are MAGA, too, but they just know their audience is more liberal, so they hide their c00niness a little bit more, whereas football is more of a country type sport, so they don't have to hide it at as much
Well thats different,but you included Ja who has absolutely done his job as far as becoming a star. Then the nba banned him being reactionary to tweets and fake outrage from media smh.
What your proving is that how the overall game is played stinks now. Nobody cares about the off the field stuff in nfl because the product is still great. Theyve taken all the life out of the nba. No trash talking,no hard fouls,no passion smh
Then have the nerve to make it the hardest to watch sport too. With that product they put out there
Then have the nerve to make it the hardest to watch sport too. With that product they put out there
Worst part is some of the media (NBA, and NFL) have voting privileges for MVP, 1st/2nd/3rd Team, OPOY, DPOY, etc.
Impacting player legacies and accolades are more concerned with campaigning or creating certain agendas instead of educating/entertaining viewers.
Last week alone:
SAS called Giannis an underachiever
Chris Simms having doubts about voting for Josh over Lamar for MVP
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If Silver wasn't a faq he'd tell ESPN the pre-game/half-time show of MAGAlika, SAS and Perk has to go. Truly embarrassing TV
SAS/hot take culture is the biggest issue I have with the coverage of all sports right now. It's hard to get actual analysis of the game or a good breakdown because they're trying to hunt for click bait stuff.
Also SAS is a whole hoe for what he said about Memphis
Also SAS is a whole hoe for what he said about Memphis
Yet another SAS thread is posted in The Coliseum 
Analysis is cool but thats not what drives the popularity of the sport. Even in the old days the storylines and the narratives helped drive the game. But the main thing was the main thing. Ans thats that the product was good and fun to watch. But when the product isnt good ,the gossipy/hot takes stand out alot more. Weak analysis would not stand out if the game was still good. And hot takes wouldnt bother fans if we were still passionate enough to argue regardless how stupid the take is. We repeat the nfl doesnt have this problem with similar hot takes and narratives that mostly drive the discourse.
I had nothing to do with whatever made you decide to defend him.
For many people, shows like First Take, SPEAK, and The Facility are a primary source for their sports news and analysis. SAS is free to have his opinion, but if I wanted to watch some chatty patty bullshyt, I'd cut on The View.
And most sports talk and analysis is merely chatty patty bullshyt/hot takes galore that rarely have anything to do with the most important current event in sports at the time. I get that engagement is king, but after a certain point I expect a sports analyst to hit me with some shyt that justifies why they are paid to discuss the sport.
Case in point: Haliburton said some shyt about talking heads and criticism. SAS' response wasn't to deliver actual reasoning as to why Haliburton is getting criticism, but rather to say something along the lines of "More important people than you have tried me" to the best player of one of the teams playing for the NBA championship.
Ain't too many people more important than the NBA Finals participants in sports right now. And if there are? ESPN and its personalities are at fault because they aren't doing their jobs to the fullest.
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This is the issue. The talking heads have set out to make themselves the center of attention very openly at the expense of the game and its players, which is a complete betrayal of what their job is supposed to be.I had nothing to do with whatever made you decide to defend him.
For many people, shows like First Take, SPEAK, and The Facility are a primary source for their sports news and analysis. SAS is free to have his opinion, but if I wanted to watch some chatty patty bullshyt, I'd cut on The View.
And most sports talk and analysis is merely chatty patty bullshyt/hot takes galore that rarely have anything to do with the most important current event in sports at the time. I get that engagement is king, but after a certain point I expect a sports analyst to hit me with some shyt that justifies why they are paid to discuss the sport.
Case in point: Haliburton said some shyt about talking heads and criticism. SAS' response wasn't to deliver actual reasoning as to why Haliburton is getting criticism, but rather to say something along the lines of "More important people than you have tried me" to the best player of one of the teams playing for the NBA championship.
Ain't too many people more important than the NBA Finals participants in sports right now. And if there are? ESPN and its personalities are at fault because they aren't doing their jobs to the fullest.
