Why would they want to be the face of the league when all of our day to day taking heads shyt on everyone- LeBron James

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Bron’s right. All they do is shyt on you and show fake love and criticize the game.

Why would Ant want to deal with that?

The issue is Ant thinks he has a choice and he doesn’t. The Sprite, Adidas, Foot locker campaigns all come with it…the kids love him. He’s the guy as of now. They tried with Tatum and Giannis..Ja threw it away.
Tatum is more popular than Ant by like every metric
 

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is there a crevice of the commercial media where black males aren't engaged with through an antagonistic deficit model basis

Even Obama himself followed suit... its like a social requirement . you can't sell black males to the white public in any other manner
 

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we going overboard with this tatum "hate" ...he got teased over the olympic shyt and nikkas cracked a few jokes .... he's just boring it aint that deep.

If being hated on = face of the league...it would have been Embiid prior to this season.

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He falls down alot
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he wants to play for USA
he's fat
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is there a crevice of the commercial media where black males aren't engaged with through an antagonistic deficit model basis

Even Obama himself followed suit... its like a social requirement . you can't sell black males to the white public in any other manner


:whew: I had to look up what deficit model was referring to. Spot on

A perspective which attributes failures such as lack of achievement, learning, or success in gaining employment to a personal lack of effort or deficiency in the individual, rather than to failures or limitations of the education and training system or to prevalent socio‐economic trends.
 

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Part of being the goat is making Marriotti and bayless eat crow.

At the same time trying to digest their plate of crow. With a foot in their mouth.

The fact is though.

If you lost two four peats. That all boil down to what took place on and off court. Then all the criticism is warranted.

This has been taking place since wilt. Was going against red having insider trading and scouting on wilt since he was a teen. Then preparing to either sign wilt. Or mastermind how to best the inevitable day wilt comes to the nba.
.sohh if you hoop.

Then you not prepared to study. To thwart this level of preparedness from red. Then you really not trying to be great at basketball. As that is the executing brain trust. You are up against. When playing in the nba.
A parochial kid can not complain. As they should be educated on this. Plus should be making inroads to thwart this scrutiny at all cost.

Or become what lebron has become in legacy. Which is :

LeBron = Elgin baylor 2.o



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Read Jordan’s 1992 playboy interview to see what was being said about him at the time. It wasn’t all rainbows for him. He got his fair share of criticism it just wasnt in your face 24/7 bc of social media.

Saying you are the reason your father is dead is worse than anything said about Bron
 

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The NBA's approach to promoting their stars heavy while commentators destroy them regularly is embarrassing. No other sport moves like this, and it's hard to feel it's not connected to them being black and rich.
Undeniable truth. People will deny it’s race related, it’s subtle to most and it’s so subtle that it’s passed off as media cultureI. t’s inherent.
 

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Undeniable truth. People will deny it’s race related, it’s subtle to most and it’s so subtle that it’s passed off as media cultureI. t’s inherent.
it's race related based on what exactly? You could probably use the racist standpoint on guess like Magic, Bird, Jordan, Kobe, Iverson, etc. But not the current league. The players simply do not love the game and it shows,
 
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