I really don’t want to be mean about this but when Charles Barkley and Michael Jordan were running up the score and mean mugging against Angola they were dinks but at least they were millionaire dinks who didn’t have to care what people thought.

It’s the most thin-skinned overreaction to the slightest criticism. “Hey, maybe tone down the celebrations when you’re up 10-0.”

Americans not reacting well to gentle criticism? Whoda thunk it?

Sure, don’t hold back and act like as much of an asshole as you can. That’ll help the sport. People like to watch that. 

Caring about good sportsmanship and grace in victory is apparently for weak beta cuck losers.

You can keep trying to get people to believe that they didn’t act like assholes in the first game; it doesn’t make it so.

He’s about to break out in assholes and crap himself to death over his kid being banished to New Orleans...

this take here is the correct one. i’m really not sure the lakers are a top 5 west team. it’s james, davis, and who? okc tried the two stars and a shit ton of scrubs, didn’t pan out so well. plus james is getting old. thinking he’s gonna return to his pre 2018-19 self seems really short sighted.

Not to take anything away from the Raptors, but that’s more on the Spurs front office panicking and making a dumb trade than on Toronto’s keen read of the market.

Probably the definition of both teams winning. Lakers dump players LBJ didn’t wanna play with and the Pelicans get 6 players. The 3 that are known can start there day 1, plus they get Zion and #4 this year which is still a quality player. It’s entirely possible they have a completely new starting 5.

Kind of inevitable. For all of the “Boston’s offer will blow LA’s out of the water” stuff I think Ainge has proven he’s too obsessed with assets to part with a ton for what he knew would be a year of AD.

You are objectively wrong. 52% of white women voted for Trump.

They lose to U-16 boys teams.  The moment you say something silly like “the women’s team could beat the men” is the moment you lose a lot of credibility.

The men’s teams split 9% of the total revenue, the women get 13%. If we want the women to get more money, and we do, growing the popularity of the sport and the viability of it for advertisers is how to do it.

“and also because they could probably beat the USMNT in a friendly match.”

I’ll never understand the whole thing about complaining about lack of fan support/interest. People have tastes and preferences and they’ll act accordingly. It’s futile for one person to “demand” that another person take an interest in any topic, whether it’s a sport or anything else.

“2) Women voted for Hillary,not Trump.”

Sucks for the German squad but similar sentiment in every country other than US, Japan, and a couple others. And even in the US, other than every four years, do people truly care about women’s soccer? How’s that pro league doing? Where do the best players even play? Americans love winners and the national team is a…

When Trump was elected there were numerous boogeymen to blame. Media. Meek dems. Racist stubborn dumb white men.

The most glaring reason to me: A MAJORITY OF WHITE WOMEN VOTED FOR TRUMP.

I get that media might be ignoring the German women’s team, and there is probably male and historical bias involved in that.

But…

The USWNT is suing for equal pay, a concrete, late-stage move in a debate that isn’t really even being held in Germany.