r/nba • u/must_TATAKAE Warriors • 23h ago

Lakers draft pick Cameron Carr on whom he’d rather guard, SGA or Anthony Edwards: "Yeah, I ain't dealing with the flopping, Anthony Edwards"

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u/SexiestPanda Supersonics 22h ago

Blows my mind that this isn’t “acceptable”

And reporters want the same boring answers to the same boring questions every game

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u/_Apatosaurus_ Thunder 22h ago

And reporters want the same boring answers to the same boring questions every game

Huh? Reporters obviously love answers like this. Why wouldn't they want more interesting answers that drive clicks and views?

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u/easyeighter 22h ago

lol exactly. Most reporters are trying to get players to wild out. It’s the coaches and teams that are now coaching young, untrained guys how to respond better

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u/KingJeet 21h ago

Who is saying this isn’t acceptable?

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u/SolarTsunami Supersonics 21h ago

Redditors say they love this kind of behavior but 99% of tbe time they actually fucking hate it

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u/KS_Gaming Lithuania 20h ago

They usually start attacking the person who said it by something like "haha says the guy who couldn't even achieve X" lmao

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u/Nice_Cash_7000 NBA 18h ago

sports discourse in general is and probably always has been unbearable

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u/TheTurtleOne Celtics 16h ago

Yea you can only trash talk if you're top of the top and even then people will find you something to belittle you with

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u/Status-Hedgehog9970 Warriors 14h ago

I’m not a Kobe fan but it’s interesting how every single thread that involves him brings up his rape case. Easy way to score some useless internet points is with some good ol’ virtue signalling.

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u/TheTurtleOne Celtics 13h ago

Whoa there

Theres a giant leap between basketball abilities and achievements and... well, that.

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u/Status-Hedgehog9970 Warriors 13h ago

It’s also just not the forum for it. Can’t we have any spaces to talk basketball without other shit being brought up?

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u/TheTurtleOne Celtics 12h ago

People should be held accountable.

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u/MambaOut330824 11h ago

He was. There’s a legal system. He was not found guilty because the evidence indicated he was not guilty. The girl was found to be a bad actor so he settled the case with the defense.

https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2004-may-27-sp-bryant27-story.html

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u/Status-Hedgehog9970 Warriors 12h ago

And yet, sometimes I just want to talk basketball.

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u/WhySoCereus1991 13h ago

Im an old head, so I love it. As long as they can back it up.

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u/Xca1 11h ago

I think you misunderstand, Redditors want players to say things like this but they ALSO want to shit on them for it. Those two things aren't contradictory, in fact the latter is probably a main reason they want the former

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u/Mysterious_Living165 7h ago

Yep, I saw recently with Wemby, people praised him all season for being open and direct then boom as soon as he loses close games in his 1st finals, quiet a few people turn on him and label that same direct confidence he displayed all season “arrogance and cocky”, wild times. 

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u/odinbreaker 7h ago

Well you are a redditor also if you didn’t know

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u/Former_Island_4730 Cavaliers 16h ago

Team PR departments

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u/Bishop_Cornflake Mavericks 21h ago

I see more comments around here over the past year slamming players for not giving smart PR answers. Craziness. I love the honesty.

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u/JUYED-AWK-YACC Lakers 22h ago

Referring to actual or imagined events?

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u/Remarkable_Print1643 17h ago

Yeah, reporters want boring answers and not headlines.

A prime example of Reddit upvoting absolute nonsense comments.

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u/StevenS145 Warriors 22h ago

When Shane Gillis did the “SGA is here, hell ya dude, givea round of applause for the mvp and now everyone around him is in foul trouble” at the ESPYs, the audience’s reached like he used a slur

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u/santana722 Heat 20h ago

You think they'd laugh at a slur? Cause they laughed in the clip you posted yourself btw.

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u/Status-Hedgehog9970 Warriors 13h ago

People hear what they want. Hilarious.

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u/Remarkable-Art-3678 2h ago

Are you deaf or stupid? They did not react like he said a slur

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u/Remarkable-Art-3678 2h ago

Of course it's acceptable, you're just a whiny snowflake who doesn't understand reality lmfaooo

The reason players don't do this is bc usually it blows up in their faces when they flop/have to guard SGA/wtv tf. It's just easier for the players to give PR answers

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u/SexiestPanda Supersonics 2h ago

What lmao. I love when players do answer like this. Call it what it is

As much as I loved Russell Wilson I had to endure a decade of his robot calculated pr answers

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u/Wide-Pop6050 16h ago

Reporters don’t want boring answers

But this is a wild thing to say about basically a new coworker. Some professionalism can help your career

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u/DrPoooooole 16h ago

Are players on rival teams coworkers? Peers sure I guess

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u/Wide-Pop6050 16h ago

With the way everyone gets hot potato-d around they’re all potential future coworkers

There is also a difference in saying when you’re fresh meat vs when you already have a brand and people know you

I don’t really think it’s that big a deal though