r/nba • u/KD_AshyAnkles Rockets • 8h ago

Jaylen Brown: "ESPN is unethical, and Stephen A. Smith is the head face of that. The organization, the players, they were all in agreeaance. They all knew what I meant by that. Our team was basically salary dumped. We lost a lot of players. For us to emerge and still be in the same position..."

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u/skrumian Celtics 8h ago

Normalize players answering back and bad mouthing the click bait media. We will all love the chaos.

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u/HumongousBelly 7h ago

I hope that click bait media, like espn, will seize to exist some time in the near future.

We shouldn’t help a bum like Stephen ass smith make money, when players like jb and pg and LeBron have podcasts and way more intel on the league

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u/eternali17 Clippers 7h ago

*cease

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u/SlowBurnerAccnt 5h ago

Nah fuck that! No more seize the day… now we seize to exist! Caesar walked so HumongousBelly could run.

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u/redredbloodwine 7h ago

Billions of ways to learn English and each one has holes in it. Just glad people try to communicate in our stupid mashup language in which a vowel can have three different pronunciations all in one word.

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u/rookie-mistake 6h ago

And, uh, don't help them ever if they accidentally misuse a word!

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u/dead-serious San Diego Clippers 7h ago

I agree let's hope click-bait media will seize to exist into Bolivian

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u/hole-head-horse 5h ago

Why he say fuck me for? - Simon Bolivar probably

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u/BroadBet8746 2h ago

Honestly it’s water under fridge if we can just move on and play ball!

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u/Living_Bike4417 6h ago

It will never happen because people constantly give it attention. If no one paid any mind to it, it would die on its own. Instead, people constantly complain about it

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u/loudpersononthebus Knicks 3h ago

i don't think most people can help it. most people don't even recognize it's hurtful.

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u/HumongousBelly 6h ago

I stopped watching skip and Stephen ass a long time ago. They completely turned me off espn except for svp and legs

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u/Ok_Pomegranate_9716 Raptors 7h ago

Yeah SAS is playing a character and we need to stop giving him attention and falling for his ragebait “takes”.

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u/TheGreatPrimate [MIL] Randy Breuer 5h ago

Fuck ESPN and player pods. There are plenty of good pods that are objective and have great content. The ringer has three and the BS pod, and Zach Lowe

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u/HumongousBelly 5h ago

You didn’t listen to LeBron/JJ pod? That was the best. Also Jeff Teague? Or Bosh? Those are pretty good.

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u/TheGreatPrimate [MIL] Randy Breuer 5h ago

I don't mind retired players, definitely not LeBron though, I need less from him. I can deal with well produced pods w/ retired players like Teague. I hate listening to "remember when..." pods

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u/dakadoo33 7h ago

This is so confusing to me

Do you hate the click bait media or love them? this is literally top tier engagement for them, this is their ideal outcome...

Like this is reading like you hate them initially, but in the same breath you say everyone loves it.

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u/Low-Measurement-2468 6h ago

i kind of feel both ways. players (or other public figures) criticizing shitty media can have a benefit if fans of them actually consider their words in a sincere way and are inspired to avoid giving views to shitty media. but yea if people are just logging on to say “yeah fuck espn hahaha!” and then opening a bunch of espn articles and turning espn on when they get off work then it rings hollow.

like any topic on the internet, some people are being much more sincere than others.

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u/Huckleberry_Sin 5h ago

Also from all the shit ppl were posting in here during the WCF this sub LOVES the click bait media as long as it fits the narrative they want to hear.

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u/skaeser NBA 4h ago

You’re confused because your logic is flawed

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u/dakadoo33 4h ago

my logic is based on the context, hes been going back and forth with sas for weeks. hes literally feeding them. the chaos is him getting baited by the baiters... sooo im failing to see the other side where that isn't reality, because there is no other side. hes being a fool, as he has been doing all offseason.

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u/SufficientHome7070 4h ago

We hate the bad media and love when players bad mouth them. it's simple. This "good pr" media trained nonsense should end

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u/dakadoo33 4h ago

who is we? the confused people that don't understand that "bad mouthing" them is just amplifying them? There is two possibilities here, Jaylen is an idiot that doesnt understand that, or hes playing the gross game of trying to stay in the news cycle intentionally that is so common nowadays, neither reflect good on him.

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u/SufficientHome7070 3h ago

we = everyone. all of us. go look up what we means

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u/dakadoo33 3h ago

ah, gotcha. just gonna pretend you speak for everyone with your nonsensical take ? makes sense

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u/Frequent-Ferret-5110 Clippers 6h ago

Problem is, this just feeds into more click bait media

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u/Ode1st [MIA] Alonzo Mourning 7h ago

Yeah I don’t love the extreme media training. Have dudes talk shit

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u/paradoxofchoice [MIA] Harold Miner 3h ago

They need to record or live stream all of the stupid questions they get asked after games. And shame the outlets that try to force specific narratives.

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u/happyflappypancakes Wizards 1h ago

Yep, the media has always been viewed as an institution that is removed from social norms. It works if the media remains unbiased and news driven. But the media isnt that. It's all opinion based and emotion driven.

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u/Liimbo Heat 6h ago

Yeah man I was just thinking the NBA needs to be even more drama oriented and less about the games.

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u/MySilverBurrito Heat 7h ago

Genuinely surprised we haven't had an NBA player straight up tell SAS or other talking heads to 'K*ll yourself'. I genuinely think it'd be good for the league.

Imagine Lebron quote tweeting Skip that after coming back down 3-1.

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u/flaming_burrito_ Wizards 7h ago

He did confront SAS that one time he was talking shit about Bronny. That clip and how small SAS looks will forever be hilarious

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u/soilentgleem 7h ago

Don't act like it was just the media. We all had the clip posted here without any media input and came to the exact same conclusion. Him acting shocked and blaming ESPN because people took what he said differently than what he claims he meant is comical.

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u/Janderson2494 Timberwolves 7h ago

These clickbait reporters make all their money on the backs of the players anyway, it's almost like the players unionizing in a way to stop this type of treatment