Knicks · 500.00 lonzo's already better than jordans old 200.00 (page 2)
BigDaddyG wrote:This scenario is a nightmare. This guy comes off as clueless. The last guy I thought was as big off a jackass...became president of the U.S.Maybe I'm the jackass. Seriously, the pressure he's putting on Lonzo is way past the pressure that LeBron had. This situation is a nightmare for any team that drafts him.
I suspect this is just something that the major brands like Nike and Adidas and the NBA administration will laugh about. Odds are Ball Senior will try to parlay his sons into a reality show.
NBA and ESPN and the marketing love the spectacle, the sideshow of the quasi- thug life soap opera narratives.
I think David Stern realized he could not functionally civilize the player corps in the NBA. The talent pool is too height dependent and there are too many factors in play with talent scarcity and the reality that most of the incoming players will be young, impressionable and many without father figures or even functionally educated or socialized.
If the TV industry has shown anything, that there is definitely a market segment that is simply more desirable ( prime earning years, certain demographics, etc, etc. ) Lots of that demographic will have no interest in the sideshow soap opera wannabe rapper/gangster/baller drama that occurs in the NBA. There isn't enough LEGIT NBA news and activity to fuel the 24.7.365 sports media machine. So they need to drive the Westbrook versus Durant type of drama.
I want you guys to wear suits!
No, NO NO NO , you should PAY FOR MY SUITS! You are targeting me! So what my jeans are hanging down around my KNEES! I can do whatever I want!
Is anyone going to pretend that when you see new kicks go for sale, when you see a mob of 5000 people storm some early morning FootLocker, that there isn't some specific narrative and demographic appeal at work? When they trample each other and tear each other, that it doesn't say something about what the NBA marketing is trying to appease, because they have no other choice?
Woody Harrelson said it best - How many nights did your baby girl go hungry so you could wear that gold chain?
There's a saying, behind every great fortune is a crime. If the Ball family was a true threat to Nike or Adidas, then Ball Senior would go the way of Jordan Senior.
Does anyone really believe that if Nike could have gotten a 2 month head start on the Tiger Woods scandal, that those 18-20 women he banged would end up in a ditch somewhere? Woods was the face of their entire golfing industry. You think they'd worry about a few women getting strangled behind some dark alley to save a few bucks? To save a scandal?
Lonzo Ball is not talented enough to be anything more than a distraction. If his father was ever going to be more than that, then Nike and the NBA would just make him disappear.
Ball represents a massive problem with much of the modern NBA talent pool. It's not enough to be great at basketball and win games, you gotta have your own shoes, your own cologne, your own reality show, be a rap star, be a wannabe thug life gangster, get 15 flight attendants pregnant, shoot up a night club, get on TMZ, show up to games in stupid hats and bath in the milk from a bald eagle's tit. Gotta be in a Scorsese movie, gotta host an awards show, gotta have a 400 foot sized headshot of yourself painted in like leopardskin as a centaur.
Like Chris Rock said once, you can't save someone who would be willing to put rims on a toaster if they could get away with it.
As statistics show, it's mostly poor people who fund the lottery. People who can't afford to throw money away at such bad odds. The lottery is seen as a tax on the poor. That's the NBA marketing plan. If you can't civilize the player corps, then monetize the lack of socialization, the lack of education, the lack of positive father figures, the lack of accountability and reason. David Stern realized real fast, this wasn't a "woman" you bring home and ring up, these are the types who are just cum dumpsters.
Every single time STAT put on a stupid robe at a film festival instead of working on his game, that's all he would ever be. Just another cum dumpster that the NBA marketing machine has whored out. It should tell everyone the state of the game when the league changes the cap structure and projections to try Durant from Golden State. God forbid humble team ball should excel when it's just easier to point a camera a dude dunking over a car.
I'll give Ball Senior some credit here. There's a ton of whoring out done for the greater good of the almighty profit in the NBA, at least he's honest about it all. At least he's not pretending to be anything other than a total mercenary.
How many nights did Lonzo Ball go hungry so Ball Senior could wear that gold chain?
TripleThreat wrote:BigDaddyG wrote:This scenario is a nightmare. This guy comes off as clueless. The last guy I thought was as big off a jackass...became president of the U.S.I suspect this is just something that the major brands like Nike and Adidas and the NBA administration will laugh about. Odds are Ball Senior will try to parlay his sons into a reality show.
NBA and ESPN and the marketing love the spectacle, the sideshow of the quasi- thug life soap opera narratives.
I think David Stern realized he could not functionally civilize the player corps in the NBA. The talent pool is too height dependent and there are too many factors in play with talent scarcity and the reality that most of the incoming players will be young, impressionable and many without father figures or even functionally educated or socialized.
If the TV industry has shown anything, that there is definitely a market segment that is simply more desirable ( prime earning years, certain demographics, etc, etc. ) Lots of that demographic will have no interest in the sideshow soap opera wannabe rapper/gangster/baller drama that occurs in the NBA. There isn't enough LEGIT NBA news and activity to fuel the 24.7.365 sports media machine. So they need to drive the Westbrook versus Durant type of drama.
I want you guys to wear suits!
No, NO NO NO , you should PAY FOR MY SUITS! You are targeting me! So what my jeans are hanging down around my KNEES! I can do whatever I want!Is anyone going to pretend that when you see new kicks go for sale, when you see a mob of 5000 people storm some early morning FootLocker, that there isn't some specific narrative and demographic appeal at work? When they trample each other and tear each other, that it doesn't say something about what the NBA marketing is trying to appease, because they have no other choice?
Woody Harrelson said it best - How many nights did your baby girl go hungry so you could wear that gold chain?
There's a saying, behind every great fortune is a crime. If the Ball family was a true threat to Nike or Adidas, then Ball Senior would go the way of Jordan Senior.
Does anyone really believe that if Nike could have gotten a 2 month head start on the Tiger Woods scandal, that those 18-20 women he banged would end up in a ditch somewhere? Woods was the face of their entire golfing industry. You think they'd worry about a few women getting strangled behind some dark alley to save a few bucks? To save a scandal?
Lonzo Ball is not talented enough to be anything more than a distraction. If his father was ever going to be more than that, then Nike and the NBA would just make him disappear.
Ball represents a massive problem with much of the modern NBA talent pool. It's not enough to be great at basketball and win games, you gotta have your own shoes, your own cologne, your own reality show, be a rap star, be a wannabe thug life gangster, get 15 flight attendants pregnant, shoot up a night club, get on TMZ, show up to games in stupid hats and bath in the milk from a bald eagle's tit. Gotta be in a Scorsese movie, gotta host an awards show, gotta have a 400 foot sized headshot of yourself painted in like leopardskin as a centaur.
Like Chris Rock said once, you can't save someone who would be willing to put rims on a toaster if they could get away with it.
As statistics show, it's mostly poor people who fund the lottery. People who can't afford to throw money away at such bad odds. The lottery is seen as a tax on the poor. That's the NBA marketing plan. If you can't civilize the player corps, then monetize the lack of socialization, the lack of education, the lack of positive father figures, the lack of accountability and reason. David Stern realized real fast, this wasn't a "woman" you bring home and ring up, these are the types who are just cum dumpsters.
Every single time STAT put on a stupid robe at a film festival instead of working on his game, that's all he would ever be. Just another cum dumpster that the NBA marketing machine has whored out. It should tell everyone the state of the game when the league changes the cap structure and projections to try Durant from Golden State. God forbid humble team ball should excel when it's just easier to point a camera a dude dunking over a car.
I'll give Ball Senior some credit here. There's a ton of whoring out done for the greater good of the almighty profit in the NBA, at least he's honest about it all. At least he's not pretending to be anything other than a total mercenary.
How many nights did Lonzo Ball go hungry so Ball Senior could wear that gold chain?
Triple, these your words?