OT: Mark Cuban — Draymond MSU shade
November 4th, 2017 at 10:19 AM ^
We're talking basketball....
FIFY.
November 4th, 2017 at 5:12 AM ^
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Big fan of Cuban as well. I don't want to needlessly elevate someone I don't know, yet he does seem to be cut from a different cloth compared to many megarich sports owners out there. To borrow from Jim Rome (don't hate me), he quite often has a take and doesn't suck.
#coolstorybro yet a friend actually randomly emailed a bunch of high net-worth individuals about his start-up idea. He wasn't getting replies yet after he found Cuban's email on the Mavs website and emailed him, Cuban replied and asked him to send his pitch deck.
November 4th, 2017 at 10:20 AM ^
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"For starters, let's stop using the word owner & maybe use the word Chairman. To be owned by someone just sets a bad precedent to start. It sets the wrong tone. It gives one the wrong mindset."
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November 4th, 2017 at 7:49 AM ^
That's an awesome comment on the heels of what Draymond, foolishly, said. One 'owns' a business, and pays employees to work for said business. Nothing to do with people ownership. Why does everything have to be taken to extremes?
November 4th, 2017 at 1:42 PM ^
I believe this started because Green went on a rant over Houstons' owner's statement about "inmates running the assylum" - a normally innocuous statement that blew up because we have a president is doing his best to divide the country.
November 4th, 2017 at 2:21 PM ^
Well, see, the thing of it is he didn't SAY asylum - he had a Trumpian slip and said inmates running the prison.
Hence the uproar. He accidentally said what he felt, not the traditional trope.
November 4th, 2017 at 7:50 AM ^
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No way.
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The thing is, many of these professional athletes in whole are uneducated individuals who went to "football" and "basketball" school at university. They may of received a degree, but not an education.They cannot properly analyze and development quality arguments or have rational thoughts. Therefore, they look at memes from the internet and videos on youtube to gain their political knowledge and education.
A large number of these athletes do not grasp what slavery in the United States was because they have no formal knowledge about life was as a slave. Instead, they look at Colin Kapernick and Jemele Hill as political icons and use their opinions as facts.
In general, people should stop looking at athletes as political activists, cultural warriors, and critical members of society because as a whole, these individuals are uneducated and underdeveloped mentally. If they couldn't catch a ball or shoot a basketball, sadly many of these individuals would not know what to do with their lives.
November 4th, 2017 at 10:02 AM ^
"They cannot properly analyze and development quality arguments or have rational thoughts."
I think saying they cannot have rational thoughts might be taking this just a bit too far... Pretty sure people without college educations are fully capable of quality arguments and rational thought. I do agree with you that Colin and Jemele are not quality political icons.
November 4th, 2017 at 10:14 AM ^
You are right, that was a poor choice of words so I apologize for the elitist attitude. I think what I am trying to get at is that many of these athletes that we hold as "models' for poltical engagement are not very educated individuals and not really developed in respect to their breadth of knowledge. Therefore, I get annoyed when people hold these people as proper authority when discussing poltical issues.
November 4th, 2017 at 11:24 AM ^
First, I'm not sure who's holding people out as authority, but anyone is qualified to comment on political or social issues, educated or otherwise. If their facts are wrong, that should be pointed out and credibility as a political commentator will rise and fall as such, but the quality or quantity of education doesn't necessarily put you at the front of the line. Some of the best commentary comes from people who are living through social issues from a different end of things than those of us were lucky enough to be educated at places like Michigan.
Jeebus, man, my senior year of high school was the exact midpoint of my formal education years. I have political conversations with my barber, who I'm pretty sure didn't finish high school. I learn a lot from him.
November 4th, 2017 at 12:13 PM ^
November 4th, 2017 at 10:20 AM ^
The thing is, many of these professional athletes in whole are uneducated individuals who went to "football" and "basketball" school at university. They may of received a degree,
D'oh...
November 4th, 2017 at 10:25 AM ^
Are you going to attack my argument or instead point out a grammatical error in my response?
November 4th, 2017 at 11:31 AM ^
It's simply poor form to attack someone's level of education while making an elementary error in your own writing, It's worth proofreading your post before hitting "save".
I also get the sense that you've misunderstood the nature of Kaepernick's protest, but I don't care to get into a long discussion about it.
November 4th, 2017 at 11:38 AM ^
I understand his protest. I just think the guy is pretty misguided and his past actions really disgust me.
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