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It’s all so dumb. Meanwhile they use graphics of Christmas trees, candy canes, gingerbread men, red and green colors.

The entire thing is about Christmas but they won’t call it Christmas. It’s so stupid.

Why are so many in here acting like this was just a normal pass in that situation? That would be too hard of a pass from one NBA player to another on the court from that distance, much less from a fan to a ref between plays.

Everybody on the court saw immediately how ridiculous it was. If anybody threw the ball back at you like that you’d be like wtf is your problem. Luckily she got a hand up to swat at it because if not it would have hit her and look even worse.

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A keeper flying in studs up at basically midfield is not a normal play.

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We must not have been watching the same play. “Studs up” is a completely dishonest characterization of the play.

He was trying to get to the ball before the player in white. If he didn’t, it was probably going to be a wide open 1 on 1 with the goalkeeper. Yes, it’s a normal play. The collision was unfortunate.

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Who cares?

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Because it renders the regular season nearly irrelevant.

Laundry, cooking, and sometimes cleaning a little bit is maybe 2 hours of work and the rest is watching The Price is Right and dicking around on the iPad.

The NFL’s own rules specifically prohibit any kind of match fixing or manipulation as does the NFL-NFLPA cba.

Therefore, they are presented as legitimate contests.

I think he’s one of the most overrated players ever. He won 11 rings, but he played at a time when there were only 8 teams in the entire league and the entire Celtics starting 5 and the 6th man were perennial all-stars and hall-of-famers. Half the teams were in the playoffs and you win 1 series and you’re in the Finals.

His defense and rebounding may have been elite, but his offense was horrific. He averaged 14 pts a game on a putrid percentage.

The only reason he is considered one of the best ever is because of the overrated rings argument and the fact that he played in an era where his unique ability as an athletic rebounding shot blocker could stand out.

He played a ton of minutes… often averaging over 40 per game. If you put his scoring on a per 36 minute basis, he averaged 12.8 pts per game. His TS% was a god-awful 47%. For a big man. 47% for a big man is absolutely atrocious. For reference, of all Centers last season who played at least half the season and at least 20 minutes per game, the Center who is dead last in the league in TS% shot 54%. Bill Russell shot 47%. A gigantic, distant dead last.

If you include forwards today under that same criteria, he still ranks dead last. Dead last in the NBA last year was Herbert Jones, who averaged 49%. Still two points ahead of “all-time great” Bill Russell. In fact, I just ran it and included every single player in the NBA. The very last player in the NBA in TS% is Nolan Traore, who shot 47.9. Bill Russell shot 47.1. Still comfortably dead last.

That’s fine for a defensive specialist, shot-blocking, rim protecting, rebounding machine. That is absolutely a winning player you’d want on your team regardless of offensive limitations. However, we’re talking about all-time greats here. In order to be considered an all-time great, you have to be elite on both sides of the ball. Or at least respectable on the other side.

This is really less about Baton Rouge and more about how incredible it is that New Orleans only has 62 murders so far.

New Orleans would routinely have 200 to 300 murders a year. In the 90s it sometimes had over 400 murders.

The turnaround is amazing honestly.

I don’t think this is true at all. Rigging things like he suggests are federal crimes. Not to mention the massive lawsuits that could come of it.

The league makes so much and there is so much to lose for very little benefit they could gain from rigging games.

It makes no logical sense that the league is rigged.

The only thing that could make sense is specific rogue actors like the crooked NBA ref who had money on games.

I hate parity. It just means everyone is equally mediocre. I want to see excellent teams and true underdogs trying to take them out. And true battles of goliaths.

Is boring when everyone can beat everyone any given day because they’re all equally average.

I used to like when upsets meant something. Now, with the portal, it just means highly-ranked former SEC 2nd string players who transferred somewhere else “upset” current starters.