Steven Adams - “You guys should anticipate November. The performance of the league, league-wide. GTA is dropping.”
Steven Adam’s-DNP: Vice City
That ankle injury is going to flair up.
Reddit post incoming: “Does the 2026 NBA Cup have an asterisk attached?”
nobody even cares enough to asterisk it
Old man yells at clouds.
Is it a cup?
Neymar’s sister about to get so many attendees at her birthday party
Kevin Durant had to drag Steven Adams out of Liberty City after he partied past his 48-hr limit alongside his teammate Reed Sheppard.
DNP - 5 stars
South Beach flu strikes again
Steven Adams is the chillest dude.
he’s the “most normal” NBA player in the best way possible
Based Adams is a man of the people.
I really hope nothing bad ever comes out about this guy. Seems like a fun dude I would wanna go have a beer and shoot the shit with.
Easily my favorite personality in the NBA because of his “normal-ness,” if that makes sense. Just seems the most relatable, in a way. Y’know, just outside of being a giant NBA athlete.
I was in Houston a few years ago and went to the movies. Steven Adams was in front of me with his wife or girlfriend. He scanned his phone and the person printed off his tickets, handed them to him, and said, “enjoy your movie” and Steven Adams, I shit you not, replied, “Thanks. You too.”
I’m sorry to have had broken this news to you.
No one is going to believe me, but I have a friend whose brother’s coworker briefly dated Steven Adams. She said that on their first date they went to a restaurant and Steven ordered two different bowls of soup and mixed them together one spoonful at a time before eating both bowls mixed together as one soup
Kiwi”s that’s just how most are, come visit.
He’s still very close with Enes, which doesn’t give me great hope.
There’s a screenshot out there of him liking a tweet by Andrew Tate’s brother as well
Oh no…the audacity of him to have friends IRL and not be terminally online and pretend he has friends in his own eco-chamber
Enes is a good man whats the problem with him? Hw stands for what he believes in.
Normalness is a real world. As is normality and normalcy. All meaning the same thing.
Ah, I think normalcy was the word I was trying to think of!
He’s like us! Only… larger. Much much larger.
parasocial relationships are gross!
LeBron, Hali, and Mitchell are on that list for me too. Just super down to earth dudes.
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He sleeps on the floor in a sleeping bag. He’s like gone too far the other way and is once again not normal. Still awesome dude though.
Eh, that’s not really so strange. I mean, floor mattresses are still a thing in other parts of the world (like actual futon mats in Japan).
He claims it’s better for his back. And being as much of an outlier as he is physically, I don’t doubt that something about it feels more beneficial to his comfort.
Plus the minimal amount of “stuff” he had in his Houston apartment from that tour video is kind of smart in a frugal kind of way for an NBA player. You never know if/when you might get traded around to teams and all that. That sleeping bag can easily be packed up and moved to the next place without wasting a bunch of extra money.
His career earnings are $184 million and counting.
I’m not knocking the guy for being a minimalist, but you justifying it because of moving costs is dumb as fuck lmfao. He could fork out $1K for moving costs and still live in a small apartment.
Its kinda weird. Living with no bed and minimal of everything is after all not the normal in US
Hearing other players talk about his strength is always funny to me. Dudes in peak physical shape talk about this man like he’s a different specie. He’s just crazy strong.
This is not copypasta,
I saw Steven Adams at my local budget Asian grocery store just shopping for produce on the weekend. This was not anywhere near Houston so idk why he was there, but he was wearing his Rockets team hoodie. I said hi briefly to say I was a fan and he was like “thanks man”. But he was just there buying on sale chicken at Chinese ALDI. I wonder if he shops there on purpose bc I don’t think any of the other Chinese grandmas and grandpas in the store even knew who he was.
Infeterence
Damnit, I knew there was no way to tell the story without this happening lol
Also I’m 99.9% sure it was not Daejon Love
Jarrett Allen right there with him
have you seen his room tour video floating around ? I think he might not even be normal. he is on a different … level.
He is what Andrew Bogut pretended to be. What a cunt he was.
haven’t you heard that AJ Dybansta is a super relatable guy
He’s about 7 feet tall. Him being that tall and “normal” is abnormal
I like to watch all of his clips. The exotic accent helps but the dude is always making sense. He gives the vibes of an older kid in school you wanted to emulate.
so funny to me that someone from Rotorua has an “exotic accent” lol
‘Churrr up da Wahs!!’
They’d love a walk through ford block bro
The accent is doing most of the work in this situation.
This is why British accents are used in TV, movies, and video games. They have a dramatic effect on American ears.
he’s from aotearoa new zealand.
His dad is British.
Dude always looks like he just wandered into an NBA game on his day off
He looks like the Great Khali
I really hope he’s not a Tate bro anymore
Oof, yuck. Didn’t know he dabbled.
But does he wear the freshest clothes and hang with the hottest dudes?
yall are pathetic lol
Calm down nephew. It’s copy pasta.
that’s part of the copy pasta lol
Steven Adams has somehow mastered looking completely unbothered in every situation
Tell that to Yang Hansen’s claw scars courtesy of Adams.
very kiwi. not same level of fame but you’d just see Valerie Adams casually walking and eating in one of Aucklands Night Markets…
For real. Love this guy. No pretense whatsoever.
Idk bro he looks pretty hot to me
Easily the funniest player in the league, except maybe Ant
I’ll never forget when a ton of players were complaining during covid and somebody asked him how he was holding up and he basically just said “bro I’m perfectly fine, we’re basically living in a resort right now”
Fucking love Steven Adams 😂😂
I can’t explain how, but I just KNOW this dude played some old school RuneScape.
Dude for sure knew when to call it quits at the Sand Casino. Also I heard he didn’t complain once during One Small Favor, and he did it before RuneLite or Slayermusiq1
Oh god not the pre runelite questing.
If that’s the case he gets a ring idc if he won a finals or not
There’s a video of him playing Dota 2 on a plane at least.
Can tell you, he played a lot of Halo 3.
Yeah, I can totally picture him grinding out some Barrows runs.
You know it’s funny, I’ve been playing OSRS on and off for like 20 years, and never got into barrows until last year when I made an iron man.
He is Zezima.
Word is he was mentally unphased training his 1 atk 99 str 1 def obby mauler at 8k exp an hour
So he IS confirmed to be the chillest dude ever
steven adams talking about gta lik he’s announcing the next nba season 😭
Lmao, he jokes, but there’s some evidence to this sort of thing:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/sports/are-pro-athletes-playing-too-much-fortnite-some-teams-are-worried/2018/07/20/664d5ffe-8ab5-11e8-85ae-511bc1146b0b_story.html
There was an incident in 2018 with the Phillies when Carlos Santana smashed a TV with a baseball bat because all the Phillies players were playing too much Fortnite so there definitely was some truth to this
And I vaguely remember another baseball player messing up his arm playing too much Guitar Hero.
Zumaya :(
He was so fun until he messed up his forearm or whatever (I can’t remember exactly)
Tigers pitcher Gar-something?
🤣 Remember this shit too! I was kinda sliding off of baseball at the time and this shit was hilarious.
David Price got carpal tunnel playing too much Fortnite
The guitarist?!
Referring to his teammates, Santana was later overheard claiming I ain’t got nobody that I can depend on.
This shit goes back ages. I forget the name but I’m certain there was an NBA player who missed games because he got tendonitis from playing his Gameboy too much.
Lionel Simmons in 1991, for the Kings! Missed two games, still managed to make the all rookie team.
Alexei Kovalev could have been one of the greatest hockey players, but admitted that he had a pretty severe addiction to gaming (specifically SNES games), so yeah, definitely a thing.
Looking back, it’s like how did they get addicted to such simple games… Humans are funny
Jesus I just got tendinitis in my wrist from playing gta v, what are the chances
It must have been a hot one
And he’s not anti gaming, when he was on Cleveland before that the team played a bunch of Mario Kart 64
Probably smashed a few TVs trynna beat Josey
Also similar, to when that one person did the analysis of James Harden performance in cities known for strip clubs.
It all started with the 1999 San Antonio Spurs and their addiction to StarCraft
Hey the 2018 Red Sox were arguably the most Fortnite addicted team in the league and they steamrolled everyone and won the World Series!
All that cheating with the apple watches came in clutch for them that year.
Fortnite absolutely ruined the youth basketball team I coached. 90% of the team stopped showing up early, staying late, or playing in their free time. I would see them posting on snapchat that they playing until like 3-4am on school nights. Nobody wanted to practice or play on weekends or during the summer anymore. They also starting having actual arguments and fights because of it too that tanked moral. It was a plague.
Didn’t the Cardinals have to write in some language to get Kyler Murray to stop playing CoD back in the day? Lol
They tried to get language that he had to study film for 4 hours a week and couldn’t do anything else while watching it. They ended up removing the clause though.
The Vikings are screwed
We’ll see. Danny Dimes mentioned that he learned how to actually watch film with the Vikings, so I trust in KOC here
They got Nine. Everything will be ok.
This flies in the face of the “Tinder Hypothesis” that athlete performance improved because they no longer have to go out to clubs to meet girls on the road and can just Tinder match with a person
When I was in college, our rival was a huge favorite for a Thursday night game. Me and my buddies watched them get destroyed - in the press conference the coach mentioned he thought they may come out flat because they were all playing ncaa football all week after it dropped.
As a Winnipeg Jets fan we had that issue with Patrik Laine
I honestly do not believe he is joking.
Yo someone put strip club city James Harden guy on this.
this is different, fortnite is a sudo social space vs single player story focused. Most Players wlll be done in a weekend to never touch it again. the online mode doesnt even launch till next year
1999 Spurs playing StarCraft on the plane will always be my favorite. Tim Duncan NBA nerd GOAT.
All the nephews gonna look like dog shit out there
Nah it might be more of the dudes 25 and up. The younger guys haven’t played gta LIKE THAT. They didn’t live thru the new releases as much as the older guys. We’ve been anticipating it more lol
Yep. Someone who’s 22 hasn’t seen a new GTA game since they were 9.
Bruh, why’d you have to do me like that. Damn. I’ve never felt so old
A 22 year old is feeling old… u make me laugh
My high school aged nephew and his buddies play GTA online ALL THR DAMN TIME to this very day 🤷🏽♂️
Maybe I’m just completely out of touch here but I feel like its the younger crowd that’s excited for the GTA release a lot more than the older crowd, despite not being around for previous releases. The younger crowd seems to have mythologized the franchise more while the older crowd remembers (or at least should remember) how shitty GTA 5 performed on the original platforms it released on and how it didn’t actually become a good game until the next gen and pc versions were released.
This is crazy revisionist. It scored a 97 on metacritic on both ps3 and 360. Having the entire city of LA mapped to that level of detail at the time was genuinely groundbreaking. The game definitely improved with the next gen releases but you can’t act like it wasn’t critically acclaimed in 2013.
Yes it was critically acclaimed, that doesnt mean it wasnt also obviously ass. It was a game that was pretty obviously engineered to impress critics over people who put significant hours into it, and I expect this one to be no different. Cars popping into existence as you crashed into them left and right, online play being 90% loading screens. And no, simply having a big open world city was not that groundbreaking at all. Sure it was bigger than GTA4, but fundamentally it was not much more complex or alive than Liberty City.
Lol I wanna see 0 defensive pressure and every possession the ball gets shot to beat the shot clock. Not a single foul or out of bounds the entire game. Get the game over with so they can get back to the game 😂
Gonna make Kyler Murray 2x XP weekend look like child’s play
And you know what? We get it.
i mean fuck we’ll be playing it too
Let’s be real here: We’re all going to be load managing at work when GTA 6 drops.
I’m gonna be honest I haven’t played a full season since 2020. The wear and tear on my knees and lumbar spine cannot be understated
Everyone downplayed the college injuries coming into the draft but I knew, they always come back to bite you in the lumbar spine
Kawhi?
Fire Emblem: Fortune’s Weave is my GTA6. Took off 3 days for it. And will do more in the fugue since I anticipate it will be like 150 hours for me.
That game is really good but the Orcarina of Time and GTA6 launching in November is a different level
They said it’s their GTA6, so it makes sense. I just had it arrive, too.
I won’t be able to play it until the end of October, though. My first Switch 2 is going to be that 40th Anniversary Zelda one and I’ll probably be too busy playing Ocarina of Time to crack open Fortune’s Weave right away.
Yeah that’s fair I probably misread his comment. My GTA6 was Elden Ring haha
Unless you’re unemployed…. or still unemployed. This year has suck for me.
Maybe if it some day comes to PC, but I do not have a console unfortunately.
True, the Thursday/Friday b2b on the schedule every week has me eyeing down the barrel of a minimum games requirement
shit i’m load managing my bank account already cuz i know they’re gonna jack that shit to the moon
I’m waiting for PC. I might rent it if it’s possible (Gamefly actually still exists and works well), while there are still discs to rent.
When it drops on PC, most definitely. Rockstar would’ve got their desired double dip out of me if they black magiced 60fps on the base ps5. But alas, they’ll only get my dumbass for one copy.
Funny you worded it like that because what I thought he was saying was about No Nut November until I read some of the comments 😂
A part of me hopes the game is terrible. Not because of schadenfreude, but because this game has the most hype of any game in history and the fallout from it being bad would have to be hilarious. That’s pretty close to schadenfreude, but it’s more like instead of laughing at a stranger slipping on ice it’d be laughing at the absurdity of seeing 1,000 people slip on ice at the same moment. The memes would be peak and there’d be hundreds of them.
For every other game, I want the game to be as good as possible since I want people to have fun, but something about the IMMENSE hype of this game has me wondering the the come down would even look like among the gaming community if the game was utter trash. There’d be a progression to it, too, and it’d be wonderful. Day 1 is guaranteed to be good vibes and feedback everywhere since the immense hype guarantees people’s day 1 impressions will be riding high. But then day 2 some criticisms some pop into the mix. By day 3 the top threads of the GTA subreddit would be complaint threads. By day 4 it’d be chaos. I want to experience that day 4.
the game is terrible
It doesn’t even have to be terrible, if it’s merely a great game it will still fall way short of expectations
i’ve always been disappointed by the hype of Rockstar games lol. The way people talk about them, it’s the greatest games of all time but yeesh, GTAV? RDR2? Sure, good games. But not even close to goat status.
I’m not expecting incredible but I already know it’s gonna be 10⁄10 “Goty” contender but sandbox Rockstar are simply overhyped by casuals.
There are still douanes of millions of people who would care more for Terria 2 then GTA 6, this might be the most over hyped game in existence.
Sure a lot of people will play it but dam, majority of gamers simply dont care about it that much.
All good dude viewership is gonna be down in November too.
Yeah less fans will be watching too so it might just cancel out lol
This is funny, but could also legitimately be something to monitor?
NBA players have a decent amount of “free time” so I don’t think it will be that impactful. Instead of whatever they’re playing, watching, doing, etc. now, they’ll use that time for GTA.
The real thing to monitor is how empty the strip clubs will be - Harden is about to have a generational run all to himself.
I could see the pics and videos of players getting off planes on the road that teams post on socials and seeing half the dudes lugging a PS5 with them lol
idk maybe it evens out though if both teams are playing like shit.
Honestly probably the most wholesome thing they can be doing on road trips.
I’m a Vikings fan and I’m worried about Kyler
Don’t worry, Wentz will keep playing like an all-Pro and definitely not tail off before then.
Keep? When did he start?
Bro’s gonna get another “concussion” a week before launch
hes mostly joking but hes right
Dude lives in a studio apartment with a mattress on the floor and a gaming rig. He’s just like us!
the Henry Caville of NBA
He’s just like us fr, except he’s Aquaman
Polymarket taking notes
I bet he’s right? Who doesn’t play video games? Bet on them the next day.
the players that post a lot about it are gonna be playing it the least. larpers who won’t even miss a wink of sleep day 1. it’s the ones who are quiet about their gaming that you gotta watch out for. they’ll show up with flu-like symptoms
someone post this in r/fantasyfootball the dudes in there may get an aneurysm
He’s not wrong
Bro who cares? WoW Forever is dropping
Zelda, WoW Forever and GTA6. The world is collectively not going to be doing shit this winter.
Witcher 3 getting a free remaster as well
The Witcher 3 remaster (free upgrade for everyone) also comes out next week
holy shit, I heard about the remaster but I didn’t know it was a free upgrade! hell yeah
yeah we are all cooked for the winter
Leaving out Godzilla? Tsktsk.
I normally “do shit” but i am not doing shit this winter because of zelda, wow: forever and gta6.
for tim duncan and ak47, they were in a guild back then
I will say, theres some overlap in demographics… but the difference between GTA and WoW demographics is, Im sure, rather substantial.
WoW, what is this? 2004?
That’s the hope
Forever
Tht’s kinda what we’re aiming for yeah
That game still has several million paid subscribers. So, yeah, kinda.
Lmao this is actually hilarious 😂
Take all the unders the day after release
Clearly we just need to set a DNP - GTA rotation so everyone gets a turn
This isn’t Syria mate
End of bench players going to love November
Josh hart “so is the thumb now a weapon in gta?”
Performance at my normal ass job is gonna be dropping too. Those WFH Fridays are gonna hit like crack.
Going to crush the unders that weekend. Football too.
Steven Adams is somehow still only 27
I’d snap Rockstar out of existence to save the OOT remake
Honestly very fair
Does he accept applications for friends? Asking for a friend.
Why dont pros have any other hobbies apart from ps5?
Some of their contracts prevent them from doing other physical hobbies
Also because whatever the stats is I’m sure 80% of pros are Gen Z at this point. They all play video games of some kind. Only the older millennial cats like LeBron didn’t grow up on video games
lol when exactly do you think video games were invented?
some of the greatest games of all time came out before the year 2000
Bro… I’m LeBron’s age and I’ve played videogames my whole life.
I’m about the same age as LeBron, we grew up on video games still. Atari and NES were already out in our childhood, PS1 was our early teens and we had the golden era of PS2 in our late teens and if he/his peers were XBox instead then that just means Halo and the like late teens instead.
Millenials are basically the start of gamer kids, NES/SNES/Atari as kids, PS1/PS2/XBox through teen years and plenty of home PC and adaptation of the internet through the 90’s too.
I want to hangout with Steven Adams. He seems so fun.
And no one will notice because a lot of the fans will probably be doing the same thing.
Not just the league, but literally the performance of the entire job market will suffer. Some economists should really look into productivity during this time.
wish I can see him playing with the tall blacks at fiba games
I hope he watched South Park last week lol.
The Kyler Murray CoD theorum expanded
Performance of the entire world will drop in November. Who are we kidding
He’s not wrong lmao
Aqua-Man is such a nice kind person. Love the guy.
Hall of famer fights breaker
I’m not a gambler but I’m going to bet some unders during that time.
Pre ordered, and took the entire month off. I cannot wait.
Damn and I was wondering if I was doing too much just taking that Thursday and Friday off lmao
Legit took 2 weeks following the release off.
My vacation is in Vice City this year
Easy to take the month off when you’re unemployed
Goddamn, fair enough
Damn I am jealous
Genuinely might be the saddest thing I’ve ever read
Starting November 1st?
So take the unders?
It drops late November so performance won’t rebound until mid December.
All this man needs is his bed, electric guitar, and his pc setup.
gonna be a whole lot of load management from the 18th-21st or so.
not all coaches. you can’t convince me Joe Mazzulla or Rick Carlisle are gonna be on GTA. Spo and Reddick? 100% Pat Riley had the game since last year