So dedicated he forgot to moisturize for years. FOCUSED.

I love the KD’s and Verstappen’s of sports. Just dudes being dudes playing sports. Give them immortality and they’d be doing the same shit a 1000 years down the line.

My fav will be forever him pretend shooting in the club

gotta work on follow through at the club, that is dedication

KD is the Dani Rojas of basketball

He spends way too much time arguing on the internet to be the “personification” of that phrase

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I grew up 2 towns from UConn and they were on CPTV (public access) until 2012, the year before Brenna Stewart was even at UConn. It was a trip seeing pledge drives as the halftime show. And now I can watch a good number of their games on tv despite living out of market. It’s great for the sport.

I don’t want to say too much, but even just the past few years and seeing how much the skill level has risen in the W has me questioning some of the things we’ve seen historically in the men’s game and how big the difference in skill is now.

Watching women’s college basketball since the early 90s isnt some flex, its just sad and pitiful.

Ikr?

Only team to complete a 4-peat and NOT be in the league?

Yeah, I have an old Dawn Staley Comets jersey when she played in Houston.

I need some new Comets gear!

Van chancellor showed up at my summer camp when I was a kid with boxes of donuts stacked up in 1 hand and asked for a ball drained a one handed 3. Then he hosted some fun games/competitions and handed out replica wnba champion rings and signed basketballs to the winners. Was such a sick experience, probably a big reason I actually became a basketball junkie for life.

Can’t disagree with you there, especially since hockey players are generally…not that bright. I’ll just remain optimistic that at least some players are eventually aware and empathetic enough to do it.

I played competitive hockey in my younger days, Heated Rivaly is more common than people think. So many dudes living a lie.

Canucks players are frequently seen at the goldeneye’s games. So I don’t know what garbage you’re spewing lumping all professional men hockey players as having “no chance”. Grow up.

Absolute banger

Best women’s sports product out right now, imo.

I would argue that the more accessible the sport, the more likely you won’t have gender biases. Soccer also comes to mind. It’s very common to see men/women playing both basketball and soccer together as a normal backyard/playground occurrence where puberty hasn’t quite grabbed men yet. At least it was for me growing up.

I’m gonna get down voted but it’s because black guys know what it’s like to be a minority while white men don’t. The impetus to advocate is much stronger in a class that’s been socially marginalized

I think race plays a big role in solidarity here. the NBA is predominantly black with it’s stars being civically minded guys that do a lot of charity and fundraising work. Being supportive of women’s sports is a natural thing for NBA guys whereas NHL and MLB teams tend to be more conservative and have a diverse array of players from different countries with different values. Also NBA players have wayyyy more media attention that individual hocket or baseball players.

i feel like it’s because most schools have both and athletes (hs and college) spend a lot of time together in the programs. so naturally you relate to people of the opposite sex playing the same sport

I think it’s much more about accessibility to be honest. As a hockey player…hockey has the highest barrier to entry of any sport between the cost of ice time, gear, and unless you’re in Canada or like 2-3 states in the US the traveling expenses and fees to even be on a team. Hell, if you were any good in the US, you’d have to move to one of those 2-3 states or get put up in one of the elite schools up there if your family can’t come with you.

This means most of the kids who play tend to come from wealthy families, which means most of the kids are white given systemic racism and opportunities. Rich white people, and white men generally, tend to have more conservative views, as evidenced by the whole Olympics/Trump thing earlier this year. This also leads to hockey being associated with that type of culture which means people of different backgrounds are less likely to want to play it.

And cause of this, the top picks in the NHL almost always aren’t rags to riches players, people from not ideal circumstances who had hardships or anything…they’re sons of former players, or oil executives, or things like that. It really narrows the people who could play the sport, if they even wanted to. Even in Canada, hockey is losing popularity to sports like soccer or basketball just cause it’s more accessible (and also, immigration to an extent, the Raptors, and the national soccer team becoming fairly good in recent years)

Problem with WPBL is that’s simply not where the athletes are. Most women play softball.

Idk I think he likes talking about hoops specifically lol. But I feel like his ideal situation is something like Thinking Basketball where he just turns on the webcam and starts breaking down film

Dawg i love kd and all but nobody forcing him to be on twitter and shit

He absolutely loves basketball and he also loves talking too much

If he never had to do another interview not centered around hoops*

KD is obsessed with basketball and seems to love just shooting the shit about it, which is actually cool as hell imo

At the same time, tons of women that want things like women athletes to get equal pay don’t support women’s sports.

what he do besides get them assets back in a trade

Besides invest and brag about funding weapons for Israel, nothing really

I think the lack of suns first rounds picks is why we add that first part

Nah, I’m a personal victim. 7/4/16 still traumatizes me

“Despite the war crimes he committed by joining a good team and saying some mean things on Twitter, this KD fella might actually be a decent guy! 🤓🤓”

I don’t really understand this take. Do you really watch for dunks? They’ve got no problem scoring on a ten foot hoop. They don’t jump as high as NBA athletes so a shorter rim isn’t going to produce NBA dunks. Just enjoy the basketball imo

Contested layups are more impressive to me anyways from a basketball perspective

You must love the NBA all star game. There’s a dunk on every play.

Right on time

Nah.

Helps to have a mother with seemingly those same qualities

he definitely had a couple of girlfriends in the early 2010s, i wanna say one of them was a wnba player but dont quote me on that

What about Bathwatergate?

I think interested is more accurate. New owner took a lot of soul out of being a lifelong fan. Dropping my blazers season tix for the fire. Their owners also own the thorns, and they love the city unlike Dundon

Yeah KD is bad at self reflection but he’s consistently been great at supporting basketball as a sport and women’s basketball overall.

I’m always surprised by how much hate he gets. Don’t get me wrong, the burner and twitter shit is dumb but he seems like an otherwise stand up dude who just loves ball. Even the hate he gets for joining the warriors has always seemed way over the top.

The problem with the internet is everything is good or bad, black and white. Nuance is just something most people can’t comprehend on social media

They wonder why women avoid them

When you watch the NBA do you also think about the genitals of the players? Do you imagine if the guy on the poster on your wall is cut or uncut? Kind of weird but I support you.

Check this guys Harddrives and make sure he doesn’t have children

Please say you’re trolling

Right here. Went from two Rockets championships right into four Comets championships. It was a golden era of Houston basketball. Get bent.

its wild because after watching some her podcast last year, I dont even think she genuinely believes a lot of what she’s saying or supporting and that it’s all grift

Among other, similarly insane culture wars that play out in W discourse by attaching to various players:

Chuds casting CC as their Great White Hope

vs.

Hicklibs casting CC as a slave owner

while

CC simply plays basketball

And as implied by my opening line, CC is just one of many players that profoundly weird discourse had attached to. Sophie is only unique because she started grifting and brought some bullshit upon herself and the league, but the discourse was already unhealthy.

The quality of basketball itself is really high though. Refs are probably the worst part about the actual sport itself.

‎Yeah, it’s really unfortunate and fortunate, kinda. Any publicity is good publicity as they say. Honestly, the Clark vs Reese rivalry is what got me interested in watching the WNBA in the first place. Then I just kept watching because A’ja Wilson, the GOAT-in-the-making, is still playing. Wouldn’t want to miss her career, especially for the bragging rights and arguments I’ll have years from now, lol.

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