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Mandrel posted:Uh, media coverage from beat reporters and bloggers and poo poo doesn't pay even a fraction of their salary. Broadcast media coverage of the games in which they play professional basketball at the highest level pays their salary. Talking to dumbass Matt Moore of CBS Sports about if they'd rather be a cat or a dog or whatever has such a marginal impact on their livelihood that you can basically chalk the entire profession up as parasitic in nature. I think he meant that media attention in general drives revenue in the NBA. As in because media causes people to be interested in the NBA then the athletes owe it to the media to give them primary source material in reporting. In actuality that's bullshit logic and the media has been riding the 1960's dawn of sports reporting for 50 years now. The NBA can absolutely exist without idiot media driven sports stories. I think it's ridiculous that any athlete is required to talk to the media, especially considering how terrible sports journalists generally are. News in general has gone downhill since 24 hour news reporting.
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Doltos posted:News in general has gone downhill since 24 hour news reporting. It's especially bad in sports because interesting things don't happen on anything approaching a 24/7 schedule. ESPN manages to exist nonetheless though so what do I know.
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straight up brolic posted:Gone downhill as opposed to what? 2 hour news casts were good because it gave media outlets 22 hours to research and compile the stories. Now in order to fill up the 24/7 lineup they have to resort to many non-news stories, specifically non-news programs like His and Hers, Sportsnation, or First Take.
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The news has become less temporally dependent because of the relaxation of the constraints of technology and capital. Just because you're not always happy with the use of airtime doesn't mean that it's a black & white 'bad' effect. The 24 hour news cycle has drastically improved sports journalism just as much, if not more, than its hurt it. It's not like ESPN was good before the 24 hour news cycle. Infotainment doesn't detract from the quality of sports news. The way that media investment has escalated means that even more resources are directed towards research and compilation.
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Feb 15, 2015 23:00
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Kevin Durant speaks One Word in his new commercial https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l_ePm9Y-UB4
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Feb 15, 2015 23:05
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ill never get tired of the VC 360 windmill. Probably my favourite dunk (in contest) ever
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BWV posted:ill never get tired of the VC 360 windmill. Probably my favourite dunk (in contest) ever The Vince contest is never going to be touched as an overall event (they brought it back just for him, there was a ton of hype and anticipation, and then he actually exceeded it), but that LaVine behind the back oop is the best contest dunk I've ever seen.
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The results are in, Steph Curry loving crushed everyone and also here's what the ASG starting units would look like if only people on here got to vote:Illinois Smith posted:East http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3696593&userid=0&perpage=40&pagenumber=5 Illinois Smith fucked around with this message at 23:38 on Feb 15, 2015 |
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Doltos posted:2 hour news casts were good because it gave media outlets 22 hours to research and compile the stories. Now in order to fill up the 24/7 lineup they have to resort to many non-news stories, specifically non-news programs like His and Hers, Sportsnation, or First Take. I grew up in that time and it was poo poo then too.
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This seems relevant to some in SAS. NBA VR http://www.avclub.com/article/nba-getting-virtual-reality-215282
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pylb posted:It was his son Eric posting them: Onhoops was my favorite site when I was a teenager and I basically tried to copy it for awhile. The Larry Johnson picture and quote at the bottom of every page killed me every time as a 16 year old shut-in basketball nerd edit: I'm going through the site a bit and Kelly Dwyer wrote for them BIZORT fucked around with this message at 00:37 on Feb 16, 2015 |
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euphronius posted:I grew up in that time and it was poo poo then too. Yeah I'm not trying to rose-tinted glasses this poo poo but most real news stories seem to be dug up by random internet jagoffs that do their own research, then that's broken on twitter then into the ESPN regurgitation. What I'm saying is that because the media has always been terrible and that the NBA/NFL/MLB popularity doesn't exactly need ESPN then I don't see why athletes are forced to talk to them at all, especially considering how malicious the media has always been about non-issues and quotes taken out of context.
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Lockback posted:With pavement and basketballs nearly impossible to find in today’s tech-obsessed society, this may even be the closest some people ever get to America’s second or third-favorite pastime
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The media redeemed itself in my eyes during the off season when that one guy wrote how dan gilbert flew out on a private jet to meet with lebron and he stood by his story even when gilbert himself shot it down and all the plebeians made fun of him going  media.
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JRizzle posted:I can't believe yall are missing this cool company she's gonna cherish these photos forever 
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EvanTH posted:cool company she's gonna cherish these photos forever I wonder how much they paid for these unbelievably bad photos. They're not good enough for instagram. His wife needs to work out.
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Feb 16, 2015 01:49
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Can we not insult basketball players' pregnant wives please.
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Feb 16, 2015 01:51
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a family of dunkers https://vine.co/v/OPYAOpeheaj
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Feb 16, 2015 01:58
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Really? What the gently caress is this terrible Italian mafia stereotype bullshit? TNT/NBA should be embarrassed to broadcast this.
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straight up brolic posted:a family of dunkers  Its literally Oladipo's dunk, except way better
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straight up brolic posted:a family of dunkers 
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 Frank Isola @FisolaNYDN The Amar'e Stoudemire era is over in New York. The Knicks and Amar'e reached a buyout agreement tonight, sources tell the NY Daily News.
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Vertical Lime posted:
Welcome back to Phoenix Amar'e
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Amar'e is being dipped into the lazarus pit at this very moment. The wear and tear on his retina and knee are fading.
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MourningView posted:The Vince contest is never going to be touched as an overall event (they brought it back just for him, there was a ton of hype and anticipation, and then he actually exceeded it), but that LaVine behind the back oop is the best contest dunk I've ever seen. Yeah, that's gotta be the best contest dunk because of how easy LaVine made it seem. I didn't even realize he went behind the back until the replay.
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Man, I really don't like it when a player's career goes into a slow fall like Amare did. If it's going to end, let it end a year or two, not 4+ years like STAT's.
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Vertical Lime posted:
Isn't a 20 million dollar expiring contract worth at least some 2nd round picks? Why would they buy him out?
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straight up brolic posted:i just watched this like 45 times can't stop watching this
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RCarr posted:Isn't a 20 million dollar expiring contract worth at least some 2nd round picks? Why would they buy him out? Wouldn't they have to take on salary for at least next season if they did this? Since they don't own their 2016 pick(actually a Denver swap iirc), they're hope is to hit in the draft + free agency or they're looking at 2ish more years of poo poo.
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Vertical Lime posted:
Good bye Stat, wished your body held up 
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Feb 16, 2015 05:58
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If any NBA player ever shows up to a press conference dressed as Launchpad McQuack, my life will be complete.
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hitze posted:He pulled out the Dark Wing Duck again Let's get dangerous With our cap space
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So did everyone enjoy the all-star weekend? Seemed better than previous years
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MVP posted:So did everyone enjoy the all-star weekend? I liked it till the mini "Suns got beat on this last second shot and this one and this one and this one and this one" documentary
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