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I swear media members hate it when stars play for smaller market teams. It really makes me hate paying attention to this sport sometimes when media members act like only 4-5 markets matter.
It’s crazy how often we think this is just big market bias and not that these guys are actually connected to the players or people around these players. I don’t know about Simmons, but I believe Tim McMahon has also said something along these lines and he’s definitely plugged in.
I think we are really naive here when we say stuff like this. We get so many reports of guys wanting to go to LA. That’s not media fabrication, half of those dudes are from there or want to play in that market. The same is true for at least the latter in the case of New York. Whether they end up on those teams is a different, more complicated story. If you’re dealing with a respected reporter, blame the players, not the media. Or blame no one because these guys don’t owe us wanting to play in Utah or Cleveland.
Honestly, I think the “big market bias” people are describing in this thread is a real phenomenon, but this Mitchell example is just a bad one. He has concrete ties to New York, and it’s been substantively rumored about him for a long time.
The same is not true of a ton of stars the media baselessly opines about “when” they’ll force a move. Take Luka. Media members have been wishcasting for him to ask out to go to a big market for years. The same was true of Dame before this year, of Giannis, and of Embiid. There’s nothing behind this reporting, but it’s constant anyway.
There are also some tinfoil-hat breadcrumbs here. A couple years ago, Zach Lowe did a podcast around Summer League (IIRC) with a drunk Rachel Nichols on the background, who went on a long rant about a couple big name players not playing in markets she wanted to hang out in. I’m not sure that’s such an uncommon sentiment around the media landscape.
I love being a Nuggets fan. Everybody just ignores Jokic. He’s like the one guy nobody speculates if he’s leaving. There’s more talk about him retiring or quitting than him on another team lol
Maybe they aren’t ignoring Jokic so much as Jokic doesn’t want to leave or doesn’t have a connection to the bigger markets. It’s probably a mistake to think the difference is the media rather than Jokic not wanting to leave.
As a Bucks fan who’s been listening to this shit about Giannis for years, I’m with you. These guys absolutely hate the Bucks being good. It’s annoying as hell but I fucking love it when we show them up.
I swear media members hate it when stars play for smaller market teams. It really makes me hate paying attention to this sport sometimes when media members act like only 4-5 markets matter.
It’s crazy how often we think this is just big market bias and not that these guys are actually connected to the players or people around these players. I don’t know about Simmons, but I believe Tim McMahon has also said something along these lines and he’s definitely plugged in.
I think we are really naive here when we say stuff like this. We get so many reports of guys wanting to go to LA. That’s not media fabrication, half of those dudes are from there or want to play in that market. The same is true for at least the latter in the case of New York. Whether they end up on those teams is a different, more complicated story. If you’re dealing with a respected reporter, blame the players, not the media. Or blame no one because these guys don’t owe us wanting to play in Utah or Cleveland.
Honestly, I think the “big market bias” people are describing in this thread is a real phenomenon, but this Mitchell example is just a bad one. He has concrete ties to New York, and it’s been substantively rumored about him for a long time.
The same is not true of a ton of stars the media baselessly opines about “when” they’ll force a move. Take Luka. Media members have been wishcasting for him to ask out to go to a big market for years. The same was true of Dame before this year, of Giannis, and of Embiid. There’s nothing behind this reporting, but it’s constant anyway.
There are also some tinfoil-hat breadcrumbs here. A couple years ago, Zach Lowe did a podcast around Summer League (IIRC) with a drunk Rachel Nichols on the background, who went on a long rant about a couple big name players not playing in markets she wanted to hang out in. I’m not sure that’s such an uncommon sentiment around the media landscape.
I love being a Nuggets fan. Everybody just ignores Jokic. He’s like the one guy nobody speculates if he’s leaving. There’s more talk about him retiring or quitting than him on another team lol
Maybe they aren’t ignoring Jokic so much as Jokic doesn’t want to leave or doesn’t have a connection to the bigger markets. It’s probably a mistake to think the difference is the media rather than Jokic not wanting to leave.
Um…Dame. Did you forget how he repeatedly said he didn’t want to leave for years and people kept speculating about him leaving?
OK but he also had Haynes leak he was thinking about it for like four years in a row
None of these players have connections to these markets
Is that it or is there a general trend in the NBA in which stars force their way or sign in free agency with big market teams?
They only sign there because journalists told them to. Wake up sheeple
… because they do hate it. They don’t even pretend anymore.
Ok, but EVERYONE in the nba thinks Donovan is leaving
I just wish the Bulls were a big market team a star actually wanted to go to.
This isn’t a thing at all in football, it’s comical how dumb nba coverage is comparatively
As a Bucks fan who’s been listening to this shit about Giannis for years, I’m with you. These guys absolutely hate the Bucks being good. It’s annoying as hell but I fucking love it when we show them up.
How is this coming from a Laker fan? My brain is going to implode.
One perk of the nuggets being completely ignored by the media is no one ever says anything about jokic leaving