The guy on national television choked out another player who was attempting to break up a conflict. He did all this while smiling and dragging the other player across the court.

I’ve been seeing the discourse online and it’s crazy how supportive the national media has been of Draymond.

Example: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GN024KAYWg4

Thoughts?

  • Andy_Wiggins@alien.topBEnglish
    1·
    10 months ago

    Draymond is a lightning rod, and these talking heads know that taking his defense will drive engagement.

    It’s fucking depressing that this is so much of our media these days, but that’s just how it is with the SAS’s and Skip’s of the world.

  • Competitive-Face-240@alien.topBEnglish
    1·
    10 months ago

    Everything I’ve learned about this show has been against my will.

    As an aside - Richard Sherman can’t really believe this, can he? Like he’s playing a bit, right?

  • the_greasy_one@alien.topBEnglish
    1·
    10 months ago

    The older you get, the less you care what the media says. It was unsportsman-like and he’ll get some time off. Don’t worry about what the ad machine prints.

  • workCADpc@alien.topBEnglish
    1·
    10 months ago

    No wonder this sub eats up ESPN stories and morning talk shows with the amount of sensationalism going on since this happened… Jesus the pearl clutching here is at an all time high.

  • rabidbot@alien.topBEnglish
    1·
    10 months ago

    The only people supporting this are children, his teammates and people that make money by pot stirring.

  • DubsFanAccount@alien.topBEnglish
    1·
    10 months ago

    It’s only too-online people that think this is a major story. Everyone else I’ve talked to who are basketball fans either didn’t care or laughed about it and moved on. It’s like Reddit spending months talking about Kyrie last season. Honestly nobody cares.

  • Educational_Claim337@alien.topBEnglish
    1·
    10 months ago

    Gobert made a very dumb decision by grabbing Klay, a guy half a foot shorter than him, instead of his own teammate. DG held on too long but I don’t blame him for immediately taking action after Gobert threw off the balance by inserting himself in the situation. If you want to de-escalate, you grab your own guy, you don’t 2-on-1 the other, smaller guy. Insanely bad judgement in the moment.

  • NuancedBlues@alien.topBEnglish
    1·
    10 months ago

    Reality pill for /r/NBA drama queens:

    Most people don’t care. Nothing really happened. There was no fight and everyone should move on.

    Thanks for the Ted talk

  • triplesmartguy@alien.topBEnglish
    1·
    10 months ago

    It’s totally absurd. He’ll blame anybody but himself. Never seeks out a tough guy, goes after the guy who was trying his best to calm everyone down. But he can pretend he’s tough tho…