I’m not sorry at all that my opinions are upsetting you. I’ve read plenty of your past judgmental posts about Billups now and you calling anyone else out for anything is hilarious to me.
Sabrina Ionescu, Dawn Staley, and Becky Hammon were all very close to Kobe Bryant. Ionescu and Staley even spoke at his memorial service last February. Does that mean they condone rape because Kobe was arrested, charged, and arraigned criminally for rape and then reportedly paid his accuser $2.5 million to go away. The selective moral outrage is all so confusing. Did none of those women, specifically age peers like Staley and Hammon, not know that Kobe is a “rapist?”
Hey, welcome to RipCityTwo! I know it can be difficult at times but let's try to keep politics out of the main forum. We do have an active off-topic section but Uyghurs and solar panels really don't belong in a Lillard trade thread. Not saying you've done anything wrong, just giving you a heads up. Again, welcome!
Here's some examples of people going after him on Twitter: Oh and here is my favorite: These are direct responses to Dame's tweets, and yes, a lot of them are Blazer's fans.
Who have the Pelicans not been ok with losing on their roster?....they are the revolving door of the greyhound bus station of the league....ask Chris Paul, AD or Stan Van Gundy
Yeah that one was funny. It was also a Lakers fan I think. Also I realized SportsTwo doesn't let you embed more than like 5 tweets. What's up with that?
You don't seem to have opinions, you just have one rhetorical trick. But I'm happy to amuse you, although I doubt you have a sense of humor.
I really try not to hate people, but lately, I have not been very successful. These fans disgust me with their ignorance
By the way, this person is a real piece of work: "Critical" huh? Definitely not the ones calling him out for not being a decent human.
I’ll guess a lot of those same people want Becky Hammon as head coach even though she was very close to Kobe Bryant and family and had to be well aware that Kobe was arrested, charged, and arraigned with rape before he reportedly paid his accuser $2.5 million to go away. Talk about double standards. Do they even realize how hypocritical they are bashing Dame while wanting “rape apologist” Hammon as coach? https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.cn...o-lost-a-real-advocate-becky-hammon-says.html "He watched the WNBA, and I think as he had more time on his hands in retirement, he got more involved and was just beginning to be that voice for so many women that maybe didn't have a strong voice or as big or as loud or carried as much weight as his did, and still does," Hammon said before the Spurs hosted the Chicago Bulls Monday night. "The women's game lost a real advocate and someone who truly believed that women can do anything." ... "She loved it," Hammon said of Gianna's love for basketball. "You could tell. That's what so great about sports; the quality time that she got with her dad, the quality time that he invested in her, they found a common bond. "It's a special bond; it's the father-daughter bond, and then it's this thing beyond that, which is sports, that they could connect on," she said. "The belief that he had in his daughter, the belief that he had in women's basketball – the appreciation he had for women's basketball, touched me, motivated me, inspired me."
I think a lot of the fan backlash against Dame is because they thought he was "different" (and he is) but translated this to "and exactly like me". What they don't really appreciate is that he's like a politician - he has to keep disparate factions happy and he can't just say whatever the fuck he wants. This is why you should never idolize someone - it's literally impossible for them not to disappoint you. As sports figures go, he's pretty exceptional, but he's not going to be Mahatma fucking Gandhi (who was also seriously flawed, of course. And don't get me started on Mother Theresa). If I was part of Dame's inner circle, I would advise a break from social media for a while, just because it will be easy right now to say something that could be blown out of proportion (and in fact, pretty damn hard not to). I wonder what pressure there is to be at Billups's press conference. I bet Olshey would really like him to be.
Oh hell no, i do not want Dame at that potential shitshow. But the one person who NEEDS to be there is Jody. Unfortunately, I think it will only be Neil and maybe McGowan.
Saying “have a good day” on Twitter will get 20 trolls responding negatively. “Oh I have depression don’t be insensitive. I never have good days!” “How can I have a good day when (insert Trump or Biden) could be President and ruin the country!” “There are kids in cages under (insert Obama or Trump and now Biden who all does it) do you think they will have a good day?” It’s why I quit that site early last year. A complete cesspool of some of the angriest and emotional people on the planet. Completely worthless and 240 chuaracters per Tweet is the perfect length for the part of that populace that has the attention span of a 5 year-old child.
