I’m posting this less because of the content of the article and more to show how thirsty even still the media is to try and make stats leave small markets. The media itself and how it approaches the NBA versus NFL causes a lot of the issues with casual viewership.
Straight copium
This is exactly what I posted yesterday and I got downvoted for whatever ignorant reason. This is what the media does. And it happens every single time a star is on a small market. Every time. It is shameful.
I understand Donovan wasn’t Cleveland’s first choice but he has been nothing but clearly happy in Cleveland and excited about Cleveland, is under contract two more seasons yet the media acts as if he’s a free agent this year and gonna demand a trade at the first sign of any “trouble”, as if Cleveland didn’t just have a 50+ win season and sign shooters around their core. Giannis signs an extension and some in the media’s first instinct is to say he could be simply securing his bag with no true attachment to Milwaukee even though he so obviously loves being a Buck. It’s gross.
Didn’t see any of this dumb shit when AD signed his extension. Figures.
Not with the Lakers, but we know how the Pelicans-Lakers saga went.
what a weird article. all those words to essentially say nothing.
Stay shit, Ringer.
For a well established journalist in NBA media this doesn’t justify a paycheck on its own credit. Getting the news that Giannis has (very unexpectantly) extended a year earlier than initially people thought made sense, the outline of the reasons being the potential earnings it brings out of staying in Milwaukee for another ten years, should warrant a second look at the prevailing story.
Another piece with nothing but comparisons to KD (that are both completely unearned in that their position and history with their teams are dramatically different, and they are very clearly different people with different priorities). Another piece talking about how superstars sign contracts and request trades, as if that has not been two articles from every outlet for every week until they were blindsided by the extension. A stubborn refusal (or inability) to entertain the case of Giannis’ future remaining in Milwaukee is expected of the usual cast of people yelling on TV, but ‘serious’ media and journalists who actually write have done a miserably poor job of talking about this team outside of one very basic track.
It shouldn’t have been news to so many people that Giannis was repeatedly saying that he wanted to stay as long as the team was trying to win games. It shouldn’t have been news that the Bucks could actually put a competitive package together for trades (especially, were it not for the Dame trade, at the end of this season where there would have been three first round picks and a host of young players and role players on good contracts). Certain figures in NBA media who trade on being sensible, serious, and intelligent do a very poor job of talking about superstars outside of a handful of markets and should just not be taken seriously on those subjects. Now back to ‘Is Anthony Edwards going to leave Minnesota?’ all off the back of Pat Bev imagining it off a podcast.
I hate the title of their article, sounds like something from a 45 year old buzzfeed writer trying to sound like a millennial which is what most Ringer writers are.
Bill’s gotta change tactics now that his “Lasry sold high on the Bucks” take has blown up.