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Bethlehem Shoals ‏@freedarko 32m32 minutes ago
THIS IS THE BEST PIECE OF BASKETBALL WRITING I HAVE EVER READ. @runofplay. http://grantland.com/the-triangle/wolf-on-the-rock-the-ludicrous-glorious-doom-of-kobe-bryant

Good article, I can see why you like it so much.

it's p decent, takes a markedly more nuanced look at the whole mess than its subject probably deserves

its decent and nuanced to poop on

wau hot take there

you use that term a lot but i dont think you know what it means

wasn't trying to zing or anything just meant it seemed like a strong crit, article didn't seem that bad if nothing great either

Using the term 'hot take' on ILX is like trying to claim you know the color of the boathouse at Hereford

its red (hot color)

can't rightly say I know the color of any boathouses anywhere

I ambushed you with a cup of coffee.

He was a narcissist, but a strangely impersonal narcissist, like a general whose army happens to be deployed inside himself.

Why do writers write sentences like this

because someone let them

because they are deployed inside themselves

There were five or six sentences that I c/p'd on my phone to highlight as just atrociously underthought "smart things to say" garbage thoughts in that article before I hit that one, but that metaphor took the cake.

well I guess it is a simile excuse me

how does kobe make me feel asks the smart man

the same things people have been saying about kobe for years, adorned in terrible prose

ref with cramps

https://vine.co/v/Op3uBAnUxWb

Lmao

lol

http://youtu.be/AhUf3YCuE-8

https://vine.co/v/OpXhXaEeYqn

*sigh* ok

lol he must be diabetic?

https://vine.co/v/ODbqg7mpZzr

good job, internet

ah that runofplay guy who wrote the kobe bit is the worst person on earth. i only know him for doing the same terrible shit for soccerball, except no one here criticises him for it, which makes me want to switch sports

https://twitter.com/MrMichaelLee/status/554727787022389248

http://sports.yahoo.com/blogs/nba-ball-dont-lie/daryl-morey-made-a-really-dumb-gynecologist-joke-on-twitter-225342543.html

really can't wait for his stilted apology

i don't really see how this is offensive or even a joke?

it's just a corny cliché joke made by terrible men who don't know anything about women's health issues or, like, why people become doctors

yup, posted here cos its funny that its not funny. dad joke territory

yeah i agree its def not funny. but using it to show like the line between work and the fun you have at home doesnt make light of womens health or w/e

well the joke is if you were a gynecologist you'd be happy at work all the time b/c haha looking at women's genitals all day high-five man that's the life, rather than being a serious occupation taken up by extremely well-trained people who do life-saving work for women and families every single day.

there i explained a punchline on the internet are you proud now dad

It is not funny any way you slice it, at face value, or that someone has an outlook that would offer it as a joke.

it is sad that apparently there are adult men who consider the word gynecologist in the same light as a ten year old considers the word fart

well the joke is if you were a gynecologist you'd be happy at work all the time b/c haha looking at women's genitals all day high-five man that's the life, rather than being a serious occupation taken up by extremely well-trained people who do life-saving work for women and families every single day.

― Clay, Thursday, January 15, 2015 12:58 PM

ok rite maybe morey should stick to bball

Also may I say fuck daryl morey

$5000 fine for this one https://vine.co/v/OD0PKZxP9UD

Should be a game suspension

well the joke is if you were a gynecologist you'd be happy at work all the time b/c haha looking at women's genitals all day high-five man that's the life, rather than being a serious occupation taken up by extremely well-trained people who do life-saving work for women and families every single day.

No, the "joke" is that just because someone's "serious occupation" involves women's genitalia, they do not carry over that clinical, detached attitude towards women's genitalia outside of work. Y'all are reading it backwards.

like he's not saying "like a gynecologist, I'm happy at work all the time because basketball is awesome", but "like a gynecologist, I can enjoy elements of my occupation when I encounter them outside of a work setting"

Morey isn't just a creep, he's an idiot because he could've asked if Mutombo ever gets tired of swatting shots.

into... vaginas!

like he's not saying "like a gynecologist, I'm happy at work all the time because basketball is awesome", but "like a gynecologist, I can enjoy elements of my occupation when I encounter them outside of a work setting"

― A True White Kid that can Jump (Granny Dainger), Friday, January 16, 2015 7:59 AM

i think it can be read either way, who knows, is the intent of the author relevant etc

"like a gynecologist, I can enjoy elements of my occupation when I encounter them outside of a work setting"

This still sounds fucking weird to me

This is mansplaining, isn't it? Can we stop?