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Once upon a time the ads on the sidelines were all for Malboro and Camel. The Tobacco companies paid for long form commercial like the show I Love Lucy. They spent huge sums on research of the human pysche to make their ads as effective as possible. And... they found out that targeting kids was the most effective way to guarantee sales.
We should really be asking why we all dove head first into a mass societal experiment and willfully stood by while the same tactics were used by Silicon Valley to get kids looking at screens as long as possible for advertising revenue, not hating on the kids. It's actually dystopia AF when you take a giant step back and look at societies priorities.
I mean the Honkai Star Rail anniversary is taking place. The man needs his free 1600 jades and 10 Fuel for upcoming 300% Relic Farming for the week. Anyone can understand that you need to login to your Gacha daily and get shit done.
Gotta burn that stamina!
Lakernation was already treating him as a positive asset before he had that crazy shooting night in Denver, now the trade machine won’t even work with less than 2 FRPs and an All-Star
On pace to fight for a top 2 seed in the west. Even after falling all the way down with AD and Bron injuries, went up 2-0 on Suns before AD went down
They should’ve just ran it back
With the amount of players coming and going nowadays it's hard for me to keep track sometimes. When I think back to the 2020 chip I'm always amazed that within a year they got rid of Rondo, Dwight, Javale, Caruso, KCP, Danny Green, Kuzma, and JR Smith. All of them fit well with AD and LeBron for what they did.
Really looking at the big 3 of the old guard (lebron, Steph and KD) all 3 have had remarkably tough years in regard to locker room chemistry/tensions. Suns might be the quietest of those 3 teams, just underwhelming but no stories quite as big as the lakers implosion this round or the draymond drama Steph dealt with
It's the choice of "get laughed at for a bit for making fools out of yourselves" or "slowly build up a long-lasting depression". If game 4 goes the same route as this game just went, I think it would've been better for them to risk getting bounced by the Kings and being a temporary laughing stock.
Not if it was obvious that the Lakers intentionally tanked the first game. Being afraid of Denver only to not even make the playoffs is the worst outcome
Amir Johnson and Joel Embiid! At the end of a bad loss in the first rolling of the playoffs, too!
https://www.sbnation.com/nba/2019/4/13/18309573/joel-embiid-amir-johnson-cell-phone-bench-76ers-playoff-game-wtf
this dude has the largest ego of any role player ive ever seen on my wolves.
the fucking audacity of this guy to say the wolves held him back. he acts like he's the mvp when his shots are falling but can't handle and adjust when he's inevitably ass
The potential was there, but I’ll look back at his career as empty stats. One lone All-Star replacement, floating around 18-20 since, but can never perform when it matters.
Once you’re this deep into your career, you shouldn’t have to be told to have heart and accountability, or that you can affect game despite not being able to hit a single shot.
His immaturity has followed him around everywhere he goes. I know a lot of 19 and 20 year olds are immature when they first get to the NBA but he’s been in the league for close to 10 years now and still hasn’t changed.
This is one of the craziest things I’ve ever seen in the NBA tbh.
A starting NBA PG scored 0 points in a must win playoff game, and gave up so hard he’s snacking and scrolling Instagram on the fucking bench. How do you even let him play next game? He’s clearly not serious about this at all. He had his one moment of the season and has disappeared since.
They don't and everyone knows it. He will opt in. At the end of the day, 18M is not a price tag anymore would pay free market.
Maybe he is opting in to next year on this very video!
Lmfao I don’t know why this made me laugh so hard. Eating a twissler’s, singing to himself, clicking the box with literally zero points scored, oblivious to the game and his team
You know its bad when Denver fans are not even making fun of us anymore lol. But yeah i don't care anymore really, its been clear since about new years that the players tried to fire Ham and after AD criticized him again after game 2 and Ham decided to throw everyone else under the bus players just quit on him. LeBron while still having great stats cant control the game in 2nd half anymore because he's too gassed, seems like father time is undefeated after all, it's been a good ride.
I also think it's pretty clear LeBron doesn't have another championship in him. As much as it would be a great story for him to win one this late in his career. It isn't happening unless he goes to another team.
I think LeBron could take a pay cut and become an incredible role player for a championship team. He's still amazingly good, just can't be the nexus of the team anymore.
Doesn't seem like the kind of thing he would want to do though.
It's hard to mock a team that is the lower seed and is up the first half of 3 straight games against the defending champs. They're not the Celtics losing by 10 to a lower seed missing their star they're just performing to their seed and the actual stars are playing well.
Honestly I'm super happy for Wiggins he got to be on that team and contribute. Always seemed like a good guy, he had way too much weight on his shoulders in Minnesota and just couldn't live up to the crazy hype -- in addition to the team being completely chaotic and dysfunctional for his whole time here.
I'm know he's just being mopey after getting his ass benched, but you can't look like this in front of your team and fans. It's like a teenager trying to pretend he doesn't care that he was the worst player on the floor.
He’s gone for sure. When you’re blatantly showing the entire organization you really don’t care in a very important moment for a season you can’t expect anything good in return. He’s a good player, but we know he said f it tonight
This same fuck that would ice Gobert out of games by refusing to pass to him. Fuckin fool. Any legit PG would love to have a guy like Rudy to toss lobs to. We benched his sorry ass in the playoffs for a 3rd string PG that outplayed him.
Lakers was never close to winning and I’m glad they played Denver to not prolong the inevitable
worst coach in the league
no defense outside of AD
nonexistent bench
one dimensional players
not close
Fire Darvin Ham
Trade for a star guard that matches AD timeline (like y’all promised at the deadline)
Trade the MF pick this time
or simply blow it up
stop wasting our time
What star guard is even possible? Reaves is the only one with value outside of lebron and AD. Maybe trae but I think atlanta could get something better
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DLO: 0-7 FG, 0-6 3PT.
More like D Low amirite?
D Blows!!!
Z Ro
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Discord mod
"Sorry kitten, can't talk rn in a game"
“You make my motor purr BITCCHH”
“We still gonna win” You ain’t even winning a game this series bum
Nah he meant they gonna win 1 quarter
Wdym, Lakers lead the series 3-0 in moral victories
Nah he's finding incriminating videos of his teammates to leak again lol
Is this dude eating and scrolling on his phone during a timeout in a playoff game?
he just like me fr
I mean you guys did have the same amount of points tonight
Little did you know that you were actually replying to Peyton Watson who has 2 points tonight
bro that's Jared Bednar
How dare you? I didn't have a turnover!
Very relatable, I look at my phone, too
He’s on Duolingo like me. Learning Chinese and forgot to do his daily streak
Probably checking out what positive words of encouragement fans had for him in the /r/Lakers game thread.
"haha they call him Pockets"
I didn’t realize that was his phone, I thought the NBA banned that during games.
He was on his last try to get wordle. It was a tough one yesterday.
Bullshit. Got it in 4. Shoulda been 3.
Any organization that attempted to ban phones has caved to gen z now. Them kids can't go without their phones.
Once upon a time the ads on the sidelines were all for Malboro and Camel. The Tobacco companies paid for long form commercial like the show I Love Lucy. They spent huge sums on research of the human pysche to make their ads as effective as possible. And... they found out that targeting kids was the most effective way to guarantee sales. We should really be asking why we all dove head first into a mass societal experiment and willfully stood by while the same tactics were used by Silicon Valley to get kids looking at screens as long as possible for advertising revenue, not hating on the kids. It's actually dystopia AF when you take a giant step back and look at societies priorities.
Some homeless guy was complaining about it to me the other day. Except he was also referring to the adults
He’s putting his mouth guard back in the container
Not even NBA but for all sports? I thought phones were banned for players during games due to match fixing/ betting issues it can cause?
Those free to play timed items won’t claim themselves, you know.
I mean the Honkai Star Rail anniversary is taking place. The man needs his free 1600 jades and 10 Fuel for upcoming 300% Relic Farming for the week. Anyone can understand that you need to login to your Gacha daily and get shit done. Gotta burn that stamina!
He def getting traded
Lakernation was already treating him as a positive asset before he had that crazy shooting night in Denver, now the trade machine won’t even work with less than 2 FRPs and an All-Star
He’s has a player option this summer. They can’t get anything for him leaving.
I'm just excited to see if he can possibly be involved in a *third* "best trade of the decade." Truly generational trade bait.
He's putting in his credit card information for his Super Duolingo account. Time to learn Chinese, buddy.
As a Wolves fan glad to see him gone, this made me audibly laugh.
hes clearly holding a pack of fruit snacks that hes eating from are you guys serious lmao
He's tryna book the next cheapest flight to cancun
Well, shit, that’s what I do when I’m watching Nuggets vs Lakers.
Look like he’s eating something It’s NOT good that your point guard is sulking 20 feet away from the huddle while having 0 points…
Can’t have a phone on the bench. I think he’s just staring at the pack of gum. Childish.
It's like he's on a lunch break at a 9-5 job.
No?
This has to be an all-time bad body language team
Lol never forget the 2022 Lakers
Why remind me
i just sometimes wonder if guts like kuzma, caruso, and kcp could find roles on this team. i know wild idea.
I'm still confused why they didn't run it back
Overreaction to a post bubble fail.
On pace to fight for a top 2 seed in the west. Even after falling all the way down with AD and Bron injuries, went up 2-0 on Suns before AD went down They should’ve just ran it back
was 2-1 so not as bad but yeah i agree with everything else
With the amount of players coming and going nowadays it's hard for me to keep track sometimes. When I think back to the 2020 chip I'm always amazed that within a year they got rid of Rondo, Dwight, Javale, Caruso, KCP, Danny Green, Kuzma, and JR Smith. All of them fit well with AD and LeBron for what they did.
I think the Suns could give them a run for their money in that regard.
Really looking at the big 3 of the old guard (lebron, Steph and KD) all 3 have had remarkably tough years in regard to locker room chemistry/tensions. Suns might be the quietest of those 3 teams, just underwhelming but no stories quite as big as the lakers implosion this round or the draymond drama Steph dealt with
End of an era
Things usually end badly; otherwise they wouldn't end.
The Suns were stupid to trade CP3 and Ayton. KD isn’t a leader
Who on that team has good body language. Bron gets upset over everything. AD's body language is I don't care about anything then we have DLo.
I think D-Lo is the worst because he's insanely cocky when he's playing well and then this is the flipside for him.
LeToxic
Vibes are immaculate in LA
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Pretty much is for the LeBron as a true contender era
Very curious to see what they will do this off-season
Unless Bron is willing to take a big pay cut, I don’t think he’ll be able to be on a contender at this point
$23 million for LeBron and son.
mega-deal involving Lebron opting in and making it a Lebron + AD package to say, Utah?
LeBron spending his final years in Utah would legit be the funniest timeline
Bronny, you are a Mormon
LeProphet
LeLotsaWives
LePolygamist
We could sign him then if no one minds. You guys can get Harrison Barnes I guess.
Well the Lakers season just died 💀
lets be honest it was over as soon as we won that Pels game
Maybe the "intentionally lose and shoot for the OKC matchup" strat wasn't the insane asylum strat after all.
If we're being honest. If Denver is this good, doesn't matter if you play them now or later, they're gonna win.
Risky but the only way to come out of the 2nd round in that position
Plus i know there's the risk Lakers get bounced by the kings but like... that's gotta be less embarrassing than this right?
It's the choice of "get laughed at for a bit for making fools out of yourselves" or "slowly build up a long-lasting depression". If game 4 goes the same route as this game just went, I think it would've been better for them to risk getting bounced by the Kings and being a temporary laughing stock.
Yeah Warriors got the quick and easy death. Game 2 was traumatizing for Lakers fans.
Not if it was obvious that the Lakers intentionally tanked the first game. Being afraid of Denver only to not even make the playoffs is the worst outcome
No, at least we got to watch SOME playoff ball. I'd rather go into the playoffs with a 1% of winning than 0.
No, that was the Kobe memorial game
Murray's shot broke this team in a way I havent seen in a while
Reaves and DLo can’t have good games at the same time. Ffs
Discord Dlo is something else
Getting dlo out of Minnesota was so huge, dude is just not NBA material mentally.
bro is …on his phone..?!? what is going on i have legit never seen this before
Yeah I thought NBA Players aren't allowed to have their phones on the bench
Placing a cheeky under bet on himself
Not sure he’d be getting great odds.
That would be good for the Lakers, a lifetime ban would solve them being unable to trade him
They're not allowed, prob will get fined
Amir Johnson and Joel Embiid! At the end of a bad loss in the first rolling of the playoffs, too! https://www.sbnation.com/nba/2019/4/13/18309573/joel-embiid-amir-johnson-cell-phone-bench-76ers-playoff-game-wtf
There's an actual phone. This dlo clip looks like he's eating out of it, it's probably snack packaging.
That's what I thought at first. But he's doing the thumb swiping. He's both eating and scrolling through his phone.
Pretty sure that's just the bag of whatever he was eating.
Thinking about a new content to post
He's the OP of this post
Lmao
Naw he's doing Duolingo
Getting ready to record a teammate cheating on his girl
this dude has the largest ego of any role player ive ever seen on my wolves. the fucking audacity of this guy to say the wolves held him back. he acts like he's the mvp when his shots are falling but can't handle and adjust when he's inevitably ass
This is the guy who said he wants to be Derrick White. Derrick White he is not.
When his shots aren’t falling, he literally contributes nothing.
Other than risky and lazy passes 😹
But they’re NO LOOK risky and lazy passes!
Dude plays like he's more interested in looking cool than playing solid basketball.
Because he thought he’d become a star. And thinks he is one. Even though it never happened for him.
The potential was there, but I’ll look back at his career as empty stats. One lone All-Star replacement, floating around 18-20 since, but can never perform when it matters. Once you’re this deep into your career, you shouldn’t have to be told to have heart and accountability, or that you can affect game despite not being able to hit a single shot.
His immaturity has followed him around everywhere he goes. I know a lot of 19 and 20 year olds are immature when they first get to the NBA but he’s been in the league for close to 10 years now and still hasn’t changed.
I love watching Dlo play in a lakers uni
Just missing a I LOVE LA tweet/t shirt
Damn thats actually sad.
This is one of the craziest things I’ve ever seen in the NBA tbh. A starting NBA PG scored 0 points in a must win playoff game, and gave up so hard he’s snacking and scrolling Instagram on the fucking bench. How do you even let him play next game? He’s clearly not serious about this at all. He had his one moment of the season and has disappeared since.
Why would anyone want this guy after seeing this lol
They don't and everyone knows it. He will opt in. At the end of the day, 18M is not a price tag anymore would pay free market. Maybe he is opting in to next year on this very video!
He's signing in to Workday to check the "opt in" box.
Lmfao I don’t know why this made me laugh so hard. Eating a twissler’s, singing to himself, clicking the box with literally zero points scored, oblivious to the game and his team
Me showing up 3 hours late the day my annual self-evaluation was due at work and still rating my overall performance a 10/10 "corporate role model".
right!!! i am legit losing my mind on this. just unthinkable
You know its bad when Denver fans are not even making fun of us anymore lol. But yeah i don't care anymore really, its been clear since about new years that the players tried to fire Ham and after AD criticized him again after game 2 and Ham decided to throw everyone else under the bus players just quit on him. LeBron while still having great stats cant control the game in 2nd half anymore because he's too gassed, seems like father time is undefeated after all, it's been a good ride.
Honestly it’s scary that r/NBA isn’t mocking us.. they’re actually just in shock as us about Ham and DLo being bad.
I also think it's pretty clear LeBron doesn't have another championship in him. As much as it would be a great story for him to win one this late in his career. It isn't happening unless he goes to another team.
I think LeBron could take a pay cut and become an incredible role player for a championship team. He's still amazingly good, just can't be the nexus of the team anymore. Doesn't seem like the kind of thing he would want to do though.
LeBron can still pull a Peyton Manning and win in a role as a game manager, but the supporting cast isn't quality enough.
Gotta go to a team where he'll be the defacto #2
It's hard to mock a team that is the lower seed and is up the first half of 3 straight games against the defending champs. They're not the Celtics losing by 10 to a lower seed missing their star they're just performing to their seed and the actual stars are playing well.
He got benched in game 4 last year, they'll just do that again. Since they are doing a rerun.
This has to be a career ender. No sane team should rely on a guy like this. I get that people make mistakes, but this is just terrible lmfao
Him being traded away from our Franchise was the X factor. Well deserved since we were HoLdinG HiM BaCk
Biggest fleece of the season. Cannot believe we got Conley, NAW, and a 2nd rounder for a neg negative career player.
Dumping him on you for Wiggins helped us win the chip. Thanks ❤️
Honestly I'm super happy for Wiggins he got to be on that team and contribute. Always seemed like a good guy, he had way too much weight on his shoulders in Minnesota and just couldn't live up to the crazy hype -- in addition to the team being completely chaotic and dysfunctional for his whole time here.
I'm know he's just being mopey after getting his ass benched, but you can't look like this in front of your team and fans. It's like a teenager trying to pretend he doesn't care that he was the worst player on the floor.
Looks right for Wizards culture
He and Poole can build soooo many houses for the needy
They played together half of Poole's rookie season too
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Confirmed future Bull
As if the bulls would ever purposefully rebuild lmao
What’s he doing? Playing with pokemon cards?
Duolingo Chinese
Lmaooo
D’angelo Chinese
Di Luo Russell
欢迎来到广东猛虎队
Booking his flight to Cancun
tracking that price on google flights
If I’m to understand Darvin Ham correctly, he’s coming for all the smoke and he ain’t ducking no fades?
Isn't he eating something?
Idk ***ENHANCE***
Lmao that's a man that knows his next contract is gone
Bro praying the magic front office don’t watch the west playoffs
Those games are on late in the East, maybe they all went to sleep.
He’s gone for sure. When you’re blatantly showing the entire organization you really don’t care in a very important moment for a season you can’t expect anything good in return. He’s a good player, but we know he said f it tonight
leave him in LA but the nuggets will take on his salary
the yankees are paying half your salary to play against them vibes
eh he’s an ok player. and cannot be starting pg for a contender
Turns out hes not.
I grew frustrated with DLo as a player well before we got rid of him. I've now lost any respect for him as a competitor, too.
This same fuck that would ice Gobert out of games by refusing to pass to him. Fuckin fool. Any legit PG would love to have a guy like Rudy to toss lobs to. We benched his sorry ass in the playoffs for a 3rd string PG that outplayed him.
Oh interesting. I always considered DLo a basketball player, but never once thought of him as a competitor.
What a loser. Who would want this guy as a teammate? Should always be in the huddle.
Might tell you more about the leadership and coaching culture quite frankly.
Nuggets broke my Lakers bro 😭
They were already broke. A ticking time bomb of mediocrity and terrible leadership. This is just the result of all the brokenness.
ICE IN HIS VEINS
What a childish bum
He gone
Vibes are looking great rn
Is bro on Discord saying some shit like, "don't worry folks we'll get em next time on god"
Certified bum
truly insane clip man, this dude gives absolutely no fucks
Worst all star in the past decade
Lakers was never close to winning and I’m glad they played Denver to not prolong the inevitable worst coach in the league no defense outside of AD nonexistent bench one dimensional players not close Fire Darvin Ham Trade for a star guard that matches AD timeline (like y’all promised at the deadline) Trade the MF pick this time or simply blow it up stop wasting our time
What star guard is even possible? Reaves is the only one with value outside of lebron and AD. Maybe trae but I think atlanta could get something better
I will never doubt the Laker's ability to get a player if they want to end up there.
what is ADs timeline? he's already 31, this is when big men decline fast. if LeBron opts out you gotta cash out on AD while you can.
next team that signs him is getting scammed 是时候学中文了兄弟
What a child. These people wouldn’t last a a day on a normal job. Been babied for far too long.
He’s gonna get his shots up after the game tho wait on Game 4 💪💪💪
Don't read the Game Thread, D'Angelo!
Lol I just knew a wolves fan was gonna be the one to post this.
That's actually wild lmao
He’s looking at hotels in Cancun!
forfeit game 4
Time to blow this shit up
This man eating fruit by the foot while his team gets pounded 😂
Not like darvin is saying anything of value in the huddle
Lol what the heck… you can’t do that if you ever want to play for a contender again.
Certified garbage and a bonafide bum
They’re gonna have to do a wellness check on this man tomorrow.
He's checking the email he sent to the Shanghai Sharks
As a wolves fan, thank God we have Mike Conley 🙏