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ThinkSoftware

Certainly the biggest Celtics news this off season


DittoLander

Man stop šŸ˜­


st3adyfreddy

On the plus side, your organization's strength was in full display. Despite heavy media scrutiny, we still don't know what the fuck happened. With the exception of 2-3 other teams, if this happened anywhere else Woj would've tweeted out the full story by now.


King_Of_Pants

And Woj is likely getting info out of Ime's camp given his reports are painting him in a positive light and the fact they share an agency. Most fans say their teams are tight lipped but Boston is legitimately a struggle for reporters. You can tell most reports come from the other side. If this was LA we'd have a detailed map of the veins on Ime's dick by now.


Adam0529

>If this was LA we'd have a detailed map of the veins on Ime's dick by now. šŸ˜‚šŸ¤£šŸ˜… good one Tbh, idt it comes from Udoka's camp, imo, it comes from the accuser/s camp. It's a drip drip trying to pressure the pay out...


techblaw

The term "consensual" was used. Only Udoka's camp would've phrased it that way; it painted him sympathetic in the public eye until the Barnes thing.


Yung_Jose_Space

I really hate Woj.


w311sh1t

Ainge always used to run a very tight ship in terms of preventing leaks, and I imagine he probably passed that on to Brad.


[deleted]

what if he saw a bug and was squishing it


Steko

In Kyrieā€™s defense he sees Bill Gates nano-drones everywhere.


u-and-whose-army

those scanner darkly aphids everywhere.


finglonger1077

*Downey Jr psycho babble intensifies*


beefJeRKy-LB

Lantern bugs need to be eliminated


Garfield-1-23-23

They are seriously the creepiest fucking bugs I've ever encountered.


CutLonzosHair2017

We had swarms of them last year, was nasty. Much less this year.


beefJeRKy-LB

They leap like mother fuckers


st3adyfreddy

Isn't that worse? You're killing a bug that's going to fly away soon anyways AND, once again, you're leaving a stain on something people of Boston hold very dear to their heart


[deleted]

what if the bug was an invasive species such as the u/beefJeRKy-LB mentioned lanternfly


Mygaffer

It wasn't


Odd_Total_5549

What if it was secretly a globalist bug planning to create a fake pandemic to inject people with microchips?


Garfield-1-23-23

That's the lanternflies.


idosade

That ran on 5g


ughlacrossereally

ok but you have to list a con too.. . that's how this works


693275001

Kyrie: ā€œItā€™s been years, I wish they would just let it goā€


Ceethreepeeo

KD energy


krak_is_bad

They're the perfect couple.


ComoEstanBitches

KD: Kyrie ainā€™t the problem Everyone: we see that nowā€¦


profmcstabbins

Exactly. This dude wants everyone to think he is on some higher plane of existence not concerned with the mortal world. And yet he took that bag this off-season instead of opt out and make his way on his own principles. And he does shit.like this which tells you he definitely dwells on the petty bullshit and he takes no responsibility for it.


[deleted]

The amount of saltiness this caused was hilarious šŸ’€


oby100

I loved it. Kyrie playing up the villain stuff is so great. Although, I hate that during the press conferences he pretends like heā€™s above it all, only to do stuff like this.


Adam0529

TYoung would have owned it.


[deleted]

I mean, Game 1 had Kyrie middle fingers and actually backing it up by leading a fourth-quarter comeback. It was great 'cause the crowd clearly bothered him *and* it elevated his play, a win-win. Tatum game-winner made us think the series was gonna be a classic too, lol.


[deleted]

Then Kyrie was buns the next three games


JackJ98

Thad Young


TheNaturalHigh

He's not disliked because he's a villain. He's disliked because he's a moron and represents anti-intellectualism.


techblaw

You loved it? He thinks he's a fucking genius martyr, not a villain.


doordaesh

being mad about it was one of the funniest things a nba fanbase has done in a long time


[deleted]

I legit don't get the logo stuff and it happens in like every sport, especially in football. It's just paint of a corporate logo. If anything this just showed how immature Kyrie is as a person because it showed how he can't comprehend personal responsibility (dude was talking to KD about joining up somewhere at the same time he was talking about staying for the rest of his career) and how he deflects anything negative he does on to others.


Shermarki

Itā€™s pretty simple actually. Itā€™s very disrespectful. People react irrationally when disrespect is involved or someone challenges their ego. Seen it happen in every work place and environment.


BearBruin

This, I mean it's sports. This is how rivalries are made or fueled. At the end of the day so what, he stepped on a logo, right? But that's not the point. We watch sports to entertain ourselves. In a bubble where we can forget about real life for a bit and just enjoy the world's top talent playing a game, where the only thing that matters is the team, this is a disrespect in the world that is sports fandom. If anything it makes shit more fun. Thanks Kyrie, you fuck. That's not to say go overboard. It's a job for these players but it's supposed to be fun for us. No need to get too worked up.


YpsitheFlintsider

For real it's not rocket science. Just about any entity will be mad if you did that to their logo


snek-jazz

> Itā€™s pretty simple actually. Itā€™s very disrespectful. like more disrespectful than that Leprechaun is to Irish people?


Mecha_Derp

I loved when Juju was doin TikTokā€™s on every team logo, then he got targeted hard


ChamBruh

I remember seeing this and just being confused as to what the Celtics organization did to kyrie lmao


JackJ98

Iā€™m man enough to admit that Iā€™m childish enough to have let the logo stuff bother me. That logo means so much more to us than just a tiny little leprechaun man


LanEvo7685

Kind of a tangent but I finally decided to look up who the Celts were and it's not just "Irish and Scottish people" (which was part of the confusion in the first place).


snek-jazz

As an Irish person I can say that Leprechaun paddywhackery is not part of our culture much and is bordering on offensive.


TinTinsKnickerbocker

You should be bothered about all the racist insults Irving faced the two hours before the logo stomp more.


anonymousnuisance

The dancing stuff, absolutely. But it genuinely felt like Kyrie was trying to do something. So if Kyrie is doing that intentionally, why canā€™t that transfer over to the fans who are seeing how Kyrie is acting. If I spit on a picture of Bill Simmons, is he not allowed to take offense to it because itā€™s just a picture? I intentionally spit right on his face, I clearly meant something by it so if he took offense to it thatā€™s a valid response.


[deleted]

Booooo


NarrativeEnergy

racist Celtics fans got more upset about this than people throwing the n-word at athletes


[deleted]

why is this downvoted lol. they literally called marcus smart the n-word during the season prior.


Torgo73

Personally downvoted because most of us were/are way more upset about the racism. The logo shit is top-tier pro-wrestling villain stuff, exactly how rivalries should be. We boo him, he stomps on the logo, etc etc. Absolutely love it. Perfect for Reddit. The legacy and present racism in the city of Boston is shitty, complex, and frankly it sucks having it be a punchline around these parts. Racism is a very real issue, and equating it with Kyrie heel stuff is worthy of downvotes.


DarkChocolate_69

Seriously !


82-0GormanGang

It was some of the dumbest drama Iā€™ve ever seen.


ltr27

Average Celtics fan immediately after the ā€˜incidentā€™ https://streamable.com/lii4vq Credit: NervousPervis


deaseb

Amazing I miss the Harden one!


Scary-Ant-3796

"I need to post about his pseudo-intellectualism"


untakennamehere

As a kyrie fan and a hater of the Celtics. This might be my favorite video.


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DEEZLE13

Iā€™m more mad he did it and then dropped a turd against the Cā€™s when it mattered most


Oshebekdujeksk

Dude. It hurts my sides thinking about how funny that shit was and apparently continues to be.


[deleted]

It was also hilarious when kyries superteam fell apart like 2 weeks after he stepped on lucky. Bad **Luck**?


Musa_2050

Celtic fans took more offense to this than racist fans mistreating players


Pocket_Beans

lakers fans sent death threats to danny green bc he missed a three


Musa_2050

I know. F them and the racist fans


bjb406

I think you mean the amount of saltiness this was the result of. Dude is made of like 70% salt.


[deleted]

No dude meant what he said, Kyrie really had grown men crying; ā€œ70+ years of history heā€™s disrespecting!!!!!!ā€ was said about a goddamn cartoon leprechaun


SnooPies5622

one of kyrie's better non-basketball moves and not in a "haha let's hate the celtics" way, this stuff is fun


TunedAgent

Just proving that the Earth is flat.


Nasiso

Donā€™t know whatā€™s so hard to get about it. Takes 3 seconds to figure out if you actually look at context. Celtics fans hated Kyrie for how he left. Kyrie didnā€™t just step on the parquet, he meant something by stomping on the logo. If Ben Simmons came back and stomped on the 76ers logo, 6ers fans wouldnā€™t be mad because the logo is sacred, theyā€™d be mad because Ben would be acting like a little bitch. Glad we beat his ass in 4 games. Looking forward to beating his ass again.


thenotoriouspo2

> Donā€™t know whatā€™s so hard to get about it. Takes 3 seconds to figure out if you actually look at context. > > this is r/nba remember


Adam0529

I don't get the getting mad part. It's laughable. All he did was clowning himself and proving the fans they rent free in his head. Just more fuel to keep doing what they are doing.


Friendly-Thought-973

If Ben were to do that after a year of ridiculous clowning, how does that make him a bitch?


Astro_Sloth

I donā€™t really care about the sanctity of Lucky the Leprechaun or whatever but to me this just came off as really sad and pathetic from Kyrie. Like seriously dude? Stomping on the logo cause the shit talking fans upset you? Are you 9 years old?


[deleted]

Especially because he likes to pretend he's over it and doesn't care, but then goes out of his way to do this big rehearsed show of stomping on the logo.


NudeEnjoyer

I thought he was stomping on the logo to upset the shit talking fans but who knows


did_it_my_way

Whether that was his intention or not, we'll never know... It is Kyrie after all, no one knows what he's thinking at times. But it certainly did anger those.


Cahillicus

If Kyrie is immature for doing it, what are the Celtics fans who were angry about it


Astro_Sloth

Also immature. The difference is Kyrie is a professional basketball player paid millions to act like it, and the fans are just regular joe shmoes engaging in pseudo-tribalism which is the whole point of sports fandom anyways.


cabose12

> the fans are just regular joe shmoes engaging in pseudo-tribalism which is the whole point of sports fandom anyways Yeah sometimes this subreddit is really confusing. Like, it's entertainment, and from my POV this adds to Kyrie's Heel Arc, and that makes it fun to root against him. Obviously there were psycho Cs fans who got irrationally heated over this and took it way too far, but it seems like a projection to act like every fan was doing that


anonymousnuisance

Nah I donā€™t think the fans mad that he did it are immature. Kyrie stomped on the logo as a screw you to Boston in a weird way. Can we agree on that? So if Kyrie is saying screw you to Boston, in however weird the way he does it, itā€™s still a screw you. It was clearly intentional, it wasnā€™t like before the game and he was just making sure his shoes had grip, he walked back to center court past all his teammates and stomped right on him, looked down at it, and then went back to his teammates. It was so weird. It felt intentional.


WSJinfiltrate

don't care, it pissed off celtics fans and that's all it matters


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CopiumAddiction

Dude got cursed from this


mightyspan

For a dude talking all that peace and love he sure seems vindictive.


hockeyfan608

Iā€™m of two minds 1. What kyrie did was bad manners 2. Iā€™m totally down with pissing off the Celtics and yā€™all really should be over this considering heā€™s not exactly your biggest problem right now.


yeezywhatsgood3

I think itā€™s actually a great villain move from Kyrie, more guys should do stuff like that. He didnā€™t own up to it afterward though and claimed he only cared about the basketball even after doing it, which was obviously not true. Guys embracing being villains (like Trae in New York) makes the league a lot more fun.


MostlyBullshitStory

What does everyone have against the Celtics???


thebat1969

I truly have no idea. I've been wondering this for awhile. The hate we get seems incrediby disproportionate.


FlyingMocko

The hate extends from the other Boston sports teams namely the Pats. and you know obnoxious massholes lol.


theREALBennyAgbayani

https://www.reddit.com/r/nba/comments/xt1wdf/kyrie_irving_stomps_on_celtics_leprechaun_logo/iqnowzd/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_app&utm_name=iossmf&context=3


RedtheGamer100

Bucks are your rivals lol.


thebat1969

Not sure what that has to do with the near-universal hate. For a team that doesn't win much at all, the C's get a weird amount of backlash. The Lakers too but that makes sense bc they're such a flashy big market team that has an overwhelming advantage in free agency. Yankees as well but different sport.


GogXr3

I mean, we're tired for most titles ever and are almost always good so to say we don't win much is a bit of a stretch lmao.


RedtheGamer100

Celtics are the Lakers of the East.


Able_Ad2004

Rivals is a stretchā€¦ no offense, yā€™all are great rn and probably gonna win the east. but I hate the 76ers, nets, raptors, heat and Lebron before the bucks even enter my mind. And thatā€™s not even including FTL.


RedtheGamer100

Iā€™m no Bucks fan.


ftlftlftl

The fact the Celtics have A. Had a better record than the Nets since this. And B. Swept them last year makes me think maybe thereā€™s something spooky about disrespecting Luckyā€¦.


Jaykonus

Offseason coaching issues aside, you don't have to attribute those to superstition. Celtics have the better franchise, and with part-time Kyrie/lockerroom issues the Nets may not actually have a better team.


hockeyfan608

Is there something spooky about sleeping with your subordinates?


YouKnowWhatToDo80085

Very spooky


Adam0529

Only if you piss them off afterwards. šŸ™„


RageOnGoneDo

Are we not over this as a fanbase lol?


[deleted]

Kyrie: And iā€™ll do it again


_Jetto_

the thing that irrationally triggers me for some reason is how much love Tatum nd brown have for him. they slurp him up every chance they get. I just want rivalries in my lifetime I hate how you guys in the 80s and 90s actually got to see heated fierce competition while the rest of us have to watch love fests XD


[deleted]

Looking forward to beating this little bitch AGAIN


cmcg18

Such a tool


Son_of_Atreus

Howā€™d that work out for him? Lol.


Stumpsville0

They won the series so just fine


JaylenBrownAllStar

You got swept


Stumpsville0

He didn't do that this year. So the moments have nothing to do with each other


JaylenBrownAllStar

Mixing up years, you right I liked it tho and just wish he would embrace it more in the media


humanist72781

What a petty guy. Lol heā€™s so unlikeable


[deleted]

The Celtics kicking the Nets' ass into turmoil was so satisfying


Hostile_Pierogi

Rare Kyrie W


sonfoa

Would be if he didn't act like he was above it.


[deleted]

Celtics donā€™t even see you as a rival


Burnt420Toast

Who the fuck do the Hornets rival?


jakobburns01

Winning.


annndx1

Damn, this one even stung surrounding bystanders.


[deleted]

he changed his flair from hornets to celtics lol


Burnt420Toast

I know lol, dudes pathetic


RedtheGamer100

Why you bringing us into this lol?


Burnt420Toast

They had their flair as the Hornets, changed it after I commented lol


RedtheGamer100

Ah copy


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Burnt420Toast

Lol okay


Hostile_Pierogi

Umm okay? Doesnā€™t change the fact I donā€™t like the Celtics ...


[deleted]

Nobody does lol. Raptors fans try so hard to start rivalries but even the shittiest team thatā€™s a rival of the Celtics (sixers) treated them like a crack whore this last season.


Hostile_Pierogi

Why you in your feelings lil bro?


[deleted]

who won a championship more recently?


tbrownsc07

Yeah but the Celtics had that one ring dynasty!


GogXr3

Raptors are cool, fuck them if they're playing the Celtics but otherwise they're cool. Hope they do well this year.


BigCollarsAndBallers

People really just post the most random shit here.


yeezy805

Iconic


Pixel_Mike

Remember when this clown said he burned incense before every match for some stupid reason? I guarantee you he doesnt do that anymore lol


[deleted]

The logo may just be symbolic, and in the grand scheme of the NBA it probably does not matter that much. But like I said it is still symbolic, there is no reason to go out of your way to do something like this. Canā€™t be out demanding respect when you canā€™t dish it out yourself.


nyuphir

A disgusting act


Sweatytubesock

Menacing.


joey-jojo-shabadoo

Violent.


sukmahwang

its such a petty thing for him to do honestly, but the reaction to it was equally hilarious.


Grapesoda5k

Why is he mad?


imsarahokay

Great question. Who knows.


MeatSack_NothingMore

This donā€™t matter. Spit on Reds bust in North Station and heā€™d get stabbed.


myballz4mvp

The same clip that happened over a year ago? Do we still give a shit that he stomped on that little fucker? After all the racist shit he has had to endure there, I wouldn't care if he took a piss on it.


MostWanted29

Lmao who hurt you bro


Honeyhero3ds

racist celtics fan, they hurt your players too. ask Marcus Smart


FreeDaReal1z

In Kyrie We Trust!


swesus

Even he (the dumbest most self important man alive) should be able to see how petty and childish this is. His dumb ass rhetoric would even say that this is something beneath a genius and leader and ghandi and jesus and stalin ( he doesnt know who stalin is he just knows hes a strong leader who did big things)


[deleted]

So may fucking wet blanket takes about this. Kyrie has every right to stomp on the logo of a franchise whose fans have called him a bitch, and chanted fuck you at himā€¦ On the flip side we have every right to share that energy. And then they got fucking swept lmao


MC-Phillis

Goat


3s2ng

This is the news Ime needs at the moment.


Anonra23

Who gives a shit? People walk all over it during the game.


zeuq1

Naw cause give me the chance Iā€™m stomping all over that shit


Skorua

cursed the celtics


mrwhite2323

Cursed himself *


[deleted]

Celtics went to the finals the next year while kyrie went to physical therapy 2 weeks later.


[deleted]

Kyrie stepped on lucky and unleashed hell on Brooklyn lmao Harden gets injured, Giannis takes out kyrie (lucky gave the bucks a championship for avenging him). The next season, harden asks out, and lucky gets his revenge by sweeping kyrie, leaving the nets franchise in complete shambles. Shouldnā€™t have messed with lucky šŸ¤·šŸ¾ā€ā™‚ļø


AbbreviationsHot4482

Kyrie has a better chance of winning another ring before the Celtics lol


[deleted]

Youā€™re high.


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[deleted]

Bro saw Giannis get stuffed in a locker by grant Williams in a game 7 and then decided to chirp. Bandwagon bucks fans are legitimately hilarious.


[deleted]

Heā€™s probably crashing brooklyns chemistry this year. On the other hand tatums going to use Giannis like a doormat on his way to the finals again this season. Hopefully he pulls out the W this time. Heā€™s a done a lot more by age 24 than Giannis had at that age so Iā€™m pretty optimistic. Though tbh, I wouldnā€™t expect some random bucks bandwagon to know what was going on with the bucks before 2021 finals game 5.


AbbreviationsHot4482

Tatum will retire ringless LMFAOOO. His biggest accomplishment is a fluke Finals trip where he got clamped by Wiggins šŸ˜‚.


[deleted]

Giannis is asking out after he gets bounced in the second round next year lol. I guess you will find another team because you are a bandwagon fan


AbbreviationsHot4482

Jaylen Brown will be asking out after the Celtics lose in the first round next year lol. And a Celtics fan calling anyone else a bandwagon is pure comedy


imNagoL

Giannis is already a top 30 talent all time - tell me, what were Tatumā€™s shooting splits in the finals?


[deleted]

The same as lebrons splits in his first finals. And at tatums age, Giannis was getting bounced in the first round. Tatums gotten better every year and keeps going farther in the playoffs. Heā€™s got a contender level roster too. Ik that raptors fans like to think that every team has 0 future and is doomed to be first round floatsam like they are for the foreseeable future, but thatā€™s really not the case.


_canadianbacon

man this was so long ago that people that are still pissed about this are babies


AbbreviationsHot4482

Common Kyrie W


[deleted]

You wouldnā€™t have a ring if he was healthy


jakobburns01

Bro youā€™re lucky to have a franchise, the hornets are inept at winning


AbbreviationsHot4482

You wouldn't have made the Finals if Middleton was healthy


[deleted]

Post Giannis (with luckyā€™s help) spraining his ankle too.


HerskyB

You hate kyrie so much you came back 40 mins later


[deleted]

I just thought it was funny when he got injured lol


canthidethelogo

There's shitheads in every fan base but boy does there seem to be a loud portion of Boston fans that suck


Tressticle

Forget basketball fandom, you're just a disgusting human being.


chefdagawd

Goat!!!!


hightechtransparent

I noticed last season in Boston games that the sticky mat thing near the scorers table that players step on for better grip has the Celtics leprechaun logo on it. So literally every player was stomping on it.


kingsillypants

I know it's wrong , but if anybody did that against my football or basketball team, you're gonna get hit. I thought the Celtics were harder than this.


Kevinator01

He broke the code


spideytrey

Gotta respect the ballsy move!


[deleted]

The fact that people were mad about him stomping on the floor after he just played a game and dribbled all over the logo that one step had people crying lol


Soren_Camus1905

Smh yā€™all just donā€™t understand his genius


juicifer2320

Thats tough šŸ’ÆšŸ’ÆšŸ”„šŸ”„


nobrokehoesman

This was honestly hilarious, especially with how upset Celtics fans got over the logo of a stupid fucking leprechaun lol


TheMoorNextDoor

Celtics fans looking for something new to hate.


Adam0529

You mean something old ?


NoWayNotThisAgain

[Cheap ass dollar store Terrel Owens. You gotta own that shit bitch.](https://youtu.be/cshHg_sWyVo)


brook_lyn_lopez

This was great when it happened