Interesting

[4everwarriors]

Wow, how y'all doin' today, hey?

[Uncle Rico]

Great, how about you?

[4everwarriors]

Terrific, thanks for axin'. We have 2 Warriors drafted. Recruitin' goin' well. Da Market, sans Walgreens, is kickin' it. Couldn't be better, aina?

[Uncle Rico]

Terrific, thanks for axin'. We have 2 Warriors drafted. Recruitin' goin' well. Da Market, sans Walgreens, is kickin' it. Couldn't be better, aina?

And the Brewers are in first

[MuggsyB]

Wow, how y'all doin' today, hey?

I'm outraged about a wide range of issues. 

[4everwarriors]

Yeah, how 'bout dat chit, hey?

[4everwarriors]

Mugss, watts buggin' you, kin? Talk to me, bro, hey?

[MuggsyB]

Yeah, how 'bout dat chit, hey?

What do we make of this 7'9 Frenchie playing college hoops? 

[Uncle Rico]

What do we make of this 7'9 Frenchie playing college hoops?

French are better at developing basketball players than America.  Our antiquated system of developing athletes is broken and needs to be fixed.

Sadly, dollars are more important than proper development

[4everwarriors]

Easy for the French to invade and conquer, hey?

[Goose]

Another quiet news day, Doc. Nothing to see.

[4everwarriors]

Same old, same old, hey?

[The Sultan]

Excellent! I hope it's quiet and peaceful for everyone. Today's my first day of a week+ vacation.

[rocket surgeon]

Don't know about yous guyses but I'm kinda tired today. Yesterday was a long day and after a week off ya'd think I was all refreshed and ready to go?  Oh well nothing like needing a vacay to recover from a vacay eyna?

[Uncle Rico]

Easy for the French to invade and conquer, hey?

Basketball?  Yeah, I agree.  America is so far behind the development curve, it's disappointing.  We should have put together a developmental system decades ago to mirror what was being done internationally.  Instead, we continue the same old antiquated system and blame AAU, when we haven't presented an alternative.

[Hards Alumni]

Basketball?  Yeah, I agree.  America is so far behind the development curve, it's disappointing.  We should have put together a developmental system decades ago to mirror what was being done internationally.  Instead, we continue the same old antiquated system and blame AAU, when we haven't presented an alternative.

Almost like we, as Americans, never learn from our mistakes?

[4everwarriors]

Maybe this is the wake up call that's long overdue, hey?

[Uncle Rico]

Almost like we, as Americans, never learn from our mistakes?

No nation is prouder of its ignorance.  It's quite the conundrum that a nation as advanced as ours, continues to revel in ignorance and refuses to accept progress

[4everwarriors]

No nation is prouder of its ignorance.  It's quite the conundrum that a nation as advanced as ours, continues to revel in ignorance and refuses to accept progress

Also, its tough to accept reality, even when it smacks you in da kisser, aina?

[4everwarriors]

Excellent! I hope it's quiet and peaceful for everyone. Today's my first day of a week+ vacation.

Oh, is there internet where you're goin', hey?

[MuggsyB]

That sinkhole at that soccer complex in Southern Illinois is worth seeing.  Holy Hell. 

[MuggsyB]

What do Scoopers think about this AI-Gernerated Al Michaels making its debut at the Olympics?

[MuggsyB]

Trudeau is in serious trouble. 

[Uncle Rico]

Also, its tough to accept reality, even when it smacks you in da kisser, aina?

About what?  The ignorance of Americans?  Yes, that reality has always been discouraging.

I blame a lot of things.  Religion, entertainment masquerading as news, jealousy, racism, sexism and poverty among other things.

[jficke13]

What do Scoopers think about this AI-Gernerated Al Michaels making its debut at the Olympics?

it's an atrocity and everyone involved in the decision should be put into stocks in central park and pelted with rotten tomatoes. Al Michaels included for consenting to it.

[jficke13]

That sinkhole at that soccer complex in Southern Illinois is worth seeing.  Holy Hell.

I feel like there's a good joke about a hole being worth seeing in here somewhere...

[MuggsyB]

I feel like there's a good joke about a hole being worth seeing in here somewhere...

I dunno but it was in Robert Wadlow"s hometown.  He was 8'11.  Sad he died so young and didn't hoop. 

[Hards Alumni]

it's an atrocity and everyone involved in the decision should be put into stocks in central park and pelted with rotten tomatoes. Al Michaels included for consenting to it.

Sounds pretty medieval.

[NCMUFan]

That sinkhole at that soccer complex in Southern Illinois is worth seeing.  Holy Hell.

First job out of college was working in the Department of Interior, Bureau of Mines.
That was late 1980s.  Anyway, Southern Illinois have or had underground coal mines.
When they collapse it causes subsidence on the surface.  Not sure this is the case, but that was a big problem down there.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Subsidence
https://www.bnd.com/news/local/article172914011.html

[Skatastrophy]

First job out of college was working in the Department of Interior, Bureau of Mines.
That was late 1980s.  Anyway, Southern Illinois have or had underground coal mines.
When they collapse it causes subsidence on the surface.  Not sure this is the case, but that was a big problem down there.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Subsidence
https://www.bnd.com/news/local/article172914011.html

Oh god here we go. Old man NCMUFan talking about subsidience again.

[Shaka Shart]

I dunno but it was in Robert Wadlow"s hometown.  He was 8'11.  Sad he died so young and didn't hoop.

Greatest athlete tweet of all time

https://x.com/t_rozzay3/status/64889433505284096?s=46&t=G2FhP_F2kWewaBOpvRv5lg

[Shaka Shart]

Oh god here we go. Old man NCMUFan talking about subsidience again.

We know he wants the plantation days back. Just nod and continue

[JWags85]

Greatest athlete tweet of all time

https://x.com/t_rozzay3/status/64889433505284096?s=46&t=G2FhP_F2kWewaBOpvRv5lg

Untouchable.  And also even more hilarious cause it conjures up the image of a super tall lanky 6'8 dude in robes and a turban slicing through the lane.

Not the same, but similar.  My BIL once told me that they had an orthodox guy who used to play with them at the regular Sunday game at their Shul (its a really nice complex in NJ with a great full court, so lots of the guys in the area who used to hoop at a Y or a Equinox or the like in the city would play there, even assorted gentiles).  Anyways, dude used to be a high level prep school hooper who played low level D1 at a smaller school in the Northeast (forgot which one but something like an NEC school) before transitioning to a much more observant Jew in his late 20s.  So you had this 6'4 well built dude absolutely chopping 30s/40s dads up in a long beard, kippah, and tzitzit flowing.

[NCMUFan]

We know he wants the plantation days back. Just nod and continue

Shows how little you know of me and my family.
Paternal grandfather was an Italian immigrant and factory worker.
Maternal grandfather was a Polish immigrant and farmer in northern Michigan.

[Shaka Shart]

Shows how little you know of me and my family.
Paternal grandfather was an Italian immigrant and factory worker.
Maternal grandfather was a Polish immigrant and farmer in northern Michigan.

My apologies, that exempts you from being bigoted since Italians and Polish are famously not that.

[Pakuni]

Shows how little you know of me and my family.
Paternal grandfather was an Italian immigrant and factory worker.
Maternal grandfather was a Polish immigrant and farmer in northern Michigan.

Typical immigrants stealing Black jobs.

[Uncle Rico]

Typical immigrants stealing Black jobs.

Interesting

[NCMUFan]

My apologies, that exempts you from being bigoted since Italians and Polish are famously not that.

Wow, listen to you.

[MuggsyB]

My apologies, that exempts you from being bigoted since Italians and Polish are famously not that.

Unwarranted attack, totally uncalled for, and your post oozes pure hypocrisy. 

[Shaka Shart]

Unwarranted attack, totally uncalled for, and your post oozes pure hypocrisy.

I can say it, I'm Polish

[NCMUFan]

I can say it, I'm Polish

Then so could I. Blah Blah Blah.
Try to add something constructive to the thread instead of hate.

[Shaka Shart]

Then so could I. Blah Blah Blah.
Try to add something constructive to the thread instead of hate.

I apologize for not keeping you entertained on a thread topic that is so important and charged.