Woj: Spurs are hiring Brent Barry, a television analyst and 14-year NBA veteran, into a front-office position, league sources tell ESPN.

Well well. The first year Tony is gone, Brent is hired. Rather interesting.

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Well well. The first year Tony is gone, Brent is hired. Rather interesting.

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:spin

Should replace pop as the head coach!

This is good stuff

welcome back.

Does Tony come back after retirement?

Brent has always been one of my favorite Spurs, and I hated the way he had to leave the organization last time. Will be awesome to have him back in the fold.

Was hoping for some Porker jokes, I'm disappointed.

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Brent has always been one of my favorite Spurs, and I hated the way he had to leave the organization last time. Will be awesome to have him back in the fold.

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He opted out and signed instead with Houston.

The second Parker leaves.

Brent was smart. Even in the aftermath, he was careful to say nothing at all about Tony, and only complementary things about the organization. That'll get you a job down the road.

I'm guessing this means Tony has no interest in a FO position when he retires...

good guy brent barry let the spurs trade him. brent had to sit out 30 days before resigning with the spurs. there's now a rule that would've disallowed that move.

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He opted out and signed instead with Houston.

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Well I know, but that was immediately after the whole Parker thing went down. If not for that, I strongly believe he would have retired a Spur.

lol I think everyone immediately thought Parker.

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good guy brent barry let the spurs trade him. brent had to sit out 30 days before resigning with the spurs. there's now a rule that would've disallowed that move.

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A number of teams had used this gambit, including Dallas actually signing a retired player to a partially guaranteed contract to make salaries work, but it was in the immediate aftermath of the Spurs use of this tactic that it was rendered null and void by the league.

Wow...that's not just some minor position.

Sounds like he's being groomed to take over Pop's job in the front office when Pop decides to retire. Does RC walk when Pop does and then Brent hires the next Spurs GM?

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Wow...that's not just some minor position.

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Not sure it is what it looks like. I remember going through the media guide at one point and SSE had like 15 VPs? It may be that they bumped him into a VP slot to make it harder for someone to poach him away. A team would basically have to offer him full control of bball operations to offer him an upgrade and get automatic permission for an interview. Otherwise, they'd need the Spurs permission.

:lol it was rough 10 years for him, having to avoid Tony while being an NBA analyst. You could tell how much he wanted to be around the spurs but he couldn't cause of what Tony did to him.

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Sounds like he's being groomed to take over Pop's job in the front office when Pop decides to retire. Does RC walk when Pop does and then Brent hires the next Spurs GM?

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Why would you think that Brent wouldn't want RC, if it came to him taking over? I doubt RC's chomping at the bit to retire at 58.

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Why would you think that Brent wouldn't want RC, if it came to him taking over? I doubt RC's chomping at the bit to retire at 58.

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I'd love to keep RC!! If he stays with the Spurs and Brent takes over President of Basketball operations, I'm all for it! Great way to keep the continuity going.

so... TP still gonna retire in a spurs uni? lol

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so... TP still gonna retire in a spurs uni? lol

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I'm not sure that was ever anything other than fan conjecture anyway, but probably no. That jersey retirement is gonna be a bit awkward, also.

San antonio Cucks

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I'm not sure that was ever anything other than fan conjecture anyway, but probably no. That jersey retirement is gonna be a bit awkward, also.

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Well, to be fair, it was more than fan conjecture. Tony said that himself.

And as much tension as there likely is between them, Brent and Tony never let it come out in public. And I doubt Brent would let it get in the way of honoring one of the all-time greats when that time comes. Brent is a big boy.

Funny everyone clicked on the thread with the same thought :lol the second Parker leaves...

Great stuff, glad that Brent is back with that organization. Best news since Porky left tbh.

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Not sure it is what it looks like. I remember going through the media guide at one point and SSE had like 15 VPs?

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Great, so the Spurs are managed by Pierce & Pierce.

Last time I heard Brent speak about the Spurs he specifically had very positive things to say about the "Big Three" and mentioned Tony by name. This year btw. So all that Eva drama didn't seem to mean much to him.

Welcome back BB. Great hire tbh.


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Good move by Spurs but what happens to his job as a television analyst? I always enjoyed his insight on the game like when Steve Kerr was a tv analyst with TNT. Barry has the basketball mind to take over for Pop no doubt.

Great move! Barry's energy and enthusiasm will translate well with this new generation of players.

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Good move by Spurs but what happens to his job as a television analyst? I always enjoyed his insight on the game like when Steve Kerr was a tv analyst with TNT. Barry has the basketball mind to take over for Pop no doubt.

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it'd be cool to see Bones and Manu coaching together

I like it.

The Spurs take care of their guys when they are allowed to do so.....

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Last time I heard Brent speak about the Spurs he specifically had very positive things to say about the "Big Three" and mentioned Tony by name. This year btw. So all that Eva drama didn't seem to mean much to him.

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Yea, he went thru a period where he wouldn't say his name, then he started saying "TP", then he started saying his name eventually, little by little.

i always wanted him to replace shaq on the inside the nba. cool to have him on the staff though. i wonder if manu plans on joining the staff as well.

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Yea, he went thru a period where he wouldn't say his name, then he started saying "TP", then he started saying his name eventually, little by little.

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Inch by inch.

Always liked the dude. My son attended one of his shooting camps. Unlike most NBA stars, he actually stayed the whole time and worked with each kid one on one. I think it was a couple days long and relatively cheap.

Fisher fouled him dammit

Great hire

Excellent timing

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Inch by inch.

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0_o

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Inch by inch.

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You magnificent bastard... An Abbott & Costello reference???

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8KpsUlvzbkk

Wait... this is chicken strips. Probably unintentional.

This has the potential to be a coup. Similar to Kerr, his basketball IQ shone through as a broadcaster (he also had it in spades as a player, but they're not always one and the same). He's the type who came off as likely to be successful whether in the front office or in coaching.

For old time's sake:

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That 2006 Spurs team would have beat the Heat with Shaq, Wade and Zo. It's to bad that Manu foul on Dirk happened.

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That 2006 Spurs team would have beat the Heat with Shaq, Wade and Zo. It's to bad that Manu foul on Dirk happened.

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Agree. That was the Spurs best chance at a threepeat...then The Foul happened. We still would have had to get past a loaded Minny team with Prime KG, Cassell, and Spree...but after that Dallas series, I think we would've gone all the way.

Still...can't be too upset with 5 over 15.

love it- should begin to end the semi-stagnation we are facing w/ the void nephew left. great basketball mind and will influence strategy/remake of the franchise beyond this transition period very well

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Agree. That was the Spurs best chance at a threepeat...then The Foul happened. We still would have had to get past a loaded Minny team with Prime KG, Cassell, and Spree...but after that Dallas series, I think we would've gone all the way.

Still...can't be too upset with 5 over 15.

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No Phoenix was in the WCF that year. The Mavs had to beat Phoenix with Nash to get to the NBA finals. That was Phoenix's best chance to ring and they blew it but I think Nash got injured.

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No Phoenix was in the WCF that year. The Mavs had to beat Phoenix with Nash to get to the NBA finals. That was Phoenix's best chance to ring and they blew it but I think Nash got injured.

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Ah, that's right...I was getting '04 and '06 mixed up.

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A number of teams had used this gambit, including Dallas actually signing a retired player to a partially guaranteed contract to make salaries work, but it was in the immediate aftermath of the Spurs use of this tactic that it was rendered null and void by the league.

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If I remember it right- Jerry Stackhouse was originally part of that trade and he mentioned he is going to rest for 30 days then back to dallas after the trade. but the nba disallowed it. They used retired van horn instead

Going to be a shame losing him from broadcasts. He was one of the few people who was half good at their job.

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That 2006 Spurs team would have beat the Heat with Shaq, Wade and Zo. It's to bad that Manu foul on Dirk happened.

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Agree. That was the Spurs best chance at a threepeat...then The Foul happened. We still would have had to get past a loaded Minny team with Prime KG, Cassell, and Spree...but after that Dallas series, I think we would've gone all the way.

Still...can't be too upset with 5 over 15.

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I swear, that series with the Kings was their achilles heel. It was a physical hard fought series, and it exhausted them. The Kings really took them out of their element. The same thing happened in 08 with New Orleans, and then they lost the next series to the Lakers.

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You magnificent bastard... An Abbott & Costello reference???

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8KpsUlvzbkk

Wait... this is chicken strips. Probably unintentional.

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Ben Dover, I'll show you unintentional.

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Ben Dover, I'll show you unintentional.

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I guess you'll also be showing me the Gay then.
Nice one, chicken strips...

Great news! Brent will be an excellent asset for the Spurs front office and maybe on the bench in the very near future. We've lost almost everyone who was involved in our championships so bringing Marco and Brent back can't hurt.

I'm sure TP is regretting leaving now as he could've stayed in San Antonio to be reunited with his favorite side piece, tbh.

good stuff ... I like Brent!

The excellence of this hire can't be overstated. Great bball mind. Terrific personality. Always felt BB is more than a color analyst.

Did he take Kerr son's role?

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Yea, he went thru a period where he wouldn't say his name, then he started saying "TP", then he started saying his name eventually, little by little.

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Exactly. Was always in control. Very admirable how he handled it. Smart too.

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Did he take Kerr son's role?

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Barry's replacing Monty Williams who was Vice President of Basketball Operations.

Brent and TP handled their issue alot better than Derek Fisher and Matt Barnes, tbh.

Brent Barry comes to the spurs the year after wife porker quits. Coincidence? No.

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Brent and TP handled their issue alot better than Derek Fisher and Matt Barnes, tbh.

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Can't agree more :lol

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Brent and TP handled their issue alot better than Derek Fisher and Matt Barnes, tbh.

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:lol

Glad to see him back with the Spurs. A true Spur through and through.

is this a full time position? if not... give the man a seat next to sean calling games...

Not a spurs fan, but its a solid ass move. I always thought BB had really fucking good NBA analysis.

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Barry's replacing Monty Williams who was Vice President of Basketball Operations.

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Ah ok thank you for the background. Didn’t know Williams had left.

Actually wondering what this position accounts for in the FO hierarchy other than being ‘third-in-line” behind RC and Popovich.

If I had to take a stab it’s to run the behind the scenes, non player operation.. lots of staff positions listed in the Spurs press release.

Always enjoyed Bones when he was with the Spurs & when he was with NBA TV. He will be missed there, but he always seem to have a great BB IQ, & I'm sure that PATFO knows who they are getting. Heard someone say that Bones doesn't have FO experience, but hey, he has to start somewhere, & VPOBO, may be a great place to start. Hey, if Steve Kerr did it at Phoenix, why not Bones? I'm glad that PATO & the Spurs are hiring one of their own, and he's a good choice for this position. Once Pop decides to step down, will this mean that Bones will move into the role of POBO, or will Pop retain that role only? Hmmm... Time will tell... GSG!!!

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tony wasn't with peak back then.

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tony wasn't with peak back then.

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We also don't know if it even happened.

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You forgot him holding the video camera tbh

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That 2006 Spurs team would have beat the Heat with Shaq, Wade and Zo. It's to bad that Manu foul on Dirk happened.

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And the bullshit ticky tack call on Bowen near the end of regulation in Game 4.

Was wondering how long it would take for someone to mention Parker. Literally the post right after the OP.

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And the bullshit ticky tack call on Bowen near the end of regulation in Game 4.

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I will never figure out the league's obsession with trying to f*** us that year. One last match up between shaq and duncan would have been ratings gold. But nooo they wanted Dirk for some reason

2006

This was the last year the NBA seeded the three division champs 1-3.

Meaning the 63 win Spurs had to face the 60 win Mavericks in round two.
Denver had only 44 wins but got the 3rd seed for winning their division.

In today's formatting the Spurs would've gotten the winner of Memphis and Clippers in round two, while Dallas would've battled Nash's Suns in the semis.

I firmly believe 2006 San Antonio was their best team to not ring...better than 2013 even.

PS - this Dallas series was the one with the biased refereeing for the entire freaking series. The NBA did NOT want a repeat of 2005, which it should've been: Spurs Pistons II
And yes...as you can tell I'm still bitter about something that happened 12 years ago.

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2006

This was the last year the NBA seeded the three division champs 1-3.

Meaning the 63 win Spurs had to face the 60 win Mavericks in round two.
Denver had only 44 wins but got the 3rd seed for winning their division.

In today's formatting the Spurs would've gotten the winner of Memphis and Clippers in round two, while Dallas would've battled Nash's Suns in the semis.

I firmly believe 2006 San Antonio was their best team to not ring...better than 2013 even.

PS - this Dallas series was the one with the biased refereeing for the entire freaking series. The NBA did NOT want a repeat of 2005, which it should've been: Spurs Pistons II
And yes...as you can tell I'm still bitter about something that happened 12 years ago.

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I firmly believe 2006 San Antonio was their best team to not ring...better than 2013 even.

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Good question 🤔

Big 3 plus Bruce, Horry, Brent, Finley
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Big 3 plus Kawhitter, Green, Mills, Neal, Tiago, Boris

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Good question 🤔

Big 3 plus Bruce, Horry, Brent, Finley
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Big 3 plus Kawhitter, Green, Mills, Neal, Tiago, Boris

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I thought that too but you could argue, 2005 to 2007 was the only years where you can legit argue the Big 3 were at their primes. Duncan started off the year bad because of plantar but by playoff time he was a Beast. We also shipped in 2005 and 2007 so, 2006 probably was a championship caliber team as well. 2013 was Very good too.

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:lmao but props either way for noticing I included the Peak's

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And the bullshit ticky tack call on Bowen near the end of regulation in Game 4.

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I went back recently and watched all I could find of that series on YouTube. It was amazing how few calls the Spurs were actually getting from the refs in that series. Much different treatment than today’s Warriors receive. No respect for the dynasty in place at the time. You could tell powers that be were accepting the Spurs run through gritted teeth. Even Manu’s foul, though real, might have slipped by if that had been Durant on defense today. The league would have issued an apology for “missing” the call a few days later.

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I went back recently and watched all I could find of that series on YouTube. It was amazing how few calls the Spurs were actually getting from the refs in that series. Much different treatment than today’s Warriors receive. No respect for the dynasty in place at the time. You could tell powers that be were accepting the Spurs run through gritted teeth. Even Manu’s foul, though real, might have slipped by if that had been Durrant on defense today. The league would have issued an apology for “missing” the call a few days later.

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This is where I think the Spurs failed. You're right---Durant would have been given that call. The Warriors would have been treated more fairly. But, why didn't true Spurs ever try to become more marketable? More likeable? They prided themselves on being a boring team.,

Good stuff

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:lol jesus fucking christ, you got me good with that one.

Seriously though, i always loved Brent. One of my fav Spurs from that era, dude was a playoff performer. I really hope it was just sexting and that Tony didn't actually feed Erin his french fry.

Erin was gorgeous, too.

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This is where I think the Spurs failed. You're right---Durant would have been given that call. The Warriors would have been treated more fairly. But, why didn't true Spurs ever try to become more marketable? More likeable? They prided themselves on being a boring team.,

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It works both ways. If the Spurs had tried to become more marketable then whose to say Manu,Parker, and even Duncan's egos don't blow up. They might not have had same type of unity and chemistry that allowed them to stay together long term. I do believe a team like the Warriors will have chemistry problems once they are finally dethroned due to all the big egos they have.

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2006

This was the last year the NBA seeded the three division champs 1-3.

Meaning the 63 win Spurs had to face the 60 win Mavericks in round two.
Denver had only 44 wins but got the 3rd seed for winning their division.

In today's formatting the Spurs would've gotten the winner of Memphis and Clippers in round two, while Dallas would've battled Nash's Suns in the semis.

I firmly believe 2006 San Antonio was their best team to not ring...better than 2013 even.

PS - this Dallas series was the one with the biased refereeing for the entire freaking series. The NBA did NOT want a repeat of 2005, which it should've been: Spurs Pistons II
And yes...as you can tell I'm still bitter about something that happened 12 years ago.

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You are exactly right with this. I'm not ready to let this fade out of my memory either. Most people don't know this anymore (or never did if they are newer fans). The NBA has been so manipulative over the years with ref bias/agenda and their endless new rules. It has cheapened the product greatly which sucks because this is my favorite sport and these are some of the best athletes in the world. Let them fucking play. Jesus.

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I went back recently and watched all I could find of that series on YouTube. It was amazing how few calls the Spurs were actually getting from the refs in that series. Much different treatment than today’s Warriors receive. No respect for the dynasty in place at the time. You could tell powers that be were accepting the Spurs run through gritted teeth. Even Manu’s foul, though real, might have slipped by if that had been Durant on defense today. The league would have issued an apology for “missing” the call a few days later.

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What about Tim Duncan getting hacked on the last play of regulation? Am I remembering that as clearly as I think I am?

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What about Tim Duncan getting hacked on the last play of regulation? Am I remembering that as clearly as I think I am?

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Yeah, Tim got the rebound on Manu’s miss right under the hoop. His putback hit the underside of the rim because his arm was being held down in the front, with Dirk’s elbow on top of Tim’s head from the back. 2 seconds left when he got the ball, point blank range, and he couldn’t shoot because he was being held down. Sad. :pctoss

I can already prepare for the flack I'm going to get posting this but I can understand when people have grown up with the bad habit of exclaiming "Jesus Christ" or "oh my God" or "Go* damn" and theyve done it whole life and are densensitized to it. Yall obviously arent Christian and dont care or realize that you're committing blasphemy (one of 10 commandments) each time u do it but when u actually take the time to type it out thats no accident. Non-believers wont care but for those of us who do its actually offensive and if yall at least consider yourselves"good" people try to avoid it knowing the majority of people do believe.

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I can already prepare for the flack I'm going to get posting this but I can understand when people have grown up with the bad habit of exclaiming "Jesus Christ" or "oh my God" or "Go* damn" and theyve done it whole life and are densensitized to it. Yall obviously arent Christian and dont care or realize that you're committing blasphemy (one of 10 commandments) each time u do it but when u actually take the time to type it out thats no accident. Non-believers wont care but for those of us who do its actually offensive and if yall at least consider yourselves"good" people try to avoid it knowing the majority of people do believe.

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Thanks for posting.

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I can already prepare for the flack I'm going to get posting this but I can understand when people have grown up with the bad habit of exclaiming "Jesus Christ" or "oh my God" or "Go* damn" and theyve done it whole life and are densensitized to it. Yall obviously arent Christian and dont care or realize that you're committing blasphemy (one of 10 commandments) each time u do it but when u actually take the time to type it out thats no accident. Non-believers wont care but for those of us who do its actually offensive and if yall at least consider yourselves"good" people try to avoid it knowing the majority of people do believe.

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Oh my fucking god are you serious? Jesus christ that is such a weak thing to get offended over. Get over your god damn self, tbh.

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I can already prepare for the flack I'm going to get posting this but I can understand when people have grown up with the bad habit of exclaiming "Jesus Christ" or "oh my God" or "Go* damn" and theyve done it whole life and are densensitized to it. Yall obviously arent Christian and dont care or realize that you're committing blasphemy (one of 10 commandments) each time u do it but when u actually take the time to type it out thats no accident. Non-believers wont care but for those of us who do its actually offensive and if yall at least consider yourselves"good" people try to avoid it knowing the majority of people do believe.

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Lol gods not real dummy. Are you 5?

Your response makes u sound 5 that yall cant show the basest form of human respect that most educated atheists show. Why dont u ask triple doctorate John Lennox who's 74

Well fkla one day u wont be able to say i didn't warn u...it aint bout me just trying to do yall a favor