Chuck says the Spurs won't get to the Finals

[mclinejr]

I just re-watched that segment. Even Shaq disagreed with Chuck.

Regardless, Chuck is an asshole. Disregard his crappy commentary.

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LaRue Martin was selected No. 1 overall by the Portland Trail Blazers in the 1972 NBA Draft. During his four years with Portland, Martin averaged just 4.4 points per game, the lowest of any former NBA No. 1 pick. He was benched after his second year with the team, soon becoming a role player with minimal impact on the game. Martin was eventually traded to the Seattle Supersonics, followed by an immediate retirement from the NBA.

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LaRue Martin was selected No. 1 overall by the Portland Trail Blazers in the 1972 NBA Draft. During his four years with Portland, Martin averaged just 4.4 points per game, the lowest of any former NBA No. 1 pick. He was benched after his second year with the team, soon becoming a role player with minimal impact on the game. Martin was eventually traded to the Seattle Supersonics, followed by an immediate retirement from the NBA.

[Sybok]

This is what I was referring too. What does being black and poor have to do with winning the genetic lottery. If both of your parents are tall, then you have a good chance of winning the genetic lottery. It has nothing to do with race or income. If anything, kids coming from wealthier families have a better chance at making the NBA.

Genetics don't just affect physical size and athleticism. They also affect mental and psychological growth. Then there's the genetic lottery where you were born wealthy. Let's be honest, it cannot be much easier for a poor person raised by a single mom to become a millionaire than for a rich person who was raised by both parents, who has a trust fund, who got college paid for, who attended a prep school, who was groomed into a upper management position by associates of dad or the grand father. We consider those people to be hard workers and intellectually gifted, but one lottery is just as lucky as the next, and without all that support, they might be just a drug addict (some become that anyhow).

LeBron isn't your everyday NBA player. He was hyped up by the media, because they were desperate for another MJ.

If you've ever gone to school with a guy who was highly recruited for college ball you'd know that they get treated differently by the teachers and by just about everyone else they know who knows they might be millionaires in the future. It's not just Lebron.

Huh? That's what I'm saying about NBA players.

Name some really dumb NBA players who were raised in middle class families.

Maybe I'm misunderstanding you and we actually agree.

Probably and probably not.

[Spurcase]

Of course Charles is knowledgeable about basketball. However the most knowledgeable person in the world cannot analyze a specific team without watching more than a handful of games. Otherwise they fall back on trite, out of date information.

We see it all the time from fans. There are still fans who when they describe the Spurs are describing the Spurs of 2005. They have no idea that the Spurs are no longer the half court slow it down team that runs its offense through Duncan. It is only this season after last year's finals that many fans have caught up.

Charles is not as clueless as a lot of fans, but he often makes statements that do not fit the current team.

[aal04]

Well I agree.

I give us 80pc chance to beat everytime bar

Houston - 60% chance to win.
OKC - 33% chance to win.

[SpurPadre]

They stopped short of calling him an idiot but I wouldn't say they didn't call him out. They were all pretty much laughing at him.

Same old story from spurs fans

someone doesn't love the spurs the spurs don't get no respect ...year after year after year after year after year...

Whatever dude, I was merely making an observation. But keep thinking you're cool and edgy because you're using the crying emoticon. Lol, what a rebel!

[jARS mEsH sEt]

He's right. Parker's playing like . Manu is the same tired old bag he's always been. The only dependable people on our team are Duncan and Leonard.

[maverick1948]

Note to Sir Charles"

Spurs are 62-18 overall 38-12 against the Western Conf. 32-8 at home 30-10 on the road. 31-16 against team above .500 (BEST in the league) Also, just for fun, the Spurs are 31-7 on back to back games. Oh yes, they are 31-2 against teams under .500.

OLD SPURS ARE NOT DONE.

[Trainwreck2100]

Which wouldn't have occurred if the 80s had today's media coverage, where Dad Killer could have never been marketed if the public knew how much of a piece of he is in real life..

Bull people like backing winners help them forget their ty lives and jordan delivered 6 times. Same reason nobody cares about hgh collusion

[TampaDude]

Chris Paul was genetically gifted but also a hard worker and no idiot. His brother Cliff though worked his way up through insurance seminars and became a big agent. They are twins. One isn't more gifted than the other, they just chose different ways to serve the white man.

Made my day, thanks!

[LkrFan]

Ruthless.

[wildchild]

90% of them would either be dead, in jail or working a minimum wage job without their genes, obviously..

"Most NBA players are stupid" is oversimplified generalization about those players.
Some former NBA players are smart coaches, executives and businessmen. Martin, Bill Bradley, Kevin Johnson, Jamal Mashburn, Larry, Doc, Phil, etc, but if we accept this assumption about stupidity as true, the problem runs deeper than that.

Sadly, education and college degrees could be the least valued in society. If we ask some children who they idolize or who are their role models, they'll answer with their favorite reality star, rappers, fashion model, etc. They won't answer about hard working people, or Nobel Prize winners.

The youth love those guys because they're the example of success in our communities. Make easy/quick money, luxury and ostentation, show have big money in every imaginable way.
It's human nature to look up to someone that you find inspirational, especially while at a young age, and many of us know teens who think it's okay to emulate the reality stars, emulate guys who use drugs and alcohol to escape life challenges.

Why the NBA players should be different from the rest of society?
Like many kids in these times, they have grow up without strong parent's presence, living in a society where make easy/quick money is the only goal, in a society in which selfishness -instead of solidarity- and consumerism are rife, etc.
I don't know, but as part of this society, it's not uncommon to blame others for our own mistakes.

[Brunodf]

Good, the odds are in our favor now

Bump

[ducks]

lol at saying heat in 5 barkley

[Beaverfuzz]

hahahaha

[703 Spurz]

I have to admit that I agree with him.

You and him are the opposite of smart tbh.