Genghis Khan
The worst version of myself
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RIP Darryl Dawkins and Moses Malone.
Cardiovascular disease.What did he die from?
Media days typically include talk of change and championships, particularly for a team the front office kept intact to contend for an NBA title. Instead, Chicago heard loudest from one of its most enigmatic athletes ever. Rose came across as a tone-deaf millionaire worried about feeding his family with his next big payday still two years away.
Longer hair and a thin beard gave Rose a slightly different look. Unfortunately, he sounded the same. There isn't an NBA defender that gives Rose more trouble than a microphone.
For the record, Rose brought up the topic of 2017 free agency himself, unsolicited, answering a question about whether he had moved on mentally since an ex-girlfriend filed a lawsuit in Los Angeles alleging he and two friends sexually assaulted her.
"I'm trying to prepare myself and my family," Rose said, referring to NBA salary-cap increases beginning in 2016-17. "It's all for my son, even though we're comfortable. You talk about 'X' amount of dollars, it raised everybody's eyebrows. There's nothing wrong with being overprepared."
Maybe he is bisexual.This isn't even getting into the fact that he admitted to having group sex with his ex-girlfriend/sidepiece/whatever and several of his male friends. Lord even knows why this guy feels the need to share girls and engage in group sex with a bunch of dudes, no matter how close they are, but what the F ever.
Listening to the radio at work yesterday on 3 different shows the hosts/analysts made similar comments. They basically said that he's not an intelligent person. They weren't doing the Cowherd thing where he throws "hot takes" out just to rile people up and get a reaction. These were just casual discussions on the latest Rose issues, and each of them came to the conclusion that he's just not a very bright man. They weren't trying to be mean spirited. They were just calling it how they saw it.The guy is just weird as fuck. I overlooked it when he was 19-23ish (and playing dominant basketball), brushing it off as immaturity and the fact that he just doesn't seem like a generally intelligent person, but the guy is now 26 going on 27 and it seems like he has lived his entire life inside a bubble. It's like he's lived his entire life doing nothing but playing basketball and being completely shielded from the world by a co-dependent group of hanger-ons consisting of his brothers and a few childhood friends. It seems like he's incapable of being his own man and forming/acting on his own independent thoughts.
I think we are a year away from that.I'm watching the Sixers and Wizards on NBATV....Okafor looks very good on the offensive end. He's 6/7 shooting so far.
Would be nice if the Sixers actually tried to win this year so we can gauge how good the players are.