Chandler Parsons: “Kids aren’t going to All-Star Weekend to watch Josh Giddey play basketball”. Michelle Beadle: “I bet one kid is. It’s in LA”.
giddey is averaging a 20 point triple double and is getting dunked on by “chandler parsons”
NBA discourse sucks.
NBA discourse sucks because most of the ex-players involved are dumber than shit. Even ones I thought were smart at one point, like Channing Frye asking Pablo Torre why he was snitching. They don’t wanna talk ball, they wanna shit on the current league and make it sound like they were tougher & better than they were.
I mean seriously. Who the fuck wants to listen to anything the Morrii say. Do they have anything to contribute about ball or just pairs of brothers they think they could beat up.
“The Morrii” is fucking hilarious.
I’m sure they have a part in Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar as the dumb fucks who die first in the Battle of Philippi.
Yeah, unfortunately the actually smart players go off and do much better things with their lives, because they can, and don’t have to settle for Talking Head.
Are you saying Tim Duncan living peacefully near the water & swimming in his free time, is happier than Kendrick Le’Dale “Have A Perk” Perkins?
To be fair, TD is one of the few NBA players who graduated from college before entering the league
Is he using that Psych BA though?
he used that shit to fuck with KG’s head
Also one of the only retired players with more hair than he left with lmao
IMO this breed of discourse has trickled into every professional sport.
Former Soccer and Hockey players turned pundit are actually much worse than ex-hoopers
Except baseball!!
Just watch literal all time greats like Arod, Ortiz, and Jeter cover the last two World Series.
These are guys who played some of the best and are some of the best, and they’re giving the current guys their flowers and agreeing on Ohtani being the goat.
Even better, they admit their mistakes like Jeter claiming Yamamoto couldn’t pitch a complete game back to back which Yamamoto immediately did. Jeter admits he was wrong and how amazing Yama is while comparing him to fucking Randy Johnson.
Can only speak for hockey. The ex-player talking heads, at least on the Canadian broadcasts, are solid. What I’ve seen of the American shows is appallingly bad.
On second thought, TNT’s coverage is alright. ESPN’s I take great offense to.
I’m just getting in to hockey and I thoroughly enjoyed the talking heads.
I saw a funny clip where Gretzky talked about Ovechkin breaking his goal record, he was giving him absolute praise for his greatness. Then it cut to Shaq talking about how he’d put Jokic in a body bag, and that he’s not half the dominant center he was.
You don’t believe some random bench player from the 1994 Washington Bullets when he says he would “average 50, easy” with today’s rules?
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There’s a lot of dumb but positive discourse out there, but most of this NBA crap is dumb and negative.
Amazon’s coverage has been great so far with Blake Griffin, Dirk, Steve Nash, and UD. Pretty much the only good basketball coverage by ex players that revolves around the actual game outside of a half segment a week on Inside.
Most of the ex-nfl players suck too they just want ex players to say stupid shit so it makes someone’s tik tok reel. News organizations don’t wanna pay real journalists because they don’t have the instagram followers.
This will be the most talked about thing on here today. I blame the shitass fans. They propagate it.
Exactly. This thread has over 600 comments and isn’t even up for an hour. I know I’m only further contributing to its engagement numbers but this sub needs to develop some self awareness at least.
Its actually all the bitter old players
Absolutely not, us redditors just don’t love the game like we used to
I hate the “kids don’t want to see this guy who doesn’t dunk” mentality of NBA media. Same people who say “Jokic is boring to watch” so and so shouldn’t win whatever award because they’re not famous enough.
Why’s he acting like Australia is an obscure territory at the edge of civilization. They’ve got basketball players. People know about Giddey and they knew about Ben Simmons.
If they’re hawks fans they know about Dyson Daniels
And they’re gonna know about Dash in due time
Olympic bronze medallist in Tokyo, beating a doncic-led Slovenia. Not like our team is full of scrubs.
Not even trying to be biased here but why is Chandler Parsons acting like Giddey isn’t 10x better than he ever was already? Parsons got a bag getting spoon fed by James Harden and then gave up on basketball, why is he even getting screen time?
Did Chandler say he was better than Giddey? Why is this retort always brought up when a past player analyzes / critiques someone? You don’t have to physically be better at doing something to coach or analyze it.
Apparently you can’t say anything bad about someone who is 10 times better than you
If it was true then nobody on this sub could hate or criticize any player
Tbf, I 100% guarantee you that at least one active NBA player posts here anonymously. Probably more than several tbh.
KD
Do you not think his name is Chandler Parsons?
Lmao, the jury’s still out on it!
A guy who’s biggest basketball claim to fame is getting into a bad car accident
like what’re we doing here
Genuinely the biggest association with him is getting the bag and doing fuck all, this dude really has no shame lol
Jesus
You said it, man.
Don’t fuck with the Giddy (especially if you’re a kiddy.)
What’s this day of rest shit?
Shomer fucking shabbos
That creep can dribble, dude.
8 year olds Dude.
Walter, what’s a pederast?
Shut the FUCK up, Donnie!
VLADIMIR ILYICH ULYANOV
Mark it (under) eight(teen)
Dios Mio man.
Had to check what sub I was in.
He did 8 years in Chicago for exposing himself to a minor, dude
Yes? My name’s Jesus. From Mexico. You called my name?
Hola
Damn, Michelle!
Straight to nbacj HOF
This is an amazing candidate for JOTY.
we stay getting out jerked
This is also an OG jerk, none of the WNBA thots refugee type jerks.
challenging gender norms tbh, you rarely see women in media make these type of jokes
Chandler threw the lob, the follow through was immaculate.
Outjerked.
It’s funny because she ain’t even mean it like that but boogey for sure took it like that
She 100% meant it like that. The rest was a pivot for plausible deniability
The way she IMMEDIATELY looked to the side to make sure Boogie and Lou got it, yeah, 100% on purpose.
Beadle has always been a shit talker. I would bet money that she meant it like that.
Yea every video clip i saw from her she is def quick thinker. Im kinda sad she is on this show instead of some bigger production. She is probably best woman host (or whatever they call her job) in NBA.
Im talking about clips i watch tho lol. I dont watch full shows
Edit: Its 10 games and what a stupid take from Chandler. Like wtf is even point of talking that. Majority of nba media clowns
No that’s an apt description of her. Definitely has comedic quick wit. And doesn’t always censor herself, which allows for clips like this to exist lol.
Both are among the reasons she’s no longer with ESPN. Cardboard Greeny can’t have someone like Beadle outshining him as a flagship morning show cohost.
She definitely meant it like that.
You usually don’t cut someone off while they’re talking to say something like that, if its just a normal follow up to the conversation. That’s not how people talk, especially media personalities who are used to naturally flowing conversations.
Boogie picked up exactly what she was putting down.
This is partly why someone with her skillset isn’t on a major network. She will absolutely nuke shit.
I keep rewinding to Boogie’s reaction
The moment of disbelief before he starts laughing.
Bang Beadle Bang
This went way over my head. Can someone explain it? I thought she was saying because Australia is closer to other major US cities.
It might be in reference to a high school girl he allegedly hooked up with.
and by allegedly you mean definitely with 200 different versions of proof posted
you mean the proof showing that she used a fake ID to get into a club that only allowed people 18+?
then the proof showing her and her brother both lying about her age?
then the parents refusing to prosecute a very rich athlete because they knew their case wouldn’t hold up in court?
I think any athlete should be extremely cautious about who they hook up with but it’s entirely reasonable for him to not have known her age, considering the circumstances, it’s most likely that he’s just dumb, not a p*do
He was also 19 and she was 17. He needs to be more careful, obviously, but the way people talk about it is wild.
Never understood how thats the older person’s fault if they are lying about their age, especially if they showed fake id to get into an 18+ place.
Honestly i try to put myself in the situation
im in a bar that requires you to be over 18, I’m approached by a beautiful Woman….im probably not asking for ID
And i don’t know, maybe I should - but i recognize what my actual thought process would be in that situation
And then realized how fucked you are because she had a fake ID to begin with because that was how she got into the place.
Right, everyone who was coming down the mountain for Giddey will stfu real quick if you just ask them to walk you through how he should have handled the situation. Oh he should ask her age, what if she lies? Oh he should ask for ID, what if she used a fake to get in? Oh he should run some BG checks on the spot maybe hire some detectives, throw on a lie detector, like what kind of psycho do you have to be to think that’s a reasonable expectation for human interaction?
He probably banged her, there’s no indication he knew she wasn’t legal and plenty of reason for him to have assumed she was (enough to have probably cleared any legal liability) and he was barely anything but a kid himself at that point. If there was any evidence to the contrary then I - a complete stranger - would have wanted him prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law, and so presumably would the girl’s parents. They didn’t pursue it at all, so either there was a huge payout and coverup and we think that there’s a number that the girl’s parents would have accepted to have their daughter raped which is WILD, or they talked to their daughter and found out she went and banged a guy and now reddit was ruining her life, and tried to shut down the whole story.
The only clear and indefensible scumbag in the entire story is reddit weirdos who destroyed the girl’s life.
Obviously you need to start carrying around your own ID-verifying machine or similar with you, to stay safe. Preferably industrial grade
I mean cmon, this is a very simple solution here
I radiocarbon date all of my lady isotopes
i would never ask for id that is weirdo behaviour at a bar.
Exactly, then they just show you their fake anyway lol. You gotta have an id scanner on you lol
I permanently wear a chastity belt with a built-in id scanner that only unlocks once the ID is verified. Stay safe out there, bros.
But that would require Redditors to go out of their parent’s basement. And talk to a girl. In a bar. That’s too wild for Reddit.
I think it depends on how old the older person is. It’s a reasonable defense for 19 year old Giddey but wouldn’t be for a 30 year old.
Its the same defense, she lied multiple times to get into a place that was not supposed to be for Minors. Its not his job to start looking at the ID of every girl he talks to in there.
Even if he did…you mean the ID that got past the bouncers at the club? He’s supposed to suss that out? Most fakes scan nowadays, I mean come on.
In europe that would be perfectly normal
It is normal in America too, but giddy is an nba player, and nba loves gossip more than basketball.
I think in general it’d be considered normal generally here too. Your college friends might give you shit for dating a high school girl, but people date others who are two grades younger than them (especially as teenagers) regularly.
19 on 17 is common enough here too. A little embarrassing for the 19 year old maybe but not unheard of.
hell, I turned 19 near the end of my high school senior year, and people in the grade below me were 17-18. There is not a single person in the world who could possibly convince me that I’m a bad person for being attracted to people within a single school year of me.
Yeah I find people using “pedo” to describe two (late) teenagers hooking up strange.
it’s just the thing these days. people will always latch on to something where there’s a mob mentality and they get to be part of the in group not the out group. after all, who wants to put themselves out there and risk getting labeled as a “pedo defender”. it’s why congress and state governments can push awful legislation through in the name of “protecting the children”. we’ve just really jumped the shark on this topic and it’s hard to rein it in now.
and to be clear, pedophilia is problematic. but a 17 year and a 19 year old hooking up isn’t pedophilia. and neither is drag queen story time.
OP isn’t taking a stance on if he knowingly committed statutory rape. He is just saying there’s evidence that he did, in fact, hook up with an underage girl, even if he didn’t know and/or was tricked.
Eh, situations like this deserve context. Just saying “There is evidence he did hook up with an underage girl” is pretty a damning statement until context is provided.
Obviously nobody wants to defend Karl Malone, but when the context like a 19 year old being blatantly misled is also evident, it deserves the context.
Also 19⁄17 shouldn’t even really be a story…
Lots of states have “Romeo and Juliet” laws for this sort of stuff.
I’m from Georgia and there was a famous case of Genarlow Wilson. He was 17 and consentually engaged in oral sex with 15 year old girl.
The catch was that there was an existing legal carve out for for teens near the same age to engage in vaginal sex and it’s legal. But since it was oral sex it was still considered criminal. Yeah idiotic but that was the letter of the law. He was conviced and sentenced to 10 years.
He ended up serving 2-3 years before he was able to get released on appeal but as you can imagine, that was a huge impact to his life.
Yea but some shit is disingenuous to just say in a vacuum.
Its like saying “yeah X killed someone” when it was him shooting an armed gunman in his home. Sure he did just kill someone, but we all understand how communication works so just saying they killed someone implies a different story than what occurred.
Exactly. That proof!
There was literally no proof of that. You are making this up. I’m not picking a side here. But there is no proof about anything regarding her faking an ID and meeting Giddey there by chance.
Yes bro people always parrot this narrative when I’ve never seen a single source on it besides Andre Bogut who is an incredibly unreliable source
“Allegedly… but also really.”
RIP Norm, dude was so damn funny.
Wait, he died?
4 years ago from cancer. Only those close to him knew he was going downhill. He never made it public.
“I didnt know he was sick” was a set up. The punchline is Norm checking out.
Proof that she used a fake ID to get into a 18+ club and Giddey did nothing wrong but is now called a pedo? But the actual pedo in the whitehouse isn’t.
It’s a mad mad world.
I feel like most people calling Giddey a pedo would call Trump a pedo as well
I feel like you’re assuming their view of Trump a little
their view has no bearing on the fact that Trump is a rapist pedophile
Don’t forget to mention they met at a 18+ place where she lied to get in and lied to him.
Well an 18+ place, Giddey was only 19 at the time iirc
18+, giddey was 19 at the time
17 year girl that snuck into an 18+ bar when Giddey had barely turned 19…Can’t believe your comment is the most upvoted.
The weird part about the joke is that girl is 19 or 20 by now
and is Michelle insinuating that the girl would want to watch Josh play?
I’m so confused.
Imo, I dont think she means it the way the rest of us do…think she whole heartedly meant that some Australian kid out there is rooting for JG
But wileys(*boogies) reaction is definitely us.
*sorry, its boogie hard to see who it was on my phone
That’s Demarcus Cousins not Marcellus Wiley
Nah, the Australia part was just a very quick thinking cover up. She meant it the way we heard it lol.
I rewatched it and you’re 100% right she realized she needed a cover real quick. If Demarcus and Lou didn’t laugh as much as they did I don’t think she would’ve said anything after “I bet one is”
There was an investigation into whether he was in a relationship with someone underage in California. Was never charged, no one really knows the extent of it.
Because the girl refused to testify. So its hard to have a case, when the minor doesnt want to speak to the police. So there is no case.
it was such a weird news story, it stayed hot because for whatever reason people get their rocks off at the idea of calling someone a pedo… while also looking to doxx the minor in question
Everyone knows the extent of it lol.
They met at an 18+ club in Newport Beach, CA (she was 16 going on 17, had a fake ID to enter) while he was 19. His agent lives in Newport Beach (ritzy area, like the Beverly Hills of Orange County sorta) and he used to train/vacation here in the off-season. For ex. homes range from ~\(3m on the low end, to \)80m+ depending on the neighborhood.
He assumed she was 18+ due to being in said club
They left together and hooked up
She posted on social media a photo of her with Giddey behind her and titled it “I just fucked Josh Giddey”
All her highschool friends that saw the post put Giddey on blast and telling the world she was actually 16 (although I see a lot say 17 now, but in the local subreddit some people shared ALL her info and doxxed her, she was like a month away from 17 iirc)
Newport PD begins investigation.
Her family isn’t necessarily rich rich, but very firmly upperclass, probably didn’t want to deal with the drama and wouldn’t benefit from any settlement as they were already borderline wealthy or at least well-off.
Family refuses to cooperate because they know she lied to get into the club, and while he most definitely did have sex with her, it was under false pretenses because she lied about her age. They want it to go away, so they just stop talking to police.
Newport PD drops the case due to “lack of evidence to corroborate any criminal wrongdoing” basically “we know they had a sexual interaction, but we can’t find any proof he knew she was underage”
IIRC, didn’t she say she was 21 and meet him at a 21 and older type of place? I don’t think he knowingly did anything untoward.
He met her at a club that was 18+ so yea, she likely had a fake ID
His high school girlfriend is from California
Demarcus can’t believe it
Lou Will doing the Birdman hands while staring straight forward trying to stay professional too lmao
Ref about to come outta nowhere and RKO him with a tech
I can’t recognize Chandler without crutches.
Okay it is funny lol. But as a reporter these kinds of jokes are incredibly damaging especially to impressionable younger people.
Giddey isn’t a predator. And it’s not really cool for actual media to be making these jokes
She was being genuine. That doesn’t change the fact that what she said was hilarious.
yeah but like, there has to be a better joke to make than ‘he was called a predator 1 time even though he was proven mostly innocent, let’s run with it’
I agree. Especially because in that situation once you make the joke you can’t add further context and be like “its all a joke, Giddey is a good guy and it was misrepresented”
She’s not a reporter.
I’ve I’m Josh giddy. I’m telling these bums to lawyer up.
There was nothing outright defamatory said. Case tossed
Apparently rape by deception isn’t a crime to these folks
Outjerked by Michelle Beadle!
Not the first time. She also mispronounced the Denver Nuggets one time
That’s the same woman? 😭
How do you fuck that one up?
She somehow changed the U in nuggets to an I
Ain’t no way
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DCKJSBSPcbI/?=cXMwdGpuM3NubTVr
You’re welcome to see for yourself
That made me lol
People know who Giddey is, no? He’s been balling on the bulls the back half of last year and continues to do the same this year.
With that said what a wild joke to make.
He was known by the time okc dealt him
For sure but he wasn’t putting up the same numbers or anywhere close to them as he is now.
Isn’t it kinda fucked up for a reporter to be making this joke?
Tbf she’s not really a reporter, more of a presenter on this show. Also, how’s this any different from something Chuck, Shaq or Kenny would say?
Easy, women can’t be funny. Duh
It’s not but this sub loves their bullshit because chuck sometimes says something funny
There’s a difference between a joke calling someone fat and calling some a pedo the difference of gravity is obvious ….
You’re naive if you think Chuck wouldn’t make the same type of joke
Has he ever once said that about Karl Malone?
Look at the types of things the president says on TV. Decorum is long dead man.
Oh no! Please won’t someone think of the poor NBA player who was doing weird shit with an underage girl?
If you watch the clip, she didn’t make this joke. Cousins laughs at her like she did, but she didn’t. She even asks him why he’s laughing at the end. Everyone in this thread is acting like she’s tough for this, but it was accidentally funny. Not intentional.
Not at all, she is punching up not down
Still hilarious
Chandler Parsons should retire from basketball commentary.
Clown-like take. It’s like he had to say something to fill the empty air, and the dumbest possible thing he could spit made its way out of his mouth. What a weirdo.
Kinda weird to complain about the international squad…joker Giannis Wemby SGA…that team will crush the US teams.
My god yall are soft, that was solid fckin joke lmao
this is such a lame ass mentality. idk where or why this became so popular. “its a joke so you have to only give positive or no responses”
bet there’s plenty of “jokes” that have bothered you at some point.
Idk man I don’t think its soft to not like media calling someone a pedophile when they aren’t one, deliberate joke or not lol
Dude the joke implies he is a pedophile. That’s something fist fight worthy if it was said during a face to face interaction.
“No one is tuning in to watch the best player on a good team from the third biggest media market” is such a dumb take.
Who’s tuning in to watch Michelle Beadle and Chandler Parsons?
Straight for the jugular.
10⁄10.
The instant laugh she got as well.
Fuck Chandler Parsons. Idk why anyone takes anything this douche canoe says seriously.
Aside from the joke, I don’t think it’s true that no one would care about Giddey in the All Star weekend. A young, exciting star in a successful Bulls team? I think a lot of fans will be excited to watch him.
As an Australian I’m surprised by how angry this has made me lol, all I can think for someone to have this take is do some Americans resent the game becoming global or something?
So… he’s saying people wouldn’t want to see one of the best passers in the league out there passing the ball to some of the leagues biggest stars? Dumbass take
I’m confused, does Chandler Parsons think that name recognition is what should drive All-Star appearances?
Giddey is absolutely cooking this year, so we should ignore it because his name isn’t Luka Dončić?
That being said, Beadle might get a defamation suit slapped on her lmao yikes
Why would anyone tune in to watch this…? NBA discourse is terrible. Guy is playing legitimately well and making the Bulls relevant to start the year but let’s talk about allegations that were proven to be incorrect.
Because all media figured out that hate drives viewership more than anything else.
Look at the comments here lol. The humor of it is more important than media professionalism and they use Trump of all people to indicate this is acceptable behavior because he’s worse.
The bar is at the absolute floor.
Can’t believe these bums get paid. Bitch ass chandler parsons
Dude nba media is trash. Number one highlight last week was Giddey getting hurt. I guess we make fun of players for getting hurt now? Nice precedent to set.
Fucking ass league full of illegal betters playing the part of hoopers, with a bunch of idiotic media personalities who are on the Fanduel payroll.
The real jerk here is Parsons assuming anyone actually watches all star weekend.
r/nbacirclejerk leaking
Fuck took me longer than it should’ve lmfao
NBA talking head space is so shit. Cant believe i’m excited about something amazon is doing about it
Exactly what’s wrong with NBA coverage in one clip
Lol she’s quick
There was a 2 year age difference when this all went down, I’ll never understand the hate Giddey gets for this. People act like he was 30 dating a 17 year old
Bro the whole point of the all star game is to have the best performing players play each other. How an above average player at best going to punch up like this
Irrelevant players talking crap about relevant players is the NBA journalistic standard I guess
Does Parsons not watch basketball? Giddey is deserving of an all star selection regardless of the format. He’s insufferable
parsons is such a jackass
this is the reason why fans end up hating on players that are doing well. I’m no fan of giddey, but if he’s playing like an allstar then he’s an allstar, and should be highlighted for his play.
the nba media/marketting has fallen off a cliff, instead of promoting their good players and setting up the league for continued prosperity, they cling on to the old guard like a crazed mother.
it’s still early, but i haven’t seen the media hyping up guys like maxey, talking about how great of a story kalkbrenner has been, jalen johnson emerging as a star, keyonte george even, the greatness of this yrs rookie class. It’s the same rehashed nonsense, and shitting on players if theyre not already established stars. but goddamn, the nba has to do some reflection and come to terms with the horrid media angles, instead of diving into more gambling ads. the coverage by nbc has been much better already, and hopefully trends in the direction of giving players props instead of shitting on them because theyre not lebron, or steph
This hot take BS has ruined sports coverage on TV.
fuck Chandler Parsons.