Jalen Williams says he watched “The Town” instead of the NBA Cup Finals last night
Joe Mazzulla would like to know your location
Pick a random deserted court somewhere. Make both teams get on a plane with no idea where they’re going. Drive them to the location in windowless vans. Just a couple cameras refs and the players. No crowd. No bright lights. No mega scoreboards. No player intros and fireworks. Just a black top, chain nets, and love of the game.
With how often NBA players fall down, they would be literally skinned alive playing on blacktop.
The cure to flopping
Will be stunning for everybody to see how good the balance is for these elite athletes when they know that falling will hurt.
Or we’d just see a ton of injuries
Unless we put everyone in football pads…
That’s where the shooting sleeves and leg sleeves come into play! They can cover their entire bodies in compression gear to protect their skin!
feels like the beginning of a New NBA Street game
Nba Street 5 Lockdown. Only on the Ps2.
If it’s as good as Vol. 2, I’d still buy it
I will 100000% buy a new PS2 for it.
so the final episodes of blue mountain state lol
Inc trade to BOS.
Joe Mazzulla “IDK there is just something about that kid just cant put my finger on it”
“One of us, one of us, one of us!”
They should rob a bank together.
Whose cah we gonna take?
As if mazzulla doesn’t already know where everyone watching The Town is
Driving around downtown OKC, begging (thru text) for J Wills location
Incoming trade demands from Joe Mazzulla
Jaylen Brown for Jalen Williams.
/s.
We should get both Guys in our team. I have 7 Dollars and a Firm Handshake, also let’s throw Wemby in there
Silver is saving this for the 2026 All-Star game: Team Jalen vs Team Nikola
Honestly not a terrible team
Starters Jaylen Brown, Jalen Williams, Jalen Brunson, Jalen Duren, Jaylon Tyson Bench: Jalen Green, Jaylen Wells
They’d smash Jokic/Jovic/Topic/Vuc
We’d also give them Nickeil Alexander-Walker, Nick Richards, Nic Claxton, Nicolas Batum, and possibly a few New York Knicks.
Meanwhile in Boston, Mazzulla just barged into Stevens’ office asking for a trade to be arranged
something something anfernee simons
and millions of dollars and a few first round picks
J dub for Jordan Walsh, who says no?
I feel like outside of film and the finals most players don’t watch NBA games like that
That’s just the new generation. Dame talked about this on Redick’s podcast several years ago. That it worried him how the young guys didn’t watch ball like his generation did. I’m positive guys like LeBron, Dame, KD and such do watch a lot of basketball.
Meh, I think some stars like LeBron are just sports fans in general and watch lots of sports but KD is the only superstar that I feel 100% is a hoophead of the highest order.
KD undoubtedly upvoted this comment.
KD wrote that comment, and then logged in on his other phone to like it too.
KD ultimate hooper / twitter head
Bron Definitely is, he talks about it whenever he’s asked. Pretty outspoken that he loves just watching hoops no matter the level. Even on the pod w KD they agreed Abt it. He just also likes football a lot
Bron is the reason why streameast went down. As a Celtics fan, it’s the most heinous act of his career.
For those in the know its still up brother.
Mind DM’ing me the insider-y info, friend? I’ve been struggling
Just hit you up.
Its still up
Jamal Crawford was a legendary League Pass consumer. He would watch games as much as he could during his down time.
The new generation has a screen on their phone, their watch, and in their home, has access to everything watches clips of everything but never watches anything.
100%. I also think in a weird way a lot of them have had too much basketball in their lives (AAU games, practices, high schools, other tourneys etc) that more of their down time is spent away from the game.
“Old Generation says New Generation doesn’t have the same dawg in them as the Old Generation”
I dont think this is a generational thing, some guys like to immerse themselves in film and do everything they can to become better and others like to have a healthy work life balance and just relax.
The greats have a mixture of talent and commitment on and off the court/field. Its the same in every occupation. You could make a case that social media is more distracting than anything that has come before it, but in the same breath it means people have easier access to all sorts of different tape and angles of highlights now.
Imagine if other professions were expected to.
Imagine being a plumber and getting home from work and watching videos about plumbing every night
In fields like marketing you’re expected to keep up with what our competitors are doing, general pop culture, and all of the current trends.
That’s if you’re on the younger side though. Most managers over 40 are so out of touch with most things going on
I am older and i keep up with competitor stuff, i just do that shit on the clock though.
Came here to say this. I don’t get paid to work off the clock.
These guys already put overtime hours into the game if you consider their practices, exercise, game film, etc. let them do what they want in their free time.
I agree with the sentiment that they should be able to do whatever they want in their free time.
The overtime part is not true. They definitely don’t work 40/hrs a week and get compensated well.
Players are paid salary not hourly /s
Same in the IT industry, you can not just let yourself left behind from the new techs. If it’s your passion you will do everything to grow.. there are few gifted people who can easily catch up without making any extra effort
It’s pretty common in most professions that are passion based. Most people who work in the film industry watch a lot of movies, ambitious chefs read cookbooks in their free time, etc.
Am in video production. My most watched YouTube channels were cinematography and color grading video essays and that’s almost never while on the clock. Otherwise it’s NBA hoops and movies
Ya, people in academia are expected to keep up-to-date with their field of research, it’s almost kinda all consuming. Probably why so many people doing their PhDs are in disfunctional/non-existent relationships in my experience.
Yeah my buddy is an electrician, I asked him if he considered doing his own kitchen, he was like “fucccccckkk that I do manual labour all day I ain’t gonna come home and do more.”
In programming there’s this expectation from the striving masochists that you also have hobby/open source projects that you work on in your free time, and also, fuck that to hell. I write code for money, I have better things when I’m off, not that I have some amazing abudance of free time with a 6 and 8 year old anyway.
Yup, we have to study + sit for our IT certs on our own time, and at least half of our dudes have home labs and/or listen to cyber podcasts on the regular
i mean this isn’t even remotely close to being an apt comparison but okay
If you’re in CS, you’re expected to do personal projects. If you’re trying to go to med school clinical volunteering is almost required.
> If you’re in CS, you’re expected to do personal projects.
I have no idea where this idea came from but it needs to die. No one gives a shit about your side project you hacked together.
Most companies only care about professional projects which you completed as part of a team (code review, testing, design, etc). They make you do a leetcode style question + system design to make sure you are technically competent.
And ofc many doctors work 70+ hour weeks, even past residency
That’s not very comparable lmao what a comment
I’m an attorney and I honestly do watch a fair amount of legal prep videos outside of work.
I also sit in on trials sometimes, especially when I have a case in the same jurisdiction that seems like it could potentially go to trial there too. If I do that, I have to catch up on my own work overnight or the weekend.
Not saying NBA players have to do that of course (although I’m sure a fair amount do), just saying it does have its benefits. It’s more work, but it can potentially make your own work easier.
More like imagining a videogame developer having a passion in videogames or an artist who loves listening to music.
Nah get out of here with that. Plumbing isn’t a competition or entertainment. Dudes be setting up cameras to watch back their rec games. Most athletes do in fact love watching their sports.
This is a stupid comparison and I’m just laughing at the upvotes lol
Those are the videos that you come across on youtube randomly and they have like 16M views.
Yea it’s probably just some guys that genuinely watch games for entertainment, especially regular season games.
Yeah, I think for most players watching film is part of the job, not something they’re expected to do in their free time. It’s honestly kinda wild to expect a player to use his down time to watching more NBA. I think it was Demar in an interview a couple years ago said most players don’t even enjoy playing basketball and haven’t since before they entered the league.
It’s a job, just like anything else.
I watched Busty Cops instead of the NBA Cup Finals last night.
DD cups > NBA cups
Ohh, you Bostonians and your Dunkin.
LMAO
Which volume?
Voluptuous
Honestly I used to have a take on which was best, but I have completely forgotten the lore. Was the 3rd the one with the crazy old pirate?
They call them that because they’re busting bad guys, right?
ACAB means even the busty ones, dammit!
So did Joe Mazzulla probably
Joe didn’t even turn it on the tv. Just had it on playback in memory
Hypothetically, Joe Mazzulla could have Jeremy Renner and Ben Affleck puppets made with real hair he stole from both actors that he uses to reenact the movie and I still wouldn’t be surprised.
Nothing anyone can make up is weirder than what Joe actually does.
You’re joking but I could also see this happening.
If it’s a day that ends in Y it’s a good day to watch The Town
Heard chet was trying to read a page from a Harry Potter book instead of watching the Cup Finals.
“Harry is shooting odee hang pulls… from treball?”
“That’s close chet! It actually says he lived in a closet under the stairs”
Man I feel sick to my stomach knowing Chet was born like five years after the first Harry Potter book came out. I’m ollllllddd
Delete this comment pls
Yer a geezer Harry
I thought you said last book and I was about to pass out
He should tutor Kolek
And Floyd Mayweather Jr.
Fuck the bucket of ice
Edge of Tomorrow is underrated. Highly recommend
Been clambering for a battle angel prequel for over a Decade. Love that movie.
That would be dope af
There’s a novel that’s a prequel. It’s based off of the source material.
It bums me out that that movie didn’t perform better, because I agree, I thought it was great and would 100% be up for more of those movies.
Seriously. If people haven’t seen it, it’s without question one of the more underrated action movies of the last 15 years or so. I think it flew under the radar because the marketing for it was fucking terrible. The trailers made it look like some morose slog when that movie ended up being a fucking blast. I remember walking out of it wondering why those trailers tried to make it look so sad and serious.
There’s an anime adaptation closer to the source material manga, All You Need is Kill, set to come out.
Stylistically, idk how much interest I have, but it’s more of the material so I might give it a shot.
For those who don’t know it’s a really good groundhog Day meets alien war movie with fucking mech suits
maggot! maggot! maggot!
If anyone wants to read the source material, It’s called “All You Need is Kill.”
So JDub is demanding a trade to the Celtics?
You can argue it but I think the “The Town” is overrated.
Ben Affleck is a seasoned robber and jeopardizes a whole heist and his relationship with his long time crew for a girl he sees for the first time in the bank he’s ROBBING. That shit makes no sense. Jeremy Renner died for that ridiculous plot point.
Horniness has been the death of many a man throughout human history.
I feel the same thing. I mean, I watched it, and it was fine for what it was, but it’s not a movie I would ever watch again. If I just browsed NBA news, I would think it was like The Godfather or something.
Some people (myself included) just really like heist movies. It gets that genre bump. They don’t even have to be amazing, but a good enough heist movie will always get my recommendation.
Same thing with whodunit mysteries. Knives Out isn’t some masterpiece like Rear Window, but it’s a good fun murder mystery and will always get my recommendation.
It’s one of those movies that are just desperately trying to replicate what Heat did, but that bar is far too high to aim for. The Town is probably the best among the Heat rip-offs though, if we don’t include The Dark Knight in that list.
Counterpoint: Sherrone Moore.
yeah but bro the girl is Rebecca Hall
I tried watching the town & thought it was meh. Don’t see the hype
Whole movie overrated because of a minor plot point alright man
Thats the most realistic plot in that movie.
It’s not very good upon rewatch
Agreed. Argo is his best work.
You know ball, i still really like The Town tho
If we’re talking about his work as a director, I think Gone Baby, Gone is his best. It helps that Casey Affleck, rather than Ben, is the lead, as Casey is an infinitely better actor than Ben is. If we’re talking about Ben’s acting, I’d probably be inclined to give it to Chasing Amy, although he was the bomb in Phantoms.
Yeah I saw that shit in theaters in high school and even then I thought it was lame
It’s extremely overrated. Someone in another comment called it the zoomer’s Scarface. Idk if they meant that as a compliment or not, but it’s pretty accurate. A very “guy” movie that gets more praise than it deserves and is spoken about like it’s capital A Art.
I mean, I like those movies just fine, but they’re not great pieces of filmmaking. They’re action-crime movies with good PR.
It’s a great movie to be fair
One of my favorite movie romances
Jdub you’re a Boston Celtic.
Honestly.. its kind of shitty for everyone to be dumping so hard on the cup. Millionaires from playing basketball acting like something that’s supposed to be fun and drive some competitive spirit is beneath them because it isn’t the finals.
Cause it’s shit and they should just do a proper mid-season tournament and not whatever the cup is
Breaking news, people can smell inauthenticity from a mile away and don’t like having things shoved in their face. The league’s bizarre desperation to make this thing catch on and be loved immediately was their undoing.
All the NBA had to do to avoid this much negative reception was:
Not shit out those awful courts that make the games legitimately harder to watch. You want to signify that this game is “special” or whatever? Just fucking put the cup logo at center court behind the team logo like they just used to do for the Finals.
Not model it after English soccer and stress the connections to the Premier League in a country where nobody besides self-loathing hipsters cares about that shit.
Not make such a tacky show of trucking that giant trophy into Vegas that first year.
Not hire massive botfarms to patrol and flood every mainstream social media platform with how “cool” “neat” “fresh” and “fun” the tournament is while doggedly scolding and downvoting all dissenters.
More recently, not have your broadcast partners insult your fans that aren’t on board with the concept by declaring “if you don’t like the NBA Cup™, you don’t like basketball!”
But they chose to do all of those things, believing that they can force people to be mesmerized by their sacred cow project, and as a result a whole lot of people have a predilection to shit on it and avoid watching, myself included. Corporate marketers are a scourge, exhibit number infinity million.
You just said with a straight face that Silver and the NBA made the Cup for fun and not money lmao.
Literally the entire NBA was made to make money. I don’t get this complaint about the NBA making money as if they weren’t designed to make money.
Are you not aware that you have a team in OKC only because someone wanted to make money?
The person they were responding to said the cup was designed to be fun a drive competitive spirit. And yea, maybe there’s some elements of that, but the main thing is to make more money.
They’re just pointing out that it’s not like these players disrespecting the cup are bad mouthing a charity church league. They’re disrespecting a money-making venture. And it’s fine that it’s about the money, but let’s not get holier-than-thou about the sanctity of it.
King of New York better.
new jack city even better
“SIT YOUR FIVE DOLLAR ASS DOWN BEFORE I MAKE CHANGE.” God what a movie. Lol
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Everyone frothing over themselves to insert a Mazulla reference
Mazzulla rn
The Town is about to become Zoomer’s scarface
I rarely watch any game that does not involve my team in any sport.
Yeah it’s gotta be a really good game for me to tune in.
I watched it on a plane recently, I don’t get the hype ngl
There is no real hype. Joe Mazulla likes it, Reddit found that funny, and now it’s one of those karma farming jokes
What’s with the cetics jokes o don’t get it
Joe Mazzulla has said in press conferences many times that The Town is his favorite movie
More specifically he said he watches it 2-4 times a week.
I’ve been waiting for one of the Jaylen/Jalen Williams to get traded just so it’s easier to tell who is who.
Time to get this one traded to the Celtics
Coach Mazzulla approves.
Shams: Jalen Williams is forcing a trade to the Boston Celtics.
Edge of tomorrow? I believe you meant to say LIVE DIE REPEAT
You really prefer to call it by its DVD box art title rather than the one that’s actually in the movie? This is like correcting someone that the “real title” is Indiana Jones and the Raiders of the Lost Ark or Rambo: First Blood.
Edge of Tomorrow didn’t do well at the box office, so they tried to rebrand it when they released it on home video by giving it the tagline they’d used in the trailer as the new title to throw people off.
Future Celtic
He know what the real prize is
with the price of prime it’s no wonder people didn’t watch.
If he really knew ball he would’ve watched heat, the town is Garbo
Jalen, you are a Celtic
good watch tbh.
I mean I get it. Who would want to watch their job on their day off lol. Not everyone has to be obsessed with basketball like Bron and KD
These guys got a limited taste
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Jalen Williams to Boston confirmed.
Same bro same
My brother in law was in town this past month and I had the pleasure of showing him this movie for the first time
Good movies
Once again this is the nba shooting itself in the foot everyone should be marketing it positively
I disagree, we need 3 more nba personalities talking about The Town. Two isn’t going to cut it.
/s
ELITE movie tastes
just 5 hrs to kill on a Tues night to watch movies. man thats nice, that was my takeaway
My thing is, why would anyone expect these guys, who are surrounded by basketball almost all the time, would be watching basketball in their free time. I’m sure some players do, but outside of studying film I wouldn’t want anything basketball related at home
He’s being traded to Boston.
I saw that movie once. It didn’t necessitate a rewatch
“You know what your fucking problem is, you think you’re better than people.”
There goes cawlege sawker
Joe Mazzulla was watching with him. This is tampering!!!
It’s hard to watch the game these days for several reasons
Potassium levels through the roof
What’s up with this video on every post?
He just like me frfr
hating from outside the club
I did the same thing for the nba finals last year
Does the NBA own the rights to The Town or something?
who gives a shit
Not the worst movies to put on
One of us! One of us!
Honestly, great movie choice
Isn’t he one of those guys that doesn’t watch basketball?
Sure
Edge Of Tomorrow is a damn good movie.
Joe Mazzulla just became a Jalen Williams’ #1 superfan
He knew what he was doing, there’s no other person on earth I associate the town with more than Joe Mazulla (not even Ben Affleck)
One of us, one of us
NBA Cup Finals is a gimmick, nothing more
I played Arc Raiders instead of watching the NBA Cup.
J Will to Celtics confirmed
Why would he watch. If you get the day off fucking relax.
The Town is a 7⁄10 totally good movie. If Mazullah can win a championship mainlining that flick I wanna see what David Adleman can do if we strap him to a chair and Clockwork Orange force him to watch Ronin on repeat. Better movie, better results?
I did him the chemical way
Edge of tomorrow great movie respect
Full context needed. He watched The Town AND Edge of Tomorrow. Two 2010s bangers.
Looks like a teletubby watcher
he knows ball
No one watches the nba cup because it’s just another regular season game