Luke Kornet talks about losing his starting spot to Victor Wembanyama
Man do people not understand sarcasm anymore. Half the comments seem to think Luke is serious here lol
I prefer to think nobody is actually that stupid and it’s spillover hate from his Magic City post
This is coming from someone who thought the post was dumb and performative lol
Reddit is a lot less fun once you realize that 80% of people here aren’t kidding.
And are children
If people in their 20s are children then maybe
Reddit’s popular political opinions are really braindead overall
You can see most of them can’t think in logical terms at all
So I just come here for the jokes and that’s it
I don’t expect anything else out of them
You just know the people raging in the comments didn’t even watch the video lmao.
Its also just lame rage bait.
It’s not rage bait he’s just joking lol.
? Im talking about trolls, not Kornet lol.
People who took Luke seriously here, are either dumb or ragebaiting.
Oh lmao I’m dumb. Carry on
No… people are that dense.
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Well I’m an offline empath that loves strip clubs so I hate Luke Kornet.
Im pretty sure 99% of “empaths” are normal people who think they are special for having empathy like everyone else.
Same with “neurodivergent”
Nah, many (many) times you’ll tell right away who has the tism. And many times you’ll be able to tell even if they don’t tell you, or they don’t know themselves. With ADHD it might not be as easy to tell, but still.
Yeah, if anything, not expecting or realizing that other people feel empathy is not very empathetic at all.
And yet, every top comment is a joke, even in serious threads.
And every second comment laments about redditors. Made by fucking redditors. They always act like they weren’t a part of this shit lmfao.
Chronically online redditors need the “/s” crutch or they’ll take every sarcastic quip literally.
This post is SCT BRN approved
You do know this is reddit right? It’s filled with redditors
Hehe… every redditor is a loser dumbass except me.
Some of us only come in here to flame Redditors, we exist, we are valid
redditors don’t have friends
Can confirm. I have no friends.
i’ll be your friend
I know y’all have been seeing the explainthejoke!/similar subs that pop up on your feeds
Aint no way that many people are that dumb, and yet people will get upset and a clearly sarcastic interview like this
One of the funniest guys in the NBA, reddit can’t keep up
I’m hoping all the comments that don’t see the clear sarcasm are just bots
Are you being sarcastic
It’s probably bots who can’t compute sarcasm. Yet
It should be readily apparent but also they even made it too obvious from the jump. He should have just said “took your starting spot” without the “back,” it’s funnier.
These people don’t have contact with humans in person.
I don’t think majority of reddit is people. The ai bots have not yet been trained on sarcasm.
“I’m only domestic” is pretty good
“im only domestic in my reach” is a triple entendre comparing literal wingspans, marketability, international vs american reach, all of it. kendricks gonna use that in a bar next month
I dunno if Kendrick’s wingspan will make this line his as hard
My guy has that Danny DeVito wingspan. He did smash Rihanna tho, so that counts.
Also, a domestique is a term for a “role player” type of rider in road cycling. The guy that does the heavy work upfront so their captain can race to win it in the end. Im pretty sure Kornet did’nt mean it like that, but it also kinda works.
Actually pretty big in Lower Falal
Kornet is the funniest man in the nba and you can’t change my mind.
Joe Mazzulla but I don’t think he knows it
Joe is funny in the “I can’t believe someone like this actually exists” kind of way
He’s the Coach (from Survivor) of the NBA
Amazing comp. What’s his Amazon story equivalent?
I really want him to be an analyst once he retires from coaching. Can you imagine the crazy shit he would say?
Dude is hysterical. I don’t consume Celtics media but his highlights are hilarious enough to make me wish I did.
inspiring canadians to eat his opps. generational.
Lol what?
Edit: okay, so the “eat” part is because I wrote “consume”, but what’s “opps”?
Edit 2: is “opps.” his opponents? As in the Celtic media are his opponents? I think I got it! Lol
play on the phrase “consume Celtics media”
And it’s because he’s at odds with the Celtics media a lot?
humorously at odds yeah
I mean he single handedly brought down the Hawks attempt to celebrate a local strip club.
Admittedly getting gooners mad is funny
Its crazy that “yeah we shouldn’t have a stripper sponsorship while also marketing the leagues to women and girls” turned him into a controversial figure lmao
We shouldn’t have a gambling sponsorship while also marketing the league to men and boys but here we are
So because we have one bad thing we shouldn’t do anything about any other bad things?
Baby’s first whataboutism
So because I haven’t sufficiently responded to other whataboutisms I should ignore this one
Snorted in work toilet, thanks for that
That sounds unhygienic
It’s actually not that bad to snort coke off work toilets, at least the ones at my office are cleaned fairly regularly
The coke cleans itself
… honestly made me hesitate at first glance if you were adding to the joke or genuinely upset so well done lol
You selling your ass to cover your gambling debts?
Why? You looking to buy big dog?
“I’ma make you woof”
Better keep at it doggy I ain’t even panting yet.
Yeah absolutely. Let me know
People kill themselves over gambling debt. No. 1 suicide hobby.
Are women selling their ass to cover their stripping debts? No, they’re not. Stripping doesn’t put people in debt lol
The opposite actually LOL
Eh it could happen. Strippers pay the club owner to perform and if it’s not a good night they could be out a few hundred.
That is technically correct, but clearly not what I meant. Also I highly doubt house fees anywhere are over $300 per shift
Friend told me she stripped at a popular place in Miami and it was a $1000 for the house fee so yes it does get pretty high. But I can see how that’s only for the most popular strip clubs and an average strip club house fee isn’t that high.
I mean, what point were you trying to make? Some Women do get pressured into prostitution if they dont make enough to cover the house fee and other costs.
Damn that’s insane honestly, appreciate the info! All I could find was stuff online because I’ll admit I didn’t have any first or second hand knowledge other than the net.
My point was that stripping isn’t 1:1 with gambling and acting like it’s the same ignores context. The comment I replied to asked if someone was selling their ass to cover their gambling debts. That implies that women are stripping to cover their stripping debts. I don’t doubt that women in the industry have been taken advantage of. However, there are also women out there that enjoy stripping and don’t fall into that category. Like most things, there’s nuance to be seen and context to be had.
My point was that stripping is a job. Job’s don’t put people in debt unless the business itself is predatory. The profession of stripping doesn’t pressure women into prostitution, scummy establishments and owners do.
Edit: the USA is also a big place where the dollar goes further in different spots. \(1,000 in Miami is not \)1,000 in Wisconsin as far as Cost of Living goes
Yeah, honestly I didn’t know much about strip club culture and the sex industry and was pretty pro normalizing these things. Then I met some great people who used to strip that unfortunately got sex trafficked because of trusting the wrong people at a strip club. It kind of opened my eyes to how shady the business still is despite its efforts to be shown as pro-women now. But like you said it’s a nuanced subject and there are some women who honestly enjoy the work.
It’s really shitty that anyone is being trafficked at all. I’m still pro-normalizing of the sex industry though. Making things illegal is how the people who peddle in that product are able to act terribly. If sex work was legal, it would be regulated. It’s illegal, so only criminals are involved in the industry.
I clearly don’t have all the information though, so I don’t have a full opinion on all of it. I’m not sure I ever will, since I don’t have any acquaintances to get first-hand knowledge from. All i can do is look at other countries who see a big uptick in safety when legalizing formerly illegal businesses. In countries where drugs are legalized, there are far fewer drug issues. I know prostitution is illegal in Canada, but I admittedly haven’t looked into how that has affected the women involved up there, I should do that.
I appreciate your willingness to have a convo! I’ve got opinions, but they’re just based on the current info I have, and there’s always more info to be shared to further mold those opinions.
Are you not?
I guarantee you someone in this country is doing that as we speak. Not even getting into how women “selling their body” is moralized but men working back breaking physically destructive jobs that only benefit billionaires isn’t “selling their body” at all 🙄
Was there ever any other options?
Are you under the impression that if people don’t like the stripping night they are in favor of gambling?
Nobody in this sub disagrees with that
People can be mad about multiple things
Yeah can we please stop pretending that people saying shit about the “artistry” of stripping actually give a shit about anything aside from it turning them on lol.
Not that strippers don’t have talents that help them perform their job better (especially the athleticism involved in pole dancing), but come on dawg we know what you’re really caring about.
End of the day, its a bad look for an organization that’s trying to gain a female audience. Now if only we could do the same for gambling sponsorships, which are harmful to everyone regardless of gender.
Didn’t he also explicitly say that he didn’t have issue with Magic City itself or the people working there, just with marketing it in a supposedly family friendly franchise?
Now if only we could do the same for gambling sponsorships, which are harmful to everyone regardless of gender.
Gambling is also a pretty gendered issue. Affects everyone of course but some more than others.
Young boys level of addiction and interest in gambling is incredibly destructive. There is probably an appropriate level of focus to put on groups most harmed by something.
Back half of your argument I agree with completely. At the top though about it not being artistry because it’s just about them turning the person on.
I would argue that any creation/performance intended to create a response out of people should be considered art.
Art designed to make you horny is still art
I don’t think he’s saying whether it’s art or not. But more that people are pretending it’s about it being art.
Which again, let’s be honest is not a reason why people wanted this to happen.
Ah okay. Yeah I agree with that for sure that people are arguing facetiously
Actually insane
i think he/we should’ve at least let it happen first so we could laugh at the absurdity of it
I wouldn’t say controversial, I think society in general gets tired of the moralizing when it comes to women’s sexuality from people who don’t feel the need to share their opinions on any other moral issues.
It’s like the one topic every loser feels comfortable telling you their moral stance on.
Luke’s employer was allowing a promotion he disagreed with and he didn’t want to profit from it. That is understandable and different than some random posting his opinion just to share it. It was related to his job and as a player he has enough clout for his opinion to actually change things.
Does Kornet play for the Hawks or live in Atlanta?
The league shares revenue so it doesn’t matter. Even if they didn’t he is still a player and has a clear, vested interest in the league’s image as a whole, as corrupt and in the pockets of gambling companies as it is.
And that’s fine but the NBA does a whole lot of questionable things. I don’t care if someone wants to be an activist or has very strong moral stances. But if I only know your moral stance on how women should behave or what is or isn’t too sexual I am definitely putting you in a very specific box of annoying weirdo.
Damn man yeah why have any morals if we’re not gonna be literally perfect in every way
I thought he was against the industry itself abusing women, not what women can do or not do sexually?
Yes, this is his stance. People are just pushing for the “HE IS TELLING THE WOMAN WHAT TO DO” agenda to make him look bad.
I mean, somebody who called out EVERY moral incongruity would just be insufferable. what’s wrong with calling out something bad when you see it?
Luke is a funny guy.
Him talking about how he and Derrick White are so good at blocking shots because they’ve dealt with a lot of rejection is peak.
I’m with Luke, wemby only got the starting job back cuz of marketability
Everything’s about making money these days and not about the game smh
/s
weak /s tag lol
i cant handle the dumbasses that would take my comment seriously without it lol. too much of a coward
What happened to the game I love?
I would rather have 1000 downvotes than being one of those guys that use /s to express sarcasm.
If Luke’s backup is number 2 in mvp voting, then Kornet should be the favorite. It’s only fair.
What’s that “s”? Did you mean $?
What the fuck are some of these comments lmfao
I was really looking forward to Magic City night tonight (I think). Spent an ungodly amount of my Draftking winnings to buy a table and now I’m sitting at the bar alone looking at a text from what I guess is my ex-wife who took my kids when she saw our bank balance
Fuck Luke Kornet
God forbid the hawks game have good wings. Luke kornet hates good food
Can confirm, I saw your ex-wife fuming with her new boyfriend’s friend.
I genuinely feel stupid for not knowing if you’re being facetious
If you can’t tell, I can clear some doubts for you…
you need an internet detox
People here really were affected about him speaking against magic night ey?! You guys are such weirdos! Hahaha
People ignoring Kryie and letting their gooner thoughts win 😤
Ey
Honestly Wemby was cooking coming off the bench. He’s had stamina issues throughout his career so far, but with 20-25 minutes off the bunch he was able to play with full force without having to conserve energy.
I really wish he kept coming off the bench so he could win DPOY, 6th man and MVP in the same season lol maybe next year. In all seriousness it was great having him come off the bench as he came in with alot of energy BUT he knew his minutes were limited and he would force some plays moreso than normally does
I don’t know the specifics, but I know coming off the bench isn’t enough to get a 6th man. It’s based on minutes played. Source: Ty Jerome was ineligible last year because he played slightly too many minutes
Exit: I was parroting year old bad info from Zach Lowe, it is not based on minutes played
Wasn’t it that he hadn’t played enough minutes? Pritchard played in more games last year and averaged more mpg and he ended up winning
Okay so you’re definitely right, and I’ve been trying to figure out why I was spouting inaccurate information. The reason is because Zach Lowe kept saying it last year, so I guess I just saw that and then never saw him say that was wrong.
TLDR: this guy^ is right and my info was wrong
Idk where you got that from but it wasn’t Lowe lol. He’s been a voter and knows the rules
What if Wemby keeps it under 30mpg? He could still win while also playing 6th man minutes
Like I said, I don’t know the details, I just know Ty Jerome was ineligible last year
Hey I was wrong before, it is not based on minutes played. I still don’t know the details on what makes someone eligible or ineligible, so there’s a chance Wemby could do that I guess
Is that true? Herro won in 2022 and he averaged the most minutes on his team. 32mpg
No, I appreciate you trying to sell it, but a top 5 player in the league shouldn’t be coming off the bench unless ramping back up.
I’m not saying he’s better coming off the bench I just thought it was fun to see.
Idk I think it’s more fun to get as much Wemby time as possible against the other teams best players
Grizzled vet Wemby takes the 6th man award when a bonafide 8ft. alien gets drafted to the Spurs at #1 in the 2042 NBA Draft.
He’s been even better when he’s been able to put up 40-minute games
I don’t get this argument. Did he exhaust himself in warmups? I understand a minutes restriction, but besides playing him an increased percentage of minutes against bench squads, what’s the point of not just starting him?
It’s more about the minutes played than coming off the bench specifically but they usually go hand in hand and Wemby was doing both.
Now he’s doing that for 30 mins
I mean he’s playing whole games and the Spurs are better off for it. But he’s not coming out with the nearly frantic energy he had when he knew he didn’t have that many minutes and wanted to go crazy in every one.
He did have “stamina issues”, but only insofar that its extremely difficult to be one of the best two way players in the league. Giannis does it and he also conserves most of his movement off ball and on defense, and it still took him a while to get there. Other young stats can get away with that by mainly staking their claim on offense
Not a coincidence vibes improved and the team took the next step once Spurs added Luke
Pretty linear trajectory from last year actually, kornet just fits right into winning culture
Wemby the Alien, Luke Kornet the Earthling
Can you imagine this spurs team with the buffalo? Jesus
quick, someone photoshop him in a spurs jersey
I remember when young players had to earn it. Now they just hand them the keys, while established greats wither on the bench.
the hell are you talking about and what the hell are the people who upvoted you smoking.
Whoosh
fuck me
Luke and DWhite together is always just good, wholesome fun. I miss that so much
Lol I thought the meta comments were overreacting, what the fuck is wrong with those people?
I just seen a compilation of a bunch of people saying they hate kornet because of the magic city cancellation😂
Is Wemby playing tonight? I wanna buy tickets
Yes
Thanks
Kawhi listed as doubtful, though, if that makes a difference.
The Fun Guy ducked us and is out.
Damn. We’ve got one more game with them, hopefully he’s playing at that one.
I saw that and ended up not going :(
Lmao, love it! Miss you Buffalo, forever roaming our hearts!
“No one asked me about it!”
Funny guy.
I was praying that the Warriors would get Kornet man
But you got the other Celts big man from that championship team!
Two of them!
Damn I forgot that they just got Tingus and he hasn’t played.
He’s played at least once, because I was griping that he looked good against Boston when he was playing while very sick last season.
wally pipp reference is crazy good lol
It wooshed me and sent me down a rabbit hole
i only know it cz i just watched a wes welker video where he says belichick said that to him when Edelman was playing well in preseason lol
I’ll save y’all a few clicks:
Wally Pipp (starting first baseman for the New York Yankees) had a headache one day and sat for the game. Lou Gehrig was his backup. Gehrig started for the next 14 years (2,130 games) without missing a game.
He sounds like Norm McDonald, even his humor. Love it!
What podcast is this??
White noise, I think.
Derrick White’s White Noise podcast.
Lol he’s funny for this. Glad some people still have some level of sarcasm.
And most of all, fuck Steve Blake. That piece of shit.
We miss Dwhit
we miss luke
Agree with him. We should tariff the hell out of Wemby and other imports to protect local beanpole production.
Luke Kornet threads will need the 🔒 award going forward
lmao luke kornet got some humor
Luke is funny af lol
Ya know
The Spurs caved to pressure and benched Luke “Magic City” Kornet