Kings reporters were caught on a hot mic during media day: “Ben Simmons: Cringe, cringe, he’s lucky he’s fine… Zach LaVine is cute but his personality fu**ing annoys me. It just seems like he’s hell of like a prick.”
“they’re the same age but Ben looks so much younger”
“yeah but Ben wasn’t on the kings for the last 2 and a half years“
lmfao
That man in the convo is killing me… “ wait I thought.. isn’t Jordan Poole your type??”
Pretty sure that’s Jason Jones. He’s been through so much shit covering us over the years, even though he’s a big Lakers fan (I think). He knows better than most what following this team does to a person.
Is he openly a Laker fans but does a really good job covering the Kings?
This totally tracks… I don’t know how these reporters get these jobs but rarely have they ever asked questions that actually reflected them paying attention to what’s going on, or the game that was just played. Being caught up in the superficial bs like “who’s cute” “who’s engaged” or “personality” has nothing to do with the NBA. I’ve read questions in the NBA AMA that sparked more thought and relevance than the bs questions these reporters ask. Makes sense that these are the conversations amongst eachother
Sacramento giving players the US presidential aging curve is ruthless
This is wild lol
The way he was pushing the convo along. “Isn’t Jordan Pool your type” my word the second hand embarrassment like come on man.
“yeah I like Lightskins I guess”
Imagine this happened in the WNBA
Sports journalists are the assholes we thought they were
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You think this doesn’t happen because nobody has said it into a hot mic?
oh yes poor males never ever get to say things, the violence against them i tell ya
don’t think anyone would ever say that about either of those people… not sure what the point of imagining this is either
no one would ever call two objectively good looking women fine or cute?
Yeah, they’re getting a pink slip thrown so hard it them it cuts clean through their hand.
I hate being a Kings fan most of the time lmao
There were a couple good years in early 2000’s…
Yeah but one of them was notorious for ending by being literally rigged out of the playoffs.
Make some free throws
i was rooting for the kings as much as the majority of NBA fans, but this narrative needs to die. they had their chances man. if they had just secured the damn rebound at the end of game 4 that shit is over in 5.
And just made a few free throws…yup…but screw Robert Horry, he has lived rent free in my head for far too long
I still look back at the Mike biby era
Yeah I was always worried when the Mavs played them in the Webber, Peja, and Bobby Jackson times.
There were a couple good years a few years ago too then it all disappeared, like gossamer in the wind 🌬️
Gossamer is fabric and doesn’t “disappear” 🤦♂️
I hope your either from Sac or that your dad is kings fan cause any other reason outside of that that brought you to support them must be brutal
My dads from Sacramento lol been born into this fucking bullshit. I was still pretty young when the 2000s Laker rivalry was going on and wasn’t too into Kings basketball yet. Maybe a season or 2 before that 06 series against the Spurs was when I really started to get into the Kings lol
Not as bad as being a clippers fan nowadays
Poor Rui. I guess it’s a paycheck
True, but I’d bet the Clippers are somehow the better team over the next 10 years
This was harmless and funny. I hope no one gets in trouble for this.
Someone is definitely getting in trouble
Way too many comments about their appearance, skin tones and other stuff not even getting into the comments about personalities.
Ya someone is getting in trouble
Imagine if these comments were made on WNBA media day.
Where is the power imbalance in this situation?
Ho boy. That would be a frenzy.
As someone who has adopted the Kings as a second team, you guys are some of the best fans to hang around. You guys are loyal and great to talk ball with
Light the Team! (on fire)
I hope Sac fans get theirs man, they always get hoed lmao. By the refs, by some other California team, and worst of all, by their own front office/owner. Free the beam man
Light the beam was hype
What did yall do to deserve this bro 😂😭
Light the beam was lit for a year but in retrospect I wonder if that joy was just more torture
Hahahahaha
Great start of the season for the Kings.
I can appreciate a hot mic that catches women speaking about men the same way men speak about women
Equality! 🤣
Honestly this is just my personal experience but my female friends are so much more explicit and in detail when talking about dating, sex, attraction, etc
Yeah, guys are generally far more superficial. We just talk about the looks, but man I’ve been around my female colleagues when they’ve really hit the sauce, and those mf don’t hold back 😂
Women will be like ya i think this new guy im dating has issues with his mom.
My guy friends will be like ‘I had a date last night, went well we had a good vibe and ended up hooking up’ ‘oh nice man happy to hear that’ then we immediately start talking about something else
With my female friends they will go into every single aspect of the date from start to finish and if it’s around a group of female friends will describe the sex in painstaking detail that even makes me a bit uncomfortable lol
My girl friends will literally show/tell each other anything. In comparison my guy friendships have the same boundaries as work friends when it comes to sex
For sure. Even dudes amongst each other these days be like “yo bro you cant say that” (esp white dudes lol)
This definitely depends on who your friends are lol. We still have guys who aren’t black dropping n-bombs.
Maybe you need some new friends lol
Calm down boy
Men usually just high fiver each other and have a quick laugh, I’ve known women to go full into Jay Bilas/Mel Kiper level scouting reports going into detail over combine measurements and shit
Love to see a woman excelling in a male dominated field 😤😤😤😤😤😤
Over a beer? Yeah. In a professional setting at work? Nope.
You’re either naive or not very popular at work if you think this doesn’t regularly happen in professional settings lol
dude I hear stuff like this almost every week working as a male nurse. Last time my manager hired a dude they were all asking her if he was hot
And it’s not like I’m just with 1 small group. I do float at 2 different hospital. Easily work alongside 100+ different people a month
I work in a corp role with 15 people, only 4 males (females fill all higher/exec roles) and I hear it almost daily 😂
“I like light skins”
Was this before or after Dylan Cartwheel said the Kings were the most disrespected? Roflmaog irony
Dylan Cartwheel? Definitely disrespected.
Just watch, he just may do a cartwheel celebration this season.
Jacob Somersault too
I really want to know if that person is black.
It’s Sara Hodges lol go look her up yourself
99% chance that they’re not black
I would bet money on this
Doubt it lol. I don’t even want to know tbh
I’d hope not
I’m so excited for hella fine Ben Simmons and his smooth skin
Proof he never worked a day in his life
How to lose your media access in ten seconds.
I don’t know man, there were two reporters at the ESPYS years ago who were drunk and slobbering over Lonzo and Josh Hart and those ladies have moved up to hosting shows or up the chain lol
Edit: Lmao just went to look for it and of course Dianna Russini was one of the reporters there. For anyone who wants to see Cassidy trying to be a professional while the other two were basically being groupies: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vd1mxX6eXT4
edit: Watch at 3:00 lol
Russini looks like she dressed to go fishing.
She had a date with Vrabel right after with her husband getting their bed and sheets ready at home.
Pretty sure praising someone is less likely to get you terminated than shitting on someone.
Idk I think Katie Nolan is pretty clever and funny. I liked garbage time.
You made that sound way worse than it actually was
Yeah nothing wrong with two reporters at an awards show imitating what happens on Bourbon street by showing how women will flash you if you throw beads at them. Cassidy’s face said it all
What’s offensive about it? Why are you so pressed. Nobody’s titties were out bro. They were making a joke
But this wasn’t just slobbering lol
Yeah, Russini I got nothing on because the Vrabel stuff looks pretty wild but Nolan? No way. She was with Dan Soder by then and still is and is just anxious and awkward not drunk or slobbering. I think you just read that wrong.
Katie talked openly on her pod at the time how terrible and awkward this whole day was her.
Kaite Nolan and I have the same birthday.
First word that comes to mind with your new teammate Zion: freak
Wait what?
but then there will be no one covering the kings
Didn’t raptors have something like this, all the reporters are fine I believe
If a dude said this on a hot mic about women tennis players, he would be shot into the sun. I bet these women don’t even apologize let alone see any consequences.
Keep crying about it
Kings media are about as professional as one would expect.
I think people would be shocked at the amount of convos that would be caught if you put random hot mics in every workplace
I have worked in manufacturing my whole professional career and the most heinous things I’ve ever heard in my life have been at work
Yeah this just sounds like people that work together talking.
the outrage over thus kind of stuff always kind of blows my mind. Feel like I’ve heard 100 similar conversations at work lol
Weve killed shame as a society for presidents and people want to care about shit like this lol
I don’t think people would be shocked at all
I think it’s wack and embarrassing so people think it’s great when someone gets caught doing it
Also all these workplace analogies are missing the fact that reporters are absolutely not like “co-workers” with NBA players lmao…
It’s Kangz all the way down.
Kangz is cute, but their personality fucking annoys me. It just seems like they’re a prick.
Lmfao
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I mean… are they wrong lmao
this is one of the greatest posts in this sub’s history we’re living through a moment.
Zach was a fucking professional here. Will always support the dude
We don’t know them and neither do they lmao saying guys “seem” annoying is about subjective as it gets
It was funny them saying that Ben seems likable because he hasn’t been a king yet lmao
probably not
but that’s not how it works, lol. this guy is gonna be on the media shit list for a while
Nope
Nah, Ben’s skin is very smooth. No lie there.
Not much basketball to analyze might as well break down looks.
Welcome to the kangz.
Word to the wise: If you work in media, always assume a mic is hot.
Bro I don’t even work in media and I assume the mic is always hot no matter where I go 😂 someone’s phone always picking up something
Lmao this was funny, but also kind of a scary truth.
I hate that we’re always “on” somewhere.
Stop objectifying the mic and tell me about their personality
And if you’re the Kings, know they deserve to be bullied harder
Shit, I always assume my phone mic is hot unless it’s being blocked.
Women in male dominated fields.
It’s embarassing. I’ve worked with many women in sports media, and they were not this fucking weird.
I’ve worked with a lot of dudes in male dominated industries and.. were very much like this tbh lol
Nobody gossips like a bunch of middle aged men with no women around
Lmao yup. This is very true.
Kings players have that affect on women
They’re not being weird though? Just unfiltered talking, the same way men do when they think nobody’s listening
Edit: it’s inappropriate for sure, but let’s not pretend this is unique
Yeah. Locker room talk is a real thing. Guys talking about their attractive female coworkers and what not.
Yeah, that’s why I find it’s so funny.
It happens in every industry and every hobby on all sides, just none of it usually gets recorded lol
People who think this is weird are either anti social in the extreme, or repressed.
You say you like “Light skins” when you’re around your friend group?
I’m black and don’t even flinch when people say light skins or dark skins tbh
What’s the issue
Man I call myself pasty even when I’m tryna be sexy with my girlfriend
I’m lightskin and this ain’t shit compared to what could be said
We don’t hear their hot mics, though, because they’re boring.
This isn’t weird. This is a normal conversation lmao. Yall so prude
Yea this isn’t weird, maybe unprofessional, but honestly just a normal conversation between coworkers.
Now flip it. Imagine two dudes talking about wnba players like this and it got leaked. Fired immediately and reddit will have pitchforks out.
Absolutely. Same dudes talking about how it’s normal right now will be leading the charge lmao
Why do you dorks on here always want to reverse genders? Why do you think that’s a good point? If there is a double standard, it’s one that benefits men 99% of the time. Cry about it.
You should look up what professionalism means.
Welcome to the real world. No one is professional 100% of the time.
How often you got a stick up your ass? Jeez man.
As if men wouldn’t be doing the exact same shit and using worse language if it was reversed
Was your net worth in the 8-9 figure range?
Does 8-9 dollars count?
Dirty Diana and now this
I’m surprised no one has mentioned the story about Vivek Ranadive’s daughter Anjali and Jeremy Lamb yet
Are we sure Anjali isn’t one of the women in this conversation?
I think shes warming up for the celebrity game
What’s the story
Anjali routinely dated Stockton Kings players during her time as Nepo-GM, including murderer Chance Comanche. Finally, Jeremy Lamb swooped in and completed a layup for a supermax contract in the form of being the most well-known player to take the nepo-baby bait and date her, now Anjali and Jeremy are like shadow GMs of the Kings because Vivek defers to his daughter who is influenced by Lamb
Wtf lol she looks good tho lol
She’s probably invested seven figures in trying to appeal specifically to nba players
Pointy chin
damn the Kings org really is special
Vivek’s smoking hot daughter has jungle fever
I mean, to be fair, India has its own jungle and they’re not exactly Caucasians lol.
She’s mixed
Damn man i feel kinda offended lol. I thought you had to be white to have jungle fever? Do all races consider us the jungle even if they’re darker than is in some cases?
No I believe it can be any race.
Also Anjali and Chance Comanche
good for jeremy tbh
bad side to PR training, the level of fakeness between everyone is incredible
Gooners come in all shapes and sizes
This is funny. I’ll feel bad if they lose their jobs, and they honestly might. It’s very embarrassing, but it is funny.
Imagine male journos talking about how nice wnba players skin tone and body type is and not like darker toned players or big players. Instant fired
I mean I would also probably feel bad for them. Although I think they would definitely be fired.
Depends if they get caught or not
We got a Men’s Rights Activist on our hands
The one talking about “light-skinned” needs to go.
God damn I love the Kings. They’re like the Jets of the nba
I dont watch soccer but I refuse to believe there is anything in the world like the Kings
Uhhh the Jets are an NFL team
Ah yes the National Futbol League
Uhhh the Jets are an NHL team
Anyone who follows the Kings knows the local media has always been absolute trash. Basically an outpost for novices.
Just some locker room talk. Girls will be girls
I really hope the woman talking about “he’s light-skinned” isn’t white. That would be cringe af
Lmao I don’t want to jump to conclusions but she definitely sounded white 😂😂
They all sounded pretty damn white
They’re still in a professional setting even if they don’t think they’re being recorded. Most people have to neutralize their speaking voices at real jobs. They could be any race.
They’re likely friends chatting among each other lmao, not a big deal at all. Just don’t do it with random people.
This is her
And she’s married to a white guy
I’ve heard white women talk like this unfortunately. I would not be surprised.
Me neither lol. Some white women have this weird fascination with our skin and I’m just like bro that’s just how we look 🤣
They sound like Sterling lol
Talking like she’s picking off the Long John Silver’s menu ☠️
Lmfao stop it ppl talk about the features of ppl they attracted to all the damn time, ESPECIALLY interracial couples
Who even cares really. They are discussing superficial shit in a superficial way
Yeah, it is.
I feel like there are more Russini situations that we dont know about lmao
Undoubtedly
Lmao at them talking about how smooth Simmons skin is and wondering what his skincare routine is.
thirsty reporters
Iffy year for female sports journalist
“he’s a UCLA guy, that’s how all of them are” wtf why is my school catching strays?
Pretty sure that’s Jason Jones, who is an LA guy, so he would know best!
Sac hoes be crazy
imagine this was male reporters talking about WNBA players
You best believe their saying shit about Sophie, Cameron etc
Men’s Rights Activist Alert
Are those “Kings reporters” or is that assistant general manager Anjali Ranadive making personnel decisions?
They are not lying, Lavine is a scammer
he’s lucky he cute
Lol
Did he steal your heart?
He stole my wallet
These girls are thirsting hard 😂
I went to college with Lavine, and the amount of thirsty-ass women that used to go crazy over this dude is insane lol
I can imagine lol. Tall, ripped, light skin, and beautiful eyes? You’d find it difficult not to be on most women’s radar. Even without him being super rich he’d still easily pull digits.
Lol if this was hot mic’d gender swapped there would be mayhem
Grab em by the pussy
Grab em by the light skinned penis
Grab em by the light skinned and incredibly smooth penis
“I like my dick pretty dark. But not TOO dark….. Ya know what I mean Becky?”
Reddit moment
“Angel Reese is hot, but her personality fucking annoys me” person would be sentenced to life without parole faster than Lindsay Clancy lmao
lol be so for real. Shaq literally commented on Angel Reese wearing “little ass shorts” and nothing happened to him
Yeah but the people talking like this aren’t mega famous celebrities. They’re held to a different standard/cant get away with stuff celebs can. Especially one like Shaq.
Yeah, when you’re famous, you can do that. “Those might be Cardi-D’s.”
I dont think people really care anymore. Nobody really gets shamed out of a job for shit like this
But they wouldn’t be able to work with these players going foreword surely?
Well yes. Men and women’s experiences of sexism and objectification are different. Angel Reese is playing a sport that has always been a “man’s game” as a woman. When someone comments on her looks, it perpetuates the belief that women only matter for their appearance, not their basketball ability.
I think it’s a legitimate criticism to say it’s hard to criticise objectification in principle when you only criticise it in a specific context. If it’s bad to value people based on their looks, then it is bad to do it to men too.
I can agree that being judged on your looks is much less of problem for men historically, but it’s worth talking about double standards because people will see them and dismiss the arguments against objectification as hypocritical.
I agree we shouldn’t objectify anyone, but I think the point OP was making was that “men have it just as bad and where’s the outrage.” To me, men don’t have it as bad, and to say that they do would obscure the particular harms women experience. Thank you sincerely for your response!
She isn’t playing with men, she is playing in women’s league with women against women and coached by women, she has no more reasons to think she matters for her appearance and not basketball ability than Zach Lavine
Angel plays for a male coach. There are a bunch of male coaches in the WNBA.
i hate when people pull out the ol’ “oh BuT iF roLes WeRe rEVerseD🤓”… it’s wild that people can’t grasp that the sexual politics between men and women aren’t symmetrical…it’s a total false equivalency
No one matters for their basketball ability champ
Define “matters” sport
When Angel Reese has career earnings of \(500,000 vs \)200,000,000 for Ben Simmons, it’s hard not to think that one seems to matter more than the other
Nah. Its really easy.
Ofc mens basketball matters more it’s a far higher quality product
Measuring people’s worth by their capital value is the issue, not the capital values assigned to them (which are just a market output)
What happened to being treated equally? 🤨
stop woman-splayning and victim blaming
Why do you assume I’m a woman?
Nobody is saying or thinking that Angel Reese is fucking hot lmfao 😂 chill
The dude with em too😂
That’s HILARIOUS 😂😂😂
It’s going to sound parasocial as fuck, but when Zach was on the Bulls he seemed like a fairly cool dude and most people had good things to say about him.
Did he play defense for y’all?
Does sticking an arm out at a driving defender count?
No. He also only recorded 4 taken charges his entire 8 year Bulls career.
Hot take, if you’re a ball hog chances are you’re probably a prick. Please don’t @ me.
Yeah he was good in MN. Did a lot for deaf kids and was generally a chill dude as far as I could tell and I worked in target center during his tenure there (not for the Wolves but I regularly saw players and coaches around the practice facility and areas of the arena)
This is the hard hitting commentary I come to r/nba for. Kick rocks Zach Lowe!
As bad as things get sometimes, I’ll never feel as bad as a Kings fan must.
The comment about liking lightskins is super lame when you think about the context of covering NBA players.
Wait until you find out why media outlets think LeBron is more dominant than Steph despite having the same number of rings. Colorism is a big problem worldwide.
I think this is actually now colliding with an insane theory on your part too lol
I’m not saying colorism isn’t real but Lebron is also twice Steph’s size and an amazing two-way player and also defeated Steph as an underdog against the most stacked team ever, so it’s not at all a stretch that a lot of people have that opinion based on basketball alone.
My point is that a small player was dominant enough to drag KD into his legacy rather than the other way around.
That is a completely different point than what you first said.
I think it’s very clear that your original point was “people think Lebron James is more dominant than Steph Curry because Lebron has darker skin.”
And I don’t think that is a fair point.
Colorism is a problem but it has nothing to do with Lebron being more dominant than Steph
Wait until you find out that’s why your precious Westbrook lost his Finals MVP to LeBron in 2016 despite being the most dominant player that season.
Yeah nothing at all to do with the fact that we lost…🙄…why would Russ win a finals mvp for a finals he didnt play in?
Where is the lie?
I see no lies
She made a good point about the skin. Have always wondered what brand moisturizer he uses.
He’s having good luck with Swiss Basics moisturizing formula.
Imagine men were caught on a hot mic saying this about WNBA players
Conversations straight out of nbacirclejerk.
nothing will happen, Raptors clowns were caught making fun of Mogbo and they all put paper towel wall where no one talks embarrassing but that’s what you get
Why would anything happen
At least take pride in your job
Making fun of the guys you depend on for content
She’s parroting what most people say in the comments here. He is objectively attractive but his attitude sucks.
That is not an uncommon observation in plenty of discussions on the Kings subreddit since he came to the Kings.
People can’t have private conversations anymore
Well it sounds like there’s a really high percentage chance that they’re white women so I’m sure either nothing will happen or they’ll get promotions.