Jaylen Brown shuts down corny Reporter’s question of who the “Alpha” is on the 76ers team.
What kind of parental role does LeBron play for Jaylen Brown?
That was the question that singlehandedly broke up the Kyrie-LeBron duo.
How many of your own children will you name LeBron and will you abandon them, too?
I know it’s a good narrative to say this but Kyrie was gone before that, he always wanted his own team and was always going to leave
The narrative is too funny to be misconstrued with facts.
Kyrie was also fucking flabbergasted by the question, so I choose to believe the story.
Yeah and it shows the reporter was right asking that question. Kyrie was a child getting butthurt about that question instead of being able to shake it off.
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Perfect response. Better not to feed into slop reporting
dude asking who the Alpha is sounded like a dork too
If you use the word Alpha you are a dork
Alpha Diallo in shambles
ATC and pilots are dorks
Beta tests only bitch đ¤
The reporter sounds like he thinks heâll rest in Valhalla one day.
Philly media is 70% dorks.
The other 30% are assholes
No you guys, don’t you see?
I’M THE ALPHA HERE. âď¸đ¤
âAlphaâđ¤Łđ¤Łđ¤Ł, dweeb shit forreal
He handled that well. That reporter is in the wrong line of work.
I mean, it’s the right line of work for maggots.
What a dumb fucking question.
Thereâs a professional way to phrase a question about leadership and he chose to sound like a 13 year old and then undermines himself with âor does that even matter?â
??? What are you trying to say bro??
“going into this season, do you think the sixers have a leader, or will that be delegated between the big 4 based on context?”
There. A simpler question that actually has interesting substance. God.
“Next”
-JB
Literally
lol
Judging the reporter based solely off his voice I’d say there’s an 80% chance he has paid for at least one Andrew Tate course
Idk how players donât just relentlessly shit on these guys. Like shame them so they donât have to deal with this nonsense
Same reason why you don’t argue with stupid people, they will bring you down to their level and beat you with experience. They are looking to illicit some kind of emotional response to generate more clicks and engagement. I think Jaylen handled it the best possible way here, just ignore it and move on, don’t dignify it with a response lest you end up circulating in clips for years and becoming a meme ala Westbrook.
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To be fair, some players hang out with weir content creator…
I see who the reporter is asking these dumb questions for
Why? Every team has one. I assume they will look to Lebron, Brown is not a leader
Rage bait q surely
NBA reporters seem to have a knack for identifying and triggering players with the biggest egos.
Or he is really, really bad at his job.
To me this was designed to get a reaction. Going for something similar to the infamous Kyrie meltdown I imagine.
How has Lebron been as a father figure?
lebronâs definitely better at basketball than dad jokes
Just say Nick Nurse, that will shut them up
That would have been such a good way to shut this down.
That would imply that Jaylen Brown will listen to his coach - which we’ve discovered is not his greatest asset.
đTalking crazy about the guy who gave you a ring is diabolical work. Before that, you guys had the same amount of bragging rights as the raptors in the last 35 years. Lets be a little more humble “greatest franchise in nba”đ
Gave us a ring is pretty crazy to attribute to 1 guy. Even then I would attribute Jrue, Tatum and White more than JB for that ring.
Wow… had teammates that helped him. More news at 4 đLike tf?
When has Joe Mezzula or the FO ever even said he doesnât listen to his coach? Yall some ungrateful as hoes for saying this type of shit. Dude single-handedly kept you guys relevant while your messiah was out how about you chill for a bit
Kept us alive until the moment he needed to follow direction and fumbled for 5 games trying to be coach.
Imagine being a grown man asking about “alphas”
They really picked Jaylen to ask this question lmao
“Alpha” just say leader, reporter is fucking Andrew Tate brain rotted.
To be fair, this terminology was in everyday use before Tate was even on Big Brother. It just reached a different level of corny with him using it.
It’s clearly Dean Wade
“The alpha in wolf packs is now debunked as pseudo-science. This is not the pseudoscience I support. Next” is what I, a long time Jaylen Brown fan, was hoping he’d say.
But how basketball is played at the highest level includes a hierarchy among its’ players. Focusing on the word alpha to dismiss that reality because of wolf pack studies won’t change it.
The concept has been studied extensively by psychologists,
The Origins of Alpha and Beta: From Psychology to Performance Culture
The terms Alpha and Beta trace their roots to psychological typologies, originally applied to animal behavior and later adapted to human social dynamics. In ethology, âAlphaâ denotes a dominant, assertive leader; âBetaâ refers to a supportive or subordinate member within a hierarchy. When borrowed into performance discourseâespecially in sports, esports, and competitive personal developmentâAlpha shifts symbolically to describe an individual who “sets the pace, anticipates challenges, and exercises control”.
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Lazy. Can’t argue about the quote, so claim it’s AI.
No, I KNOW at least part of it is AI.
Here, I’ll let AI argue on my behalf:
That sounds authoritative, but itâs mostly dressing up a loose analogy as psychology. Human groups absolutely develop status and leadership hierarchies, including basketball teams, but that doesnât validate the pop-culture âalpha/betaâ framework. Those are not standard psychological categories for describing human performance or leadership, and citing animal dominance terminology doesnât make them scientifically rigorous. You can argue that elite teams have leaders, stars, role players, and status hierarchies without pretending âalphaâ is a well-defined psychological construct.
I mean the biggest sign that the last paragraph was AI is the two em dashes, â, that ChatGPT loves to use, but people rarely type (outside of smart text editors like Word that sometimes auto-convert hyphens/dashes to emdashes).
Humans rarely use them in reddit comments, as it’s usually a pain in the ass to type (like Alt-0151, Option-2014, [Windows]-[Shift]-[hyphen], or navigating through multiple menus).
On the other hand, the biggest sign that you didn’t use AI for the entire comment is how you incorrectly wrote its' (the possessive its never uses an apostrophe) and how the comment switches between smart quotes (unicode characters where left quote and right quote are different in âAlphaâ) and dumb quotes where open quote / close quote are the same (in "sets ... control".). If your text editor was automatically converting these “dumb” quotes to smart quotes, it likely would have done it consistently throughout the comment.
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I audibly groaned when this guy asked this during the presser take his credentials please
So cringe…these guys just can’t help it.
This term is corny AF
Just a stupid ass question. Might as well make up shit at that point.
Journalism is dead
did r/nba get to submit questions?
What a ridiculous question
These are the same questions they asked to paint the narrative on the Celtics and yall ate it up. Now heâs on the sixers and everyone is in agreement these questions are lame
Can’t lie it going to be interested to finally sit back and watch another team deal with it. To the Jay’s credit they dealt with the best they could.
Wait until there’s credit to be claimed, or some trouble. Thats when it’ll get interesting.
Lol the reporters know which players have giant egos its seems. The Kyrie snap back in the day was quite funny to watch. JB seems to have learned from his Celtics tenure.
Perhaps… JB is having the exact thought you had and his response was based on recognizing the trap. And people are responding the way they are because he didn’t fall into that trap twice.
Thatâs cus there could definitely be a debate on who it was in Boston. Ainât no debate here. Lebron is clearly the alpha as far as the leader of this team and when healthy Embiid is clearly the alpha on offense
I would totally pull a âwell actuallyâ đ¤ and be like âdid you know that the alpha male concept is pseudoscience based on a flawed misinterpretation of animal behavior that the original scientist later retracted himself?â And then stare him down.
The one time his Jaylen Brown-ness might have been useful
Brown would be taking notes if he was in this comment section
Thatâs not totally true either. The alpha male concept is not accurate for âwild wolf packs behaviorâ, but animal dominance and status is very much a thing. But yeah it has nothing do to with playing a ball game
But the term “alpha” as in “alpha leader” or “alpha male” in colloquial usage undoubtedly derives from “Alpha Wolves” and by extension “beta wolves.” You don’t hear folks drawing it from “alpha giraffes” or “beta newts.”
I didnât say that animal status and dominance wasnât a thing that existed anywhere in nature.
Not true at all. There are dominance hierarchies in nature. Have you read David Mech? Surely not. But still letâs call it pseudoscience to sound smart.
The scientific method doesnât mean âitâs true and can never be improved/retracted againâ.
> Have you read David Mech? Surely not.
/r/iamverysmart
Reddit comment good job
Have you read Reddit? Surely not.
Good thing I didnât say any of that then.
As of now the alpha wolf thing has been revised. The original wolves that the first study was conducted on were different wolves from different areas in a small as space. Naturally wild wolves behave much differently
I know. I didnât say anything to the contrary
Hello Jaylen. How does it feel to be the Bronny James of the team?
Jaylen what kind of parental role has LeBron played for you this offseason
He could of easily just asked is anyone taking a team captain role smh Alpha is so weird
Nba reporters always trying to break teams up
NBA reporters are clickbait merchants.
“Weak men get rear-ended.” - LeBron Raymone James
The modern usage of âalphaâ comes from âalpha wolfâ which is now scientifically wrong. Among wolves, thereâs no âalphaâ in a sense they are trying to dominate or be hyper aggressive, but rather just trying to raise or help a member of the pack.
Dude that’s such an easy answer:
LeBron is the alpha
Jaylen Brown is the sigma
Maxey is the gamma
Edgecomb is the omega
Embiid is the beta
So wrong. JB is clearly an epsilon and Maxey is the omicron
Whos the Lambda? Delta?
We need to get info on who those reporters are and who they report to
Anyone know who this reporter is? Iâd love to know what he looks like.
Sounds like Joe Vardon for The Athletic
looks like a redditor
Feel like the reporter himself knew this was a stupid question to ask
According to this news site I just checked (AO3), Lebron’s an alpha while Steph Curry’s an omega. There seems to be a lot of articles on it, too. Hold on, let me read them.
Idiot deserves that response
Women should probably cover their drinks when that guy is hovering around.
To mix metaphors, what if he’d said “I don’t know that, but I’m the Omega because I’m damn sure shooting the last shot if it’s for the win.”
That jawn is going to hate it there
Jaylen! I’ll be watching you :-)
Except alpha means leader, not father figure
A real alpha wouldâve said answered
Grown men talking about âalphaâ đ¤Ž
Why do half of these reporters seem to be making up their questions on the spot? It shouldnât take you 15 seconds to ask a question like that
Yup 90% of the stuff you hear from players that cause controversy are the media asking dumbass questions lol. But a lot of times, it gets clipped out of context, and then you have a legion of people hating a player.
He definitely thinks itâs him lol
He just canât say it out loud
Heâs no fun