Who is worse.. Nick Wright or Skip Bayless?

[Diesel]

First Skip... He has called Trae, Mice Trae all season. 

Then Nick talking today saying that the Knicks should foul Trae Young so that the refs have trouble deciding if it's a Flagrant 1 or Flagrant 2?

For me... this takes the cake.  We're talking about the game of Basketball... Not MMA.  Not professional Slap Boxing.   Basketball.   If somebody does foul Trae so that the refs don't know to call it a Flagrant 1 or Flagrant 2, I hope somebody shows up and Kicks Nicks Ass. 

 

[JayBirdHawk]

Yes to both.

[JayBirdHawk]

I see a lot of Nix fans saying to hard foul/injure our players. Stuff like, put in some dude name Pelle to injure Capela in the 1st 3 minutes...really?  when you have talking heads condoning this stuff it's even worse.

[EazyRoc]

If the Knicks do something like that and Adam Silver BETTER make heads roll.

[kg01]

"Losing with dignity" is a thing.  We saw, at the end of game 4, the Nix have no plans on doing that.

Hope the Hawks plan accordingly.

I'm in no way looking past this game but I will say if the outcome is clear at some point tonight, win or lose, I hope we pull the starters from the bench area.

[sturt]

Honestly, if I see Skip Bayless is featured in a YouTube video, I won't watch it. I just won't. Practically any self-respecting Cowboys fan like me long ago abandoned that guy as serving any useful purpose after he gave Jimmy Johnson reason to swear him off. And if I won't watch him that way, it goes w/o saying, I don't watch him on live TV.

Nick Wright? Don't know him. I'm sure I would if you showed me his picture. But any of these people who essentially have a voice because they've made a career out of saying enough sufficiently outrageous things... as-if that's somehow a "talent"... I've got no time for them.

SAS gets the same treatment ordinarily, except I've made an exception these last several days simply b/c I revel in Knick tears, and of course, he's an exceptional source of that.

The only talker show I will even occasionally watch is PTI... Kornheiser and Wilbon have earned the right to a higher regard for their thoughts... and way back when, I was an avid watcher of the Sunday am "Sports Reporters" on ESPN. That was some quality TV, actually, and set the standard.

[kg01]

stu is onto something.   I started to seek out this Wright person's quotes, but stopped myself.  That's exactly what these no-talent barkers want.

IIUC, based on what I've heard others say, this guy has made a name for himself by saying Lebron sucks.  IOW, the Bayless model.

If your claim to fame is just saying enough dumb sh*t to get attention, sorry I can't be a part of that.  If you have some insight, cool, I'll give it a listen.

Sadly most popular media folks take the easy road by just saying stuff they probably don't even believe themselves.  Not sure why we, as a whole, don't just stop listening/clicking.

[JayBirdHawk]

23 minutes ago, sturt said:

Honestly, if I see Skip Bayless is featured in a YouTube video, I won't watch it. I just won't. Practically any self-respecting Cowboys fan like me long ago abandoned that guy as serving any useful purpose after he gave Jimmy Johnson reason to swear him off. And if I won't watch him that way, it goes w/o saying, I don't watch him on live TV.

Nick Wright? Don't know him. I'm sure I would if you showed me his picture. But any of these people who essentially have a voice because they've made a career out of saying enough sufficiently outrageous things... as-if that's somehow a "talent"... I've got no time for them.

SAS gets the same treatment ordinarily, except I've made an exception these last several days simply b/c I revel in Knick tears, and of course, he's an exceptional source of that.

The only talker show I will even occasionally watch is PTI... Kornheiser and Wilbon have earned the right to a higher regard for their thoughts... and way back when, I was an avid watcher of the Sunday am "Sports Reporters" on ESPN. That was some quality TV, actually, and set the standard.

All this.  I just can't listen - they make my ears bleed.

Edited June 2, 2021 by JayBirdHawk

[JeffS17]

Neither have any self-respect.  You have to forgo your dignity to get into the positions they're in and you can't get it back.

[AHF]

47 minutes ago, sturt said:

The only talker show I will even occasionally watch is PTI... Kornheiser and Wilbon have earned the right to a higher regard for their thoughts... and way back when, I was an avid watcher of the Sunday am "Sports Reporters" on ESPN. That was some quality TV, actually, and set the standard.

Probably revealing our age but Sports Reporters may be my all-time favorite ESPN content.  I loved that show.  Really great, meaty discussions on all things sports.

[JayBirdHawk]

17 minutes ago, AHF said:

Probably revealing our age but Sports Reporters may be my all-time favorite ESPN content.  I loved that show.  Really great, meaty discussions on all things sports.

Every Sunday like clockwork.  I would set up the tape.

[hawkman]

1 hour ago, Diesel said:

First Skip... He has called Trae, Mice Trae all season. 

Then Nick talking today saying that the Knicks should foul Trae Young so that the refs have trouble deciding if it's a Flagrant 1 or Flagrant 2?

For me... this takes the cake.  We're talking about the game of Basketball... Not MMA.  Not professional Slap Boxing.   Basketball.   If somebody does foul Trae so that the refs don't know to call it a Flagrant 1 or Flagrant 2, I hope somebody shows up and Kicks Nicks Ass. 

 

They're both awful but Wright is way out of pocket. Skip is just mad at Trae for proving him wrong. Wright is a New York homer that's mad at Trae for torching his team. At least Skip isn't begging the Knicks to harm Trae. The idea of a sports journalist begging a team to flagrant foul a star player is beyond unprofessional. Not one word of condemnation from his peers. Once again, inexcusable behavior is normalized because it's New York. Would that type of commentary be okay if it was an Atlanta sports journalist saying the same thing about Rose when he was torching the Hawks? At what point is the line officially crossed? 

[HawkingAwesome]

who?

[hawkman]

1 hour ago, kg01 said:

stu is onto something.   I started to seek out this Wright person's quotes, but stopped myself.  That's exactly what these no-talent barkers want.

IIUC, based on what I've heard others say, this guy has made a name for himself by saying Lebron sucks.  IOW, the Bayless model.

If your claim to fame is just saying enough dumb sh*t to get attention, sorry I can't be a part of that.  If you have some insight, cool, I'll give it a listen.

Sadly most popular media folks take the easy road by just saying stuff they probably don't even believe themselves.  Not sure why we, as a whole, don't just stop listening/clicking.

Unfortunately, I was searching Hawks content and got "click baited' into watching his commentary. I accept the fact that loud, controversial opinions are the norm in sports journalism today, but he's a walking trash can for what he said. 

[lethalweapon3]

I can't decide, either. Is it too late for Shannon to call Julio for the tiebreaker?

 

~lw3

[TheNorthCydeRises]

2 hours ago, Diesel said:

First Skip... He has called Trae, Mice Trae all season. 

Then Nick talking today saying that the Knicks should foul Trae Young so that the refs have trouble deciding if it's a Flagrant 1 or Flagrant 2?

For me... this takes the cake.  We're talking about the game of Basketball... Not MMA.  Not professional Slap Boxing.   Basketball.   If somebody does foul Trae so that the refs don't know to call it a Flagrant 1 or Flagrant 2, I hope somebody shows up and Kicks Nicks Ass. 

 

 

If that happens, that's when you insert Bruno into the game and tell him to "sweep the leg" on Derrick Rose.

And yes, I know how the movie ends.  But no happy ending for them, if they try to hurt Trae.

 

 

[kg01]

15 minutes ago, TheNorthCydeRises said:

 

If that happens, that's when you insert Bruno into the game and tell him to "sweep the leg" on Derrick Rose.

And yes, I know how the movie ends.  But no happy ending for them, if they try to hurt Trae.

 

 

"Sweep the leg, Bruno ..... you gotta problem with that?"

[JayBirdHawk]

17 minutes ago, TheNorthCydeRises said:

 

If that happens, that's when you insert Bruno into the game and tell him to "sweep the leg" on Derrick Rose.

And yes, I know how the movie ends.  But no happy ending for them, if they try to hurt Trae.

 

 

I think the will be more subtle.  Death by a thousand cuts!

[Thomas]

Skip Bayless is payed to be that guy. Devil's advocate on his best day. He should truly be rich by now.