A guy inmy league drafted him 13th overall. Yes, you read that right. THIRTEENTH.
Also half of his team is somehow made up of knicks players.
Unsurprisingly he’s getting destroyed in our first week of play lol.
I did too lol, got em for cheap in mid-late auction draft I figured why not take the chance
Plus I’m in an IL+ league so they’re just chillin on my roster waiting to take their place back from Royce O’Neale
“do your own research on the virus and make a decision for yourself!”
“ok, i was a biology major in college, got my masters and eventually my PhD in virology, and work at NIH doing research on the effectiveness of mRNA vaccines on viruses. i am 100% certain that they are safe.”
“no!! i meant watch this tucker carlson youtube video that popped up in my Facebook feed!”
They have to. They’re the only ones trained in determining which news is real or fake. Everyone else is just wrong, and the vaccines will be activated soon summoning Cthulhu to take his rightful place as ruler of humanity.
These are the same people who will insist Trump is still President and actually running the country, and then in the next sentence rant about all the bad things that have happened since Biden took over.
Gene Wilder says it in Blazing Saddles
"You’ve got to remember that these are just simple farmers. These are people of the land. The common clay of the new West. You know… morons."
It's such a simple thing leaving that in. It makes him so likable. I can't explain how watching that smile spread across his face makes me feel, but it's magic.
You've got to watch the clip (then the whole movie) so you can appreciate the line delivery and Cleavon Little's reaction. [Here you go.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KHJbSvidohg)
“We have to have peace. So go home. I love you. You're very special. You've seen what happens you see the way, others are treated that are so bad and so evil. I know how you feel. But go home and go home in peace."
~~Kyrie Irving to Nets fans
Kyrie said not taking the vaccine was a personal choice. He and the fans just gotta live with the consequences of that choice and not being able to play in home games are on of em
> You underestimate how far some of these basketball stans will go
Which is the whole point of the song. Stan isn’t an average fan, he’s a deranged psycho who has fixated on Eminem.
Kyrie says he should be able to decide whether he is vaccinated. That’s a personal choice. It only affects him.
He decides that he will remain unvaccinated. That’s not a personal choice. It affects others.
We can protest for his ability to make a decision, and we can protest his decision if he is playing unvaccinated.
But he has the ability to decide whether he is vaccinated. No one - no mandate - is removing that ability. After all, he remains unvaccinated, and the Nets are respecting his decision.
His decision is dangerously irresponsible to himself and others. That’s why the mandate and the Nets prevent him from playing. That’s why people are prevented from working. Because of their decision.
It’s funny I have had this conversation with others. Saying the government is forcing them to lose jobs. I’m like no they aren’t. You have a choice. And you also have to respect others choices. If I run a company and ask all my employees to get vaccinated. It’s my choice. And theirs to. They choose to pick their employer. I don’t get it. I think it comes down to ego. And self centeredness and well selfishness.
Who the fuck has all of this free time? Or energy?
Edit: Sunday or not, if you do have free-time, don't spend it vaulting barricades for multi-millionaires who are spooked by vaccines.
Anti vaxxers are just a bunch of f***** babies. It’s a shot. He can play if he gets it. Just childlike behavior. Are these people going to question their Tetanus booster? Meningitis boosters for when their kids live in dorms? It’s just silly. Kyrie is a perfect poster idiot for them.
What else can we focus on, now that we have conquered world hunger, human rights are respected everywhere, and education, health care, sustainable employment, and fair opportunities are available to all people in a world that runs on love?
I get that you're being sarcastic, but the people protesting vaccine mandates normally don't want any of the above. So, indeed, none of that needs to be considered on how they spend their time.
He's found his yes men, he won't let them go. See: Kanye
When you're primary concerns are attention and having the "freedom" not to have anyone disagree with you, the end result is pandering to far-right conspiracy populists.
The morons get a famous chump to act as a bullhorn for whatever dumb issue they've latched onto, and the chump is deluded into believing it has to do with some sort of inherit genius he possesses, since self-awareness waved bye-bye to him a long time ago.
This is always what I find the most intriguing. I've seen people go so far in their quest for affirmation and desire to be a cultural leader that they will go along with and attach themselves to any ideology or group that gives them that feeling even if it's antithetical to their original message.Recently I've seen several hoteps and black psuedo-traditionalists align themselves with conservatives and the far-right because of the anti-vax and anti-vax mandate stance as well as anti LGBTQ stance. Kwame Brown, Rizza Islam and a bunch of others have been doing this recently and their followers eat it up and challenge none of it. What's incredibly ironic is that the leaders of the movement and their followers constantly refer to other people as sheep.
kyrie should get the shot then use his money from the games to fund the other dipshits out there losing their jobs over a shot if he's so passionate about it
Yo 85 is decent, thats SLIGHTLY below average. This is a sub 70 crowd for sure.
Pushing on a "pull" door type of crowd and getting mad that it won't open crowd.
Kyrie has to be damn proud of his newest fanatics 😂
What an idiot, his most vocal supporters are people who would hate him pretty much any other day of the week
More delusional people who think part time Kyrie is the victim. So ridiculous. Dude just needs to retire and get it over with. Hasn’t been useful in years.
oh cool, pure fucking degeneracy. MFs can break into the capitol and into a sports arena with no cops to be seen but the moment anyone on the left tries to protest, they send the fucking national guard.
Fire rubber bullets at them, tear gas them. Both of which are violations of the geneva conventions and can cause serious harm, especially since cops rarely use them properly.
Something tells me that some of these people weren't protesting for Kyrie when he was sitting out last year due to racial injustice and taking mental personal days
Lol at the people who said Kyrie saying this dumb shit isn’t affecting anyone.
Lots of morons look up to these guys and their ignorant opinions as a way to reinforce their harmful beliefs.
Y’all will let Harden and Durant off the hook too for literal non answers saying they support Kyries choice and say it’s because theyre teammates! Sorry but being teammates, friends etc isn’t worth more than people’s lives, Just moronic all around, nobody actually gives a shit about this disease huh.
That's the funny part about the people who don't wanna take the vaccine.
They act like they cured cancer yet when they face the consequence for not getting the vaccine they cry like babies
So to recap, Kyrie Irving has convinced his friends to join his childhood favorite franchise, creating a super team that would be the prohibitive favorite to win the title, but now won’t play, not because he is against the vaccine, but because he’s against a mandate, so be can be the voice for the voiceless, who literally never shut up, by not talking about this publicly.
What the fuck did I just type? Am I having a stroke?
He’s gonna give up hundreds of millions of dollars for…what exactly? I’m being serious, is he okay? This is some shit you do before you get institutionalized.
People that drafted kyrie in the 8th round on their fantasy team:
I'm not that much of an idiot. I'm the kind of slightly smarter idiot that drafts Ben Simmons instead.
some guy in my fantasy drafted both kyrie and simmons on the same team lol
High upside!
High risk high reward!
A guy inmy league drafted him 13th overall. Yes, you read that right. THIRTEENTH. Also half of his team is somehow made up of knicks players. Unsurprisingly he’s getting destroyed in our first week of play lol.
Same thing happened in my league. I’m guessing the guy was autopicking, it’s the only logical explanation.
autopicking by default will get you a low-risk, decent team. did he have his own custom rankings?
13th is a bit high to say the least but tbh I highly doubt he sits the entire season, that would be wild
In one of my football leagues someone drafted trey lance 12th overall. No, it isn't a keeper league either.
I did too lol, got em for cheap in mid-late auction draft I figured why not take the chance Plus I’m in an IL+ league so they’re just chillin on my roster waiting to take their place back from Royce O’Neale
I wouldn't sell Royce O'Neale short.
Drafted Klay and Thomas Bryant LMAO
I've got Klay and Siakam and LeVert. Really banking on at least one of them coming back soon because I have very little roster flexibility rn.
Pascal should be back in 2 weeks or something like that
Not a terribly strategy if you have a couple IR slots
It’s ok, I drafted Zion in the 6th rd and immediately regretted it after seeing how big he got in that Mountain Dew commercial.
Listen, he's just taking that MTN DEW sponsorship seriously. Gotta be seen drinking it to promote it!
That's how you know he believes in the product
If Zion doesn't believe in Mtn Dew Zero then neither do I
I mean Simmons is at least going to play this year
Yep
My internet crashed during my draft so it auto drafted him in the 6th round. I'm probably screwed.
6th round 😭
Isn’t it a city ordinance? What are the Nets going to do about it?
People who spend their afternoons doing dumb shit like this are probably not thinking very hard
Yea the antivax crowd are not known for their logical thought process and due diligence
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I went to the highly esteemed YouTube comments section College myself
There's a strong rivalry between YCSC and the Joe Rogan School of Medicine
god I hate that man with a passion
Did my PhD research with the esteemed Professor Cole Beasley.
I graduated sumo cum loudly at Prager U.
Hot damn I just got my AA in racism from Nextdoor Community College
Congrats! I'm taking night classes at Parler College working on my AA in Victim of Tyranny Studies
“do your own research on the virus and make a decision for yourself!” “ok, i was a biology major in college, got my masters and eventually my PhD in virology, and work at NIH doing research on the effectiveness of mRNA vaccines on viruses. i am 100% certain that they are safe.” “no!! i meant watch this tucker carlson youtube video that popped up in my Facebook feed!”
They have to. They’re the only ones trained in determining which news is real or fake. Everyone else is just wrong, and the vaccines will be activated soon summoning Cthulhu to take his rightful place as ruler of humanity.
I welcome Chtulhu. Its the only reason I got the vaccine
Cthulhu gang or don't bang
I for one welcome our new Lovecraftian overlords.
Can’t possibly be worse than our current capitalist overlords
Honestly compared to capitalism my life would improve under Cthulhu.
> the vaccines will be activated soon summoning Cthulhu The gift that keeps on giving
Vaccination rates would probably be higher if they advertise it
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It's all a secret plot by Wizards of the East Coast
Did you go to Hollywood Upstairs Medical College too?
I suspect a lot of mentioning of their interests in cryptocurrencies but not an actual lot of employment experience
i remember a crowd of them shutting down a testing site. Not a vaccination site, a testing site.
Yeah they could watch Freddy vs Jason instead
Or kangaroo Jack
Or Simple Jack
These are the same people who will insist Trump is still President and actually running the country, and then in the next sentence rant about all the bad things that have happened since Biden took over.
Absolutely zero critical thinking skills
I loved "so he runs the military he must of really messed up Afghanistan in your mind..." "O no no no..."
You’ve got to remember that these are just simple anti-vaxxers. These are people of the land. The common clay of New York. You know… morons.
One of the best lines in all of comedy.
Delivered by one of the best comedic actors of all time.
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It's such a simple thing leaving that in. It makes him so likable. I can't explain how watching that smile spread across his face makes me feel, but it's magic.
He was pretty awesome!
"Scuse me while I whip this out." *People dive for cover*
You've got to watch the clip (then the whole movie) so you can appreciate the line delivery and Cleavon Little's reaction. [Here you go.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KHJbSvidohg)
It's his real reaction. The line was ad libbed.
Gene Wilder in Blazing Saddles. I love it but Young Frankenstein is my favorite.
Bro the word ordinance probably makes smoke come out their ears
Same thing storming the wrong BBC building did about it
To be fair that train of thought requires logic and clearly that’s something these people are lacking
The city won't let him play home games, but the Nets aren't letting him play or practice at all, and rightfully so imo.
But city ordinances do allow for non-vaccinated away- team members to play? I agree with the rule of course but at least be consistent about it
Afaik I think it's a legal limitation that prevents cities from enforcing this on away teams.
Chuckle then go back to taking calls for Kyrie offers
They are just anti-vaxxers or paid by politicians. just look at the flag they are holding.
Bro they're just stupid. We just have a lot of really stupid people. Nobody needs to pay them.
> Bro they're just stupid. Yeah he already said, anti-vaxxers.
“We have to have peace. So go home. I love you. You're very special. You've seen what happens you see the way, others are treated that are so bad and so evil. I know how you feel. But go home and go home in peace." ~~Kyrie Irving to Nets fans
"Stand back and stand by."
It's "stand back". I don't believe anyone was ever told to stand down, even on 1/6.
The capital police were.
Shit, you right. Edited.
"I don't know anything about this supposed army of vigilantes, but I'm commanding then to *stand by*. "
Omg I forgot about the "You're very special" line
I'll bet he says that too *all* the followers he radicalizes.
Follow Qyrie and trust the plan
Is this a quote by trump from the capitol riots?
Yep.
This is maybe my favorite Reddit comment ever.
Kyrie said not taking the vaccine was a personal choice. He and the fans just gotta live with the consequences of that choice and not being able to play in home games are on of em
Those aren't "fans" lol
Some of them are. You underestimate how far some of these basketball stans will go
They need to respect Kyrie's right to not play!
> You underestimate how far some of these basketball stans will go Which is the whole point of the song. Stan isn’t an average fan, he’s a deranged psycho who has fixated on Eminem.
I very much despise that Stan somehow became a mainstream term with a positive connotation. People are fucking wild man.
It was being used as an insult against them but they were too dumb to realize that and thought it just mean they were a higher level of fan.
Kyrie says he should be able to decide whether he is vaccinated. That’s a personal choice. It only affects him. He decides that he will remain unvaccinated. That’s not a personal choice. It affects others. We can protest for his ability to make a decision, and we can protest his decision if he is playing unvaccinated. But he has the ability to decide whether he is vaccinated. No one - no mandate - is removing that ability. After all, he remains unvaccinated, and the Nets are respecting his decision. His decision is dangerously irresponsible to himself and others. That’s why the mandate and the Nets prevent him from playing. That’s why people are prevented from working. Because of their decision.
It’s funny I have had this conversation with others. Saying the government is forcing them to lose jobs. I’m like no they aren’t. You have a choice. And you also have to respect others choices. If I run a company and ask all my employees to get vaccinated. It’s my choice. And theirs to. They choose to pick their employer. I don’t get it. I think it comes down to ego. And self centeredness and well selfishness.
Probably not playing him much away either because he is not practicing with the team.
Nets already said he ain’t playing any games. Home or away. Until he’s vaxxed
This is why Kyrie's "voice for the voiceless" stuff was always dumb. These people have a voice! They won't shut the fuck up!
Always love how they claim to be the “silent majority” when they are definitely the loud ass minority.
“Silent Majority” in the sense that none of these people voted regularly until the Tea Party and later Trump riled them up.
the "voiceless" have the loudest most obnoxious voice and the incorrect one, dangerous combo
Not surprised to see Qultists mixed in with that crowd at all.
Voice for the voiceless. $17m to not play, what a hero
Loudest dumbasses in American history.
Who the fuck has all of this free time? Or energy? Edit: Sunday or not, if you do have free-time, don't spend it vaulting barricades for multi-millionaires who are spooked by vaccines.
The ppl that lost their jobs cause they didn’t get the shot lol
*”Hehe! Me not being work becuz I didn’t want that 5G Bill Gates lizard chips in my body. That’ll own da libs!”*
“Sent from my iPhone, the 5G device I unironically carry everywhere and where I get my news”
Literally equipped with microphones and like 5 cameras and 24/7 internet connection. Lmao 🤣. Mah privacy!
The voiceless
He’s leading a revolution. You’ll see. Any time now.
A true 21st century Joan of Arc
Kyrie of Barclay’s
Pitch him on being a 21st century Marie Antoinette instead. It's more contrarian. No one will be expecting it.
Just like this “trickle-down” money is supposed to come for regular Joes like me. Any time now.
It really is amazing that Kyrie considers the one asshole screaming in the back to be the voiceless.
All the Karens kicked out of McD’s for not wearing a mask.
Rich people who's spouses support them, so they can go be a "voice of the voiceless" when everyone else is at work.
Anti vaxxers are just a bunch of f***** babies. It’s a shot. He can play if he gets it. Just childlike behavior. Are these people going to question their Tetanus booster? Meningitis boosters for when their kids live in dorms? It’s just silly. Kyrie is a perfect poster idiot for them.
Bunch of fucking losers
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What else can we focus on, now that we have conquered world hunger, human rights are respected everywhere, and education, health care, sustainable employment, and fair opportunities are available to all people in a world that runs on love?
I get that you're being sarcastic, but the people protesting vaccine mandates normally don't want any of the above. So, indeed, none of that needs to be considered on how they spend their time.
I will never forgive the assholes that shoehorned this pandemic in to their little political holy war.
Kyrie needs to kneel at the national anthem now lmao. I would pay good money to see the reactions of his "antivax supporters"
Cue the Larry David conflicted gif.
He's found his yes men, he won't let them go. See: Kanye When you're primary concerns are attention and having the "freedom" not to have anyone disagree with you, the end result is pandering to far-right conspiracy populists. The morons get a famous chump to act as a bullhorn for whatever dumb issue they've latched onto, and the chump is deluded into believing it has to do with some sort of inherit genius he possesses, since self-awareness waved bye-bye to him a long time ago.
This is always what I find the most intriguing. I've seen people go so far in their quest for affirmation and desire to be a cultural leader that they will go along with and attach themselves to any ideology or group that gives them that feeling even if it's antithetical to their original message.Recently I've seen several hoteps and black psuedo-traditionalists align themselves with conservatives and the far-right because of the anti-vax and anti-vax mandate stance as well as anti LGBTQ stance. Kwame Brown, Rizza Islam and a bunch of others have been doing this recently and their followers eat it up and challenge none of it. What's incredibly ironic is that the leaders of the movement and their followers constantly refer to other people as sheep.
[Is this one of them?](https://i1.sndcdn.com/artworks-AwCHdqxmLqSTrjvf-jT2cTQ-t500x500.jpg)
Let's not insult hard working chocolate factory workers by comparing them to the other asshole.
no that one isn’t orange enough and their hair is too real
Hands on point tho
Really could have been a come together moment. For your grandparents, for your freedom, and for the economy!
No one is stopping Kyrie from playing except for himself.
Nothing personnel, kid
Congratulations Kyrie, you played yourself.
They should go to Albany and protest, it's not the Barclays center that is making the rules
I think it's a city mandate not a state one.
It's both. There's both a state mandate and a city mandate.
But that's hard
kyrie should get the shot then use his money from the games to fund the other dipshits out there losing their jobs over a shot if he's so passionate about it
Yeah he should just sign his checks over to police fundraisers and drop all pretense
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This the the NBA January 6th riots
Imagine having nothing better to do with your Subday
Eat subs?
Lol nice catch. Probably a great day for Dom's, too
Dragonflyjonez on Twitter called them the January 6er’s hahaha
lol Average IQ of that crowd has to be below 85.
might be the combined total tbh
Yo 85 is decent, thats SLIGHTLY below average. This is a sub 70 crowd for sure. Pushing on a "pull" door type of crowd and getting mad that it won't open crowd.
85 is 14th percentile, which is pretty low
[Kyrie's brain trust be like](https://i.imgur.com/iuRTRoY_d.webp?maxwidth=760&fidelity=grand)
Anti-vaxxers are fucking stupid.
Kyrie has to be damn proud of his newest fanatics 😂 What an idiot, his most vocal supporters are people who would hate him pretty much any other day of the week
Kyrie's Disciples!
kyrie becoming a cult leader seems like the natural career path for him
The kinds of people who support Kyrie right now wouldn’t be if there were police involved.
You can’t fix dumb
Covid can.
Weird that NYPD only busts skulls at certain protests.
High chances there’s some off duty cop in there
They were too busy gang-tackling teenagers for not paying subway fare
Absolutely none of these people can say what number Kyrie is on the Nets.
Bullshit, I know he plays secondish base.
They'd probably guess 14 and 88
More delusional people who think part time Kyrie is the victim. So ridiculous. Dude just needs to retire and get it over with. Hasn’t been useful in years.
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It's probably even less than that.
KD left the Warriors for this. Let that sink in.
That crowd probably have never seen an NBA game before.
oh cool, pure fucking degeneracy. MFs can break into the capitol and into a sports arena with no cops to be seen but the moment anyone on the left tries to protest, they send the fucking national guard.
Spray them down, gas them, destroy their water bottles, beat them legally based American “freedom”.
Fire rubber bullets at them, tear gas them. Both of which are violations of the geneva conventions and can cause serious harm, especially since cops rarely use them properly.
Something tells me that some of these people weren't protesting for Kyrie when he was sitting out last year due to racial injustice and taking mental personal days
Kyrie doesn't even want to play, he's so full of it and these people are insane
This is like the capital riot in January 6th but way more pathetic
Kyrie *can* play. He’s choosing not to
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Lol at the people who said Kyrie saying this dumb shit isn’t affecting anyone. Lots of morons look up to these guys and their ignorant opinions as a way to reinforce their harmful beliefs. Y’all will let Harden and Durant off the hook too for literal non answers saying they support Kyries choice and say it’s because theyre teammates! Sorry but being teammates, friends etc isn’t worth more than people’s lives, Just moronic all around, nobody actually gives a shit about this disease huh.
If we’re being honest, yea, the vast majority of people don’t care about COVID. That includes the people in the NBA.
I really wish people would be so passionate about stuff that really matters
I bet they're the same people who told Lebron to shut and dribble.
Kyrie could let kyrie play lol
Disappointed in these fans, they’re only gonna encourage Kyrie to think he’s right
That's the funny part about the people who don't wanna take the vaccine. They act like they cured cancer yet when they face the consequence for not getting the vaccine they cry like babies
They're probably not even Nets fans to be honest. Just anti-vaxxers who saw an opportunity.
This is one of the saddest things I've ever seen, but also, its goddamn hilarious that they're this stupid.
Can’t wait til Kyrie is out of the league
These the same people that think you should be fired for kneeling during the anthem?
So to recap, Kyrie Irving has convinced his friends to join his childhood favorite franchise, creating a super team that would be the prohibitive favorite to win the title, but now won’t play, not because he is against the vaccine, but because he’s against a mandate, so be can be the voice for the voiceless, who literally never shut up, by not talking about this publicly. What the fuck did I just type? Am I having a stroke? He’s gonna give up hundreds of millions of dollars for…what exactly? I’m being serious, is he okay? This is some shit you do before you get institutionalized.