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Somehow true<\/a>: Portland Trail Blazers center Deandre Ayton misses game due to being unable to get to the arena on account of icy weather conditions<\/span><\/p>\n I\u2019ve been following sports for pretty much all of my entire lucid life, and in all those years, this is honestly the first time that I\u2019ve ever heard of a scenario where a player basically called out due to the weather.\u00a0 This is the kind of shit that a college student says when they don\u2019t want to get up for an 8 am class, or a shitty American babysitter says when they\u2019re checked out.<\/span><\/p>\n But an NBA player?\u00a0 Especially one who\u2019s making $32M to play fucking basketball?\u00a0 Mind blown.<\/span><\/p>\n Like, I\u2019m sure because he\u2019s mega rich, he lives a little bit in seclusion, because that\u2019s what rich people tend to like to do.\u00a0 And I know Portland is a weird place, in terms of people, as well as geography, and they\u2019re kind of subject to the shitty weather conditions that afflict Seattle and the rest of the Pacific Northwest, but you\u2019d think a go-zillionaire like an NBA player like Deandre Ayton would have some sort of contingency plan for icy roads.<\/span><\/p>\n Honestly, it\u2019s not entirely on the player too, the team itself could\u2019ve taken better preparation for this, like putting up him and other players in a baller hotel right near the arena or something if there was any indication that the weather was going to go tits up on game day.<\/span><\/p>\n Imagine if something like this occurred in the MJ era of the NBA?\u00a0 Ayton would be destroyed by a Charles Oakley type of veteran meat mountain, on his own team as well as opponent.\u00a0 Guys like Alonzo Mourning or Karl Malone would be all up his ass crack, giving him shit for having the audacity to miss a game due to icy roads.\u00a0 He must live at Castle Black or something and the Kingsroad was just too coated with northern ice or something.<\/span><\/p>\n Whatever though, unsurprisingly the best part of this whole situation is the backlash it\u2019s gotten on the internet, and when people collectively get mad at something, the clowns occasionally deliver some hilarious observations.\u00a0 I think my favorites that I\u2019ve seen so far are:<\/span><\/p>\n Pretty funny the Trail Blazers of all teams could not blaze a trail for DeAndre Ayton.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n And then there was this one that is clearly familiar with Ayton\u2019s game in general, and spun his joke to hilarious effect:<\/span><\/p>\n I realize Ayton couldn’t drive to the game, but perhaps he could have done several spin moves, each taking him slightly further from the rim to the game.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n In all fairness though, as critical I feel towards the situation and carte blanche to criticize, I have to admit that sometimes, there\u2019s fewer things more entertaining than the bullshit that comes from the NBA players themselves.\u00a0 Between the Pistons trying their best to become the de facto worst team in league history, and clowns like Ayton calling out due to black guys<\/span> ice, I can\u2019t say I\u2019ve paid more attention to the NBA in a long time.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Somehow true: Portland Trail Blazers center Deandre Ayton misses game due to being unable to get to the arena on account of icy weather conditions I\u2019ve been following sports for pretty much all of my entire lucid life, and in all those years, this is honestly the first time that I\u2019ve ever heard of a … Continue reading Sometimes there is no funnier reality television than the 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