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Isaiah Blakely

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462 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

Podcast Appearances

The Ringer NBA Show
NBA Cup Thunder Takeaways and New All-Star Format With Tyler Parker. Plus, Mac McClung on the G-League, β€˜The Break,’ and His Dunk Contest Future. | Real Ones

We're just asking for them to try enough to make it look like a game where you're trying to stop the other team. And when people say, but oh, injury's Folks, there have been all-star games for literally decades where nobody got hurt, and they played harder than this. This is my 28th season. I have seen this thing erode over time.

The Ringer NBA Show
NBA Cup Thunder Takeaways and New All-Star Format With Tyler Parker. Plus, Mac McClung on the G-League, β€˜The Break,’ and His Dunk Contest Future. | Real Ones

The players themselves, so Durant and Booker and Anthony Davis all bemoaned this new format or pooped on it and said, like, ah, what about the east-west of my youth? Guys, you killed that. You're the ones who are part of the era that killed it with your indifference.

The Ringer NBA Show
NBA Cup Thunder Takeaways and New All-Star Format With Tyler Parker. Plus, Mac McClung on the G-League, β€˜The Break,’ and His Dunk Contest Future. | Real Ones

The players themselves, so Durant and Booker and Anthony Davis all bemoaned this new format or pooped on it and said, like, ah, what about the east-west of my youth? Guys, you killed that. You're the ones who are part of the era that killed it with your indifference.

The Ringer NBA Show
NBA Cup Thunder Takeaways and New All-Star Format With Tyler Parker. Plus, Mac McClung on the G-League, β€˜The Break,’ and His Dunk Contest Future. | Real Ones

The players themselves, so Durant and Booker and Anthony Davis all bemoaned this new format or pooped on it and said, like, ah, what about the east-west of my youth? Guys, you killed that. You're the ones who are part of the era that killed it with your indifference.

The Ringer NBA Show
NBA Cup Thunder Takeaways and New All-Star Format With Tyler Parker. Plus, Mac McClung on the G-League, β€˜The Break,’ and His Dunk Contest Future. | Real Ones

you don't get to now complain about and nitpick about the way the NBA is trying to manipulate it to make it more interesting again when you're the ones who put them in this position. And I should also note in this rant,

The Ringer NBA Show
NBA Cup Thunder Takeaways and New All-Star Format With Tyler Parker. Plus, Mac McClung on the G-League, β€˜The Break,’ and His Dunk Contest Future. | Real Ones

you don't get to now complain about and nitpick about the way the NBA is trying to manipulate it to make it more interesting again when you're the ones who put them in this position. And I should also note in this rant,

The Ringer NBA Show
NBA Cup Thunder Takeaways and New All-Star Format With Tyler Parker. Plus, Mac McClung on the G-League, β€˜The Break,’ and His Dunk Contest Future. | Real Ones

you don't get to now complain about and nitpick about the way the NBA is trying to manipulate it to make it more interesting again when you're the ones who put them in this position. And I should also note in this rant,

The Ringer NBA Show
NBA Cup Thunder Takeaways and New All-Star Format With Tyler Parker. Plus, Mac McClung on the G-League, β€˜The Break,’ and His Dunk Contest Future. | Real Ones

It was Adam Silver and Chris Paul when Chris was still president of the Players Association who had a phone call after one of these shitty games like seven, eight years ago and talked about it and said, you know what? We got to do something. We got to find another way. And after that, they tried the elementing and they did the player draft and various other tweaks.

The Ringer NBA Show
NBA Cup Thunder Takeaways and New All-Star Format With Tyler Parker. Plus, Mac McClung on the G-League, β€˜The Break,’ and His Dunk Contest Future. | Real Ones

It was Adam Silver and Chris Paul when Chris was still president of the Players Association who had a phone call after one of these shitty games like seven, eight years ago and talked about it and said, you know what? We got to do something. We got to find another way. And after that, they tried the elementing and they did the player draft and various other tweaks.

The Ringer NBA Show
NBA Cup Thunder Takeaways and New All-Star Format With Tyler Parker. Plus, Mac McClung on the G-League, β€˜The Break,’ and His Dunk Contest Future. | Real Ones

It was Adam Silver and Chris Paul when Chris was still president of the Players Association who had a phone call after one of these shitty games like seven, eight years ago and talked about it and said, you know what? We got to do something. We got to find another way. And after that, they tried the elementing and they did the player draft and various other tweaks.

The Ringer NBA Show
NBA Cup Thunder Takeaways and New All-Star Format With Tyler Parker. Plus, Mac McClung on the G-League, β€˜The Break,’ and His Dunk Contest Future. | Real Ones

And there were some short-term little bumps, some nice effect initially, and then it fell off a cliff again.

The Ringer NBA Show
NBA Cup Thunder Takeaways and New All-Star Format With Tyler Parker. Plus, Mac McClung on the G-League, β€˜The Break,’ and His Dunk Contest Future. | Real Ones

And there were some short-term little bumps, some nice effect initially, and then it fell off a cliff again.

The Ringer NBA Show
NBA Cup Thunder Takeaways and New All-Star Format With Tyler Parker. Plus, Mac McClung on the G-League, β€˜The Break,’ and His Dunk Contest Future. | Real Ones

And there were some short-term little bumps, some nice effect initially, and then it fell off a cliff again.

The Ringer NBA Show
NBA Cup Thunder Takeaways and New All-Star Format With Tyler Parker. Plus, Mac McClung on the G-League, β€˜The Break,’ and His Dunk Contest Future. | Real Ones

And I liked that part too.

The Ringer NBA Show
NBA Cup Thunder Takeaways and New All-Star Format With Tyler Parker. Plus, Mac McClung on the G-League, β€˜The Break,’ and His Dunk Contest Future. | Real Ones

And I liked that part too.

The Ringer NBA Show
NBA Cup Thunder Takeaways and New All-Star Format With Tyler Parker. Plus, Mac McClung on the G-League, β€˜The Break,’ and His Dunk Contest Future. | Real Ones

And I liked that part too.

The Ringer NBA Show
NBA Cup Thunder Takeaways and New All-Star Format With Tyler Parker. Plus, Mac McClung on the G-League, β€˜The Break,’ and His Dunk Contest Future. | Real Ones

It did.

The Ringer NBA Show
NBA Cup Thunder Takeaways and New All-Star Format With Tyler Parker. Plus, Mac McClung on the G-League, β€˜The Break,’ and His Dunk Contest Future. | Real Ones

It did.

The Ringer NBA Show
NBA Cup Thunder Takeaways and New All-Star Format With Tyler Parker. Plus, Mac McClung on the G-League, β€˜The Break,’ and His Dunk Contest Future. | Real Ones

It did.

The Ringer NBA Show
NBA Cup Thunder Takeaways and New All-Star Format With Tyler Parker. Plus, Mac McClung on the G-League, β€˜The Break,’ and His Dunk Contest Future. | Real Ones

again we're just asking them to try a little harder play as if this is a competition not one that means a ton not that there's major stakes on the line and i get it it's it's a long weekend the nba puts these guys through the ringer they've got all these appearances and all these events plus they're you know partying their butts off too and there's like a lot a lot going on by the time you get to sunday night you just want to like wrap it up and go home i get it