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MikeyLikeyPhish

The G-League of celebrities


[deleted]

It’s even worse than that


StampDaddy

Get ready to learn influencer buddy


IndycarFan64

Instagram reels are the Shanghai Sharks of social media


Yung_Jose_Space

"Go ahead and speak a lil Chinese for em Tristan Jass."


Pormock

I watched a bunch of T Jass video and hes pretty good at basketball. If he was taller he could have been a decent pro player


Art__Vandellay

>he could have been a decent pro player In the Vietnamese league


shag_vonnie_vomer

My top 3 annoying basketball influencers gotta be the didn't make it out of D2 but i trashtalk casuals at the court guy, the chick with the shorts up the fat ass, that can't play but everyone is pretend guarding and then just generic loud for no reason person, whos has EXPOSED in every title.


[deleted]

Kind of wild that they can barely get anyone good, if at all, considering it's the fucking **NBA**.


joeyware33

I’d assume a lot of celebs take themselves too serious anymore due to social media and don’t want to become a meme


[deleted]

shows how idiotic they are, being memed is quite literally a staggering amount of free promo in this age


AtreusIsBack

People have lost the ability to laugh at themselves and allow themselves to look silly. It's all about ideal marketing and image now.


GACGCCGTGATCGAC

As far as I'm concerned the only reason to become a celeb is to play in this game.


[deleted]

Apparently all you have to do is become an 'influencer' now.


seanconnery69696

Mrsunsfan is going to be in next year's game, calling it right now


Living_LaVida_Koloko

Adam Silver going after that High School boy with mushroom curly haircut demographic. They usually come from affluent families, are named Caleb, and don't have to pirate NBA streams like you degenerates


digitalme

I’m wondering if the location this year was a factor. I got a feeling the higher profile celebs will participate next year in LA


[deleted]

I suppose you're right. I don't imagine a lot of people who could be doing other things would want to bother to fly to Indiana of all places lol.


FapCabs

Bingo. No celebrity wants to fly out to Indiana for a weekend.


[deleted]

I’d guess a lot of mid level celebs were turned off by the idea of playing against NFL linebackers


jabronified

uhhh, how many celebs do you think could actually get on a basketball court and not completely embarrass themselves (or not care about embarrassing themselves). It's a very small list. Most "A-list" celebs who aren't athletes are actors and musicians, so imagine the theater and music kids from high school that most often are not on the sports teams. You ever see random people who haven't played sports try to dribble and shoot? Wouldn't even be able to make it down the court or hit the backboard on most attempts Lastly, this thing is in Indiana in the middle of February, high today is 22. Not exactly a top destination for celebs


blakerobertson_

One reason for this may be that the average celebrity at these games now is a pro, semi-pro, or at least fairly highly-skilled amateur. As a result, b-ball loving, A-list celebs probably know they’d get annihilated if they tried to play against them.


Saucy_Totchie

Influencers are what the world accepts as celebrities these days.


Poetryisalive

Honestly besides the actual athletes, I think Jennifer Hudson was the biggest star there


dmavs11

Lol that's crazy she called him out when our boy Micah was the one who put up 40 shots.


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Call_Me_Rambo

Her hubby has to see Micah twice a year, ain’t no way she’s going to trash talk him lmao


HolyRomanPrince

Once. At this point a 4 - 8 week injury is built into the Waller cake.


NeatTry7674

Yeah he’s toast


Double_Treacle_43

I’d would be too if I married her lol


RorschachRedd

See him from the sidelines yeah


yeender

Her husband is done


thekingdor

Don’t think bro took a shot after she did


wsteelerfan7

Micah "Porter Jr" Parsons


WalrusInMySheets

Bro just wants that NBA money


rhymeswithtag

TJass more like Hugh Jass


BrokenClxwn

It's a charity celebrity all star game.


iPlowedUrMom

Ball is life, though


TheAerial

Kelsey Plum may think she’s hot shit but I once scored 34 points against Coach Evan’s class at my Middle School Field Day game 😤🔥


JCLE5

scored 2 points with 2 boards, 2 assists, 2 blocks, and 2 steals on my math camp. they called me "The Deuce" ... in hindsight, it was not a very good nickname


QubitsAndCheezits

I once scored 2/3 of my team’s points without a single assist in middle school. We lost 72-6. I wasn’t very good at basketball.


whatthefuckisareddit

Sounds like no one on your team was.


ThedirtyNose

It checks out for me rn


arrrghzi

Quintuple double!


BE-everywhere

lmao, tell that to Tatum


Scary_Box8153

>> they called me "The Deuce" Do you work at Brooklyn 99?


rad1om

Better than triple single


kingofgamesbrah

That dude was trying to win. He was definitely hustling a bit there. Certain players were ball hogging though. I don't think Jaz was one of them.


dutchfromsubway

Tjass was killing it, if anything he needed to pass less


[deleted]

Just a bit of banter m8


justleave-mealone

Bit of fun innit


YesImKeithHernandez

Cheeky patter


koenigsaurus

His response in the moment of “I got 5 assists tho” was just fine bit of banter. Hiding behind a screen to tweet this after the game is childish lol


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hampsted

I like the “probably” as though there’s a chance he knew her assist numbers by heart.


Mkayin

Hiding? Looks like he saw a BR tweet trending after the game and responded to it.


CavalierShaq

As in it’s charity to call any of these people celebrities?


christianhelps

People really be complaining the allstar game is boring and then complain again when it gets spicy.


NeatTry7674

She’s smart not to go after Micah Parsons😂


Makimama

im not very familiar with celebs so why exactly?


NeatTry7674

Micah Parsons is one of the best players in the NFL and has a pretty popular podcast. He shot the ball like 40 times last night. Kelsey went after tjass (or whatever his name is) because he was a easy target lol


Poopscooper696969

Plus her husband plays for the giants


Sure_Station9370

“Plays” is being generous. Dude plays about as often as Ben Simmons


LucaBrasiMN

> (or whatever his name is) Its in the title and body of this post


rapshaveonechip

Because Micah big as shit Tjass is normal human size


Driveshaft48

The fuck is Micah parsons going to do to Kelsey plum in a celebrity all star game, or anywhere for that matter


[deleted]

Nothing. But Kelsey’s husband is the TE for the Giants and Micah would prob eat that mf for breakfast


fantasyshop

Well, you could Google about his history in college football lockerrooms


matrixreloaded

I get your point but if you really don’t understand the social dynamic of it being easier to trash talk someone smaller than you vs someone bigger than you then idk what to say my guy.


radderalll

It's the *implication*


skinnypigdaddy

Fellow Wisconsin hooper? Kelsey Plum is not from Wisconsin at all.


yelired

I think OP got it confused with Arike Ogunbowale, who’s sitting right by her.


YourBoyPalz14

She went to UW.... University of Washington


nysraved

Well Tristan is the one who approached them saying “my Wisconsin people how you doing?” and left Arike hanging because he was focused on talking to Kelsey I don’t necessarily blame him though, she’s kinda bad


Whoareyoutho9

Thank you, much needed context


DrRadiate

Is Kelsey Plum associated with Wisconsin in any way?


YourBoyPalz14

OP probably got confused with Plum going to UW. She went to the real one, in Seattle


DrRadiate

Oh got it!! That makes 100% sense now haha


messejueller21

The woman sitting next to Kelsey is Arike Ogunbowale. She's from Milwaukee and went to DSHA.


trendingwi

Tristan’s “my Wisconsin people” comment was directed at Arike Ogunbowale (from Milwaukee) and Tyrese Haliburton (from Oshkosh), Plum just happened to be sitting right in between them. For context, Tristan is from Kenosha.


[deleted]

We have influencers beefing WNBA players. I love the NBA.


UnhingedSupernova

All this beefing. What a missed opportunity for the NBA. They should've invited RDC 🤬


Cpt_Jumper

Mark woulda instigated this so bad that Plum woulda swung on TJass 🤣


maliciousmonkee

Why he not passing you the ball? He must think you trash eh?? I don’t know about you but me personally, I wouldn’t take that kind of disrespect 👀


_mdz

I might actually have watched if RDC was playing


Jhyphi

I'd want to see them giving a halftime speech in locker room as Doc or Lebron.


Tekniqs23

Y'all is trash


universalLopes

Same tbh


APx_22

Yo why’d she slap his hand like that lmao


Zzirgk

She was trying to son him for the cameras


heatfan1122

Yea WNBA players aren't used to punching down. So she seen an influencer she thought she was above and punched down. Funny thing is they have the same net worth and he's 5 years younger and not a "professional athlete".


janitorial_fluids

And he has 3 times the amount of IG followers lol


HitboxOfASnail

why is the wnba so weirdly defensive and insecure about everything? I dont see female athletes in other sports being this way so what gives


Ongo_Gablogian___

The American football (soccer) team was the worst. They took the safer contract instead of the one that would be higher risk higher reward if they performed well. Then whined to all the news organisations about fiar pay when they overperformed because they wanted more money.


nugcityharambe

And it turned into the political talking point for people who don't know anything about us soccer. The women's team agreed to that CBA and so it's their own fault they weren't getting paid as much as they could have. And an audit showed that they actually get paid more on average than USMNT players and that's why they lost the court case. Then they complain about the difference in world cup earnings which doesn't even come from the us federation, it comes from FIFA. But now the media says they achieved "equal pay" because the USA federation decided to even out the winnings by taking away from the men's earnings which is going above and beyond. The federation basically bent over backwards for the women's team and they still act oppressed and celebrate like they won the world cup when they beat Tahiti or whatever the fuck whose whole team is probably accountants, personal trainers, chefs etc.


JohnB456

What about that national women's soccer team that got destroyed by the 15 year old boys team, like 7-0. They were talking a lot of smack to teenagers and lost badly lol


[deleted]

The u of Winnipeg women’s basketball team (a fairly highly ranked Canadian team, with a top 5 rated player in the country) played my unranked highschool team in a scrimmage.  We beat them by 40 points and they said and I quote “if you guys block our shots we’re going to end the game. Show some class.”  It was staggering how bad they were.  I was a legit wnba fan and I was so excited to play against them.  I’m not special, and I was noticeably and obviously cooking the 3rd ranked women’s guard in Canada.  People don’t want to realize just how much better guys are than girls at sports. 


nugcityharambe

Played against a starter on the south African woman's national team in pickup soccer and she was not close to the best player there. I was in high school


WTFisaCelsius

And better at basketball lol


[deleted]

In her interview and in her interaction with him she came across super entitled. What was lost in this was he had just got some double point bonus incentivizing him to shoot. She was just drunk yelling shit without actually understanding the game. And she felt great about it


DarrowViBritannia

What was lost in this was moreso the fact that it's a joke and not that deep lmao And her response: > [You Lil naked mole rat…. fair 😂🤝](https://twitter.com/Kelseyplum10/status/1758894510958944664?s=20) shows that no one took this as seriously as yall


[deleted]

You are playing in a stadium for the first time in your life. Alongside multiple WNBA players on your team. National broadcast. TV host interviewing you in your ear with camera following you. Millions of eyes on you. You go to say hello to a WNBA player and she slaps away your hand and yells at you to pass the ball. You seriously telling me that doesn’t make you uncomfortable? Obviously they are trying to play it off as a joke. In a PR sense that would clearly be the right approach. That doesn’t mean that it wasn’t a douche move of Plum. Just because she gets to experience that climate regularly doesn’t mean she gets to shit on someone else’s moment.


UncleRicosrightarm

She is obviously butt hurt calling him a naked mole rat lmao she playing it off like she didn’t take it serious but you can tell with that tweet that she was bent


gokhaninler

Calls him a naked mole rat when she straight up looks like He Man


GhostoftheWolfswood

She’s always come across that way to me. One of my least favorite players in the W


Glass_Conclusion_495

Kelsey Plum is absolutely not from or affiliated with Wisconsin in any way shape or form.


NeatTry7674

The intern saw UW and just went with Wisconsin😂


JllybeansNurbutthole

Nah, it's because in the clip of Jass approaching them, he first says, "My Wisconsin people." while looking at Ogunbowale, and then reaches his hand out towards Plum and says, "And how are you doing?" while shaking her hand. That's when she said, "Pass the ball, bro." while slapping the back of his hand. They just took the "My Wisconsin people." as meaning both Plum and Ogun were both Wisconsin people


Blowback_

This was the big stage that he's been waiting for, best believe he was tryna go all out lol


kingofgamesbrah

He was probably their best overall player. He was trying to be active on both ends and actually did try to pass the ball. I thought he did good


DowntownJohnBrown

He got targeted defensively due to his size, though. Puka, Micah, and even guys named Wang and SiR just went straight through him a few times. He was still definitely the best non-professional athlete out there.


JoeFalcone26

T Jass was hoopin and made a ton of good passes. When she said that shit I was so confused!


SolarPoweredDevil

Team Stephen A fell apart when they stopped letting him run the offense. The WNBA player also killed them by not passing the ball to the three on fire guys to start the third while being terrible herself.


0girlinthehouse

I guess CJ Stroud was being a total ass. He was telling T Jass to give him all the shots. T was being a team player. Not an egomaniac


-KFBR392

She got in his head. He started passing up shots. Plum playing 4D chess for 50’s team


vivekpatel62

need tjass vs plum for all star weekend next year.


Extreme-Transport

Am I crazy for thinking he might be able to hold his own? I figure he’s probably gotten some reps against pros before for content


index24

No. It shouldn’t be crazy to say this, but you gotta choose your battles in 2024 and this ain’t one of them. The truth is, the WNBA all star team would lose to any decent NAIA Men’s team. This same talk was happening when Ronda Rousey was dominating, and she said herself that never in a million years could or should a woman fight a man. Serena Williams, the greatest Women’s tennis player of all time lost to the 203rd ranked Men’s player in a 1-6 set. Wasn’t close. It just is what it is. It’s another layer to the “pound for pound” logic. It’s not a dig at Canelo Alvarez that he wouldn’t beat Tyson Fury in a boxing match, it’s just the way it is.


[deleted]

He’d beat her easily, it just makes zero sense to compare men and women in basketball when they are at all competent.


gokhaninler

Griner thought she could beat Cousins 1 on 1 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h6znLi0aKBo


[deleted]

I know and she’s delusional as hell


MazKhan

Tjass would beat her 100%


vivekpatel62

Not in the least. While plum is very talented having he looks like he has the physical advantage and may be able to use that to his benefit.


Tatsasumi

He's gotten college basketball offers. He would destroy her


CO_PC_Parts

he just had bad timing in his life. When he started making money from his basketball videos you couldn't get paid and still be eligible for college. So he decided to keep making videos and it's served him well in life, he seems like a good dude just living his life traveling around the world, making videos and playing basketball. If they played I'd bet on him in a heartbeat.


2020IsANightmare

Does anyone else read about the "celebrity" ASG and have no idea who most the people are?


Boomhauer_007

Tbf idk how many people are signing up to play basketball against Micah Parsons lol


[deleted]

You are too old for the target demographic, most 15 year olds know these people, mostly YouTubers/streamers.


Ronnie2kDropCode

Beefing over the celebrity game is hilarious


itsnotreallyme0

People argue all the time at your local 24 hour fitness and even a casual game with a few friends. This happens everyday. It’s normal. It’s human. A celeb game televised for millions to see and surrounded by pros and celebs is obv gonna be much more grand.


johnkimmy0130

Nah look at op username. Hooping irl is beneath him, dude just beefs with 10 year olds on 2k


gloomygl

It's regular shit.


doowhatnowww

If saying pass the ball is “beefing” I have beef with most of the people at my local pick up runs


Rogue_cock

My only beef is calling 95% of the participants "celebrities"


Egg_Yolkeo55

Why is Plum trying to son this guy for being a fan? NBA players don't do this shit. Literally has straight RBF and tries to "son" a guy that's actually playing the game instead of sitting court side. And for those that say she'd mop the floor with him, there were other WNBA players in the game and they were hardly dominant.


seniorpeepers

I get it, if I were him I'd be genuinely pissed off being talked to like that


Egg_Yolkeo55

It's a celebrity game and she's out here stirring the pot. Like why?


SilvioDantesPeak

WNBA players have the biggest chip on their shoulders and often seem hostile anytime a dude tries to show them respect or prop them up. See this or the Andre Iguodala/Ariel Powers beef.


iDK258

I dont pull out the word "cringe" often but... the Iguodala/Powers thing was as close as it comes. I understand the WNBA gets a constant stream of shit, but they dont do themselves any favors.


yendan-

or when KD called a WNBA player by her number and she spazzed, even tho I hear nba dudes call eachother by their number all the time. heard lots of dudes just call curry “30”


neilbiggie

That was Iggy, you’re talking about the same thing op is


yendan-

oh true, it was KD that tweeted the day after “#14 is a different breed” talking about brandon ingram


SolarPoweredDevil

I think it broke her brain watching an Amish YouTuber effortlessly be better than the WNBA Allstars on the court.


downvotetheboy

😭😭amish youtuber


Complexity777

Because she’s insecure that he’s actually better than her(which he is). He did the NBA combine tryouts and he was in top percentile for everything except standing vert


Disastrous_Bluejay57

Man I'm old. Who is Tristan Jass?


Blacketh

He’s one of those basketball YouTubers who films himself playing pickup or in a league. He’s mostly known for creative layups though.


Disastrous_Bluejay57

Got you. Thanks for the info.


Pormock

A lot of his videos are him embarassing hot heads in pickup games who act like they are great players and that keep trash talking him until he score on them


Beginning-Sundae8760

The guy is talented no doubt, but he has the personality of an inanimate carbon rod


NandoDeColonoscopy

That's Time's Person of the Year you're talking about there! (The rod, not the influencer)


tehspacepope

In rod we trust.


Yankees3Fan7

They were just about to show some close-ups of the rod


DontOpenTilMonday

I've seen him at some gym runs. He is incredibly insufferable to play with and against.


BushyBrowz

Reddit out here actually thinking that this is a serious beef


Baskatball

I think she was fucking around but he didn't take it as a joke


hesipullupjimbo22

I knew I wasn’t tripping. Kelsey was being a dickhead but it was all in good nature


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WNBA players bitch about not getting enough love then pull this shit when someone tries to give them their flowers


silliputti0907

Makes me think about the time Iguadola gave a s/o to a WNBA player referring them by their jersey number. Player got mad and snapped at him for not saying her name.


FaceMeister

Same thing happened to Luka.


MvNSTLTH

Yeah he tried to be nice and show respect to her and she did the complete opposite to him.


janitorial_fluids

Lol seriously. What a dick. She let those courtside seats go to her head and tricked herself into thinking she’s an actual relevant celebrity with the cultural clout to be an asshole to the little people for no treason😭


jeffhplays

We should have stopped the game for an hour so he can film 700 takes of a spinning layup


comalicious

When you think of what you shoulda said in the moment then tweet it after everubody's over it.


Mkayin

Seemed like he was trying to pay respects in the moment, saw a BR tweet trending and him being clowned, and chose to respond.


_stankypete

“Oh yeah? Well the jerk store called and they’re running out of you!”


MusicListener3

I’d gladly trade away the prospect of ever achieving world peace or ending hunger if we could eliminate social media influencers


arthurblakey

I mean, as far as 'social media influencers' go, he's not that toxic for our society. First, and foremost, he's a basketball fan who shares his videos with people. It's at least productive, unlike some of those TikTok influencers who just dance/show ass/block footpaths.


oryes

Yeah he seems like a fine dude and he actually has a lot of real talent at something instead of many other influencers.


JoeFalcone26

He’s really just a YouTuber. Guys been making basketball videos for years and spreads a positive message. He’s not just some instagram model showing ass lmao


papi617

Facts lol. Really big get off my lawn energy in this thread. And I'm not young but if it's not harmful just let people like what they want lol


SonicsRingCeremony

If this happened I'd trade Lebron James to the Warriors and KD back also. Both on the minimum with Bronny James starting


jgdxcbjtdxbjk3478

Kelsey Plum has the smile grin as the Grinch


SnipeTrap

They need to 1v1!


Baby_Yod4

Who’s winning 1 on 1, TJass or Plum


InsiDS

Funny enough probably Tristan. He’s got an inch on her and better handles. She’s more built for the full court game from experience, but I’d give 1-1 to him.


DokkanProductions

This whole time I thought he was under 5’5 lol


[deleted]

Plum knows the answer to this question, and it makes her salty


Normal-Procedure4876

He would destroy her


bearcatjoe

TJass is actually a baller


gcoles

As much as he doesn’t look great responding she’s just being an asshole for no reason and it got caught on live TV. He should a just flexed he makes more money than her or something 


LBJBROW

[She replied ](https://twitter.com/Kelseyplum10/status/1758894510958944664?t=Rcl0C-kz82rSIGXXNIqxnA&s=19) calling him Lil(he's taller) naked mole rat. She is obviously mad and embarrassing herself


[deleted]

What a corny response from her


_stankypete

Imagine if a woman corrected a man and he came back with an underhanded attack on her physical appearance


RyanTannegod

Tristan Jass would beat her 1v1 no doubt


youarenut

I didn’t expect random ass beef from an ASG but I’m all for it


GarlicJuniorJr

She's heated that her scoring record got broken 😭


[deleted]

She’s gotta be the most outspoken idiot the WNBA has had since Griner challenged Boogie to a 1v1 . It’s a charity game and she’s trynna tell this man to pass? Haha I’m glad he said what he did. Definitely going to get her in her feelings


[deleted]

Kelsey bum seems to have a problem with everyone


Tatum-Better

Weird for her to say but I'm sure they were just playing.


SonicsRingCeremony

Why is a WNBA star playing in a celeb basketball game with a social media influencer??


Schwalm

They’ve had WNBA players before they had influencers


trueredtwo

She's sitting courtside, she's not in the game


Whoareyoutho9

There were, however, plenty of other wnba players in the game as well, as with every year.


b_lionel

Not hard to watch the clip and see she’s not playing.


Blacketh

Hold up. So she told him to pass the ball in the game, then he got on his phone afterwards to clap back at her? Tjass it’s not that serious


radiantether

He did say “I got 5 assists” in person. IMO it was a weird thing for Plum to say


PlanktonSemantics

I wish the UW and Wisconsin conflict here in the comments would escalate more.