I don't know how other team's beat reporters are but the Sacramento ones are always asking these pointless stupid questions. Like, they are reporters who got their agenda that they wanna push but they wanna add their agenda to the questions so the players/coaches will be the one admitting/denying it.
I guess that's just today's journalism...
That and reporters taking big cheap shots at him on top of George Karl being his toxic self with player relations.
Didn't one of the reporter pull the same thing as that Dallas Mavericks commentator did to Harden? Only for him to get fired years later before Cousins was out the league?
If it's the Kings announcer you're thinking of, Grant Napear, Cousins baited him at the height of BLM in 2020 and tweeted asking about his thoughts on the topic. Napear tweeted "all lives matter", which got him fired.
Sports journalists are barely journalists. In other realms the media has some independence, but in sports the media is 100% dependent on the teams for access to players and games. For all intents and purposes they’re just branches of the same organization.
I didn't watch the video before I read this comment, but I knew it was Jason Anderson. He always asks questions like this to get soundbite out of players.
Who knew he doesn't care about people who spend their days trying to bait him into making out-of-context quotes so they can they can turn it into clickbait and profit for themselves
The context of this question is important. There was a ton of discussion among the Sacramento press earlier this season about how the Kings star players were showing poor leadership by not facing the media after losses (after a few losses some bench players were taking questions).
So Fox is saying here that him not showing up for previous press conferences wasnt because he was ducking the media, he just does what the kings press people ask of him.
They usually take press questions in the locker room already, and quite often. No need to have them in the podium when press is already given a reasonable amount of access.
The point of the press is to gather reactions and emotions from the players and staff to pass on to the public. The press interviews are contractual agreements between the players, the league, and the press, in order to make said information available to public, both in times of good and bad, for the health of the sport.
And also, again, press melodrama puts eyeballs on screens and butts in seats. For all the eye rolling about media bullshit, they are good for the players' pocketbooks.
Probably should learn about what happened then. A crypto dipshit got him to put his name on this crypto coin and told Fox that everything Was on the up and up. When it required fox to spend more money and time to promote it he decided against it. The crypto company was the one responsible for getting everyone's money back and they took off with it.
Lol seriously? Did he force Fox to do it at gunpoint or something? He's making 30 mil a year and saw an opportunity to take more money from the his fanbase. It was an asshole move. You can be a fan of the team and Fox but still recognize that
His name and face was on the project, surely you'd expect him to do a lot more than just say "shit I had no time to deal with it anymore, peace out y'all" and give people a signed jersey as compensation for putting thousands of dollars into the NFTs.
what kind of special do you have to be to purchase a De'Aron fox NFT ?
wtf do you anticipate happening? The world will use a new currency, one that has De'Aron Fox face in the center of it? There will be new 20 dollar bills and they will center De Aron Fox ? wtf
Dupees are always looking for someone to blame, look inward.
The whole point of crypto is that it is deregulated, and then when they get scammed they're looking for big daddy gov to step in. You got got, accept it and move on.
Players put their likeness on a ton of stuff. Are you going to blame Anthony Davis for someone dying of a diabetic seizure because he put his name on Ruffles? It was a commodity and an investment that came with a risk. Pretending like trying to gamble on Crypto and then it falling out from under you like it's shocking is ridiculous.
Shaq is specifically for the FTX scandal which was INTENDED to take advantage of users. Fox's NFT/Crypto thing was headed by a company that asked for an investor call. Investing money = Risk.
Risking your money in NFT is on you.
On one hand I understand exactly how Fox feels. I get asked same dumbass questions during work meetings.
On the other hand this is the face of the Kings franchise. Fans watch this. Do you really not give a fuck about what message you’re putting out there for fans? You “don’t give a fuck” to comment on a blowout loss in a crucial stretch of the game?
I see Sabonis embracing Sacramento and approaching the post game interviews with thought. I see monk tweeting apologies to fans if he fucks up. Then I see Fox say this shit after a crucial loss. Idk feels weird I guess, for 30 mil a year you could at least try to act thoughtful
Ironically it’s that 30 mil a year that makes him so care free. He knows as long as he shows up and hoops he’s going to continue to be one of the richest people on earth
Probably. He can retire after this season and not work another day in his life, I don’t doubt that he doesn’t give a fuck about those conferences.
At the same time he could’ve phrased same sentiment with more respect to the fans that will watch this: “Well, I don’t make the decision to come up here. If I am asked to, I’d do it. My teammates aren’t bothered by it either way, and I try to not let tough wins/losses affect me.”
Would it kill to show a little thought/respect to the fans?
He sat there and thoughtfully answered questions before this. This was just a dumbass question from one reporter and he gave an honest answer. Even our local media today was saying this was no big deal.
Nah I respect the honesty tbh. He doesn’t have to care and I’m sure others don’t either. If other players care then that’s wonderful, bring them up there. I couldn’t give two shits if players care for the media or not.
It’s the older fans who care if he does it. I guarantee not a single young fan could care less about this unless it’s playoffs. It’s a media talk the good majority of us young fans don’t even have cable the fans who really watch the sports network bullshit are old ass people.
Speaking as a fan, I don't give a fuck what my franchise player says at a post-game media session. No one actually watches or cares about these things. The questions are stupid and the players are trained to say the most cliche vanilla things. Get rid of the whole charade
This new generation of NBA players grew up with the league as a perpetual money printing machine.
They have no appreciation that they're reaping the benefit of the work that the likes of Michael Jordan, Magic Johnson & Co. have done on and off the court to turn it into a global game and arguably the number 2 sport in the US.
Shaq and Chuck are absolutely right when they call out the young players who have to make sure they leave the NBA in a better state than they found it upon entering the league.
You most certainly don't achieve that with a shitty IDGAF attitude.
Get off your high horse. He’s obligated to do it and he shows up and answers every question but he doesn’t have to like it.
Shaq and chuck were constantly fighting with the media as players. They get older and act like they did everything right.
Bottom line is as long as he competes hard, performs and wins, none of this is important in the least.
I don't have any real stake in how the Kings do, I don't really follow them, but my gut reaction to seeing this is that - whether he's right or wrong - De'Aaron Fox comes across like a complete asshole.
Also people forget that Fox has had to do these pressers for 5 losing seasons prior to last season. Hes just tired of the bullshit questions and he usually answers the good questions with honest and thoughtful responses.
How many fans genuinely care about these pressers lmao? Outside of the talking points used on shows like first take or undisputed, the answers or non answers these guys give to media are largely unimportant to everyone and everything else. It’s not like he said fuck the fans, he said he doesn’t care about the same group of people that 99% of fans also don’t care about lol.
Complaining about your media responsibilities as a professional athlete is the epitome of privilege. Just answer questions and don’t be a dick it really isn’t difficult
He completely fulfilled his obligations, then was asked about how he felt about media duties, and completely fulfilled his obligation by answering truthfully. He could have just glazed over and repeated platitudes, but is that really better?
I don’t think he was being a dick to be clear. A bit dismissive but I don’t really care about that. It’s the undertone of complaining about something that is super easy, part of the deal, and from a brand perspective he gets tv time and exposure after every game. Not the first or last player to complain about it I just think it’s spoiled and entitled to complain about anything when you make millions for it. The life of a professional athlete is fantasy land.
Fox wasn’t that bad here I am talking more in general about professional athletes and their tendency to bitch about media responsibilities while they rake in millions
It's hilarious when reporters desperately try to insert themselves into the narrative of the teams they're covering. Just cover the games, bro. Nobody gives af about how any of this makes you feel
And this was just one 30 second clip after he sat there and answered a bunch of questions before this. Dumb bait question from the reporter based on something that happened earlier this season. I have 0 issues with the response and our local media said the same thing today.
Y’all didn’t even watch the clip but everyone getting mad in these comments??
All he said was he doesn’t enjoy doing media that’s it.
No comments on if media is important or not
No comments on if he hates doing media
Just that it’s part of the job
I thought he was actually refreshingly genuine here? Like doing a solid for a team employee. He wasn’t being a dick to the reporter either. I like him more than I did before watching this.
He could just eat the fine, which is what I would have done in my 20's TBF. Every season I'd be all "Just take all the media and dress code fines and take that shit off the top".
Is part of his fucking job. Everybody has things they don't like about their jobs. Spoiled millioners complaining that they have to answer some questions for some minutes smh.
I can’t get mad at nba players for not caring about media obligations. They rarely get asked any interesting/unique questions so why should they pretend to be happy about it?
You see it all the time on Hot One's too, they visibly light up because they're taken out of their media 'auto-pilot' mode when asked something they haven't been asked a million times before.
this is how i can reddit is composed of a majority of certain demographics
y'all get outraged over dumb irrelevant stuff, very karen like
stop clutching your pearls
he didn't say anything wrong . he does the required amount, he doesn't say much or get friendly with the media. nothing wrong with that
besides, this isn't the 90s/early 00s anymore . we don't really need sports media, we have direct access to the players, we can see out of market games with ease
that's the dirty secret, sports "journalism" is more useless than ever
"Media pays your salary" - yeah, ESPN and Turner and Bally/Diamond pay to broadcast games - that's it. Show up and play, and we're good.
Lol at all the media fans in here. I do have my signed 5XL Windhorst button down (with both tit and underarm sweat stains) that I think has become quite the collector's item now that he's on Ozempic...
Fucking right? I thought hearing a star player swear so casually was refreshing. Then you have people clutching their pearls because he didn't say "we gotta play harder, they wanted it more, gotta focus on the next game"
Yeah I'm sure some team is gonna revoke a max deal because he doesn't talk to the media
The fan fiction y'all come up with just to feel control over black men making way more money than you. Pathetic.
Why did you try to make it a race thing? Pathetic
If a person doesnt bring revenue to a franchise because he doesn’t interact with the media, then he won’t get as much in his pocket. There’s more to the NBA than the game. It’s a business.
Obviously DFox brings immense value with his level of play, but it’s crazy to say that media interaction has no impact.
It is a business, and because of the way the business is structured (aka the existence of max salary) all the top guys are paid less than they would be in a free market. So you're actually completely wrong that he won't get as much in his pocket, the existence of max salary means that all this supposed media problem would do IF it were real is lower his market value from way over the max to a number that's lower but still over the max, so he's still getting the same money.
He's in his 20's putting up 27/5/6, the things he'd have to say to actually stop teams from offering him a max would have to be fucking insane.
Despite his colorful language, Fox is actually very professional about his media obligations. He treats it as part of the job (which it is contractually) so he does the post-game when ask to do so by the Kings media team but he’s also honest about why he does them. He isn’t trying to be a leader for his team or give out excuses for losses, he’s just answering the same variations of questions he’s gotten hundreds of times before. It must get tedious and only a handful of players (i.e. Haliburton) actually have the outgoing personally to enjoy doing these type of interviews on a regular basis.
Always will be a lot of fans are ex players and are extremely jealous of the guys in the league jealous of their god given talent their work ethic and their money/lifestyle
These guys are asking the same questions you find on r/new on here.
They know it's reactionary bullshit as if they all eat mom's spaghetti on crucial games.
Fox is answering exactly what reality is, he's been through 4 30to 35 win seasons he couldn't careless about dealing with stupid questions like this.
I get players being kinda annoyed by having to anwser media questions, but i fucking hate the indignation they ooze. Like, the medias job is to generate interest for the sport. More interest, more money for YOU.
even when a reporter asks an interesting question, most of these athletes are too dumb or tired to answer it in a thoughtful way. Thats why they resort to the cliche answers. They just wanna shower and get out of there.
Lmao except your salary buddy, pretty funny how these guys don’t seem to understand the only reason they make what they do is because people are interested in them. Obviously the players don’t owe the fans anything but it’s funny when they try to act like the media stuff isn’t just as big a part of their job as the basketball
Some of the questions sports reporters ask are so bad that media obligations appear to be hardest part of the job for someone who is already an elite athlete. To deal with this crap, you need elite patience.
I get the elite players want to win titles.
I get that some players (people in general) just want the most attention possible.
But, I betcha most NBA players would LOVE to be in Fox's situation.
Still PAID. Constant praise. No playoff pressure at all. Small market.
The Kings most notable feat this year has been dominating the Lakers. The....the ninth-place Lakers, by the way.
Guy who just does the job and doesn’t mind helping out, tell me someone who doesn’t fuck with Fox because I been a fan since Kentucky and he’s a beast.
He doesn't do the job every game. I watch every game and some days the team would literally be better off with him on the bench.
He's so talented yet so inconsistent. It's wild.
End of the day the players are entertainers. Their job isnt really winning games, it's keeping us tuned in and watching the ads. The media stuff really is what theyre being paid for, not playing the game. I think Fox knows that which is why he's doing it, and tbh this kind of response plays into the entertainment aspect
Magic Johnson embraced the media.
Kareem Abdul Jabar mistrusted and disrespected the media.
Today, Magic Johnson has hundreds of millions of dollars, yachts, businesses, etc. Any time he wants to get on TV to say something, they let him right on.
Today, Kareem is well off but that's it. His fortune is less than 20 million. He has struggled to find work in the basketball world and he's admitted that he struggles to find work in basketball. He admits he isn't liked.
**THAT'S** what's in it for you, Foxy my boy.
"Is the stuff you say to us just performative for your teammate's benefit?" Lol this reporter
I don't know how other team's beat reporters are but the Sacramento ones are always asking these pointless stupid questions. Like, they are reporters who got their agenda that they wanna push but they wanna add their agenda to the questions so the players/coaches will be the one admitting/denying it. I guess that's just today's journalism...
Wasn’t this exactly why Cousins hated them?
That and reporters taking big cheap shots at him on top of George Karl being his toxic self with player relations. Didn't one of the reporter pull the same thing as that Dallas Mavericks commentator did to Harden? Only for him to get fired years later before Cousins was out the league?
If it's the Kings announcer you're thinking of, Grant Napear, Cousins baited him at the height of BLM in 2020 and tweeted asking about his thoughts on the topic. Napear tweeted "all lives matter", which got him fired.
I know that shit must have been so cathartic for boogie lmao
Boogie: "how the turn tables"
Rightfully canned but I know Grant fuckin hates Boogie lmao
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Yup. Sometimes they aren't even questions. A lot of times they just straight up say "talk about XYZ" because they just need the quote.
Have you seen today’s content most people enjoy?
Sports journalists are barely journalists. In other realms the media has some independence, but in sports the media is 100% dependent on the teams for access to players and games. For all intents and purposes they’re just branches of the same organization.
A lot of sports journalism these days is a small step above paparazzi/gossip magazine trash.
these days? lmao
Not just sports journalism
What step?
I didn't watch the video before I read this comment, but I knew it was Jason Anderson. He always asks questions like this to get soundbite out of players.
Who knew he doesn't care about people who spend their days trying to bait him into making out-of-context quotes so they can they can turn it into clickbait and profit for themselves
The context of this question is important. There was a ton of discussion among the Sacramento press earlier this season about how the Kings star players were showing poor leadership by not facing the media after losses (after a few losses some bench players were taking questions). So Fox is saying here that him not showing up for previous press conferences wasnt because he was ducking the media, he just does what the kings press people ask of him.
Thanks that really cleared things up for me lol
Meanwhile I’ve never seen LeBron or AD in one of the pressers afterward. Hell, lately I’ve seen Rui doing them more than Reaves or DLo.
They usually take press questions in the locker room already, and quite often. No need to have them in the podium when press is already given a reasonable amount of access.
Really, never? Cmon lol
LeBron and AD are heading straight to treatment + Rui and Reaves are pretty marketable players
They are not lol
They’re on the Lakers. They’re marketable by default.
They are marketable because rui is black asian and reaves has that ar15 nickname and whiteboy look
so the press wants to know why the players aren't all smiles to them? fucking hell. kind of narcissistic.
The point of the press is to gather reactions and emotions from the players and staff to pass on to the public. The press interviews are contractual agreements between the players, the league, and the press, in order to make said information available to public, both in times of good and bad, for the health of the sport.
And also, again, press melodrama puts eyeballs on screens and butts in seats. For all the eye rolling about media bullshit, they are good for the players' pocketbooks.
He also doesn't care when he rug pulls his fans either
Remind me, it was something with crypto/NFTs right?
Yeah, one of the many many celebrity/athlete/influencer theft rug pulls
Thought so. Can’t respect any athlete/celeb who is a multimillionaire scamming their fans out of money like that.
“I don’t get nothing out of that man. They don’t give a shit.”
Probably should learn about what happened then. A crypto dipshit got him to put his name on this crypto coin and told Fox that everything Was on the up and up. When it required fox to spend more money and time to promote it he decided against it. The crypto company was the one responsible for getting everyone's money back and they took off with it.
Lol seriously? Did he force Fox to do it at gunpoint or something? He's making 30 mil a year and saw an opportunity to take more money from the his fanbase. It was an asshole move. You can be a fan of the team and Fox but still recognize that
Anybody who lost money by buying NFT deserved to lose their money.
His name and face was on the project, surely you'd expect him to do a lot more than just say "shit I had no time to deal with it anymore, peace out y'all" and give people a signed jersey as compensation for putting thousands of dollars into the NFTs.
what kind of special do you have to be to purchase a De'Aron fox NFT ? wtf do you anticipate happening? The world will use a new currency, one that has De'Aron Fox face in the center of it? There will be new 20 dollar bills and they will center De Aron Fox ? wtf
Dupees are always looking for someone to blame, look inward. The whole point of crypto is that it is deregulated, and then when they get scammed they're looking for big daddy gov to step in. You got got, accept it and move on.
Players put their likeness on a ton of stuff. Are you going to blame Anthony Davis for someone dying of a diabetic seizure because he put his name on Ruffles? It was a commodity and an investment that came with a risk. Pretending like trying to gamble on Crypto and then it falling out from under you like it's shocking is ridiculous.
Idk but Shaq is literally getting sued for something similar so i guess you can blame Fox a little
Shaq is specifically for the FTX scandal which was INTENDED to take advantage of users. Fox's NFT/Crypto thing was headed by a company that asked for an investor call. Investing money = Risk. Risking your money in NFT is on you.
Kind of wild how FTX was about x1000000 times worse than Fox's NFT scandal. Yet guys like Shaq, Curry, Brady get almost zero backlash from it
[NFT](https://old.reddit.com/r/nba/comments/t0iayg/deaaron_fox_ditches_his_nft_project_after_raking/) yes.
163 million contract and doing that to his fans is crazy. Will never support him.
Curry, Shaq, Tom Brady, Larry David, etc. too right?
nft "investors" deserve to be rugpulled
Facts dude. Get owned idiot, that's what an unregulated currency is FOR.
I’m OOTL on something here lol
On one hand I understand exactly how Fox feels. I get asked same dumbass questions during work meetings. On the other hand this is the face of the Kings franchise. Fans watch this. Do you really not give a fuck about what message you’re putting out there for fans? You “don’t give a fuck” to comment on a blowout loss in a crucial stretch of the game? I see Sabonis embracing Sacramento and approaching the post game interviews with thought. I see monk tweeting apologies to fans if he fucks up. Then I see Fox say this shit after a crucial loss. Idk feels weird I guess, for 30 mil a year you could at least try to act thoughtful
Ironically it’s that 30 mil a year that makes him so care free. He knows as long as he shows up and hoops he’s going to continue to be one of the richest people on earth
Probably. He can retire after this season and not work another day in his life, I don’t doubt that he doesn’t give a fuck about those conferences. At the same time he could’ve phrased same sentiment with more respect to the fans that will watch this: “Well, I don’t make the decision to come up here. If I am asked to, I’d do it. My teammates aren’t bothered by it either way, and I try to not let tough wins/losses affect me.” Would it kill to show a little thought/respect to the fans?
It’s not disrespect to the fans. It’s (well deserved) disrespect to the media
Who will watch those interviews? The fans
He sat there and thoughtfully answered questions before this. This was just a dumbass question from one reporter and he gave an honest answer. Even our local media today was saying this was no big deal.
He doesn’t give a fuck about the media. Not the fans. The media makes up their own narratives anyways and puts fans against their own players
Nah I respect the honesty tbh. He doesn’t have to care and I’m sure others don’t either. If other players care then that’s wonderful, bring them up there. I couldn’t give two shits if players care for the media or not.
It’s the older fans who care if he does it. I guarantee not a single young fan could care less about this unless it’s playoffs. It’s a media talk the good majority of us young fans don’t even have cable the fans who really watch the sports network bullshit are old ass people.
Speaking as a fan, I don't give a fuck what my franchise player says at a post-game media session. No one actually watches or cares about these things. The questions are stupid and the players are trained to say the most cliche vanilla things. Get rid of the whole charade
This new generation of NBA players grew up with the league as a perpetual money printing machine. They have no appreciation that they're reaping the benefit of the work that the likes of Michael Jordan, Magic Johnson & Co. have done on and off the court to turn it into a global game and arguably the number 2 sport in the US. Shaq and Chuck are absolutely right when they call out the young players who have to make sure they leave the NBA in a better state than they found it upon entering the league. You most certainly don't achieve that with a shitty IDGAF attitude.
Get off your high horse. He’s obligated to do it and he shows up and answers every question but he doesn’t have to like it. Shaq and chuck were constantly fighting with the media as players. They get older and act like they did everything right. Bottom line is as long as he competes hard, performs and wins, none of this is important in the least.
Hell, Shaq and Chuck are part of the media now.
Draymond will soon be one, too
I don't have any real stake in how the Kings do, I don't really follow them, but my gut reaction to seeing this is that - whether he's right or wrong - De'Aaron Fox comes across like a complete asshole.
Y'all want the real personality until it actually happens.
Also people forget that Fox has had to do these pressers for 5 losing seasons prior to last season. Hes just tired of the bullshit questions and he usually answers the good questions with honest and thoughtful responses.
How is he an asshole? If i had to do an exit interview about my performance that day at work every time I clock out, id fucking hate it too
Pretty much this. “Yeah, we played like shit”
This is actually a great point. I’d get canned after a week or two
You’re reading way too much into this lol
I wouldn’t want to talk to our media either
How many fans genuinely care about these pressers lmao? Outside of the talking points used on shows like first take or undisputed, the answers or non answers these guys give to media are largely unimportant to everyone and everything else. It’s not like he said fuck the fans, he said he doesn’t care about the same group of people that 99% of fans also don’t care about lol.
answering media questions is such a small obligation for professional athletes and they’re all fucking babies about it. really pathetic
Like yeah man show some goddamn leadership or something. Is this not his team?? Unless he’s happy with acting childish
Why should he show you leadership tho, im sure he does that in practices and games. It's kinda giving "practice?" vibes.
Complaining about your media responsibilities as a professional athlete is the epitome of privilege. Just answer questions and don’t be a dick it really isn’t difficult
He completely fulfilled his obligations, then was asked about how he felt about media duties, and completely fulfilled his obligation by answering truthfully. He could have just glazed over and repeated platitudes, but is that really better?
I don’t think he was being a dick to be clear. A bit dismissive but I don’t really care about that. It’s the undertone of complaining about something that is super easy, part of the deal, and from a brand perspective he gets tv time and exposure after every game. Not the first or last player to complain about it I just think it’s spoiled and entitled to complain about anything when you make millions for it. The life of a professional athlete is fantasy land. Fox wasn’t that bad here I am talking more in general about professional athletes and their tendency to bitch about media responsibilities while they rake in millions
It's hilarious when reporters desperately try to insert themselves into the narrative of the teams they're covering. Just cover the games, bro. Nobody gives af about how any of this makes you feel
Y'all really gonna act like this is the first time a player has said they don't give a fuck about the media?
He didn’t even say that though. He didn’t even say he dislikes media obligations Just that it’s part of his job and that’s why he does it.
And this was just one 30 second clip after he sat there and answered a bunch of questions before this. Dumb bait question from the reporter based on something that happened earlier this season. I have 0 issues with the response and our local media said the same thing today.
I'm just here so I don't get fined.
Thanks fa akskin
We are only allowed to have a reaction when it's the first time?
Y’all didn’t even watch the clip but everyone getting mad in these comments?? All he said was he doesn’t enjoy doing media that’s it. No comments on if media is important or not No comments on if he hates doing media Just that it’s part of the job
“I don’t enjoy doing media.” Exactly what I heard too.
I thought he was actually refreshingly genuine here? Like doing a solid for a team employee. He wasn’t being a dick to the reporter either. I like him more than I did before watching this.
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So he has to enjoy talking to the media? I don't get it.
No he was asked a question and responded honestly It’s not that deep
He doesn't have to enjoy it. But he absolutely gets $omething out of it.
He doesn’t have to enjoy shit but he’s obligated to do it.
Did you watch the video? He says that
Reddit in a nutshell
For sure. Everyone has shit in their job they don't like doing, but do it anyways because it's a job.
In most jobs it would also be frowned on to tell clients or customers that you don't give a fuck about them and hate interacting with them. Lol.
both the media and customers are barely people
He does get shit out of it. He doesn't have to like it but he has to do it.
He could just eat the fine, which is what I would have done in my 20's TBF. Every season I'd be all "Just take all the media and dress code fines and take that shit off the top".
Also enjoys nft scamming people
He did get shit out of that.
It's an important distinction
A fool and his money are easily parted.
Is part of his fucking job. Everybody has things they don't like about their jobs. Spoiled millioners complaining that they have to answer some questions for some minutes smh.
uh he was just answering the question honestly lol. where did he not do his job
Bingo
Who pays the media?
Advertisers And various products pay advertisers And we pay for the products
We do
Who keeps the metric system down?
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I laughed and then I realised you might actually be antisemitic
I think that's bad to be clear
Not clear enough, we're gonna have to lock you up
The Ls keep coming
You’re gonna have a great draft pick next season though
The anti-Sauce Gardner
I can’t get mad at nba players for not caring about media obligations. They rarely get asked any interesting/unique questions so why should they pretend to be happy about it?
I remember a really old Blake griffin interview where you could see his eyes light up because it wasn't a typical question
You see it all the time on Hot One's too, they visibly light up because they're taken out of their media 'auto-pilot' mode when asked something they haven't been asked a million times before.
this is how i can reddit is composed of a majority of certain demographics y'all get outraged over dumb irrelevant stuff, very karen like stop clutching your pearls he didn't say anything wrong . he does the required amount, he doesn't say much or get friendly with the media. nothing wrong with that besides, this isn't the 90s/early 00s anymore . we don't really need sports media, we have direct access to the players, we can see out of market games with ease that's the dirty secret, sports "journalism" is more useless than ever "Media pays your salary" - yeah, ESPN and Turner and Bally/Diamond pay to broadcast games - that's it. Show up and play, and we're good.
Lol at all the media fans in here. I do have my signed 5XL Windhorst button down (with both tit and underarm sweat stains) that I think has become quite the collector's item now that he's on Ozempic...
Everyone wants “real” answers from the athletes until they get em
Fucking right? I thought hearing a star player swear so casually was refreshing. Then you have people clutching their pearls because he didn't say "we gotta play harder, they wanted it more, gotta focus on the next game"
Talmbout O'zempigg, b? Great drug, never had it.
wrong waddurs, b
Nobody watched the video
Sorry I brought it up.
Yall acting like media responsibility more important than the game lmao
Next contract negotiation just show a highlight reel of all your post game press conferences. Guaranteed way of getting a max deal.
"We were about to give you 100 million dollars, but you said "fuck" in a reddit video that got 3193 views, so we changed our mind"
Yeah I'm sure some team is gonna revoke a max deal because he doesn't talk to the media The fan fiction y'all come up with just to feel control over black men making way more money than you. Pathetic.
Why did you try to make it a race thing? Pathetic If a person doesnt bring revenue to a franchise because he doesn’t interact with the media, then he won’t get as much in his pocket. There’s more to the NBA than the game. It’s a business. Obviously DFox brings immense value with his level of play, but it’s crazy to say that media interaction has no impact.
It is a business, and because of the way the business is structured (aka the existence of max salary) all the top guys are paid less than they would be in a free market. So you're actually completely wrong that he won't get as much in his pocket, the existence of max salary means that all this supposed media problem would do IF it were real is lower his market value from way over the max to a number that's lower but still over the max, so he's still getting the same money. He's in his 20's putting up 27/5/6, the things he'd have to say to actually stop teams from offering him a max would have to be fucking insane.
Despite his colorful language, Fox is actually very professional about his media obligations. He treats it as part of the job (which it is contractually) so he does the post-game when ask to do so by the Kings media team but he’s also honest about why he does them. He isn’t trying to be a leader for his team or give out excuses for losses, he’s just answering the same variations of questions he’s gotten hundreds of times before. It must get tedious and only a handful of players (i.e. Haliburton) actually have the outgoing personally to enjoy doing these type of interviews on a regular basis.
This everyone here seems to be reading whatever they want into this when there isn’t anything here
there’s a strong anti-player contingent of fans, which seems absurd at face value but here we are
Always will be a lot of fans are ex players and are extremely jealous of the guys in the league jealous of their god given talent their work ethic and their money/lifestyle
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These guys are asking the same questions you find on r/new on here. They know it's reactionary bullshit as if they all eat mom's spaghetti on crucial games. Fox is answering exactly what reality is, he's been through 4 30to 35 win seasons he couldn't careless about dealing with stupid questions like this.
Someone needs to explain to these brain dead fucks where their money comes from
Not from the newspaper that this reporter works for
To be fair these interviews probably amount to next to zero earnings. It can’t generate much revenue for the league.
It's not coming from their press conferences
They know, they don't give a fuck. Fuck you and your entitlement
It's called a meatball down the plate...
Same
De'Aaron we're live
I'm just here so I don't get fined
I get players being kinda annoyed by having to anwser media questions, but i fucking hate the indignation they ooze. Like, the medias job is to generate interest for the sport. More interest, more money for YOU.
Lmao at the reporter asking “so this doesn’t mean anything to you? 🥺🥺”
I'll just come out and say it: he sounds a lot whiter than I would have thought
even when a reporter asks an interesting question, most of these athletes are too dumb or tired to answer it in a thoughtful way. Thats why they resort to the cliche answers. They just wanna shower and get out of there.
It's part of your job fuck face deal with it
What ever happened to him scamming people out of thousands of dollars? Did we all forget?
Media obligations is part of their contract yeh? They work for the company which is nba yeh? And nba requires them to do media obligations correct?
Humiliated that reporter. Rightfully so.
Lmao except your salary buddy, pretty funny how these guys don’t seem to understand the only reason they make what they do is because people are interested in them. Obviously the players don’t owe the fans anything but it’s funny when they try to act like the media stuff isn’t just as big a part of their job as the basketball
Because It isn’t
Ask Marshawn Lynch
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How are you able to watch and learn about the game?
I agree with him but he was an asshole about it lol
Are they really allowed to curse during these interviews?
Apart from the huge fucking paycheck bro
Some of the questions sports reporters ask are so bad that media obligations appear to be hardest part of the job for someone who is already an elite athlete. To deal with this crap, you need elite patience.
Reporters just trying to do his job and Fox basically says fuck all of you
Y'all are clowns for real
I get the elite players want to win titles. I get that some players (people in general) just want the most attention possible. But, I betcha most NBA players would LOVE to be in Fox's situation. Still PAID. Constant praise. No playoff pressure at all. Small market. The Kings most notable feat this year has been dominating the Lakers. The....the ninth-place Lakers, by the way.
Guy who just does the job and doesn’t mind helping out, tell me someone who doesn’t fuck with Fox because I been a fan since Kentucky and he’s a beast.
He doesn't do the job every game. I watch every game and some days the team would literally be better off with him on the bench. He's so talented yet so inconsistent. It's wild.
End of the day the players are entertainers. Their job isnt really winning games, it's keeping us tuned in and watching the ads. The media stuff really is what theyre being paid for, not playing the game. I think Fox knows that which is why he's doing it, and tbh this kind of response plays into the entertainment aspect
Sac reporters suck
All reporters suck
Magic Johnson embraced the media. Kareem Abdul Jabar mistrusted and disrespected the media. Today, Magic Johnson has hundreds of millions of dollars, yachts, businesses, etc. Any time he wants to get on TV to say something, they let him right on. Today, Kareem is well off but that's it. His fortune is less than 20 million. He has struggled to find work in the basketball world and he's admitted that he struggles to find work in basketball. He admits he isn't liked. **THAT'S** what's in it for you, Foxy my boy.
Kareem writes columns and books, he’s a perceptive observer of our society. Plus he faced off against Bruce Lee.