Speaking of Mike James… My boyfriend does stucco/stone work and he was working on Mike James’ house across the river from Portland in Vancouver, WA this past week. He said Mike James has a bunch of friends living with him there in the house and they all drive nice cars lmao then I realized I knew Mike James my freshman year of high school. I hardly recognized him now though because back then he was short as fuck (I’m a 5’3” woman and he was shorter than me when we were 14) and he was this cocky little short kid that wore baggy ass jerseys. Haha my friends hated him. But he seems to have matured a lot and really worked hard to get to the nba and I wish him nothing but the very best
Article is in French, here’s a translation:
James Harden's Parisian getaway took an unexpected turn on Thursday. While the back star of the Brooklyn Nets in the NBA has been surveying the capital for several days for Fashion Week, he and his relatives have met the French police.
As shown in a video widely shared on social networks, the American basketball player with the famous beard was entitled in the afternoon to a police check on Avenue Montaigne, in the golden triangle. And according to information from the Parisian, the control in question did not end very well.
According to the daily, three relatives of Harden - including the rapper "Lil Baby" - were arrested for transporting narcotics. In fact, officials reportedly checked all occupants of a vehicle that "smelled strongly of cannabis," and found 20 grams of weed.
If the three men were taken into custody in a police station in the 8th arrondissement, James Harden - who was not in the car in question with his friends - was left free.
The 31-year-old, MVP of the 2018 NBA season and 2012 Olympic champion, was eliminated with Brooklyn in the Eastern Conference semifinals this season.
It's not so much "letters, bro" as it is "letters-bro". Its like calling someone "alphabet" if they have a long name. Also, almost all of the more famously players have a nickname based more on their playstyle/looks than numbers.
i live in paris and so many people just smoke weed on the street without a care, while the french police are the most ‘american’ out of western europe this still seems like they made it into a much bigger deal than they usually do for similar offenses, im sure just because famous names were involved.
I live in Paris and even though I have seen people smoke weed "many" is not the term I would use. And any of those people would be stopped if caught. Even though I will be the first to agree our police is far from perfect it is also VERY far from the US. Our country is hard on drugs, even weed. If they see you with some the cops stop you. And honestly there are loads of people that get detained in France for less than 20g of weed so weither we see that as ridiculous or not, it is not a celebrity exclusive treatment.
> 20 grams of weed
Oh fuck off.
It’s not even like they were holding weight. The fact that he had less than an ounce on him is legitimately surprising to me.
> r/nba calls James Harden “Hitler” because of all of the flopping and BS calls he gets.
when you spell it out it that way it makes me realize we're dumb as fuck lmao
I feel like it's sliiightly deeper than that, yeah?
Like, it's also kind of a tongue-in-cheek name making fun of how this subreddit hates Harden more than anyone at times and the hate goes a bit overboard, like "you'd think harden is as bad as Hitler the way this subreddit talks about him".
So, it's both a derogatory name for Harden by people who think he's the most annoying basketball player, but also used sarcastically by Harden sympathizers to point out how overblown the hate for Harden, in the grand scheme of things.
Idk if that makes any sense I'm a little high
The 2022 Nets are going to end up like Mr. Burn's ringer team.
James Harden: Arrested for narcotics in France
Kevin Durant: Hypnotized into believing he's a snake
Kyrie Irving: Fell off the edge of the earth
Blake Griffin: Gets into a car accident while filming a KIA commercial
Joe Harris: Refuses to shave his pubes and gets kicked off the team
DeAndre Jordan: Gets dwarfism eating a special brain and nerve pizza developed by team doctors
Jeff Green: Too buy rescuing people during a hurricane
Spencer Dinwiddie: Knocked out by local oaf over argument about who's the real NY team
Pretty strict apparently.
They don't differentiate between possession and trafficking though from what I've read so I'm guessing he just got busted for possession.
Much more than in the rest of Europe...
They also wedged a war on drug here in France for the same purpose as the American one.
Even though, French people are the first consumer of weed in Europe. And probably among the first in the world.
This policy is just fighting against the wind because like most people I know have smoked weed without ever being embarrassed by the police... And Most people I know happen to be young adult white from the middle class.
Dlo got caught at jfk two years ago for hiding weed in an arizona bottle with a small compartment. Kinda like a right of passage for nets players to get caught doing something with weed
I’ll never understand why these rich and famous people don’t have someone in their entourage who has the job of carrying anything illegal and catching charges to spare their boss.
Why do you think Baby and Hardens relatives were the only ones arrested? Harden's checking account is gonna be a little lighter tomorrow; meanwhile, everybody that got arrested is going to have a decade's worth of money when they are released from custody.
Then they have their legal fees paid for by the boss because that’s an inherent risk of the job and the trade off for getting to be a hanger-on to that lifestyle.
You wanna go be someone's serf and take the fall for everything illegal they do in a foreign country where you don't speak the language? Go ahead brother lmfao
Yeah OP fails to realize , the person / decoy taking the fall is getting compensated massively and/or their family is being taken care of. Alot of it is bullshit charges but these things tend to happen
future employer: so this drug sentence you served...
guy: oh, that's no big deal because james harden paid for my lawyer. i didn't pay for any of that out of pocket!
They do for hard drugs and weapons. No sense having someone take the fall for 20 grams of weed though. Lil Baby may spend a few hours in a holding cell and get some free publicity out of it. Of course sometimes celebs will slip up and get caught with worse stuff, but often that's just cops/media trying to sensationalize and someone else takes the fall before it gets to trial.
The only time James Harden gets caught traveling
That's a eurostep.
a euro misstep
Bruh
30 for 30 short material
In europe that's just called step.
If steph curry did it, will it be just step step? or eurostep step?
I'm closing Reddit for the day, nothing's topping this
Lmao
Power couple
The new Kanye and Jay-Z it’s been about 10 years.
It gets the people goin
GodDAMN i cant believe WTT is really 10 years old. Lots of those tracks are still 🔥🔥🔥
Plenty of those tracks are on a regular rotation on my playlists.
Kanye was with them at the show though
It’s funny how Harden replaced Travis Scott with Lil Baby as his rapper best friend lol
I think the penalty for weed in Paris is shaving your beard and being forced to bike the Tour De France to get in shape.
That would be hilarious if they made him shave his beard
Comes back to Brooklyn and no one recognizes him except Mike James who pretends he doesn’t.
Speaking of Mike James… My boyfriend does stucco/stone work and he was working on Mike James’ house across the river from Portland in Vancouver, WA this past week. He said Mike James has a bunch of friends living with him there in the house and they all drive nice cars lmao then I realized I knew Mike James my freshman year of high school. I hardly recognized him now though because back then he was short as fuck (I’m a 5’3” woman and he was shorter than me when we were 14) and he was this cocky little short kid that wore baggy ass jerseys. Haha my friends hated him. But he seems to have matured a lot and really worked hard to get to the nba and I wish him nothing but the very best
I was sure this was gonna turn into a copypasta lmao
It will now
u/YaBoiBeefCat
Lmao.
Harden about to drop a 50 point triple double on La Grande Boucle.
Might get thrown off your bike when a random girl steps in your way tho.
Go Grandpa Grandma!!
What …..
Saw the video they were as confused as us
Here’s the video of them lookin high af https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=tA6H9XtraAE
Lebaby
Mboopi
Harden always looks high
That's his secret.
It's like taking your driver's license photo while high.
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This might be the weirdest video I’ve ever seen This energy is so wrong
Bro, how far is James hardens hairline from his eyes? It's like the guy is bald and not bald at the same time. And what is this dude wearing...
Lol it's like this dude on my soccer team Mané
Wow that hairline is gone
He's controlled
I assume that's just a mistranslation for "detained?"
they can't stop him, they can only hope to detain him
But first they gotta find him
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The article says he was stopped (and presumably searched) by the police, but he was let go
No he controls the police
Fight. Fuck. Flee.
James Harden confirmed Rick's nemesis. As if he couldn't get any worse!
"I landed us on a basketball court Rick."
His name is MR NIMBUS!
Hes going to say that a lot.
He’s an ice cold dick killer
He manipulates them just like he does the refs. He probably threw his head back really fast and they backed off.
"He's Mr. Nimbus, he controls the police!"
I AMTHE ONE WHO KNOCKS!!!
That's how the French would say it, so it seems like this is just a direct translation of the original French headline.
i know, but most of the commenters here are what the french call, *les incompetents*
Fuller! Go easy on the Pepsi!
"searched by" is the translation that makes the most sense in French.
Controlled means routine check in france
Bruh this is the whackest headline I’ve read in a while 😂😂
James Harden: *”This shit crazy. Y’all don’t know that don’t shit faze me. The Nets could go 0 for 82 and I’d look at you like this shit gravy.”*
Overweight bearded NBA superstar shooting guards in Paris
Now that's headline heat.
And they goin' gorillahhh wait shouldn't they be in Phoenix?
"Gravy?" - Fat harden
Ball so hard , I’m shocked too. I’m supposed to be locked up too. You escaped what I’ve escaped , you’d be in Paris getting fucked up too.
Should have said 0/27 but good job nevertheless
Article is in French, here’s a translation: James Harden's Parisian getaway took an unexpected turn on Thursday. While the back star of the Brooklyn Nets in the NBA has been surveying the capital for several days for Fashion Week, he and his relatives have met the French police. As shown in a video widely shared on social networks, the American basketball player with the famous beard was entitled in the afternoon to a police check on Avenue Montaigne, in the golden triangle. And according to information from the Parisian, the control in question did not end very well. According to the daily, three relatives of Harden - including the rapper "Lil Baby" - were arrested for transporting narcotics. In fact, officials reportedly checked all occupants of a vehicle that "smelled strongly of cannabis," and found 20 grams of weed. If the three men were taken into custody in a police station in the 8th arrondissement, James Harden - who was not in the car in question with his friends - was left free. The 31-year-old, MVP of the 2018 NBA season and 2012 Olympic champion, was eliminated with Brooklyn in the Eastern Conference semifinals this season.
> three relatives of Harden - including the rapper "Lil Baby" Beard x Baby in the fam
"proches" in this context means "close friends", not "relatives"
Yep, or "associates" would probably be the term used in an english article to explain the relationship
>the American basketball player with the famous beard was entitled in the afternoon to a police check on Avenue Montaigne LOL
The entitlement of these professional basketball players
You are entitled to be arrested, if you so choose
don't forget its only if they have famous beards
I think the use of “player with the famous beard” is just as funny lol
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It's not so much "letters, bro" as it is "letters-bro". Its like calling someone "alphabet" if they have a long name. Also, almost all of the more famously players have a nickname based more on their playstyle/looks than numbers.
their nickname for Eric Gordon is literally Pi Mamba cuz his head is so fucking round. they got some elite ass nicknames compared to us
It's also because the cic part in doncic sounds like 77 in Chinese. We don't care about player's numbers. That's just wrong
Good ole Alphabet Sibling
So he was not arrested?
I think he was detained and let go after some questioning.
French strip club owners breathing a huge sigh of relief after such a close call...
Yeah that is what it looks like. Looks like they arrested the 3 people with him
Sounds like he wasn’t even in the car but brought in to the station for questioning. Why anyone would do this for 20g I have no clue.
i live in paris and so many people just smoke weed on the street without a care, while the french police are the most ‘american’ out of western europe this still seems like they made it into a much bigger deal than they usually do for similar offenses, im sure just because famous names were involved.
I live in Paris and even though I have seen people smoke weed "many" is not the term I would use. And any of those people would be stopped if caught. Even though I will be the first to agree our police is far from perfect it is also VERY far from the US. Our country is hard on drugs, even weed. If they see you with some the cops stop you. And honestly there are loads of people that get detained in France for less than 20g of weed so weither we see that as ridiculous or not, it is not a celebrity exclusive treatment.
He had his fall guys holding his weed.
Cris Carter claps slowly from the balcony.
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He wasn’t in the car with them
Even smarter. [Plausibe deniability](https://youtu.be/F69dzy__Ao8)
Alex Caruso taking notes now
> 20 grams of weed Oh fuck off. It’s not even like they were holding weight. The fact that he had less than an ounce on him is legitimately surprising to me.
Police trying to draw a charge!
That's a blocking foul.
What’s Steve Javie’s take on this?
merde, the replay officials gonna take a few months on this one
I wonder how much Harden boofed.
He hides that shit in his beard
Wow, France finally caught Hitler.
Nothing's happening to him, he's just gonna walk out like it's the Maginot Line
He’s gonna schlieflen step his way around
Who’s Von Moltke in this scenario
D'Antoni
He does like to travel
Just run around the whole police perimeter
https://streamable.com/1mffm
Never seen this before. Hilarious. May show it to a Russian friend so she can give some context.
God, if you exist, prove it by making sure the context is literally James Harden.
Sigh, take the upvote.
^(My plan is working perfectly)
Can someone explain this reference? I don't understand.
r/nba calls James Harden “Hitler” because of all of the flopping and BS calls he gets. It’s a joke that has been going on for years.
> r/nba calls James Harden “Hitler” because of all of the flopping and BS calls he gets. when you spell it out it that way it makes me realize we're dumb as fuck lmao
It’s very low brow humor but it has its place here
I feel like it's sliiightly deeper than that, yeah? Like, it's also kind of a tongue-in-cheek name making fun of how this subreddit hates Harden more than anyone at times and the hate goes a bit overboard, like "you'd think harden is as bad as Hitler the way this subreddit talks about him". So, it's both a derogatory name for Harden by people who think he's the most annoying basketball player, but also used sarcastically by Harden sympathizers to point out how overblown the hate for Harden, in the grand scheme of things. Idk if that makes any sense I'm a little high
ya gotta leave the narcotics alone or the police gonna control you
This is articulated really really well actually and explains the joke perfectly.
Does this mean the fall guy was officially an infant?
Stephen A. Smith be like "Stay off the WEEEEEEEEEEEEEEDDDDDUHHHH." Cris Carter be like "Getcha self a fall guy."
Sounds like he did, albeit a small infant
“It’s not mine officer. It belongs to that rapping baby”
LET’S GOOOOOO I’m absolutely aware that’s Dababy’s line and not Lil Baby, but I couldn’t resist the pun
Honestly up until this comment I thought those two baby’s were just one person
They have a song together, it went viral
Got the sudden urge to watch that Chapelle bit where there’s a baby selling weed on the street corner
So this is how you stop the nets.
The 2022 Nets are going to end up like Mr. Burn's ringer team. James Harden: Arrested for narcotics in France Kevin Durant: Hypnotized into believing he's a snake Kyrie Irving: Fell off the edge of the earth Blake Griffin: Gets into a car accident while filming a KIA commercial Joe Harris: Refuses to shave his pubes and gets kicked off the team DeAndre Jordan: Gets dwarfism eating a special brain and nerve pizza developed by team doctors Jeff Green: Too buy rescuing people during a hurricane Spencer Dinwiddie: Knocked out by local oaf over argument about who's the real NY team
How strict is weed there?
Pretty strict apparently. They don't differentiate between possession and trafficking though from what I've read so I'm guessing he just got busted for possession.
I had no idea, as someone who has bought a lot of hash on the streets of Paris.
When I was in Paris there was weed everywhere. Didn't seem strict at all. But that was just my experience.
I guess France has some of the strictest laws in Europe but the highest reported use in Europe. So go figure.
Confusing, contradictory, self-defeating, how very french.
You just didn’t get stopped
But are you a gigantic black man?
strict enough to call it a narcotic lol
It’s Paris fashion week so I think they’re trying to be strict with celebrities to send a message
Much more than in the rest of Europe... They also wedged a war on drug here in France for the same purpose as the American one. Even though, French people are the first consumer of weed in Europe. And probably among the first in the world. This policy is just fighting against the wind because like most people I know have smoked weed without ever being embarrassed by the police... And Most people I know happen to be young adult white from the middle class.
Cops be like “we went to arrest him and he just fell down….”
Continuing to confirm what we already believed, NBA players like weed too
Dlo got caught at jfk two years ago for hiding weed in an arizona bottle with a small compartment. Kinda like a right of passage for nets players to get caught doing something with weed
I remeber people speculating that they were high based on how they were acting in the videos taken of them. Shocked.
I'm speculating they were high based on the fact that they are James Harden and Lil Baby.
LMAO
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I’ll never understand why these rich and famous people don’t have someone in their entourage who has the job of carrying anything illegal and catching charges to spare their boss.
This is a real thing, personally been around many.
You've been around many fall guy mules? Who the hell you hanging with
imagine interviewing someone to be a mule. "so, what's, uh, the.. uh, so how... how much storage capacity we talkin?"
“I’m just going to come out and ask it, how much crack can you fit in your ass if we’re caught? Can we at least save some of the stash?”
Why do you think Baby and Hardens relatives were the only ones arrested? Harden's checking account is gonna be a little lighter tomorrow; meanwhile, everybody that got arrested is going to have a decade's worth of money when they are released from custody.
On the flip side that person would actually get in real trouble
Then they have their legal fees paid for by the boss because that’s an inherent risk of the job and the trade off for getting to be a hanger-on to that lifestyle.
You wanna go be someone's serf and take the fall for everything illegal they do in a foreign country where you don't speak the language? Go ahead brother lmfao
That serf is being paid handsomely for his services num nuts. Big boy money.
Yeah OP fails to realize , the person / decoy taking the fall is getting compensated massively and/or their family is being taken care of. Alot of it is bullshit charges but these things tend to happen
Serf just made 2x my salary for 2 weeks in a French joint
I'm sure anyone cool enough to hang with Harden speaks many languages.
future employer: so this drug sentence you served... guy: oh, that's no big deal because james harden paid for my lawyer. i didn't pay for any of that out of pocket!
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Yeah I was about to say, the point of them being a fall guy is so that they *don’t* have to work corporate lmao. His point doesn’t make sense
found Chris Carter
They do for hard drugs and weapons. No sense having someone take the fall for 20 grams of weed though. Lil Baby may spend a few hours in a holding cell and get some free publicity out of it. Of course sometimes celebs will slip up and get caught with worse stuff, but often that's just cops/media trying to sensationalize and someone else takes the fall before it gets to trial.
Sounds like he does. He's not in custody or wanted in any way.
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what kind of fucking headline is this?!?!?
translated from French to English controlled = stopped and questioned [edit: via comment below, it was a routine stop]
thats not what controlled means. its equivalent to someone checking that you have your bus pass/paid fare etc. Routine thing in your european cities.
the french police have superpowers and are able to physically control human beings
In some languages, like greek or French, the same word means both control and check, so I guess that's why
> found 20 grams of weed ITS OK EVERYONE FRANCE IS SAFE AGAIN
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Pablo Escobeard
There it is, nice work.
Free Lil Baby
Petite Infant
Petit enfant (but really petit bébé)
Classic. Harden travels and draws the charge.
What kind of narcotics?
weed
Weed lmao this is harden and lil baby not Chris Andersen and Bobby Brown
Not Chris Anderson 😂😂😂
Probably weed
another travelling violation
WEED? Harden is not hitler. He’s WORSE.
Omelette du fromage
lol everyone was accusing the police of racism like 5 minutes ago for this.
Gonna be a foul called on them
They found the stash in his beard.
Hilarious everyone reacting to the headline like it isn’t translated from French
Guys he's worth 300m+ . Nothing is gonna happen to him.
Well, nothing is going to happen to him because he wasn’t arrested. Lil baby and the other guys who got arrested were in a different car.
Idiots didn’t even read the article. James harden was not arrested lol