I have to say it again, but... how boring are NBA games where very few of us care about the highlights between a Sixers-Bucks game, with two of the best big men on the planet playing... and the story ends up being a guy trying to shoot FTs after the game but arguing with stadium staff. ... ... on noes! a LADDER! (or was it a Nowitzki fallaway sighting?)
The ladder throwing was the highlight of the game. The ladder was in his way to the basket. The way Giannis gets through defenses is shove them away.
I side with the staff there. Used to work as a part time AudioVideo setup and takedown crew; we'd go in before and after events. Crew would show the speaker some courtesy, but if there was a schedule to keep; have to go and do your job. What happened was just rude. The ladder is technically their work equipment. If it fell on someone could have been a work hazard. Pushing it is the equivalent of a UPS guy with a electronic pad for customer signature, and Giannis the just slaps it out of guy's hand, because the package was for someone else. Giannis has the narrative of growing up poor and making it. That's nice and all, but an entitled jerk can be rich or poor. Man is defined by his actions. ... the ladder didn't deserve this .
Lately, I've found the off court drama more interesting than the actual game. So much poor officiating with semi-fixed results has jaded the game's integrity and lost my interest.
I know. It is petty. But it's also kind of that old school mentality of don't let them be comfortable in your gym. The mental aspect of fierce rivalries. This "stupid" **** is part of it. Like high schools stealing each others mascots and such.
