Kblaze8855
05-20-2024, 10:24 AM
How many of the people/teams the Internet or your core group of friends and family would consider you a hater of went on to win?
And for the record from the player side, I would say it’s only true comeuppance when your target is the best player on a team that wins. I’m sure Gary Payton has big-time haters, but I doubt any of them felt tight in the chest he won in Miami. Even with the big shot he hit. You can’t win in somebody else’s supporting cast and silence your haters. Not fully.
for me personally I have never faced individual comeuppance. All of the players my friends and family assumed I had a personal issue with never won anything. Karl Malone never won shit. Reggie Miller never won shit. Bill Laimbeer won on somebody else’s team. Isiah Thomas was eventually a villain to Chicago as the leader of the Pistons, but he was actually from like half a mile from my neighborhood. Isiah Thomas would just be outside playing basketball when he was already established as an NBA star. My neighborhood didn’t hate him personally like that. He was a local legend. And we all initially backed his battles against the Celtics and wanted them to win. So them winning wasn’t like…a kick in the teeth. Antione Walker won but as a role player for someone else.
My only current guy would be Harden But he’s been the second or third guy for his last three stops. Leonard being hurt so often left a window he could have fit some comeuppance through but as usual he failed.
I don’t **** with after years of trying to overlook his bitchassedness but I was also a fan at one point so I don’t know if it would be a comeuppance situation or just being wrong. They aren’t exactly the same thing.
Getting your comeuppance is Personal. My closest with it was when John Starks had a single shot to win the NBA championship and make the worst fans in my life. Go crazy and serve bowl after bowl of humble pie I would’ve had to choke down. But Hakeem saved my life. And he saved it again the next year after I had already faced some comeuppance having to watch the magic who were loved by my least favorite cousin beat my Bulls. It was one of several things that led to us actually getting into a fight that spilled off the front porch of the house hosting the wedding of our cousin .
I actually got clowned so hard about the 95 Bulls/Magic series…we had an actual fight. we had other issues and had fought before in childish skirmishes in the 80s, but this was like a fight fight. At a wedding. It’s been almost 30 years and my mom will not forgive the embarrassment. It wasn’t as simple as “Penny beat Jordan” and I went crazy but it was part of an overall theme of him being a dick. I’m a dick. But he was over the top with it.
Anyway Hakeem saved me from true destruction by knocking them out in the finals.
I was also kind of lucky the OJ Chase happened in 94 because it took some of the coverage and discussion from a big Knicks win that finals that put me on the precipice of what would’ve been the worst sports summer of my life.
Hakeem and OJ saved my 94 summer and since the Magic in 95 I’ve been safe.
Tatum and Luka are both potentially gonna ladle out generous bowls of rich chunky comeuppance to some people here I won’t name. Jokic already did. Ant doesn’t have too many established haters. Brown, Kyrie, KAT, Rudy, and so on aren’t really in position to do it as background characters in the story though they all have people who don’t like them. Maybe Kyrie for finally winning without Lebron would do it?
Not sure.
Tatum and Luka definitely though.
But so far…..
What is your record?
How many people have beat you over the head with victory you didn’t want to see happen?
And for the record from the player side, I would say it’s only true comeuppance when your target is the best player on a team that wins. I’m sure Gary Payton has big-time haters, but I doubt any of them felt tight in the chest he won in Miami. Even with the big shot he hit. You can’t win in somebody else’s supporting cast and silence your haters. Not fully.
for me personally I have never faced individual comeuppance. All of the players my friends and family assumed I had a personal issue with never won anything. Karl Malone never won shit. Reggie Miller never won shit. Bill Laimbeer won on somebody else’s team. Isiah Thomas was eventually a villain to Chicago as the leader of the Pistons, but he was actually from like half a mile from my neighborhood. Isiah Thomas would just be outside playing basketball when he was already established as an NBA star. My neighborhood didn’t hate him personally like that. He was a local legend. And we all initially backed his battles against the Celtics and wanted them to win. So them winning wasn’t like…a kick in the teeth. Antione Walker won but as a role player for someone else.
My only current guy would be Harden But he’s been the second or third guy for his last three stops. Leonard being hurt so often left a window he could have fit some comeuppance through but as usual he failed.
I don’t **** with after years of trying to overlook his bitchassedness but I was also a fan at one point so I don’t know if it would be a comeuppance situation or just being wrong. They aren’t exactly the same thing.
Getting your comeuppance is Personal. My closest with it was when John Starks had a single shot to win the NBA championship and make the worst fans in my life. Go crazy and serve bowl after bowl of humble pie I would’ve had to choke down. But Hakeem saved my life. And he saved it again the next year after I had already faced some comeuppance having to watch the magic who were loved by my least favorite cousin beat my Bulls. It was one of several things that led to us actually getting into a fight that spilled off the front porch of the house hosting the wedding of our cousin .
I actually got clowned so hard about the 95 Bulls/Magic series…we had an actual fight. we had other issues and had fought before in childish skirmishes in the 80s, but this was like a fight fight. At a wedding. It’s been almost 30 years and my mom will not forgive the embarrassment. It wasn’t as simple as “Penny beat Jordan” and I went crazy but it was part of an overall theme of him being a dick. I’m a dick. But he was over the top with it.
Anyway Hakeem saved me from true destruction by knocking them out in the finals.
I was also kind of lucky the OJ Chase happened in 94 because it took some of the coverage and discussion from a big Knicks win that finals that put me on the precipice of what would’ve been the worst sports summer of my life.
Hakeem and OJ saved my 94 summer and since the Magic in 95 I’ve been safe.
Tatum and Luka are both potentially gonna ladle out generous bowls of rich chunky comeuppance to some people here I won’t name. Jokic already did. Ant doesn’t have too many established haters. Brown, Kyrie, KAT, Rudy, and so on aren’t really in position to do it as background characters in the story though they all have people who don’t like them. Maybe Kyrie for finally winning without Lebron would do it?
Not sure.
Tatum and Luka definitely though.
But so far…..
What is your record?
How many people have beat you over the head with victory you didn’t want to see happen?