Dallas Mavericks are the BYU of the NBA

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- 01/21/2022 at 7:43 AM #165017
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  dystopiamembrane
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  theguardian.com article
- 01/21/2022 at 8:46 AM #165020
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  GameForAnyFuss
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  If we’re going there, I would say the Jazz are the BYU-Provo Campus of the NBA.
  - 01/21/2022 at 8:53 AM #165021
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    ALUF
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    I agree as a jazz fan, we are the BYU-P of the league.
    
    Never seen another fanbase embrace the victim role quite like us in the NBA
    - 01/21/2022 at 10:00 AM #165025
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      GameForAnyFuss
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      Unfortunately this massive inferiority complex is part of the state of Utah’s culture. I see it in our fanbase as well, though not to the same extent. It’s the most annoying part of Utah culture IMO.
      - 01/21/2022 at 10:43 AM #165026
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        Stone
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        @stone
        
        Are the responses in this thread asserting that Utah’s culture has an inferiorirty complex indications of an inferiority complex? Where does the cycle end?
        
        Utah is awesome. Some of the best people I know come from there. Alphas.
- 01/21/2022 at 10:59 AM #165027
  
  dystopiamembrane
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  Did y’all read the article?
  - 01/21/2022 at 11:13 AM #165030
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    Tednab
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    Lol .. it was blah blah and more blah
    - 01/21/2022 at 11:46 AM #165033
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      dystopiamembrane
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      Ha. I get it. If the topic doesn’t interest you, it sounds like Charlie Brown’s school teachers.
  - 01/21/2022 at 11:17 AM #165031
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    GameForAnyFuss
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    Yes, and that’s actually what my original response was addressing. The Jazz seem to have a bias toward whiteness too.
    - 01/21/2022 at 11:48 AM #165034
      
      dystopiamembrane
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      Ok. Got it. I don’t follow the NBA enough to know.
- 01/21/2022 at 11:51 AM #165035
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  Central Coast Ute
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  @flip2848
  
  BYU has a lot of good European players?
  - 01/21/2022 at 11:57 AM #165036
    
    dystopiamembrane
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    @dystopiamembrane
    
    Ha. A lot of tall players of Scandinavian descent were on the roster when I last paid attention to them. Missionary work in Scandinavia in the 1830s and 40s and a youth proselytizing effort via basketball starting circa 1980 created a perfect storm.
    - 01/21/2022 at 12:45 PM #165037
      
      Central Coast Ute
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      @flip2848
      
      This article says the Mavericks have a lot of European players while the rest of the league has American players. European decent doesn’t mean European. I don’t see any Europeans on tds’s roster. Utah has had some luck with a couple of European players such as Motolla and Poeltl however.
      - 01/21/2022 at 1:13 PM #165050
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        dystopiamembrane
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        This is a very good argument. Thank you.
- 01/21/2022 at 1:47 PM #165056
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  PlainsUte
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  Author has not had his DEI training, the payroll should have the same makeup as the general population, so the NBA’s rosters have way too many black players and not enough diversity, so why whine about the one team that is closer to the norm, aside from having no Asian or Pacific Islanders?? 😉