niggas acting like the dodgers just some lock to win it all like they weren’t two outs away from losing until fuckin Miguel Rojas of all people on the roster clutched up, let the games play out
Stephen A. Smith publicly APOLOGIZES to Kyrie Irving after calling him "selfish" for refusing the COVID jab.
"Hindsight-wise, it didn’t make him stubborn or selfish. It made him BRAVE."
"I watched Dr. Fauci on Capitol Hill yesterday, and the person I thought about most was Kyrie Irving."
“Kyrie Irving stood out in my mind because of the heat that he was taking... He refused the vaccine. New York City's mandate made him ineligible for home games, and he linked his stance to people losing jobs over vaccine mandates."
“In my opinion, particularly hindsight-wise, it didn't make him stubborn or selfish. It made him brave. His willingness to stand up and say, ‘Nah, I'm not doing that.’
“It's just a time for reflection — to look at things differently.”
Kyrie gave up $11,400,000 in game checks during the 21-22 NBA season and a $100,000,000 extension with the Nets to be unvaccinated.
That cements his holdout as the largest financial sacrifice any athlete has ever made over an issue in history.
Hi @ZohranKMamdani, I did some math for you.
Grocery runs on 1-3% margins. You’re promising 30% off. That gap doesn’t vanish, taxpayers cover it.
Per store: $5.4M/year in sales, but a 30% discount means giving up $1.6M in revenue, a $1.5M annual loss, per store.
Across 5 stores: $7.5-8M/year in ongoing losses, plus the $70M already approved to build them, plus zero rent and zero property tax.
Total cost to taxpayers, year one: about $78 million and then a permanent tax year after that, forever. And that’s assuming government does everything perfectly and tell me the last time that happened in the history of humanity.
And then you compete with private bodegas, small businesses paying full rent and taxes, run on the same razor-thin margins.
Subsidized city stores selling 30% below market could push 10-20 bodegas citywide toward closing.
This isn’t affordability. It’s a tax hike disguised as a discount and a private business killer affecting mostly hard working Hispanic immigrants just trying to do the right thing and make a living.
Shameful!
I go to therapy with grown men and watch them go through struggles and real problems. If there’s a camera in sight and live recording going on, you’ll get an Emmy-nominated performance from RC. That’s how he moves, and the world is starting to see it. This is exactly how he moved when he wanted Coach O fired from LSU 6 years ago. He doesn’t care. He cares about who is watching and how he can maximize from it. Shout out to @CutonDime25 for calling this BS out.