Basketball Star Say Athletes Should Get Preferential Treatment With Vaccine Because They Pay Alot of Taxes

Yes, let's do that, but first a dry run, as in a few thousand jabs in the arm with a 4 inch needle to see if he is a good candidate.
 

He has no class, never has had any class, and is a perfect example of a jerk who believes his own BS. He cheats at golf, stiffs waitress's, and probably mistreats his dog.
 
I’m already seeing red at preferential testing treatment being given to college and professional athletes, testing them as much as DAILY when I’m wondering what kind of lines I might have to stand in with my walker when giving shots to the over 75s s finally starts.
I could write volumes about my growing disgust with college & pro sports in general.
 
I thought Barkley was a jerk when he was an active player, and now that he's being paid $$$$$$ to be a commentator/analyst, every time he opens his mouth he sticks his size 16 shoe as far as possible down his dumb throat.

He and Dennis Rodman were the reasons I stopped watching pro basketball for a good long while. I couldn't stand either one of those egocentric showboaters.

When they finally retired I was so happy. I love basketball but those two guys I just could not stand.
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I don't understand why constant testing would bother you, geezerette. These athletes are in constant close, active, contact with others; and have to travel, often halfway across country. This is very high risk behavior.

Is there some reason you resent someone being required to be tested every 48 hrs? And I assume you're aware the NBA helped finance the development of the saliva test which it uses.
 
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This is one very major reason I do not watch sports in general......their attitude.

On the news sports report just last night I noticed during a B/ball game ..... NO mask, and of course no distancing . Why is that ? with so many other forms of entertainment being shut down &/or limited ....why not B/ball.

Not sure what is happening with F/ball & baseball....I'll have to watch & see.
 
Yes, I saw this also. I thought to my self, “You people are a bunch of greedy, over-paid, self-centered cry babies that it’s no wonder why people have little respect for most of you.”
 
Sports people always seem to get special treatment. When I was in high school, the football team was always presented at the first school assembly and cheered as heroes. Yet, the kids who were attending some classes at UCLA, building computers long before they were a "thing" (late 1960s), and anyone else who was performing stellar non-sports activities were just considered weird (the term "nerd" had yet to be coined).

When people get together to talk, it usually seems to be sports. People pay high sums of money to go see a sports event and large expensive stadiums are built to hold these events. Watch the local news and most of it seems to be sports these days. When people from different parts of the country meet and discuss where they are from, you will often hear "go <name of favorite local team>!", which always sounds silly and pointless to me.

The general public has been going nuts over sports for years, so why are we surprised when these folks act the "prima donna"? Their adoring public created that situation and then gets bent out of shape when these sports figures claim what they think they are owed because they have been told so, for so long.

If people treated sports figures as no different from anybody else and paid them far less money and attention, we wouldn't have this problem

Tony
 

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