Aas a certified social media expert, I speak from experience when I tell you, the reader, that the best on the internet is the best, ex-athletes on Instagram. Forty-something-year-old men, who have conquered the world’s most demanding profession, live strange lives in their twilight, and only wander together in a world they never planned for when they were young. Want to see 7-time All-Star and future Hall of Famer Joe Johnson placing Hemsworth-level meatloaf shots? Pau Gasol eats an egg? Are you following Reggie Miller’s routes? Well, reader, that’s all there is and more: a brave new world of older men, who lived what they thought was their primary goal, just vibing, looking for good times, and congratulating their children on the low performance. The lives we would all live if our wildest dreams came true.
Last Friday night, Hall of Fame Celtics forward Paul Pierce set the gold standard for all Instagram content on the retired athlete as he streamed himself, surprisingly alive, shining and transparent wasted, playing poker with his dudes while ‘ a bunch of strippers grinding around, working at the camera, and it seemed like it was having a good, healthy time while watching a random mid-season NBA game on TV in the background.
Feel free to use this sacred document here, but if you can not figure out the time tonight, allow me to take a moment to describe some highlights. Pierce opens the stream by saying, “Blades get a neck massage.” He invites a stripper in the comments and says she can make money. It looks like he’s drinking booze from a small medicine cup. For two or so minutes he takes the time to call out the Jewish people on Shabbat, says ‘Shabbat is poppin’ and says he would like to ‘be on Shabbat’. If someone mentions COVID-19, he says he has already been vaccinated, and then recommends that everyone get the chance, these are honestly just responsible messages. Then he quotes an incredible line of ‘Stop hatin’ … everyone hatin ‘…’
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We have been to Turkey. After more than a year in the hell of COVID, it’s uplifting to know that there are moments that make life worth living, people.
In a rational world, nothing happens after this, except perhaps a significant rise in randos shouting ‘TURKEYS’ at Paul Pierce as he walks down the street. But unfortunately, Paul shared his poker and stripper-related activities as an ESPN employee, where he was an analyst of the network’s NBA coverage until yesterday, when he was fired from the world leader without ceremony because he was too cool. .
Was Paul Pierce now a beloved presence on TVs in this great country? No not really. He once said he had a better career than Dwyane Wade, which was quite funny, and it was a wonderful pleasure to see him see things wrong, simply because he had such an annoying presence during his career. the track was. He may also have admitted that he tore his pants in the middle of the game and pulled out in a wheelchair to hide his shame from a national TV audience. And anyway, all the talent on ESPN is rowing against the flow of the network’s micromanaged, produced within an inch of their lives after the game.
‘But just because he’s not Vin Scully does not mean he should be fired just because he streamed himself three sheets into the wind and looked at buttocks.”
But just because he’s not Vin Scully does not mean he should be fired just because he streamed himself three sheets into the wind and looked at buttocks. Who exactly is ESPN protecting here? Everyone involved was doing A-OK, and even took the time to promote their own Instagram posts to anyone watching. Maybe Paul was not very COVID compliant, but I mean, he promoted the vaccine! And look, it’s not like he’s the only NBA figure who has taken time in quarantine to enjoy the company of exotic dancers. James Harden and Lou Williams only received suspensions and quarantine orders, which to me at least seems. Was ESPN worried that all the kids watching Paul Pierce want to follow his behavior? I certainly do not hope so because there are probably no children looking up to Paul Pierce, as Draymond Green once remarked.
It’s not as if Republican politicians are queuing up to condemn Paul Pierce for his poop-related Instagram men (too busy dealing with their accused sex trader). No one threatens boycotts protesting outside his home / strippers. Paul Pierce has lost no credibility as a basketball analyst – if anything, it’s ruining his reputation as an NBA player is something unpleasant is not a party animal. It’s just a funny shit that happened. You suspend him for a week or ignore it, and it disappears into the background – call some funny shit internet bozos and share it with future internet bozos.
Charles Barkley, the monolithic presence on TNT’s colossal entertaining post-contest on TNT, received a DUI in 2009, telling his arresting officer that he ‘… was going to drive around the corner and get a blowjob’, and she work must be retained. after a short time, because no one there was obsessed with saving face or whatever, ESPN felt they had to do to save their reputation from one of their employees who was drunk about how he was in Turkey.
Pierce did nothing eighth as malicious, and yet he’s out here in the cold, because ESPN could not handle that someone would enjoy the company of strippers? What exactly necessitated his quick exit when ESPN personalities credibly accused of sexual harassment continued to work at the network? Was it just that they could not sweep Instagram Live recordings of how he did nothing wrong under the rug?
I’m serious: What is the problem here exactly? Did they just think it’s tough? This is not baseball or NFL or Republican politics. No one in or around the NBA has historically felt compelled to hold a tearful press conference where they beg for the public’s forgiveness because they sometimes want to relax with strippers. It’s damn professional basketball, and it’s usually above this puritanical shit. Why ESPN did not get the memo, I can not even imagine. Let Paul party, cowards.