http://espn.go.com/nba/story/_/id/11666705/nik-stauskas-sacramento-kings-surprised-reaction-comments

Sacramento Kings rookie Nik Stauskas said he was surprised at the reaction to his comments following a preseason loss.

Following Sunday night's loss to the Toronto Raptors, the former Michigan star made a statement to the media that has rubbed some folks the wrong way.

"I understand that I'm a rookie and I'm white, so people are going to attack me at all times," he said. "Just coming out there in the game, I felt it right away."

Following Tuesday night's game, also against the Raptors, Stauskas tried to provide clarity for his words, but at the same time, he didn't back down from them.

"I was very surprised," Stauskas told Cowbell Kingdom. "People kind of took it too far with what I was trying to say. I wasn't trying to get anyone to feel sorry for me. I wasn't trying to be controversial or anything like that. I was just trying to keep it real."

"As a rookie in the NBA, you're going to get attacked on the court, you see that tonight," Stauskas continued. "People make a point to go at me. It has a lot to do with reputation and kind of stereotypes of what your game is. For me, I look at my reputation, people look at me and obviously, I'm not the best defender in the world, so people are going to make a point to go at me and try to attack me as much as they can. That's really what I was trying to say."

Stauskas stressed that he did not intend to spark any controversy with his comments.

"I've said stuff like that before and I don't take that back, because I'm not trying to offend anyone, I'm not trying to be controversial, I'm just saying that's just really how I feel," the rookie guard said.

"Some people may have a problem with it, some people may not, but if you've ever played the game of basketball, you understand that there's certain stereotypes and certain reputations that certain players have and based on that, people are going to play a certain way against you," Stauskas added.

The Kings drafted Stauskas with the No. 8 overall pick in this year's draft.

"The one thing that always bothered me when I played in the NBA was I really got irritated when they put a white guy on me. I didn't care who guarded me - red, yellow, black. I just didn't want a white guy guarding me, because it's disrespect to my game." - Larry Bird

Larry Bird:

3× NBA champion (1981, 1984, 1986)
2× NBA Finals MVP (1984, 1986)
3× NBA Most Valuable Player (1984–1986)
12× NBA All-Star (1980–1988, 1990–1992)
NBA All-Star Game MVP (1982)
9× All-NBA First Team (1980–1988)
All-NBA Second Team (1990)
3× NBA All-Defensive Second Team (1982–1984)
NBA Rookie of the Year (1980)
NBA All-Rookie First Team (1980)
3× NBA 3-Point Shootout champion (1986–1988)
2× 50–40–90 club (1987-1988)
AP Athlete of the Year (1986)
No. 33 retired by Boston Celtics
NBA's 50th Anniversary All-Time Team
College national player of the year (1979)
2× MVC Player of the Year (1978–1979)
2× Consensus first team All-American (1978–1979)

Nik Stauskas:

What difference does it make how accomplished the player when it comes to those statements. Stauskas is not talking about what a great player he is, just how he feels when he steps on the court.

There was a pretty good bit in a book comparing the paths of Matt Maloney and Pooh Allen, who were in the same backcourt at Penn. Maloney said these things and much more when they talked to him.

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He's absolutely right, and any white guy who has ever been on the court with 9 black people knows its true

*shrug*

Side note: this has been such a winning agenda for me so far, and when he bumps McLemore to the bench my stock is gonna split

He's basically spitting that truth...same shit Larry Bird would say 30 years ago.

>Side note: this has been such a winning agenda for me so far,
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>Side note: this has been such a winning agenda for me so far,
>and when he bumps McLemore to the bench my stock is gonna
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>Side note: this has been such a winning agenda for me so far,
>and when he bumps McLemore to the bench my stock is gonna
>split

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does it really matter?

for all my fans who keep my name in their mouth: http://i.imgur.com/v2xNOpS.jpg

court.

IN FACT...he could've kept going with... "I'm kinda doofy looking. I look like I'm 13 years old. I look like a Mathlete."

All of that won't matter though, cuz he can ball. Nasty handle. Nasty taking it to the rack. And a crazy trigger.

So the joke will be on the "Long-armed Africans" - (c) O.E.

And he'll be taking pics of his bread like this ---> http://instagram.com/p/t58x51AHHx/

they can get buckets on him. he knows the deal

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That confusion is the only way I can figure to make this offensive.

So I was confused. But he's talking about in the game, so I don't think this is offensive.

QUICK, SOMEONE GET OFFENDED! - media/politicians

can't go talking about a thing that doesn't exist!

This PC hysteria is such a joke

I think it's ridiculous for the NBA to hide behind due process.

lol

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There is NO ROOM for people who say race names in sentences in this country.

People want to be offended about the right thing and any sort of low-hanging fruit has to get them up in arms just in case.

I can't believe anyone anywhere is trying to make a big deal over this... ridiculous


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from Harvard.

wonder what the reaction woulda been if he said those comments.

In his career.



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I wont get into a real debate, but Jeremy Lin will have more 38 pt games in his first 3 seasons than Nick Stauskas will ever score

***grabs popcorn***

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Bird is saying that he thinks white guys can't
defend

Stauskus is a white guy, and says he thinks people
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this point so it sounds like he's just whining.

>this point so it sounds like he's just whining.

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"I ORBITs the solar system, listenin..."

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do we as fans and lovers of funny shit, controversy, etc really want players to sanitize their comments along those lines? i always say let these guys cook. the worst are the people in the news media who have to make a stink out of every comment, and then they wonder why they get 12 mouthful of cliches in every postgame scrum.

I think the white American-born basketball player has not only lost their place in the NBA, but a lot of the white players themselves lack the confidence (imo) in their skills to be able to compete on an equal footing w/the best of the blk players...

I think they've silently conceded that the days of the white player being the league's BEST PLAYER, or in the conversation, is over, and that basketball, like boxing in regards to the heavyweight champion, is a "blk man's game."

I see good signs from this kid

basketball in the states...

I'm sure that helped out w/his competitiveness...

like, I agree that they're better, but why is that? white kids are still all over college basketball, but most of the best of them are from Australia or Alaska (sure it's a state but you know what I mean) or somewhere in eastern Europe. And so few of the American-born players ever get drafted let alone make the leap to a rotation player. One of the most frequent explanations I hear is that white kids just don't have the incentive to play basketball all day and night long to avoid the struggles surrounding their lives and white kids are mostly not living in urban centers where a court of some kind if always nearby but there are plenty of super broke, super sad white kids too.


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They're going to turn Stauskas into their Social Justice Warrior cause, just watch.

Just ain't nothing racist about it

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May see that as a challenge & go extra hard.

"you see this lil bitch?"

i remember Chris Webber & Gary Payton clowning a rookie Love on NBATV saying shit like, "You know what call that Lunchmeat. We gonna eat when we see him".

Olympic team'


>i remember Chris Webber & Gary Payton clowning a rookie Love
>on NBATV saying shit like, "You know what call that Lunchmeat.
>We gonna eat when we see him".

for guys like them that grew up in the states playing ball their whole lives they know and relish the challenge early on and it doesn't really phase them.

And he played HS ball in the United States of America.

Lol...I don't even know why I'm bothering.

what he said is cuz of the PC world we live...look at how this has become a faux controversial story

In 2004, Bird made what was to me a pretty innocuous statement awhile back why the NBA has lost some of its white viewers...and he said because there were no white stars in the league...and ppl tried to make a big deal out of that.

This kid just addressed the elephant in the room when it comes to white ball players and the NBA - he just said what other white dudes think

You don't think there are GMs who are reluctant to pull the trigger on drafting white players high in the draft...just because they're white and the recent history of drafting white players in the lottery or the 1st round hasn't panned out for a lot of teams

You posting real dumb right now. Should've ejected on this a while ago.

This topic has you given props to Kevin Love, you all out of sorts with your agendas.

to make but good luck on that Nik Stauskas bandwagon ride

didn't pan out

Youre already on record for not watching college basketball. Yet you keep speaking about prospects.

Weird right?

Nik Stauskas grew up in a city with 5.5 million people in the metro area

Cmon lol

So who was it about?

He's just speaking on the sentiment that is pretty darn obvious if you have ever played ball.

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I thought he was maybe the 3-4 option on the UM teams

I didn't really get why his name was being tossed around in the lottery

especially considering SAC drafted Jimmer

he'll be Jimmer 2.0 status soon

sounds like this is a pre-emptive plea cop for when he's playing overseas next year.

Wrong.

Think Klay Thompson/athletic Kyle Korver. Damn good player. Elite shooter and surprisingly athletic for his size (if you play him close he will blow by you for a dunk).

He also omitted the fact that he's an asshole on the court (he's not the hand the ball to the refs after a TD type), which would make a rookie of any race a target.

He was the undisputed first option for UM last year and he was able to get to them rim consistently against either Harrison twin or James Young in that Kentucky game

Also Jimmer is a 6'2 combo guard, Stauskas is a 6'6 pure 2 with a 3p% coming out that was 50 points higher against MUCH better competition

Just...no.

I'm surprised he went to that team in particular, unless they're giving up on McLemore.

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anyone making tired, lazy jimmer/stauskas and morrison/mcdermott comparisons might as well just get an "i don't know hoop" forehead tatt and stop wasting everyone else's time.

In his last 5 games he is 13/22 from the field and 6/10 from 3

And he really did all that in 4 games because one of those 5 was a game in which he played less than 3 minutes

http://dimemag.com/2014/10/video-nik-stauskas-exhibits-rare-offensive-knack-comfort-in-preseason/

Whose pro debut came during an era when black folks were still classified as 3/5ths of a human by federal law in this country.

Nick Stauskas pointing out the perception, which has been reality on the court for four decades or so, would make more sense if Nick Stauskas was a dude with the game to buck that trend.

But he's not.

Personally I can't really envision him ever earning a single coupon for a bed at Thunder Dan's tanning bar.

all roughly the same era (Maravich and Westpaul a little later).

Since then the aforementioned Thunder Dan and Jeff Hornacek have been all-stars, if we are talking about Americans. You got Manu and Petrovic from overseas.

5:48 Nik Stauskas enters the game for Ben McLemore 64-68

5:31 66-71 Klay Thompson makes 25-foot three point jumper (Stephen Curry assists)

4:56 66-74 Klay Thompson makes 28-foot three point jumper (Draymond Green assists)

4:18 68-77 Klay Thompson makes 25-foot three point jumper (Justin Holiday assists)

3:02 70-82 Klay Thompson makes 26-foot three point jumper (Stephen Curry assists)

2:30 70-84 Klay Thompson makes driving layup

2:12 Nik Stauskas bad pass (Stephen Curry steals) 70-84

2:05 70-87 Klay Thompson makes 26-foot three point jumper (Stephen Curry assists)

1:37 70-89 Klay Thompson makes 15-foot jumper

1:06 70-92 Klay Thompson makes 25-foot three point jumper (Stephen Curry assists)

1:00 Ramon Sessions enters the game for Nik Stauskas 70-92

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fT7o2S9SKMk

it looks like stauskas came in after klay was rolling, then he busted his eye a few times and they switched stauskas off of him.

klay gave everybody they put on him the business, just no missing.

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Im shocked i say!

Klay made two wide open 3s on fast-breaks but McLemore (his initial primary defender) wasn't giving him much of an airspace in the half-court set. Then Stauskus checked in & it was obvious he had no clue how to check shooters as he didn't bother to get up on Klay when he had a chance to do so on multiple occasions. He actually had his hands directed at Klay's chest rather than his face b/c he was slow to react & Klay had already fired a shot before he knew what hit him.

It was only after Stauskus gave him a couple of clean looks that Klay started taking heat check shots even after McCallum switched on him. In real time it seemed like Stauskus was always in the picture when Klay was hitting a shot until he got checked out. It was after watching the replay I realized than McCallum had even switched on him intentionally & that Stauskus wasn't actually getting picked off. Even then if it was baseball Stauskus would be charged w/ all of Klay's point in the last 6 minutes of the 3rd quarter for his horrific one-on-one defense.

A rookie not known for his defensive prowess in the first place allowed an already-hot Klay Thompson, the second-best offensive talent at his position today, to make a few baskets in a row?

Someone call the town executioner, we need a public stoning and we need it NOW!

>A rookie not known for his defensive prowess in the first
>place
Didn't Stauskus open his mouth about being stereotyped as a bad defender ONLY b/c he is white.........yeeaaaah!

>allowed an already-hot Klay Thompson make a few baskets
>in a row?
Bruh, did you watch the game? Klay was struggling in the 1st half & simply made two wide open 3s that he rarely misses just before Stauskus was subbed in but MacLamore wasn't giving him much of an air space in the half court sets.

Meanwhile Stauskas was giving Klay too much air space while Klay had the ball behind the 3 point line & actually stared him down before he fired a shot. Klay wasn't even using picks when Stauskas was initially guarding him, it was simply him standing at the top of the key & the ball ending up in his hands. How in the hell do you stand in a defensive stance inside the 3 point line while an elite shooter has the ball behind the 3 point line? At least have you hand up: "Hands down, man down!" (c) Mark Jackson. It wasn't like Klay was shooting fade away 3s w/ Stauskas all over him & contesting his shots. By the time McCallum switched on him the house was already on fire.

Their coach is also an idiot for not doubling Klay instead of getting beat by the same play 5 straight times when everyone in the arena knew who was getting the ball. The adjustment he made was switching McCallum on him when all Klay had to do was rub him off a screen & he would have already launched a shot before McCallum even has a chance to contest his shot. No switching, no help....once McCallum got bumped by a pick it was over. This was no different than how Sam Mitchell defended Kobe.

>Someone call the town executioner, we need a public stoning
>and we need it NOW!
Stauskas opened his mouth & got embarrassed. The fact he's a terrible defender has nothing to do w/ him being white.

you said klay scored 22 on stauskas in 5 minutes. you were wrong. you pretended to know something that you didn't. it's okay, dude.

>you said klay scored 22 on stauskas in 5 minutes. you were
>wrong. you pretended to know something that you didn't. it's
>okay, dude.

You said something different and factually inaccurate.

If McCallum didn't switch then it would have made no difference whatsoever, Stauskas would have continued to look dumbfounded while getting torched by the same fire he started. If you want to argue over whether he gave up 22 in 5 minutes or 9 in 1 minute then go ahead.

Why is this an "up-worthy" moment? I think we're all just confused as to the point even without the embellishment, then when you stack the hyperbole on top of it..

>Why is this an "up-worthy" moment? I think we're all just
>confused as to the point even without the embellishment, then
>when you stack the hyperbole on top of it..

Dude made a statement that's VERY relevant to what Klay did to him: "I'm a rookie and I'm white, so people are gonna attack me at all times"

If it wasn't for him being on the court & actually checking Klay when a record was set then I wouldn't even bother to up it but he was the first defender that Klay torched (McLemore wasn't even in the picture when Klay hit the back-to-back 3s b/c they both came off fastbreaks & he actually did a good job on him in the 1st half).

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Someone posted something (that i will not repeat) that changed the way i view his posting

All I'm saying is he a horrific defender & the fact Klay went off during the ENTIRE 5 minutes he was on the court isn't a coincidence.

he gave that to the whole squad.

he shot a 3 for like two steps behind the line, no one's guarding him there. he splashed it.

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as "a first round pick" rather than using his name. #assetlife
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stauskas becoming serviceable would have been nice though. god he sucks.

what is noah vonleh doing?
some of these lotto picks i literally have no idea if they are even playing or what

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Ouch.

Second time I brought it up...but I can't help it. Like...DAYUM.

http://espn.go.com/nba/boxscore?gameId=400827938

LOL.

http://www.nba.com/video/games/sixers/2015/12/07/0021500305-sas-phi-play5.nba/

he blew by his man but....

Rasual Butler was just out of the league for like a year or two, he can't get highlight blocks on you. Dude is 6'6ish, why was he laying it up at all?


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>Rasual Butler was just out of the league for like a year or
>two, he can't get highlight blocks on you. Dude is 6'6ish, why
>was he laying it up at all?

He has been getting weakside blocks all season long (5th on the team in blocks) while playing limited minutes (he's averaging 2.2 per 36 & 3.1 per 100 possession, he's tied w/ Tim in both metrics for the top spot on the team!)

He wasn't "out for a year or two", he was ballin' out last season w/ the Wiz when Pierce was injured: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VWdbU-B7iVo

of rasual butler's career, even though he's a player I like.

he was in the NBDL two years ago. I respect him. it looks bad for stauskas getting caught like that.

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http://board.okayplayer.com/okp.php?az=show_topic&forum=8&topic_id=2640929&mesg_id=2640929&listing_type=search

SP

http://www.espn.com/nba/story/_/id/25972347/nik-stauskas-traded-3-s-cut-last-week-signs-cavaliers

https://ripcityproject.com/2019/01/07/nik-stauskas-absent-portland-trail-blazers-rotation-out/

how long have we been here?

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has taken over his identity except he's good.



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Mitch McGary lost hella money coming back for another year.

I thought all those guys would be great pros tbh

For a pretty innocuous comment made as a rookie years ago.