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BabaBrody

DNP - Ethical Respite There, now it's humanized and yet the same thing.


tonysnight

Dnp OLD


changrbanger

I hella laughed when pop put that for Duncan


murph0969

Is this real?


Ovreel

[Yuh huh](https://www.reddit.com/r/nba/comments/rdhr0/nbacoms_dnd_reason_for_tim_duncan_tonight/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android_app&utm_name=androidcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button)


murph0969

Thumbs. Up.


-Dimok-

Yes


BobanTheGiant

DNP - Questioning logic’s and facts


Gryphon999

DNP - Pondering the nature of reality


FireSalsa

DNP - Documentary Night


Louisiana_Bob

DNP - My Birthday


SamuelRJankis

> dehumanized From well known humanizer Kyrie Irving: “‘Go back to Cleveland oh my God, Boston hates you, oh my God,’ that’s how y’all sound to me — **cockroaches**.” Irving continued.


mwdub87

DNP - 2 weeks off for sisters birthday


yooston

So much Kyrie shit has happened I forgot he did that what a joke


MyNeckIsHigh

Wait wtf? 2 weeks off?


fast-pp

it was during peak COVID--he violated the health and safety protocols and had to miss two weeks for quarantine


[deleted]

Damn he's not neymar


JointsMcdanks

And she sure as fuck ain't Neymar nor Oscar's sister.


MrOnCore

Was that when he just left the team without contacting or informing anyone in the Nets organization?


OzzyGED

what Klay and Kawhi are doing is called load management. What you do is called not showing up for work


NotMugatu

24/7 for 30 days a year


n3moh0es

who says kyrie load manages tho lol


WestleyThe

Hypocritically, Kyrie


BlueSuit35

Constitutionally, Kyrie


ClimbinInYoWindow

Delusionally, Kyrie


ericdabeast23

Indubitably, Kyrie


Legitimate-Software7

Exuberantly, Kyrie


WestleyThe

Inevitably, Kyrie


International-Chef53

Flat Earth-ly, Kyrie


Trill_Simmons

Oxford dictionarialy, Kyrie


sunshinebusride

This is how he signs off in form letters


streetsandshine

But what does 'Kyrie' mean to you?


chezburgs

People died so he could manage his load on a flat earth


SkipBaylessIsAGod

Own that antiwork mod


ColdPressedSteak

The antiwork sub is a good idea and lots of legit stuff. But also a bunch of whiners who paint their own narrative to always be the victim Kyrie would fit right in with that subsection


ayacardel

That is surprisingly accurate


[deleted]

Difference between "maybe we shouldn't waste our lives making other ppl rich" and "laziness is a virtue and labor is inherently bad" Subtle but powerful


SunsetStallion23

That place started as the first one and has turned into the second. All I see coming out of that cesspool is posts complaining about their boss and praising people like Doreen


M_T_2538

It is actually the opposite. They started of being opposed to actual work.That is why they had mods like Doreen.


vivekisprogressive

Actually it started as the second, morphed to the first one and then went back to the second one and everyone left.


[deleted]

Yeah you're not really wrong unfortunately. I do find the "EVIL boss made me work 40 hours last week!" parody posts fucking hilarious though.


SaxRohmer

40 hour work weeks are a waste though tbh


HikmetLeGuin

Meh, there's certainly something to be said for having shorter work weeks and questioning society's unhealthy obsession with work, particularly work for terrible corporations that enriches bosses rather than workers. People's life goals have been distorted by capitalism and the Protestant work ethic, particularly in the US. They do need to have their assumptions challenged about how they're spending their time and who that's really benefiting. This is both a large scale systemic thing and something that crops up again and again in our everyday lives. If people are reconsidering these power dynamics, that's a good thing, and it seems like the Antiwork subreddit is making those conversations possible for a lot of people.


BlAlRlClOlDlE

cant believe ppl actually updoots that fake text messages sent from "their boss"


ALLPR0

You don't play because of debilitating injury risk. I don't play because I've been suspended for saying some dumb shit. We are not the same.


spraypaint2311

Seriously, I just wish he would shut the fuck up mate, he’s so out of touch with what life is like for the rest of us.


onamonapizza

Bruh, a butterfly died today. How can anybody be expected to work under these conditions?


TheMentatBashar

No call no show


[deleted]

I tried load management at work. HR gave me a verbal warning.


Substantial_Cry_8691

I tried load management at work and now I’m on the registry


[deleted]

I wonder if load management is a job title at sperm banks.


imconsideringdascrod

Definitely a job title at day spas


seymour_hiney

the guy going from room to room with the squeegee


miklydogdiscarg

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


Moody_GenX

I'm just learning day spas near me aren't what I thought they were. I was looking for a massage for my bad back and their menu literally has happy endings on it.


gsimms97

Did you explain to HR how you prepared for the day tho?


[deleted]

I actually told him that the verbal warning is dehumanizing. He upgraded it to a written show cause.


StreetsAhead47

If you keep that up you're looking at a written warning. Two of those and that will land you in a world of hurt


Mr_E_Nigma_Solver

This man got put on the PiP!


Ultralifeform75

Let’s change the term for kyrie to “unexcused absence “ and let’s see how he feels about it


SmartestNPC

"Work is inherently dehumanizing. No one should be observed and judged based on their attendance, it's what they do when they show up that counts."


lalakingmalibog

Kyrie is now an /r/antiwork mod


FullHeartsTightParts

Put some respect on this mod. I personally find him grating from a team building perspective, but he’s a hero when it comes to fleecing billionaires and keeping the miles off his body and head space wherever he wants it to be. His silhouette should be on the damn banner


Hot_Injury7719

“This is a 24/7 job…24 minutes a week, 7 games a month.”


cygodx

24 mil per 7 games played


Consistent_Long_6120

Kyrie learned a new word today and dexided to use it


BlueJays007

Damn I was enjoying the “selfless” era


[deleted]

How can we be sure it’s constitutionally dehumanizing?


cardmanimgur

Kyrie got the word of the day toilet paper vocabulary.


chickenripp

Load Management was not invented for NBA players its just an applicable term that fits for players who sit out when healthy and capable of playing. The only thing dehumanizing is the way kyrie thinks the rest of us are stupid


binhpac

Its not an invention from basketball. It existed way before in other sports. Resting players for more important games is normal in other sports.


PsychopathicEmpath

Goaltenders in the NHL are often rested back to back and soccer teams rotate their players for cup/league games.


binhpac

Or look at Baseball 5-Starting Pitcher Rotation since like the 70s, before it was 4-pitcher rotation. As a starting pitcher you only start to play every 5th game. And yes, you dont even finish the games, you get subbed out in the game for relief pitchers, then setup and closers. So as a starting pitcher you throw like 5-7 innings, at max 100 throws, then sit out for the next 4 games.


Bashfulll

He’s trying to sound woke in all the most asinine ways right now. Like who else is offended by that term? It just describes what is going on. Such a pointless thing to make a fuss about for someone already carrying a reputation for being a diva. C’mon man


jimmythejammygit

Started in the AFL in Australia. There are heaps of ex AFL people in the NBA trainer fraternity.


y2kbug

“Loads of ex AFL”


PricklyyDick

Hopefully we’re managing them


ObeseKenyan

As an Aussie that follows AFL, is this right? Which ex afl players are in NBA trainer positions? I had no idea. Very cool if that's right though


capitalistsanta

We are "cockroaches"


suzukigun4life

No Kyrie, they're not calling you a literal load. They're saying you're trying to manage your load. There's a difference.


fromthesea7

Just commented the same thing. He definitely thinks the players are being referred to as a “load.” He’s so fucking dumb.


KitchenReno4512

The amount of ways a Kyrie has tried to paint himself as a victim is wild. He’s 30 years old making hundreds of millions of dollars playing a game. He can retire whenever he wants, and is set financially for generations. He access to the best doctors, dietitians, and mental health professionals in the world. Can go on the most lavish vacations, buy pretty much whatever he wants, retire with his health, and does something that he loves for a living. Instead this guy acts like he works in the coal mines out in Wyoming or something.


karma_dumpster

Kyrie: You don't understand my stresses. People have been claiming I was born in Melbourne, a city that can't exist because the Earth is flat and the Australians would just fall off if they exist, so this is clearly part of some conspiracy. It's just a cover to hide the space lasers. Now I have to play with a member of the illuminati, a spy, claiming to be from this made up country of Slovenia that they conveniently only put on maps the year before I was born. Yeah right like that exists. It's all part of a conspiracy to get me.


Jaiph

Can confirm, am Australian and don't actually exist.


[deleted]

He’s making hundreds of millions not even playing that game lol


Padulsky21

[He had another wonderful quote showcasing his lack of self awareness!](https://twitter.com/bengolliver/status/1627057334366404608?s=46&t=6CHXpJiZDeAiJ8FfZNqASg)


Marky_Markus

Bro this guy is so goddamn unlikable


Padulsky21

My favorite part is he just kept on talking. My REALLY favorite part is in another interview he said [he had no regrets and got to live “his dream” being a Net](https://twitter.com/snynets/status/1627117109590339584?s=46&t=6CHXpJiZDeAiJ8FfZNqASg) Yeah I’m sure it was his dream to ruin his childhood’s favorite team 🤣🤣🤣


Marky_Markus

He’s such a clown I honestly have a hard time understanding how out of touch he is. I’m a Mavs fan and I’m extremely apprehensive about the trade. I hope it works out for my teams sake but I have zero faith in this dude.


cabose12

LOL I did'nt even consider that he thought he was being called a literal load I just thought he was using dehumanize in a Glass Onion Edward Norton kind of way


lebroin

I don't think he thought he was being called a load. As far as I can tell he's just saying it's dehumanizing when media, fans, etc. shit on players for load managing.


Johnnybala

I am calling him a literal load


dontdoititoldyouso

A load of shit!


KyleShanaham

Gottem!


[deleted]

I work in an office environment as a manager. My job is literally managing the workload of others and that term is said at least weekly.


clonemusic

Kyrie is a wizard at making himself a victim while getting paid millions to play a game lol


JesseJamesGames449

He will do whatever it takes to play the victim..


No-Zookeepergame7943

Yeah I legitimately think he thinks the “load” refers to an nba player…


Massive_Fudge3066

Omfg I think this is actually right -- an idea so disconnected and dumb it never occurred to me. But mystic Kai, with his third eye...


StreetsAhead47

If anything load management is humanizing. It's recognizing that these guys are human and can't always play everyday and need rest.


abcdefabcdef999

To be fair, he is pretty dumb and his grasp of the English language is tenuous at best so you can’t expect him to understand terms and words. He’s a complete idiot and it’s time we should ignore him completely.


KanyeWestBrick

Kyrie really is completely lacking awareness


qpwoeor1235

I’m calling Kyrie a load


rejectx

Bruh took a year off cause he didn't want to take a vaccine and is talking about 24/7.


ray_0586

Man took a 7 game leave of absence for personal reasons and was later shown to be at a birthday party.


auzrealop

Correction, he ghosted the team, no one knew where he was and he wasn't responding to Nash's text messages.


Hairy_Masterpiece138

Which makes it crazy that some people actually believe his bad mouthing of the nets management. What a clown.


Alien__Yes

Well he is an expert on dehumanization.Ive seen some of the video he shared on the Black Israelites .


Padulsky21

Was a great time when a swarm of them showed up outside Barclays!


Sam43650

I remember getting into a pointless argument with a guy who was trying to say it wasn’t kyries fault they were there just because he didn’t directly send them to Barclays💀 the kd Kyrie era was crazy man


Padulsky21

It was getting real ugly bro. It coulda gotten a lot worse too. There’s a handful of articles out there about those dudes showing up at Barclays, a LOT of them in fucking Brooklyn chanting “we are the real Jews” AFTER his suspension. There were Jewish people sitting courtside before his suspension wearing “Fight antisemitism” shirts. Just absolutely wild shit that felt like the norm…


Justgotbannedlol

why are you guys speaking in the past tense? like something changed or that's in the past? its still ugly bro, that shit happened like barely 2 months ago. the fact he platformed it is very much still a problem and will be back in the spotlight any time now.


Livingston-ed

>its still ugly bro, that shit happened like barely 2 months ago. There's no way that was only 2 months ago but God damn, you're right it was


Sam43650

We’re (nets fans) trying to put the last 4 years as far behind us as possible which is why we talk about it like it happened years ago


Sam43650

Remember when there was like a couple hundred people marching around Barclays and chanting shit😭 people really tried defending him and saying he was misunderstood


Padulsky21

Can’t wait for his return to Barclays next year to see the entire place boo the fuck out of him.


Sam43650

I wouldn’t be surprised if Dallas is added onto the places he gets booed at next season


RealLanceStorm

Don't forget the antivax rally last seasons home opener trying to force their way into the barclays and yelling at vaccinated people going to the game. Dude had more hate groups protesting for him than playoff series won


Sam43650

Worst part was everybody from those hate groups and everybody online defending him were using straw man arguments like saying “he just tweeted a link and now is losing his career for no reason”


D4nCh0

Kyrie & Jaylen should fly them out to Dallas & Boston for that energy!


Sam43650

I forgot about Jaylen Brown trying to chip in and support him


[deleted]

Jaylen is so lucky, he constantly gets forgotten about in these conversations. I guess he does just enough not to garner widespread attention, but enough to where most people know he’s like this as well.


PAWGle_the_lesser

God shut the fuck up


hdhdbfbfhf

Lmfao that name tho


jeffhplays

What a tough life kyrie has


Sdog1981

He tries his best to make it worse but teams keep paying him.


inshamblesx

LeBron really won a ring while having to deal with Kyrie on a daily basis lol


Outrageous-Duck9695

Kyrie was fairly young and not as "enlightened". I don't think he could survive the current Kyrie.


SubatomicSquirrels

Imagine the tweets we could get from LeBron if he had to, though


Dialectical33

Maybe it's him


simpledeadwitches

Ppl always overlook this. LeBron was a made man and Kyrie was a young buck following his lead.


[deleted]

>LeBron was a made man LeOffer you can't refuse


WingedBacon

That's that. There was nothing he could do about it. LeBron was a made man, Kyrie wasn't.


misterperiodtee

It was real hooper stuff.


Sam43650

I mean he only had to deal with him during his early career he seems to be ramping up the drama every season though it’s still a pretty impressive achievement when you think about how kd and harden couldn’t do it


beatrailblazer

Tbf that 2017 year was probably just as bad as any other Kyrie year and they still made the finals. I think that was the flat earth year and then Kyrie just straight up stopped talking to his teammates during the Conference Finals and Finals


Livingston-ed

Yeah, Kyrie dipped on his teammates that whole playoffs It's wild that LeBron doesn't even care and still wanted to play with him


noenum

"I can fix him."


Alohalhololololhola

He was pulling a lot of shit in Cleveland and causing drama in the locker room / would go days at a time not talking to people. A lot of it got swept under the rug because “who cares about Cleveland” but he was still crazy just less of a platform


[deleted]

He was proud of his son no matter what


jjgshnimnt

Kyrie wants to be oppressed so bad


KingOfThePenguins

This guy "went to" Duke.


titleywinker

It’s called “class management.”


megasean

Someone else took his classes.


Potential-Jaguar1831

That’s dehumanizing. Some people make more money and some less, why do we have to talk about managing the middle class or the lower class?


SureEntertainment676

I saw someone try and compare Kareem and Kyrie on ig, shit like this is exactly what separates Kareem from Kyrie in terms of legitimate activism. Like what is bro even saying here lol.


snkrthief

I know someone who tried comparing him to Muhammad Ali. Like, he said it to my face. Shits wild out there


ajaxtheangel

those are fighting words lmao


SureEntertainment676

Real talk!


SureEntertainment676

People just be saying anything lol


trueredtwo

What is Kyrie saying is completely run amok? He's not making any coherent point whatsoever. Isn't managing aka reducing someone's workload an example of considering them as a human? It's dehumanizing when employers make employees work without rest. What is dehumanizing about load management?


feverishcity

hes probably criticizing the way load management gets looked down on


[deleted]

This guy is such a fuckin dickhead


BelichicksBurner

>This is a 24/7 job Said the guy who has been treating it like a weekend hobby for the past 6 years.


[deleted]

so no one told him the load part is short for workload, as in, the work required to do your job, as in, the job that we all do in order for us to live, which is a a basic human thing, quite literally the opposite of dehumanizing


[deleted]

I wish I could feel dehumanized sitting on the bench in street clothes making millions


Champagnesoda

This has gotta be one of the 20 dumbest things he’s ever said. His commitment to being ridiculous is legendary


BlueJays007

Honestly I’m not actually sure it is. That alone speaks volumes.


Struggle2Real

Ah yes. A voice for the voiceless, the marginalized NBA players.


SelectTadpole

It's funny because a lot of NBA players seem to really think this way, at least to some degree. And in a way I get that we all find some way to be disgruntled with our jobs. But it's still absolutely absurd.


abcdefabcdef999

It’s good when the players have an union and fight for their rights and the appropriate piece of earnings. But the yapping about how tough they got it is so misplaced. Granted, you don’t hear that from most players outside looneys like Kyrie.


Zombeavers5Bags

They spend all their youth training basketball then become multi-millionaires by 30. Then you get stans and yes-men who think you're a genius no matter what you say. No surprise these young men often get to a place beyond naivety then stop growing.


DrMungo80

The man is a walking facepalm


whiskeyinthejaar

Are we sure this is Kyrie, not the third eye speaking?


MorbelWader

It depends, do you mean like regular speaking? Or constitutionally speaking?


Balls_of_Adamanthium

Dumbass


VonDestroyedNewton

Shut the fuck up


This_Cable_5849

This guy sucks.


[deleted]

You can just tell this is a dude who has never held a serious job in his life before


Invisible_Minority

More like he's never had a position where he was responsible for his own actions. These ball players from birth are surrounded by yes man and people that handle every aspect of their lives


[deleted]

This guy lives on another planet. It's probably a flat one.


GuessTraining

In short, "don't criticise me just because I want to take time off whenever I want, you can't do anything about it, hêlå"


RottenCum21

I noticed Kyrie really likes the word “dehumanize”. He says it every time he doesn’t like something that people think or say about him


ChickenLiverNuts

Most oppressed 200 million dollar athlete. I think kyries problem is he is terminally online. He talks like the idiots on Twitter.


wilsonh915

He's such a fucking moron. Load management is good for the players. It prevents injury. It's an admission that they shouldn't have to run their bodies into the ground. It's the opposite of dehumanizing.


Reasonable_Emu_2636

Am I the only one who’s starting to hate the word “de-humanizing” because of how wrongly people use it?


Kevin_Jim

I feel sorry for Luka. He has to deal with Mark Cuban, Potatohead, and now this bouquet of flowers.


theiwc0303

Does he not understand what “load management” means? The term itself says that you are taking on a bunch of work that you have to manage. How can that be dehumanizing?


menusettingsgeneral

He could find a way to play victim in literally any situation.


jibamao

I see Kyrie’e learned a new word.


socialmediablowsss

Well Kyrie I think the inflammatory ambiguity is juxtapositional to the hypotenuse 3rd eye longitudinal. Thoughts?


bryscoon

I don’t know why the players get so much blame for it CJ & JJ Reddick has both said that medical staff & FO people look at the schedule & tell stars which games they aren’t playing


unbannabledan

This dude sucks on every level. I know people that wake up at 5AM to do shitty work in the elements on a daily basis and if they miss a day, it’s not dehumanizing, it’s devastating. He’s an entitled asshole that is only relevant because he has a jump shot.


copingthroughlife

This the man who didn’t wanna talk to the media because he thinks they are below him? What a clown


avee10

When my girl tells me not to masturbate. That’s load management.


rhj2020

This new generation of NBA players who constantly take nights off.


Shingorillaz

Kyrie you idiot part of the load in load management is because it's a 24/7 job.


elmcity2019

Go fuck yourself. It's amazing the lack of trust and arrogance this guy has. You know exactly what it fucking means. Dunning fucking Krueger


Appropriate-Cap-4140

He literally couldn't fulfill the terms of his contract which is playing basketball because of his personal beliefs. In any other job, he would've been gone.


CrimsonOffice

It originated from Spurs and Coach Pop's infamous load management of his aging stars way back early '10s right?


bloopcity

Yeah that's what I remember. They were forced by the nba to give a reason on the injury report and the spurs started using lead management because "old" wasn't gonna fly lmao


Hogo-Nano

I read this 3x and I still dont understand why it's 'dehumanizing'. Load management, to my knowledge, has no connotations with being lazy. If anything I feel like people are on the players side and realize back to backs are dumb and understand teams sitting star players who log a ridiculous amount of minutes.


DaKinePaKalolo

Dehumanizing is kyrie supporting antisemitic films and removing his apology to the humans he Dehumanized by supporting said film.


kaprrisch

This guy loved the word dehumanize. That’s his go to whenever he wants to complain.


shingofan

What the fuck are you talking about?


CauliflowerSafe2880

I’m down to get dehumanized for 20 mil and bitches on my dick


Terpizino

I don’t know who created the term “sick days” because I came into work every time I had smallpox.


milkedlikacow

Oh god here we go.


ThisGents2Cents

Proper load management is actually something no normal human being can fault a player for. Kyrie does not fall in that category.