Michael Jordan selling majority ownership stake of Charlotte Hornets
Michael Jordan is finalizing a deal to sell the majority share of the Charlotte Hornets, the franchise announced Friday, leaving the 30-team NBA without any Black majority ownership.
Did they need put race into that?
“In the same way that it’s wonderful that one of our greatest, Michael Jordan, could become the principal governor of a team, he has the absolute right to sell at the same time,” NBA Commissioner Adam Silver said earlier this month at the NBA Finals. “Values have gone up a lot since he bought that team, so that is his decision.”
How much?
Jordan plans to keep a minority stake in the Hornets, the team he bought in 2010 for about $275 million.
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The sale price was not immediately announced; ESPN, citing sources, said the franchise was being valued at $3 billion.
Not bad.
At this time, we don’t know how much of a stake Jordan will keep.
I watched this with some buds recently not expecting much of it but I was shocked to find it was pretty good. Best Superhero movie ever? No, but a good 7.5 out of 10. It’s a very different type of story which was believable and relatable. If you are ultra woke sensitive you might notice a quip or too that bugs you but it’s worth dealing with it because it’s pretty good. The Rock did a great job. Really the only thing that stands out as something I did not like was the character that could control the wind, sort of like a storm knockoff. Her part in the story felt artificially interjected. But outside of that good movie, worth a watch.
So I havent seen the new black adam movie yet but ive listened to enough reviews on it to understand the general plot and idea they were going with. One of the things i keep hearing is how much every one loved Doctor Fate. Why? If its just because of who played his host i can understand a little bit, but Doctor Fate is a horrible infestation on the DC Universe. From the beginning of his life as Nabu, Son of Vandal Savage he died fighting on the side of Chaos. He was brought back as a lord of order and bound to his helmet. However he is a pretty awful dude. He is petty, requires bribes to release Children from being forced to be his host. yes Kent Nelson is a pretty cool dude and did alot of good for the JSA. However afterwards Nabu becomes a real prick, and its implied several times that he was a prick to every host. Keep in mind that word. HOST. Nabu is a parasite, little more than an infection that steals the life of the person he holds hostage. They feel pain, they are trapped from moving on, and not all of his Hosts are willing. They tried to recently include some bullshit rotation thing were he switches off, but thats because no one wanted to call someone who took a father as a slave host to free his daughter from a lifetime of being a literal slave, a Hero. His latest appearances he has to be bribed or threaten to even help out if he doesnt want to, and even then he doesnt care and lets people die.
Now ive never dove deep into his solo works, or the JSA in recent years, so maybe someone can enlighten me on why he is so beloved. Any Young Justice readers, / Watchers i know hate his fucking guts.
THE MASTER LIST OF NONE WOKE(modern politics) SCIENCE FICTION.
Hello, Geeks and Gamers.
I’m Whiskerking aka Palpatine also known as the lead creative director for Bayonet & Ricochet.
Bayonet & Ricochet is a tabletop wargame company that has two IP’s in the works, that prides itself on not only perfection with our miniatures, but with our storytelling. You can check out the first IP we have in development here. https://www.heresy-online.net/threads/bayonet-ricochet-miniatures.222408/#post-2448281
During my time as a youth, I spent the majority of it reading everything I could. I naturally dislike people, and I naturally dislike the narcissistic central writing of most lefties, SJW, Woke, sociopaths. I’ve disliked reading stories written by lefties as a kid and I dislike them a lot more now that I deeply understand, history, symbolism, psychology, social dynamics and prose, as an adult.
Am I the best writer no.. I have yet to finish and publish my gamebooks, but I know good writing when I see it. I primarily work from home and spend a lot of time needing a distraction of a video, or audiobook while I’m working to remain focused and productive.
What is this list about? It’s a master list of Science Fiction books that don’t suck, compiled by people like myself and hopefully you wonderful people as I hope that you will add to the list, which I shall update over time.
What prompted the creation of this list? Well, I just finished John Scalzi’s Old man’s War after hearing about it for years as the pinnacle of hard sci-fi and hated the entire fucking thing, the entire thing is worse than an early low-budget 90’s movie. It wasn’t until the end that you really get the agenda of the hard leftist vibe, which basically is creepy Biden levels of sniffery. When the main character meets his reincarnated special forces dead wife is actually only a minor or artificially grown human who is like three years old. Who he instantly tries to hook up with.. yeah not an anime apparently the “Gold Standard” of Science Fiction. I call bullshit.
Every second of reading the book or in my case listening via audiobook is a pain in the ass to get through. So it Pissed me off that tripe passes as good reading material. It pisses me off that It takes me a week to vet a book only to find it riddled with far-leftist symbolism, or the writer is not learned in history, conflicts, war, politics, idealogy, or social dynamics. Scalzi is a socialist first and writer second and it shows in the book.
So I am asking for your help to create a MASTER LIST of NONE CRAP, NONE WOKE SCIENCE FICTION. I’ll review the book and add to the list.
How this is going to work is you PM send a tell, directly message me or whatever and I’ll update the list after reviewing the book and reading a copy of it if I am able to do so.
Because last I checked there wasn’t an editing feature don’t list a book you want here in the post. I’ll have to REPOST the list every time until the editing feature is added to the forums. This will ensure the Master List is vetted and peerless. I plan to make this the MICHILLEN STAR of Science Fiction recommendations. So you don’t have to do any leg work yourself. I’ll do my best to break down each book as quickly as succinctly as possible into a five-star rating system and explain why. The list isn’t put in any order of BEST to WORST.. it’s simply a list of books that contain very little to no modern political themes.
THE LIST…
1. Enders Game -Orson Scott Card *****(Five Stars) – Part of the Ender Saga, A unique coming-of-age story about a boy playing wargames, during the peacetime of a galactic war. It’s a decent read, with a compelling central character, and layers of manipulation, psychology and human nature that play well with the themes.
2. Call to Arms by Joshua Dalzelle ****(Four Stars) Book two of the Black Fleet Trilogy One of the Best Trilogies I’ve ever read about Fleet combat in space, the Black fleet serries is unequalled in the way it describes space fleet combat. Joshua Dalzelle is a master writer of war in space. The way the emotional state of the crew and main character are portrayed they wait for combat to begin in the vast distances of space is what really sold me on this series. The Black Fleet Trilogy is one of the best recent series ever written.. It’s not the best SCI-FI of all time. But it’s good, has no modern politics, and gets right the story in a good way. In Fact, all of Joshua Dalzelle’s books are good.
3. Secret of the Phoenix ***(Three Stars) Stars Book #6 of Omega Force Series. Again Joshua Dalzella in the height of his writing. This book is the 6th book in the Omega Force series, a book about a group of space mercenaries, getting shit done in the galaxy. Albeit a bit juvenile, the whole series is nothing but fun, and great for a younger audience, so something you might want to give your nephew or kids for Christmas. It’s decent sci-fi with passable characters, passable suspension of disbelief and enjoyable. No modern politics of any kind anywhere to be found.
4. Capital Starship Scott Bartlett *(One Star) Of the Ixan Legacy Serries. Scott Barlett’s book here is an outlier in the list and normally wouldn’t be in a list about books not featuring modern politics, in fact the entire book is about modern Politics with a space opera tacked on. However, it is Anti-SJW anti-Woke and uses modern politics to educate on the dangers of it in a compelling way. Scott Barlett has a series of good science fiction novels that don’t always focus on politics this seems to be the only book out of the series, and the rest of the tie-in serries he does write seem to be mostly just military sci fi. The reason I add these serries to the list is that well it’s actually very good military sci-fi despite this one book and I do recommend reading it this author writing. It also currently has a boxed set bundle on audible for both the Ixan Legacy Serries and the Fleet Opps so it’s a good chance to get a bunch of audiobooks on the cheap with a credit you get monthly from Audible so worth picking up if you like audio books
5. Hitch Hikers Guide to the Galaxy- Douglas Adams ***(Three Stars) Hitch Hikers Guide to the Galaxy is a cult classic that originally started out as a radio broadcast, later written into a book. I love this book series. What’s also great about this book serries it centers around English expectations clashing with the galactic community at large. It’s a silly book that’s a ridiculously good read. And I highly recommend reading every book in the series. It doesn’t really go deep into politics, but the expectations of a proper Englishmen bouncing around the universe with a clinically depressed robot, and his best friend Ford.
To Be Continued.
Remember if you want to add to the list of books without politics send a message and I’ll Update the List after reading the book. This way the posts stay clutter-free as much as possible and people can easily pick out books to read.