Dear HATERS…keep going

Dear HATERS…keep going

and what do I mean by the haters what do I mean by the haters some of you think that this hasn’t been happening for the last three years and if you haven’t been paying attention I made a little presentation for you this is what I mean by the haters it don’t make sense to have me a point all those honestly if push came to shove and they said we have to put Scotty in this deal but we’ll give you favorable terms on everything else I would honestly lose like three nights of sleep over it and I’ll probably still do it yeah uh the the other team it’s Kevin dur but but uh I think I would do it if push came to shove and there wasn’t that much else involved but I would feel bad about it Have I Ever Had A P on basketball of course man they be they they posting about me you know showing love I love that you know they always showing love I mess with them uh can you please explain to us and everybody else out there why you chose Scotty Barnes he’s he’s got hyper processing speed I mean he he guarded one through five for Florida State but he the interesting thing about Scotty Barnes is he can also play one through five on offense Scotty Barnes is not a factor well he’s a good player but he’s not a great player he’s not the kind of guy a team can put on he can put a team on his shoulders and carry them he’s not that good not that good I you know Bob I I I think he is I I I know you you said that before yeah guys that have been there knew guys trying to prove themselves it didn’t work out it wasn’t a great fit for whatever reason the chemistry didn’t click Fred was quite open Scotty about that some of the differences between the veterans and the younger guys were apparent throughout the season he felt maybe that you weren’t necessarily seeing eye to eye the two sides how would you take that what did you take from that um I don’t know Scotty’s the man like it’s been determined you’re the man you’ve been paid for it you’ve been here now for you know a couple years do you think you get you know being around him that his personality is prepared for that not really I mean I asked him that question today I don’t love the odds sometimes like when you think about the fact that this guy had a falling out with the salt of the earth that his friend van with the salt of the earth that is Fred Van with the salt of the earth that is Fred like they didn’t get along that that makes me nervous okay Jesus has spoken all right we need to talk about this because like I’ve taken I’ve taken let’s say different approaches to this in the past they didn’t get along that that makes me nervous this is crazy okay I have taken different approaches to this I’ve screamed I’ve yelled I’ve written emails I’ve received a lot of emails um let’s take a different approach and let’s try to explore the haterade let’s try to explore where this is coming from why it’s coming the way it’s coming why it seems to come up every six months regardless of what happens honestly I gave him benefit of the doubt right I did in year or two right pre-draft they were haters for sure then Scotty came out he played pretty well and I thought some of the hateration kind of stopped right that that’s right I’m I’m inventing inventing a new word hateration it just sort of ceased to exist towards the end of his first season and and I think that people had an idea of the type of player he would be and then it picked up in the off season for some reason spontaneously when the Raptors held him out of trade talks for Kevin Durant I think that threw a lot of people off there are a lot of media members that are really going to want to scrub the internet clean of their record on that because right now you look pretty dumb for saying that you would have traded Scotty Barnes for Kevin Durant given what’s happened with Kevin Durant given the fact that the Phoenix Suns are in cap hell largely due to Kevin Durant and trying to build around him and the fact is you didn’t have a single player as good as Devon Booker to try and build around and you still wanted to do it that’s on y’all y’all wanted to draft Jaylen Suggs then you wanted to trade Scotty for Kevin Durant and by the way in case you didn’t learn about the Kevin Durant thing you bitched about it all year that you didn’t trade him for Kevin Durant and then started an entire TI raade last offseason saying you should have traded him for Damen Lillard we need to talk about this because this has gotten to the point where it’s no longer about basketball it’s just straight up personal we are you know what do we what do we mean when we say someone is the salt of the earth we’re saying that they’re a good person that they are genuinely following in the word of Christ right that that is effectively what it means to be salt to the earth I realize some of you are not white enough or Canadian enough to really see what that means but I I got to say do these people not see what the responses are this is the response to hello and welcome’s last video in which they somewhat downplay the Raptor young core right including Scotty and largely it is because they don’t really have that highest opinion of Scotty Barnes and will and Alex have sort of been very very much on the precipice of this with the Raptor show for years right and yeah some of you might think oh wow same guys but they started their own podcast they might be new you know they might they might have you know sort of switched up maybe they were just carrying out the Sports Net agenda the Rogers agenda no that’s how they felt that’s how they felt this is how Alex won felt prior to the Scotty Barn’s Draft when he was making fun of Scotty Barnes name for some reason I don’t understand why I don’t understand why Alex is making fun of Scotty Barn’s name first of all I don’t understand why anyone’s making fun of anyone’s name that’s that’s that’s really derogatory and stupid but really at the end of the day they’ve always treated this with a bit of a joke right and and they have they have sort of mocked it building around Scotty Barnes and then just the way that and and they were not the only ones obviously there there are plenty of people in the Toronto media who who have done this and again I’ve taken the approach of being the heated angry bitter you know um out of control at times fan let me try to be sensible and try to understand where it comes from you know where does this vitriol come from where does where does this come from right where does Scotty Barnes end up being the failure that is the chono rap right and again I thought it was because of a second year slump I really felt that maybe the fact that he slumped in his second year and Katie was on the table right there and everyone’s unhappy and it’s all dysfunctional and he’s getting blamed for it I thought maybe just maybe that that would be cleared up if he came out in year three and he was great and he was great he was the best player for the team he made the allstar team over Pascal seak despite the fact that seak was playing for the better team so you know you might not think that Scotty’s better than Pascal cakam the guy that they were calling a top seven top eight player in the NBA but the NBA sure as hell thinks that Scotty Mar is a better player than Pascal SE yakum and I think most general managers think Pascal you know Scotty m is a better player than Pascal seak because most general managers right now would offer twice as much in a trade for Scotty even with his new contract kicking in than they would have for SE yakum so why is it that we you know I don’t say we because we in this community are completely separated and different from these people but why is it that these people continuously doubt continuously slander and continuously invent narratives narratives like he doesn’t work hard narratives like he’s a you know that he’s he’s he’s got maturity problems narratives like that I mean first of all find me a 19 or 20-year-old who doesn’t have some growing up to do I think we all do right find me these guys at 19 or 20 and see what they were doing they were probably you know farting on whoopy cushions so I wanted to explore why this is and I wanted to explore why I suggest that they should keep going um so the first reason why it might be is because of a strong anchoring bias now obviously they didn’t want Scotty in the draft they’re buddies most of these people are very plugged in with guys like s Vini who didn’t like Scotty very much in the pre-draft process sort of downrated him as a prospect and all of that seems a little bit weird and if I told you three years ago that you would be building an offense around Draymond Green part two or building a franchise around Draymond Green or that you had basically parsed out or traded away or sold away a championship core for Draymond Green part two I think most of you would say well have we lost our minds of course Scotty is not Draymond Green part two he’s not a zero level score and so all that pre-draft crap that was said about him just wasn’t true so maybe it’s an anchoring bias right okay well anchoring biases exist for a reason they exist for a time but they don’t exist forever they don’t exist indefinitely certainly at some point we should move on from this and we should be able to accept that okay he’s not that player what is he because certainly you know in the San Antonio Spurs system when kawh Leonard got there they thought of him as a 3 and D guy but when he showed himself to be much more than that they embraced him as a superstar in Indiana when Paul George was drafted he was drafted as maybe Danny Granger’s sidekick and it was apparent within a couple years that he was going to be a much better player than Danny GR and they embraced him as a franchise so why has Toronto especially especially the Toronto media been so reluctant to do the same for Scotty if he was a culture problem well then certainly last year he wasn’t a culture problem last year the Vibes were Immaculate look at look at all the things this team went through when Emanuel quickley talks about him he doesn’t talk about him like he’s a culture problem when Jonathan mobile talks about him he doesn’t talk about him like he’s a culture problem I don’t hear anybody talking about Scotty Barnes like he’s a problem even with that heus young the guy that he supposedly Bute heads with In that clip that everyone you know floated around and said how dare Scotty even he has spoken glowingly about Scotty at numerous occasions the only people who seem to not like Scotty Barnes is a Tonto media and Fred Van vet and even Fred Van vet and Scotty have squashed their beefs and S so what gives why is this okay so we we we cross the anchoring bias of maybe his pre-draft you know talk was not right well let’s let’s float into something a little bit more political which is Scotty does not play politics he’s not a political person he’s never been a political person he kind of just tells you what he thinks it’s a little bit what makes Jack Armstrong so endearing if you think about it Jack Armstrong usually just slips up on the truth if he doesn’t like a player if he doesn’t like what you’re doing on the court he’s just going to come out and say this is [ __ ] he’s the exact opposite of Matt develin who always keeps it composed and people love Jack for it people don’t like Leo Rin very much now I have a completely different opinion on Le R I’ve met him you know a couple times and whatever he’s cool guy but some people really don’t like Leo because he’s very very composed and very put together but Jack he just kind of comes off as that crazy uncle and it’s endearing because at least you don’t have to worry what Jack thinks Scotty’s a lot the same way you don’t have to worry what he thinks if he don’t like you he’s going to tell you I don’t like what this guy I don’t like this guy F F this guy and that’s really not the way the Toronto media is they’re very curated they’re very calculated they are extremely cold and in my opinion they’re in the favors game they’re in the play ball game which is why they have very much gravitated towards politicians politicians like Fred bble politicians like Dennis Schroeder it’s almost like when you come here you make a deal with the devil and the devil is the Toronto media you make a deal with these people to say this we are going to cover you separately from your team we’re going to cover you as not part of the problem we’re going to cover you as part of the solution and in exchange you are going to give us access access to you ask us for interviews you’re going to give us full answers you’re going to give us storylines Fred vanley was really good for business for the Tonto Raptors especially if you were in the media he leaked stuff he he went to them he spoke very fully in his answers he didn’t give one-word answers like Scotty like I don’t know I don’t know he didn’t Mumble through his answers no he gave full full detailed articulate answers almost as if he was a practiced politician which he is he played he played ball with these guys Dennis Schroeder he was showing up on the Raptor show he was playing ball well think about it from the Raptor show perspective what’s good for Content guy who gives you one-word answers mumbles through everything doesn’t leak anything to you doesn’t talk [ __ ] about his teammates doesn’t talk about what’s going on in the locker room that guy you know guy who just loves everybody and is kind of goofy but you know ultimately is not really playing politics with you or the guy who’s literally giving you your content he’s giving you the quotes how many quotes that Doug Smith ran were because of Fred Van vet saying something in oppressor these long detailed answers man I don’t mess with people like this I tell you um I just don’t I’ve never I’ve never been a fan so I could say that that’s a reason number two he’s not as accessible and he’s not as good for your business model if you are in the Toronto media or in the media space in general for the Raptors let me point to reason number three and this one is complicated because I am not of the right pigmentation to say this but can I suggest that maybe there is a cultural and racist bias that maybe all of us didn’t grow up in the same Canada now I’m very blessed that I didn’t come to Canada right away I didn’t grow up here in necessarily so I’ve seen a lot of other places as well and I’ve seen how they deal with culture clashes and poverty and you know people who speak differently or whatever but I have but I have experienced a lot of this in myself in Toronto and I have a lot of friends who’ve experienced a lot of this and I think maybe the best way to sum this up would be a video uh featuring your boy Jersey Drake Li it was really dark really romantic or can you not hear this hold on let me try to pull this off and let me pull it back up um really dark really romantic antic got to know them much better so it was fun do you have like your words I don’t can hear this I can hear this on my end but basically instead what are you guys doing right he specifically um I believe he’s talking about uh a particular cultural thing where they say um man’s you know like man’s uh like mans be like like that and he he just he just straight up in in a group of white people says this is ignorant and I got to tell you that I had a I had a similar experience when I was uh 16 I went for a job interview and I spoke a certain way based on where I was coming from based on how I grew up based on who I grew up and I always believed that if you grew up you know a certain way that you have a way of talking you adopt certain cultures if you grew up around Puerto Ricans you’re going to do certain things like certain things that you don’t grow up if you grew up if you grew up in a really black neighborhood even if you’re white even if you’re the whitest person on Earth you’re going to talk a little bit different have you seen how you seen the way you know D connect talks you seen the way Tyler herro talks like the versus the way Caitlyn Clark talks like not all white people are the same not all white people grew up the same not all white people grew up in the same cultural influences what I will tell you is that the media machine in Toronto and in Canada in general is very very white now you’ll say but diversity this diversity that I see a black person here a Chinese person here whatever please understand when I say this and I’m not trying to be rude when I say this okay but this is a big reason that I have fought against the diversity machine in Toronto and in Canada for a very long time through Penance and through pensar basketball and whatever I don’t believe in token diversity I don’t believe that because you’re a super white company with a lot of white people and basically you put a black anchor on television I don’t believe that you are supporting diversity because you’re the one choosing which of these black people that you’re going to put on TV and my money is that if you think the way that you think you’re going to put the what you’re going to put I don’t want to say whitewashed I don’t want to say that because that’s rude you’re going to put the black person on TV who most agrees with how you see the world how you grew up how you talk and that is to a lot of people disingenuous because I will tell you I remember very clearly and of course there are a lot of organizations that fit into this bucket CBC the Toronto Star glob and mail you know all of these companies that are old school 60s 7s that have adapted up right and that includes sportset TSN Bell Rogers whatever look at their board of directors look at where they’re coming from look at how they grew up and don’t point to the two black people in the one Asian person and the one Indian person and be like B but go talk to them go listen to them talk go go see how they think go see who they like go see go see they them their their their kids go see who their kids married and don’t keep making it about skin color it’s not about skin color it’s about culture it’s about how you talk it’s about how you think the [ __ ] matters a lot it matters a lot don’t don’t just don’t brush it over okay don’t be like okay well 16% of their board is is uh you know people of color and 2% are a and so they they are this way no no man they have a serious problem some of these people have a serious problem go go you know and here look I’m I’m just going to say this I’m gonna say this as an honest honest person I am very cursed and very blessed to have been in conversations that most people who look like me don’t get to be a part of which means that I have heard Trump supporters complain about immigrants to me because for whatever reason they thought I might agree with them but I have also heard you know people complaining about white people to me because they thought that maybe I would agree with them I have been in many ways throughout most of my life a world Walker I’ve embraced this because I wanted to learn both sides even when I was a young kid again being split apart by my parents wanting to get a divorce I didn’t just take sides I wanted to listen to both sides I’ve always believed in listening to both sides and so I have heard both sides of this argument I have seen both sides I I have lived on both sides I have been you know in a room where I was just another guy in a suit and a tie who made six figures I’ve been that guy but I’ve also been on the other end of a job interview where I saw a white employer potentially looking at me like I was too ghetto to hire I’ve been on both sides of it and I appreciate and I’m so thankful that I’ve seen both sides of this because I can tell you that the way these people think and when I hear Scotty Barnes and see Scotty Barnes and some of his mannerisms and some of his preferences and some of you know how he talks and stuff I’m going to tell you this right now there’s a reason why a lot of American especially black American athletes feel a little funny coming here and it’s because of this media space because these dudes they’re not necessarily embracing that culture they’re not they don’t embrace the way they dress they don’t embrace the way they talk they don’t Embrace they don’t embrace the way they think but just because you’re different doesn’t mean it’s bad and Fred Van VY he talks different and I don’t need to say this to you you know that it’s damn true okay like listen to Fred Van v talk close your eyes and tell me who’s talking okay just don’t don’t shut up about it okay Chris baj Fred Van vet you can point to the pigment again but you are not focusing on the culture you’re not focusing on the vernacular and that vernacular matters and there’s not you know I don’t think there’s one person who’s a person of color well I don’t say that there’s a lot of people people of color who would agree with me that there is a massive bias based on how you talk and how you dress the music you like and your preferences and the truth is that I believe that Scotty Barnes has been a bit of a victim of that because the truth is also I want to say the truth is the truth is the truth is this is the truth when we’re growing up as we’re growing up we’re learning from our parents we’re learning from our teachers we’re we’re learning what it means to be a leader okay if you grew up right you were taught that being a leader meant taking accountabil you were taught that being a leader meant you know being selfless caring about others if you were raised right you were taught that being a leader means being honest so in my opinion if you were raised right you grew up thinking a leader looks like Scotty bars if you were raised not so right if you were raised wrong if you were raised in a backwards house if you were raised by people who didn’t know what the hell they were doing they taught you to believe that a leader was political that leader was spoke a certain way looked a certain way dressed a certain way your parents if you were raised wrong didn’t teach you how to be a leader they taught you how to look like a leader they taught you how to dress like a leader they taught you how to go to school with the other leaders they taught you that private school was better than public school they taught you that white was better than black they taught you that that you know maybe alternative rock was preferable to rap music they taught you how to be backwards and unfortunately in the way the media works and the way the media World works is that there are Gatekeepers who typically hire people who they want to go and have beer with and they’re not going to want to have beer with me and frankly if you’re like me you okay they don’t want to do that what they want to do and what a lot of us growing up you know who who wanted more basketball we wanted more basketball on you know on TSN and stuff we wanted more basketball on the highlights instead what we got what we if if you are like me and you know you grew up for the last 20 years in Toronto what you have seen over and over and over is one of the most winningest most successful franchises in Canadian sports the Toronto Raptors often be looked off like an afterthought in favor of hockey Marley’s Leafs Jays literally anything why basketball was in invented in Canada there is no country this is the only the Toronto Raptor is the only Canadian team the only Canadian NBA team if TSN and Rogers and sportset and all these [ __ ] people wanted to push this thing down people’s throats and get real buyin they could have instead they wrote articles about how Vince Carter was an over overpaid crybaby and yes do think about it because it does go back to Vince Carter it does go back to a black man man setting an example going to his high school grad going to his college graduation and how that was covered it was the original shut up and dribble there is a real problem in this city and this country and frankly on this continent but more so in this country in my opinion and y’all might want to hear that but it’s true because this certainly was not the case in New York I’m just going to put it 100 I I lived in New York this was not the case in New York there is a much bigger cultural embrace for Black Culture in New York than than I have seen in Toronto and I mean real Black Culture I’m not talking about you know like tokenism I’m not talking the Black Culture that you want to call Black Culture which is AKA Drake I’m talking real authentic how they dictate Black Culture because Black Culture should never be and people of color should never be in my opinion authored by white people okay you don’t get to tell me that because you had Asian food at Manchu walked that is Asian food that is not Asian food Asian food is what I went to my friend’s house and had Asian food at his house by his mom who’s from mainland China That’s Asian food the white washing of all cultures is a very real thing and I don’t think Scotty Barnes necessarily fits into a nice neat little box coming from West Palm Beach and he’s not fake enough to play ball you know most people who would receive this kind of backlash would just conform they would code switch which is a very familiar term among all my black friends they all know about this that you talk a little bit different around people who are a little bit uncomfortable with you that Scotty Baron doesn’t play that game which I think is really admirable because one of the things that went somewhat missed in my opinion um in his you know when he signed the contract and he said I want everyone to be themselves that went really missed you are telling Josh lenberg a person who probably hasn’t been himself in 25 years not for one second one of the most pretentious in my opinion most conceited most arrogant most idiotic people in Toronto Sports coverage you’re telling him about the importance of people being themselves and he is just like it went right over his head a lot of things go over Josh lenberg heads head and Doug Smith’s head Doug Smith a man who defended Aaron Baines for being not that bad but criticized a 20-year-old Scott Barnes 21y Old Scotty Barnes called you know David Thorp at Raptor’s Insider even though he’s never met Scotty Barnes their track record is endless but I’ll point to this I’ll point to this and you know what don’t don’t worry this is the the comment section on will L’s last thing where you know people are just calling him out and you know what good for you guys push back but don’t push back in a toxic way keep pushing back push back with the facts but don’t push back with ad hominum attacks don’t don’t you know you don’t have to call Will names you don’t have to call him fat you don’t have to call Josh lenberg you know an MW or short you don’t have to call Doug Smith you know washed and old just stick to the facts the facts are plenty the facts are so so so sufficient the track record is so sufficient you know one of the greatest things that I think about is that we live in an age of the internet where everything is just stored and it’s stored you know which means that that video that yall saw at the beginning that’s one % that’s 1% it’s less than 1% it’s literally like I have an entire file on my computer called receipts all right oh yeah very very kricky but yes I I have a file called receipts I literally I checked it the folder is 1,58 items that’s video clips tweets if y’all said anything that was incriminating I put it in my in my receipts folder okay this is funny I just had to go through 10 think about it what’s 10 out of 1,58 it’s less than 1% okay less than 1% and that’s what that for that video if I go through 100% some people are going to have a lot of explaining to do because again people forget I don’t forget okay so why am I saying keep going I’m going to say keep going because honestly this channel has grown from0 to 10,700 subscribers congratul to all of you and this community has grown so large and these videos have become so popular largely because these people are not doing their job if they were doing their job I have no I have no purpose I have nothing I would have nothing okay absolutely zil channels like this channels like goiy channels like that could not really even exist in a world where the media is actually doing their job I don’t think these people want to see the emails that we have received in terms of people baiting what they’ve been saying behind the back because again part of my receipts folder is tweets and videos but you know what part of it is transcripts part of it is DMS that y’all didn’t want anyone to see so you do not want anyone to expose your [ __ ] because some of the stuff is downright criminal and there’s a reason I’ve gone at this so hard and there’s a reason I’ve been so angry about it because it felt so unfair to me but now I see that we have won we won it didn’t matter that the media didn’t want Scotty to be the face the franchise congratulations he is the face of the franchise he is an All-Star they didn’t want him to be an All-Star they didn’t push it they didn’t care they didn’t care I promise you they did not give a [ __ ] they did not think he deserved to be an Allstar and then when he made Allstar last year they were like oh I guess I guess he’s an All-Star that’s that’s cool they had been hate watching this guy for three years and the Raptors didn’t care the Raptors still made him to face the franchise they made him the highest paid player in Raptor history how’s that how’s that for some shadon Freud how’s that for some come upins how’s that for some Humble Pie the dudes whose business Empires are literally falling apart which is I’m talking to you Toronto media you know yall falling apart because people have just tuned you out you know why people have tuned you out because you don’t know what you’re talking about and so to you I say instead of putting my hand putting my foot on your neck and exposing you and and trying to threaten you and you know trying to yell at you and getting on here and saying Scotty Barnes is going to be an FN all star and blah blah blah blah oops too late he already is instead of doing all that I’m actually here to encourage you to keep going I’m here to keep I’m I’m here to encourage you to keep going to the point where you know channels like like like penar basketball literally take everything from you take all your views all your subscribers because people what you don’t realize is you don’t you don’t understand people have only so much time in a day and when you [ __ ] and you’re wrong over and over and your biases become so obvious and so clear that your hate cannot be cloaked behind your carefully sealed words and your calculated you know devices when your buddies can’t cover for you anymore when the media machine cannot pay your bills anymore when you’re struggling probably about to do some favors on the corner you know side of the street just to make rent then you will remember that you had an obligation to the truth you had an obligation to your consumers you had an obligation to be insightful and instead you wasted all that access all that opportunity all that Head Start do you realize what a disadvantage P basketball is at because we started covering this team literally when it was bad and when it got worse we built up 10,700 subscribers covering one of the worst teams in the NBA can you imagine what would have happened if we had come around in 2017 2018 2019 and actually covered that grow up y’all are just coasting you’re coasting on you’re coasting on your spoils you’re coasting on your you know your your past victories you’re coasting on a team that was very good for a long time and you just want it to be that way but the truth is the more insightful people come into this space the more you get exposed for the lunatics and idiots that you are and so I say keep going please keep going for the love of God please keep going please keep calling Fred Van the salt of the earth please keep trying to readdress you know because one that I realize y’all lie y’all lie like it’s oxygen it’s crazy to me it’s crazy to me to have a clip of you literally saying how great the yaka purle trade is and for hearing you all say now we all knew it was a mistake no you didn’t it’s so crazy to me it’s so crazy to me to hear y’all saying that you should have traded Scotty for Kevin Durant you didn’t you didn’t you didn’t and then two years lat later saying it’s a you know that was always going to be crazy y’all lie because you have no actual Association to the truth none zero you don’t care I’m never going to walk away from the fact that I want to Eve Mei over jacobe Walter I’m never going to walk away from that if I’m wrong I’m wrong I’m gonna own it and I’m gonna be happy for jacobe because he plays for my favorite team and I want him to be successful the minute the Raptors picked shobe Walter I wanted him to be the best player in this draft but prior to the draft I cannot walk away from what I said I said eve Missy was going to be the better player that’s what I said I got to stick with it I said Nicole topic worth worth trading up for I got to stick with it and if Nico topic ends up being the biggest bus in the NBA I take that L and that’s how you build honesty and integrity so to you you capping [ __ ] I say keep going keep going keep going you know um all of you guys man all of you it’s really it’s so many of you I don’t want to say all of you because some of you y’all are actually out there doing work you know shout outs to Louis statsman he’s pretty much the only person I can really say I don’t have any issues with anything he said even the things I don’t agree with it’s always coming from a fair place but everybody else man y’all keep doing what you’re doing keep doing what you’re doing eventually you’re not going to be able to scratch together a $25 sponsor and at which point I will say job well done all right now let’s get to the comments here 158 including a Super Chat hello Felicia facts feels like the media wants Scotty and Messiah to fail to keep talking about how the raps be bad and the will and Alex made me upset so here’s the thing don’t don’t think I don’t see Felicia right here right look at that second comment this show has become sarcastic and negative to Raptors without evidence do you realize what’s kind of cool look at all those comments look at the top comments vegan grass pen basketball Community member for sure Felicia P basketball Community member y’all are doing good work you know when I was looking through U sham sh’s entire feed welcoming him to the Raptors Dr all the positivity I recognize name after name after name from this community keep being good what’s that Hillary Clinton thing I don’t I don’t even [ __ ] with Hillary Clinton but I’m just going to say this when they go low we go high yeah do that look there is I believe that you must be gracious in defeat and in Victory you must be gracious in both right so when you win you don’t get to gloat and be you know act like you’ve been there a little bit when you when you lose you must be gracious as well right we won if the goal was to get this thing built around Scotty and to get him you know the franchise tag and to have this culture and this team built in his identity well congratulations for the last year the Raptors have done nothing but build this thing around Scotty once they realize they had heard even if they realize a year too late they have absolutely corrected tone they have done nothing not one thing not one roster move in the last year I could say oh they did that and that hurts Scotty everything has helped them and he is going to reciprocate that and yall will see like I’m not I mean there are certain things where I’m like I might be right I might be wrong Scotty Barn’s being a great player I do not believe that I’m wrong about this Scotty Barnes being a multi-time Allstar I said it when he was struggling his second year he’s going to be a multi-time Allstar I fully believe he’ll be a 10 12 13 time Allstar anything beyond that we will see but that is the type of player you definitely build around is definitely one of the best young players in the league and I don’t think he gets the credit for that but he will okay because he’s a hard worker and you trust hard work you trust Integrity you trust the culture building but I will say this this community has been awesome this community has pushed back this community has absolutely pushed back on Doug Smith tweets and Josh Lumberg tweets and you know what someone told me the other day nobody cares about what these people think anymore because they have been exposed because every time they tweet all their [ __ ] is brought up everything they said is brought up their biases are brought up you know what I took a lot of push back for my Fred vbl stuff a lot a lot and and fully I’d say 80% of it was fair I did not like the guy but you know when I was on the panel the other day they couldn’t believe I don’t like Fred Van v they couldn’t believe it because I I say so many good things about Fred Van v in passing without realizing because I’m just being honest someone asked me the other day I think Mars asked me or whatever on the panel they were like oh who’s who’s the Houston Rockets best player and I said it’s either Fred Van or Al Shon there’s like there’s no way you could be a Fred Van hater bro here’s the thing you can accept the girl as a gold digger you can still accept that she’s a 9.7 the two things don’t have to mesh and you don’t have to date her right I can accept the Fred Van leue was toxic for our culture and I I can I can still at the same time say he’s a really good player I don’t have to be one way I don’t have to be black and white this this is a this is a game of nuance so again I’ll say this thank you dear haters keep going keep keep exposing yourselves the more people talk the more people expose themselves right so keep exposing yourselves by the way I’m not even one of those people that stay on your side I’m not someone who says you have to keep hating on Scotty because you chose to hate on him two years ago by all means change whenever you want bro this channel is not going to swing negative never no I want to say never I’m going to do my best that it never happens again because I’m gonna tell you right now a lot of people DM me yesterday they’re like oh you got to step on their neck coach Mo saying you got to step on their neck you gotta you got to put out a video and and you know expose these [ __ ] for everything that they’re saying and everything and I’m just like you know what I was a little bit upset initially I’m like yo still became an All-Star at 22 he became highest paid player still they’re talking [ __ ] about him still every every time I turn on you know I don’t even turn these shows on that’s the crazy thing when I look they got 800 views 900 views I’m like bro am I Am I who is even watching this crap anymore maybe I the most exposure that these people are going to get is by me talking about them maybe I shouldn’t even talk about it but the truth is I was just like you know what let me use this opportunity as a teaching moment for myself as an evolution and a growth moment for myself where I don’t need to be so angry anymore we won remember be gracious in defeat be gracious in Victory we won we won as as Messi jury says winning winning winning well guess what we are winning they are losing the player they didn’t want drafted the player they wanted traded for KD the player they want to traded for [ __ ] Damen Lillard these guys tried to trade him for two separate 35 year olds one year apart they didn’t care they didn’t care they don’t give a [ __ ] well that player just became the highest paid player in Raptor history and you know what they’re not he’s not about to change anytime soon he’s not about to just play ball with them I mean I’m sure he doesn’t hate them he’s he’s being very nice to them he’s not he’s not Cy with them he gave Josh lenberg such nice answers Josh lenberg took those nice answers and bro if Josh lenberg had even one morsel one morsel of moral rectitude one iota of Common Sense he might have even mentioned to say you know I may not like the guy I may not have always believed in him I may not have thought he would be an All-Star but man he sounds like he’s grown a lot over the last year can’t even do that nope because when you’re talking to these buddies when you’re talking to JD bunus will Lou Alex Wong these guys right it’s all the same it’s the all old puckhead media and these people got a serious serious problem with Scotty Barnes and you know what it doesn’t matter because if I could pull all the money that they’re going to make in their whole lives Scotty’s going to make more more in November next year is that a fact yeah no not next year November to 2025 so what does it mean it means it doesn’t matter anymore it means keep talking lose all your sponsorships lose all your viewers lose the entire algorithm I hope one day y’all are literally talking on a podcast that’s getting like 25 views I hope people tune you out that much because nobody and I mean nobody can listen to this [ __ ] forever you can’t you can’t listen to years and years of it you may have some sort of oh that’s the podcast I listen to that’s the Pod I always listen to but at at some point we all do the calculus of what is this really even for me I’ve walked away from podcasts before I have I listened to a podcast for two years they switched up they started pushing gambling I was gone I’m out I don’t care I don’t care so you know at some point people notice people are not stupid people see you know when pensar basketball does something and another channel that we shall remain nameless starts copying our content two weeks later I always see the comments it’s always uh P basketball did this first y’all are copying I mean it’s obvious right when when someone when a content creator goes out and says U Ram Shay is the next Giannis you know uh Jonathan mobo is the next precious I think at some point people kind of like wait a second none nothing this guy says is ever right he’s literally wrong about everything if I did a one to 10 he’s been wrong about everything why am I listening to this person is it just to like fill the air am I am I so desperate to like have someone talk through through my phone the cream Rises to the crop cream Rises to the top is what I’m saying so at the end of the day dear haters keep going y’all are literally making your own grave I don’t even have to dig [ __ ] for you you just dig it for yourself just keep digging keep digging keep digging and trust me at some point always keep it in your mind that receipts folder that 1 158 it was 1,56 yesterday so y’all keep digging all right final bits let’s go through the comments 66 comments here your spot on I stopped watching many of these OS in 2023 facts hit the like button folks appreciate it Steve Stevens if Scotty was drafted by a different team would y’all still praise His game as much would I yes I would just same way that Victor wanyama I wanted us to tank for Victor wanyama I love Victor wanyama you have not heard me say one negative thing about Victor literally the entire time I love him Victor Dyson uh Dyson Daniels is another guy that I really like uh in the draft process I liked AJ Griffin in the draft process there are a lot of players that I’ve liked in the draft process Scotty was absolutely one of them and he was probably my second favorite favorite to second favorite among all the prospects that I’ve covered in the last seven or eight years so yeah I would have I would have been a fan of his regardless to where he went um nameless saying when I listen to the tronto media talk about the Raptors I could close my eyes pretend that they’re from Boston that’s a problem um yeah yeah it is I mean look at this I ran a poll for nearly 300 voters said how would you rate the mainstream media TSN star sportset that covers the tronto Raptors 6% of you said top six top five in the NBA but over 94% of you said it was either mediocre bad and 30% of you said it was criminally stupid that’s what I’m talking about and if you ran this poll elsewhere other than penar basketball I’m sure you would get a little bit more generous towards them but it still wouldn’t be good I think it’s really bad when over 50% of people hate what you’re doing I I don’t necessarily think it’s a sign you have to change because people are wrong all the time but I do think that is something you should pay attention to so look I’m looking forward to the Toronto Raptor season next year I’m looking forward to summer league and I’m looking forward to Team Canada tonight we will do a post game tonight I hope the internet improves by then I may have to go back to the old computer with the worst camera because it just the internet has just been so bad off this laptop I don’t understand and it always makes me a little bit nervous y’all are telling me it’s not bad but when I listen to it I can hear the clipping in the audio so I don’t know if it’s because I really don’t know why uh because we did a we did a test with Rogers speaking of those companies we did a test with Rogers and they said it’s literally all the devices are getting perfect internet except for this laptop so I don’t understand where it’s coming from or why it is the way it is but it is what it is um so yes so I will say that thank you all for always supporting this community thank you all for supporting Scotty Barnes but this is not just about Scotty Barnes okay this is not just about Scotty Barnes this is not just about a Manu quickley this is about the young core that we are supporting we are Toronto Raptor fans whether we lose you know 60 games this year that won’t happen or lose 50 games this year whether we’re in the Cooper flag sweep Stak Cooper has looked awesome for the select team for the USA or whether we’re not whether we’re a playing team playoff team or a lottery team the process is the process it will not be overnight but what I am happy about right now is that I’m rooting for a bunch of people who are playing for each other playing the right way and I always imagined you know when Fed was driving into four four players and betting on himself and doing these media you know call outs uh calling out his teammates what I tried to imagine was if I had a 5-year-old or a six-year-old kid would I have to be telling them don’t do what he’s doing would I be thinking about what example am i setting I would so personally I don’t have a kid but if I did I would tell them to watch Scotty Barnes I would watch I would tell him to watch who he is as a teammate I would tell him to watch who he is as a person I would tell him to watch who he is as a basketball player and just follow his lead and I think that’s a good thing I think it’s a good thing that you have a coach and and players on the team who are generous towards each other that they like playing together this energy will be a good thing it will contribute to winning at some point it may not contribute overnight it may not immediately result in the wins and during that period you’re going to get a lot of push back you’re going to get a lot of push back towards Messi jury and Scotty Barnes you’re gonna hear you’re going to hear them called overrated you’re going to call you’re going to hear Scotty call the choker you’re going to hear him call the Golden Boy you’re going to have narratives spewed about him about how he’s entitled um if Jonathan mobo struggles early you’re gonna you’re going to have you know oh well you know should have drafted Kyle filipowski Jonathan mobo they did a favor to Scotty Barnes you’re gonna hear all of this I know their [ __ ] Playbook I know their playbook I’ve written before I understand how these stories work I understand how stories are calculated every single thing that Scotty has said to these people has been somehow weaponized and used against him when he says he needs to get into better shape they create a story that he’s not in shape like these people are twisted and I’ve been around enough toxic people to know in my life that you know you don’t engage with toxic people you just watch from afar so good luck to these people and once again keep going because I didn’t yell once in this entire thing did I I think I swore like three or four times that’s okay but what I’m going to say is be a voice of support for this team um especially if you’re someone who is pushing for the tear down if you pushing for the rebuild Win Lose or draw tank or no tank just support it because it’s a bunch of young men and a lot of them most of them are far from home with the exception of guys like RJ Barrett who are from here but most of them are really far from home and trust me it doesn’t feel nice when you’re on the basketball court and you see signs tank for Cooper flag makes you feel about two inches tall that doesn’t feel good if the Raptors tank for Cooper flag it’ll be because they weren’t good enough but at least for now support the win support the victory um be encouraging I was always told this is what fans were supposed to do and this I was told this is what I’m supposed to do right when I was bitching about Fred vanon and Pascal se yakum you know um jacking up shots and I would even be a little bit negative after a win people like oh he’s not a real Raptor fan he’s being negative even in a in a win he’s being negative I wasn’t being negative I was being critical and I was being critical of how we were winning because I didn’t think it was sustainable I believe what we’re building right now is sustainable right that’s important so

The Toronto Raptors media has been striking down on Scottie Barnes and the Raptors efforts to build around him for just over 3 years. From mocking his predraft coverage, misrepresenting him as a prospect, to inventing false narratives, to now re-writing their position on past takes and making it seem like they were ahead of the game all along.

Their views are down. Their sponsorships are failing. And while I have been VERY unkind to these figures in the past, let me try another approach. A calmer approach. A less adversarial approach. And if while talking about this, I get super heated and start swearing, well thems the breaks.

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