If Shawn Marion makes it into the Hall of Fame, this piece may be the one that finally seals the deal.
The Matrix was one of my favorite players, in that he did a little bit of everything. Every championship team βdynastyβ had a guy like Marion. Only the Suns never developed into the dynasty they seemed destined for in the mid-2000s. Glad he won a ring in Dallas. A few more, though, and he probably would be thought of more prominently. My favorite excerpt from the article:
> His 2005-06 season is one of the forgotten, truly great individual campaigns. Everyone remembers it for Nash winning his second straight MVP award while leading the Suns to 54 games despite Amar'e Stoudemire missing almost the entire season. Nobody seems to remember that Marion was spectacular in his own right, averaging career highs in points (21.8) and rebounds (11.8), and playing over 40 minutes a night en route to finishing in the top 10 in both MVP and Defensive Player of the Year voting.
> Marion did absolutely everything and over a five-year span, which included that stint with the two-time MVP and averaging over 20 points, 10 rebounds, two steals and one block per game. Want to know how many other players in NBA history have ever done that over a five-year period?
> One.
> Hakeem Olajuwon. That's it.
Source: NBA.com
For those interested in the most recent episode of mind of Micah, he dives into the end of Grandex a bit and his feelings. Doesnβt get too into the details. Takes the TB/CB boys and the community y to the gas station. Starts about 11 minutes in.
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Heβs like the definition of someone than stores their own farts.
Am I the only one that just finds him intolerable!?
By Micah Curtis, game/tech journalist, podcast host, and comic book writer. Follow Micah at @MindofMicahC
Reddit administrators seem to have decided that special rules need to be enforced for the most popular pro-Trump subreddit, the_Donald. Subredditors there claim half their moderators have been purged and new ones are being installed from above.
There arenβt many bigger gathering places on the internet for Trump fans than Redditβs the_Donald subreddit. Boasting over 790,000 subscribers, it is a massive hub of fans of Trump. Like all subreddits, it serves as a forum to share and discuss news, in this case political stories related to the United States president or to his policies. Threads will commonly be created to discuss immigration policy, the mediaβs issues with Trump, anti-socialism rallying calls, and so forth. The most distinctive feature is that the board has always had a strict βno cucks or leftistsβ policy, meaning they donβt tolerate people of the extreme left politically, or people they deem to be political sellouts. Itβs a sort of He-Man Trump-Lovers club.
Recently, the subredditβs moderation team (the people who enforce the subredditβs rules) apparently had much of its staff purged from the website. Reddit administration gives no specific number, but members of the_Donald claim it was over half the moderation team. According to a post in the subreddit, it was due to βapproving, stickying, and generally supporting content that breaks our content policy.β What exactly these threads were isnβt expanded upon. The perception of the subreddit is that, given the rules that they are now putting in place for new mods and that the admins are taking applications, Reddit wants to install their own mods to control conversation. This isnβt the first time that Reddit has meddled with the_Donald, previously βquarantiningβ the subreddit, effectively making it impossible for any article or thread on it to hit the front page of the website. In shorter terms, censoring them.
Redditβs other political subreddits, specifically the News, Politics, and WorldPolitics pages, are not subjected to the same scrutiny. Neither are other, lesser-known political subreddits, such as the anti-capitalist LateStageCapitalism. Recently a thread with over 24,000 upvotes had a meme that supported the idea of armed revolution in tandem with Bernie Sandersβ campaign. This double standard, coupled with Redditβs CEO Steve Huffmanβs talks of how Reddit can sway an election obvious
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Every heist he tries to pull off they get caught. He tries to take over as leader. He brings in unknown people for jobs. He murdered a little boys dog. Why dose Dutch trust him? Why doesn't Arthur or John blow his face off?
Micah can suck a fat one tho
I can see your downvotes already. "Micah is a rat! Why would you want to play as human garbage?" I know, I agree with you. That's my point.
!This of course contains spoilers!
Hear me out; it would be awesome for the next Red Dead protagonist to be an undeniably BAD man. Now that both John and Arthur's stories have been told; with both men seeking redemption in becoming better people, R* needs to show us the OTHER side of the coin. A character who instead of facing down adversity and bettering themselves because of it, instead fights on and sinks into the darkest depths of depravity in their lust for power or money. The whole Red Dead theme has been just that - good vs evil, and how it can exist across men of all professions, ideologies, and persuasions. Now that we've had two 'good' outcomes, I'd really like to see what they do with an 'evil' one.
This is why I think Micah would absolutely KILL the role of the next Red Dead protagonist. We've seen his surface. The lying, the scheming, the hunger for riches and the ability to lord over other regardless of what it takes to get there... but how did he become that man? Say Red Dead Three is about Micah's younger years. He's a man in search of something more for his life. Maybe he has a sweetheart, someone who he cares a lot about and the initial course of the game is him trying to make a better life for her, or for them, but he still holds on to his youthful morals. Then, near the end of the second act, something happens that causes her to be killed horribly. This thing that Micah held on to, that gave him his faith in humanity, is severed, and the third act is him descending into the horrible bastard that we know from Red Dead Two. In his anguish he hunts down the people that killed her and slaughters their families, and in the end it makes him feel... good, to have his revenge. This would contrast the lighter side of the spectrum with Arthur and John so well and give us such a good insight into a frankly underrated character. I have become fascinated with Micah's backstory, as we get so little information about who he was before his brief affiliation with the Van Der Linde gang. Who were Skinny and Maddy in Strawberry? Why did they have Micah's guns? Why did he have to kill them to get the guns back? What about his code? He refused to come back to Dutch without something to show for it. That shows that beneath his broiling chaos there is a set of rules he strictly adheres to. Why does he care so much abo
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