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Ice Dice has been within the information currently after asserting his “F**ok The Gatekeepers Podcast Tour.” He solely sat down with Taylor Bickham from The Shade Room to debate why he feels the Nationwide Basketball League (NBA) is liable for making an attempt to cease the Big3 League from rising.
He says their alleged actions damage the gamers, coaches, and households who depend upon Big3 in the course of the summer season.
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Ice Dice Claims Big3 Is Higher In Scores However Will get Much less Protection
Taylor Bickham: About 4 to 5 days in the past, you made a put up in your web page about gatekeeping. Was that gatekeeping in sports activities and leisure or simply interval?
Ice Dice: “Properly, I’m coping with sports activities and leisure at this second. This isn’t my mission. The Big3 just isn’t a mission. It’s a league for everyone. Anyone that’s tired of summer season sports activities…This can be a league for you. So, I’m placing this on for the tradition so to talk. Not just for our tradition however the sports activities tradition. And, the summer season sports activities are wack. So, once you’re making an attempt to try this and you’ve got mainstream retailers, sports activities retailers, principally ignoring what you’re doing. Now, individuals may be like “Dice, it’s Big3… it’s new.” No matter. However in case you’re trying on the rankings. In case you’re actually our rankings in comparison with different sports activities that get consideration, we do higher than NHL. We do higher than main league soccer in rankings, however we get no protection. The rationale we don’t get protection just isn’t as a result of they don’t wish to cowl us. It’s as a result of they’ve been informed to not cowl us.”
Taylor Bickham: By who?
IC: “We consider it’s the company fits within the NBA. We’ve been informed that.”
Dice Says An NBA Proprietor Can Make investments In Every little thing Besides The Big3
Taylor B.: I suppose they might contemplate you a competitor at this level.
Ice Dice: “I’m fairly positive they do. However we’re not. I’m fairly positive they do. And, regardless if we’re a competitor or not, what does ESPN bought to do with that? What does mainstream sports activities media bought to do with whether or not the NBA is competing with us or not? They need to be overlaying sports activities. The way you gone be the worldwide chief in sports activities and also you’re overlaying drone races and sh*t. I don’t wish to diss no one with their drones. Don’t get me improper all of the drone individuals sit the f**ok again however I’m simply saying you’re overlaying these odd sports activities however you gained’t cowl Dr. J profitable the sport as a coach. Or, you gained’t cowl Joe Johnson going for 30. These will not be nobodies.”
Taylor Bickham: Yeah, they’re very revered individuals.
Ice Dice: Within the sport of basketball. It simply reveals what they’re all about. And the NBA does have that energy over sports activities media and we’re seeing them use this in opposition to us. They wish to cowl us. That’s the factor. They’re informed to not. NBA gamers wish to discuss us. After I say now we have a problem with the NBA, it’s not the gamers. They gamers love us. Homeowners love us. Loads of house owners wish to put money into the league, however there’s a bylaw they’re holding us to. However they don’t maintain no different league to. They are saying you may’t put money into a aggressive league. Okay.. however they’re investing in TBT and slam ball. You may put money into pickleball. A NBA proprietor can put money into the NFL, main league baseball… they will put money into soccer, Nascar, pickleball, lacrosse, no matter.. Solely league they will’t put money into is…
Taylor B.: …the Big3?
Ice Dice: “Now, you inform me. Is it the sneakers? What’s improper with The Big3? Why can’t they put money into The Large 3? And, they wish to. Large house owners.. Large names.. Title all of them. I’ll say most of them are actually fascinated about investing in The Big3, and have informed us that all through these six years. So, we predict it’s bullsh*t that they bought this on us, however they don’t have it on another league, and that’s why I’m talking out. That’s gatekeeper sh*t to me.”
Ice Dice Says He Denied The NBA’s Request For “Complete Management” Of The Summer time League
Taylor Bickham: Have you ever ever tried to satisfy with them?
Ice Dice: “Yeah, we met with them. We met with them earlier than we even began. We really tried to offer them a proportion of the league totally free.”
Taylor B.: They stated no?
Ice Dice: “They stated no. We don’t need it. They stated if we had it, we must run it. And, I’m like no as a result of y’all wouldn’t know what y’all had been doing with this.”
Taylor Bickham: So, they might solely take [the percentage] if they’d management?
Ice Dice: “They might solely take it if they’d whole management. We weren’t doing that as a result of like I stated in the event that they knew how to do that they might have did it 30 years in the past. what I’m saying? We all know how to do that. So, we left the assembly and it was cool they usually had been like good luck, “The extra basketball the merrier”. All that sh*t they was speaking. And, ever for the reason that league actually began get rolling. They thought it was gonna be some bullsh*t to be trustworthy. They simply thought it was going to be some weak a*s sh*t that wasn’t skilled.. that wasn’t visibly subsequent stage.”
Taylor Bickham: You talked about earlier than that it’s not a mission. Has somebody informed you that earlier than?
Ice Dice: “No, no one has ever informed me that. However, I’m simply saying individuals could take a look at it like that. Like.. that’s simply one thing Dice doing. However, I’m not doing it for me. It’s like a film. I don’t do them so I watch them. I do them for everyone else to take pleasure in. It’s the identical factor. Identical with music. Identical with TV, like after I do Hip Hop Squares, or no matter. It’s for the individuals. That is one other factor for the individuals. So, for me once they deny The Big3. They’re denying all people. It’s like The Friday scenario. They bought the ability inside one another to carry stuff again or let issues develop, and they’re utilizing it in opposition to The Big3. Look, we’re prevailing with out it however why ought to we simply undergo in silence. Why ought to we not let individuals know what’s being completed from the NBA workplace. Gamers love us. GMs come to the sport. Coaches… Homeowners.. All people like us and love us besides Adam Silver and Mark Tatum. Them two… they’re those which have it out for us, they usually discuss all that sh*t. they put Black Lives Matter on the court docket, however how do you’re feeling in your coronary heart? F**ok the court docket. We don’t want that bullsh*t. How do you’re feeling about us in your coronary heart since you’re making an attempt to squash the one Black league in America. Why?”
Ice Dice Says Gamers And Coaches That Rely On His League Are Hurting
Taylor Bickham: And it doesn’t compete with the season time. I don’t actually get it.
Ice Dice: “It don’t make loopy man sense. what I’m saying? In case you can’t even make loopy man sense you method on the market. It’s one thing else. what I imply? And, look! They could suppose f**ok Ice Dice. We gone get his a*s. They ain’t getting me. what I’m saying? Who they getting? “Iceman” George Gervin, Rick Barry, Gary Payton, Stephen Jackson, Nancy Lieberman, Lisa Leslie.. That’s who they getting. They getting the gamers and the coaches, and the people who depend upon the Big3 to have a bit of extra change of their pocket in the summertime. And, they’re depriving lots of athletes who they don’t haven’t any room for them. They don’t haven’t any place for these dudes to go or play. So, they throw them out and in case you haven’t had a large enough identify, you’re simply completed. And, so these guys are enjoying all around the world and abroad. They deserve to have the ability to play at dwelling in entrance of their very own household and pals.”
“When was the final time you seen a Puerto Rican basketball sport? Chinese language basketball sport? It will get no protection right here. No person will get an opportunity to see them play. No person even know they enjoying. however within the Big3 you do as a result of we’re on CBS nationwide, they usually get alternatives off of being in The Big3, so when they don’t seem to be enjoying, they do get contracts to go to different locations. Some guys that no one may need seen or recognized at the moment are getting alternatives. Our coaches are getting commercials and again within the highlight stuff. So, it’s actually essential that the league survives and the NBA is crushing not solely the individuals I discussed, however all of the people who eat off the league. We feed lots of people with the league simply by coming right here. It’s jobs in Dallas that individuals are getting paid who stay right here which might be going to assist us within the American Airways Heart on Saturday.”
“It’s greater than me. It’s like they crush it or preserve doing what they’re doing and never let it flourish however Imma be high quality. I pay all these individuals, so clearly I bought the means to try this, and I’ll simply go and proceed to do what I’m doing, and people individuals shall be with no job and livelihood, and cash that they want. I simply need individuals [to know] after I say this can be a “F**ok The Gatekeepers Podcast Tour.” That is testimony. Individuals suppose I’m about to go and point out some motherf****r this one and that one, and conspiracy theories. No, I’m telling you what I find out about. What’s occurring with me. Now the secret’s. Who’s your gatekeeper? That what all of us gotta discover out. Who’s a gatekeeping you out of your life, and people are the people who we bought to maintain them out the best way, and get these keys out their hand.”
Ice Dice Talks First Cease On His “F—- The Gatekeepers Podcast Tour”
Talking with The Shade Room is considered one of many stops on Ice Dice’s “F**ok The Gatekeepers Podcast Tour.”
His first cease was an interview with Joe Rogan–throughout which when he first accused NBA Commissioner Adam Silver of being considered one of his gatekeepers and hindering The Big3 from flourishing.
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On the time this text was printed, NBA reps haven’t publicly reacted to Ice Dice’s accusations.
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