"Phil Mickelson basically 'yada yada-ed' Saudi Arabia's human rights violations for money" — PFT Commenter

Take Slip·Feb 23, 2022

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Phil Mickelson basically 'yada yada-ed' Saudi Arabia's human rights violations for money

Phil Mickelson, oopsie... he just kind of, you know what he did, he yada yada yada'd Saudi Arabia beheading homosexuals. He was like, 'listen, say what you want about their human rights violations... but they're going to pay me a shit load of money to go play golf over there.' ... He said Saudi Arabia has a lot of things that give me pause, but it could also make me a lot of money. I think that's all the context that you need.

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Mickelson was widely criticized for these specific comments (leaked to Alan Shipnuck), which led to his temporary exile from professional golf.

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Take Slip·Feb 23, 2022

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Juwan Howard has a legitimate anger problem

This is he's a repeat offender. He is. So he had that. He also claimed last year that Mark Turgeon... was coming at him and he had to defend himself... He's gotten some weird technical fouls where he's like yelled at people.

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Juwan Howard was suspended for the remainder of the regular season following this incident and eventually fired in 2024 after several more altercations and poor performance.

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The Juwan Howard incident was great for college basketball

I'm smashing the good for college basketball button. Of course it is awesome for college basketball... Rivalries in college sports where it's always on the cusp of turning violent. That's just good for the sport and nothing bad happened.

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The clip dominated sports media for weeks, confirming it was a major engagement driver, though its 'goodness' for the sport's integrity is subjective.

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Take Slip·Feb 23, 2022

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Big Cat

LeBron James ruined the dunk contest by never participating in it

LeBron ruined the dunk contest by never doing it. Correct though. Setting the precedent. [He's the] best players to never do it. He ruined it by saying he was going to do it too. You remember that? Yeah. And then just never did it.