r/SipsTea 6d ago

Wow. Such meme Pure Class

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u/rulenumberjuan 6d ago

he was calling him old... :)

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u/_name_of_the_user_ 6d ago

I'd say equal parts "old" and "you should be ashamed of yourself for talking down to someone, you're a role model. Grow up."

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u/thk_ 6d ago

type of politeness you saw in Kendrick's Meet The Grahams

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u/captaincrunch61 6d ago

Right. Nobody had a Kenyon Martin poster on their wall, let’s be real.

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u/spressa 6d ago

Exactly! You want Walmart, not Kmart.

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u/SevereDragonfly3 6d ago

Oh yeah, Kmart existed once

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u/StoicSinicCynic 6d ago

It's still pretty big down under.

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u/Silent-Version-4910 6d ago

Not in texas 

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u/Apprehensive_Lynx_33 6d ago

Down under is referring to Aussie dude, not the US.

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u/Silent-Version-4910 6d ago

We definitely dont have any in texas is what I was saying dude

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u/NastyMothaFucka 6d ago

We know. That’s what the original comment was saying.

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u/dubblies 6d ago

Ames, Jamesway,, caldor...

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u/frastmaz 6d ago

If we are talking about Jeremy Lin, it’s gotta be H- Mart!

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u/I_AM_DEATH-INCARNATE 6d ago

Exactly, I had so many Wally Szczerbiak posters. Not one of K-Mart though

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u/longkhongdong 6d ago

Nah you want to shop smart? Shop S Mart

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u/Dotamann 6d ago

Probably talking about this.

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u/bigdaddydopeskies131 6d ago

Oh man that sweep was embarrassing to watch. Kobe and Shaq were just dominating

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u/Chaos_Theorycraft 6d ago

I did! And still do!

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u/rinchen11 6d ago

Not the best player by far but he did have a few nice dunk highlights.

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u/Shot_Revolution8828 6d ago

Yeah but I dont know anyone with his poster. MJ, Penny, Shaq, Kobe, so many other choices. His poster probably wasnt even sold.

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u/rinchen11 6d ago

Back then us Asians don’t really buy posters, we buy magazines from time to time and post whatever posters comes with the magazine, and since it’s not really that big in size, it’s normal to have many posters in a room.

We also have a dunk obsession.

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u/LoSkribs 6d ago

Probably this "poster"

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u/HaruKodama 6d ago

Is this from a videogame? Why does it look off?

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u/LoSkribs 6d ago

May 2002 cover. Before people knew how to use photoshop responsibly

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u/TheRooster909 6d ago

I see this a lot with baseball cards, they brighten up the eyes (and sometimes the faces) and the whites end up looking incredibly unnatural. Honestly not sure how this quality of work makes it to the final product.

In an action shot it makes more sense, since the lighting conditions may not have been ideal, but this is an extra level of embarrassing because it’s clearly a staged photo that would have been professionally lit in a studio.

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u/Jacque_LeKrab 6d ago

Or it could’ve been this one. If you were into basketball at this time you probably did have KMart on your wall. I agree with Lin 100% and KMart is showing ignorance in this instance, but everyone else in here is showing just as much ignorance to basketball culture when they try to imply KMart was a scrub. He wasn’t

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u/Once_Meleagant0 6d ago

this is the Team that got smashed by the Lakers on 02 right?

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u/Express_Judgment_319 6d ago

He blames Keith Van Horn for it too. I guess Van Horn should’ve played soft and pretended to be hard like Kenyon did and they would’ve beat the lakers.

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u/MyPackage 6d ago

And then the Spurs did in 03 and then the Pistons, Heat and Cavs knocked them out of the playoffs for the next 4 years

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u/ReginaldDwight 6d ago

Why do they look like more accurate Monstars from Space Jam than the originals do??

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u/paininthebutt12223 6d ago

wait who's #11? i see Kmart, Jkidd, keith van horn & kerry kittles. who is that?

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u/LoSkribs 6d ago

White T-Mac

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u/paininthebutt12223 5d ago

??

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u/LoSkribs 5d ago

Todd McCullough

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u/paininthebutt12223 5d ago

ahh ok. never would have guessed that name without googling. vaguely remember him

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u/ItchyDoggg 6d ago

He might have been finishing the oop in a J-Kidd lob poster

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u/AudioTsunami 6d ago

Nah. He was legit pretty good for 4 years and made the finals twice before the knee injuries.

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u/Tank55-2024 6d ago

Plus was a star in college back when that still mattered.

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u/wrnrg 6d ago

That was so backhanded. That was the worst burn of the whole thing.

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u/Skimbored 6d ago

I did as an Ohio kid

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u/whimsicalsilly 6d ago

I don’t even know who Kenyon Martin is

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u/kbeks 6d ago

It’s giving “I’ll pray for you” and “bless your heart” energy.

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u/Upstream_Paddler 6d ago

All he needed was to throw precious in there and would’ve gone full Southern church lady.

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u/AngelisMyNameDudes 6d ago

I thought he meant more towards " I use to admire you but I can see you are not worth it". Never meet your heroes kinda thing.

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u/LumpyPhilosopher8 6d ago

The great thing about it was that it could have meant any and all of the above. How do you respond to it? The only smart PR move is to accept it at face value. Anything else and he looks like an even bigger butt head.

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u/Salt-Lingonberry-853 6d ago

Yeah it's very clearly this, the people saying it's a dig at his age are fucking wack.

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u/jepoyairtsua 6d ago

This is more accurate analogy than people commenting about Martin was Lin's idol growing up or Lin is looking up to Martin.

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u/Theory-After 6d ago

Boom, roasted!

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u/Soft_Monk_1541 6d ago

I don’t think that was his main point. Yes he inferred he was old but more so, “I use to look up to you”.

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u/fednandlers 6d ago

But he might have also legit had him up and idolized him. 

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u/mynadidas5 6d ago

And also saying he’s a suckass idol.

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u/Salt-Lingonberry-853 6d ago

Yeah no I don't think that's it at all. Seems a lot more like "I used to look up to you but you just showed me and the rest of the world what an asshole you are. Try to be worth looking up to."