DeMar Called Toronto A Top 5 City Among Players In The League

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OzRapFan wrote:

West Hollywood, a city of Los Angeles County, California, was incorporated on November 29, 1984, with a 2000 residential population estimate of 34,675. This city has a dense population of homosexuals ;O

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Like I said if you love San Francisco you will love West Hollywood.

Case closed #pause

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Red and White wrote:

what?
wha
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im just

what?

maybe if it was a golf match where the lower score wins? but then again, if lebron and wade knew they would win still

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young gunz could beat anyone including an all world team...didnt you see the sumer league ?

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Red and White wrote:

You lose all credibility when you say that two out of the three best american cities are san fran and miami??!?!!?!?

miami and san fran below toronto, the big 4 are nyc, chi town, bean town, and maybe la

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This is why it's all a matter of personal taste, since it depends so much on the criteria you're applying.

LA just isn't my type of city, so I'll abstain on that one, but as far as I go, neither Chicago nor Boston can hold a candle to the Big Apple, IMHO. I've never been to San Fran or Miami, but I doubt it'd be that far-fetched for some people to place them ahead of Chicago/Boston. Toronto and NYC will always be my interchangeable #1 and #2, with Boston a distant #3, but you'll find a lot of Americans preferring places like Austin (TX), Madison (WI) and Boulder (CO) over any of these.

To each his/her own; not sure what any of this has to do with losing credibility though.

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RaptorsFan4Life wrote:

So your a living dead? D: No wonder you make so many weird threads and have so much time on your hands. :p

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You know there is some truth to what you say. While I was recuperating in a hospital I wound up watching the Namith and the Jets take apart my Colts. Between the immense infection, I will spare everyone the gruesome details (chorus: Thank god), and that loss by my Colts I really thought it might be better to go over to the other side. But that was only for a few days until I watched my next basketball game:):)

Nah just a big basketball fan who is retired

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vinnie_paz wrote:

young gunz could beat anyone including an all world team...didnt you see the sumer league ?

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O my gosh...i almost had a rage black out

the two best players in the league would be beat by demar derozan and sonny weems, because they were good in SUMMERLEAGUE!!!!???

Seriously?

its summer league

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Quixotic wrote:

This is why it's all a matter of personal taste, since it depends so much on the criteria you're applying.

LA just isn't my type of city, so I'll abstain on that one, but as far as I go, neither Chicago nor Boston can hold a candle to the Big Apple, IMHO. I've never been to San Fran or Miami, but I doubt it'd be that far-fetched for some people to place them ahead of Chicago/Boston. Toronto and NYC will always be my interchangeable #1 and #2, with Boston a distant #3, but you'll find a lot of Americans preferring places like Austin (TX), Madison (WI) and Boulder (CO) over any of these.

To each his/her own; not sure what any of this has to do with losing credibility though.

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Your right there but i have been to both those places...miami is nice but very sketchy

san fran is a nice place but homeless is a bad problem there/

I have been to chicago, nyc, boston, and LA those places (maybe not LA) are better in my opinion
but i must say, for an nba player, chicago, nyc, and boston are the places to be. Especially if you are as wealthy as them.

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Red and White wrote:

Your right there but i have been to both those places...miami is nice but very sketchy

san fran is a nice place but homeless is a bad problem there/

I have been to chicago, nyc, boston, and LA those places (maybe not LA) are better in my opinion
but i must say, for an nba player, chicago, nyc, and boston are the places to be. Especially if you are as wealthy as them.

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I would say all four are pretty close as a preferred playing and living location for NBA players.

However I think it depends on the player and their life style.

Chicago and New York are 24x7 cities. Los Angeles except of course for closed private parties tends to close down starting around 11 PM (Restaurants) up until a couple of hours after mid-night (nightclubs). However Los Angeles offers a lot more options during the day time. For example when you have a day off in Los Angeles, like Miami, you can go to the beach on that day off. You can't do that in the winter in N.Y. Chicago or Boston.

If you are into the entertainment crowd and hanging with them Los Angeles offers the most of that.

There area also more options in Los Angeles in the summer regarding playing organized high level basketball at some gym against other NBA and top level college players.

N.y and Chicago are all about the night life and the sports media. Not all players like the pressure of playing in N.Y.

I am not sure what Boston offers NBA players outside of being able to wear Celtic green. However for some players that is enough.

Chicago is a better version of Toronto. Go there, then tell me I'm wrong. It's a great town.

lets hope demar can play some good ball and have the jennigs effect on t.o so people actually about care what he says

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pillowmint wrote:

Chicago is a better version of Toronto. Go there, then tell me I'm wrong. It's a great town.

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Extremely high crime rate, politicians are the most corrupt in America and the weather sucks rotten eggs a lot worse than Miami.

Chicago is great if you like to spend your time indoors with mobsters and/or corrupt politicians. In Chicago they are often one in the same:D:D

Here is the link to the interview or at least about 5 minutes of it

http://blog.rogersbroadcasting.com/e...rce=feedburner

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Buddahfan wrote:

I would say all four are pretty close as a preferred playing and living location for NBA players.

However I think it depends on the player and their life style.

Chicago and New York are 24x7 cities. Los Angeles except of course for closed private parties tends to close down starting around 11 PM (Restaurants) up until a couple of hours after mid-night (nightclubs). However Los Angeles offers a lot more options during the day time. For example when you have a day off in Los Angeles, like Miami, you can go to the beach on that day off. You can't do that in the winter in N.Y. Chicago or Boston.

If you are into the entertainment crowd and hanging with them Los Angeles offers the most of that.

There area also more options in Los Angeles in the summer regarding playing organized high level basketball at some gym against other NBA and top level college players.

N.y and Chicago are all about the night life and the sports media. Not all players like the pressure of playing in N.Y.

I am not sure what Boston offers NBA players outside of being able to wear Celtic green. However for some players that is enough.

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Yeah it is more of an opinion based choice, and maybe me being a middle class person, i have a different view of cities then players. Im staying at a motel in san fran, while they could have huge nice mansion thingy out of the city.

Boston is an awesome city, great people, and great history. once again, my view.

It's not the first time that I heard that people love to come to Toronto when it comes up on the schedule. In terms of players having desire to live and play in Toronto, well, that flies in the face of what the track record so far would suggest. It's odd too because it's a huge city and few down south can match or surpass it.

Red and White: rage black out? That was vinnie_paz trying to be funny...

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pillowmint wrote:

Chicago is a better version of Toronto. Go there, then tell me I'm wrong. It's a great town.

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I have been to both cities.

I would return to Toronto

You couldn't pay me money to set foot in IL, MI or OH again and I mean a lot of money

Go ahead make me offer I can't refuse.:):)

If Montreal had an NBA team, the whole 'best city' discussion would be over in a heartbeat.

What I don't understand about Toronto not being a popular destination for NBA players is why is this even an issue? For the millions of dollars these guys make, the city shouldn't even be a factor, they should just be playing.

For example, you never hear about this issue in Baseball, and rarely in Football. Do you think the players for Green Bay are going to avoid the team just because its cold and boring there? No, they are happy to have a contract.

The sense of entitlement and egos these NBA guys have is so ridiculous sometimes.

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Buddahfan wrote:

To my knowledge So. CA is the only place in North America where you can snow ski on real snow in your car in the morning and go surfing in the afternoon and then party with any kind of crowd you want at night. All in the same day, if you have the energy.

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I would really like to see this happen.. are there any youtubes of people skiing inside their cars? I can't even picture it.. must be a crazy huge car, or really small people.

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Buddahfan wrote:

If you love San Francisco then you should really love West Hollywood. It is a nice cleaner than San Francisco and offers the same cultural and social environment as San Francisco

Personally I wouldn't give 2 cents for any of those cities straight up, but that is just me.

Its a personal thing. The weather in Miami sucks rotten eggs and the Miami is the home to some of the biggest crawling insects in America. Seriously, I was also killed by one them suckers when it bit me.

N.Y. you either love it or hate it. I hate it. Too many people in too small a place. Too much concrete and glass and not enough green. In fact the life expectancy in N.Y. is the lowest of any American city.

Then again its all personal.

I love Los Angeles and So. CA offers more in complete lifestyle options both indoor and outdoor than any major city/area in the world, period.

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Jay Leno,Craig Ferguson, jImmy Kimmel all constantly make fun of west hollywood so I don't think it has a very good reputation.


as for Demar's comment, it's great, but, at the same time there is a lot of things wrong with it. (in no particular order)

!) it's only coming from one player

2) he plays here

3)Bosh and Turkoglu carry alot more reputation around the league than Demar.

4) that's usually what second players say because they start to grow into the city and are just glad they get a chance to play.

5) Toronto good=2 Toronto foreign and weird=3

this summer we've had t-mac,bosh, and turkoglu all say toronto is weird and stupid and no one wants to play there. we also had Lebron say our team is a joke(in a nice way)

We need former players to rep toronto and we need all the players here to say they love toronto and this franchise, but not say it as words but rather in their actions, what i'm saying is we need to start freakin winning for Demar's comments to hold significant weight.

on the plus side you've had rasho(former player) say he loves toronto