megatrope

joined 11 months ago
[–] megatrope@alien.top 1 points 9 months ago (2 children)

he didn’t sell the Mavericks completely. He just sold majority stake, so maybe 51%. He’s going to continue running the operations.

So it just sounds to me like the equivalent of a private company going public on the stock market to get massive funding based on a much higher valuation (Mavs worth more than 10x than when Cuban bought it).

Maybe he will use the funds to build a new stadium for the Mavs and generate even more money.

[–] megatrope@alien.top 1 points 10 months ago (2 children)

that’s insane, i’ve never seen a nutmeg from that far away. usually the defender is close so they don’t have time to react.

[–] megatrope@alien.top 1 points 10 months ago

love to see this!

[–] megatrope@alien.top 1 points 10 months ago

MF can be more accurate than AF on an (D)SLR. I use it when taking a portrait. Digital Zoom in all the way with Live View, set the MF.

[–] megatrope@alien.top 1 points 10 months ago

Look, the fact they put him under conservatorship rather than adopting him means I don’t give a shit what they say. That mere fact shows they didn’t see him as their son and they were in no hurry to correct that.

I think the Tuohys probably had ulterior motives for “adopting” Oher, such as having a talent play for their high school and college.

I’m pretty sure the “adoption” was mainly to circumvent NCAA rules about boosters providing benefits to players. The exception, of course, would be providing to your own child. So they “adopted” Oher so he could play for Ole Miss.

The problem was that if they actually legally adopted Oher, he would be an inheritor of the Tuohy’s estate. So their lawyers came up with the conservatorship idea to be able to say Oher was their son.

So I don’t think the Tuohys are pure and innocent, but I doubt the Tuohy’s used the conservatorship itself for financial gain like signing contracts on Oher’s behalf and keeping the money, like Oher alleged.

Most likely Oher’s agent/lawyer told him there’s no way he got paid his fair share of the movie profits. Let’s sue and try to get some payday.

[–] megatrope@alien.top 1 points 10 months ago (2 children)

This sounds more like someone got in Oher’s ear and convinced him he was being used and unfortunately he listened.

Bingo. Oher’s agent or lawyer probably thought there’s no way the Tuohy’s received less than $1M on a $300M movie. Let’s sue them to reveal the numbers.

[–] megatrope@alien.top 1 points 10 months ago

maybe Oher thought the Tuohys got millions from the movie, so $100k was “nothing”.

[–] megatrope@alien.top 1 points 10 months ago

this is really weird to say “Warriors guard Chris Paul 6th man candidate”

[–] megatrope@alien.top 1 points 11 months ago

That dunk looked so awkward. Like he did a pull up on the rim. lol