Quick question: Who is the world’s most hated athlete? The easy answer, of course, is Barry Bonds. But after the Bulls took Joakim Noah with the ninth pick in yesterday’s NBA Draft, I think Barry might have finally met his match. I mean, Giants fans still like Bonds, right? Within five hours of John Paxson making Noah his fifth top ten draft pick since 2003, there were already three facebook groups made by Bulls fans bashing the selection. The group “All Against Joakim Noah on the Bulls Say I” already has more then 80 members, and “All Bulls Fans Who Want Noah to Be TRADED…ALREADY!!” features this post by Jeff from the prestigious Loyola University:
joakim noah is the gayest faggot alive, period. he has to have the scummiest hair i have ever seen, which goes along perfectly with his missing teeth and fugly ass face!!! not to mention he's good for nothing.
Yikes. And if that’s not bad enough, there’s another group called “Because the Bulls Drafted Joakim Noah…My Wrists Are Bleeding.” Take it easy there, Hawthorne Heights.
Seriously, what’s with all this Noah hate from Bulls fans? Of course everyone thought he was the biggest d-bag of all-time at Florida, but you know what, he’s our d-bag now. And believe it or not, he’s actually a pretty solid basketball player.
I love the selection of Noah, and I’m sure Ben Gordon and Luol Deng will to. The Bulls have been too business-like since Skiles and Paxson took over the team, Noah finally gives them a legitimate crazy guy, there first since Dennis Rodman. Sure, he’s not going to get 20 and 10 every night, but you know what, neither would anyone else who was still available at the ninth pick. Who did people want, Spencer Hawes? Spencer Hawes is a pussy. Would you really want your starting center to include “political debates” among his top interests? Plus, in a fight, Noah would WRECK Hawes. If I’m Pax, that’s a good enough reason to take Noah right there.
And yeah, the dude is a little ugly, but if anything, that’s just going to add intimidation. I think Bethlehem Shoals put it best:
“Noah… YOU LOOK LIKE EVERY SINGLE BATMAN VILLAIN ROLLED UP INTO ONE.”
That Shoals guy, he’s so smart.
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I like him, watch his real sports interview hes a likeable guy, and that outfit was probably the best part about the entire draft.
so continue to be sheep people and hate noah for some unknown reason, his dbaggery was blown way out proportion by insane sec fans and thats pretty much it.
I like him, watch his real sports interview hes a likeable guy, and that outfit was probably the best part about the entire draft.
so continue to be sheep people and hate noah for some unknown reason, his dbaggery was blown way out proportion by insane sec fans and thats pretty much it.
For me the reason to dislike him is because he acts like he's thug life when he was born to a french millionaire and a swedish model. And I ranted about why I disliked him right after his dumb tourny speach about partyin in Gaineville.
Jealous. That's what people are. He's funny, a good basketball player, and is going to bring a team that has no personality, something. Drafting successful college players has worked for the Bulls and it will continue to. So what if he ranted on national tv after he won his second straight national championship, you guys probably brag to youre friends when you win the chamionship in Madden. Its a lot more entertaining than thanking God for 15 minutes. Who cares if he's "ugly" I know he doesn't, he's probably been inside more female gators than Steve Irwin.
I don't get the hatin' on Noah. I think he's freakin hilarious. he's smart, well read, funny, and a great player. sure, he looks bizarre, but that's just more to love.
I have never known him to act like a thug. He seems to be a smart, confident, well rounded kid. I wish him the best.
Orson at EDSBS.com explained it better than I ever could...
http://www.everydayshouldbesaturday.com/?p=3278#more-3278
A 6′ 11″ half French, half Swedish extrovert with an unabiding passion for the game and a freak-boy edge to his aura comes along to liven up college basketball, and all you can do is rag on his au naturel dentition and less-than-attractive face?
Shame on all of you. First, Noah plays hard–damn hard, probably above his natural talent level, and by the numbers above most of those who’ve faced him. Second, he’s not the best looking guy and owns it for a number of reasons: he was born rich, is 6′ 11″ and probably puts more mileage on the first six inches of his penis than you’ll see on your whole johnson. Third, he’ll be drafted in the NBA, diddle around for a few years, and live the life of someone who can fly to Nepal, Sydney, Rio, LA, Paris, or Antarctica if he feels like it…all on a whim he got while you were trapped at your cubicle wondering if that last latte put you into overdraft, you stupid, sloppy bastard.
It’s obvious why people hate him: he’s passionate, odd, and a child of privilege. We’d hate him if he didn’t wear a Florida jersey, since he’s got all the markers of a classic asshole. This would all be true if Noah wasn’t such a nice, goofy, and uniformly outsized personality off the court. He makes ugly faces in pictures with effort for fans; he shows up to Shands to sign basketballs and visit sick kids, and has done so unannounced. He shows his food to whomever wants to take a picture of it, even if he’s chewing it at the time. He has to be curtailed at pep rallies from espousing his very, very liberal political views, often discussed while he’s wearing a Dr. Seuss top hat or bizarre sunglasses. He’s outgoing, genuine, and singular personality.
This is enough to make wallpaper mob folks dislike him on sight, the kind who find black pepper to be “too spicy” for their palate. Joakim Noah can’t hide, and not just because he’s a heel lift away from being seven feet tall. You can have the PR-safe version of him when he goes pro and takes the NBA’s press seminars. For now, Florida fans have the strangest college hoops talent wandering the campus since Bill Walton smoked weed after UCLA games “to calm down” with John Wooden’s tacit permission. Treasure the weird while it’s local.
Man, he can be annoying and all. But god forbid for a person to have a personality in sports now. All these haters on blogs makes want to buy a NOAH BULLS jersey !
He is the latest example of why black and white just does not mix. Even if you take a Miss Sweden as a mom and a good looking guy like Yannick Noah and put them together you end up with this ugly kid.
He cant decide how to wear his hair because his skin color keeps changing. One year he looks Hawaiian, the next year Hispanic, and now he looks like a white guy with a bad afro. The only worst curse would be if his mom was a readhead. Its hard enough growing up and you develop a wacked out personality because you want to take people away from noticing you look like a ghetto bozo the clown.
I can only imagine how ugly Tiger Woods kid is going to look over the years. I expect her to look like OJ Simpsons daughter.
The fact he acts like a gay guy does not help the matter. Get a haircut.
I figure he will be in a Kobe Bryant deal so dont worry Bulls fans.
you go back to rodman for the last crazy guy? you just skip over artest and oakley? just like that?
Arest didn't get crazy until after he left the Bulls (along with Brad Miller and Ronny Mercer for Jalen Rose), and Oakley came back to the Bulls for only 57 games in 2001, and by that time, he was too old to be crazy.
Jeremy1Esq is a racist moron.
Charlie B speaks the truth.
Classic Schadenfreude (look it up!)
Noah will be alright, he won't have top numbers, ever, but he'll be a 15ppg-10rbg guy pretty soon enough.
If Skiles ever figures it out.
Could Noah have done any WORSE than the Bulls who did play against Chris Bosch the other night? Nobody came close to stopping him. I would have liked to have seen an amped-up Noah all over him. Either fouls out in a quarter, or, maybe Bosch doesn't get 40.
But, no, Skiles sits his No. 1.
Look what guys like Yi and Horford are doing.
With Skiles, one turnover, and sit down for the next 5 games.
Not the way to bring all your young talent man!
He si doing the same to Tyrus Thomas, best athlete on the team.
And, the big kid, Aaron Gray, who was destroying people in the Summer League and some Exhibition games.
Ditto, Sefalosha.
Instead we watch Hinrich throw up bricks, and get torched.
Calderon destroyed him in the recent Toronto game.
WAKE UP SKILES - Hinrich and Gordon? 2nd team players in this league!
Play your players, it is what you say you do.
And not in a blow-out, where he takes all starters out to humble them!
how can you not hate that goofy fag