Rudy Gobert, an NBA all-star, has enough restraint and basketball IQ to know when to jump to block a shot and when to restrain himself and not jump because he knows the refs will call it a foul, but doesn't have common sense to refrain from touching all the mics close to him. At a press conference, Gobert got up from his chair and started to walk out of the room. Before leaving, however, using his massive 7'9" wingspan, Gobert went back to touch every mic on the table in "a childlike way" and mostly everything in the room including his teammates. He thought the whole Coronavirus media attention was a joke and was too immature to realize it is a real pandemic. It would've been one thing to do this and have nothing happen because of it, however Gobert tested positive for the virus and passed it onto his teammate Donovan Mitchell. This put all of the NBA on high alert and now there is a third person in the league testing positive for Coronavirus. Because of Gobert, the NBA has suspended the league indefinitely and has put other players' health at risk. Gobert's actions are disgusting and immature. Gobert knew that there were many people affected by the virus and understood that some people, him excluded, are taking this very seriously. If he genuinely believed it wasn't that serious he could've internalized the jokes and still acted professional and with precaution because he knows other people are wary of it. Instead, he makes a joke that would've been brushed off if nothing had come from it, but he has compromised a lot of people's safety and the state of the NBA. Someone should've taught Rudy Gobert a lesson on self restraint. Now he'll have to learn about it online while he's quarantined in his home.
This week in class we read a piece called Show and Tell by Scott McCloud. This piece showed (and told) the importance of pictures in readings. It started off with a short anecdote of this kid in front of his class explaining how his robot toy transforms into an airplane. He uses a mixture of words and plain showing how it does what it does. This develops the author's main argument that "words and pictures have great powers to tell stories when creators fully exploit them both," (McCloud 809). I believe that images in books don't make a work of literature any less intellectual. If the content is meant to be intellectual, pictures aren't going to make it any less. Actually, images bring a different dynamic and can allow for more intellectual content. If an author were to include a statement where there could be many interpretations, that would be considered intellectual, but if you add an image to that and turn it into a comic, there could be an infinite amount of i...
What a fool. People are ridiculous and karma has taught him a lesson. Your last sentences are hilarious.
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