Nothing fake about some players' unrest over player- ranking lists. It’s hard to understand. Why does Carmelo Anthony give the first damn that ESPN. NBA players in its ranking of the top 1. Lakers rookie Lonzo Ball? Why does any NBA player care where he’s ranked in Sports. Illustrated. com’s top 1.

SI is a corporate cousin of ours). Why do players get upset if they get a low NBA 2. K rating (full disclosure: I’m in the video game, and they paid me for my time).

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It just, on first blush, makes no sense. Anthony took to Twitter to express his anger, telling ESPN, “Don’t be so Blatant with the disrespect.” This, of course, drove people to the website, where they clicked on the story, thus helping ESPN drive more traffic to its site, and giving the network all kinds of fodder for its various shows where people disagree with one another about whatever’s going on that day. Phoenix Suns guard Devin Booker was one player who didn’t rise to the bait, tweeting Tuesday "We still care about rankings nowadays?? I thought that was high school"But the anger of NBA players to low ratings or rankings, in any setting, is a real thing.

It doesn’t matter that the people ranking them have never put on an NBA uniform in anger, and likely never got past scrappy 1. AAU teams, and cover basketball precisely because they cannot play it, they can only talk about it. This list would start with me, by the way, and not just because my last name conveniently begins with an A.)Of course, when you ask them about it, they don’t have the slightest idea what you’re talking about.“I don’t care,” the Portland Trail Blazers’ two- time All- Star, Damian Lillard, said last week on the phone. You should know I don’t care. I’m just going to talk my (bleep) because that’s what I do. I’ve always been given less, so I don’t pay it no mind.”But Lillard did care about Anthony’s ranking, if not his own. Damian Lillard found Carmelo Anthony's ranking on ESPN.

I do think that ranking Carmelo Anthony that low is crazy,” Lillard said. It’s not the ranking; it’s just disrespectful. There’s not 3. 0 players better than Carmelo; how can there be 6. But, again: these people doing the ranking aren’t professional basketball players. It would be one thing if, say, Kenny and the Chuckster and Shaq decided to do a top 1.

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Inside the NBA,” and they ranked Anthony behind a rookie who’s yet to play a minute in the NBA. That would be disrespectful.

Those guys achieved something in the game. Their voices and opinions would carry some weight. But … a bunch of writers? Michael Jordan and Larry Bird could not possibly have cared less what writers thought of them as players. Jordan came to be weary and resentful of the media because he felt it was too intrusive into his private life; we can all be happy that he lived his life as an athlete in the pre- social media age.“As an athlete, it’s all about confidence in general,” Phoenix Suns forward Jared Dudley said by phone Friday. We as athletes want to be validated by your peers. If you look at this generation, we want to be liked.

The Kobe (Bryant), (Russell) Westbrook personalities, those are very rare. Le. Bron, if he was ranked third, you think he wouldn’t be mad? Now, he might not say anything. But I think guys are looking for validation.”Today’s players, Dudley said, are creatures of social media. And that primary means of communication cuts both ways.

Dealing with trolls is part of today’s NBA player’s daily life. So criticism, both real and perceived, can cut closer to home than others may realize.“How many times did KD tweet about his haters this summer?,” Dudley said. And he just won a championship. The days of everybody being liked, those are over.”Dudley added that the rankings could be viewed not as a slap at Anthony’s talent, but at his value - - or, one supposes, lack of value - - to helping a team win. If reporters view Carmelo as the 6. Dudley said. “Now, do we think Danny Green (ranked 5. ESPN) is better than you?

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No. But they view Danny Green as being better for their team.”Steve Smith was not a fan of where Russell Westbrook ranked on SI. Another veteran player echoed the notion that players are more sensitive about equating such things as rankings with not being respected.“I'm probably one of the ones that care the least,” the player said. But guys have a lot of pride. This game is about entertainment and the media/fans are the audience. So some guys care what the audience thinks more than others. But you the generation now, it's all about wanting people to like you. Instagram followers/likes Twitter followers all of that bs.”But non- troll fans also get involved, too.

When Portland’s C. J. Mc. Collum tweeted last week that he’d like players to rank NBA journalists, I responded that I’d be all for it, but expressed again my disbelief that the or anyone else would take any of this seriously. That, of course, drew fans into the discussion, whether they were asked to participate in it or not. The invective that some had toward the rankings fell along the rather predictable lines of a) what do you all know about the game? You never played it; and b) you’re costing these guys money, standing, shaping narratives, etc., if you rank them poorly. Let’s start with a): seriously, are you kidding?

A bunch of people spouting off about things they know nothing about? That’s all Twitter is - - an “I have an opinion no matter whether it’s supported by any basis in fact, and I’m entitled to express it in ALL CAPS, and it holds just as much weight as yours”- inator. IHAONMWISBABIFAIETEIIACAIHJAMWAY- inator patent pending by Doofenshmirtz Evil, Inc., proprietor Dr. Heinz Doofenshmirtz.)By this logic - - and no one ever has a rejoinder to this, everyone - - anyone, including basketball players - - who has ever said that Jay- Z spits lyrics better than Nas, or that the last Tom Cruise movie was crap, or that “Game of Thrones” is the best television series of all time, should shut up already and be quiet.

Because none of you are rappers, actors or television producers/executives. You know nothing about the work that it takes for a rapper to piece together lyrics and beats, or how a producer can take a bass line and fix it perfectly to the words. Would Michael Jordan and Larry Bird have fretted over their ranking on media- generated lists? You know nothing about the craft of acting, or how hard it is for a man or woman to inhabit a character they’re playing, and how they do that in concert with other actors, the director, the sound and lighting people, and on and on, to produce the finished product you see on screen. You don’t know what method acting is; you don’t know the agony of adapting a novel into a screenplay. You don’t know anything about the TV business, and what sells, and what doesn’t sell, and why, and you have no frame of reference with which to compare GOT to “The Sopranos,” or “Hill Street Blues,” or “M*A*S*H.” You literally don’t know what you’re talking about, about anything.

And yet you spout off opinions every day - - about the president, about Al Roker, about the New York Yankees’ bullpen, about the spices that they use on The Chew, about global warming. Because that’s what people do.

I do it every day, too. That’s part of living here, in a country where the government can’t throw you in jail for what you believe.

Pakistan is fuelling unrest in Myanmar’s backyard. The UN Security Council has criticised the Myanmar government for condoning violence against Rohingya Muslims in its Rakhine State leading to a humanitarian crisis with lakhs fleeing to neighbouring Bangladesh fearing persecution. The current crisis is the fallout of a coordinated attack on multiple police posts on August 2.

Rohingya militants in Maungdaw, Buthidaung and Rathedaung townships in the north Rakhine State. The same night, 1. Watch This Is It Download. Myanmarese troopers died after militants claiming to belong to Arakan Rohingya Salvation Army tried to attack an army base. More than 8. 0 Rohingya Muslims died in the attack. Last year on October 9, the Rohingya militants attacked three police posts in Maungdaw Township, resulting in the death of nine policemen and looting of arms and ammunition.

Myanmar President Htin Kyaw held Rohingya militant group Aqa Mul Mujahideen (AMM) responsible for the attack. The Rohingya crisis has turned State Councillor Aung San Suu Kyi, once a darling of the West into a devil, for not being able to stop the tribal violence against the minority community. Apart from the UNSC, Pakistan issued a statement on September 3 expressing deep concern over the growing number of deaths and forced displacement of Rohingya Muslims. Islamic fundamentalists such as the Afghan Taliban, Al Qaida’s Yemen Branch, Lashkar- e- Tayyeba, Jaish- e- Mohammed and other groups have called for attacks on Myanmar authorities in support of the Rohingyas. There is an urgent need for de- escalation in levels of violence in Rakhine State as there is a strong possibility of other displaced Rohingyas being radicalised by Sunni fundamentalist groups including the Bangladesh chapter of the Islamic State to take to arms. The Rohingya displacement is a matter of serious concern but the root cause of increased animosity among the Burmans and other ethnic groups against the minority community should also not be glossed over.

The international community has questioned Myanmar for the crisis but has forgotten the bloody contribution of Pakistan- based jihadist groups to this catastrophe. There is now evidence that little known AMM had emerged from Harkat- ul- Jihad Islami Arakan (HUJI- A), a Pakistan- based extremist outfit involved in espousing the Rohingya Muslim cause in Myanmar. The HUJI- A is headed by Abdus Qadoos Burmi, a Pakistani national of Rohingya origin, closely associated with Le.

T chief Hafiz Saeed for militant and explosive training for radicalised Rohingya cadres. According to information available with intelligence agencies in Bangladesh and Myanmar, AMM leader Hafiz Tohar aka Abu Aman Jununi was recruited by Burmi from Kyuak Pyin Siek village of Maungdaw and trained in Pakistan. After training a few AMM recruits, new cadres were recruited from among the Rohingya youth in Rakhine State and refugee camps in Bangladesh’s Cox’s Bazaar. The AMM cadre was trained along the Bangladesh- Myanmar border, which saw large- scale testing of improvised explosive devices in 2. The role of Pakistan- based groups was revealed during an IED blast at Buthidaung Township on May 4 this year.

Investigations revealed that two out of four killed while assembling the device were Pakistani nationals and the remaining two were local Rohingyas from the same township. The Pakistani nationals of Rohingya origin were identified as Abdul Rahim and Anarthullah, who had returned to Rakhine State after spending 2. Af- Pak region. Intelligence agencies believe that Rohingya militant activities concentrated in Bangladesh’s Chittagong area and Thailand’s Mae Sot, Tak province have the sanction of the Pakistani deep state. Frequent movements of Maulana Ustad Wazeer aka Noor Kabir and Fareed Faizullah, both Pakistani nationals of Rohingya origin, to the Thai border have been noted by intelligence agencies for getting cadres indoctrinated and trained in insurgent activities. In May 2. 01. 6, Omar Faruk aka RSO Faruk of the Le.

T- backed Rohingya Solidarity Organization (RSO) was arrested from Chittagong for attacking the Bangladesh ANSAR camp at Teknaf, looting weapons and killing the troop commander. While India is in touch with both Bangladesh and Myanmar to ensure that the Arakan corridor does not emerge as a new jihadi flashpoint, the international community, particularly the west, is partly responsible for the current crisis as it kept quiet when the Le. T organised the Difa- e- Musalman- e- Arakan conference in Pakistan in July 2. Rohingya cause. Subsequently, Le.

T senior operatives Shahid Mehmood and Nadeem Awan visited Bangladesh to recruit Rohingyas and train them on the border with Myanmar. In fact, several new front organisations such as the Jamaat ul Arakan and Difa- e- Arakan have been formed with the help of Pakistani jihadists to coordinate the militant network along the Myanmar border with Bangladesh and Thailand. Pakistan’s Jamaat- e- Islami, which is close to its Bangladesh chapter, moved a resolution in its Senate and the National Assembly against Myanmar for the so- called Rohingya genocide. Pakistan Foreign Minister Khawaja Muhammed Asif has also urged the Muslim world to put pressure on Myanmar. While attacks on Rohingyas and their subsequent displacement cannot be condoned as lives of innocents are involved, the role of jihadists, their Pakistani backers for furtherance of their strategic objectives also needs to be questioned.

India must not let the situation go out of hand as radicalisation of the Arakan corridor and infiltration of vulnerable Rohingyas by Sunni fundamentalists have direct repercussions on its maritime security in the Bay of Bengal area and internal security in the North- East region. Escalation of militant activities in this region poses a direct threat to international shipping lanes of communication passing through the Malacca Straits. The displaced Rohingya community needs full international support lest it falls into the lap of radicals in the name of Ummah. Myanmar also needs to retrospect.

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