Anonymous
Years ago
Obi Kyei and 36ers Mutual agree to part ways
Just announced by the NBL
Anonymous
Years ago
Just announced by the NBL
Not sure what's more cliche... starting a clothing label or a PT Business
Tjamu
Years ago
^ starting a vintage clothing instagram page that has a stall at a market seems to be all the rage amongst the private school kids with wealthy parents.
Maybe saw the writing on the wall with Pinder coming in.
I thought the clothing label comment was a joke. Then I read the release.
Going to afl ? Not many people his size out there.
D2.0
Years ago
Please excuse my brain-fog: Is the Obi the one who was rumoured for a while to be leaving?? Or was that somebody else and he's already gone?
Occurs to me that there might be something more to this. Stepping away to concentrate on clothing, just as your career should be developing, seems a little odd?
Britain should have picked him for n.t imo. They need a backup pf.
KET
Years ago
This has been rumoured for a while.
There were people giving everyone shit on here for excluding him from the roster - turned out we were right to do so!
The minute he started paying a photographer to take pics of himself leaving training like he was Russel Westbrook it was clear his interest lay elsehwere!
Also who does that...like hard has a follower.
KET
Years ago
^ haha that make me chuckle
Don't want to play pessimist, however it seems like there's a fair few who like the idea of having their own clothing line mixed with some modelling and insta fame, and think that's enough to go for it and succeed.
Even someone like Cotton, it's probably more effort and cost than actual revenue/sales. More like a hobby than a genuine viable business proposition.
All the best - hope it works out!
Mock
Years ago
DUMB move. Plenty of time to start a clothing label later.
Camel 31
Years ago
Three months earlier, I thought he was gonna play for Goorjian...
No reason you can't play basketball AND start a clothing label.
Zodiac
Years ago
He wants to stay in his home town Sydney with family and friends obviously rather than temporarily relocate to Adelaide again for potentially 4-6 months at or near minimum wage for a bench role and probably not much court time at that either.
By the sounds of things he's going to sit this NBL season out so is probably hoping his business interests take off and he won't have to return to basketball.
Jason Cadee
Years ago
Don't listen to the keyboard warriors Obi, you’ll go alright. If you need any advice on starting a clothing label, hit me up any time man!
Bwucey
Years ago
There is a typo in the title therefore the title is yet another which is factually incorrect.
Good luck to the lad and lets be honest the NBL ain't paying him much so its understandable he would want to have a crack at new venutres.
It is a good laugh thou that he paid a photoograhper to take pics of him leaving training but hey its his cash so can do what he likes with it even if it comes across as an a grade w*nker move.
jerry tason
Years ago
His label looks shit, Bryce Cotton's t-shirts are shit, why do they do this. Just hoop.
Reckon he may end up at the Hawkes as I am pretty sure he had been coached years earlier by Jackomas at Comets.
KET
Years ago
C Johnson/Pinder
F Humphries/
F Import/McVeigh
G Dech/Teys
G Sloan/Giddey/Mudronja/Dillon
This makes it even more silly to keep Dillon IMO. They shouldn't go half in with one less big, or having a backup big import.
Go all in - SF import, ditch Dillon, grab a defensive big.
Zodiac
Years ago
Pinder was signed to be the back up centre with Kyei as back up PF. However now it might be easier to find a back up centre than PF with guys like Pledger & Andersen still available.
Pretty sure Homicide pays a photographer to take pics for his insta profile as well.
Guess these guys trying to create a fake hype/persona
Paying someone to take photos of you leaving NBL training is super lame though. At least Homicide is 'someone'.
Most "influencers" pay someone to take their vids/pics and then someone else to edit them.
So they pay for all the editing and photos?
Surely influencers get paid by someone else to be in photo shots promoting products.
So really its people create fake profiles to build a following i the hope that one day theyll get someone else to pay for it?
Damn thats so said....
Dione
Years ago
Influencers just seems like a massive scam, but if you can elicit free stuff out of dummies then go for it. All for the brand!
H. Froling
Years ago
Seeking photographer to take photos of me as I make my daily stroll to inside McDonalds.
Please forward all application to Brisbane Bullets.
@ H Froling, doesn't mr Heal do that for you already. :)
Surely Harry would be going to Hungry Jacks after missing his FTs?
I got hit up these "high" profile NBL benchies to get a referral for a good photographer to take snaps of me leaving the office every night. Its a market i need to "influence:
twenty four
Years ago
Harry, I reckon you would've had a good relationship with the photographer at the Woolshed. Maybe see if they're available?
You guys really don't have a life. Literally anonymously bullying a 22 year old kid. That make you feel bigger? I’d love to see how perfect you guys are. Losers.
Isaac
Years ago
Most "influencers" pay someone to take their vids/pics and then someone else to edit them.Depends what tier. Household names would do that. Even in the half-million followers range, they would be earning enough to pay a photographer (who would shoot and edit). Prior to them reaching that range or even after that, many would be taking their own shots with prosumer cameras or a decent phone and editing themselves. In some cases, their partner is a professional photographer so they have shoot/edit skills freely available.
Zodiac
Years ago
Literally anonymously bullying a 22 year old kid
This is a joke surely. The keyboard warriors just are allowed to post all this crap.
The 22 year old people are referring to is Froling is it not.
I thought that but the thread has gone way loopy. Happy for any Keyboard Warrior here to say that to H Frol's face. Cowards one and all.
koberulz
Years ago
For the people that find it all ridiculous, remember that in years past, there was a lot of advertising money poured into magazines, newspapers and the like. And that money has just moved to new media.I remember seeing a survey asking for people's opinions on "influencers", and defined "influencer" as anyone who had achieved fame via the Internet. Which at that point is just old people yelling at new media to keep of their lawn.
Is it like the Homuicides of the world that buy followers.....(have a look at the followers on insta plenty of bots and fakes in there!)
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