Honorary Warrior For Life? Vote on Buddy Hield
our way of paying tribute
The index article for Honorary Warriors For Life lists everyone already polled.
Introducing Honorary Warriors For Life
The concept is simple. You get to vote on the question “Is X an Honorary Warrior For Life?”
What does that phrase mean? I once tried to define it, and people found it more fun to bring in their own definitions, so it is now back to being kept vague, like “Most Valuable Player” or “Greatest Of All Time” or “sandwich”.
“Is X an Honorary Warrior For Life?”
I now only poll players who have played more than 1 year with GSW. This isn’t a rule I wanted, but the people have spoken and I made the unwritten rule a formal rule. The link at the top links to an index for all previous player votes.
And now for our nominee…
Buddy Hield
Three things immediately come to mind when thinking about Buddy Hield:
Game 7
His mega-feud with Jimmy Butler
Being everyone’s favorite teammate
Game 7
Trolling Jimmy
Kerr on Buddy
Your Vote
You can vote by poll and/or by comment (which counts as ten poll votes) with an explanation and a single #YES or #NO. A straight 75% vote will qualify the player for HWFL status.
I know you may feel creative and want to do other funny hashtags, but this will only cause me more work and annoyance, so please redirect your creativity.
Bonus Poll
Dub Nation, imagine you see Buddy Hield in a game with no practical implications for the Warriors. (So not against GSW, ignore draft picks, playoff seeding, etc.) Do you want them to do well or poorly?
Here is my solution to tanking.
1. Serious solution. Flat odds lottery across all 30 teams. That’s it. If you’re a bad team, you’ll eventually get lucky. Can’t have anything else, too many welfare cheats.
2. Best, fun solution. At the all-star break, teams take turns, by ascending wins order, drafting a different Tank Team to tank for them. So for instance, SAC would get the first pick and they pick UTA. At the end of the season, teams are assigned a draft order by the current rules, so say UTA gets #3. Now since UTA was SAC’s tank, SAC gets the #3 pick.
The result is that no team is able to tank for themselves. Probably most teams will have no incentive for themselves to lose. If a team traded their pick already, they can pick a Tank team like OKC to try to screw the other team. Etc. And fans get the pleasure of rooting for another specific team (their Tank) to lose.
Yes, teams could form consortiums to lose together, but that would still be more interesting than the current BS system.
#YES because of Game 7