Gordon Hayward explains why gamers are more toxic than NBA players Instagram: gordonhaywardThe Boston Celtics\u2019 Gordon Hayward has explained why he \u201ccan\u2019t imagine\u201d being on an NBA team as toxic as gamers are to each other during a livestream on March 24. The Indiana-native was first drafted to the NBA in 2010, but has never made his love of video games a secret and, with the postponement of all major sporting leagues due to the ongoing global crisis, has taken to livestreaming on Twitch. He\u2019s not the only one, as other stars such as Arsenal\u2019s Mesut Ozil and Sead Kolasinac have also started streaming on the platform throughout the delay. During a League of Legends livestream, Hayward was asked who is more toxic out of NBA players or League players, and he didn\u2019t struggle much for an answer. \u201cDefinitely League players,\u201d he said. \u201c100,000%. League of Legends players are so toxic. I can\u2019t imagine being on a team in the NBA where they\u2019re as toxic as they are in League of Legends.\u201d He started laughing at the idea of his teammates flaming him for missing a three-pointer or \u201ctalking sh*t about each other during a timeout,\u201d the idea obviously completely alien to him when considering the differences between the NBA and League players. He went on to mention how annoying it would be if NBA players were pinging him to make runs or certain plays throughout the entire game similar to in League or any other multiplayer game. Although Hayward was talking specifically about League of Legends, some of the phrases used such as \u201cbest three-point shooter NA\u201d are prevalent across any major title, with players finding ways to mock their peers at any given opportunity. Toxicity has typically been a regular component of multiplayer gaming for as long as it has been around, but like Hayward suggests, it might not be the optimal way to run a team \u2013 especially a professional sports team.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Gordon Hayward explains why gamers are more toxic than NBA players Instagram: gordonhaywardThe Boston Celtics\u2019 Gordon Hayward has explained why he \u201ccan\u2019t imagine\u201d being on an NBA team as toxic as gamers are to each other during a livestream on March 24. The Indiana-native was first drafted to the NBA in 2010, but has never […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-81180","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81180","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=81180"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81180\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=81180"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=81180"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=81180"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}