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Van Fayaz

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Managing Editor of @brewhoop.bsky.social and cap enthusiast (or cap sicko, if you prefer). Formerly @lohausfan on Twitter. Primarily Bucks, some Brewers and Badgers too. Proud owner of a group of white men who are angry at me because of sports 🇮🇷

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Van Fayaz @vanfayaz.bsky.social · 3d

But it did keep happening

Van Fayaz @vanfayaz.bsky.social · 5d

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Van Fayaz @vanfayaz.bsky.social · 26d

Really honored to be on Hear District with Bucks legend Marques Johnson and his son Kris this week: youtu.be/lDVZpyUQX5g

Underrated Bucks & Giannis' Bronze w/ Evan Cohen + #BucksPodFest w/ Brew Hoop (Hear District Ep. 81)

YouTube video by Milwaukee Bucks

Van Fayaz @vanfayaz.bsky.social · Aug 4

I should post this over here too.

Giannis was at a sports collectibles convention on Saturday. Discussing how he had to shorten his autograph because he wanted to have a 15–20 year career. Then, someone shouts: "all in Milwaukee!"

Giannis, with a wink and smile: "all in Milwaukee, baby."

Van Fayaz @vanfayaz.bsky.social · Jul 1

If Milwaukee wants to use their entire $14.1 MLE plus sign Rollins and Sims on new contracts at anything above one-year vet minimums, they'll need to cut payroll. $18.8m in space beneath their hard cap right now: $14.1m plus two vet mins at $2.3m would be just $130k clear of it.

Van Fayaz @vanfayaz.bsky.social · Jun 27

Ahead of free agency beginning on Monday, Bucks big man and unrestricted free agent Bobby Portis was scheduled to speak to media this afternoon in Milwaukee at the USA Fencing Summer Nationals, which start tomorrow at the Baird Center. However, he was a late cancellation.

Van Fayaz @vanfayaz.bsky.social · Jun 26

The Bucks have a $7.2m trade exception this offseason, so they can acquire someone making up to that much without sending out a player in return. Here's how that works, plus some candidates, including an old friend:

www.brewhoop.com/2025/6/26/24...

11 players the Bucks could acquire with their trade exception this offseason

Milwaukee can acquire a player making up to $7.2m without giving back a player in return

www.brewhoop.com

Van Fayaz @vanfayaz.bsky.social · Jun 22

Is the Democratic Party one of the ones that should be torn down?

Van Fayaz @vanfayaz.bsky.social · Jun 22

You don’t have to merely gently nudge, but you also don’t have to launch full-throated attacks on the Democratic Party and create a discourse that drives more people away from the more helpful politicians in this country. Find a middle ground.

Van Fayaz @vanfayaz.bsky.social · Jun 22

Accountability and criticism can be accomplished while not tearing them down. It’s called constructive criticism.

Van Fayaz @vanfayaz.bsky.social · Jun 22

I never said you have to praise them. You can hold the Dems accountable without being part of a movement that discredits the Dems because they’re not woke enough, and actively harms them like my people did in Michigan.

Van Fayaz @vanfayaz.bsky.social · Jun 22

You brought up perfection, that’s what you expect. You only criticize. You’re only negative. That doesn’t help at anything at all. Lobbing insults at people doesn’t get them to change, it just entrenches them further.

Van Fayaz @vanfayaz.bsky.social · Jun 22

But your criticisms do nothing but harm the reputation of the only major party in this country who is actually on the side of the oppressed.

Van Fayaz @vanfayaz.bsky.social · Jun 22

There you go again, blaming a brown person for how they’re treating other brown people. Same thing you tried to do to me earlier.

Van Fayaz @vanfayaz.bsky.social · Jun 22

Yes because arguing and criticizing someone always gets them to change their mind. Not diplomacy. You fire bullets instead of going to the negotiating table. It’s a warlike mentality.

Van Fayaz @vanfayaz.bsky.social · Jun 22

Seems to me that you expect perfection out of every politician you vote for because you never say anything positive about them.

Van Fayaz @vanfayaz.bsky.social · Jun 22

Stay in denial. Keep trying to control the thoughts and feelings of brown people. It’ll work someday I’m sure. Not on this brown person.

Van Fayaz @vanfayaz.bsky.social · Jun 22

Except you NEVER do that when you say “the democrats” which to you, today, has meant four different groups at various times whenever it’s convenient for you: voters, card-carrying members like me, elected democratic politicians, and finally its leadership.

Van Fayaz @vanfayaz.bsky.social · Jun 22

Chuck Schumer is not the enemy and you’re fighting him instead of fighting the shitbag and the party who started our involvement in this war. Stop telling me you’re on my side. You’re not fighting Trump.

Van Fayaz @vanfayaz.bsky.social · Jun 22

You were always a racist and a misogynist, it’s true.

Van Fayaz @vanfayaz.bsky.social · Jun 22

She was never a police officer. She never supported a war in the Middle East because she doesn’t control what Israel does. She never supported genocide because Israel isn’t committing one there, unless they’re also committing one in Iran. Which you people aren’t saying. You can’t have it both was.

Van Fayaz @vanfayaz.bsky.social · Jun 22

You need to realize that when you criticize someone who we voted for as being someone morally deficient, you’re in turn calling us that too. Like if you criticize Trump for something amoral, you aren’t criticizing the people who voted for him one iota? Not at all?

Van Fayaz @vanfayaz.bsky.social · Jun 22

Backpedal some more. You’ve done it all day.

Van Fayaz @vanfayaz.bsky.social · Jun 22

You thinking that Harris is still a shitbag when she campaigned on women’s rights and LGBTQ rights while the other campaigned against them and actively harms them is just code for “I don’t like a brown woman running this country.”

Van Fayaz @vanfayaz.bsky.social · Jun 22

When you said I was an establishment democrat because I didn’t know anything about non-establishment democrats. Who you can’t even define.