NBA Arguments Tangent Thread

Crusader Husker said:
Did we add the fact that the amount of flopping in the current NBA game makes it looks like soccer?  The last two years have the lowest ratings in a long time.

College Basketball to the NBA  is like College wrestling to Pro Wrestling.

Game looks like a sham compared to  30 years ago.  My son is a huge LBJ and NBA fan.  He watched Last Dance.  He came to me and said, you are right MJ is the greatest ever.  He doesn't look at the NBA the same way.  The game is unwatchable.

I'm out...
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As mentioned, I'm pretty old. The first team I remember rooting for was the '72 Lakers. Then my team was the '83 Philadelphia 76ers, and I was a big Moses Malone fan. I was a grown man 30 years ago, watching the Celtics, Lakers, Bulls and Pistons live. I didn't have a single rooting interest, I just liked good basketball. 

Michael Jordan is still the greatest ever, although I do invite my son to check out the jaw-dropping numbers of prime Wilt Chamberlin. 

Me and my NBA watching buddies agree the game is more exciting now than ever, and right now has perhaps the best collection of talent in history. The game is played at an incredibly high level, and is no less competitive. The NBA is an international phenomenon, more popular than ever. 

It's extremely watchable. Well, other than the long, drawn out coaches challenges. And the flopping. Agree about that. Although it's hardly new, as Keven McHale and others will tell you. 

Sometimes my peers get nostalgic over music, but we never pine for those bygone eras of sports, which some folks who did and didn't experience don't always remember so well. Sometimes I get the feeling the NBA hate is vaguely political. 

College basketball is a one year farm system for the NBA, with big money behind it and the same players who will dominate the pro game, so I have no idea why you think it has more integrity or entertainment value. 

 
Cdog923 said:
It's not unwatchable; it's just different than how the game was played when we were growing up. Skillsets might have shifted and, in a lot of ways, be better, but that doesn't mean the players and teams of today are better. 
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Then maybe I say, it is unwatchable, because I don't watch it.  I can't remember when any of my friends have ever talked about the NBA, it has been years sans the Cavs championships year.  We talk about all sports other than the NBA.  The game I loved no longer exists. 

 
Crusader Husker said:
Then maybe I say, it is unwatchable, because I don't watch it.  I can't remember when any of my friends have ever talked about the NBA, it has been years sans the Cavs championships year.  We talk about all sports other than the NBA.  The game I loved no longer exists. 
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The Cavs championship in 2016? That's not so long ago. They were playing this style of basketball five years ago, with a lot of the same players.

Maybe you're just a Cavs fan. 

 
Guy Chamberlin said:
The Cavs championship in 2016? That's not so long ago. They were playing this style of basketball five years ago, with a lot of the same players.

Maybe you're just a Cavs fan. 
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You missed my point.  I live in Cleveland.  When they won, we talked about it.  Since, not at all.  For the rocord, I only watched the last game.  Not a Cavs fan, not a NBA fan for years.  Keep up.  I live in a NBA town, that even when the Cavs were good, people were most likely to talk about the Browns and the now Guardians.  If Baker Mayfield were to win a super bowl?  20 years from now he is a bigger name here then LBJ.

I will bow out, my point is that the NBA was more enjoyable 20+ years ago than now.  I wonder if it isn't bigger outside of this country than in.

 
Yeah why is this in the woodshed?

Like the harshest thing posted is "Sorry if it ruins your childhood memories".

Did that make me cry?  Yes, but I cry pretty much every single day.

 
Crusader Husker said:
Then maybe I say, it is unwatchable, because I don't watch it.  I can't remember when any of my friends have ever talked about the NBA, it has been years sans the Cavs championships year.  We talk about all sports other than the NBA.  The game I loved no longer exists. 
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That's perfectly cromulent, but just because you don't watch it doesn't mean a sweeping generalization like "unwatchable" applies. 

 
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