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  • BleachedAnusDawg
    BleachedAnusDawg Member Posts: 13,723 Standard Supporter
    Big problem lots of people have with the NBA is that it resembles AAU ball in how teams are constructed. Nets Big 3 played 7 or 8 games together all year and, even with Harden out, they mow down the competition come playoff time. Not even competitive. It's boring.
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  • greenblood
    greenblood Member Posts: 14,566
    edited June 2021
    BleachedAnusDawg said:

    Big problem lots of people have with the NBA is that it resembles AAU ball in how teams are constructed. Nets Big 3 played 7 or 8 games together all year and, even with Harden out, they mow down the competition come playoff time. Not even competitive. It's boring.

    In the NFL, a bad small market team can be one great draft and a couple free agents away from making a conference title game. In the NBA, the small market teams need multiple drafts, because star player free agents won’t go there. And by the time the small market team builds a contender through said draft, the earlier drafted star leaves for a bigger market super team. Teams like Minnesota, Memphis, Sacramento, Orlando, etc. in today’s environment can’t build a constant contender.
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  • Kaepsknee
    Kaepsknee Member Posts: 14,919
    huskyhooligan said:

    Youtube pick up basketball is getting just as many views.

    Any hawt IMF action goin on??? Like try hards taking charges???
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  • DerekJohnson
    DerekJohnson Administrator, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 69,742 Founders Club
    edited June 2021
    I will not buy any product sponsored by the NBA. It's not even a conscious decision. I won't do it. I just won't.
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  • TheKobeStopper
    TheKobeStopper Member Posts: 5,959
    DerekJohnson said:

    I will not buy any product sponsored by the NBA. It's not even a conscious decision. I won't do it. I just won't.

    Cancel culture?
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  • TheKobeStopper
    TheKobeStopper Member Posts: 5,959
    greenblood said:

    Outside of Lebron and Curry, there aren't any players behind them that draw crowds. If the NBA doesn't find a suitable group of players behind them, the NBA could be in big trouble.

    People said the same thing after MJ. Then they found Kobe, Iverson, Shaq, Lebron, Curry. They’ll be fine.
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  • greenblood
    greenblood Member Posts: 14,566
    TheKobeStopper said:

    greenblood said:

    Outside of Lebron and Curry, there aren't any players behind them that draw crowds. If the NBA doesn't find a suitable group of players behind them, the NBA could be in big trouble.

    People said the same thing after MJ. Then they found Kobe, Iverson, Shaq, Lebron, Curry. They’ll be fine.
    Kobe, iverson, and Shaq were in the league during Jordan. We knew they would shine. Lebron is a once in a generation talent, even though he could have been even better. Curry is the greatest shooter in the history of the NBA. What I’m saying is, there isn’t anybody ready to take the reigns, and time is running out.
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  • Kaepsknee
    Kaepsknee Member Posts: 14,919
    TheKobeStopper said:

    greenblood said:

    Outside of Lebron and Curry, there aren't any players behind them that draw crowds. If the NBA doesn't find a suitable group of players behind them, the NBA could be in big trouble.

    People said the same thing after MJ. Then they found Kobe, Iverson, Shaq, Lebron, Curry. They’ll be fine.
    The NBA hyped Shaq and Orlando harder than any other player or team ever after He was drafted.

    Orlando, despite being a middling Eastern Conference Team, was always on the Primetime slots. Even when they didn’t deserve to be.

    There are few transcendent personalities in the league now other than Curry and LeBron.

    Plenty of talent waiting in the wings. But not personalities. And in order to advance a Pro Sports league, you need to have them. Devon Booker, Luka, Joker, Dame, Beal, Mitchell are great players.

    However none of them transcend the game.
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  • greenblood
    greenblood Member Posts: 14,566
    Kaepsknee said:

    TheKobeStopper said:

    greenblood said:

    Outside of Lebron and Curry, there aren't any players behind them that draw crowds. If the NBA doesn't find a suitable group of players behind them, the NBA could be in big trouble.

    People said the same thing after MJ. Then they found Kobe, Iverson, Shaq, Lebron, Curry. They’ll be fine.
    The NBA hyped Shaq and Orlando harder than any other player or team ever after He was drafted.

    Orlando, despite being a middling Eastern Conference Team, was always on the Primetime slots. Even when they didn’t deserve to be.

    There are few transcendent personalities in the league now other than Curry and LeBron.

    Plenty of talent waiting in the wings. But not personalities. And in order to advance a Pro Sports league, you need to have them. Devon Booker, Luka, Joker, Dame, Beal, Mitchell are great players.

    However none of them transcend the game.
    I think the closest they have is Trae Young
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  • Kaepsknee
    Kaepsknee Member Posts: 14,919
    greenblood said:

    Kaepsknee said:

    TheKobeStopper said:

    greenblood said:

    Outside of Lebron and Curry, there aren't any players behind them that draw crowds. If the NBA doesn't find a suitable group of players behind them, the NBA could be in big trouble.

    People said the same thing after MJ. Then they found Kobe, Iverson, Shaq, Lebron, Curry. They’ll be fine.
    The NBA hyped Shaq and Orlando harder than any other player or team ever after He was drafted.

    Orlando, despite being a middling Eastern Conference Team, was always on the Primetime slots. Even when they didn’t deserve to be.

    There are few transcendent personalities in the league now other than Curry and LeBron.

    Plenty of talent waiting in the wings. But not personalities. And in order to advance a Pro Sports league, you need to have them. Devon Booker, Luka, Joker, Dame, Beal, Mitchell are great players.

    However none of them transcend the game.
    I think the closest they have is Trae Young
    He could. Gotta win though. And it doesn’t necessarily need to be this Series. He’s definitely got personality.
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