NBA

[tbach24]

I don't understand why people hate on the NBA so much. IMO, it's the second best run league of any sport. Someone care to explain?

[Shajen]

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I don't understand why people hate on the NBA so much. IMO, it's the second best run league of any sport. Someone care to explain?

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I hate the NBA because they take the players before the players either start college or finish college ball.

It irritates me when I think how good my Blue Devils could be if Deng, etc, stayed in school.

College ball PWNS the NBA.

[tbach24]

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It irritates me when I think how good my Blue Devils could be if Deng, etc, stayed in school.

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Yeah, but so would all the other teams. Whoever got LeBron would win the NCAA championships for 4 straight seasons.

[radek2166]

Can you say thugs. I also dont understand how one could like a game thats not really that physical. I find it boreing.

Granted it is a well run league. That does not make it a good sport, if that was what made a game good noone would watch baseball.

[DemonDeac]

cuz its boring
rarely that many close games like college basketball

[Patrick del Poker Grande]

It's a well-run league, but not a very good sport and the players have an image problem.

[istewart]

I have always liked the NBA more than college basketball, but a single-elimination tournament will always edge out lengthy playoffs in terms of excitement and watchability.

That said, NBA has just gotten boring over the last few years, and so many people that watch NBA games are fair-weather fans (this is where football and baseball completely pwn the NBA, IMHO). The attitudes of players don't help much, either.

I'd like to add that having the Nets in the finals two years in a row, and having the Spurs (the most BORING TEAM possible) constantly in finals contention, has not helped.

EDIT: One more thing. The excessively large disparity between the East and West teams during the Spurs/Lakers championships really hurt things.

[tbach24]

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That does not make it a good sport, if that was what made a game good noone would watch baseball.

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True, but aren't the MLB's ratings insanely low?

[istewart]

Not MLB playoffs of late. Even that horrible World Series 5 months ago drew very well, I believe.

[radek2166]

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True, but aren't the MLB's ratings insanely low?

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Yes. I think baseball is also boreing.

[istewart]

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True, but aren't the MLB's ratings insanely low?

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Yes. I think baseball is also boreing.

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This is wrong.

[istewart]

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Granted it is a well run league. That does not make it a good sport, if that was what made a game good noone would watch baseball.


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It does help, though. Football is a good example.

[Phoenix1010]

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Can you say thugs.

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Is this a statement or a punctuation error? And what do you mean either way?

[radek2166]

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It does help, though. Football is a good example.

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Football has a win now pay me later attitude. Look at the 49ers .

[istewart]

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It does help, though. Football is a good example.

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Football has a win now pay me later attitude. Look at the 49ers .

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Also because it's far and away the best sport to watch on TV.

[radek2166]

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Can you say thugs.

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Is this a statement or a punctuation error? And what do you mean either way?

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Too many Idiots. Allen Iverson? Idiot.

The NBA has a big image problem. Guys going through metal detectors with tin foil.

Guys choking their coach. I think Sprewell should have been run out of the NBA. Yes also think Alomar should have been run out of MLB.

Also when you get idiots makeing millions of dollars a year saying. "I did not play hard cause I dont want to be here. I want traded"

It just gives me more reason not to watch it.

[radek2166]

Football is very enjoyable. /images/graemlins/wink.gif

[andyfox]

It's filled with spoiled, selfish brats who, though probably no more full of themselves than other professional athletes, miss no opportunity to let us know about it.

[WEASEL45]

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Too many Idiots. Allen Iverson? Idiot.

The NBA has a big image problem. Guys going through metal detectors with tin foil.


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So does the NFL. Ray Caruth or jamal lewis dont have the best images. But i guess killing somebody is better than taking weed through the airport. /images/graemlins/confused.gif

[J.R.]

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cuz its boring
rarely that many close games like college basketball

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is this your observation or do you purport to have information backing this up?

[Dynasty]

Some of us are comparing today's NBA to the NBA of 1980 to about 1995. Today's NBA isn't as much fun.

[Tron]

I think things will get very intersting when LeBron reaches his true "Next Michael Jordan" potential and starts making runs at championships three years in a row... or more.