The NBA has bastardized its sport more than any professional sports league in the world. I tried watching ten grown men from LA and Boston duke it out on the court for the title, but the ball-hogging and cry-babying made me want to take my own life. Here is a list of things I'd rather watch than NBA basketball:
-A swim meet between Mali and Uzbekistan
-The National Spelling Bee
-Several college football conferences bucking tradition and dissolving into an unrecognizable mess
-A hockey game between teams from Phoenix and Tampa
-The Detroit Lions and the Pittsburgh Pirates playing cricket against each other
-The Baltimore Orioles' games-out-of-first total skyrocketing
-Two Oakland Raiders fans making love (or whatever they call it in Oakland)
-Congressmen playing jai alai
-Major League 2
-Joe Buck kissing Troy Aikman's ass for three hours on a Sunday
-Curling
-Denmark scoring a goal against themselves
-Amputees playing lacrosse
-Actors playing poker
-NASCAR with electric cars
-Preseason rugby
-Israel vs. Palestine in water polo
-Chess
This is of course not a comprehensive list. The spirit of any sport is damaged whenever whiny millionaires are responsible for the quality of the game, but for some reason the NBA is much worse than other leagues. Players' sense of entitlement is topped only by their lack of defense. Call me when NCAA ball starts up again.
You think this because you do not understand basketball. It sounds a lot like arguing against "mongrelization."
ReplyDeleteThe NBA introduced the shot clock and first adopted the three point line, leading to college doing both later. If you think either of those are bastardizations, think about how boring those games were.
http://tech.mit.edu/V123/N66/66_-_nba.66s.html
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