Unless you’re from there like a Lebron, your you’re a foreigner that don’t know any better like Giannis, small market teams will have very little leeway in building around a super star caliber player.
The league has a real problem on their hands if guys only want to play for 4-5 teams. If you're a Pelicans fan what's the point of even investing your time, energy, and money to the team if shyt like this keeps happening?
This is why I keep telling people that the NBA overexpanded and needs to contract.
There's no reason for teams to be in a lot of these cities.
I know the players union won't like that, but if none of you want to play in OKC, Minnesota, and Orlando, then what's the point of those teams existing.
NBA is turning into a league of anti-social weirdos. Complete 180-degree change from the 90s.
This is generational
Look around, the last 20 or so years have produced nothing but antisocial losers in our cultures, which is why everybody is on antidepressants and can't maintain relationships.
That's just western culture now.
No social media or constant news cycle to the degree we have now in the 90s, a lot of shyt was swept under the rug
Yeah, but that doesn't cover up dudes being weird.
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar was always considered a little antisocial, but that's because dude's like a fukking genius who was intellectually more advanced than everybody else of his time.
This generation of people in general are just weirder and more antisocial. That's across the board.
It’s really not though
Most of these guys are twice as social as the biggest names from the 80s 90s 00s. Like twenty of these nikkas have podcasts or some kind of media access beyond their team.
This nikka think that having a podcast & media makes you "social".
Herb ass nikkaz like Akademiks have their own shows and that nikka is obviously a lame ass weirdo.
These guys have rose tinted glasses about the past
sprewell choked his coach
Violence happened because back in the day when men were men dudes handled their business and confronted each other like men and not like passive aggressive weirdos subtweeting and making burner accounts to defend themselves against fans like KD.
Yeah, what Spree did was wrong, but it wasn't some weirdo shyt.
You look at old footage of baseball, basketball, football, NASCAR, etc. . .and violence was always happening.
Look at Bobby Knight, Woody Hayes, Bobby McCrae, Lou Pinella, etc. . .
Players, coaches, and everybody else used to fight
It’s absolutely not and people said that when Jordan retired. How many new all stars has the league had these last two seasons? Plenty.
And the league almost died when Jordan retired.
It JUST almost recovered a few years ago from Jordan retiring
They're still not getting the type of insane ratings they were in the '90s
In NBA Finals Ratings, Michael Jordan Beats LeBron James
Top 10 Most Watched NBA Games Of All Time
They have no chance of winning a ring, so you want him to play his ass off for a franchise that isn’t going anywhere… just because? Shyt makes no sense.
nikka, 99% of players in the history of team sports didn't have a shot at a ring, but they still played hard because they have pride and are still being paid.
I know we all shyt on Russ, but he ALWAYS plays hard, whether he's on a good team or even after Durant left and he was barely in the playoffs.
That's called being a professional.