At large America loves violence or their sports being somewhat physical
soccer is too slow scoring wise and not that physical to us (I know it is physical, but for Americans it’s kind of tame). People like tennis, but America doesn’t stop for a tennis game. People like hockey but people don’t really grow up playing it, so we usually aren’t as familiar with the game despite it being physical. And not enough diversity . Baseball is integrated in American culture and americas favorite past time to where people in a sense will always watch. We have baseball fields at our schools or rec centers and we are familiar with it more because our grandads always watched it and a lot of us grow up playing it (I fukk with baseball, that wasn’t a diss or calling it boring) so it doesn’t have to be physical because we like the ooh awe moments of balls being hit out the park
or amazing catches and athleticism .
Americas favorite sports outside baseball is violent. Football is number #1. Boxing only isn’t as popular, because it’s not assessable like it used to be to the casual viewer. Matches used to be broadcast to where you could turn on the tv and see Muhammad Ali or a main event fight. Now it’s just pricey and a regular kid can’t afford $80 to see a canelo or Terrance Crawford fight. Granted kids don’t even know how to box so they just resort to shooting instead of squaring up.
Adam silver dumb ass keeps comparing basketball to other sports assuming the viewer just wants action and flash and high scoring without care of fundamentals and the physical aspects of the game. When you watch the older games with the hand checking, it just looks a lot more intense and good defense can often be just as exciting. Seeing Ant Man lock up on Tatum is fun to watch. Swing Bron come out of nowhere to block a shot is many times even more exciting than a dunk.
Basketball is beautiful because it had atleast some physical and athletic aspects (like the nfl), and the pure fundamentals and finesse of a game like baseball. Like a hybrid in a way. We like some type of physical altercation in a sense and like fundamentals. I respect Ant Man shooting 3s. But that shyt is not as exciting to watch as him pulling up midrange or driving in the paint. Outside of Curry, Klay, and maybe Dame, I’m not trying to see mother fukkers just dribbling down the court and passing once for a wild 3 attempt. No one gave a fukk about Kobe shooting a 3. We liked him locking down on a defender and displaying his high basketball IQ and his athleticism.
Adam Silver destroyed the game. All he needs to do is bring back hand checking and all them 3 pointers gonna die down a little and the pressure will create more and better ball movement and showcase more athletic ability with players having to do more to get past they man
but he over thinks and thinks about shyt out of left field like this all star game shyt to where everybody is scratching their heads. I mean what’s next? Every game a fan is picked to play a couple plays with the home team. Yeah that will make fans more engaged
