So why are NBA players so BORING now???

[Homeboy Runny-Ray]

what people seem to forget is during the 80's and 90's players had actual lives before joing the NBA. Athletes interacted with everyday people and were put in a more everyday life zone.

Basketball athletes today are manufactured thru Academies, AAU's, and other programs begining as early as elementary. Being normal is thrown in the bushes for these cats, it's all about basketball and ghost rankings. By the time their drafted their already manufactured to be shallow, boring, and robotic. It's just the way it is when being groomed for the league in this day and age.

dog, this is what i came in here to say. you hit the nail on the noggin buddy.

we touched on AAU earlier, but what i wanted to ask is how many of these current players hooped in the public league? its seems like public school players are darn near non-existent now. its like they all got shipped out to schools like oak hill academy and these other schools that youre referencing here. then they spend a bunch of time in the summer playing AAU ball.

and i noticed that the players that you can tell actually had lives(i.e. carmelo) are often demonized. it took a bunch of P.R. for years to get carmelo to be able to stand on the shakey middle ground that hes on now.

this reminds me of killa season.
"you aint going to the NBA man. they pick niccas for that. you from the hood."

 

[Da King]

the funny thing is these dudes (john wall aint too bad) aint even as stylish as they think they are.

people with real fashion sense laugh at these dudes who just wear flamboyant expensive clothing for the sake of standing out.

These cornballs think they fly just because they wearing something with a high price tag

 

[Youngdev]

So basically yall want nikkas to do some dumb shyt or say some dumb shyt, fukk around and lose money.

Then 20 min after said player does or says whatever........you guys gonna make a thread talking about keeping it real goes wrong or some stupid shyt like that.

Yall complain about how these nikkas dress, but thats just how this generation dresses, shyt changes yo. Go outside look at the average 20 to 25 yr old, thats how them nikkas dress these days.

I would be lying if I said after like 2006 I didnt get rid of the tall tees and size 40 jeans and throwbacks, yall nikkas cant accept change. Yall want bron in a 4x jordan bulls throwback on the bench?

Another thing is yall keep saying the nba fukked up cause dudes are friends. So the fukk what ,they still go hard at each other on the court.

Also other than jordan barkely bird and magic, what stars had all this personality you guys talk about?

Lets not act like it wasnt a ton of swagless nikkas out there in the 90's

ewing, robinson.........hick ass karl malone riding around on a tractor

 

[Homeboy Runny-Ray]

Yall complain about how these nikkas dress, but thats just how this generation dresses, shyt changes yo. Go outside look at the average 20 to 25 yr old, thats how them nikkas dress these days.

da f*ck are you from?

 

[Youngdev]

da f*ck are you from?

Where are you from, these young nikkas aint walking around in 4x tees and 42 size jeans....fukk outta here.

These lil nikkas wearing skinny jeans. Dudes aint wearing shyt like russy but nikkas aint rocking throwbacks and pinwheel hats

 

[Homeboy Runny-Ray]

Where are you from, these young nikkas aint walking around in 4x tees and 42 size jeans....fukk outta here.

These lil nikkas wearing skinny jeans. Dudes aint wearing shyt like russy but nikkas aint rocking throwbacks and pinwheel hats

4x tees are still hot sellers actually. i think you mean to say 6x or something like that.

but as for the bolded, theyre not wearing either.

the only people wearing skinny jeans(young or old) are mostly weirdos & fakkits.......and even those types arent going as far as these nba cats.

and since when do people in their mid-20s fall under the "these young nikkas" category. your glory days mustve ended like a decade ago. that would explain why youre dealing with extremes and nothing in-between.

 

[chkmeout]

4x tees are still hot sellers actually. i think you mean to say 6x or something like that.

but as for the bolded, theyre not wearing either.

the only people wearing skinny jeans(young or old) are mostly weirdos & fakkits.......and even those types arent going as far as these nba cats.

and since when do people in their mid-20s fall under the "these young nikkas" category. your glory days mustve ended like a decade ago. that would explain why youre dealing with extremes and nothing in-between.

you a dumbass nigguh if you still rockin tall tee's


cargo shants wearing ass nigguhs.

 

[Youngdev]

theyre not wearing either.

the only people wearing skinny jeans(young or old) are mostly weirdos & fakkits.......and even those types arent going as far as these nba cats.

and since when do people in their mid-20s fall under the "these young nikkas" category. your glory days mustve ended like a decade ago. that would explain why youre dealing with extremes. its either size 42 jeans or skinnies. nothing in-between eh?

Of course its in between. Just like it was an in between back then, every 90's nba star isnt some super outspoken real nikka and every nba star of today isnt some soft faggit wearing tight pants.

That's the point I was trying to make with my whole post.........it was a ton of swagless dudes playing in the 90's. Just like it's some swagless dudes playing now.

Bassicaly the only thing that changed about the league is the dress code and the techs. It's some swagless stars and cool as stars right now just like the 90's.


Dudes just too nostalgic up here.

 

[Homeboy Runny-Ray]

you a dumbass nigguh if you still rockin tall tee's


cargo shants wearing ass nigguhs.

4x is not tall tee status with most manufacturers.

and i never even mentioned what i wear.

 

[360crazy]

You nikkas aren't the omnipotent gods of swag and personalities.

OP

 

[Homeboy Runny-Ray]

Of course its in between. Just like it was an in between back then, every 90's nba star isnt some super outspoken real nikka and every nba star of today isnt some soft faggit wearing tight pants.

That's the point I was trying to make with my whole post.........it was a ton of swagless dudes playing in the 90's. Just like it's some swagless dudes playing now.

Bassicaly the only thing that changed about the league is the dress code and the techs. It's some swagless stars and cool as stars right now just like the 90's.


Dudes just too nostalgic up here.

if you know its an in-between, then act like it. people arent dressing like these dudes man.

and its like i said earlier, alot of yall are taking this out of context a bit and focusing on miniscule points.

its not about "swag". are most basketball players corny? yes. its ALWAYS been that way. but now its the over-whelming majority, and theyre cornier than ever. and more importantly, they dont have any star-power. hell, they dont even have personalities.

i peeped you saying this in that earlier post, but i didnt get around to it because i was over-whelmed by that skinny jeans chit you were talking.

you were talking about malone, robinson & ewing:
robinson & malone may not have been charismatic, but they had enough personality to get by. coupled with cool nicknames, slick marketing, and the benefit of playing in small markets.

patrick ewing? i wouldnt know. i mean, who even looked to him for that? all that mattered is that the knicks were a bunch of big bad asses, and he was the ringleader and the biggest of them all. nobody even cared to know if any of them had charisma or not. they certainly didnt need it. and before you try to pull the nostalgia card(which doesnt work on cats like me anyway), its people that get by and/or can get by with this today. look at the pacers. they had it going for a minute until they f*cked it up. all roy hibbert had to do was just play his position. but he wants to be all outspoken, letting the world know that hes a herby. and now you got paul george dressing like urkel, and saying & doing a bunch of dumb chit. and even still, they have bulletproof guys like west, stephenson, etc. and now they got bynum - and yea bynum is corny but hes just typical ballplayer corny, and he has an idgaf attitude that makes up for it.

 

[SubLyminalz]

it sounds like yall nikkas dont know the difference between a tall tee and a regular fitted tee.

 

[Youngdev]

if you know its an in-between, then act like it. people arent dressing like these dudes man. and i see this alot on here. people knowing that the super-baggy stuff is dead, so they just run with the assumption that niccas are out here wearing spandex like their favorite television stars. just like alot of this board classifies people like drake as "regular niccas" simply because theyre not thuggin.

and its like i said earlier, alot of yall are taking this out of context a bit and focusing on miniscule points.

its not about "swag". are most basketball players corny? yes. its ALWAYS been that way. but now its the over-whelming majority, and theyre cornier than ever. and more importantly, they dont have any star-power. hell, they dont even have personalities.

i peeped you saying this in that earlier post, but i didnt get around to it because i was over-whelmed by that skinny jeans chit you were talking.

you were talking about malone, robinson & ewing:
robinson & malone may not have been charismatic, but they had enough personality to get by. coupled with cool nicknames, slick marketing, and the benefit of playing in small markets.

patrick ewing? i wouldnt know. i mean, who even looked to him for that? all that mattered is that the knicks were a bunch of big bad asses, and he was the ringleader and the biggest of them all. nobody even cared to know if any of them had charisma or not. they certainly didnt need it. and before you try to pull the nostalgia card(which doesnt work on cats like me anyway), its people that get by and/or can get by with this today. look at the pacers. they had it going for a minute until they f*cked it up. all roy hibbert had to do was just play his position. but he wants to be all outspoken, letting the world know that hes a herby. and now you got paul george dressing like urkel, and saying & doing a bunch of dumb chit. and even still, they have bulletproof guys like west, stephenson, etc. and now they got bynum - and yea bynum is corny but hes just typical ballplayer corny, and he has an idgaf attitude that makes up for it.

Them 90's dudes would have been the same corny stripper knocking up nba players of today if we had social media. Robinson aint have no fukking charisma neither did Malone,Malone was a scumbag, it's just was no social media back then, to see in these dudes life everyday, the closest thing we had in the 90's was inside stuff.

You pretty much generalizing all the players of today based on russy and a few others.........the majority of these nba nikkas rock regualr shyt.

I dont know, I just dont understand the complaints yall have.

 

[Homeboy Runny-Ray]

Them 90's dudes would have been the same corny stripper knocking up nba players of today if we had social media. Robinson aint have no fukking charisma neither did Malone,Malone was a scumbag, it's just was no social media back then, to see in these dudes life everyday, the closest thing we had in the 90's was inside stuff.

You pretty much generalizing all the players of today based on russy and a few others.........the majority of these nba nikkas rock regualr shyt.

I dont know, I just dont understand the complaints yall have.

i can tell that you didnt read any of my posts because youre arguing with me by using statements that i already said.

and robinson having no charisma is another thing that i already said. but he at least had enough in the tank to pull off a commercial or a segment here-n-there. and we knew malone was a scumbag c00n before social media buddy. yall act like twitter opened up a whole new world or something. and malone having the scumbag face made me want to root against him actually. thats a few attribute points that you can tack onto his personality.

and yall are killing your own arguments by bringing up "inside stuff". look at an "inside stuff" show from the '90s as opposed to the new joints. theres a clear dam difference.

 

[Homeboy Runny-Ray]

this is just downright painful to watch.