So why are NBA players so BORING now???

[YoungMoneyCashMoneyBoy]

Here's the rub...when did I say Lebron wasn't mentally weak?

Nothing more needs to be said then.

 

[FTBS]

Nothing more needs to be said then.

Nothing more needed to be said after my first post but that didn't stop you.

 

[YoungMoneyCashMoneyBoy]

Nothing more needed to be said after my first post but that didn't stop you.

I believe you quoted me first. So if you agreed with what I said, the rest of your blabbering was unnecessary and useless, like every other reply you've had in this thread.

 

[FTBS]

I believe you quoted me first. So if you agreed with what I said, the rest of your blabbering was unnecessary and useless, like every other reply you've had in this thread.

Yet you have replied to all of it and even gave a detailed breakdown of one post.

Yeah I quoted your post...you were using it wrong.

Seriously though, I told you why I quoted you. I provided something that you post did not. None of your succeeding posts have added anything to the discussion.

 

[I AM WARHOL]

Ain't nothing gonna change neither. You see the cornball brother they got lined up to be the next big face of the game? That Jabari Parker kid seems like he was test tube created and trained to be that super PC star player. Ain't no more mean nikkas coming into the league anymore

 

[kp404]

They r Too worried about what people say, endorsements, and social media to be real.

Might be the best post on this site in a long time.

 

[PortCityProphet]

Kevin Durant gave himself a new nickname ...The Server

 

[CoCKy GeNiuS]

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.

 

[mbewane]

Has anyone mentioned AAU culture, HS games on TV etc? Back in the day guys were themselves because there was no alternative while today many of the top guys have been handled and coached since middle school. When Chuck came in he was a fat, pugnacious, shyt-talker from the South. Bird was literarlly a hick from French Lick. Magic was a effervescent nikka that smiled a lot. That was just who they were. Players back in the day were allowed to be actual people before they became stars. They were allowed to build genuine dislike for their peers around the country before interacting with them. You look at a guy like Lebron. He's been conscious of his image and brand since he was in high school. He's been hanging around with Melo and CP3 and company ever since then. He basically grew up with these cats. How do you expect cats that grew up together to act like they hate each other?

Alot of this personality that nikkas speak of was also a function of things that are pretty much no longer allowed...taunting and fighting. nikkas will get T'd up for talking to much shyt and most certainly for being demonstrative and moving to far from the bench during a fight will get you suspended. Just imagine the T's that the GP/Kemp Sonics, for example, would get now. Dikembe wouldn't make it out of the first quarter.

All that said, this rash of "The NBA sucks now, it was so much better back then" threads reeks of nostalgia gone wrong and nikkas not truly being fans of the sport but more so certain personalities that they latched on to as kids. A lot of nikkas who dismiss Dwight as a bytch ass c00n would probably be his biggest fan if they were kids today. And 10 years from now they would be talking about "Man they just don't make like Dwight anymore ". NBA is better now (injuries aside) than it's been in a while. / at nikkas acting like the one star per team era when the Finals was a foregone conclusion in November was better than what we have now.

I agree with all of the bolded, much less with the second part tho.

Dudes are just pussies nowadays. Everyone's scared to be embarrassed. Blame it on social media all you want, but we got a generation of weak-minded nikkas scared to do anything that might get re-tweeted. Millionaires are scared about what some jobless 16 year old might say about them on the internet.

In the 90s, ewing, zo, mutombo didn't give a fukk if they got dunked on. They were going for that block. Maybe georgetown centers are a different breed and coach thompson turned these kids into men, but everyone today is scared to get dunked on.

Then you have lebron who's scared shytless to enter any individual contest, yet wants everyone to know how well he would perform hypothetically speaking. Jordan didn't give a fukk about losing in front of people. Dude lost a dunk contest and a 3 point contest. 0 fukks given. Most players want to be seen as perfect, but not attempting shyt doesn't yield a 100% average.

100 % agree.

 

[BlackMajik]

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.

Great Post

 

[mbewane]

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.

Overlooked this powerful post. I remember the struggle stories of the likes of Starks or Mason, how many rags to riches players are there in the L now, and how many manage to become all-stars?

 

[BlackMajik]

AAU and BBall Academies + Stern=Doom for the NBA

 

[SuburbanPimp]

Its like these cats think dressing weird = personality

There aren't any Shaqs, Barkleys, or Gary Payton type cats in the league anymore....

I saw a gang of interviews with the current all stars this weekend, nobody had anything funny or noteworthy to say at all... Even the shoe commercials are wack now

 

[ADLT]

Also remember that Tracy mcGrady commercial with the Clipse song on it? Wanted those kicks BAD.



"Don't worry about all these kids coming straight into the league and not getting an education. They'll be fine. I'll be taking them to school...every...night." Don't remember the last time I saw a sneaker commercial so hype.[/quote]

ths song/commercial used to get me hype af back in the day

 

[big bun]

Has anyone mentioned AAU culture, HS games on TV etc? Back in the day guys were themselves because there was no alternative while today many of the top guys have been handled and coached since middle school. When Chuck came in he was a fat, pugnacious, shyt-talker from the South. Bird was literarlly a hick from French Lick. Magic was a effervescent nikka that smiled a lot. That was just who they were. Players back in the day were allowed to be actual people before they became stars. They were allowed to build genuine dislike for their peers around the country before interacting with them. You look at a guy like Lebron. He's been conscious of his image and brand since he was in high school. He's been hanging around with Melo and CP3 and company ever since then. He basically grew up with these cats. How do you expect cats that grew up together to act like they hate each other?

Alot of this personality that nikkas speak of was also a function of things that are pretty much no longer allowed...taunting and fighting. nikkas will get T'd up for talking to much shyt and most certainly for being demonstrative and moving to far from the bench during a fight will get you suspended. Just imagine the T's that the GP/Kemp Sonics, for example, would get now. Dikembe wouldn't make it out of the first quarter.

All that said, this rash of "The NBA sucks now, it was so much better back then" threads reeks of nostalgia gone wrong and nikkas not truly being fans of the sport but more so certain personalities that they latched on to as kids. A lot of nikkas who dismiss Dwight as a bytch ass c00n would probably be his biggest fan if they were kids today. And 10 years from now they would be talking about "Man they just don't make like Dwight anymore ". NBA is better now (injuries aside) than it's been in a while. / at nikkas acting like the one star per team era when the Finals was a foregone conclusion in November was better than what we have now.

to your use of "effervescent".