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Originally Posted by thehef
This is, more and more, how I've been feeling about the NBA. Previously, I exercised my fandom by strongly rooting for my teams and strongly rooting against their rivals. Now, while I still tepidly root for my team, I'm finding that I'm rooting against most of the league... because of the thuggery & prima donnas.
Football, too, has this problem. But for me, it's mostly just a bunch of faceless game pieces running around in helmets. In contrast to the NBA where the televised game is much more up close and personal, and personality driven. Just hard to watch anymore.
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I played organized basketball for ... 35 years. I coached for ten. I see a LOT of Kobe...isolation, greedy, selfish play, and very little of the kind of basketball I like. Steve Nash, Magic, and John Stockton.
Edit...this didn't age well. John Stockton turns out to be a dumbass. I lost a TON of respect for him, as a person.