Born2BKing
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The Lakers being trash has really hurt the league. Boston is the best team but their star players are too politically correct and are just boring as fukk.
Adam Silver says the NBA has heard the critiques and is looking into fixing the 3 point volumes
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Top 3 middy shooter in the league and the blog boyz got him trying step back 3’s and shyt now
No BubbaChuck disrespect allowed on this forum bruh
Jaylen Brown isn’t politically correct. Tatum is no less polished than Bron was. We just didn’t follow him from high school and he doesn’t have a rocafella chain.
Born2BKing
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pimpineasy
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Yeah the all time greats often break the game.Another all-time great who caused rule changes
Legends profile: Wilt Chamberlain | NBA.com
There will never be another player like the 'Big Dipper', who changed the game with his strength, athleticism and skill.www.nba.com
The 1 - 2 year of prime shaq he literally broke the game and made it infuriating to watch.
He would just bully people down in the paint. Funny enough teams have evolved to the point where they would be able to counter a dominant Shaq with the faster plays and 3 points shooting
Trojan 24
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Should have let the Olympics be a showcase for the next wave, instead they threw a farewell party and pretended like the flabby heads carried them when in reality everything was catered to their style of play
tremonthustler1
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that might have been the case had they won the FIBA World Cup but America can't take that Olympic L.Should have let the Olympics be a showcase for the next wave, instead they threw a farewell party and pretended like the flabby heads carried them when in reality everything was catered to their style of play
If you think they’re boring that’s fine but Jaylen Brown is the complete opposite of politically correct
And the Lakers were trash for the majority of the 2010s. They just didn’t have LeBron so mainstream media didn’t try to force them to be the main character of the league
Born2BKing
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When I say Lakers, I really meant the team Lebrons on.If you think they’re boring that’s fine but Jaylen Brown is the complete opposite of politically correct
And the Lakers were trash for the majority of the 2010s. They just didn’t have LeBron so mainstream media didn’t try to force them to be the main character of the league
Trojan 24
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I mean when you're counting on Ingram to be a leader that's what happens. If they invited Brown and played like the Celtics on steroids with AD they woulda ran everyone off the court. Instead they played like the Lakers with a Super Boobie Gibson and almost lost to plumbers and baguette bakers
charknicks
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Nah. You cant put a cap on the number of steps without a dribble, right? Oh yeah they do have one
You cant put a cap on the number of seconds per possession, right? Wait, they have one
You cant put a cap on the number of fouls a player can make, right? Wait, they have one
So you can put a cap on things, for the better of the game. Coaches will adjust to it. Player has 5 fouls, hold him until the last minutes of the game.
Same thing as if the cap is 30 3's, and team has taken 27- ok, no one but Steph can shoot 3's now. The rest of you, take 2's. Its pretty simple.
The game itself drives the storylines in the most popular sports. Player storylines matter too, I don’t disagree but franchise reign supreme. Like Arsenal-Man City sells itself. Ravens-Steelers sells itself. Bill-Chiefs sells itself. The Yankees and Dodgers sold itself. The players’ games and the story surrounding the franchises is why people tune in. You’re basically saying the game isn’t enough so you need manufactured stakes to tune in. I don’t disagree that it works on the casual consumer but that’s also the problem - it’s not a long term sustainable strategy. At some point, the product and franchise itself needs to be a driver.
That hasn’t been the case in the NBA since Michael Jordan got drafted to the Bulls in ‘84, and the Bird-Celtics were facing the Magic/Kareem Lakers in that same time period. People forget how irrelevant the league was before Bird, Magic (and then Jordan a few years later) came into the league. The NBA Finals were on tape delay. No one gave a fukk about the Sonics, Blazers & Bullets in the 1970s. The league was close to being finished, and David Stern made sure that the focus became more on the players, and not the team. The NBA isn’t a sport where fans care about teams, they care about players. It’s too late for them to pivot to a league where fans care about teams. That model just won’t work. They need another face of the league to succeed LeBron & Steph. That’s the biggest issue with the league right now. There’s no marketable (American) face of the league that lures casual viewers into watching.