NBA fans only 'enjoy free agency, trade deadline, players beefing and the playoffs'

[FAH1223]

 

[livindajetlife]

No he's not...




KD is full of shyt and his logic is retarded.




The beautiful thing about YouTube is you can see this shyt for yourself. I randomly picked the 1991 ASG and the 1988 ASG. There's more intensity withing the first few minutes of those games than every ASG from 2020 until yesterday COMBINED.



I've accepted the reality of what this current generation of NBA athlete is...but I'll be damned if KD's goofy ass tries to act like shyt has always been this way.

Now watch 99 thru 2009

 

[catskill247]

I watched NONE of this NBA All Star weekend for the 1st time in my life

shyt is sad but these new nikkas ruined everything

These clowns can’t even play a watchable All Star game

Back in the days NBA All Star weekend was FIRE

And LeBron single handedly ruined the Dunk Contest

This bum ass Mac MacClung is not even an NBA player and he won the Dunk Contest 3 years in a row shyt is an abomination

What in thee hell are you talking about. When is the last time you have seen Bron perform dunks that could get a 49/50 score. You been playing too much 2k breh. Bron aint that type of dunker and he knows it. You probably too young but go and watch how he did in the McDonald's slam dunk comp. His dunkoff catalog is garbage.

 

[Mirin4rmfar]

I only watch the playoffs and Heat games here and there..the product is garbage....players are making too much money so the motivation is just not there at all. Zion will make 240 Million plus by the time He is 27, and he is talented enough to get a second track. He is not going to grind for it.

 

[10bandz]

The rewriting narrative of the AS game is hilarioius


AS weekend used to be LIT, from Friday to Sunday. AS Saturday night was poppin and the Kobe era had most all star games competitive and/or fun to watch. AS Weekend was intricately linked with black/hip hop culture. Rappers stayed rapping about AS Weekend now nikkas wanna act like it was never an event where people expected to be entertained.

These new nikkas are just different, and guys like KD are like the OG of the new nikkas.

 

[Buckeye Fever]

I wanna enjoy KD.

That's why I hope the Suns make the playoffs.

 

[Mister Terrific]

I wanna enjoy KD.

 

[yseJ]

The NBA’s core problem is that in order to maximize the global appeal of the game, they had to completely alter the product to create a showcase type of basketball that purists despise and players largely don’t give a fukk about.

Compare this to the NFL, NHL and MLB. These leagues are considered the peak of their sports in terms of playing in a traditional manner, that also happens to be entertaining. I had a friend who basically said “if you love hockey you love the NHL” because the rules and gameplay are very in line with how traditional hockey is played.

The NBA lets players get away with countless carries, travels, thrive off of free throws, has inconsistent officiating, and has ruled physicality out of the game. This makes for a stark viewing experience especially when compared to say FIBA which has more physical, grind it out matches that often time rewards teams just for being bigger and stronger.

I mean, the NFL right now is nothing like the NFL I've watched growing up as a kid. NFL was marketed less about skill and more about size and power back in the day. So I know a lot of people will disagree here about the NFL being peak. And hell, if you remove NFL no one else really plays traditional manner football on pro level. The pro football/NFL phenomena is crazy because for hockey and baseball and basketball there are other leagues that are inferior, but still competitive and pro, for football theres basically nothing even comparable.


The globalism aspect of basketball is the reason why you're even able to compare euro rules to NBA.


I get what you're trying to say tho

 

[yseJ]

and KD is right about most fans caring only about playoffs/storylines/deadline

most fans is not the same as die hard NBA/bball fans, as many on here are. casual sports fans have oversaturation so regular season games that have no clear importance aren't moving the needle

 

[Remote]

Hit dogs holler

Or something like that

 

[Barney Rubble]

All we want from the regular season is intensity and for it to look like the players are trying. When I'm watching a game, even the commentators will make a big deal if the players are trying. They'll constantly point out how the game has a playoff like atmosphere. Maybe 1 out of 20 games I watch feels like that.

 

[Taadow]

I don’t even think “NBA Fans” enjoy any of that chit.

 

[Unbothered]

KD is right about fans complaining about everything. Look, I'm not saying things are perfect, but it's not all bad either, and I feel it's been exaggerated a bit. Then again, I consider myself a die-hard basketball person; it's my defacto #1 sport, so it's never boring to me.

I feel like there's been a lot of revisionism regarding the all-star game. The game has always been an exhibition match for fans to see the best in the world play for fun, y'know, showcase their skills, and do things they wouldn't do in the game: flashy dunks, flashy layups, distances 3s, etc. It's not supposed to be taken seriously or played with high intensity, it's an exhibition match meant to be laid-back and relaxed. Kinda like the Pro Bowl; that's pretty much the NFL's version of an all-star game that is never played tight.

I think people assume since the best of the best in the league are all on the court together as teammates that, the game is supposed to be naturally a tight and intensified playoff-like environment or a high-stakes regular season matchup.

People wanna keep bringing up Kobe-era ASG but fail to realize that was never the norm, just the exception, I don't see any difference between the level of competition in all-star games of recent and the late 2010s. I feel the players are trying, but the fans' expectations and perceptions of what is considered competitive have become extreme to the point where, as I stated before, are these so-called fans even basketball fans to begin with?

There's only so much that can be done to make it more competitive, so if a person constantly finds themselves bored or unentertained, they're probably not basketball fans at heart but casuals who just enjoy the big stakes (playoffs, all-star weekend, etc) and stan individual players.

 

[Joe Sixpack]

Somehow managed to fit Bron into this . Unbelievable.

Stop...


Stop....


LeBron is my favorite player but him not doing the Dunk Contest has been a disgrace. He singlehandedly ruined it by not doing it which has led to NONE of the superstars doing it anymore.

Gotta call a spade a spade

 

[WesCrook]

What in thee hell are you talking about. When is the last time you have seen Bron perform dunks that could get a 49/50 score. You been playing too much 2k breh. Bron aint that type of dunker and he knows it. You probably too young but go and watch how he did in the McDonald's slam dunk comp. His dunkoff catalog is garbage.

I believe his antagonists are more eager for him to participate than his true fans....because they KNOW that he won't do that well.

Another shortcoming that they can hold against Lebron.