Nah, I don't get to follow sports as a whole like I used to but I make sure that I keep up with pro basketball. I still get the NBA package and I usually catch the late games, mainly the Lakers. I still love the game and whatever free time I have I sit down and watch games. I'm really impressed with our young talent this year. I'm not a fan like I used to be, that's because I'm busy.
I'm an old head but I don't feel the 80's and 90's players are better than today's players. I'm not an era hater and I don't exaggerate my era like some old heads do.
C/S
People will always think things were better when they were kids, I get that. I was a freshmen in high school when allen iverson crossed up tyrone lue in the finals. shyt, I was a senior when KG won mvp and led the wolves to the WCFs.. so seeing him in a wolves jersey in the next day or two will no doubt make me feel a sort of way, age-wise.
But outside of the injuries, I love the product more today than I did back then. I loved it then too but i had on different lenses... back then I was a teenager full of hoop dreams trying to soak up as much 1on1 bullshyt because I thought that would be the key to making varsity/shining in AAU/college/pro.. etc etc. So all I wanted was to watch Iverson, Kobe, TMAC.. just so i could practice what i saw them do, no matter how garbage that isolation style ball was. The and-1 mix tapes too (which looking back at them now.. were pretty trash too lol).
So ultimately i was more in love with the idea of being a great bball player and watched more so for that. Once that shyt didn't pan out (
) i found i still enjoyed watching bball.. it was just a weird transition simply watching as a "fan" and not as a kid trying to shine in varsity or tryna walk-on in college.
When I have a son I'm definitely going to tell him to cherish the journey that's high school hoops / travel teams/ gym bag+ long socks & sandals/ kicking it with your teammates, watchin NBA games and practicing the moves, playing 21.. 1on1..being able to dunk and not feeling like you were in a car crash right after.. lol.. all of that shyt.
That's what seeing Kobe/Duncan/KG/Vince and all those other now-old guys remind me of. The same way I'm sure these current day teenagers are viewing KD/Lebron/Curry/Westbrook, etc.
) And yeah, I had almost every roster down cold...I could tell you all about completely random 9th-12th men....dudes like Pig Miller and Antonio Harvey and Anthony Goldwire just to name a very few. 
that 3 point line ruined everything
