You’re wrong. These players mentality are totally different now then back then. This is why all these guys are friendly and would rather team up to form super teams than to compete. Also like how these guys don’t try to play in then allstar game when back then they were playing hard, running sets, playing defense, etc. it’s definitely not the same
Kind of people. You’re way off base.
Its the players mentality and not the coaches and environment that encourage it? Bruh your mentality can change all day long (which rarely happens) but if your environment requires you to behave in a certain way then that's the way you gonna behave. Eddie Johnson talks about that all day on NBA Radio, about how the NBA let's players get away with things so of course they gonna use it. Back in his day the same things just were not allowed, period. You would find yourself out the league.
If none of the coaches and front offices in the league were with this load managament shyt then guess what, none of the players would be on load management.
If the NBA had the infrastructure (environment) to allow players to form their own super teams in the 70s that shyt would have happened regardless of what these old heads telling you now. FACT is that it was impossible for players to do so back then because there was no such thing as unrestricted free agency. Not to mention that the Lakers and Celtics were already super teams even by today's standards.
I'll say it again, people really don't change by and large, the environment which influences their actions is what changes. For example slavery been gone for about 150 years. Now you could say that the mentality of people in the US has changed to the point where if the environment changed back and whites could legally own slaves again they wouldn't and I would tell you if you believe that shyt then be prepared for a lashing.