MooseMouthMthafuga
Veteran
You not a kid anymore. Also…
Yeah I didn't really fukk with the NBA from about '99 to '04.That '05 Nash, Amare, Matrix, Q Rich, ISO Joe squad reeled me back in.
I don't think the league will ever recapture that feeling.The Bird/Magic/MJ era will go down as the most special time in the sport.Social media took away the fantasy.Every Joe Blow has a platform to burst bubbles & slander the product.It's more challenging to get over 50 million people discrediting you at every turn.A random mthafkka can make a video explaining why LeBron James isn't Michael Jordan.Something Jordan never had to worry about back in the day.His branding went unopposed.Imagine Bron in that era!? He's a megastar now, but in that era, he'd have more of a magical mystique.He'd probably be up there on the Mt Rushmore of athletes with Ruth, Ali, Jordan.Unfortunately, negative outweighs the positive at present.The Jordan era was the apex.From the stars, to the narratives, to the marketing..Everything seemed to have aligned perfectly.The modern fan will never understand that magical feeling.
Not just sports.Any genre.This is why no rapper will reach the damn near messianic level of a Tupac, Ali, Marley.Social media burst that bubble.You can't manufacture that element.Now the older fans are disenchanted.The modern fan is quick to tell you "It's just nostalgia clouding your judgement" but it's not nostalgia.Shyt just legit felt more magical back then.