Bad Boys Last Stand! ECF Semi-Finals Game 6 Overtime Victory over Bird's Celtics

[TraceOneInfinite]

while i hate adam silvers ways more than the next guy, it was actually david stern who implemented that rule back in 2005

Stern was a great commissioner.  Silver is a "woke" moron.

[Sccit]

Stern was a great commissioner.  Silver is a "woke" moron.

stern was good

only blemish on his record was vetoing the chris paul to the lakers trade, which ultimately led to kobe's death

adam silver has made strong efforts to ignore tradition and turn the NBA into a novelty league ... we have so much strong talent and basketball is still objectively the best game with the NBA being the highest level, so it's pretty damn hard to destroy that.. but adam silver is definitely making an effort to ruin it by forcefully putting his stamp on the league.

the move to nbc was a big step in the right direction though.

[HighEyeCue]

stern was good

only blemish on his record was vetoing the chris paul to the lakers trade, which ultimately led to kobe's death

adam silver has made strong efforts to ignore tradition and turn the NBA into a novelty league ... we have so much strong talent and basketball is still objectively the best game with the NBA being the highest level, so it's pretty damn hard to destroy that.. but adam silver is definitely making an effort to ruin it by forcefully putting his stamp on the league.

the move to nbc was a big step in the right direction though.

one thing that has hurt too is the influx of Euros and Euro style play...I know a few friends I grew up with who that is one reason they dislike todays game

[TraceOneInfinite]

one thing that has hurt too is the influx of Euros and Euro style play...I know a few friends I grew up with who that is one reason they dislike todays game

I also blame Lebron. 

You had great characters as the face of the league before Lebron.  Magic and Bird had great character.  Jordan was the gold standard, classy guy.  Shaq and Charles, great sense of humor and great characters to carry the game.  Then Kobe had great character, you never caught Kobe acting like a jack-ass.   He was a really mature guy, spoke two languages, had solid parenting in his life, came from a good family.  The guy not only spoke to the hip-hop culture by dating Brandy and all that, but the guy could actually rap, but wasn't trying to pretend to be hard or any bullshit like that, he was just who he was, and on the court he was as "hard" and solid as anyone in the game, without pretense.  He did it with class and character.  And all the guys I mentioned were all articulate in interviews and press conferences and didn't speak in sports cliche' or need notes to speak to media.

Then you got woke ass Lebron trying to get political and be Muhammad Ali, but he doesn't have half the character of Ali.

[HighEyeCue]

I also blame Lebron. 

You had great characters as the face of the league before Lebron.  Magic and Bird had great character.  Jordan was the gold standard, classy guy.  Shaq and Charles, great sense of humor and great characters to carry the game.  Then Kobe had great character, you never caught Kobe acting like a jack-ass.   He was a really mature guy, spoke two languages, had solid parenting in his life, came from a good family.  The guy not only spoke to the hip-hop culture by dating Brandy and all that, but the guy could actually rap, but wasn't trying to pretend to be hard or any bullshit like that, he was just who he was, and on the court he was as "hard" and solid as anyone in the game, without pretense.  He did it with class and character.  And all the guys I mentioned were all articulate in interviews and press conferences and didn't speak in sports cliche' or need notes to speak to media.

Then you got woke ass Lebron trying to get political and be Muhammad Ali, but he doesn't have half the character of Ali.

I really cant stand anything about Lebron...I feel about him the way DMX felt about Drake lol

[Sccit]

one thing that has hurt too is the influx of Euros and Euro style play...I know a few friends I grew up with who that is one reason they dislike todays game

i wouldn't blame them .. that shit was in check with kukoc sabonis peja dirk pau manu etc

it's bending the rules to accommodate them that's the problem

[Sccit]

I also blame Lebron. 

You had great characters as the face of the league before Lebron.  Magic and Bird had great character.  Jordan was the gold standard, classy guy.  Shaq and Charles, great sense of humor and great characters to carry the game.  Then Kobe had great character, you never caught Kobe acting like a jack-ass.   He was a really mature guy, spoke two languages, had solid parenting in his life, came from a good family.  The guy not only spoke to the hip-hop culture by dating Brandy and all that, but the guy could actually rap, but wasn't trying to pretend to be hard or any bullshit like that, he was just who he was, and on the court he was as "hard" and solid as anyone in the game, without pretense.  He did it with class and character.  And all the guys I mentioned were all articulate in interviews and press conferences and didn't speak in sports cliche' or need notes to speak to media.

Then you got woke ass Lebron trying to get political and be Muhammad Ali, but he doesn't have half the character of Ali.

big facts


not to mention he's a pussy who teamed up with his rivals and destroyed competitive nature in the nba

created inorganic superteams that he could pad his stats on to create a fake goat narrative

woat

[TraceOneInfinite]

I really cant stand anything about Lebron...I feel about him the way DMX felt about Drake lol

DMX was on point in this clip on all the rappers that were brought up. 

I guessed he would have said that because you never really heard him try to change his sound or style away from the type of shit that he came up doing.  He's a bit like me, and Suge Knight, and other type of cats---trapped in 96!

[HighEyeCue]

i wouldn't blame them .. that shit was in check with kukoc sabonis peja dirk pau manu etc

it's bending the rules to accommodate them that's the problem

in an effort to make the NBA a worldwide league to which they have succeeded they in turn alienated some American fans

I cant blame them though the NBA is a business and they are making tons of money in part due to their global merchandising

[TraceOneInfinite]

in an effort to make the NBA a worldwide league to which they have succeeded they in turn alienated some American fans

I cant blame them though the NBA is a business and they are making tons of money in part due to their global merchandising

yeah.. and I get annoyed by the political cheer-leading.

Like the Republican side I will see all these posts and claims on Social Media like, "NBA ratings crash, blah blah blah"

And I'm always thinking to myself... then why are player salaries going up?   And what about the foreign markets?

[HighEyeCue]

yeah.. and I get annoyed by the political cheer-leading.

Like the Republican side I will see all these posts and claims on Social Media like, "NBA ratings crash, blah blah blah"

And I'm always thinking to myself... then why are player salaries going up?   And what about the foreign markets?

The Republican side loves to dump on the NBA and usually I lean right more than left but in this case they're not taking everything into account

and the ratings have picked up this year with the return to NBC

[Sccit]

NBA is doing just fine

they're not NFL status, but they're comfortably second when we factor in global revenue

1.NFL
2.NBA
3.MLB
4.NHL
5.MLS

ratings are way up this year, and streaming + social media engagement is on a fast upward trajectory

[TraceOneInfinite]

NBA is doing just fine

they're not NFL status, but they're comfortably second when we factor in global revenue

1.NFL
2.NBA
3.MLB
4.NHL
5.MLS

ratings are way up this year, and streaming + social media engagement is on a fast upward trajectory

I'm surprised NFL is number 1 globally -- because if you say the word "football" in the rest of the world--they actually think you are talking about "soccer".  You would have better luck saying the word "rugby".

And as for MLB it is huge in Japan.  And MLB salaries seem to be hire than NBA and NFL just off the top of my head.