GSWFan1994 wrote:Goudelock wrote:Capn'O wrote:Maybe open the paper to scour box scores.
Just saying this makes me feel really old.
The idea of having to wait until you got the newspaper in the morning to know the stats for games out of your region seems.........so strange to me.
Sounds kind of cool though.
Here in Brazil you had to wait 2 days to get the boxes, due to the time zones and the time the presses had to start to work to print next day's newspapers... and they were very simple boxscores, just the points scored by both teams, and some selected star's very basic stats...
For example, you open the newspaper and there it is: "Chicago won against the Lakers, 100 x 92, Jordan scored 32, had 6 rebounds and 4 assists, Pippen contributed with 19 points, 8 rebounds, Magic had 20 points for the Lakers, meanwhile in the other 3 games of the night the scores were so and so", that's it.
You were left imagining what happened.
On Saturdays afternoon we had the NBA Action TV show, a simple, 15 minute show which ended with the "top 10 plays of the week" routine (yep, that existed as far as I've been following the NBA, since 1991).
Sometimes we've had a "special" article on the newspaper, for instance in the weekend of the All-Star weekend they put a half page of the players, some individual article (for example, "here's Chris Webber, probable ROY, let's take a look at what he has done").
Games were broadcasted usually 1 time per week, on a very bad time, like starting at 1 am, 3 am or so. Live games were very rare, usually just the All-Star game, and the Finals. Later on (due to Jordan's and Dream Team's popularity I guess) the weekly game was broadcasted live.
Also, there were NBA magazines, many of them. I used to buy everything I saw, it was very cheap. There was even the Slam Magazine here, somehow it was imported and I bought dozens of them, even manage to subscribe it for a few years. Still got my collection somewhere in the house.
And the videogames, of course. All of us kids collected our knowledge of the NBA by these various sources.
All of this was around 1991/1996, when the internet was in its very infancy. I remember back then, when a neighbour got the internet, I went to his house and took a notebook, then went into NBA.com and wrote down all the rosters, got back home and memorized all those names, lol.
Cheers!
Haha!
Yep. You know.
Sounds about right. Very late 80s and 90s.