BlzMwt wrote:ropjhk wrote:Pelon chingon wrote:It was clearly the golden age of the nba along with the early 2000s.
From a fan/entertainment perspective I think the 90's was a golden age. Basketball fans had more fun in the 90's. Certainly more fun than today. Not all of that has to do with the on court product.
How do you possibly measure that?
That may apply to you but you cannot just broadly claim that with any certainty.
That's fair.
Ratings would be one way to measure it. It's not perfect but it's something. Popularity isn't the same as measuring fan enjoyment but they should be correlated. The 90's was the golden era of NBA TV ratings.
From a cultural perspective I think most lived it would agree that the 90's was also a golden age for superstar fan appeal. NBA superstars back then weren't plagued by the hate and toxicity you see online today. NBA superstars had a more wide ranging appeal back then.
The hoopla and fanaticism that surrounded the first Dream Team was never again matched.
My personal experience is that casual fans had more fun following the NBA back then in a way that brought people together to watch the games while today a casual fan might just simply consume highlight reels on their phone and the communities have moved online (which in my opinion is less fun).