NBA_is_cringe wrote:no one watches tv anymore unless they are old/braindead. ww3 is about to start. no one would have cared about someone dunking in 1943.
the nba product is unattractive in part because a lot of the supposed star personalities you see in the nba are unattractive because they come across as mentally weak compared to the previous generations of players. lots of people say this wrt the olympic dream team of 1992. for example even someone super likable like zion williams has no career because it was just too hard to stop eating? that's disgusting to someone who has to work for a living. why would he wanna even think about that ****? it's gross. even if zion is playing i don't want to see this fat **** do a left handed layup. no one gives a ****.
people probably watched MJ because they looked up to him and thought they might improve their life by emulating his attitude and whatever. maybe the same with kobe. would you say the same about embiid? or ben simmons? or harden? these people all make me want to puke. yeah i gotta be like harden in real life i gotta walk around on my tip toes and hide my face with my ugly beard because god forbid anyone sees what i look like, and i gotta suck in the playoffs when it matters. or durant for that matter. it would make anyone vomit to think about these people. the morris brothers? ew. remember the dwight howard van gundy press conference ****? what a lying little bitch, it's gross. who are the cool players? Ron Artest. MJ. Kevin Garnett. masculine people not these beta bitches. and even people that doesn't apply to, like steph curry, are just boring. wow the ball went in the basket, literally, like there's nothing else to say. what beautiful form. how braindead would you have to be to find that interesting?
I do not recall one single person that watched Basketball because of player personalities. First, in my specific case most people didn't speak enough English anyhow, second what did you even know about player personality in most cases? No players had social media or anything like that. So you watched them play, there was maybe an article written about top players and they got an interview, but you basically knew pretty much nothing about 90% of players outside of what was stated on their trading cards, what was written in some Basketball magazine and maybe if they seemed cool to play with in NBA Jam.
Why is Zion specifically likeable? MJ didn't come of as likeable, just as ultimate competitor. If something like the "Last dance" would have aired right away, most people would have thought he is a douche. Rodman was a weirdo and constantly in the press. Kobe was viewed as a diva by many and got a lot of negative press based on his charges. Roy Tarpley was banned for alcohol issues. The 3 Js in Dallas broke up over Toni Braxton. Nobody outside of Detroit liked the Bad Boy Pistons. Don't think I need to say anything about Karl Malone. Ron Artest said himself that he got drunk on Hennessy during half time breaks in a lot of games. Eddy Curry ate himself out of the league. The Phoenix Suns had a coke scandal that involved 13 people of their organisation, including 5 players in the late 80s. And so on and so on. The luck of past generations was that things were leaked less, the media wasn't as sensational and they couldn't rat out themselves as easy as today's players.
A lot of former players actually embarass themselves as total clowns today, now that they get more airtime, prime example is wannabe gangster KG, or the clowns on Gil's Arena.
And yeah, I started watching Basketball in the early 90s mostly because I found it cool to watch some guys throw a ball into a Basket, not because I thought "Oh wow, those seem to be some cool Alpha dudes. Who knows if I watch enough games, maybe one day I'll be as cool as them too."
