NBA ? What in the HELL is this In Season shit?

[ROYC75]

I don't follow NBA much at all anymore so I ask, what happened to their season? What is this In Season Tournament crap?

Someone explain why the change and exactly what is this?

Is it fair to all teams?
Is there a Season after this Tourney


I'm Confused.

[LoneWolf]

Originally Posted by BWillie

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When social media becomes the only stat to hang your hat on, your sport is dying. You know who follows the NBA on social media? Poor mother****ers that can’t buy tickets and have too much ADHD to actually watch sports. I work at a site with over 1,600 people physically on-site every day. I have been involved in 0 conversations the last 2 years involving the NBA and I see literally zero NBA gear being worn. I hear and am involved in NFL and MLB conversations regularly and see fear from both leagues daily.

[Rain Man]

Originally Posted by LoneWolf

When social media becomes the only stat to hang your hat on, your sport is dying. You know who follows the NBA on social media? Poor mother****ers that can’t buy tickets and have too much ADHD to actually watch sports. I work at a site with over 1,600 people physically on-site every day. I have been involved in 0 conversations the last 2 years involving the NBA and I see literally zero NBA gear being worn. I hear and am involved in NFL and MLB conversations regularly and see fear from both leagues daily.

My other theory is that you're going to get more social media regarding basketball because you can see their faces. The biggest marketing flaw of football is that they all wear face-covering helmets, which makes it harder to turn players into societal sensations.

[TEX]

Originally Posted by LoneWolf

All you need to know is that it is dumb as **** and the NBA has sucked for a few years now. It's an in season tournament for cash. Nobody is going to remember who won what 6 months from now so it really doesn't matter. If you need something early in the season to make the games more interesting and to ensure more of your star players actually play, then your product sucks.

Jordan, Magic, Bird, Shaq, Kobe, etc... didn't need a reason to play hard or just play at all. Jordan would have laughed in your ****ing face if you would have suggested he take games off to manage his load. It has turned into a league of entitled pussies led by the biggest pussy of all time, Lebron James.

Nailed it!

[Eureka]

Originally Posted by ChiefsCountry

Your dumbass is equally as bad with the Kobe Bryant dick sucking.

Stereotype has been updated.

[KCUnited]

Originally Posted by Gary Cooper

The Court designs and jerseys of the NBA have become comical. It's like the Oregon Ducks own every single NBA franchise now. I just turn the channel when teams wear something fugly. One of the many reasons I don't watch much NBA anymore.

***I like watching the NBA and don't mind the idea of an in-season tournament***

The PHX Suns in-season court is so ridiculously colored that I can't see the ****ing ball move. Its like watching 10 guys with Tourettes doing an interpretive dance out there when you can't see the ball.

[ptlyon]

Originally Posted by Eureka

Stereotype has been updated.

[Rain Man]

The thing that I don't like about basketball is the bouncing.

You know where that came from. They started playing and it was too easy to just carry the ball down court and throw it in the peach basket, so they had to make it harder. They then made this nonsensical rule that you have to bounce the ball while you're moving. There's no reason you should have to do it. It has no metaphor for reality. You just have to bounce the ball to make it a little harder. And then everyone ignores the rule anyway.

Basketball should be more like football. You barrel down the court carrying the ball and other players try to stop you or knock you down or steal the ball from you. If you get down court then you can shoot. That, my friends, is a game. If people want the ball, they have to take it from you with violence. This bouncing thing is pathetic.

[Eleazar]

I guess I’ll have to continue my 20+ year streak of not watching

[myselff77]

Originally Posted by LoneWolf

When social media becomes the only stat to hang your hat on, your sport is dying. You know who follows the NBA on social media? Poor mother****ers that can’t buy tickets and have too much ADHD to actually watch sports. I work at a site with over 1,600 people physically on-site every day. I have been involved in 0 conversations the last 2 years involving the NBA and I see literally zero NBA gear being worn. I hear and am involved in NFL and MLB conversations regularly and see fear from both leagues daily.

The fact that you've been involved with zero NBA conversations may speak more to where you live than the popularity of the NBA.

[RealSNR]

Originally Posted by Rain Man

My other theory is that you're going to get more social media regarding basketball because you can see their faces. The biggest marketing flaw of football is that they all wear face-covering helmets, which makes it harder to turn players into societal sensations.

What do you mean? It's easy. Date Taylor Swift.

Problem solved.

[BWillie]

Originally Posted by LoneWolf

When social media becomes the only stat to hang your hat on, your sport is dying. You know who follows the NBA on social media? Poor mother****ers that can’t buy tickets and have too much ADHD to actually watch sports. I work at a site with over 1,600 people physically on-site every day. I have been involved in 0 conversations the last 2 years involving the NBA and I see literally zero NBA gear being worn. I hear and am involved in NFL and MLB conversations regularly and see fear from both leagues daily.

Probably an age thing and a location thing. KC has no team. I've had many of conversations with people in their 20s and 30s about the NBA (even in KC) however for some reason people in their 50s and 60s have a strange hatred about the NBA except for the Jordan days. I get it. Its rooted in different political ideology. I just like basketball and I remove myself from any politics of it. Most people increasingly are not able to do that. Thats why they hate womens soccer and the nba. Its why others hate Nascar. It is what it is. Wish it would change.

[Wisconsin_Chief]

Dumbest idea in sports history. Utterly ridiculous.

[KC_Connection]

Originally Posted by Wisconsin_Chief

Dumbest idea in sports history. Utterly ridiculous.

That all depends on what happens this week.

[Bearcat]

MLB regular season... largely pointless with 162 games.

NFL... no idea how they do it given so many awful, pointless games and the true fans just waiting it out for when the games matter between the 2-4 contenders each year.

NHL... the most watchable regular season, IMO, but games don't really get going until Feb or March... far too many back to back games, thus teams going through the motions.

NBA... does the regular season matter much? Something like 20 teams make the playoffs/play-in now?

Without really knowing anything about it, seems like a way to gain some attention while football is in peak season... anything to make shit more interesting for both fans and players while hopefully having the better teams meet more often seems like a good thing.

[KCUnited]

Originally Posted by Bearcat

Without really knowing anything about it, seems like a way to gain some attention while football is in peak season... anything to make shit more interesting for both fans and players while hopefully having the better teams meet more often seems like a good thing.

Its seems like a player motivator strategy which trickles down to a viewer motivator