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Would an idiot do that?
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That's good, and hopefully formatted in a way to take advantage of rivalries or at least potentially teams meeting again in the playoffs to add some extra spice later.
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Could be interesting to see analysis around closer (better) games and star player participation compared to regular games
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I guess I don’t see what’s ridiculous. For the most part it isn’t some side tournament like the maui college bball tournament where it’s a side tournament. That would be awful for the nba because it would mess up schedules
They’re regularly scheduled games where they just decided to add some extra stakes. If it was disrupting the scheduling that would be one thing but it’s mostly not. The only dumb thing is the eyesore courts. Otherwise it’s one of those ideas that at worst feels like just another regular season game to fans who don’t care |
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College basketball does the same with the Thanksgiving week tournaments. They do it because its fun for the fans and apparently gets the players into it too (Durant said the same just yesterday, feels like the playoffs).
No one at the NBA offices bothered consulting with the 60-year-old NFL fan demo to see if they would like it because apparently every 60-year-old NFL fan admittedly refuses to watch the NBA because it has sucked since the 90s.
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Yeah, it's true though. After the great Celtics, Lakers and Philly teams in the early and mid 80s, and later the Pistons, it was all downhill after that. You're spot on.
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What's up braj?
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Trying to make early games relevant and not pick up ball where nobody wants to get hurt and expend to much energy...
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I kept watching. I lived in Houston during the Rockets run, loved Hakeem and those teams, but it's just never approached those golden years when the competition was fierce and physical and the teams despised each other and the talent was less diluted.
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What's up braj?
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I mean you could say that about any sport. Players were joking and laughing it up on the field right after the Chiefs got their asses kicked on Sunday night. Didn’t seem like it bothered most of them at all.
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Yeah it's true. As a KC fan, Raiders-Chiefs, Royals-Yankees, that stuff gets in your blood. It's fine, but it does make it seem like it means less to the players than it did back then. And those guys weren't getting paid.
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I'm glad others are confused here
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It is not that complicated.
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